Sources in Pekari
A notebook can hold any number of sources. AI reads them all together as one material when generating — the order is up to you.
4 source types
Text
Pasted directly into a textarea. Use for:
- Meeting notes
- Your own thoughts
- Brainstorming bullets
- Email snippets
Minimum: 20 characters (shorter texts are ignored).
Web page (URL)
You enter a URL, the server fetches the page and extracts the main text (cleaned of ads and navigation).
Works on:
- Articles (Medium, Substack, blogs)
- Wikipedia
- Documentation
- Press releases
Doesn't work on: pages behind a login, JavaScript-only SPAs without SSR, PDF viewers. In that case copy the content manually as text.
PowerPoint (.pptx)
Same importer as in the Smart Presentation builder. Pulls text content from all slides.
What carries over: texts, headings, bullet points.
What doesn't: images, charts, shapes, formatting. AI sees text only — and builds a new presentation from it.
Word (.docx)
The server extracts text from the document (no formatting; tables are flattened to text).
Good for:
- Briefs
- Research papers
- Internal documents
- An email thread saved as .docx
Managing sources
- Add — buttons "Text / Web page / PPTX / DOCX" below the list
- Delete — trash icon on the right of each source
- Edit text — source text isn't editable after adding (delete and add again)
- The notebook and all sources persist in the DB — closing the page is safe.
Tips
- Short, sharp text > long text — given 200 lines of text, AI samples randomly. If you have specific points, paste them separately.
- Name sources meaningfully — URLs/files keep their filename; text stays as "Text". The label currently can't be changed.
- Mixing types works — combine 1× URL + 2× text + 1× PPTX. AI treats it as a single material.
- Aim for ~10 000 characters total — beyond that AI starts skipping details. If you have more, split into two notebooks and generate separately.