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Capture

  • Voice notesSay a thought and Rill keeps it as text, with the recording.
  • Photos, documents and scansRill reads pictures and files and keeps their text searchable. On iPhone it also spots business cards, events and Wi-Fi details.
  • Pages into lists and to-dosTurn a photo of a handwritten list, to-do page or whiteboard into a list, to-dos or a note, once you have checked it.
  • Add to RillOne box for anything: Rill says what it is and what it will do before anything is saved.
  • HandwritingWrite by hand on paper styles you choose, with pages, shapes and audio.
  • JournalOne page a day for the day's entries, photos and notes.
  • Day plannerRead your journal one day at a time, with a strip of every day.
  • Videos and podcastsSave a YouTube video or a podcast episode to Reading with a transcript you can search, highlight and play from.
  • ListenHave a saved item or a summary read aloud, by a voice on your device (free) or a studio voice (uses credits).
  • Snooze and tidy ReadingPut a saved item away until a time you choose; it comes back to the top of your Inbox then.
  • Daily review and StoriesA few of your highlights each day, one at a time, or full screen as Stories. Optional revisit questions stay off until you turn them on.
  • Contents, related and focusSee an item's headings, the notes and reading of yours that relate to it, and read with nothing else on screen.
  • PDFs in ReadingRead a PDF's real pages, highlight them and pin notes to them, kept beside the file, never in it.
  • Record a meetingRill records, transcribes and writes the summary, decisions and action items. Rill includes hours each month.
  • Your meetingsEvery meeting you recorded: its summary, key points, decisions, possible to-dos and the transcript.
  • An event and what goes with itOpen an event for where it is, Join, Dial in, Record, its recordings, the captures attached to it and your notes for it.
  • Capture by webhookLet Zapier, Make or a script add captures to your Rill with a web request to your own address.
  • Name who spokeSpeakers who introduce themselves are named; name the rest (Rill does not recognise voices) and have the notes written again.
  • Minutes, edit and shareWrite a meeting up as professional minutes, correct it by hand, share it as one document, or delete it.
  • Ask a meetingAsk a meeting questions, keep your own notes on it, pull out quotable lines, see who talked how much, and map the minutes.
  • Bring in a meeting, or rehearse oneBring in a meeting from a transcript or a file, and rehearse an upcoming one before it happens.
  • Debrief a meetingSay how a meeting went; Rill files the decisions, follow-ups and what you learned about people as notes.
  • A 1:1 agenda from past meetingsOpen someone's page and have Rill write an agenda from your last meetings with them.
  • Forward email to RillYour own address: anything you forward to it becomes a capture, attachments included.
  • Work with one captureA capture shows when and how it came in, what echoes it, and lets you ask about it.
  • Write and link notesChecklists, tables, toggles, math, diagrams and links to your other notes, saved as plain markdown.
  • Writing help from your own notesA faint next line and related notes from your own notes while you write, and a check against past notes after.
  • Rill commands on your wordsPolish, shorten, change the tone of, translate or explain words you select in a note, as a suggestion you accept or discard.
  • Bring your past inImport notes and history, each entry keeping its original date.
  • Bring in bookmarksBring saved links from a browser or a read-later app into Reading; Rill reads them slowly, keeping to each site's rules.
  • Import from ReadwiseBring your Readwise highlights into Reading. Rill only reads from Readwise; it never writes to it.
  • Add a highlight by handPaste or type a passage, or share text from another app, and keep it as a highlight with its source.
  • Dropbox and Google Drive foldersRill reads the folders you choose and keeps them searchable. With Dropbox it sees only its own folder, Apps › Rill One.
  • Connect iCloud onceOne Apple Account and one app-specific password for iCloud Mail, Calendar and Contacts. You tick what Rill may read.

Find it again

  • Plan and reviewWeekly review, quarterly focus, year in review, projects, digests and ritual modes, each a row in Browse.
  • Ask anything you have savedOne answer from your own captures, with the sources beside it.
  • CapturesEverything you have kept, newest first, with notebooks, tags, saved searches and Trash.
  • LibraryEverything you have, by where it lives: folders, types, people and tags beside the list.
  • Memory StacksYour captures grouped by where they came from: voice, email, photos, imports and more.
  • Ask about one personChannels scope a question to the captures that mention one person.
  • Everything about one person, by ageEvery capture that mentions someone, cut into the last 30 days, 1 to 3 months, 3 to 6 months and older.
  • CollectionsIdeas that run through your captures, each with the captures behind it.
  • EchoesWhen a capture repeats an earlier idea, its page shows the earlier one and why they match.
  • DriftOne earlier capture brought back, with the reason it surfaced.
  • Time-travelWhat you captured on this day in other years.
  • ConstellationA map of the ideas in your captures and how they connect.
  • TopicsThe subjects that recur in your captures, ranked by how many captures name each one.
  • Open loopsCaptures you keep coming back to and have not marked done, one for each theme.
  • ThreadsRelated captures woven into one summary with the questions still open, which you can ask.
  • Ask only these capturesPick a few captures and ask a question, or get an overview, from just those. Nothing is kept.
  • Connections on a cardThe keywords on a card with how many other cards carry each, and cards that name each other without a link, one tap to link.
  • Ask with sourcesAsk over the cards, notebooks, tags or people you choose, from your Library, the Web or Both, with the answer's sources numbered.
  • ThemesWhat keeps recurring across your last 90 days of captures, grouped, with the captures behind each.
  • DecisionsThe captures you filed as decisions, newest first, with the reason you wrote.
  • What am I missing?Ask Rill to push back on a highlight, capture, decision or belief. Every counter-point cites its source.
  • TidyNear-identical captures, and old ones you wrote once and never opened again. Rill only lists them.
  • Ask Rill about a selectionSelect up to 100 items for Rill to summarize, tag or connect. You see the cost first, and nothing changes until you apply it.

Talk to Rill

  • Talk to RillA spoken conversation. Rill listens, answers aloud and acts when you ask.
  • Set things up by askingTell Rill what you want connected and it hands you the one page to finish it.
  • Images and short videos by askingRill makes a picture, or a short video with sound, from your words and sends it where you asked.
  • Reminders by askingSay when, and Rill reminds you where you last wrote to it.

Rill does it for you

  • TodayYour day in one place: meetings, reminders and what needs you.
  • To-dosLists, projects and due dates, which you can also change by asking.
  • Check-ins and remindersRill checks a price, a reply or a flight for you and says when it changes.
  • AgentsAssistants that keep working on one job, and ask before they act.
  • Get a practice partnerA sales, writing or study partner that reads your notes on the topic, gives feedback and checks in on a schedule.
  • BriefsA standing question answered on a schedule, by email.
  • Outbox: drafts to review and sendRill drafts one to three messages from a capture. You edit them and press send yourself.
  • DecksPresentations built around your argument, with speaker notes.
  • Book time with meA booking link that offers only the times your calendars have free, one per business.
  • CardsDigital business cards: a link, QR code and Save contact for each, showing only what you choose.
  • Virtual MeAn AI version of you that answers others only from what you publish and your Virtual Me folder.
  • AI apps (MCP)Let an AI app search your captures and reading, every read logged. Coming soon: one address for Claude or ChatGPT.
  • Shared spacesA private, invite-only room for sharing your captures with specific people.
  • Pages Rill makesAsk for a simple web page; it stays private until you publish it.

Reflect

  • About meA short description of your current focus and themes, drawn from your captures.
  • Future-self letterOnce a quarter, a letter written from your last ninety days of captures.
  • Belief evolutionHow your view on a recurring topic has changed across your captures, with the dates.
  • FactsWhat you told Rill to always remember: constraints, preferences, people and key dates.
  • Corrections Rill has learnedEvery correction you gave an answer, listed, with Forget on each.
  • Cognitive snapshotOne page per quarter: your themes, people, decisions and a short narrative.
  • Private links to your Virtual MeA link for one person to ask your Virtual Me, an AI that answers only from what you publish; you see what it was asked.

Privacy

  • Privacy modesFull AI, Preserve, Vault or Local: how much AI touches each new capture.
  • Trust and privacyA read-only page of what Rill holds, what its AI did in the last 30 days and who can reach your data.
  • Smart tagsRill adds tags to new notes from the tags you already use, marked Smart. Keep one or remove it in a tap.
  • Smart foldersFolders Rill keeps for you in Notebooks: Receipts & expenses, Bills, Warranties, Travel and more. They fill themselves.
  • Filing suggestions and Organize my libraryRill offers to file a capture where notes like it went, shows related cards, and can organize your older notes after showing you the price.
  • Two-step sign-inA 6-digit code from an authenticator app at every sign-in, as well as your usual sign-in.
  • VaultEncrypted on your device; Rill's servers cannot read it.