Scribe
Internal tool$ ~/aspaloyy/scribe
Research system · internal tool
The tool I built because the research for Manas outgrew note-taking.
What it does
01Scribe decodes any source of information into structured markdown. Not a summariser — a decoder: whatever the format, what comes out is clean, structured text that can be worked with.
Sources it reads
02- YouTube videos
- Articles and long-form pages
- Posts and threads on X
- Any web page, from a bare link
- Social media content
- Almost any file format, PDFs included
- Spoken audio, transcribed via Whisper / Omnilingual
What happens next
03From there the material is broken down semi-automatically into finished, self-contained modules and filed into a knowledge base. The point is that a subject researched once stays usable: it does not decay back into forty open tabs and a folder of half-read PDFs.
Why it exists
04Manas needs real research at volume — canon, lexicon, historical detail, variant versions of the epic, academic commentary. Manual note-taking does not survive that scale. Scribe was built to make the research tractable, and it now handles everything I read for the project.