Reading
You can read everything you have saved in one place, with AI beside the text. Winda supports web pages, YouTube videos, PDFs, Word and PowerPoint files, images, and plain text.
Web pages
Winda fetches a web page and strips it down to its readable text, so you read the article without the navigation and ads around it.
Winda fetches the page as an anonymous visitor, so a page behind a login or a paywall cannot be fetched this way. Save such pages with the browser extension, which reads the page from your own tab.
YouTube
A YouTube video plays with its transcript beside it. A video with no captions still saves and plays, but there is nothing to read, select, or make cards from.
Documents
You can upload .pdf, .docx, and .pptx files, up to 32 MB each and up to
500 pages for a PDF.
The older .doc and .ppt formats are not supported; resave them as .docx
or .pptx. A PDF made of scanned images contains no text, so there is nothing
in it to select or annotate.
Images
You can upload .png, .jpg, .webp, and .gif files, up to 32 MB. Winda
reads the image itself, so you can ask about a photo of a page or a diagram,
and make cards from it.
Text
You can upload .txt and .md files, or paste text straight in, up to 1 MB.
A pasted text takes its first line as the title, and an uploaded file takes
its filename.
What you can do with a passage
You can select any passage while you read and act on it:
- Annotate it. The passage is underlined and the explanation is written beneath it, so you keep reading. Translation works the same way.
- Make a flashcard from it. The card arrives as a draft for you to accept — see Make flashcards.
- Ask about it. The passage goes to the chat as context, for when the answer is a conversation rather than one line.
Annotations belong to the document, and they are there when you come back. The browser extension can also annotate a page, but those annotations are temporary.
Sharing
You can share an item as a public link that anyone can read without an account. Nothing else in your library is exposed, and you can turn the link off at any time.
A visitor can only read. To annotate the item, chat about it, or make cards from it, they save a copy of their own, so your annotations stay yours.