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Stacks
Track what you are reading and watching, and synthesise across your own notes.
Jalaran Stacks tracks the books, papers and talks you are working through, holds your own notes on each, and synthesises across them when you want to see what you actually took away.
Who Stacks is for
For people with a reading list longer than their reading, who finish things and then cannot recall what they thought. The synthesis is for the moment you realise four different works have been circling the same idea.
What Stacks does
Stacks holds external works (books, papers, talks, courses) with a status showing what is in progress, what is queued and what is done, plus your own notes against each one. The AI synthesis is grounded in those notes rather than in the works themselves, which is a deliberate constraint: it reflects what you understood and recorded, not a summary of a book scraped from somewhere. It is the counterpart to Vault, which holds your own thinking, and Cite, which formats bibliographies. Stacks holds progress and opinion on other people’s work.
- Reading, watching and listening statuses
- Your own notes per work
- AI synthesis grounded in your notes rather than the source
- Status board across the whole shelf
How Stacks works
Add what you are working through
Books, papers, talks, courses. Anything you consume rather than produce.
Track the status honestly
In progress, queued, abandoned, done. An honest abandoned pile is more useful than an aspirational queue.
Write notes as you go
Your own reaction and takeaways per work. This is the material everything else here is built on.
Synthesise across the shelf
AI reads your notes (not the works) and surfaces where several of them are converging on the same idea.
What Stacks does not do
Stacks does not contain the works: it tracks them. There is no full text, no reader and no library integration, so it will not summarise a book you have not read; the synthesis works from your notes, and with no notes there is nothing to synthesise. It is not a citation manager either; formatted bibliographies are Cite, and your own developed ideas belong in Vault.
Common questions
- Can it summarise a book I have not read?
- No, deliberately. The synthesis works from your own notes, so it reflects what you understood rather than a summary scraped from elsewhere. With no notes there is nothing for it to work with.
- How is this different from Vault?
- Vault holds your own knowledge as linked notes. Stacks holds progress and opinion on other people’s work. A good idea that came out of a book belongs in Vault; the record of reading the book belongs here.
- Does it manage citations?
- No. Cite does DOI lookup and formats bibliographies. Stacks tracks what you are working through and what you thought of it.
Works well with
All modules in Study and write
Link atomic notes with [[backlinks]] into a concept graph: a Zettelkasten second brain.
Look up papers by DOI, manage references, and export APA 7 or IEEE bibliographies.
Read research PDFs, annotate passages, and ask questions across your documents.
Spaced repetition scheduled by SM-2, with cards generated from your own notes.
Run scholarship, grant and conference submissions through a seven-stage pipeline.
Structured long-form writing for theses, papers and reports, with per-section goals and AI critique.