Capture highlights while you read, without leaving the page. Organise them later, when you choose.
Highlight a sentence on any page and a small popup appears in place. Pick a note, save, keep reading. No AI runs at that moment, because nothing should slow down the part where you are actually reading.
Later, when you want to, you can Organise a note — grouping the excerpts into sections, formatting code, quotations and links, keeping your wording — or Summarise it, which fills the gaps so that re-reading it in a month needs nothing looked up.
Each note lives in a place you own, and you choose which:
drive.file scope — Flow Notes can only ever see documents it created itself, never the rest of your Drive.
Every captured passage keeps a [source] link back to the page
it came from, so you never lose track of where an idea originated.
Nothing you capture is stored on our server. The text of your highlights, the pages you read them on, and the contents of your notes are never kept — they exist only in your own Doc, Apple note or file. See the privacy policy for exactly what is and is not held.
Google Docs notes work with nothing installed. Apple Notes and local Markdown files are written by a small open-source program on your own machine, since a browser extension cannot reach your filesystem. Chrome starts it on demand; there is nothing to keep running.