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Feature 06

Citations & reader

OSMI includes a dependency-free reader: give it a URL and it renders a clean, quiet reading view — no ads, no cookie walls — with citation capture built in.

In-app readerWeb searchFollow linksAPABibTeXLocal-first

Read the web without the web

Fetch a page and read it as clean text in the app. Follow links from inside the reader, or search and jump between results — the browsing happens in a space built for reading, not engagement.

Capture as you read

When a source matters, capture it: OSMI formats the citation as APA or BibTeX and files it in your library. No copy-pasting metadata fields by hand.

A library that stays yours

Citations live locally in ~/.osmi with the rest of your work — searchable, exportable, and never on anyone's server.

In research

This is the front door of the research suite: read sources in the reader, cite them as you go, then carry them into Literature Review entries — which can be auto-filled by AI from the very page you captured.