OuiDire.app — Quick Guide (Desktop)

Where to start

• Your first action: upload a PDF or photos, or use your camera to take photos of paper documents, then automatically get cards by launching Run OCR.
• Once cards are visible, you can either annotate the cards yourselves or launch Call Gemini
• Double Run comes next when you want broader machine suggestions across both macro sets
• Audit, Intake / Map-1 Brite-Lite, Macros Constellation Map, and HOP / Map-3 become much more useful after several card annotations

Step 1 - Orient yourself in the top workbar

• Use Glossary when you need the reading frame
• Use Quick Guide when you need the workflow path
• The Ready to start panel is where you add credits to pay for API calls (OCR, Call Gemini, GPT)
• Login lets you keep your documents and balance from one session to the next
• Your first goal is simple: go from a PDF or photos of paper documents to several annotated cards

Step 2 - Import the document and run OCR

• Upload a PDF
• If you are working from paper documents, you can also Upload Photos already saved on the device
• On desktop, you can also Take Photos with a connected camera
• When you upload, the page count is calculated automatically
• Then launch Run OCR
• OCR turns source pages into usable Studiorium cards
• Until cards exist, there is no point launching AI

Step 3 - Choose the reading mode and launch AI

• The Macro set controls the active 8 macros
• The Macro set is a reading decision based on your case file
• The Macro set changes the reading grid
• For now, there are two non-exclusive choices: one more narrative set, and one more clinical set
• You can run both sets one after the other
• Make this choice before launching Call Gemini if you want the workflow to stay coherent
• Before launching the run, choose the Scope
• In Batch mode, you can analyze 1, 2, or 3 pages at a time; in Document mode, you run the analysis on the full document
• The wider the scope, the more compute it uses and the slightly more it costs
• Call Gemini runs Gemini on the current macro set to surface more suggestions in that mode
• Double Run runs Gemini on both macro sets, then gathers the results in Gemini Digest card by card

Step 4 - Navigate in Intake / Map-1 Brite-Lite

• Intake is the left column
• It helps you choose the active document, filter cards, search, and quickly return to a specific card
• Map-1 Brite-Lite acts as a visual reference to track work progression and open a card by clicking its tile
• Use Intake when you want to decide which card to review next

Step 5 - Review the card in Inspect

• Inspect is the center column
• Read the selected card
• For hearsay, choose every purpose of hearsay that applies
• If the card is not hearsay, mark Not hearsay
• For Macros, mark the macros from the active set as Yes / No / — based on what applies on that card
• Review machine suggestions if they exist
• Confirm or reject machine suggestions when they help
• Mark the card as done
• On desktop, the Macros Constellation Map (Map-2) remains integrated inside Inspect

Step 6 - Control quality in Audit

• Audit is the right column
• The Technical section displays technical details so the user can stay informed about what is happening at all times
• Technical shows what is still running, what is done, and current activity for OCR, AI, or Deep Critical Read
• Metrics shows dominant patterns, counts, and top combos
• Metrics and metric combos are clickable
• Deep Critical Read triggers an additional GPT analysis, so it also uses credits
• Use Deep Critical Read mostly when your main annotations are already well advanced or finished
• Deep Critical Read analyzes more finely with GPT across 30 micro-tags
• It can surface concrete findings, reading details, and additional suggestions

Step 7 - Save, restore, and export

• Save my work downloads a backup of your current session
• The downloaded file uses a name like ouidire_save_...
• Restore reloads a previous backup from that file
• Save my work and Restore let you pick up where you left off or share your annotations through an ouidire_save file
• If you used Gemini Digest card by card, you can also export it as PDF, .txt, or .json
• Gemini Digest card by card shows results, gives access to exports, and lets you jump straight back to the current card

Step 8 - Move from the card to the wider terrain

• The Macros Constellation Map (Map-2) is where you see patterns between macros
• HOP / Map-3 is where you zoom out to the broadest analytical terrain
• These surfaces help visualize the patterns, groupings, and analytical terrain emerging from your annotations
• Read them after several annotations: the more you advance your annotations, the richer your cards become and the more complete your metrics will be

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