Chunk: AI Research Assistant

I started using this app for grad school and it has seriously changed how I study. I have ADHD and usually get overwhelmed trying to keep track of everything I read, especially for technical subjects. Chunk helps me slow down and actually think through what I am reading. It lets me focus on the important stuff without getting distracted or lost. It feels like it was made by someone who actually gets how hard reading can be when your brain is bouncing all over the place. I use it pretty much every day now. It is simple, clean, and really useful. If you do a lot of reading or research and struggle to stay organized or focused, this is worth trying.

I’m not sure what to truly think about this app. It’s a great concept, allowing you to store your notes and documents within the app. The idea is that you will be able to find specific information by chatting with the built-in AI. In concept, the app is designed to give you information specific to your notes per your request or query while also supplementing it with any relevant information based on its online search. So in concept, you would be able to cheery your notes well being supported by additional online information. But this is where it fails. Anytime I’ve asked for specific information which is very clearly found within the documents I uploaded to the app, it returns a response, stating nothing is found within my notes or documents that matches my query.

Edit 2/22: The developer has been very responsive in trying to resolve the issues. I've also discovered that some of the issues I experienced were related to an ongoing ChatGPT issue with referencing uploaded documents, as I've seen similar errors when interfacing ChatGPT directly. Original: I was very drawn in by the description of this app, but I've found that in use it doesn't seem to do what it has promised. It does not pull from any of the documents I've added, and continuously gives me responses telling me that it, in fact, cannot reference uploaded documents. Considering that this seems to be the point of the app, this is super disappointing. Tags are super buggy, and I can only add them using my iPhone, not the Mac or the Vision Pro apps. Not that they seem to do anything. Chats are not persistent if you hit reload, so you just lose everything that's been generated.