OuiDire.app — Quick Guide

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 exist, use Gemini-powered Overview to get a fast thesis, narrative clusters, key tensions, omissions, and, when several documents are present, inter-document patterns before deeper review.
• Inter-document analysis is a major new payoff: OuiDire can compare material across documents instead of treating every upload as an isolated file.
• After the Overview, use card-by-card annotation and Call Gemini to study the record yourself, build your own understanding, collect review signal, and produce richer metrics and visual maps
• Full Analysis: Both Macro Sets comes later when you want broader machine suggestions across both macro sets and more material for comparison
• Audit, Deep Critical Read, Intake / Map-1 Brite-Lite, Macros Constellation Map, and HOP / Map-3 become much more useful after several card annotations

Step 1 - Orient yourself at the top of the screen

• Use Glossary when you need the reading frame
• Use Quick Guide when you need the workflow path
• The Credits section is where you add credits to pay for API calls (OCR, Call Gemini, GPT)
• You do not need to master the whole interface at once
• Your first goal is simple: go from a PDF or photos of paper documents to several annotated cards

Step 2 - Import the document in Ops Center

• Upload a PDF
• If you are working from paper documents, you can also Upload Photos already saved on the device
• If you are working from paper documents, use photos or scans before launching OCR
• Treat this area as the entry door
• If you start from a scanned document, this is always the right first move
• Until the PDF is properly inside the app, the rest of the interface will feel abstract

Step 3 - Turn the PDF into cards

• When you upload, the page count is calculated automatically
• Then run OCR
• OCR turns source pages into usable Studiorium cards
• The interface shows OCR progress and then makes the resulting cards available for Overview and review
• Until cards exist, there is no stable base for Overview, metrics, maps, or AI review
• If cards already exist, generate an Overview first when you want thesis material; then use card annotation, Call Gemini, or Full Analysis: Both Macro Sets to take ownership of the record and turn the thesis into metrics, maps, and reviewed findings

Step 4 - Generate a strategic Overview

• Overview is the Gemini-powered orientation layer and the fastest way to get useful thesis material
• It can generate a thesis, narrative clusters, clinical clusters, key tensions, and critical omissions in seconds
• On multi-document files, Overview can surface inter-document patterns: repeated claims, changes in framing, contradictions between documents, and missing links across the record
• This matters because psychiatric files often become powerful through repetition across documents, not through a single sentence in one page
• Use Fast when you want a quick legal-procedure-oriented sample
• Use Extended when you want a broader sample; it is still a sample, not a complete analysis of every card
• The selection controls let you emphasize spread, dense signals, recent endings, starting context, or your own combo
• Treat the Overview as a map of what to inspect next, not as final proof

Step 5 - Choose the reading mode

• 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
• After the Overview gives you the thesis and clusters, choose the macro set that best fits how you want to study the record yourself
• Use Call Gemini to enrich your card-by-card reading inside the active macro set
• Use Full Analysis: Both Macro Sets if you want to compare both macro sets and generate more card-level material for metrics, visual maps, and later synthesis

Step 6 - Review the current card

• Use Focus Mode when you want to concentrate on the current card and annotation controls
• Use Big View when you want the full workspace back: Intake, Audit, maps, deliverables, and navigation together
• Read the active 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
• This is the central work of the app

Step 7 - Choose between Call Gemini and Full Analysis: Both Macro Sets

• 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
• Full Analysis: Both Macro Sets runs Gemini on both macro sets, then gathers the results in Gemini Digest card by card
• Use Full Analysis: Both Macro Sets when you want to compare two readings or surface even more suggestions
• Both actions require cards to already exist and AI to be on

Step 8 - Control quality and run Deep Critical Read

• 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 or AI calls
• Metrics shows dominant patterns, counts, and top combos
• Metrics and metric combos are clickable
• Deep Critical Read is now a separate analysis area outside Audit
• It 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
• The Deep Critical Read area then lets you open the critical read and export a PDF
• Use Audit to verify technical state and metrics; use Deep Critical Read for the deeper critical findings

Step 9 - Save, restore, and share the work

• Save my work downloads a backup of your current session
• The downloaded file uses a name like ouidire_save_...
• You can keep that file to continue later or share it with someone else, for example your lawyer
• 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 10 - Move from one card to the wider terrain

• Intake / Map-1 Brite-Lite acts as a visual reference to track work progression, visualize the other cards with their macros, and open a card by selecting its tile
• 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
• Read these areas after several cards have already been reviewed

Fast habits that help users progress

Minimum recommended flow:

• Upload a PDF.
• Run OCR to get your cards.
• Generate a Gemini-powered Overview to get thesis material and inter-document patterns, then verify and enrich it card by card.
• Choose the macro set.
• Annotate the cards yourself or start with AI.
• Use Call Gemini or Full Analysis: Both Macro Sets.
• Save the work or export the Gemini Digest when needed.
• Then check Audit, Metrics, the Macros Constellation Map, or HOP / Map-3 if you want to go further: the more you advance your annotations, the richer your cards become and the more complete your metrics will be.
• The goal is to annotate every card to get the most out of the app.

Other useful information:

• The Credits section 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
• The Macro set is a reading decision based on your case file
• Gemini-powered Overview orients the review with a capped sample and can compare documents; it does not replace full verification
• 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
• The current card is the one you can annotate
• To appreciate the strengths of AI in OuiDire, use Call Gemini to unlock more proposals in one of the macro sets
• If you want to go further or compare two readings, two macro sets, use Full Analysis: Both Macro Sets to surface many more suggestions
• The Technical section acts as the always-on progress thread during runs or API calls
• Deep Critical Read refines the analysis with GPT across 30 micro-tags and produces detailed exportable findings
• Save my work and Restore let you pick up where you left off or share your annotations through an ouidire_save file
• Gemini Digest card by card can become an exportable deliverable in PDF, .txt, or .json
• Audit helps verify the state of the work and follow technical details; Deep Critical Read is a separate area for deeper findings
• The Macros Constellation Map and HOP / Map-3 help visualize the patterns, groupings, and analytical terrain emerging from your annotations