With AI on, Myne can summarize the note you are reading, or just a selection of it. The summary is shown to you first; it is added to the note only if you explicitly insert it.
Prerequisites
- AI enabled, with a text model selected or a provider named. See Turning on AI.
- A note open in the editor.
Summarizing
- Open the note you want to summarize.
- To summarize part of it instead of the whole note, select that text. A non-empty selection is summarized in preference to the whole note; with nothing selected, the whole note is used.
- Run Summarize note from the command palette (in the AI category).
The summary is produced by the model and appears in the AI Chat tab, which shows a working state while the model runs. Very long input is trimmed to fit the model’s context; when that happens Myne tells you it summarized the first part of the note rather than silently cutting it.
Inserting the summary
The summary is not added to your note automatically. When it is ready in the AI Chat tab, an Insert into note action appears beneath it. Choosing it appends a ## Summary block to the end of the note, as ordinary Markdown, the same text you could have typed by hand, with no special format. It saves through the normal note-save path, so it participates in autosave, snapshots, and undo like any other edit.
If you do not insert it, nothing is written; the summary stays in the tab until it is replaced or the vault locks.
Limits
Where summarizing runs depends on what you have named. With no provider set up it runs on your device and the note text never leaves your machine. If you have named a remote provider, summarizing is one of the surfaces that can use it: the note text you summarize is sent there, after the consent step that says so (Where your AI runs). The summary comes from a small model and can miss or distort points, so treat it as a draft to check against the note, not a substitute for reading it. A note in an excluded folder is never summarized, and Summarize note says nothing about it: the AI Chat tab opens and stays empty, with no summary and no message. If you ran the command and nothing happened, check whether the note’s folder is one you excluded. Nothing is added to a note without your explicit Insert action. The model Myne runs itself runs in-process and is not isolated from your decrypted notes; see AI privacy and limits for the full boundary.