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Upload your PDFs, slides and documents. Ontica generates the summaries, practice exams and flashcards to study from — built from your own material, not the internet.

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§01The problem

You already took the notes.

The lecture PDFs sit in one folder. The course slides are in your Downloads. The notes you wrote live in some Notion page you can't find.

The night before the exam you reread the same pages from scratch and rebuild the summary by hand — again.

PDFlecture · sep 14

"…photosynthesis converts CO₂ and water into glucose using light energy…"

3 pages · biology I
PPTXlecture · sep 21

chloroplast → site of photosynthesis · contains chlorophyll

24 slides · biology I
DOCXnotes · oct 02

"…cellular respiration is the inverse process — glucose plus oxygen, back to CO₂…"

1,200 words · biology I
MDreading log · oct 09

Kelsen, Pure Theory of Law — Grundnorm as the validity-anchor of all positive law.

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§02The shift

Your notes aren't dead. They're just scattered.

Ontica turns them into knowledge you can walk through — where every concept knows what it connects to, across every subject you've studied.

§03The graph

Your whole degree, as one navigable map.

Concepts and authors become nodes; what they do to each other becomes typed edges — cites, contradicts, applies. The link between a Heidegger concept and a constitutional case is finally explicit.

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Ontica knowledge graph
  fig.01 — knowledge graph412 concepts · 56 authors · 6 subjects
§04Ask

Ask your own material — with receipts.

Claude reads your graph and your notes, and answers citing the exact page or slide. Not the internet — your course, your professor, your reading list.

ask · scoped to your vault3 sources
you

What does Kelsen actually mean by the Grundnorm — and how does Hart criticise it?

Oontica · drawn from your notes

For Kelsen, the Grundnorm is the presupposed basic norm that grounds the validity of an entire legal orderkelsen-pure-theory.pdf · p.78 — not a positive rule, but a logical condition for treating any norm as a normseminar-notes.docx · p.4. Hart objects that this is sociologically empty: legal systems rest on a rule of recognition, an actually-practised social rule among officials, not a hypotheticalhart-concept-of-law · ch.6.

  fig.02 — ask · with citationspage · slide · source
§05Study

Turn it into practice exams, summaries and flashcards.

From your own graph, Ontica generates the material you actually study from — practice exams with model answers, summaries by topic, and flashcards. Every item cites your notes, not the internet.

study · generated from your vaultbiology I
practice exam

Which process is the inverse of photosynthesis?

Glycolysis
Fermentation
Cellular respiration
summary

Photosynthesis — CO₂ + H₂O + light → glucose.
Respiration — glucose + O₂ → CO₂, the inverse path.

flashcards · 01 / 24
Chloroplast
Site of photosynthesis · contains chlorophyll
  fig.03 — study materialexam · summary · flashcards
§06What you get

Once it's in, everything works for you.

01

Capture once

Upload everything once — PDFs, slides, Word, Excel and text. Ontica reads it all and keeps the original next to what it extracts.

02

Indexed by itself

Every idea and author gets indexed, with its definition, sources and the links between them.

03

Study from your own material

Generate practice exams, summaries and flashcards from your notes — not the internet.

§07On the name
ontic · adj.
your notes.

The fragments you already wrote down — a PDF, a slide, a line you copied verbatim from a textbook in october.

ontological · adj.
their shape.

The structure that holds them together — a graph of relations across everything you've studied. The shape only emerges once the fragments are in one place.

You produce the first. Ontica builds the second.

The name is borrowed from Heidegger — and it is not metaphor.
§08Beta

For the way you actually study.

Ontica is in private beta, opening first to undergrad and grad students in the natural sciences, philosophy and law. Tell us what you study — we read every request.

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