Last updated June 23, 2026
Quick-Add Sources
Sometimes you don't want to set up a connector — you just want to anchor a board to something now. That's what quick-add sources are for. There's no OAuth, no API token, no config: paste a link or some text, and you're set.
Reach for these two whenever the context you need lives somewhere you can copy from. They're the fastest on-ramp in the whole sources catalog.
Web URL
Got a page that explains part of your system? Paste its address and get back queryable architectural context. No auth, no scraping setup — just a URL.
This is the right tool when the knowledge you want is on the open web (or any page you can reach):
- Architecture blog posts and engineering write-ups
- Vendor docs — AWS, Stripe, and the like
- Internal wikis that don't live in Confluence or Notion
- Tech specs published on a static site
- ADRs hosted on a static host
We fetch the page, extract the architectural concepts inside it, and make them available to Chat and insights. Web URL is a pull source — we do the reading and the AI extraction.
How to add it
- Open your workspace and go to Sources.
- Click Add Source and choose Web URL.
- Paste the URL.
- Give it a title so you can find it later.
- Save.
That's it — we take it from there.
Note
Some of the best context never made it into a doc system. It's in a meeting recap, a Slack thread, or your head. Note lets you paste markdown or plain text straight in, and treats it as a first-class source — same extraction, same queryability as anything else.
In the Add Source picker this is labeled Note. Use it for anything text-shaped that doesn't have a home yet.
Good candidates:
- Meeting notes that captured a real decision
- Decisions that only exist in Slack or email
- Quick captures like "we decided to drop the legacy queue in standup"
- Legacy docs that only exist as PDFs or printouts — paste the text in
- One-off notes you want the board to remember
We pull the architectural concepts out of your text and fold them into the board's understanding, just like a fetched page. Note is also a pull source.
Governing or reference?
Quick-add sources are pull sources, and they usually bind as reference — they give Chat and insights more context to read, without touching the board's graph. That's typically exactly what you want from a blog post or a meeting note.
They can govern a board if you want them shaping nodes and edges directly. One reminder if you go that route: all governing sources on a board must share the same source type. Reference sources have no such limit — mix and match freely.