Carnet. Everything you read and watch, in one place.
A complete e-book reader for your own library, the articles you save, a page for every film and series you see, your highlights and notes beside them. Share it with the people you invite, publish it, and talk it over with Maurice.
A complete e-book reader, for your own library.
Your books live in your Maurice’s own Calibre library. Add an EPUB from your phone’s files, or manage the whole library in Calibre-Web, from your browser, at your Maurice’s address followed by /calibre.
Calibre is the open-source standard for e-book libraries: your books are not locked into Carnet.
- Chapter by chapter, with the table of contents a tap away.
- A summary of every chapter, written with the chapters before it in mind. Switch from the text to the summary when time is short, and back.
- Highlights, and notes that remember the chapter they were written in.
- Your exact place, from iPhone to iPad, and a copy to read offline.
- The type size you like, and bars that step aside while you read.
- A reading companion: Maurice follows where you are, and never tells you what comes next.
Articles, without the clutter.
Save an article from Safari or from your browser, even one behind a paywall you pay for. Carnet clears away the clutter and writes two summaries: the essence in a paragraph, and a longer one to read instead of the article when time is short.
The page keeps its headings, its emphasis and its picture. Highlight it as you would a book.
What Carnet keeps
One list, every kind
A page for every book, every film, every article.
Tell Maurice what you have seen or read: he finds the right reference, with its poster or its cover, and opens its page in Carnet. All that is left is to add your own words, typed or dictated.
Your notes stay yours. They feed your conversations with Maurice, and leave Carnet only if you choose to share or publish them.
A page in Carnet
Example
“The most beautiful scene: the shadows of the leaves. He photographs them every day.”
Note
Watch it again with Marc. Tell him about komorebi.
Note
Private by default. Nothing leaves Carnet unless you decide so.
Talk it over, or publish it.
Share a book or a film with the people you invite: they read the same page and add their own notes, signed. Share an article and it is given: they get their own copy, summaries included, while your highlights stay yours.
A page can also have a public side, in your own words; Maurice never writes it for you. One gesture publishes it on your corner of the web, under your name, and Share sends it wherever you like: a message, a mail, a social network.
Maurice, with the page in front of him.
From any page, open a conversation with Maurice about it: he has your notes and highlights in front of him. The page then lists every conversation you have had about it, each with a short summary of where it led.
For a book, he can be a reading companion: he follows where you are, and never tells you what comes next.
Three ways to bring things in.
1
You save.
An article from Safari’s share button, or from your computer with the browser extension.
2
You note.
A remark on the way out of the cinema, an idea on the underground. A few words are enough; Carnet files them.
3
You ask.
Type a few words on the + and Carnet proposes the book, the film or the series you mean. Keep one and its page opens.
Carnet and Maurice, in tandem.
Carnet comes with your Maurice: create yours first. The first month is on the house, no credit card needed.