Qind for journalists
Find the document behind the quote, on deadline
You accumulate sources, background research, interview transcripts, and story leads across notebooks, email, and browser tabs. When deadline pressure hits, finding that one critical fact should not take longer than writing the paragraph around it. Qind makes your entire reporting archive searchable.
Free plan, no time limit. No card needed.
In your library
- PDF Audit report: city procurement
- Note Interview notes: former official
- Audio Council meeting recording
- Webpage Background: procurement rules
What did the audit report say about procurement costs?
The report found contract costs rose faster than the number of contracts, and it flags three awards made without a tender 1 . Your interview notes include a former official's account of one of them 2 .
Sources
- Audit report: city procurement PDF
- Interview notes: former official Note
Where things get lost today
Sources buried in the chaos
Interview notes in Google Docs, background articles in browser tabs, public records in email, tips in Signal messages. When you need to verify a fact on deadline, you are searching five tools at once.
Reconstructing story backgrounds
You are assigned a follow-up to a story from eight months ago. The original research, sources, and context are scattered across old notebooks and folders you haven't opened since.
The fact you know you have
You read a statistic in a report three weeks ago that would make this lede perfect. You know it exists. You just cannot find it before the editor needs the draft.
Institutional knowledge stays personal
Years of beat reporting build deep contextual knowledge — background on key figures, historical precedents, recurring patterns. But it lives in your head, not in a system you can query.
How it works for journalists
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Save as you report
Clip web sources, upload documents, paste interview notes, and save reports. The browser extension clips a page in one click.
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Qind reads and summarizes
Every item is read and summarized. On Basic and Pro, new saves are also tagged and filed into collections for you.
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Query on deadline
When you need a fact, a source, or background context, ask your archive. 'What did the city council say about the zoning proposal in my saved notes?' The answer lists the notes it used.
What you get
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Clip and save from any source
Save web articles, reports, and documents with the web clipper, and upload PDFs and Office files. The page itself goes into your library, so you are not relying on a bookmark alone.
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Find facts by meaning
Ask 'What statistics did I save about housing affordability in the metro area?' and get an answer that lists the saved items it used, so you can open each one and check the figure.
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A summary of what you save
Qind reads each article, report and note you save and writes a summary. You can find an item again by asking about what it says, not when you saved it.
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Encrypted in transit, no training by Qind
Your saved content is encrypted in transit, and Qind does not train models on it.
Why journalists choose Qind
Journalism is one of the most information-intensive professions. A single story might require reviewing dozens of documents, cross-referencing public records, re-reading interview transcripts, and pulling statistics from reports you encountered weeks ago. Finding the right piece of information at the right time can decide how good a story is.
A reporter’s research system is often held together by memory and habit. Notes in one app, sources in another, PDFs on the desktop, background articles in browser bookmarks. It works when you are actively reporting and everything is fresh. It falls apart the moment you need to revisit old research, follow up on a previous story, or connect dots across beats.
Qind turns your reporting archive into one library you can ask. When you save a public report, Qind reads it and writes a summary. When you paste interview notes, they sit beside the documents they relate to. Your archive stops being a pile of files and becomes something you can query.
The impact is greatest on deadline. Instead of frantically searching email and Google Drive for that one statistic, you ask: “What did the inspector general’s report say about procurement costs in 2024?” Qind searches by meaning across everything you have saved and answers with a link to the original document, so you can open it and check the figure yourself.
Privacy matters in journalism. Your saved content is encrypted in transit, and Qind does not train models on it. Your archive stays a searchable extension of your reporting memory.
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Save what you read, ask about it later, and see which item every answer came from.
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