litus logoPOC 2023

litus is a compact, thread-style notetaking application at the edge of your collection.

Composition

litus provides an alternate approach to logging notes and data, acknowledging the fragmented nature of modern media consumption.

litus compose demo

litus encourages Cornell-style notetaking with user thoughts, notes, & prompts compared against an LLM response, Powered by OpenAI.

Thread Search

litus threads demo

litus provides a chat and search interface to your personal collection. litus is not suggested for use on personal or proprietary data.

litus mobile demo

Content Generation

Easily generate meaningful responses from your notes, or extract key features from longer text inputs.

Guide

litus guide

litus incorporates icons from the Carbon Design System.

Retrospective (2025)

  • Short-form notes retrieved with related notetaking session context, based on the user's prompt, to build LLM query context within the <20k token windows of GPT-3.5 Turbo
  • Prompted early models for structured outputs (JSON) with client-side parsing to populate UI components
  • Design experiment steering users away from non-conversational interactions with LLMs in an edtech context