Documentation Index
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May 2026
See your workspace as a graph
A new Knowledge Graph page renders every note, protocol, attachment,
and project — with their relationships — as a force-directed graph.
Permission-filtered, light and dark mode, with an opt-in 3D view for
large workspaces.Read more →Your publications, one ORCID iD away
Save your ORCID iD on your profile and Bird pulls from your public
publication list whenever it’s relevant. Drop a DOI in a chat and
Bird fetches the full record from OpenAlex. Works in chat and live
mode, with no connector to set up.Read more →Hands-free video clips during a live session
Ask Bird to record a video clip during a live session — say “record
this” and Bird captures a 2-minute audio + video clip straight to
your workspace attachments. No taps, no buttons, with a visible REC
indicator while it’s running.Read more →Connect Drive, Notion, Slack, Linear, GitHub and more from Account
Settings → Connectors. Bird does federated search across your
connections live, returns answers with citations, and only writes to
your knowledge base when you explicitly save a result. Per-user,
per-workspace, OAuth-bound, read-only by default.Read more → April 2026
Owner, Admin, Member, Viewer — a role for every relationship
Four workspace roles with a clean separation of duties: billing for
Owner, member management for Admin, day-to-day work for Member,
read-only for Viewer. Last-Owner protection and an atomic
ownership-transfer flow keep the workspace safe.Read more →Permissions on every note and collection
Three privacy modes per note and collection — Anyone in the
workspace, Only specific people, or Just me. Per-person
View, Edit, or Manage grants. Inheritance from parent collections, a
compliance toggle for regulated workspaces, and a polite request-access
flow on restricted content.Read more →Bird now reads your notes in the background and suggests links to related
protocols, prior experiments, attachments, and concepts. Inline link
chips on the note view make jumping between related work a single click.Read more → Teach Bird how you and your lab actually work
Two editable documents inject straight into every Bird conversation:
Personal preferences (just for you — your style, units, focus area)
and Workspace instructions (shared with your team — protocols,
conventions, policies).Read more →Every save, recoverable
Every note now has full version history with a side-by-side diff viewer.
See exactly what changed, when, and by whom — and roll back to any prior
version with one click.Read more →Drop a spreadsheet, ask Bird
Bird reads CSVs and Excel files natively, summarises what’s in them,
compares across files, and cross-references with your notes when
answering.Read more →Bird draws charts when a chart is the right answer
Bar, line, and scatter plots rendered directly in the chat, with axes
and units pulled from the source data. Refine through follow-up
questions.Read more →Who did what, when — at a glance
A clean activity timeline with multi-select filters, full-text search,
and richer event details. Login deduplication keeps the feed readable.Read more →Softer surfaces, sharper details
A pass over Bower’s interface: modern theme primitives, segmented
controls, cleaner card previews, per-user avatar colours, and a
refreshed data table.Read more →Find by meaning, not just keywords
Global search now runs keyword and semantic similarity in parallel by
default. No toggle, no second query — type what you remember, get what
you meant.Read more →Equations, collapsible toggles, table of contents
Three additions to the note editor: LaTeX/KaTeX equations, /details
collapsible blocks, and a table-of-contents sidebar that builds itself
from your headings.Read more →Draw on anything, build diagrams from scratch
A built-in drawing editor (powered by Excalidraw) lets you annotate any
image and build full diagrams from a blank canvas. Annotations save as a
separate layer.Read more →Speak your questions to Bird
The Bird Chat input has a microphone button — tap it, speak your prompt,
and Bower transcribes it directly into the input field, ready to edit
and send.Read more →Delete with a safety net
Deletes are now soft-deletes, recoverable from the trash for 30 days.
Bulk restore, undo toasts on every delete, and a scheduled background
purge keep things tidy.Read more →Pick a target, pick a source: content, attachments, tags, and links flow
in. Tags and links de-duplicate automatically. The source moves to
trash, recoverable if you change your mind.Read more → Beyond your workspace, with sources
Bird can now reach external sources when a question requires them, and
brings back inline citations linking back to the original.Read more →Compliance controls in place, not on a roadmap
PHI guard with a workspace toggle, GDPR consent and data export, account
deletion, retention controls, and a public sub-processors list.Read more →March 2026
Bird where your hands are
A dedicated Bird page on mobile, and Live Mode support for Ray-Ban Meta
glasses with high-resolution photo capture.Read more →A short, evidence-based checklist of the steps that predict whether
someone gets value out of Bower in their first week — with a circular
progress indicator in the sidebar.Read more → Share an artifact via a public link
Generate a read-only public link for any note, attachment, or collection.
Recipients open the link in their browser; no Bower account needed.
Revocable any time.Read more →Talk to Bird hands-free
Standby mode lets Bird stay quiet during a long protocol and wake up the
moment you call it.Read more →A proper Help Centre at docs.bowerlabs.ai
Searchable guides for capture, AI, organisation, workspaces, and the
Trust Centre. In-app “Learn more” links point straight to the relevant
page.Read more →Built for lab notebooks, not receipts
Photo-to-text extraction now runs on Gemini 2.5/3 Pro with a
scientific-lab prompt. Better on handwriting, instrument readouts, units,
and chemical formulae — and honest about its uncertainty when a region
is unclear.Read more →Bower picks the right artifact type for you
Voice and Word documents become notes. Images become notes when their
text is clear. PDFs stay as PDFs but become searchable. No more
decision-making at import time.Read more →Bower on your phone, fully
Every page in Bower has a responsive layout tuned for one-handed use.
Read a note on the bus. Reorganise a collection while waiting for a
centrifuge.Read more →Wire your workspace together
Any artifact can be linked to any other — notes to protocols, protocols
to collections, attachments to anything they’re relevant to. Links are
bidirectional.Read more →A dedicated home for your lab procedures
Protocols are now a first-class artifact type with their own library,
detail pages, and knowledge-graph relationships to the experiments
that ran them.Read more →Drop a folder, Bower handles it
Batch import runs in the background via Cloud Tasks. Drag dozens of
files in, close the dialog, and keep working — completed artifacts
appear as they finish.Read more →Bower names your work for you
Auto-generated titles for notes and short descriptions for attachments,
so you don’t stop mid-capture to think of a name. Always editable.Read more →Bird flags low-confidence captures
After every voice transcription and photo OCR, Bird scores the result
and surfaces a quiet notification when it’s uncertain — so silent
errors stop slipping through.Read more →Split-view, DOCX preview, photo lightbox
OCR notes open beside their source attachment for easy comparison; Word
documents preview inline; image attachments open in a proper full-screen
viewer with pinch-to-zoom and swipe.Read more →Refreshed logo, palette, and typography
DM Sans for body, Playfair Display for headings, a refined accent
palette, and a new mark across the app and email comms.Read more →February 2026
A unified command palette
Press Cmd+K anywhere in Bower for global search, navigation, and
quick actions. Search blends keyword and semantic ranking; move, copy,
and jump-to without leaving the keyboard.Read more →“Project” is now “Collection”
We renamed Bower’s grouping artifact from Project to Collection across
the UI, URLs, and API. Same thing, clearer term. Old URLs redirect.Read more →Find notes by meaning, not just exact words
A vector store and an agentic RAG pipeline mean Bird and global search
retrieve by meaning. Hybrid ranking blends semantic and keyword scores
so exact matches still win when they should.Read more →Sharper transcription, better with lab vocabulary
Speech-to-text moves to Chirp 3, with markedly better punctuation,
formatting, and recognition of scientific vocabulary, units, and
reagent names.Read more →Your AI lab partner — text chat, Live Mode, inline citations
Bird launches with a persistent chat panel, real-time voice and video
conversation in Live Mode, and answers grounded in your workspace with
numbered citations back to the source. Multi-agent under the hood,
running on Vertex AI inside Bower’s perimeter.Read more →
