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# Bird connects your notes for you

> Bird now infers relationships between your notes, protocols, and attachments — and surfaces them as inline link chips you can click.

**Shipped 2026-04-26 · AI**

The single biggest complaint about lab notebooks is that they're a write-only
medium: you capture everything, then can't find anything. Bower's hybrid
search helped. This goes further.

## What's new

Bird now reads every note you write — quietly, in the background — and infers
which other artifacts in your workspace it's related to:

* **Protocols** — "this experiment looks like it's running the Western blot
  protocol you saved in March."
* **Prior experiments** — "this is the third time you've measured this
  binding affinity; here are the previous two."
* **Attachments** — "this gel image looks like the one in note *2026-03-14
  competition assay*."
* **Concepts** — "you mention CRISPR-Cas9 here and in 12 other notes."

These connections appear as **inline link chips** at the top of the note view.
Click any chip to jump to the related artifact.

## How this differs from manual linking

[Linked entities](/changelog/2026-03-16-linked-entities) are explicit, user-created
connections — you decide what links to what. **Inferred relationships** are
suggestions from Bird, made by reading your notes and finding artifacts they
relate to. The two coexist: manual links carry full weight, inferred links
sit alongside them and are clearly labelled so you always know what's
authoritative.

## Where they come from

Inferred relationships run on a nightly batch (no real-time API call per note,
no foreground latency). The pipeline uses semantic similarity (embeddings) +
concept extraction + a graph-aware ranking model. Per-artifact link audits in
the **graph** view let you accept or reject suggestions; rejected suggestions
won't reappear.

## Why this matters

The links you'd build manually if you had infinite time — Bird builds them
for you, automatically, and updates them as your workspace grows. The result
is a notebook that gets *more* useful over time, not less.

## Related docs

* [Inferred links](/ai-and-search/inferred-links)
* [Linked entities](/organisation/linked-entities)