Practical overview
When it fits
Use Revery when you want to explore a topic through related material in a Monocle personal index, especially while reading a web page or starting from a broad phrase.
Who it is for
- People who want to rediscover personal notes and saved material while reading about a topic.
- Readers and writers exploring a subject who want related items from their own indexed collections.
Documented uses
- Find personal documents related to the text or topic of a web page.
- Search an index from a URL or key phrase to surface related ideas and saved material.
- Use a highlighted passage as the browser extension’s search input.
Requirements & limits
- Revery searches a Monocle personal index, so its usefulness depends on having indexed personal content.
- It is described by its author as a proof-of-concept prototype rather than a finished product.
- The browser extension and web search interface offer different starting points: page text or a selection, versus a URL or phrase.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Find related personal documents from a web page
Use Revery’s browser extension to search for indexed personal documents related to the page you are reading.
Before you start
- The Revery browser extension and API are available.
- A Monocle search index containing personal documents is available.
Steps
Open a webpage of interest in your browser.
Optionally highlight a portion of the page to search using that selection.
Press Ctrl-Shift-L to have the extension send the page text or highlighted selection to the Revery API.
Review the returned topically related documents.
Expected outcome
Revery surfaces indexed notes, bookmarks, journal entries, or other personal documents that are semantically related to the page text.
Guide limitations
- Revery is described as a proof-of-concept prototype rather than a finished product.
- Results depend on content in the Monocle search index; the extension searches that index rather than the open web.
Search indexed personal documents from the web interface
Use a phrase or URL to find topically related documents in Revery’s search index.
Before you start
- The Revery web search interface and API are available.
- A Monocle search index containing personal documents is available.
Steps
Open the Revery web search interface.
Enter a key phrase or a URL in the search bar.
Submit the search and review the related documents returned from the index.
Expected outcome
Revery returns documents from the personal search index that are topically similar to the phrase or the content of the supplied web page.
Guide limitations
- The web interface is described as secondary to the browser extension and as a demonstration of the underlying technology.
- Revery is described as a proof-of-concept prototype rather than a finished product.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 16 October 2026
- Original website title
- thesephist/revery · Official homepage title · retained in its source language