Online Mode is the recommended default for pinakea Sets. Mixed Mode can avoid OpenRouter cost for automatic item processing on smaller Sets, but it comes with speed, quality, and Mac-load tradeoffs.
Notion is phenomenal for curated knowledge. But ninety percent of what you encounter never makes it into Notion, because every entry demands decisions. pinakea catches the other ninety percent, the raw intake that arrives as emails, browser clips, PDFs, and screenshots. One collects, the other structures. They're not competitors. They're two phases of the same process.
Your emails, web clips, PDFs, and screenshots flow into pinakea without effort. An AI pipeline turns all of it into a searchable knowledge base. Now, through MCP, an AI assistant like Claude can reach directly into that library, find the three items that matter across thousands, and write the result into Notion or wherever you think. This is what that looks like in practice.