Ask Siri about your notes

Siri can answer questions from what your notes say, and from the PDFs in them, scans included. There’s nothing to set up: when you open Soot, it adds your notes to Spotlight on the device, where Siri finds them. Soot doesn’t need to be open when you ask.

What you need: Siri AI, which needs macOS, iOS or iPadOS 27 on a device that supports it. On an earlier version, Soot doesn’t add your notes to Spotlight.

Ask about your notes

Ask Siri a question the way you’d ask a person, such as “When is the boiler due a service?” or “What did I decide about the kitchen tiles?” Siri uses the notes and PDFs relevant to your question to answer it.

Ask about the note that’s open

With a note open in Soot, ask Siri something like “Summarise this note”, or ask a question about it. Siri reads the whole note, including the parts scrolled out of sight.

If Siri can’t answer

• Check that Siri AI is turned on.
• Open Soot on the device. Soot adds notes to Spotlight only while it’s open, including notes synced from your other devices.
• Siri may not find a PDF you’ve just added while Soot reads its text. Give it a moment and ask again.

How Siri reads your notes

Soot puts each note’s title, text, folder and dates in Spotlight’s index on the device, along with the text of the PDFs in your notes. How Siri then uses them to answer is covered by Apple’s Siri, Dictation & Privacy.

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