Start with your papers
Build your signed-in map around the research you have saved.
Explore Idea-map
Find a connection worth exploring.
Organize saved papers, inspect a possible opening, and choose one source check to make next. This is the actual research-map interface with fictional papers and a provisional lead.
Your papers, map notes and starters stay behind sign-in. This public screenshot is a fixed fictional example.
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The actual map and opening panel with fictional papers. Unknown novelty and network evidence remain unknown; the proposed lead is not a demonstrated gap.
Worked example
From a paper to one checkable next step
Invented papers and proposals in the actual interface. This is not a map of a user’s saved papers or a verified research gap.
- Step 1
Choose a starting paper
The fictional map contains three papers about reading prompts, routines and settings. Select the lead linked to “Returning to a reading note after a short prompt”.
- Step 2
Inspect the opening
The opening asks whether the result might hold for a different participant group. Novelty and network centrality remain Unknown because the necessary comparison evidence has not been checked.
- Step 3
Take the first step
Read the source and record its participant group, task and outcome. Check whether it already studied the proposed group before deciding whether there is a useful question to carry into a project.
What makes this a proposal rather than a finding?
The actual interface separates a proposed opening from checked evidence. The screenshot uses fictional paper records and leaves missing citation-network and literature evidence unknown. A missing link or a suggested new setting does not prove novelty, an unstudied population or a research gap.
Explore a possible link
Compare topics and methods before treating two ideas as connected.
Carry a question forward
Keep an opening as a private starter and decide what evidence would help next.