Analytical Frameworks
Lenses, not rules
Analytical frameworks are different ways of looking at your graph. Each one surfaces a specific kind of pattern — tensions, maturity levels, connection gaps, or the shape of your attention over time.
The AI can propose which framework might be useful given what you are working on. But you choose which lens makes sense right now. A framework is a starting point for reflection — not a conclusion the AI draws for you.
Each framework asks a different question of your graph. The right one depends on what you are trying to understand — not on which is more sophisticated.
Available frameworks
Tensions
The AI scans your graph for pairs or clusters of notes that pull in different directions without being explicitly connected. It surfaces ideas that seem to disagree — giving you material to explore or resolve.
"Where are the productive conflicts in my thinking that I haven't acknowledged yet?"
Maturity landscape
A view of how developed your ideas are — which ephemeral notes are ready to become permanent, which permanent notes have no supporting literature, which topics are dense with synthesis and which remain raw captures.
"What is almost ready to become a consolidated idea, and what still needs work?"
Connection gaps
The AI identifies notes with overlapping concepts that are not yet linked. These are potential connections you have not drawn — places where your thinking might already be related without you having noticed.
"What do I already know that belongs together but hasn't been connected?"
Cluster analysis
A view of the dense domains in your graph — the topics where you have accumulated the most thinking. Also reveals the thin edges of your knowledge: territory you have touched but not developed.
"Where have I been spending my intellectual attention, and what am I neglecting?"
You choose the lens
You can activate any framework from the Workbench controls — or ask the AI which one it would suggest given what you are working on. The AI may notice that your graph has a high number of unconnected ephemeral notes and propose the Maturity landscape, or that two of your spaces overlap heavily and suggest Tensions.
These are proposals. You can follow them, ignore them, or ask what the AI sees from a different angle. The Workbench is a conversation — not a report.