What Is the Workbench
A space for stepping back
When you have been working close to a subject for a long time, you stop seeing it clearly. You know which notes exist, but the patterns between them — the tensions, the gaps, the unexpected connections — become invisible because you're too familiar with each piece.
The AI sees the tensions you no longer see because you're too close.
The Workbench is the space where this becomes possible. It brings together your graph and the AI in a single view — designed not for writing or capturing, but for reflection. For asking: what does all of this actually mean together?
Graph and chat together
In most of Relinkia, you use the graph or the chat. In the Workbench, they work simultaneously. The graph shows you the spatial structure of your thinking — which notes cluster together, which sit in isolation, where the connections are dense or thin. The chat gives you a way to ask questions about what you see.
When you select a note or a cluster in the graph, the chat context updates. The AI can now respond specifically to what you are looking at — not to your graph in the abstract.
The Workbench is not a power-user feature. It is for any moment when you need to step back — whether you have fifty notes or five hundred.
Not for output
The Workbench is not the place to write a note, produce a summary, or draft a deliverable. It is a space for thinking — for noticing things about your graph that you could not see while you were inside it.
What you discover in the Workbench becomes material for your notes. The insights flow back into the graph — as new connections, updated note types, or notes you finally decide to write.