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The one tool here that works while you're not looking. It quietly watches for new materials that echo old ones, and tells you when today's upload speaks to something you filed away months ago.
When to reach for it
Once your library is large enough that you've forgotten half of what's in it. The best connections in a big collection are the ones across time — the paper you added this week that turns out to answer a question from a project two years ago. You'd never think to check for that link yourself. Radar checks for you.
It runs in the background
Radar compares your materials against each other and looks for strong resemblances you haven't already connected. You don't have to launch it against a specific selection — it works across your library, so the value grows automatically as the library does. The bigger your collection, the more it has to notice on your behalf.
The radar surface in the app
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Read the alerts
When it finds a strong new resemblance, it raises an alert: this recent material closely relates to that older one. Each alert is a small, specific prompt — a nudge to go look at a pairing you'd never have thought to compare, because the two sources came from completely different moments in your work.
A similarity alert linking a new and old material
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Treat alerts as prompts, not conclusions. The good ones send you back into a source with a fresh question; the rest you dismiss in a second.
Tune the sensitivity
Adjust how far back it looks and how much it surfaces, so the radar matches how you work — a wide net when you're actively hunting for connections, a quieter setting when you just want the occasional strong signal. The aim is useful nudges, not a noisy feed you learn to ignore.
Alert preferences and sensitivity
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Radar vs. Connection Mapping
Connection Mapping is something you open when you want to study your connections deliberately. Radar is the opposite posture — you don't open it, it comes to you, catching the links you weren't looking for. One is a map you go and read; the other is a lookout that taps you on the shoulder. Together they cover both the connections you seek and the ones you'd miss.
Radar only pays off on a stocked, well-indexed library. Early on it’ll be quiet — that’s expected. Its value compounds as your collection grows.
What comes next
Related research tools
Connection Mapping
5 minDiscover relationships between your materials with interactive graph visualization
Semantic Search
3 minFind materials by meaning, not keywords — ask questions in natural language
Knowledge Graph
5 minExtract the artists, movements, and places from your sources and see how they interconnect
Catch the connections
you’d miss.
Build a library and let the radar surface the echoes across it. Curatorial is free to start.
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