Process

The Between loop — what has been processed and what is still to come. Click any stage for detail.

One gate in, one loop back through itIngestReadwise · booksReader · web/YouTubeEssays · drafts + harvestedCapture · inbox/chatdistillcurateZettelsthe unit241Engine indexrelata + relationone substrate472 edgesHolding → Groundauthored, holding confirmsBridges + Tensionssimilarity × distanceHarvestconvictionsproto-essaysdevelopCraftingdevelop proto-essays into essaysback in as an essayingest + curatethe analytical pipenot yet tracked
Operational work runs in Cowork or Code sessions — it changes the vault and rebuilds the engine index. Exploratory work happens here in the web app — read-only, no LLM calls, no vault writes.
Ingest

Many mouths, one gate — Readwise, Reader, Essays, Capture

Not yet trackedCowork
Distill

Curate raw material into atomic claims — a zettel is born only by passing the gate

Not yet trackedCowork — /distill
Zettels

The unit — durable atomic claims

241 fragments indexedCowork — /distill
Engine index

One substrate — relata + relation, including rests-on

241 fragments · 472 edgesCode — pnpm reindex
Holding + Ground

Transitive load over rests-on; bedrock checked against authored ground

105 rests-on · 5 ground · band 8Web — conviction rankings
Bridges + Tensions

Similarity × distance for candidate edges; contradictions and forks

361 relational · 6 tensionWeb — graph explorer
Harvest

Convictions and proto-essays

Build step 6Code — harvest:commit
Crafting

Develop proto-essays into essays — the finished essay re-enters through ingest

Loops back through the Essays mouthCowork — write the essay

Fragments by type

zettel: 236ground (type): 4attune: 1ground (folder): 5

Provenance coverage

111/241 (46%)