Anyone who has published for a year has the same problem: a list, sorted by date, that says nothing. You know there are three proposals that say almost the same thing. You cannot see it in a list.
The map is the same documents in the shape they actually have.
What the drawing means
- A point is a document. One of your hosted pages.
- A line is meaning. Two documents are connected when they are about the same thing, measured on the same index the search and the assistant use. Not folders, not tags.
- A group forms itself. Communities are detected from the connections and named after what dominates them, so a document can sit in a group that is not its folder.
- The glow is reading. Views and attention in the last 7, 30 or 90 days. Cold points are things nobody opened.
What you notice in the first minute
Three things, reliably. The duplicate cluster: four documents saying the same thing to four clients, which is a template waiting to be written. The cold corner: a group with no glow, which is either work nobody needed or work nobody knows exists. And the odd link: two documents connected that you never thought of together, which is usually the interesting one.
Hovering a point shows its summary, views, time spent, when it was last read and, if the page uses an email gate, who opened it.
Publishing the map
One button turns the map into a hosted document: the drawing, the numbers for the period, and the list of what was read most. Publishing again makes a new version at the same link, so a link you sent last month shows this month's map.
It is born private. If you make it public it will show the title and summary of every document on it, including the private ones, while the documents themselves keep their own permissions. That is a deliberate choice you make, not a default.
Good to know before you switch
The map needs at least three indexed documents to have a shape, and a page uploaded minutes ago may not be connected yet.
The groups are computed, not curated. They move as you publish more, which is the point, but it means the map is not a filing system and should not be used as one.
It draws your own documents. It is not a research graph over the web, and not a notes app: if you want a graph of ideas you are still thinking about, a notes tool with a graph view is the right shape. This one is for the things you shipped.