Hidden assumptions audit — Surface the unstated beliefs every source is building on — and which ones wouldn't survive scrutiny. (Analysis)
Find recurring patterns across sources — Surface themes, structures, and behaviors that show up in source after source — even when nobody names them directly. (Research)
Connect ideas across unrelated sources — Bridge concepts between sources that look unrelated on the surface — and find the insight only visible when they're read together. (Research)
Steelman the opposing views — Build the strongest possible version of each side in the notebook — then judge the debate on merit. (Decision)
Turn sources into a strategic memo — A founder-grade internal memo: situation, options, recommendation — every line backed by your notebook. (Strategy)
Build a mental models map of this topic — Convert dense sources into the first principles, models, and analogies that let you reason about the topic from scratch. (Study)
Explain this topic at four levels — A layered Feynman-style explanation — from a 12-year-old's analogy up to expert-level nuance. (Study)
Turn research into a 30-day action plan — Convert everything in the notebook into a concrete, prioritized, week-by-week plan with a real decision point at the end. (Strategy)
Reconstruct the timeline across all sources — Stitch scattered events from every source into one unified chronology — with disagreements and single-source claims flagged. (Research)
Read the sources through four stakeholder lenses — How a founder, investor, customer, and competitor would each interpret the same notebook — side-by-side, with the gaps between them. (Analysis)
Detect weak signals in the noise — Find the emerging trends and subtle patterns the sources mention in passing — the things that aren't loud yet but might be soon. (Analysis)
Rank source credibility and bias — Audit every source for recency, provenance, evidence type, and bias — and decide which to trust when they conflict. (Critical Thinking)
Reduce this topic to first principles — Strip every assumption, convention, and fashion away. Find the irreducible truths — then derive non-obvious conclusions from them. (Critical Thinking)
Project three plausible future scenarios — Build optimistic, base-case, and pessimistic 24-month scenarios from the notebook — each with leading indicators and a probability weight. (Strategy)
Stress-test the main argument — Identify the dominant argument across the sources, then attack it the way a hostile reviewer would. (Critical Thinking)
Simulate the questions an expert would ask — The clarifying, probing, and generative questions a world-class expert in this domain would actually press these sources with. (Research)