Launching Thinking Partner
The secure online environment that helps you develop your own thinking
Introduction
For years, I have kept everything I think scattered across notes, half-finished essays, and passages from books that had a deep impact. The pile grew faster than I could manage. I knew there were threads running through it that I had lost. I could not see them, because I cannot read years of my own thinking at once.
Solving that problem is one of the things I built Thinking Partner for. You give it the material you actually think with: the real, messy working pile, or just a few things that matter to you. Then you work with it in two ways.
Ways of Working With Thinking Partner
In the first, you create. You draft, you explore tensions, you take something half-formed and work it into shape. You can come to it with a clear idea of what you want, or with no more than a direction you sense you should follow. Either way, your own material is there as you work, so the result is grounded in your sources and your language. And while it is working from everything you have provided, it will sometimes surface something you did not expect, your own context meeting you with something you had not consciously recognized.
In the second, you can intuitively navigate what your material holds. You open a note and find the passages that sit nearest it in meaning. You follow a thread without settling in advance where it leads. The work here is not to ask and receive. It is to be met by your own material in novel arrangements, and to see for yourself what they hold.
Both of these move with a sense of direction toward a destination you may not yet see clearly. You can navigate by feel, following what pulls. Most tools require a definite goal before they can do anything. Here you can set off with only a heading and find the rest as you go.
Free Association
On top of these two ways of working, we are building a family of more specific tools, each a different way of being met by your own material. Free Association is the first you can use today. When you ask and receive a reply, you can add a single passage, drawn by genuine chance from across your whole vault, set beside the answer. The passage sits there as itself, a piece of your own material you had not thought to place next to this question. Sometimes it sparks an immediate insight. Either way, you can ask the AI model to suggest how the two might be related, and see if that feels compelling.
Free Association is the first; more are coming as we develop, and they share a spirit. Each surfaces something to follow, and the value of that is yours to determine. The system does not pronounce.
Background
I built Thinking Partner myself, over months of work that draws on decades of thinking. It is an expression of Liminal philosophy made into something you can use. The interface owes a great deal to Jason Cranford Teague, who brought decades of design experience to it. The thinking it embodies is mine. I am sharing Thinking Partner more widely now, while it is still early and still growing. How people use it will shape where it goes next. I use it every day on my own material. I think it is ready for yours.
You can give it as much or as little as you like. A few pieces you care about are enough to begin, and it works as well on a small, deliberate collection as on years of accumulated material. What you give it may be personal or proprietary, so let me be plain about the arrangement. Your material is yours. It is never sold, and it is never used to train anything. It builds no profile of you, and nothing it holds steers what it shows you. You remain the subject. That is the promise in plain words. The Privacy Policy sets it out in full, and it says the same thing.
If you’d like to see exactly how it all works before you try it, the complete User Guide is here to read first: the full Thinking Partner User Guide.
The best way to know if this is for you is to try it. Right now, the first 50 people to sign up can do so on a week’s free trial. Bring your own material and find out whether it earns a place in how you work. You can take everything with you at any time, and remove your material whenever you ask. Nothing here holds you in.
Hit the button to sign up. The first 50 people can get a week’s free trial.
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