Connections

Connections are explicit, typed relationships between Fragments. Together they form a relational layer over your archive — a web Pond draws on for Thread curation, development suggestions, discovery, and Frames. The richer this layer becomes, the better those features get. You don’t need to be exhaustive. Even a few Connections give Pond meaningful signal to work with.

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Connection types

Pond ships with three starter types — supports, extends, and contrasts — and the type field is freeform, so you can type any custom label that fits the relation you have in mind. Use the starter types when they fit, invent your own when they don’t.

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Making Connections

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From the Connections panel

Clicking an Artefact card in the Library opens an Artefact detail panel listing its Fragments. Each Fragment card has a View connections button, which opens the Connections panel. From there, you connect the current Fragment to another by clicking Connect on a target Fragment card and choosing the type. Targets can come from:

• The Suggested Connections list
• The Fragments list of an Artefact detail pane
• A search from the bar at the top of the Connections panel

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From inside a Note

When a Note references two or more Fragments, an inline chip appears beneath them suggesting you connect those Fragments. Pick Extends, Supports, or Contrasts — or open the menu for a custom type — to record the Connection without leaving the editor.

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Along a Trail

You can also make Connections opportunistically as you read. Trails record the path you take through Pond as one Fragment leads you to another; when two items on a Trail strike you as related, record a Connection between them from the Trail itself — without breaking the flow of reading.

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Navigating Connections

See Trails for how Pond records the paths you take across Connections as you read and think.