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Threads are working spaces in Pond. They are where Fragments are related, organised and re-organised, and otherwise engaged with over time, as your understanding develops. A Thread workspace A Thread brings together Fragments, other Threads, the Notes you write (and the Moves they become when typed), and the Connections you draw between Fragments.

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Workspace

A Thread workspace has three tabs:
  • Timeline — a chronological view of everything in the Thread: Fragments added, Notes written, and Moves recorded. Filter to All, Fragments, Notes, or Moves to narrow the view.
  • Notebook — your writing surface. Compose Notes here, reference Fragments via @-mention, and arrange the Thread’s argument. Sort by All content or Thread order.
  • Artefacts — the sources behind the Thread: every Artefact that one of its Fragments is drawn from.
The right-hand Suggestions sidebar surfaces Fragments and Threads from elsewhere in your Library that might help develop the Thread in focus.

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The Observer

The Observer is a drawer that slides up from the bottom of the Thread workspace. It holds material Pond has authored for the Thread — most prominently the Pond-authored Moves (e.g. Curatorial, Purpose) that the agent produced when building the Thread. Each card sits in the Observer until you click Add to thread to commit it. The Observer drawer with Pond-authored Moves staged for the Thread
Thread development suggestions will also surface here in a future release — the Observer is the long-term home for everything Pond proposes to a Thread, as distinct from what it surfaces around it in the Suggestions sidebar.

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Creating Threads

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Manually

Click the New Thread button and select the Empty thread toggle. Alternatively, select any number of Fragments in the Library or Artefact detail views and click the New thread button that appears at the bottom of the page.

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With Pond’s help

From the Thread builder interface (accessible through the New thread dialog), describe in natural language the Thread you would like Pond to construct. You can be as specific or exploratory as you like:
Thread builder promptThread builder result

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Discovered by Pond

Once your Library reaches a sufficient size, Pond will proactively discover Threads running through your collections. See Thread Discovery for details.

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The Notebook

The Notebook is where the Thread’s argument is actually written. Each entry is a Note — freeform prose into which you can reference Fragments and other entities by @-mention. Composing a Note in the Thread Notebook

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Development & Suggestions

Pond surfaces Fragments and Threads from elsewhere in your Library that might help you develop the Thread in focus — in the Suggestions sidebar, on the Home screen, and as Resonances on newly-added Artefacts. See Pond Intelligence for details.