Start with a question
Name the decision, project, or uncertainty. This bounds what should be gathered and what useful output means.
Zelf Knowledge
Product direction / in progressThink with what
you collect.
The intended product turns a real research question and selected sources into an inspectable cited brief. The current local alpha proves capture and retrieval plumbing; it does not yet deliver this complete journey.
Current maturityIn-progress local alpha
Current inputOne note or web link
Current outputBasic answer-level evidence
Completion targetSaved inspectable cited brief
The first useful session / target
From a real question to a brief you can inspect and reuse.
Build an inspectable corpus
Add documents, notes, links, transcripts, or repositories. See what was preserved, transformed, rejected, or omitted.
Receive a cited brief
Inspect supported claims, conflicts, unknowns, exact excerpts, freshness, and authorship—then save or export bounded context.
Current implementation / honest boundary
The plumbing works. The product outcome does not—yet.
The local alpha can capture one note or URL and retrieve matching passages with answer-level evidence. It lacks a project workspace, inspectable corpus, claim-level citations, contradictions, durable cited briefs, context-pack export, and multi-view research surface. The rejected capture/search screen is not published here.
Question, scope, corpus, and ingestion receipt
TARGETSupported claims with exact source excerpts
TARGETConflicts, unknowns, freshness, and authorship
TARGETSaved brief and bounded agent context pack
TARGETWhat matters
Built for understanding, not collection anxiety.
You choose the world it knows
Start with one note or URL. The useful product is a deliberate body of context, not indiscriminate surveillance.
Answers bring their sources
Titles, summaries, URLs, and freshness travel with the response so you can inspect the path back.
Your working memory lives with you
The current development server stores its knowledge graph locally and binds to loopback. The public site is static and accepts no private context.
The same context can help elsewhere
Knowledge is an extension of Zelf: selected evidence can later inform Canvas, Jobs, and Coworker without becoming copied prose.
Why this exists
“External state to inward state; building your own world model.”Original product input / retained as provenance, not generated copy