Research
A workspace for an ongoing investigation. Keep your sources, notes, and questions together as your understanding evolves.
Research is for the deeper kind of finding — the work that takes more than one sitting and benefits from a place to come back to.
Where Knowledgebase is a library (find a document, leave again), Research is a workspace (keep building up your understanding of a topic over time).
What It's Good For
- Multi-day investigations on a topic you'll keep returning to.
- Synthesizing sources as you gather them, instead of all at once.
- Building enough context to write something substantial — a long-form paper, a strategy document, a sustained position.
- Keeping a thread across many small sessions instead of restarting each time.
A Typical Flow
Scenario: your minister has asked for a position on AI regulation. You'll be working on it for two weeks.
- Open Research from Analysis & Research.
- Start a workspace for the topic ("AI regulation — minister briefing").
- Add sources as you find them — official documents from Knowledgebase, articles you spot in Press Monitor, your own uploads, notes from conversations.
- Come back over days or weeks. The workspace remembers what you've gathered, what you've considered, and where you stopped.
- Move into drafting in the Assistant once your understanding is solid enough to commit to a position.
When To Use Research Over Knowledgebase
Use Knowledgebase when you need to find a specific thing quickly and leave.
Use Research when:
- You'll be working on the same question over multiple sessions.
- The set of relevant material will grow over time.
- You want to keep notes and context together, not just bookmarks.
A Good Habit
Name the workspace clearly. "AI regulation — minister briefing — June" is much easier to find again in two weeks than "AI stuff".