Find it, connect it

Every workspace has one Connect…. It opens a search over everything the workspace can draw on: collections, sources, single facts, signals, concepts and expressions. It looks in names and inside every source Gyrium has read, so a word that is only in the text finds the source. One click connects what you find. Nothing is moved and nothing is copied.

Material you already have should be one word away from the work that needs it. Before, connecting meant knowing what kind of thing you wanted and what it was called, and a source filed in a sector could be connected to a campaign without its facts reaching anything made there. Now you type the word you remember, and what you connect is what the work draws on.

The search reads the names and descriptions of everything in your organisation, the facts of every source, and the text Gyrium read but did not turn into facts. Results come back grouped by kind, each saying where it lives. Connecting a source, a signal, a concept or an expression files it in this workspace as well. Connecting a fact connects the source it came from. A connected source grounds what is made in this workspace, even when it is filed in a sector or a collection, and only in this workspace.

1. Open the workspace (a campaign, a project or a customer) and choose Connect… in its header. On the Sources card it sits beside Add a source.
2. Look at what is suggested first: before you type, the panel shows what the workspace's own name and brief find. Or type a word, two letters or more: a name, a term from a regulation, a phrase you remember.
3. Narrow the list with the kind filter if you want: All, or one kind.
4. Read the rows. Each says where the thing lives. When the word was found inside a source, the row shows the sentence, marked Found in its facts or Found in the text we read. Open a source row to see its first facts.
5. Choose Connect on the one you want. The row then says Connected.
6. Choose Close when you are done. What you connected is in the workspace's lists, and what you make here can draw on it.

From the other side, without going to the workspace first:

- On Sources, open a source of your own or of a sector and choose Connect to a workspace…, then pick the workspace.

- On a collection, choose Use in a workspace… and pick the project, customer or campaign that should draw on it.

In Create, under Grounded on, a search box narrows the collections and the external research to what you type, once there are more than a handful.

A signal you capture on a workspace's Context card is kept in Signals too, connected to that workspace, and steers what is made there.

To see or undo what a workspace uses, open its details: What this workspace uses lists the collections it draws on and the signals and concepts connected to it, each with Disconnect.

- The search matches the letters you type; it does not yet understand synonyms or inflections.