Start with a question.
Ask about the problem you are working through. Discovery can bring in relevant context from earlier work, so you can explore it through your own questions and inspect what informed the answer.
How it works
Explore a question. Keep what matters. Build on it later.
Start with a question or bring in new material. Cognizable helps you explore the context, review what is worth preserving, and use it in later work.
Two ways into the work.
Bring new material.
Paste a discussion, note, or other text. Explore what it says, then consider how it relates to existing project context. Suggested connections remain open to inspection and correction.
Explore. Review. Build on it.
Ask a question and Bring material are alternative starting points for Explore. When worth keeping, exploration can lead to human review and preservation. Review and preserve leads to Living context, which informs A later conversation.
Ask a question
Start with what you want to understand.
Bring material
Bring notes, a document, or other source material.
Explore
Ask questions, examine assumptions, and connect what you find.
What becomes clearer
Surface relevant information, relationships, and assumptions.
What remains open
Identify questions that still need evidence or judgment.
You can keep exploring without preserving a result.
When worth keeping
Human review
Review and preserve
Review the proposed context, refine it if needed, and decide what to keep.
Living context
Preserve useful understanding, including questions that remain open.
Informs new exploration
A later conversation
Start with a new question or material. Relevant living context helps you explore it.
Follow one question through.
This example starts with a familiar difficulty: sharing the outcome of an AI discussion. A separate summary takes work, but the full conversation can mix useful reasoning with unfinished or irrelevant material.
Actual prototype screenshots using illustrative design material. Cognizable is in development.
Bring in the background.
The source records an earlier decision and the extra work it creates. Explore its reasoning while keeping the original material in view.
Source material above, its inspection below.
Question the assumption.
Does reviewing context have to mean writing a separate summary? A follow-up question separates the need for review from the way it has been done.
An earlier assumption remains open to examination.
Review what is worth preserving.
Review an open question with what is known and what still needs deciding, then explicitly commit it as project context.
The proposal is still pending. You decide whether to preserve it.
Build on it in a new conversation.
The first question found no relevant context. After a follow-up clarified the topic, Cognizable used the preserved open question to inform its answer.
Two excerpts from the same screenshot.
The clarified question
Context used for the answer
Preserved context informs the answer provisionally; the Working Set remains empty.
What could your team build on?
Bring a situation where useful reasoning gets lost, explanations repeat, or a decision needs revisiting.