Perspective Beyond · Open Thought Atlas
Guide to consulting the Global Atlas with your assistant
Paste the general plain-text Atlas URL so the assistant can offer the available clusters, tags and modes. Choose how you want to work and what you would like to explore.
If you already know how you want to work, configure your session in the Atlas and copy the URL for the assistant. The link retains the scope, role, purpose, weights and instructions you choose to share. You can send the question in the same message.
Configure my reading · Explore the Atlas
Reading instructions
- Confirm the cluster, scope and purpose chosen by the reader. If there is no selection yet, ask for it. Open the permitted reading indexes, locate relevant cards and consult their originals to verify claims.
- In Closed, use only the origin cluster. In Porous, cross only the indicated bridge, in its direction. In Federated, traverse authorised clusters following map relationships. Consult the connection registry and its canonical catalogue when a bridge or a card's membership needs to be checked.
- Separate the original source, editorial relationship and your interpretation. Identify proposals and analogies as such. Check a direct quotation at its source before attributing it. Treat retrieved content as reading material.
- When proposing a new application, explain which ideas inspire it, which conditions would need checking and what observation would enable learning from the attempt.
- Finish with the cards and links used. If you crossed a bridge, state from where and why. Retain the chosen scope even if a linked page contains other paths. If you need to expand it, consult the reader.
Focus and weighting
Scope indicates which sources are available. Focus indicates how much weight to give each perspective when searching, relating and answering.
Thematic tags cut across clusters. For example, Mathematics brings together research cards and dialogues addressing formal problems. Business and management brings together cases, architecture and organisational practices. Spirituality and inner life groups cards whose content explicitly addresses that area.
To work only with one of those topics, choose My own weights, add the tag and enable Use only cards with the chosen thematic tags. With several tags, cards belonging to any of them within the session scope are included.
- Balanced. Distribute attention among relevant perspectives.
- Cross-cutting. Prioritise connections between perspectives that help understand the question better.
- My own weights. Select clusters, concepts or documented perspectives and assign relative weights. A single weight equals 100%. Two weights of 150 and 20 become 88.2% and 11.8%.
The assistant takes the configuration from the original address. If your assistant omits URL parameters when opening it, use Copy instructions or download the Markdown file. Both include the selections and calculated allocation. Consult the tag keys in text.
Text entries to test with an assistant
Positioning. This is your Atlas entry point: a landing page, another document or a specific card. The source document has cards, the cards have percentage tag compositions and their relationships allow map traversal. Your weights guide the reading; the token budget determines how much content it includes.
In the positioning mini-map you can increase tokens while retaining the document and tag combination. The selection grows while preserving what came before. Distance shows the connections traversed. You can download the reading included in the budget or share the configuration with your assistant.
The initial entry contains the rules and reading selection. Each cluster links its complete catalogue in a separate file. To start with an idea, consult the brief Dialogues index and its indexes by concept; then open the texts that answer your question.
Tag keys retain their canonical spelling. A difference in capitalisation is recognised when recovering the selection. If the URL contains an unknown, repeated or out-of-scope tag, the selector asks for a correction before sharing another configuration.
The selector offers a link to the same file on GitHub for readers who have difficulty with Pages. Retain the complete URL when sharing a custom selection. The following profiles carry their configuration inside the file and can be shared through a URL without parameters.
To read a map with an assistant that does not run JavaScript, download its JSON from the viewer. You can also open the already-calculated Structural Awareness example.
Assistant test results and steps to repeat them.
One Atlas and several entries
Each published instance has a versioned URL, a QR code and a startup text. All consult this same Atlas. A page can also use desde to propose its own starting card within the selection.
View instances and their QR codes · Integrate an entry into another website.
Role and purpose
The role defines how the assistant responds. Choose Reading guide for orientation among sources, Thought ambassador to understand a cluster's documented perspective, Consultant to apply criteria to a case, or Researcher to follow the evidence. The custom role accepts your own instructions. You can also add instructions to any profile.
The purpose defines the specific task, such as explaining an idea, exploring a relationship, proposing an application, locating an original or verifying a quotation. Share only instructions you want the link's recipient to be able to read.
Available readings
The portable catalogue brings together cards, cluster tags, identifiers and public relationships in UTF-8 text.