Kindred
Documentation

How does Kindred find the question in something I paste?

For the inquiries that begin as an article or an experience rather than a question.

How it works

Paste an article, or a few sentences about something that happened, into the Ask bar, and Kindred will offer to find the questions in it. Accept, and it proposes two or three framings with a note on what each one pursues. Pick one, edit it freely, and run the analysis yourself; nothing fires without you.

The Find the question control under the Ask bar opens the same mode directly, and any jot can be walked through it with Find the question in this.

Kindred cannot read links yet, so paste the article's text, or describe in your own words what struck you. Whatever you paste is used only to propose questions: source material is never stored and never kept once the questions appear.

The questions Kindred proposes follow what you give it: paste an article alone and they will track that article's specifics. To steer them, add a line or two of your own before finding the questions, saying what struck you or how broad you want to go, and the framings will follow your altitude rather than the article's details. Pasting just your own reaction, with no article at all, works too, and often produces the most general questions of all.