Concept
The insight margin
Cards beside your draft that show where your accepted analysis supports, contradicts or extends the paragraph you are writing, and where it has a gap.
You have read the papers, filled the matrix and coded the passages. When you sit down to write, the insight margin brings that work back to you, one paragraph at a time: what in your own analysis backs this paragraph, what goes against it, and what is missing.
Where to find it
In the Writing lens, open the Insight tab beside your draft and choose Paragraph insights. The cards are always about the paragraph where your cursor is, under the heading For this paragraph.
The same tab has two more views: Claims (see Check my citations and Claim support) and Compare (see Compare papers).
It reads your accepted analysis
Insights start from what you have already accepted in this project: matrix values, coded passages, themes and links. Each card says where it came from, for example From your matrix, From your code or From your theme. Suggested values you haven't accepted yet are not used.
If nothing you have accepted relates to the paragraph, the margin says so, and tells you that accepting matrix values, codes or themes will give it something to work with.
The four kinds of card
- Supports: a passage that backs what the paragraph says.
- Contradicts: a passage that goes against it. Worth a sentence in your text, or a second look at your claim.
- Extends: a passage that adds to it: another setting, a reason, a next step.
- Gap: something the paragraph claims that no accepted evidence in your project backs. A gap card has no quote; it may name the research question it touches. Accept a matrix value, code or theme that backs the claim, or rethink it.
Every Supports, Contradicts and Extends card shows the quote and its page, checked in the paper. Press the page to open the reader there, with a line to your paragraph.
Use a card in your text
- Insert quote adds the card's passage in quotation marks with its citation, at the end of the paragraph.
- Cite only adds just the citation, linked to the page.
Either way it goes in marked Suggested until you accept it in the text. You are the author. See Suggested AI text.
Automatic or on request
- On the Student and Researcher plans, insights are automatic: cards appear when you pause on a paragraph you have changed. A paragraph that hasn't changed is never charged again. You can turn Automatic insights off in the tab and ask by hand instead.
- On the Free plan, you ask for each paragraph with Find insights. The button shows the credits it will use, and CurTask asks you before it runs.
The bottom of the tab shows what this session has used. If you ask again about a paragraph that hasn't changed, the result is reused at no cost. See Credits explained.
Tip: insights need a sentence or two to work with. Very long paragraphs (more than about 1,250 words) are too long for one request: split them first.