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Topics are the themes your thinking keeps returning to. Instead of asking you to build and maintain a folder structure, PeerNotes watches what you capture and clusters related thoughts into topics automatically. Your organization emerges from your thinking — not the other way around.

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How topics work

As you capture thoughts, the PeerNotes agent reads them and groups the ones that belong together. A topic might form around a project, a question you keep circling, a book you’re reading, or a theme you didn’t realize was on your mind until the cluster appeared. You can also tag topics yourself — while capturing a thought, or later from the thought’s topic editor. Manual tags and agent clustering work together: you stay in control, the agent does the tedious part.
Don’t wait to “set up” topics before you start capturing. Capture freely for a week and let the agent show you what your topics actually are.

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Browse by topic

Topics show up everywhere your content lives:
  • The Topics page shows every topic in your notebook, with a timeline of activity so you can see which themes are heating up and which have gone quiet.
  • The Topics panel in the Thoughts feed shows your topics at a glance. Select one (or several) to filter the feed to just those threads of thinking.
  • Topic chips on thoughts, notes, and articles let you jump from any item to everything else on the same theme.

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From topic to note

Topics are the natural starting point for writing. When a topic has accumulated a critical mass of thoughts:
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Open the topic

Review the thoughts the agent has gathered — often there’s already the skeleton of an argument in there.
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Select the thoughts worth keeping

Pick the ones that hold up. Leave the rest — not every fragment needs to become prose.
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Convert to Note

Use Convert to Note to compile your selection into a draft, then structure and refine it in the note editor.
Topics span your whole pipeline: filter articles by topic, tag notes with topics, and trace a published article back through its notes to the raw thoughts — all along the same theme.