Domains

Domains are the territories your thinking forms on its own. As your notes accumulate, the Oracle notices clusters of ideas that cohere into something large enough to name, and it gathers them into a domain. You do not create domains or sort notes into them. The Oracle proposes and ratifies them across your graph, and Domains is where you browse what it has found and, once a domain has settled, shape it. Open it from the Domains entry in the sidebar.

What a domain is

A domain is a cluster of concepts and notes the Oracle has recognized as a coherent territory of its own. It is the same category layer that organizes your Library, surfaced at the level of the larger shapes your thinking has taken. Each domain shows how many concepts and notes it draws together, so you can see the weight behind it. For how that underlying graph holds your thinking, see The graph.

Proposed and ratified

A domain carries one of two states. A Proposed domain is one the Oracle is still forming and ratifying on its own, so it is in motion. A Ratified domain is one the Oracle has settled on with confidence.

The state decides what you can do. While a domain is Proposed, you can rename it or affirm it, but you cannot merge or retire it, because doing so would interrupt the Oracle's own reasoning while it is still deciding. Once a domain is ratified, the full set of actions opens up.

What you can do

For a ratified domain you can:

• Rename it, to a name that reads more truly to you.
• Affirm it, telling the Oracle the territory is real and worth keeping.
• Merge it into another domain, when two have grown into one.
• Retire it, when it no longer earns its place.

Splitting a domain in two is coming later. It needs the Oracle's content analysis to do well, and until that lands the action shows a short note rather than a rough result.

When domains appear

Domains emerge only once your notes have accumulated enough for clusters to hold together. Early on the surface is empty, and that is expected: it reads "Your Oracle hasn't proposed any domains yet," and fills in on its own as your thinking gives it something substantial to name. There is nothing to do to make them appear.