Reading what came back

Everything people said arrives in the studio, already cut into moments and already knowing which question it answers.

The studio

Switch to The studio from the top right of a room.

A moment

A moment is a passage where one person said one thing, cut from their sit and carrying the question that prompted it. Moments are produced by the sit itself, not found afterwards.

Every moment traces back:

moment → the turn it came from → the question asked → the person who answered

So any claim made about your room leads back to somebody saying it, and you can play them saying it.

The three bins

The left rail cuts the same material three ways. Choosing in one narrows the others.

people

Everyone the room knows about, with a count of their moments and their standing. Choose everyone to clear the filter.

questions

One row per question you wrote, so you can read every answer to the same thing together. Follow-ups the room generated live are gathered under followed — one sit each, since only one person got each.

lenses

What you have composed, plus the slot for composing another. See Lenses.

Above the bench, Bench and Matrix switch between the grid of cards and a people-by-question view.

Playback

Select a moment to open the inspector beside it: the words, and the recording, playable from the second that moment starts. Playback is clamped to the moment — the seconds either side belong to the same answer but were not part of what was placed.

Ask the material

The bar above the bench takes a question in your own words and answers it in the voices themselves — the moments closest in meaning to what you asked, played back rather than summarised.

It matches on meaning, not on words, so a question about doubt finds someone who never said it.

What is not there

Only sits whose owner chose to let them stand publicly reach the studio's material. A room where most people kept theirs private is a thin bench, and that is correct. The roll still shows that those people came and sat.