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Every surface of the workspace, written out: what it is for, what it will tell you, and what it deliberately will not do. Start with the ten-minute move-in, follow a task, or open the explanation for the surface in front of you. Each substantial surface in Quester also carries a How this works link that opens the relevant explanation without forcing a tour or interrupting your work.

Your first ten minutes

The five-step move-in that turns an empty workspace into a project your advisor can actually read.

Getting around

Learn the two altitudes, the five-item project spine, and the search that reaches everything.

Import your sources

Move a reference-manager library, documents, or pasted references into a project and verify the result.

Understand processing

Look up upload states, failure recovery, plan limits, and export behaviour.

The project spine

Overview

Where the project stands today and what deserves your attention next.

The Desk

Sources, notes, questions, models, and references: the materials and structures you build.

The Advisor

A reader that knows this project, presses on weak claims, and leaves the writing to you.

The Map

Seven analytical lenses over the literature: overview, composition, trends, themes, terms, connections, and venues.

The Journal

The durable record of what changed, what you decided, and how the work moved.

Project settings

Designs, note sections, advisor presence, members, transfer, export, and removal.
Quester takes a position: AI may read, retrieve, compare, question, and help you see the shape of the work. It does not write the scholarship for you.

Choose the surface in front of you

  • Bring literature in through Sources.
  • Read and connect one record on a source page.
  • Capture your own thinking in Notes.
  • Pressure-test what the project is asking in Questions.
  • Draw the structure of a claim in Models.
  • Step back from the library in the Map.
  • Talk through the project with the Advisor.
  • Recover the history of the work in the Journal.
Last modified on August 30, 2026