# Quester

> The Quester manual: every surface of the research workspace, written for researchers doing the long work.

- [Your first ten minutes](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/your-first-ten-minutes.md): The five-step move-in that turns an empty workspace into a project your advisor can actually read.
- [Getting around](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/getting-around.md): The two altitudes, the five-item project spine, and the search that reaches everything.
- [How Quester works](https://quester.mintlify.app/index.md): Every surface of the workspace, written out: what it is for, what it will tell you, and what it deliberately will not do.
- [Build your source library](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/desk-sources.md): Why the source library anchors the project, how to keep it useful, and how much literature to bring in.
- [Import your sources](https://quester.mintlify.app/how-to/import-sources.md): Bring a reference-manager library, research documents, pasted references, or one manual record into a Quester project.
- [Source processing and limits](https://quester.mintlify.app/reference/source-processing.md): Reference for upload states, failed documents, reading statuses, source limits, metadata reports, and exports.
- [Reading a source](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/source-detail.md): One source's own page: the document, what it says, how it connects to your project, and how to cite it.
- [Notes](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/desk-notes.md): Where your own thinking lives, linked to the sources that prompted it and to your other notes.
- [References](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/desk-references.md): Your library as a formatted bibliography, in any CSL style, with saved sheets per chapter.
- [Questions](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/desk-questions.md): What the project is asking, with design alignment, sub-questions and a history of every revision.
- [Models](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/desk-models.md): Frameworks, causal graphs, logic models, coding trees and argument maps. The project's diagrams.
- [The model canvas](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/model-canvas.md): Building an argument you can defend: concepts bound to sources, evidence assessed, a defence rehearsed.
- [The PRISMA 2020 flow](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/prisma-flow.md): A systematic-review flow diagram that counts your own library, and tells you which numbers it worked out and which are yours.
- [Map: Overview](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/map-overview.md): The project at altitude: the stats that describe your corpus, and which lens to open next.
- [Map: Composition](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/map-composition.md): What your library is made of: when it was written, what kind of work it is, how it was researched, where it came from.
- [Map: Trends](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/map-trends.md): How your project has moved over time: accumulation, reading against writing, questions and themes.
- [Map: Themes](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/map-themes.md): Create your own source-backed themes and compare them with the clusters Quester finds in your library.
- [Map: Terms](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/map-terms.md): Your vocabulary counted twice: in your own corpus and in the published record.
- [Map: Connections](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/map-connections.md): Your library as an argument graph, read five ways from argument flow to contradictions and bridges.
- [Map: Venues](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/map-venues.md): Where the work could land: journals ranked by fit, adjacent work you are missing, and conferences.
- [The Advisor](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/advisor.md): A reader that knows your project, argues with you about it, and will not write it for you.
- [Tuning the Advisor](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/advisor-preferences.md): Five levers, your hard rules, and what it has learned about you: how the advisor reads you and how it sounds.
- [AI and scholarly responsibility](https://quester.mintlify.app/reference/ai-and-scholarship.md): Use Quester's AI capabilities for retrieval and execution support while preserving verification, interpretation, and authorship.
- [Project overview](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/overview.md): The project's front page: an advisor observation, what you have built, what happened lately, and the facts.
- [The Journal](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/journal.md): The chronological record of what you actually did, logged automatically, filterable and exportable.
- [The dashboard](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/dashboard.md): Find your projects, resume recent work, and browse the projects your admin role allows you to manage.
- [Workspace settings](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/settings.md): The small set of facts and policies that keep a workspace working: profile, policy, people and plan.
- [Project settings](https://quester.mintlify.app/manual/project-settings.md): Name and frame the project, shape its designs, tune the advisor's presence, and decide who works here.
- [Contact Quester support](https://quester.mintlify.app/troubleshooting/contact-support.md): Send a support request with enough context to diagnose the problem while protecting credentials and confidential research.