Sensemaking is a research lens about making sense of the world or part of it when we are surprised by work interruptions or more misinformation published online.

Persist Online Information

• By making it easier to save news articles
  • Enable adding new links directly within insights (because my initial approach of saving news articles as they appear online to later be put into insights is a ton of work)
    • New URL field on Add Evidence dialog

Improve Understanding/Sensemaking

• By showing how I am/others are affected/why they might care with tag visualizations
  • Enable red problem tags
    • Show 2 buttons to add problem or solution tag; summarize problem and solution tags at the top of an insight
  • Share top tags along other meta data
    • Voting on/ranking tags in top table
    • Emoji reactions to tags
    • Include top tags in social media shares
• By enabling sensible/evidence-based narratives
  • Show visualizations connected to the evidence
    • Select citation(s), create visualization
• By enabling constructions of sensible narratives
  • Enhance insights with visualizations of red problem tags as plausible agreements (things that affect me & probably other people)
    • Voting on/ranking them in top table
    • Emoji reactions to them showing in top table
• By visualizing related insights together to show how they are related or why anyone should care
  • Enable specifying connections between insights
    • Click button to open dialog to link to other insight on same site or specify URL for insights on other sites; show rich text
    • Auto-create insights from new comments (if desired via checkbox/textbox for the insight name)
    • Improve the look of hyperlinks vs just blue underlined text: icons for insights, (saved) links, unsaved links