Docs/Thinking tools
Thinking tools
The Learning, Research, and Analysis menus are ready-made thinking moves you run over the note you're looking at — steelman an argument, pull out its claims, quiz yourself on it, check a fact. Each one is a skill, and the set is yours to turn on and off, rearrange, or add to.
At a glance
A skill's result is a suggestion, never a silent change. Anything a skill wants to add or edit comes back for you to approve or reject first — see The propose → review → approve loop.
In depth
What thinking tools are
The skills that come with Minerva, and ones you add, sitting side by side.
▶️Running a skill
Pick one from a menu; it works and hands back a suggestion to review.
🗂️The three menus
Learning, Research, Analysis — and how skills group within each.
🎓Learning Operations
Every skill in the Learning menu — understand what's in front of you.
🔬Research Operations
Every skill in the Research menu — gather, verify, and decompose.
🧩Analysis Operations
Every skill in the Analysis menu — work a claim or argument over.
🛠️Making them your own
Turn skills on and off, move and reorder them — and how to write your own.