Core Concepts
Understanding how Clear Tangle organizes your knowledge
Clear Tangle uses a simple but powerful model to organize your knowledge. Understanding these core concepts will help you get the most out of the system.
Design Philosophy
Key Concepts
Captures
The atomic unit of your knowledge base. A capture is any piece of information you want to save—text, voice recording, image, or file.
- Automatically processed by AI on creation
- Gets summary, category, and tags
- Indexed for Smart search
- Can spawn tasks automatically
Projects
Organizational containers that group related captures, tasks, and pages. Think of them as contexts or areas of focus.
- Custom colors and icons
- Project-specific AI instructions
- AI auto-suggests project assignment
- Scope chat context with @project
Pages
Long-form documents with rich text editing. Perfect for wikis, notes, documentation, or saving AI chat responses.
- Full Markdown support
- Auto-save as you type
- Tag and project assignment
- Searchable via Smart search
Tasks
Action items automatically extracted from your captures by AI. Every task links back to its source for full context.
- AI extracts tasks from captures
- Due dates and priorities
- Recurring task support
- AI priority planning
Conversations
Chat sessions where you interact with AI about your knowledge base. Conversations are saved and searchable.
- RAG-powered responses
- @mentions for context control
- Source citations included
- Auto-titled and organized
AI Memories
Persistent facts about you that AI learns over time. Used to personalize responses across all conversations.
- 6 categories: Identity, Work, Projects, Interests, Preferences, People
- Full user control—edit or delete
- Synthesized from captures
- Injected into AI context
How Data Flows
Step 1: Create a capture via text, voice, or image. This is instant—your thought is saved immediately.
Step 2: AI asynchronously analyzes your capture: categorizing, tagging, summarizing, and creating embeddings.
Step 3: Tasks are extracted, connections are made, and your capture becomes searchable and queryable.
Everything connects
Clear Tangle automatically discovers relationships between your captures using semantic similarity. The Knowledge Graph visualizes these connections, often revealing patterns you didn't notice.