What’s new in Logos 3.5

Charts, plans, calendars, comparisons, diagrams, number lines and decisions made from your own words beside the map — plus the experiences, a memory that tracks how your thinking changes, and what it will not do.

Logos 3.5 is the next version of Logos 3, and it replaces it in the model menu: same workspace, same map, same models and designs, same room for a second person. What is new is everything you can now ask to have beside the map — charts, plans, calendars, comparisons, diagrams, number lines, decisions — made from your own words, worked in by hand or by saying so, and kept with the line of thinking.

At a glance#

• Everyday displays. Ask for a chart, a checklist, a timeline, a calendar, a kanban board, a flowchart, a mind map, a decision tree, a Venn diagram, a comparison, an argument map or a number line, and it opens beside the map.
• Made from what you wrote. “Chart my spending: rent 1200, food 400” is read straight from your words — every number exactly as you typed it. Nothing you did not give is filled in.
• Graphs from the expression. “Graph y = x²” draws the curve you wrote, every time.
• Four experiences for harder thinking: a decision (Crossroads), a brain dump (Untangle), a shared question (Common Ground), and how your thinking changed (Time Machine).
• A memory that keeps up. When your thinking changes, what Socria remembers is shown changing too — and the change is yours to confirm or reject.
• Documents, read and cited. Attach a PDF, a Word file, slides or a spreadsheet: replies cite the passages they rely on, each citation is checked against its passage, and the document opens beside the map as it was read.
• A gallery of everything it can make, under New… in the display panel, each with things to say to start one.

Displays beside the map#

A display is something to look at and work in — not a model of anything. Each one is a single piece of state shown in several views; switching the view changes how it looks, never what is in it.

Try them here#

Each display below is made on this page by Logos 3.5’s own code from the words above it — the same reader and the same figures the workspace uses. Work in them: switch views, drag, tick, undo. Nothing here is saved.

Asking for one#

Say it the way you would say it to a person. A few that work:

A question about a display (“how do I make a pie chart in Excel?”) is answered as a question, and “turn this into a timeline” still reshapes the map itself, as it always has.

Made from your words#

When your words hold what the display needs, code reads them and no language model is asked to copy them — so no number is dropped, rounded or relabelled on the way. What that means in practice:

Your numbers, as written

“1,200”, “$1,200”, “40%”, “1.2k”, “−50” are read as you wrote them, and the chart says they are yours. Pasted tables (CSV, tab- or pipe-separated) work too.

Nothing given, nothing invented

“Plot revenue over six months” with no numbers opens an empty line chart with six rows to fill in, and says so. It does not make up revenue.

Drafted, and labelled

When your words do not hold the contents (“a mind map of photosynthesis”), Socria drafts one — marked as Socria’s, and checked by the display’s own rules before it is kept. A drafted chart whose numbers are not in what you wrote is marked as example numbers.

Judgments stay yours

A drafted comparison never arrives with scores or weights you did not give, a decision tree has no chances or payoffs you did not state, and nothing is decided for you.

Each display says what it was made from — Made from what you wrote, Made from your map, Made from a template or Drafted by Socria.

Working in a display#

• By hand. Edit a cell, drag a bar or a calendar item, tick a checklist, move a card between columns, drag a number line’s end, re-weight a criterion. Every gesture also has a keyboard path.
• By saying so. “Set food to 450”, “show it as a pie chart”, “sort by amount descending”, “use 10 bins”, “show it as a calendar”, “exclude 3” — said in the chat, applied to the display you are in.
• Undo and redo every step, and a history of who changed what. Socria never overwrites what you wrote.
• Kept with the line of thinking. Displays are saved with the map, open beside it, go full screen, and in a shared line of thinking everyone in it works in the same ones.

Graphs and number lines#

“Graph y = x²”, “plot sin(x) and cos(x)”, “sketch f(x) = 1/x on [−2, 2]”: the curve you wrote is drawn on the Plot lens — real values for powers like x^2/3 on both sides of zero, a cusp where there is one, the window you asked for. A curve with a letter whose value you have not given is not guessed at.

An inequality or an interval — “x > 3”, “−2 ≤ x < 5”, “[2, 5)”, “|x − 1| < 3”, “x ≠ 2” — is a set, and it goes on a number line: filled dots where an end is included, open ones where it is not, arrows where it runs on for ever, and its interval notation, inequality and set-builder form written out beside it. It is drawn as written; it does not solve “2x + 1 > 7” for you.

The experiences#

For thinking that is harder than a chart. Each starts from your own words and nothing else.

Crossroads

A decision. “Should I take the job in Austin or stay in Dallas?” — your options, what matters to you, pros and cons, assumptions, scenarios, and the questions you have not answered yet. Ratings and the decision are yours alone; a weighted score says it is not a verdict.

Untangle

A brain dump, separated into thoughts in your words, then sorted — tasks, ideas, problems, questions, goals, uncertainties — with the connections between them suggested, never assumed.

Common Ground

A question two or more people share. Each person writes their own perspective under their own name; what everyone agrees on is shown as shared, and Socria never speaks for anyone.

Time Machine

How your thinking on something changed — what it was, what it became, and the reasons you gave, from the history the workspace already keeps.

Documents you attach#

Attach a file with the paperclip, or drop it on the box you type in: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenDocument, RTF, Markdown, CSV, HTML, LaTeX, a notebook or plain text. It is read once — headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, equations, captions, footnotes and speaker notes, in reading order — and what the reading could not do is said beside it rather than smoothed over.

Every passage has a key

[A3.12] is document A, page 3, passage 12. Replies cite the passages they rely on, right after what they say; a citation opens the document at that passage. Each one is checked by code against the passage it names — whether it holds the sentence’s numbers and words — and marked as said by the document, calculated from it, a reading of it, or not found in it (⚠).

Data, never instructions

What a document says is shown to Socria as the file’s content, never as instructions. Socria is told never to follow instructions written inside a file, and to say when a file contains them; text in a file cannot pass itself off as part of the conversation.

Kept apart

What the document says, what Socria calculated from its numbers, Socria’s own reading of it, and what it does not say are kept apart in the reply. If the document does not answer the question, the reply says so.

A look at the file

Preview a document under its chip in the conversation. A PDF shows its own pages, drawn in your browser from the file; anything else shows its reading, page by page, and says that is what it is.

Beside the map

The document opens as it was read: every passage with its key, how it was read and how sure the reading is, its tables and equations, an outline, and the checks the reading passed. Select a passage and ask about “this” — the question is about that passage.

Scans and photographs

A page with no text in it is read from its picture by a vision model — the first 12 pages when you attach it, the rest when you ask in the document view. Those passages are marked as read from the image; numbers the page’s own text does not confirm are marked; what could not be read says [illegible] and is never guessed.

Yours to correct

Correct a passage that was read wrongly, or mark it as read wrongly. Socria is told which passages you corrected and which you doubt; the original reading is kept, and taking a correction back restores it.

Tables and equations

A table can be charted — a chart display of its numbers that names the table and page they came from. An equation the engine can plot as a function of one variable can be sent to the conversation to work with.

The full reading is kept in your browser and sent with the turns that use it; the server that reads the file keeps nothing. The conversation keeps a document’s text, up to 24,000 characters, like any attachment.

A memory that keeps up#

What Socria remembers about your beliefs, goals, decisions and assumptions used to be overwritten when they changed. Now a change is kept as a change:

• In the Mind Graph, what a new conversation changed is ringed, and what it affects is marked.
• A contradiction with something you said before is noticed and shown, not silently resolved.
• Open a memory to see how it changed over time — the old version is kept, not erased.
• Proposed updates are yours to confirm or reject.
• Core and Logos both read how your thinking has changed — a change you have not confirmed as Socria’s reading, to be checked with you, never as settled.

What it will not do#

• Make up your numbers, your dates, your sources or your data — an empty display says it is empty.
• Decide for you, rank your options for you, or give odds you did not give.
• Write a quiz about a topic out of nothing — practice is made from a diagram or your own map.
• Solve an inequality or an equation when you asked to see it — it draws what you wrote.

Not there yet#

Things people ask for that Logos 3.5 does not do yet, so you are not left guessing:

• Horizontal and stacked bar charts; a donut is drawn as a pie.
• Collapsing branches of a mind map or org chart.
• Filters and formulas in tables; nested checklist items; custom kanban columns.
• A day view in the calendar (month and week are there); images in storyboard frames.
• A coordinate plane to drag points on, and 2D geometry with measurements, as displays.
• Filling an empty chart by listing numbers in the chat — type them into its table, which shows under the chart until every row is filled.
• A document’s reading is kept in the browser that read it: on another device, or for someone else in a shared line of thinking, the document view says it is not there. A PDF is read up to 150 pages at a time, and the pages past that are named, not read.
• Ideas on the map are not yet linked to the passages they came from.

Everything else in Logos — the map, the models, Live 3D, depth and thinking together — is on the Logos 3 page, and works exactly as it says there.