What to use it for

Deciding, learning, writing, working through math — matched to the right model and settings.

Socria is one product with three registers, so the practical question is less "what can it do" than "which surface fits this moment." These are the shapes of use the product was actually built around.

Making a decision#

Use Logos. A decision is exactly the kind of thinking that benefits from being seen: the reasons, the assumptions holding them together, and the tensions between them. Talk the decision through and the Thinking Map draws it live — when two of your own reasons pull against each other, the map shows the conflict as a drawn edge rather than letting it hide in prose.

When a claim looks load-bearing, click it: Challenge lists the concrete ways it could be wrong, Trace shows where it entered the conversation — quoting you verbatim — and Research checks it against real sources. None of them hands you a verdict; each ends on a question that is yours to answer.

Learning something#

Use Logos. Say you are studying, or ask to be taught, and the map turns to concepts and misconceptions as you build them. When the learning is mathematical, the Answer Guard also arms: from then on Socria guides instead of solving — hints and next-step questions — and the result stays masked on every surface until you reach it, or until you choose “Show solution,” which is always available and never paid.

Working through math#

Use Logos. When the conversation turns mathematical, the map does too: givens, unknowns, equation steps, mistakes and results become typed nodes with real LaTeX, and three extra lenses appear — the Solution chain, which follows the work step by step and leads the view; the Board, which lays it out like a hand-written scratch page (mistakes struck through with the fix beside them, never erased); and a function plot when there is something to graph. Details on the Mathematics page.

Writing something that matters#

Think in Logos, then open Draft Space. Draft Space is the one surface built for prose — and you write it. The page starts blank, with your map alongside lighting the reasoning each paragraph rests on. Select any passage and five actions return something to read — Refine offers a clearer wording you can take or leave — while the thinking stays upstream on the map, where it can still be challenged.

Testing an idea against evidence#

Use Research on a map node. It searches the live web, reads what it finds, and returns the evidence with sources listed — distinguishing what it actually cites from what it merely found. If no source supports a claim, it says so rather than inventing a citation. You can also ground a node in your own material — paste it, upload it, or point at a page — via Add context.

Just thinking out loud#

Core 2 if you want a calm question-asker with no machinery at all — it works signed out, free. Core 3.1 if the thread is one you will come back to: it holds memory across the conversation, periodically synthesizes what you have worked out, and keeps a running picture of how you tend to think. Either way, if the thinking starts to sprawl, open Logos and give it a line of thinking of its own — chat and Logos sessions sit in one list, interleaved by when you last touched them, whichever model made them.