Core concepts

Three ideas explain almost everything in Writeout.

Sources

A source is one thing you want to work from: a video, a podcast, a PDF, or an article. It is the atomic unit — the smallest piece of work in Writeout. You can produce a deliverable from a single source without anything else.

Goals

A goal is an optional container that groups several sources toward one outcome — a literature review, a competitive scan, a topic you are researching over time. When you produce a deliverable for a goal, Writeout draws across every source in it.

You can start from either end: add a standalone source and attach it to a goal later, or create a goal first and feed sources into it. Neither is required — use a goal only when you are pulling several sources together.

Deliverables

A deliverable is the finished output: a summary, brief, set of takeaways, or answers to your questions. Every deliverable is backed by citations that trace each claim back to the source it came from.