How Cranes learns
Where pages come from, when they change, and why a page never claims more than the words behind it.
Cranes reads what people actually said and writes pages about the judgment underneath it. Each page is one thing Cranes has understood: a standard, a distinction people keep drawing, a way of deciding, an exception, or a question that isn’t settled.
Every place learns the same way: Just me, each group, and Everyone.
What a place learns from
A place learns from its entries. For Just me, that’s:
- your messages in threads,
- notes and files you add,
- history you bring in from another AI, Notion, or files,
- what you agree to save from a connected AI.
Everyone and a group learn from what their members share there and from the sources that feed them, like Slack, Notion, Linear, or Jira.
What you bring in without naming a place goes to Just me. Nothing reaches a group or Everyone unless someone shares it there or a source feeds it there.
An AI’s replies are never read as your words. If something an AI wrote is kept, because you asked it to save a reply, the entry says an AI wrote it.
When it learns
A place learns a few minutes after entries stop arriving, so a busy stretch doesn’t redraft a page over and over. When you save something, or share it with a group or Everyone, that place starts learning at once. There’s nothing to press.
Only what the words support
Every page rests on entries you can open and read in the words they were written. Where the evidence is thin or pulls two ways, the page says so. Why it says this gives other ways to read the same evidence, where there are any.
Cranes also starts narrow. Something said about one project stays about that project until more shows it holds more widely. A single episode doesn’t become a rule.
Pages change
As more comes in, pages get sharper, split in two, merge with a neighbor, or retire when nothing supports them anymore. A rewritten page says Redrafted; open it to see what changed and what stayed.
Your choices outlast these changes. A page you pinned, renamed, moved, highlighted, or shared keeps that choice through a redraft. When Cranes can’t tell where a choice belongs, it asks under Needs a look instead of guessing.
It’s not a portrait
Pages are about judgments, not about “you” or “they.” Cranes doesn’t sum up who someone is or give them a type. A page can say that what you notice matters across situations, but a broad page isn’t a claim that it’s true everywhere.