📚 Research

Research gathers sources and evidence to help answer a question. Preserve the trail from source to interpretation so readers can inspect how a conclusion was reached.

🔬 A practical research path

Step	Record
❓ Question	Scope, context, and what is not being asked
🔎 Search	Where and how sources were found
🧾 Evaluate	Source reliability, recency, and limitations
🧩 Synthesize	Patterns, disagreements, and gaps
🔗 Connect	Related concepts, hypotheses, analyses, and products

flowchart LR
  Q["❓ Research question"] --> S["🔎 Find sources"]
  S --> E["🧾 Evaluate evidence"]
  E --> Y["🧩 Synthesize"]
  Y --> C["🔗 Connect findings"]
  C -. "gap or new question" .-> Q

✅ Research hygiene

Keep references with the notes they support.
Distinguish direct evidence, interpretation, and speculation.
Record dates for claims that can become stale.
Respect licenses, privacy, and source attribution.