Writing is research, structure, and discovery. Synap captures your research as structured entities, tracks characters and plot points with typed properties, and uses AI to surface connections you hadn't seen. Every view shows your work from a different angle.
Bookmark an article about 1920s architecture. AI creates an article entity with the source, author, and key topics. Two weeks later, when you capture a note about a character's apartment, AI links it to that architecture article — because the setting and the research share a time period and location. These serendipitous connections are what make research come alive in your writing, and they happen automatically.
Create custom entity profiles for your writing: a "character" type with properties for motivation, backstory, relationships, and arc stage. A "plot point" type with act, tension level, and linked characters. View characters on a relationship graph, plot points on a timeline, or everything in a table for continuity checking. The entity model adapts to however you think about your story.
During research: masonry view to browse collected articles and notes visually. During outlining: kanban view with plot points grouped by act or chapter. During writing: the document editor with linked entities in the sidebar. During editing: table view to check continuity across all scenes. The same data, twelve different lenses. Switch views as your process evolves without reorganizing anything.
Synap's AI doesn't write for you. It organizes your research, surfaces forgotten connections, and answers questions about your own material: "Which research notes mention the industrial revolution and haven't been linked to a chapter yet?" or "What does my character Sarah know at this point in the story based on the scenes she's appeared in?" The writing is yours. The intelligence behind organizing it is AI.
Research and writing in one place. No more switching between a research tool, an outlining tool, and a writing tool. Capture research, structure your outline, and write — all in the same workspace where everything is connected.
Connections you didn't plan. The best writing often comes from unexpected connections between ideas. Because AI links entities by topic, you discover relationships between research materials that you captured weeks apart. These serendipitous connections are hard to find manually but emerge naturally from a knowledge graph.
Your manuscript, your data. Everything lives on a PostgreSQL pod you own. Export your research as structured data. Export your manuscript as markdown. Query your entity graph to generate appendices or bibliographies. Your creative work belongs to you, in a format that works without any specific vendor.
