Sooner or later a space has several ideas circling the same point. A synthesis isn’t another idea on the pile — it’s your account of what the others add up to.

In this clip

• Selecting the ideas that belong together
• Choosing Synthesize to open a blank synthesis above them
• Writing what the ideas mean together — this is yours to write, not a generated summary
• How the saved synthesis connects itself to the ideas it covers
• Folding the ideas underneath away with the stack button, and unfolding them again

Try it: Scan your space for two or three cards making the same point in different words. That’s a synthesis waiting to be written.