Inspector

The Inspector is the read-only detail view for a single point. It opens one tab per selected point and shows that point’s embedding coordinates, cluster path, summary, keywords and full metadata in one scrolling column. It is where you go after a selection to ask “what is this thing, actually?”.

Group

View > Inspection

Point action

Inspect Point

Trajectory step

j / k

Where to find it

Open View > Inspection > Inspector, or right-click a point on the map and choose Inspect Point. That action is on by default and applies to exactly one point.

The panel needs point metadata to have finished loading. Until it has, you see a spinner instead of the panel.

How it fills

The Inspector follows, in this order:

1. The current selection, the point whose tab is active in the strip at the top.
2. The most recently selected point, when the panel is unlinked and no tab is active.
3. The point you are hovering on the map.

The link button in the tab bar controls the third rule. Panels are linked by default, and a linked Inspector follows your pointer around the map, labelling the body “Closest point (hover to explore)”. Click the link icon to unlink it and the panel stops responding to hover, showing “Hover disabled - click to select points”. Unlink it when you want the details to stay put while you move the mouse.

With nothing selected and nothing hovered, the panel reads Select points / clusters to inspect.

Inspecting a selected point: metadata, source content and related items in one panel.

The header

Selected Clusters. If the selection came from a cluster or from the Tree, each cluster appears in a card at the top with its color swatch, label, summary, and cluster keywords with per-keyword point counts. The × on a card removes that cluster and its points from the selection.

Point tabs. One tab per selected point, showing a truncated title, for up to the first 20 points. Click a tab to make that point active; click its × to drop that point from the selection.

Batch actions. With more than one point selected, three buttons appear under the tabs:

• Add to Active Bag (N) adds every selected point to the currently active bag. Disabled when there is no active bag, or when the active bag is read-only.
• New Bag creates a new bag from the selection.
• Clear empties the selection.

Cosine Similarity. With two or more points selected, a small table lists each other selected point’s similarity to the active one, computed over the point embeddings, or over top_feature_values when embeddings are not present on all of them. Mixed or missing vectors produce “Cannot compute similarity: inconsistent vector representation across selected points” instead of numbers.

Match. If the project contains more than one map, a Match button beside the active point searches another map for points matching this one and drops the results into a bag on that map.

The point body

Below the header, for the active point, in order:

• The 2D embedding coordinates, to three decimals.
• The cluster path, joined with →. Paths deeper than five levels are elided to the first two and last two labels. Without a cluster you see “No cluster assigned”; before clusters load, “Loading clusters…”.
• The title, or Untitled Point when the space has no title value for it.
• The summary, in italics, with the point’s keywords bolded and colored inline.
• Keywords, as pastel chips. The number in parentheses is how many loaded points carry that keyword, not how many times it occurs in this document.
• The metadata table, with field-type badges next to the field names. Values that resolve to an image (a data URL, raw base64, or an image URL) are rendered inline as an image; values that look like URLs become links; content, description and semantic columns are rendered as sanitized HTML.
• The point id, in grey, at the very bottom.

While metadata is still arriving, a “Loading metadata…” strip sits under the title.

Stepping along a trajectory

Numeric metadata fields with enough distinct values are treated as sequential, as are sentence_index, topic_index and date. Sequential fields get small arrows either side of their value that move the selection to the previous or next point in that field’s order. topic_index walks within a topic first, then rolls into the neighboring topic.

Turn a trajectory field on from the map legend and you can do the same from the keyboard: J steps backward and K steps forward along the active trajectory field. The keys do nothing while no trajectory field is active.

1. Select a point on the map, or use its Inspect Point action.
2. Read the top of the panel. Coordinates and the cluster path say where the point sits; the italic summary says what it is.
3. Scan the keyword chips. The counts show which of its keywords are common across the space and which are rare.
4. Scroll to the metadata table for the source fields, images included.
5. Add more points to the selection and use the tab strip to flip between them, or press New Bag to keep the set.

Limits

• The Inspector is read-only. There is no note, annotation, tag, or edit field anywhere in it. The only things it writes are selections and bags.
• The tab strip renders at most the first 20 selected points, even when the selection is larger.
• It shows one point at a time. For comparison across a whole selection, use the Summarizer’s Compare and Contrast tabs.
• Clicking a citation in the Composer opens the Inspector, selects the cited point, and scrolls to the cited section. That is the Composer driving the panel; the Inspector itself makes no model calls.

Read nextSummarizerMulti-tab analysis of a whole selection, including comparison.