RationalGrid
Your AI workshop
Explore questions with AI. Keep ideas, sources and challenges connected, organised and ready to revisit—with others.
Create a public grid anyone can explore and build on, or create a free account for private grids.
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Your question
Does AI make us better thinkers?
Answer
Better output and better thinking are different achievements.
Challenge
Could AI make us less independent?
Answer
It could, if we accept answers without thinking.
Follow-up
What if AI argued the other side?
Answer
Ask it to challenge your strongest belief. Which reasons survive?
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From an article in Philosophy Now
Explore Ignacio Gonzalez’s article in Philosophy Now as a grid. Choose one idea to question or challenge, follow its connections, and return to build on it later.
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RationalGrid adviser
ChatGPT can give you a great answer. But how will you find it a day, a month, or a year later?
01 / Ask
Use AI tools to explain, challenge, and compare. Keep the exploration connected in a grid.
An example starting point
Does AI make us better thinkers?
An idea from the answer
Better output and better thinking are different achievements.
02 / Explore
Share a grid, add questions, and compare perspectives. Build on each other’s ideas.
Two directions from the same idea
Challenge the answer
Could AI make us less independent?
Explain a term
What is “cognitive offloading”?
03 / Organise & return
Keep related grids, bookmarks, and highlights together in My Learning. Return to a topic and take your next step.
My Learning
Keep it all in My Learning with a free account.
AI is here. Make the learning visible: who asked, what was explored, and how ideas connect. Share a grid so others can follow the reasoning and build on it.
RationalGrid is free to use. There are no paid pricing tiers.
Signed-out visitors can use Simple answers. A free account unlocks Expanded and In-depth answers. Each person can have up to three AI requests in progress and make up to ten AI requests per minute; if a limit is reached, wait and try again.
Simple answers use general knowledge without live source research. Choose Expanded or In-depth for answers with source lookup; these levels are prompted to use relevant primary, scholarly, or official sources. AI can be wrong, so check important claims against the original sources.
Use RationalGrid when you want to return to a specific idea and keep exploring. Questions, answers, challenges and sources stay connected in grids. Organise them by topic in My Learning, then pick up where you left off with others. See how RationalGrid compares with other tools and approaches.
Miro offers a flexible canvas with AI tools. RationalGrid keeps questions, challenges and sources connected to specific ideas, so you can return and build on them. Compare with Miro.
Yes. Use RationalGrid to explore and structure a research question, then export the grid as Markdown and continue organising, linking, and writing in Notion or Obsidian. See the complete Notion and Obsidian research workflow.
Your next question
Recall what you learned. Check it. Ask your next question.
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