🧲 Magnetic labels

Magnetic labels attract existing labels of similar meaning, essentially relabelling these old labels with the new magnetic label. If an existing label is similar to two or more different labels, it is relabelled with the magnetic label it is most similar to.

If you use low magnetism, the magnets are weak and only attract existing labels which are very similar to them.

Increasing the magnetism means that more and more existing labels are attracted to the magnetic labels.

Existing labels which are not attracted to any label are unchanged. This means that you can easily see if your magnetic labels cover most of the original content.

Best practice is then, after applying magnetic labels, to then auto-cluster the links in order to pick out important themes which are not covered by the magnetic labels.

If you want you can even include hierarchical magnetic labels like Health behaviour; hand washing.

Storing your labels

At the moment, your magnetic labels are not included if you save a bookmark aka saved View.

However you can avoid a lot of retyping by storing your preferred label set in the Codebook in

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The Files tab.

Use cases

Drop in magnetic labels which contain the text from the “official” theory of change.

See how much the existing labels get attracted to the magnetic labels, and what material is left over.

Conduct “radical zero shot” auto coding with no codebook at all,

let the AI decide the best label for each case
do some auto clustering until you get a feel for the labels you really want in your story
type the labels into the magnetic clusters box

🧲 Magnetic labels Why magnetic labels How to use them Storing your labels Use cases