Free
A real investigation, not a demo.
1investigation
40cards each
6,000px canvas
- The whole archive to pin from — books, newspapers, maps
- Quotes, notes, claims, groups, and yarn with your reasoning
- Publish to the wall and share it anywhere
Loom is Temple Seven’s research tool: an open canvas where books, pages, quotes and your own thinking become pinned evidence, connected line by line with your reasoning written on every line — until the whole picture holds together, and can prove it. This is the complete list of what it does today.
One open canvas. Cards for your evidence, frames to group them, and yarn between them. Everything you do is undoable and saved as you go.
Pan and zoom across a canvas that is 6,000 px on the free plan, 15,000 px on Premium and 40,000 px on Premium+ and Ultimate — room for a semester, not a session.
Every card takes eight resize handles. Widen a note and it keeps flowing; pin a height and it clips. Ctrl+Z returns it to auto.
Colored frames that hold cards and move as a block, so a cluster of sources stays a cluster.
Multi-select, marquee, snap-to-grid, six-way alignment guides, a minimap, and a find box that jumps to any card on the canvas.
Chronological lays sources left to right by year, undated ones in their own lane. Cluster rings each connected group around its most-connected card. Hierarchy fans out from the card you pick. One undo reverses the lot.
Start from a literature review, timeline, argument map, systematic review, case chronology or comparison — frames named for the stages of the method, yarn already strung between them, and not one source pre-filled.
The whole investigation as a keyboard-navigable tree — frames, cards, and every connection stated in words with its direction. Built for screen readers; useful for everyone.
On a phone the investigation becomes a column in position order, with connections spelled out ("supports X", "refuted by Y").
An investigation of your own stays editable with no connection; a shared one goes read-only until you are back, so two people can never overwrite each other blind.
Loom walks you through itself the first time, and can replay any time from ？.
The archive is the difference: a card is not a screenshot of a source, it is the source — page, words and all — and the bibliography writes itself while you think.
Search every title in Temple Seven’s archive from the rail and pin it as a card. Never gated — this is the one thing a whiteboard cannot do.
Full-text search inside the books. A hit pins as a quote card with the page and the citation already filled in.
Word for word, with the page number and the book behind them. ↗ Open at page N takes you to that page in the reader with the passage highlighted, and an evidence crop shows the physical sentence you cited, cut from the scan by its word boxes — correct, not a screenshot someone pasted.
The actual scanned page pinned as a card, cited to the page number.
Every quote card is re-checked against its page. ✓ verified, ≈ near, ✗ drifted — and a stamp on the investigation of how many hold. If our OCR is missing, it says so as our gap, not your error.
Open a quote and ask its book for every use of a word, in reading order, with the page and enough context to judge each one — how the author uses it from the first chapter to the last, not just whether they mention it.
Notes are your own thinking, kept apart from sources. A claim is something someone could disagree with — and the card counts what is for it and against it.
Upload an image (screened on the way in) or pin a YouTube or Vimeo video with the timestamp saved, so a card opens at the moment that matters.
Look up a DOI, ISBN, arXiv id, PubMed id or URL; search Crossref, arXiv, PubMed and Open Library by phrase; pin the result with authors, journal and year in place. Web cards keep the retrieval date and link the Internet Archive’s snapshot when one exists.
Upload a PDF, private to the investigation, and quote it by page. A public investigation never exposes the file.
A card that is a saved search of the archive. It re-runs every time the investigation opens and shows +N when new matches have appeared — a reading list that cannot go stale.
Look up what a word meant — senses a modern dictionary has dropped included — or a Bible verse in the King James translation your authors were quoting, and pin it as a source.
A card tells you which of your other investigations pin the same book.
A line on Loom is a claim about two pieces of evidence, with your reason written on it. That is what makes the investigation readable — by you later, by a reviewer, and by the analysis below.
Supports, Refutes, Qualifies, Competes with, Led to and Same source. Each has its own color and its own line and ends, so they read in black and white too; the legend explains them on every canvas.
Name a relationship the six do not cover and give it a color; it is saved with the investigation.
The connect panel asks why. What you write travels with the connection into the outline, the report and the analysis.
Supports, Refutes and Qualifies run from the evidence to the claim, and the card reads "2 sources · 1 reasoning · 1 against". It counts sources; it does not weigh them.
Open any card and every connection it has is listed in words, with its reasoning. On the canvas, press L on a card to list its links and Enter to jump to the other end.
The habit that makes research compound: everything you mark lands in one tray, from every book, and you place it in an investigation whenever you are next at the desk.
Every highlight you make in the PDF reader or the EPUB reader — any book — waits in the Inbox on every investigation’s rail, with its page and its book. Pin one and it becomes a quote card with the citation attached.
Type straight into the Inbox and it becomes a note card when you pin it.
While you read, the reader lists your pins for that book in page order — and a selection can be pinned to an investigation as a quote without leaving the page.
On Android, add Temple Seven to your home screen and it appears in the share sheet; on a desktop browser, the bookmarklet does the same. Both send a page or a selection to your Inbox, and neither holds your password.
Your quotes and claims as a deck, both directions — source to passage, passage to source — on a simple spaced schedule. Nothing is generated: a card is your own pinned text shown back to you.
Typed connections with written reasoning are something a whiteboard does not have. Loom uses them: where the argument runs thin, what is contradicted and never answered, which sources carry the weight.
Defects you can fix: a claim standing on a single source, sources that all descend from one original, a contradiction recorded and never addressed, a chronology running backwards against the sources’ own dates.
Which sources anchor the most connections — counted by connections, not pins, so a book cited eight times that nothing hangs off is not credited for carrying the argument.
Pins with no connections at all — the reading you did and have not yet put to work.
Every contradiction pair in the investigation, and a plain sentence about coverage: eleven sources on this thread, one on that.
Built on another investigation? The panel says so: what was inherited, what is yours, and it says when the split is genuinely unknowable rather than guessing.
"Between Draft 2 and Final: four pins added, one contradiction resolved, this claim lost its only source." Findings first, counts second.
Invite people as viewers or editors and work the same investigation at the same moment. Then hand it to a reviewer, or present it.
Presence avatars and instant updates — everyone on the investigation sees a pin land the moment it is placed. Owner, editor and viewer roles, with invitations checked on the server.
"Verify this quote", "find a counter-source" — assigned to anyone on the investigation, with a due date and a done state, attached to a card or left at investigation level. My investigations lists every open task assigned to you across every investigation.
Numbered stops with a guided camera path across the canvas, captions, keyboard control, fullscreen. The investigation is the deck.
Send a frozen version out for a scored review — sources, reasoning, coverage, engagement with counter-evidence, clarity, each 1–5 with notes — and read the result in the investigation. A review attaches to a version, never to a moving target.
Mark an investigation Internal, Confidential or Restricted; restrict exports; watermark every export with the viewer’s name.
Institutions buy seats and manage members; instructors run classes with assignments built from a starter investigation, connected to a learning platform over LTI 1.3.
Research is only as good as what you can show for it. Loom keeps the record so an investigation can defend itself — to a supervisor, a reviewer, or an examiner.
Captures the whole investigation — every card, connection and word of reasoning — fingerprints it (SHA-256) and mints a permalink: /research/receipt/…. The receipt shows the frozen copy; nothing you edit afterwards can appear in it. The page states plainly what the fingerprint proves and what it does not.
Who pinned what and when, as an append-only log — the owner cannot alter it either, which is the only property that makes a log worth keeping.
Drag through the investigation’s history and watch it assemble.
Any frozen version can become the investigation again. The current state is frozen first, so a restore can itself be undone.
From the canvas and the report alike: one click opens the reader at the cited page with the passage highlighted. Miro cannot do this; there is no corpus underneath.
Nothing is invented on the way out. Where a value is unknown the field is left empty — a gap you can see beats a publisher we made up.
A PDF with the canvas as a figure, a legend, every connection with its reasoning, and a bibliography that cannot drift from the pins. Every item and bibliography line links to its page.
One toggle, on the report and every bibliography.
The outline, ready to draft in Word or Google Docs.
The yarn graph in the order an argument is made: claims with their supporting sources, contradictions surfaced as counter-arguments.
BibTeX and RIS files they import directly.
GraphML for Gephi or Cytoscape, plus node and edge CSVs.
The canvas as an image, at the real footprint of every card.
A read-only iframe of any public investigation for your own site.
It reads what you gathered and never reaches past it. Every suggestion is checked by code before you see it, and nothing lands on the canvas until you press accept.
Between cards that exist, using yarn that exists. A suggestion naming a pin that is not in the investigation is dropped before it reaches you.
Reads the pages of the books already in the investigation and returns passages that appear there word for word — a quote that is not in its source cannot survive the check.
Every sentence cites the cards it came from, or it is removed.
Given a claim, it hunts the archive for the strongest passage against it. Every AI tool is tuned to agree with you; this one is built to disagree.
Give the Temple Seven Research Agent a topic and a brief. It starts within minutes, reads the archive and free scholarly indexes in short sessions, and builds a private investigation in your name — every quote checked against its page before it is written. Ten a month on Ultimate, two at a time; the only card ceiling is the one you set.
Up to 20 sessions reading twice as many sources and pages, with every third session spent hunting the case against. It ends with a verdict — what the evidence supports and what it does not — plus the questions the archive could not answer and what to read next.
Flip an investigation public and it joins a wall people browse, search and build on. Then send it anywhere: one click posts it to X, Facebook or Reddit, and the link shows the investigation itself, not a logo. Publishing is never gated.
Home and Popular feeds, topic communities, search by topic, book or researcher, and a hot-this-week spotlight.
Every investigation you have published, with its views, hearts and the investigations built on it.
Build on someone’s public investigation. Weave keeps their work locked at the center and you build the outer ring; Thread forks a copy that is fully yours. Every investigation wears its lineage, and the most built-upon investigations rise.
One click from the Share panel posts a public investigation with its title and link; Copy link and the phone’s share sheet cover everything else.
Shared links preview the actual investigation — the cards and the yarn — on X, Facebook, Reddit, Slack, iMessage and anywhere else that shows link previews.
Agnes, Bertrand and Clio have read the archive and published thesis-first investigations on topics of their own — with every quote verified on the page — as worked examples of what an investigation can be.
Anything that should not be on the wall can be reported from the investigation, and a person reviews it.
The free investigation is a real one, not a demo: our whole archive to pin from, quotes and claims and the yarn between them, and the right to publish. A subscription is for when one canvas stops being enough — and Ultimate is for when you want the assistant working beside you.
A real investigation, not a demo.
When one investigation stops being enough.
The full canvas.
The assistant that cannot make things up — and an agent that builds investigations for you.
Sizes are what Loom enforces today. Prices and the current offer are on the plans page. Schools, universities and libraries license Loom by the seat — see Loom for Schools and its security & privacy summary.