# Weekly Tool Thread: Promote, Share, Discover, and Ask for AI Writing Tools Week of: June 23
Canonical: https://social-archive.org/m_hathawaygreen/wEpBDzw05e
Original URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingWithAI/comments/1ud7pcs/comment/otbnt15/
Author: pattyplanb
Platform: reddit
## Content
**TL;DR - mapping the ideas in a rough draft, setting one as the core idea, and then seeing which of my other ideas contradict my core idea help me write a better essay.** I took Elad Gil's essay "Random thoughts while gazing at the misty AI Frontier" and put it into this little "idea map" tool I built. It's fun to see how the random thoughts connect. A lot of rough drafts start like this, with many ideas going many directions. By setting any bubble as the core idea, the underlying LLM will surface "tensions" with your other minor ideas. Those "tensions" serve as a great place to improve your explanation of your core idea by explaining the seemingly incongruent aspects. Hoping this will help writers go from idea dump to clarity about a specific topic or problem faster and more accurately. I usually start with a like a flash of inspiration where I narrate a long voice note. Mapping my ideas visually like this is helping me understand what the hell I'm trying to say first before I go any further. It's that intermediate step that most of us skip when we use AI to write. Alot of us go from zero-to-done but skip this "understanding" step and end up with slop. Tell me what you think. Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMGr00x\_52M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMGr00x_52M) Original Essay: [https://blog.eladgil.com/p/random-thoughts-while-gazing-at-the](https://blog.eladgil.com/p/random-thoughts-while-gazing-at-the)