Draft. A public list of research topics anyone can pick up. If you're running into the same problem, add what you've found in the comments and let's work toward solutions together.

What we're working toward

Practical answers to everyday problems, especially for people with disabilities, low incomes or memory and orientation challenges. Each answer should be simple, low-cost and easy to share.

Template (copy for each topic)

Topic:

Started:

Background: what the problem is and why it matters

Research: plain-language findings, each with a source link

Open questions / ideas to follow:

Status: Open, in progress, or saved for later review

Topics

How to make good research topics

Background: A clear topic makes it easier for people and AI tools to help. This is a topic about topics.

Open questions: What makes a topic easy to pick up? How much background is enough? How do we keep sources and original words next to any summary?

Status: Open

How to make the research project (the project about making the project)

Background: Building this research system is a research topic in its own right. We're documenting how it's made while we make it.

• Public and private sections. Personal notes stay private, and topics other people might share go public, so anyone can help without private details getting exposed. Both sections use the same template.
• Page structure in Notion. A private Research Pages index holds the template and personal topics. This public Open Research Topics page holds shared topics. Each topic gets a page or section with the same parts: topic, background, research with sources, open questions and status.
• From voice to research. The Director talks through an idea on a voice call with an AI assistant. The assistant turns it into a topic, does the research, cites sources and saves it as a page to review later. The conversation itself is part of the research being described.