Hi everyone,
Two changes shipped on quarex.org today that close a loop in the Quarex workflow: Quarex Explore — the tag-browsing tool — now talks to Quarex Compose directly. You can browse the library by tags, curate a list of chapters that look interesting, and hand the whole list off to Compose for AI research with a single click.
And there's a real example to read — a fully sourced 1,400-word essay produced by exactly this workflow. More on that in a moment.
What's new in Explore
Explore was always good for browsing the library by tag. What it lacked was a way to act on what you found. Now it has one.
- Research sessions are automatic. Open Explore for the first time and an "Untitled Session" already exists — ready to receive saved chapters. No setup, no friction.
- Click + on any chapter and it saves to your session. The Research counter in the top-right flashes white so you can see it land. No more "did anything happen?"
- The session counter updates live in the drawer's session dropdown as you add or remove items. (Small fix, but it was making the page feel broken.)
- Rename, switch, export, delete sessions from the drawer — same as before, all still works.
The new bridge: Explore → Compose
In the Explore drawer there's now a gold → Research in Compose button. Click it and:
- Compose opens in a new tab with your session loaded
- Every chapter in your session is expanded into its underlying topic questions (a single chapter typically has 5–7 topics)
- You see them all in Compose's source-selection step, with a banner explaining what just happened
- Check up to 12 topics you want researched, pick a research level, click Research Selected Topics
- The Research Package downloads — same five-format output (A–E) as the regular Compose flow
- Hand the package to your AI of choice (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) to compose the final article
The point: Explore is now the human curation step, and Compose is the AI synthesis step. You decide which books matter; Compose turns them into structured research.
The library doesn’t care which path you take into it. Type a topic into Compose and AI helps you find sources. Browse Explore by tags and you find them yourself. Either way ends at the same place: a downloadable, sourced Research Package.
A real example
→ Iran After Khamenei (PDF, ~5 pages) — a 1,400-word geopolitical essay produced end-to-end by exactly this workflow:
- Tag search in Explore: geopolitical + middle east conflicts
- Curated two chapters from the book Iran vs. the United States and Israel: Conflict, Strategy, and the Major Players into a research session
- Clicked "Research in Compose"
- Selected six topics, ran Advanced-level research
- Handed the downloaded Research Package to Claude with instructions for Format E (a Quarex blog post)
- The HTML output was wrapped in a print-friendly layout and saved as a PDF
About the PDF. Every blue underlined link in the essay points to the specific source chapter on quarex.org — click any one in your PDF viewer and you'll land on the chapter that anchors the claim. The links work because the entire pipeline now uses absolute URLs by default, so the same HTML works whether it's published on the Quarex blog, posted to Substack or WordPress, or printed to PDF.
Read it as an example, not as Quarex’s official position on Iran. It's an opinionated essay with a clear thesis, defended by traceable sources. That's the model: sourced, confident analysis — not neutral summary. Anyone reading it can click into the library and decide whether the underlying material supports the argument. Transparency, not blandness.
Try it yourself
Go to quarex.org/explore, pick two or three tags that interest you (try climate-change + energy, or biography + civil-rights, or anything you're curious about), click the + on the chapters you want, then hit the gold → Research in Compose button in the drawer. Total time from blank page to downloaded Research Package: about five minutes.
If you produce something interesting with it, send it over — that's the real proof the workflow works.
— Peter