Word Planet

Overview

Word Planet reads the text on the records in your current query — notes, synopses, descriptions — and turns it into a globe of words. The more often a word appears across the records, the bigger and bolder it is. It’s the fastest way to answer what is all this text about? without reading any of it.

A Note for Cases query shown as Word Planet in 3D: a dark starfield with words like PHONE, ARTHUR, HIS and CASE arranged on a rotating sphere, largest words brightest, with a 3D/2D toggle top right — The 3D planet. Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom — left alone, it rotates slowly on its own.

There are two ways to look at the same words, switched from the toggle in the corner:

3D — the planet. Words are placed evenly over a sphere; drag to orbit it, scroll to zoom.
2D — the field. The same words laid out flat, biggest in the middle, for when you’d rather scan than spin.

The same query in 2D: a flat field of words on a light background with PHONE, HIS, HAD and ARTHUR largest, in warm pinks, purples and yellows — The same text in 2D. Size and color both follow frequency.

Where the words come from

The planet is built from the query you’re already on — navigate to the records you care about, then switch the view. Every text field on those records feeds the count. Words are counted regardless of capitalization, very short words are skipped, and everyday filler words (the, and, with…) are dropped so the planet is made of the words that actually carry meaning. The most frequent words win a place; the planet shows the top of the list, not every word ever written.

From a word back to the records

A big word is a question — why does “phone” dominate this case? The planet answers it:

Hover a word to see its count and which fields it appears in.
Click a word to pin its source panel: every record containing the word, with the matching passage quoted and the word highlighted. The rest of the planet dims and the rotation pauses so you can read.
Each entry in the panel is a link — click through to open the record itself.
Click empty space (or the ×) to let the planet spin again.

Before you rely on it

It counts words, not meaning. Two spellings of the same name are two words; so are singular and plural. A dominant word is a lead, not a finding — the source panel is there to check it.
Only Latin-alphabet words are counted for now. Numbers, codes and non-Latin text don’t take part.
It shows the most frequent words, not all of them. A word that appears once in a large corpus won’t make the planet — switch to 2D or narrow the query to dig into the long tail.
Yes, there’s a little spaceship orbiting the planet. It follows your pointer. It has no case-management function whatsoever.