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Understanding Block Metrics: Power, Validity, Utility and Novelty
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Brainful isn’t just a space to store information, it’s a system that helps you understand the quality of what you’re creating.
Most note-taking and productivity apps treat every entry as equal. In brainful, every block carries contextual intelligence. The metrics: Validity, Utility, Novelty, and their combined Power allow you to see the depth and impact of your ideas over time.
Instead of showing you how much you’ve written, these metrics show you how meaningful your writing is.
VALIDITY: Measure of Truth
Validity represents how sound, factual, or logically consistent a block is. It helps identify whether what you’ve written holds up to real-world reasoning or verifiable information.
In practice, high Validity means a block is well-grounded. It stands strong even when referenced by other ideas. This is key for systems built on connected knowledge, weak foundations create weak networks.
UTILITY: Measure of Usefulness
A high Utility score means the block contributes something usable. An insight, process, or framework that adds functional value to your system.
Brainful focuses on making ideas useful. Utility shows whether something you’ve written can actually help you do or improve something.
NOVELTY: Measure of Uniqueness
Novelty captures how unique or creative a block is within your workspace.
Repetition and redundancy are natural byproducts of large knowledge graphs, but Novelty ensures you can identify what’s fresh, the original ideas that push thinking forward.
A higher Novelty score means the block introduces something distinct, not just a remix of existing content. It’s how brainful keeps creative momentum visible.
POWER: Measure of Completion
Power is the weighted combination of Validity, Utility, and Novelty — a single score that represents how “complete” a block feels in your knowledge system.
High Power doesn’t mean perfection. It means the block has matured through thought, relevance, and creativity.
Why it matters:
These metrics aren’t scores or rewards, they are guides that help you understand your work better. In brainful, they’re not meant to rate you, but to show how your ideas are developing over time.
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