Insight Colors by node

When you run insights on your writing, the results appear as colored highlights overlaid on your text. Each color means something specific.

## The color system

**Purple — Foreshadowing**

Purple highlights mark moments that set up future events. A detail mentioned early that pays off later. A character's offhand comment that becomes significant. An image that recurs with different meaning.

What a purple highlight tells you: this passage is connected to something later in the text. The connection might be intentional (you planted it) or accidental (your subconscious did it for you). Either way, the reader will register it, even if they don't notice consciously.

How to act on it: if the foreshadowing is intentional, check that it's subtle enough. Foreshadowing that calls attention to itself isn't foreshadowing — it's a spoiler. If it's accidental, decide whether to strengthen it or remove it. Accidental foreshadowing is often the best kind, because it comes from the natural logic of the story.

**Gold — Characters**

Gold highlights mark character presence and development. Where a character is active, where they're mentioned, where they're developing, where they're static.

What a gold highlight tells you: this character is doing something here — acting, speaking, being described, being thought about. Dense gold means the character dominates the section. Absence of gold means the character has dropped out. Both are worth noticing.

How to act on it: look for gaps. If a major character goes three chapters without gold, the reader is forgetting them. Look for clusters. If a minor character is getting too much gold, they might be stealing focus from the main arc.

**Bronze — Interactions**

Bronze marks character-to-character dynamics. Dialogue exchanges, conflicts, alliances, emotional transactions between specific people.

What a bronze highlight tells you: two or more characters are engaging with each other here. The nature of the engagement —...