Create and preserve a study
Use Casebook to create a study and record specimen, operator, instrument, preparation, notes, findings, and disposition. Braggsight keeps a chronological ledger of source imports and frozen analysis revisions.
Import a numerical profile
Choose Import and select a CSV, TSV, XY, XYE, or two-column text profile through Apple's file picker. The Import Ledger records the detected format, encoding, column mapping, accepted and dropped rows, duplicate handling, acquisition ordering, step statistics, original bytes, and SHA-256 fingerprint. Proprietary binary detector formats are not supported.
Create a frozen analysis revision
In Recipe Studio, name the processing recipe and review smoothing, background treatment, normalization, angular correction, wavelength, and peak thresholds. Creating a revision preserves the earlier result and records the new rationale and settings.
Inspect the Pattern Canvas
Switch among Observed, Corrected, and Normalized traces, toggle the baseline, and move the 2-theta range. The raw source remains separate from corrected and normalized evidence.
Review peak evidence
Peak Lab shows the bounded fit window, peak center, d-spacing, observed FWHM, area, fit quality, residual metrics, points used, and any supported instrument correction. A correction is withheld when the available evidence does not support it.
Record standards and reference lines
Standards & References can fit a multi-line position correction and angle-dependent instrument-width model when enough valid observations are present. User-owned peak lists produce a transparent table of matched, missing, and unexplained lines. This correspondence is not phase identification.
Compare a series
Series & Drift trends peak position delta, FWHM, and area across frozen revisions. Missing evidence stays visible instead of being silently replaced or interpolated.
Build an evidence package
Evidence & Handoff checks the active study and creates a package containing the preserved source, raw-pattern.csv, processed-pattern.csv, peak-fits.csv, reference-correspondence.csv, series.csv, processing-recipe.json, import-ledger.json, findings.json, a PDF report, evidence-manifest.json, and checksums.sha256. Review the list before choosing whether to share it.
Recovering local data
The workbench uses atomic file writes and keeps one local recovery backup. Existing Braggsight 1.0 records are migrated into immutable studies while the original local document remains untouched. Export important completed records to a destination you control.
Interpretation boundary
Braggsight preserves and processes one-dimensional powder-diffraction evidence. It does not identify an unknown phase, perform Rietveld refinement, quantify composition, control a diffractometer, read proprietary detector formats, certify calibration or material identity, validate a regulated result, or replace laboratory procedures and expert review.