Using Case Canvas to find the criteria I hadn't actually built evidence for

I'd been telling myself I was covering six criteria for a couple months before I actually laid everything out in Case Canvas and realized two of those six had a single piece of evidence each, not the kind of depth I thought I had. The graph view made this obvious in a way a checklist never did for me — seeing exhibits actually connected (or not connected) to a criterion node, versus mentally counting "yeah I have stuff for that one," are two very different exercises. A criterion with one thin connecting line looks exactly as thin as it is. What I did after: picked the two weakest nodes and spent two weeks specifically closing gaps for those two, instead of continuing to spread effort evenly across all six the way I'd been doing. The timeline view was also useful for a different reason — it made it obvious that most of my strongest evidence clustered in one 18-month window, which is worth knowing before you're explaining career trajectory in a personal statement.