1. A system for guiding the progressive development and documentation of user thinking and knowledge about an inquiry based project according to exemplary approaches used by experts, comprising: An interface; A process manager system executable on at least one processor and operable to execute activities comprising: receiving user specification of an initial stage of understanding regarding an arbitrary problem or inquiry based project according to at least one of a plurality of entry or starting points; Providing at least one of an interactive workspace or a suggestion to a user, or both, to facilitate the further development of the understanding regarding an arbitrary problem or inquiry project towards a completion stage; Providing an integrated archetype based model of user understanding regarding the arbitrary problem or inquiry based project, in display or output or both.