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Built a way to spatially explore wikipedia topics!

Enter a topic of your choice and dig into the rabbit hole. All content is from Wikipedia—related topics are generated with GPT based on the summary.

Spacebar to expand a topic inline, arrow keys to move around, and "J" to open journey view!

dimal · a year ago

Cool idea. I’d suggest a few tweaks to improve text formatting. Justified text generally doesn’t read well on a device. Better to justify left. And paragraph breaks seem to be lost, which makes it harder to read and scan.

g-adamante · a year ago

I like the concept! I don't like the wall of text. It's hard to concentrate / parse what's in the text box. Keep working on it, it has potential.

amanmathur · a year ago

can present the text in a more readable way, thanks for the feedback!

vintagedave · a year ago

Great idea. Your site may have been hugged to death, but if it's supposed to be working now, please check on Safari: viewing a topic shows a blank scrollable rectangle where there should be article text, and not much else.

I second another commenter's idea of a minimap: let's visually build the rabbit warren! Just like this:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Rabbit-warren-with-entra...

thomascountz · a year ago

This is a cool idea and is fun to explore. It would be cool to be able to revisit a page/topic via the journey view. (Perhaps you can, but I'm unable to on Firefox iOS). I think it's interesting that each time I revisit a topic, I might be given a different set of choices; leading me down a different branch. Thanks for sharing!

amanmathur · a year ago

thanks!

robbles · a year ago

I opened this on a mobile device, and it only shows the top and bottom topic buttons. I was pretty confused until I tried turning on "desktop site" in Chrome and saw the left/right buttons. Having only a linear track of topics kind of undermines the overall idea!

amanmathur · a year ago

yeah was originally a way to keep mobile more constrained and usable -- but definitely isn't as fun. Will add 4 directions back in on mobile :)

bhargav · a year ago

Love this concept but I wish it did not pick topics that were so "distant" from the current topic.

Initial topic: Pizza Recommended nodes: Pizzerias, Italian cuisine, Woodfired Ovens, Neapolitan Pizzas

At L1, I'd expect more of the last, such as type of pizza.

cobertos · a year ago

So is down "deeper" into the rabbit hole? Or is down more specific and up is more general? Or is it just a related topic (meaning up and down aren't different in any way)?

amanmathur · a year ago

right now they're all random topics, but thinking about adding meaning to the directions in next iteration

piyushtechsavy · a year ago

Cool idea, however I feel the linked topics are pretty narrow and may not be very related. It could be more like a map.