We’re experimenting with different ways of summarising information visually.

This a simple one where we get ‘named entities’, group and lay them out as a tree.

(other categories can be added of course based on anything that an LLM can produce)

youtu.be/zwEIYtG_KrI

To me at least there are couple of interesting things in this space:

• interactions

  • pagination (done!), sorting, filtering, (re-) moving of the nodes

  • bidirectional connection to the source (e.g. navigating to a particular mention in the parent block,) and canvas (drag and drop of the nodes to expand on canvas)—cf. the video

• multiple sources + analysis & comparison

  • e.g. a graph that answers the question of what are some common themes, ideas, entities in two pieces of information (e.g. a video lecture and a webpage)

• tools for extending the graph

  • by search

  • by generative AI

  • by custom/manual annotations

I would of course be very grateful for comments on any of the above 🙏

Wonderful weekend to you all 🍹

CodeParadise is a (Pharo) Smalltalk project to create web applications using Smalltalk only (and HTML/CSS 😉).

A tiny Smalltalk image runs inside the browser and performs all the UI logic. Normally applications created with CodeParadise have a highly interactive character and communicate with a server environment.

A new feature allows a running tiny image to be saved and restarted later as a Single Page Application. A sealed snapshot is made, meaning the connection with the server environment is removed. All code running inside the browser (in the tiny image) is saved in the snapshot as well as the current DOM. After the snapshot is restarted the application will create the same DOM structure and rehydrate the WebComponents and you'll have a running application again!

For a short video see: youtu.be/9YUXYuo_HaM

Or go to the resulting SPA at: codeparadise.nl/blog-example (open the browser inspector to see all the WebComponents)

Happy coding!