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Re: Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

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This is great and something that I've wished existed. Thanks for making it! Right now, the tiles are linear. E.g. if tile A links to tiles B and C, clicking either B or C will open a new tile directly next to A (and only one of B or C is visible at a time). What do you think about making more of a tree layout where B and C both branch from A and can be viewed simultaneously?

I think this is a point where it’s helpful to take a step back in scope — instead of looking for LLM tree UI implementations, we should consider the mature field of general text hierarchies. I’m lazy, but I posit there are many, many UIs for visualizing wikilink-esque document repositories, such as obsidian plugins (?), browser extensions, vim/emacs/other plugins, etc.

Personally, I’m a huge fan of a few principles that I hope to impose on the world via book, eventually:

1. Indices over keys.

2. No single set should have more than N elements, where N is usually 10 but could be 2/3/4 if you’re doing decision trees, and could be 16 if you’re insane and want to use hex indices.

3. Each element can be referenced locally with a simple index (`3`), or a full path made by concatenating the indices of its ancestors from the root (`053`).

This would be an example of an “analytic” approach, as opposed to the ad-hoc “synthetic” approach of just visualizing whatever wikilink structure there happens to be. There’s a huge space of solutions “between” these two - such as constraining the ad-hoc visualization to meta-tagged wikilink relations — but I think the dichotomy is useful.

Personally, I prefer to use predesigned structures wherever possible for exactly these reasons. It makes automated visualization possible, in many cases… An example would be reusing the same 3/4 12-element directory template for every SWE project. I hope it’s clear how the same idea could be directly applied to a research project performed with lots of automated LLM queries.

Re: Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

#93
For some reason I feel like the Wikipedia should use this (or something like this) as a backend to serve a more "dialogish" UI (without replacing the current static UI). The name "delve" is spot-on, but it lacks Wikipedia's intelligence and interconnectedness.

And maybe add some locally stored "Microsoft Recall"-like feature to revisit paths you've made. It would be text-only, so use up almost no space, and be quickly searchable.

Well done it could even work in a terminal.

Re: Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

#95

I like it a lot. Feels like idle Wikipedia link surfing but with the key difference that each new step keeps track of the previous context. To me it is both novel and useful.

reminds me of the rabbit hole sessions I used to fall into in https://wiki.c2.com/ (a merge of the two interfaces (chat and context rabbit hole window thing) would be perfect for me)

Re: Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

#97
Reminds me of the Smalltalk IDE and browser.

Also, WorldSim could use something like this, and perhaps web browsers.

Anyway, I suspect this resonates for anyone that has to do research on the web or in GPT. I often end up with multiple threads on GPT anyway trying to learn about something.

Re: Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

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post #95

I like it a lot. Feels like idle Wikipedia link surfing but with the key difference that each new step keeps track of the previous context. To me it is both novel and useful.

reminds me of the rabbit hole sessions I used to fall into in https://wiki.c2.com/ (a merge of the two interfaces (chat and context rabbit hole window thing) would be perfect for me)

For me, the snappy, easy to go from one link to another interface reminds me of hours and hours and hours spent browsing https://everything2.com in the earlier years of the Internet.
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