PediaGrid

PediaGrid is a spatial knowledge navigator for exploring interconnected topics. Instead of jumping between pages, you see related concepts laid out in a grid around your current focus, making patterns, connections, and surprising links easier to spot.

Navigation

• Click any cell to select it and load related topics around it
• Double-click a cell title to center that cell on screen
• Drag the grid background or any titlebar to pan around
• Use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out
• Hold Shift + drag or Shift + scroll on the selected cell to pan or zoom the grid (otherwise it scrolls or highlights within the article)

Titlebar Buttons

• ? Help — You're reading it!
• ⌨︎ Research — Start/stop tracking your exploration session
• 💾 Snapshots — Save and restore grid states
• 🔎 Search — Run a new search in this cell
• ❊ Refresh — Regenerate surrounding cells based on this topic
• 📌 Pin — Lock this cell to prevent it being overwritten
• ↗ External — Open this article in a new browser tab
• ✖ Close — Clear this cell

Highlighting & Search Across Cells

Find where a term appears across all loaded cells:

• Highlight some text and Ctrl/⌘ + click, or just Ctrl/⌘ + click directly on any word in an article, to highlight the term wherever it appears across the grid, with colored borders and highlighted matches
• Press Esc to clear all highlights

Starring Important Passages

Mark content as important during your exploration, either for research or just as a visual hint to yourself:

• Select text and press Alt + click to star a passage, or just Alt + click on a word to star that word. A ⭐ then appears before the starred content.

Stars are the highest-value signal in research mode. They tell the AI "I found this important." When you star the same or related terms in different cells, you are declaring a bridge, explicitly marking a connection you've discovered. The AI will prioritize these user-declared bridges in its analysis.

Snapshots

Save your current grid state to return to later. This is useful for:

• Bookmarking an interesting configuration
• Comparing different exploration paths
• Pausing and resuming a session

Up to 50 snapshots are stored in your browser's local storage. Snapshots include grid layout, pinned cells, and zoom level.

Research Sessions

Research mode records your exploration journey in detail, including every cell you visit, how long you dwell, what you pin, search, or close, how zoomed in you are, the sequence you follow and more. When you end a session, it generates an analysis bundle that you can copy to your clipboard. Paste this bundle into an AI assistant (like Claude or ChatGPT) to get insights about:

• Connections between topics you explored
• "Bridge" concepts linking distant ideas
• Patterns in your exploration you might have missed
• Suggestions for further reading and next steps

The bundle includes cells you showed interest in, paths you traversed, keyword bridges, and text selections; everything an AI needs to understand your discovery journey. You can save up to 50 in your browser's local storage.

Tips

• Pin important cells so they don't get replaced as you explore
• Use Ctrl/⌘ + click highlighting to trace a concept across the grid
• Zoom out to see the overall structure, zoom in to read details
• The grid can grow up to 11×11 (121) cells as you explore outward
• Close low relevance cells, or use them for a fresh search
• The more deliberate your exploration, the richer the insights you will get from the research bundle and your AI