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Associative tools, thinking, and creativity: On augmenting creativity

96 pointsby johanam10 months ago

2 comments

rukuu00110 months ago
Really interesting tool, really interesting article. I'll be returning to this often. Thank you and well done :)
bbor10 months ago
Wow, well done! It&#x27;s quite rare to see such a well-cited technical piece, and the review paper you linked on creativity is a goldmine of citations.<p>Some critiques and compliments:<p>1. Not sure I love the emoji choices for the buttons. This is super arbitrary, but I just don&#x27;t see the connections, especially for the spiral and the sun. Perhaps there are icons from free online sets more directly related to the ideas General, Concrete, Abstract? Say, arrows-out, arrow-down, and arrow-up?<p>2. IDK what &quot;SOS&quot; does and the tooltip is mistaken, should probably clarify that.<p>3. The graphic is surprisingly durable, as someone who loves making such things I&#x27;m quite impressed. Handles quick entries and such well. That said, it desperately needs a loading indicator of some kind to confirm that the query went through successfully, a way to delete&#x2F;clear nodes you don&#x27;t need, and a more manageable initial layout when you&#x27;re typing words in. As is it seems to spread them across a large area pretty much randomly, which is understandable from a technical standpoint but obviously isn&#x27;t ideal. Maybe start with a circle or something?<p>4. There&#x27;s some tomfoolery going on with capitalization -- I know this is built into LLM tokens from the jump, but honestly I&#x27;d endorse a blanket `.lower()` on all input. I stopped using the tool and came to write this comment after I saw `Syntax` was connected to `semantics`, but my other input, `syntax`, wasn&#x27;t.<p>5. IMHO webpages without headers are suspicious. Plus I bet basically every user of this would be interested in reading your blog posts about it!<p>6. I know there&#x27;s basically infinite cool things you could add to this (that&#x27;s what makes a good tool, probably!), but the one that I have a need for right now is a &quot;connection&quot; button for two terms that are connected in my mind&#x2F;project, that aren&#x27;t yet connected on the wordscape. I could also see this working based on areas&#x2F;quadrants&#x2F;buckets, where connections would be sought when the user drags+drops a new term in with some existing ones.<p>7. Should probably just let the graph be empty after reset. I love the cuteness, but it&#x27;s a bit confusing IMHO, and ties into the &quot;delete nodes&quot; feature request above.<p>8. I would love to see a blog post on how you would compare and contrast this tool with a thesaurus, which is my usual goto for this task. Might also be a good place to draw UX&#x2F;I inspo.<p>Sorry for the rant, hopefully you have an opportunity to work on this fulltime because I love it. Despite all my complaints, this couldn&#x27;t be more perfect for the kind of work I&#x27;m doing these days (philosophy-based architectonics) -- instant bookmark! Please do hit me up if you&#x27;re ever looking for beta testers, collaborators, blood donors, fanatical followers, you name it ;)
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