New Syntopicon

Hello everyone! I'm Sajjad, a university student and book nerd, and this is my passion project.

The product is inspired by 'The Syntopicon', a reference book published in 1952 that indexed the world's great ideas in the most influential books ever written.

This product does something similar to the original Syntopicon. The aim is to trace the fundamental ideas all the great authors have wrestled with and give everyone the opportunity to explore them in an easy and accessible manner.

It takes the great books and then puts their most influential ideas in backlinks. Each idea is a node in the graph, and also has an index of every single instance where the idea has been mentioned. In this way, you can see how different ideas are connected together and how they develop and evolve overtime. Built on top of Obsidian, it combines the power and flexibility of knowledge graphs with our best ideas to create a better reading experience for you, so that you can satisfy your curiosity and explore the ideas that have shaped us civilization in a fast, intuitive, and seamless manner.