I built a visual knowledge mapping tool — connect books, films, podcasts into explorable graphs
Hey everyone,
I've been building MotifLoom for the past few weeks. The idea is simple: most of what we read, watch, and listen to lives in scattered lists with no connections between them.
MotifLoom lets you pick any topic and map everything related to it — books, films, podcasts, games, articles, notes. Each item becomes a node in a visual graph. You draw connections between them to show how ideas relate.
A few things it does:
- Force-directed graph visualization (2D canvas)
- Auto-fetches metadata from TMDB, Open Library, RAWG
- Public maps that anyone can explore and fork
- Works on mobile
Tech stack: SvelteKit 2 + Rails 8 API + PostgreSQL + Redis + GraphQL
Here are some example maps I built:
- Stoicism: A Modern Guide → motifloom.com/motif/stoicism-a-modern-guide
- The Podcast Universe → motifloom.com/motif/the-podcast-universe
- AI & The Future of Work → motifloom.com/motif/ai-the-future-of-work
Would love feedback on the UX — especially the graph interaction and node adding flow.