Knowledge Base
Curated research you can actually navigate.
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What This Is
My curated corpus of references organized for exploration across several complementary views.
- Only items that have passed my personal sniff test: papers, ideas, and methods I find useful, intriguing, or worth returning to.
- A way to follow threads, notice relationships, and build a feel for the surrounding landscape.
- Stronger coverage in areas I know, work near, or especially admire.
What This Is Not
A neutral encyclopedia, universal index, or replacement for general retrieval tools.
- Not every single paper in the universe.
- Not a claim that I have read every detail of every paper.
- Not a complete bibliography of every author or field.
- Not a balanced tree where every branch has equal depth or maturity.
Why does this exist?
My goal is to make exploring research feel less like grasping at straws and more like (re-)discovering a world whose landmarks are slowly becoming familiar.
Why not use an existing tool?
Paper indexes, citation databases, search engines, and literature review tools are already good at retrieval. I wanted something a little different: a durable place for the special subset of references I have already triaged, cleaned up, summarized, and placed.
There are other cool related tools such as Connected Papers, Open Knowledge Maps, ResearchRabbit, and Inciteful. They are useful for discovering literature from the outside in: start with a seed paper, query, collection, or citation graph, then expand into a much larger external corpus. Unfortunately there are some blockers for my use case:
- They are optimized for discovery sessions, not for maintaining a stable, hand-curated library with my own labels, summaries, tags, and placement decisions.
- Their maps are usually generated around a query, seed, or remote account state, while I wanted the same corpus to be available as a tree, map, search surface, and per-paper notes.
- They depend on live third-party services and external ranking logic; this site is static, inspectable, and rebuildable from local metadata.
- They can help find more papers, but they do not answer the quieter question: what have I already decided is worth keeping, and where does it sit relative to everything else I care about?
Reach Out
If you'd like to suggest papers, discuss an idea, or share feedback, feel free to reach out on GitHub or LinkedIn.
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