Every evening I’m surfing trough Wikipedia and doing this with Safari ist not so useful. So I’m so happy about Pathway. Thank you very much!

As a german User I’m dreaming about Pathway in german translation. Than Pathway will be really perfect!

Hope, this will be soon

Small update on the development:

- some internal changes to the model and drawing code, should allow for smaller file sizes and graphical extensibility but will break compatibility with documents created in earlier version, sorry for that.
- some refinements to drawing, animation, selection
- dragging links from the browser view to the network view to insert new pages
- “copy link” (to pasteboard) and “insert all relevant topics from this node” option
- better cache management and options
- ability to group pages, to enable better management/overview of the network (e.g. disable certain groups of pages so they aren’t displayed, etc)
- Exporting the whole node graph to .dot (a file format that OmniGraffle and most other related apps can read)

Todo:
- tagging of pages, groups and documents,( adding other metadata such as links and files?)
- Searching page content. I still have to examine if this is technically possible, as it would imply archiving all visited pages (with problems of filesize, outdated pages,…)
- Highlighting text snippets in pages. Same potential problem as with searching page content.
- Small convenience options: e.g. “remove pages connected to this page”, “insert current iTunes album page” (I found that one to be very useful ) I’ve you’ve got more ideas for these, tell me!
- some features I haven’t decided on yet.

One unrelated thing: the “cloud” of linked topics sometimes appears, sometimes doesn’t. What’s the trigger for that? Is it pages that link to that page? Or what? (This is on Wikipedia_en).

Ben, I like your ideas, especially the auto-detection of more metadata. I’m also looking into doing something with color levels, in the fashion you mention. It’ll probably not be a fade, as I already use that for read pages, but a hue change or something alike is certainly within the possibilities.

Furthermore, I’m adding support for collections (visualized by a tree view instead of the standard table view) as Pathway turns out to be more of a management tool than I thought it would.
Unfortunately, I had not anticipated this and it will require some rewriting on the base. The data model will have to be changed a bit too, so the possibility exists that you can’t open old documents with the future build. But I’ll try to include some conversion code.

I really dig your app (no digg pun intended), and as Fais already did, so did I spend several hours with your program. It’s pretty usefull for generating a landscape on a specific topic or to get a rough overview on it. Just excellent, and I’ll highly recommend it to everyone who somewhat has a networked thinking.

So much for the praise, now to the program itself: Besides it’s working beautifully, I have some minor complaints: Sometimes an article is just forwarded (like in pluralizations), but Pathway makes a new node from it. What about joining nodes? Different colorization would be pretty cool, too: nth degrees fade more and more in color (or change them), plus a visual traceback of how the map was generated would come in handy pretty well, too. A full parsing of the document for refering, existing nodes would be nice. and a killer would be a metatag or a graphical blob of what if Pathway could recognize the “Category: ” on the bottom of each page.

Though I’m a student, with a few modifications I’m really willing to pay some money for Pathway. Now about a mash-up with Anthracite…

Good luck (nah – knowledge!) to you for your exams, I’m just with you the same time.

Yours,

- Ben

Thank you for such a wonderful program. I downloaded it yesterday and was spending hours on it. I should say I have rarely seen such an innovative idea. Excellent work. I would work with it more during the weekend. I have put a small review on my blog. Once more, an excellent work.

Regards
Fais

I think I’ll either stick with my original suggestion, or try to pack as many things in one build as possible (as I have been doing for now).

Thanks for the feedback, though!