Bookmapped
Books transformed into maps of ideas.
Bookmapped is a visual reading companion that breaks books into chapters, themes, concepts, frameworks, summaries, and visual explanations, making their structure easier to understand and revisit.
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Ideas in context
The Design of Everyday Things
Chapters become a navigable system of principles, concepts, examples, and connected frameworks.
What it is
Bookmapped turns the linear experience of reading into a navigable knowledge structure. Each book includes an overview, chapter map, concept glossary, key frameworks, and chapter-level notes that keep ideas connected to their original context. I started building the library around books I’ve read this year, turning my notes into something I can easily explore and revisit.
I created Bookmapped as a personal reading companion, not a replacement for the books themselves. Links to official book pages, source credits, and clear personal-study framing keep the library connected to the authors and publishers behind the original work.
How it works
Choose a book
Open a book from the library and start with its overview and central themes.
Explore the map
Move through chapters, concepts, frameworks, and notes as a connected structure.
Return to the ideas
Follow connections, revisit key points, and use your notes to keep learning in context.
The design idea
Start with themes and chapter relationships before moving into individual details.
Move between concepts, frameworks, chapters, and summaries instead of relying on a linear table of contents.
Pair concise explanations with diagrams, examples, citations, and private browser-based notes.
Why I built it
Reading books, especially technical ones, can feel quite heavy with all the concepts and ideas to take in. If I don’t take notes along the way, it’s easy to forget what I’ve read. I’ve also learned that it helps to map out a book before diving in, so I have a clearer idea of what to expect from each chapter and how everything fits together.
Books contain entire systems of thought, but notes can easily reduce them to disconnected quotes and highlights. With Bookmapped, I’m exploring how information design can preserve how ideas fit together: where an idea first appears, what it connects to, and how it contributes to the book as a whole.
Bookmapped contains independent personal study notes and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the featured books’ authors or publishers.