Obsidian plugin· Released · beta · not yet released
Topic Map
Finds the topics your books and notes share, draws them as a map, and answers a question with cards that quote their passage.
Topic Map roadmap
What's coming
Topic Map reads your books and notes, finds the topics they share, draws them as a map, and answers your questions with the passages they come from.
Built so far: topics found and named for you; questions answered with the passages behind them; write-ups where every quote is checked; your whole library on one map; collections from shelves, folders, tags and Bases; and your collections in Claude and other AI apps.
Soon
- Gaps between themes. See where two close themes have few cards linking them, and start a write-up from that gap.
- Answers you can keep. Write-ups number their sources, and you can save an answer back into your vault as a note.
- Search inside a topic. Ask a question within one topic, right from the topic itself.
- New cards find their topics. Cards from a later index join the topics they fit, and Topic Map suggests finding topics again only when the map has drifted.
- Claims labeled by evidence. Each claim says whether it's established, emerging or a hypothesis, with the passage that backs it.
Later
- People, places and terms across books. The same person, place or term is recognized wherever it appears, so you can follow it from book to book.
- Topics shaped by your links. The links and tags in your notes pull their cards together, so your own structure shapes the topics.
- A wiki from your cards. Topics and themes compiled into pages you can read and edit, with your edits kept when the cards change.
- A richer map. Each book's footprint, a path from one topic to another, what changed since the last run, and views you can save.
- Reading with your topics beside you. Read a book with its cards and topics in the margin, and use a map of the book as a way in.
Read from ROADMAP.md in the plugin's repo. What has shipped is in the changelog.