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Heuristica

AI-powered mind maps and concept maps for visual learning, thinking, and research.

Heuristica is an AI-powered knowledge exploration tool that lets you dive deep into a subject by simply pressing buttons. Heuristica uses a non-linear, mindmap-like structure to make the learning experience more visual, hands-on, and exploratory. It improves learner retention and engagement by leveraging visual learning principles.

Overview

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Web presence

2023

Established

25K

Children

11

Countries
Target group
Students upper
Updated
April 2024
I would like every student to have access to their personal learning assistant to help them map their ideas, thoughts, explorations, and learnings. The maps should be sharable with others and should be expanded by them. I would like learning to be more personal (where you map your own journey) but also more social at the same time (where you can share your progress with others).

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

Currently, the predominant way of interacting with AIs and large language models (LLMs) is to use a chat-based interface. I think this is not an optimal way for many people to learn new things. Heuristica uses a non-linear, mindmap-like structure to make learning more visual, hands-on, exploratory and inclusive.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

Heuristica is an AI-powered knowledge exploration tool with a mindmap-like interface. It allows the user to enter an input, like "Macroeconomics," and press the buttons on the user interface to operate on this input. For example, the user can press the "What" button to learn "What is Macroeconomics," or the user can press the "Who" button to see who founded the discipline or learn more about the key figures.

These buttons are abstractions for prompts to an LLM optimized to return the desired result in the best way possible.

Every operation in Heuristica creates an output that can be operated further. This results in something that resembles a concept map or a mindmap. Visually, it is a tree-like structure that stems from a single concept but goes into many different branches.

How has it been spreading?

It is spreading entirely via word of mouth, with Youtubers, Substackers, and Influencers picking it up along the way.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

Just visit Heuristi.ca to get started.

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