Quotebook Insights
the Wisdom Lab
A small, phone-friendly quotation data factory showing how raw text can become wisdom.
DIKW Ladder
How an assortment of characters can become wisdom
A single quote travels up the DIKW ladder:
the scrambled characters → the shuffled words → the quote itself → the extracted concepts.
DATA
Raw characters—signal without any structure.
INFORMATION
Words arrive, but they’re jumbled—some meaning emerges.
KNOWLEDGE
The quote in order—context, attribution, and a quick synopsis bring clarity.
“A friend's eye is a good mirror.”
Synopsis
This quote suggests that friends can offer honest reflections about us, like mirrors revealing our true selves.
WISDOM
Themes and mantra you can act on—the distilled takeaway.
Wisdom Cloud
What shows up the most?
Top words sized by frequency. Tap a word to search it inside the Quotebook.
Brevity Scale
Snackable vs deep read
Character-length buckets. Segments are proportional to the share of short, medium, and long quotes.
Theme Barcode
Scanlines of the stack
Each bar represents a theme—thickness reflects how frequently it appears across the corpus. Click any bar to explore that theme's quotes. Together, these weighted bars create a visual code of the entire collection.
Theme Bookshelf
Spines from the archive
Book spines for each theme—thickness scales with how many quotes mention it. Tap a spine to search that theme.
Book spines for each theme—thickness scales with how many quotes mention it.
Tap a book to search that theme.
Serendipity Machine
Generate a poster-style pull from the archive with a single tap.
Tap spin to surface a quote.