Insight Generation Tool
for Creative Writing & Thinking
InfraNodus uses knowledge graphs and AI to reveal the structural gaps in your ideas to help you come up with novel ideas.
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InfraNodus Features
Our visual AI-based insight recommender system will encourage you to think of the new connections and to constantly shift the dynamics of your thought on the global level.
Dynamic Variability for Your Thinking Process
InfraNodus analyzes the structure of your thought to encourage variability: when the ideas are dispersed, it will recommend new connections; when they're too dense, it will encourage disruptive thinking.
You can use our live text editor, or copy and paste an existing text, import your text, PDF or MD files. InfraNodus will provide a direct visual feedback to reveal the patterns in your ideas.
Seeing your thoughts as a network graph will encourage you think of the new connections. Take particular notice of the gaps as these are the most revelant connections you haven't thought of before.
Remove the most obvious terms from your discourse to reveal what's hinding behind them. Use the network as an heuristic tool to stimulate your thinking process.
Use OpenAI's GPT and network structure insights to generate research questions and innovative ideas.
How to Generate Insight (Workflow)
Creative Thinking Use Cases
InfraNodus can be used for creative thinking and writing. Here are some of the workflows we propose:
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Gathering Ideas for an Article
How to use InfraNodus to develop a discourse on a certain topic.
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Writing for Self-
ReflectionMaking sense of yourself using the network graphs.
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Creative Writing & Idea Generation
Use graph as an heuristic device helping you think in connections.
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Assisted Interview Workflow
Use InfraNodus for interviewing and analyzing the answers.
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Use Case: Gathering Ideas for a New Article
Problem: Need to develop a discourse on a certain topic?
The difficult part is to begin, to gather everything together and to start writing.
Solution: InfraNodus live text visualization and insight recommender system.
Start writing your ideas and InfraNodus will visualize them as a graph. The Insight Recommender system will show the connections between your ideas and reveal the structural gaps — recommending you the interesting questions to ask to develop your discourse further.
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Use Case: Writing for Self-Reflection
Problem: Have a question you would like to reflect upon?
If you're just starting to think about a certain idea it may be hard to understand what it's about.
Solution: Find the patterns in your thought and make your ideas more coherent.
With InfraNodus you coan just start writing your thoughts into the graph, so you can gradually see how they connect.
The graph representation will provoke a higher level of coherency in your thinking and you can use it to ask yourself unexpected questions that will connect the ideas that have not been connected before.
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Use Case: Creative Writing & Idea Generation
Problem: How to generate new ideas for your writing or at a brainstorming session?
Whether you are brainstorming, doing research or writing you may experience writer's block or simply get stuck for new ideas.
Solution: InfraNodus will represent your text as a network providing a visual overview and helping you find the gaps where the new ideas are hiding.
Our studies have shown that network representation of text encourages one to think in terms of connections, helping you make the new links between the different parts of your text and make your discourse more coherent.
You will also be able to see the structural gaps in your writing: that's where the new ideas our hiding.
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Use Case: Generating and Analyzing the Interview Responses
Problem: How to reveal the interviewee's ideas to the fullest extent?
How can we analyze the subject's responses to know what to ask next?
Solution: Represent the relations between the ideas in their answers, so we can reveal the gaps.
Asking the questions that bridge those gaps will help us generate the questions that will be truly interesting and surprising even for the interviewee themselves.
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Examples of the Public Graphs Made with InfraNodus
Below are some of my ideas I made public to showcase how InfraNodus can be used for creative thinking
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How Text Network Analysis Works
Network analysis and graph visualization help you cope with the informational overload and make sense of data.
Here is how it works:
1. Add Any Text or Data
You can use this approach for your research, creative writing, marketing feedback study, SEO purposes, news analysis, etc.
Add any text (speech-to-text available), notes, or import your Gephi graph, Evernote data, Twitter feed, or Google search results snippets.
The text is converted into a graph where the words are the nodes and the co-occurrences are the connections between them, so you can see all your disjointed bits and pieces of data at once, as a big picture.
2. Get a Visual Overview
The network will then be generated from the text or data you added. The most influential words in the graph (nodes with the highest betweenness centrality) are shown bigger, while the words (nodes) that occur more often together are aligned into topical clusters and have distinct colors.
The graph will show you not only the main topics and the most influential terms, but also the relations between them, making it a much better visual summary tool than the traditional tagclouds.
3. Generate Insight
InfraNodus will identify the structural gaps in the network: parts of the graph that could be connected but are not.
It will propose you the different ways how you can bridge these gaps to produce insight and generate new ideas.
You can use GPT AI to generate research questions, facts, or ideas based on the structural gap identified in your discourse using network analysis.
Our Methodology in Detail
To learn more about the algorithms used in InfraNodus and for citations, please, refer to this peer-reviewed paper:Paranyushkin, D (2019). InfraNodus: Generating Insight Using Text Network Analysis, Proceedings of WWW'19 The Web Conference, www.infranodus.com (ACM library, PDF).
If you want to know more about the algorithms used, here is the first paper we published on the subject:
Paranyushkin, D (2011). Identifying the pathways for meaning circulation using text network analysis, Nodus Labs. (Google scholar)
More InfraNodus Use Cases
InfraNodus can be used for many other purposes. Here are just some of them:
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Sentiment Analysis of Product Reviews (topic modeling)
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Text Mining with Networks (discourse structure analysis)
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Visual Google Search (a great way to get an overview of any topic)
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Network Analysis (community detection and node ranking algorithms)
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Visual Arts and Music (sculpt your thoughts and play music with graphs)
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Search Engine Optimization / SEO (finding the untapped keywords)
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Scientific Research (generate insight from your writing)
Become a Supporter!
InfraNodus is open-source software and is developed without external funds or investors. We develop and maintain this tool and the associated research based on your contributions only. We believe it is a working model for crowdfunded software made by users for users.
You can support our work if you become a subscriber and get access to the cloud version or if you become our patron on Patreon. Enterpise, government, and educational versions are also available.
Pricing Options
Your support is what makes it possible for us to develop this tool. All quotas are per each text. There is no limitation on the number of texts you can process every month. Prices do not include VAT for EU private customers.
Lock in current prices for life and save up to 35% (€100-€200) on our annual plans.
Advanced Account
saving €204 or 35%
- 14-day free trial
- everything on the Basic +
- API access
- Dedicated support
- 2 Mb per upload
- 5 Mb per PDF upload
- Extended data import quotas
- 100 GPT-4 credits / hour
- Live graph updates (max 5)
- Commercial use
Basic Account
saving €84 or 35%
- 14-day free trial
- Community support
- Full graph analytics
- Chrome / Firefox extension
- Obsidian graph view plugin
- Import data from web sources
- Max 40 imports per source
- 300 Kb per file upload
- 1Mb per PDF upload
- 40 GPT-4 AI credits / hour
- Personal / Academic use
Premium Account
- 14-day free trial
- everything on Advanced +
- API integration support
- Training: 1 hour / month
- 10 Mb per upload
- 50 Mb per PDF upload
- Max import quotas
- 500 GPT-4 credits / hour
- Live graph updates (max 20)
- Fast-track required features
InfraNodus vs. Other Tools
Traditional tools focus on keywords and not the relations. They use tables, not graphs, and lack search intent data.
without InfraNodus
- No visual insights, just text
- AI thinks for you and leads your thinking
- Generic ideas based on most likely next token predictions
- Not possible to plug into your LLM workflows
- No custom reasoning logic
with InfraNodus
- Beautiful interactive knowledge graphs
- AI thinks with you, you lead the AI
- Original ideas based on content gaps and missing connections
- Use API to plug into your LLM workflows
- Create reasoning ontologies
About InfraNodus
Gregory Bateson coined a beautiful term: "ecology of the mind". What is a mind that is ecological? It has the ability to have an overview, but it can also zoom into any idea. It embraces diversity, but it can also obsess over one thing when needed. It can discover the obvious, but it can also reveal the things that are hidden and ponder the gaps that have not yet been bridged. Rational and poetic.
InfraNodus is a tool that is developed to help you think this way. It is made to promote ecological dynamics and diversity on the cognitive level. InfraNodus visualises and analyses ideas as a network, revealing the relations and patterns within them, so you can understand the dynamic complexity of how knowledge evolves and explore the nuances of meaning.
We believe that it is especially important today to make this kind of instruments available to everybody. That's why we develop InfraNodus so that it can accessible to everyone, solely thanks to our users' monthly contributions and based on their feedback. This is not a start-up, we don't have investors and an exit strategy. We are here to stay and to evolve.
We are constantly improving InfraNodus based on our users' feedback. We are also currently developing an API to make this way of thinking available to other applications and to enable the use of InfraNodus insights for machine learning and AI applications.
If you like our cause, please, sign up for an account and give it a try, support us on Patreon, or simply let us know that it resonates, because this is the best way to motivate each other.
Dmitry Paranyushkin, the founder
Testimonials
InfraNodus is used by researchers, writers, marketing professionals and corporations. Here's what some of our supporters have to say:
Technical Support
Check out our support pages, so you can see how to create the new network graphs, how to read and interpret them, how to discover the hidden patterns in your data and share the results of your research.
1. How to Create a Knowledge Graph
The most basic way to create a new graph is to use plain text or [[wiki links]] (for detailed ontologies). Each concept / [[wiki link]] is a node, their co-occurrence is the connection between them. Based on this representation, you can build complex reasoning ontologies and knowledge bases which can then be used for ideation and creative thinking and writing. More on Creating the Graphs
2. How to Read and Interpret Knowledge Graphs
Studies have shown that knowledge graph representation makes you think more of connections in your data. You can identify the main elements as well as the relations between them and — most importantly — discover the gaps in your knowledge using the graphs. More on Reading the Graphs
3. How to Develop Your Ideas Using the Knowledge Graphs
Knowledge graphs are great for non-linear reading. Look at the graph, find the part you like, click on the nodes, and you'll see the excerpt of your original data that contains this exact combination. More on Nonlinear Reading
4. How to Import Your Data to Knowledge Graphs
You can import and visualize your text files or PDF documents. In order to do that, just upload the file and InfraNodus will do the rest. More on Visualizing PDFs