Ariadne is an AI-powered canvas for non-linear thinking. It transforms the traditional chat interface into a visual thought map where ideas branch, connect, and evolve naturally.
✨ No registration required — Just open and start exploring. When you're done, if you want, download your entire thought map as a ZIP file containing both an interactive HTML and a Markdown summary.
📝 Currently only Gemini supported — This is because the site is hosted on GitHub Pages (static hosting), and Google is the only major AI provider that allows direct browser-to-API calls without CORS restrictions.
Human thinking rarely follows a straight line—it branches, backtracks, and leaps. Yet conventional AI chat interfaces enforce a rigid linear structure that:
- Flattens the natural branching paths of exploration
- Makes it difficult to maintain focus when reviewing past conversations
- Forces users to repeatedly re-explain context for follow-up questions
- Causes context drift as language models struggle with redundant background information
Ariadne introduces a simple but powerful interaction: select any text in an AI response to ask a follow-up question.
This design is built on a practical insight: in any coherent inquiry, the starting point for each new question always lies somewhere within a previous answer.
- Card-based conversations — Each Q&A exchange is displayed as a visual card
- Anchor selection — Highlight any text within a response to create a precise context anchor
- Automatic context — The selected text becomes part of your next prompt, giving the AI clean, focused context
- Visual connections — Each selection creates a link between cards, organically weaving your linear chat into a Global Thought Map
- 🎯 Precise context — No more re-explaining what you meant
- 🔄 Zero drift — The AI always knows exactly what you're building on
- 🗺️ Visual overview — See your entire exploration at a glance
- 🔀 Natural branching — Return to any node to start a new line of inquiry
- Possibility to add root nodes.
- Add attachments when asking questions.
Built with Next.js, React Flow, and modern AI APIs.