Pathway is a cool-looking Mac-only app that aims to be an alternative to a standard web browser for using Wikipedia. It aims to "help you discover Wikipedia without having to worry whether you'll have enough time to read everything you want, or if you'll get lost." That sounds simplistic, but the execution looks great. Pathway draws a map of every Wikipedia page you hit connected to the page you got there from and the page(s) you went to from there. The map also shows all of the pages the current page links to for quick navigation. It also features Safari and Spotlight integration and the ability to export pages, and currently works with the English, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish Wikipedias. Pathway is a free download and requires Mac OS 10.4.
Tags: free, freeware, mac, osx, pathway, research, wikipedia
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Subscribe to commentsipodrulzSep 27th 2006 10:49PM
I tried it and it seems pretty hard to use, or maybe i'm just to stupid. But it is a really good idea as many people do use wikipedia as the source of information.
VirionSep 28th 2006 3:59AM
I like it as a way to both keep track of information you've gone through and as a way to quickly pull up a summary of branching points. There's times where I've wandered through over 20 articles and found myself with several tabs splitting off in opposite dirrections, with no idea what related to what (I'd pop open a new tab and leave the old behind hoping it'd make sense later, but the just results in making my ram cry.)