---
post_type: "project"
link: "https://took.wiki"
title: TOOK.wiki
blurb: "An online reader generator that takes a text you upload and rebuilds it into a new narrative, with each key entity contextualized through Wikipedia."
year:
    - 2021
tags:
    - research
    - online platform
    - Experimental publishing
    - Indie making
stack:
    - Typescript
    - Next.js
    - Firebase
order: 10001
---
[took.wiki](https://took.wiki)


TOOK is an online reader generator that uses Wikipedia as its knowledge source. You upload a text — an article, a book — and TOOK pulls out the important entities and keywords, contextualizes each one with Wikipedia, and rebuilds the text into a new narrative you can read, and publish for others. There's no NLP behind it; it's a semantic system worked out in plain code.

It grew out of an older design research project on the future of reading, Tomorrow Book. What I was really after — surrounding what you read with the context it needs, so the page knows more than the words on it — is the same thing I work on now, just by hand back then instead of with a model.