Are you familiar with alphabetical order?

Imagine this.

William Caxton showing the first page from his printing press.
William Caxton and the printing press. Britannica

The printing press was making text abundant.

Chart comparing European manuscript and printed-book production by century.
European manuscript and printed-book production. OWID manuscripts OWID printed books

1604, Robert Cawdrey publishes a Table Alphabeticall.

Title page of Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall.
A Table Alphabeticall title page. Internet Archive

His readers still needed instructions for how to use alphabetical order!

To wit, the order of the letters as they stand... as 'B' near the beginning, 'N' about the middest, and 'T' toward the end.
Instruction page from Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall.
Reader instructions from A Table Alphabeticall. Internet Archive

Every information explosion creates a navigation crisis.

Every navigation crisis inspires new infrastructure.

Cover of Information Anxiety by Richard Saul Wurman.
Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety. Wurman

The print revolution benefitted from an alphabetical order.

I believe the current information explosion needs a spatial order.

Carte Pisane portolan chart.
Carte Pisane portolan chart. Wikimedia Commons

Embedora is a software company exploring how we can make our modern information ecosystems easier to navigate.

Category Atlas is our first product.
Go to dev.categoryatlas.com

Category Atlas website landing page.
Category Atlas. dev.categoryatlas.com

The founder is a technologist and former assistant professor focused on spatial AI.

His experience working in construction, reality capture, and digital modeling of buildings informs his perspective on how information can be organized.

Thomas Czerniawski wearing a headset at a technology demo.

Contact

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