Bloom

Bloom explores a reading problem that comes before reading: an article has an interesting premise, but its density asks for more time or attention than the reader has available. Fisher wanted a way into material he would otherwise skip.

The web experience turns an article into branches that can be explored at different depths. A summary gives an entry point; following an interesting branch leads toward the original passages. The ambition is to preserve contact with the author’s writing while letting the reader decide where to spend attention. Summaries are intended to retain the author’s voice and angle, rather than flatten the piece into a neutral abstract.

Follow the part that interests you

Start with the overview, expand a branch and keep going where a point earns more attention. Other branches can remain collapsed. A passage can first show selected phrases, then open into its full text.

That makes exploration more selective than reading front to back, while providing a route beyond a flat AI summary. The source text remains something the reader can reach, rather than an invisible document behind a generated answer.

Return to the original writing

Original passages and highlighted phrases help the reader compare the account with what the author wrote. Concept links offer another route through the piece, including lookbacks to earlier context.

The demonstration uses a public-domain Darwin excerpt with a prepared tree. It shows the actual web interaction from overview to source passage. It does not establish that a generated summary always preserves the author’s meaning; reaching the source gives the reader a way to inspect that relationship.

An unfinished on-demand experiment

The Discord bot explored a related approach. Preprocessing an entire long article could be expensive when Fisher only wanted to explore a small part. The bot offers selectable points and generates deeper exploration as the reader chooses a direction or asks a question.

That work remained an unfinished side project. It explains another direction for selective reading, but it does not have the same source-passage experience as the web interface and is not presented as a finished product. Fisher has expressed interest in returning to it, without committing to a roadmap.