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Pathway is a great little OS X app designed to enrich your Wikipedia experience. Pathway incorporates a browser for view pages along with some really nice node maps that trace your travels through Wikipedia (screenshots after the jump).
Creator Dennis Lorson says the idea for [Pathway][2] came from his frustration with the limitations of traditional browsing in the tangled jungle of Wikipedia links.
"Wikipedia articles tend to be full of distracting links, just screaming to be clicked on," he writes on the Pathway site. "What I needed, was an application that could easily archive the path I follow through Wikipedia pages."
And Pathway does just that by making your history both visual and spatial using a network node view to retain an overview of where you've been in Wikipedia and how those page relate to each other.
While the visualization tools are undoubtedly Pathway's greatest strength, there's some other nice features to, including:
* Add notes and download files
* Options to export individual pages with one click to a Web Archive, for reference.
* Spotlight integration: search for any article title and Spotlight will find the document it's in.
* Multi-language support: Pathway supports Wikipedia pages in English, French, German, Dutch and Spanish.
If you're a Wikipedia junkie (and Mac user) Pathway is indispensable, not only does it make the site much easier to navigate, it makes Wikipedia a heck of a lot more fun.
[via [Circle Six Design][1]]
[1]: http://blog.circlesixdesign.com/2007/05/22/pathway-wiki-breadcrumbs/ "Pathway: Wiki Breadcrumbs"
[2]: http://pathway.screenager.be/ "Pathway"
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