Hallucipedia

# 🪐 Hallucipedia > **The encyclopedia that doesn't exist until you look at it.** Welcome to **Hallucipedia** — an infinite, self-generating encyclopedia built for worldbuilders, storytellers, gamers, dreamers, and the endlessly curious. Imagine a Wikipedia where every article is waiting to be discovered. When you click an unwritten link, Hallucipedia writes the article for you on the spot — weaving rich history, technical details, culture, and lore that stay perfectly consistent with the rest of your world. --- ## ✨ What Makes Hallucipedia Special? * **🌌 Infinite World Creation:** Start with a single sentence like *"A world where light travels slowly enough to be farmed"* or *"19th-century Europe, but mathematics is treated as an occult science."* Hallucipedia takes your idea and expands it into an entire world with its own rules, departments, and history. * **🔗 Dynamic Deep-Diving:** Click on blue links to read written pages, or click on red unwritten links to instantly generate new articles. Every new page respects the canon established before it. * **🔍 Search the Unwritten:** Search for concepts in your universe. If a page doesn't exist yet, Hallucipedia will construct a live search results page complete with snippets from unwritten lore. * **🎨 Rich Visuals & Diagrams:** Bring any page to life with the click of a button! Hallucipedia generates diagrams, mathematical equations, code snippets, and custom AI illustrations. * **🧠 Perfect Canon Consistency:** No matter how deep down the rabbit hole you go, Hallucipedia remembers the underlying rules, timeline, and vocabulary of your world so the lore never contradicts itself. --- ## 🚀 How to Get Started ### 1. Define Your World When you first open Hallucipedia, you'll be prompted to describe a world in one or two sentences. You can type your own vision or pick one of the quick starter prompts. Hallucipedia immediately generates: * **The Canon Bible** (`control/notes.md`) — the foundational laws, tone, and facts your world must follow. * **The Front Page** (`root.md`) — a main portal filled with intriguing, unwritten links to kickstart your journey. ### 2. Start Exploring * **Follow Links:** Hover over any link. Blue links lead to existing articles. Red links point to pages waiting to be born. Click a red link, and Hallucipedia writes the page in real time. * **Navigate the Sidebar:** Use the sidebar on the right to see the page's Table of Contents, outgoing links, incoming backlinks, and the total count of written pages. ### 3. Search & Discover Use the top search bar (or press `/`) to look up topics. You can jump directly to known pages or click **"Search the unwritten"** to simulate search results for topics nobody has explored yet. ### 4. Illustrate & Refine * **🎨 Illustrate:** Click the **Illustrate** button in the top bar to add visual diagrams, flowcharts, and artwork to the current page. * **🔄 Regenerate:** Want a different angle on a topic? Click **Regenerate** to rewrite the page from scratch while maintaining world canon. * **🌱 Redefine World:** Click the setup plant icon in the top bar anytime you want to start a brand-new universe. --- ## ⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts * `/` — Focus the search bar to search the encyclopedia. * `Ctrl + K` or `Cmd + K` — Jump directly to the path bar to type a specific article path. * `Esc` — Close search results or overlay windows. --- ## 💡 Great Ways to Use Hallucipedia * **For Writers & Novelists:** Brainstorm worlds, magic systems, futuristic technologies, and complex political factions without hitting writer's block. * **For Game Masters & TTRPG Creators:** Generate endless lore, locations, NPCs, and artifacts for your tabletop campaigns on the fly. * **For Fun & Creative Exploration:** Lose yourself in fascinating alternate histories and speculative sci-fi universes crafted entirely around your imagination. --- *Step through the portal and start exploring the unwritten!*