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Map thematic connections across 100 books with Claude Code
Pieter Maes used Claude Code to find thematic threads that link 100 books. He published the results as Trails, a browsable site where linked themes such as self-deception or hidden structural failure are traced across titles.
- Tool
- Claude Code
- Source
- trails.pieterma.es
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Credit: this use case was shared by trails.pieterma.es. Summary written by Kitbox; see the original for full details.
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Starter prompt
Here is a list of books with my notes on each. Find 10 themes that run through at least three of them, name each theme, and explain in two sentences how every book adds to it. Point out any surprising pairings.
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