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I built a "Snow Crash GPT" in 5 minutes, gave it the full text of the book, and it's been immediately helpful to explore the world of Snow Crash, ask questions, get visuals, etc. I'm... appreciative such a thing exists. It makes active reading 10x easier and more accessible. Give it a try if you can.

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What do you use to create the chart/table?

ChatGPT can format tables, so for example you can ask for "an interaction matrix for the main characters". To get diagrams I asked for Mermaid markup language (https://mermaid.live). For visuals just ask it to draw (DALL-E).

e.g. Show an interaction matrix between the top characters in the book. Format it as a table. Each cell should be a one-sentence summary of how the characters interact. Include a representative emoji to help me remember. Leave the cell empty if the characters don't interact directly.

e.g., Format it as a Mermaid graph diagram, using Mermaid markup language. (https://mermaid.js.org/intro/)

For the Mermaid markup I had to give it extra hints and an example because it messed up the syntax. It picks up hints very quickly, like an intern who's trying to figure it out.

I can't believe it, you just unlocked something new to me. Wow, thank you so much.

Teach it to label the relationships. You might have to give it a syntax example 

“
When connecting to graph nodes you must use the following syntax to include text on the connecting edge:

A --- |some example text along the edge| B
“