# brettkromkamp/contextualise

Contextualise is an effective tool particularly suited for organising information-heavy projects and activities consisting of unstructured and widely diverse data and information resources

Repository: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/contextualise
Homepage: https://contextualise.dev/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: knowledge-graph, flask-application, python3, metamodel, sqlite-database, python, semantic-web, research-tool, knowledge-management-graph, commonplace-book, investigative-journalism, htmx
Last push: 2025-04-09T12:06:34+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 39/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 15, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2690, "days_push": 511, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1108, forks 45 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:37.076798+00:00)

## What it is
Contextualise is a web-based knowledge management application for organising information-heavy projects with unstructured, diverse resources. It is built on TopicDB, a topic maps-based graph store, and provides topic views, network graph visualisation, and an interactive 3D viewer.

## Use cases
- organise research notes and sources for investigative journalism
- build a personal commonplace book of ideas and clippings
- manage worldbuilding lore for books, movies, or games
- create and share navigable knowledge maps of a topic
- visualise relationships between concepts as a knowledge graph
- structure unstructured project information with topic maps

## When to choose
- you want a self-hosted, topic maps-based knowledge graph tool
- your project mixes diverse unstructured resources needing semantic linking
- you want visual graph and 3D exploration of your knowledge base

## When to avoid
- you need a lightweight markdown note app without graph semantics
- you require multi-user enterprise knowledge management at scale
- you want a plugin ecosystem or mobile apps

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, data-visualization, web-framework
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: knowledge-graph, topic-maps, personal-knowledge-management, commonplace-book, worldbuilding, flask, htmx, sqlite, knowledge-management, research, semantic-web, web

## Member repositories
- brettkromkamp/contextualise (main) score 39

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:37.076798+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:43:45.175817+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:37.076798+00:00, sha 30691ca29521)
  - homepage: https://contextualise.dev/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:47:41.733765+00:00, sha fcfe69c59f2e)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/contextualise/json (fetched 2026-08-29T12:47:41.742900+00:00, sha f818eb51761e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.