Publishing + research systems · Independent concept developed for Fat Nugs Magazine
The Psychonaut Bookworm
Live research-and-learning workbench
Turn psychedelic literature into a searchable editorial research system with visible evidence state, rights-review boundaries, and reusable learning tools.
Controlled visual demonstration
Current live interface
This sandboxed preview shows the current public interface. Open the full site to use the build in its intended window.
What I noticed
A reading list preserves titles but not the reusable connections inside a body of literature: historical actors, scientific claims, quotations, geographies, primary documents, disputed interpretations, and relationships across books. It also does not tell readers which objects are full drafts, study aids, internally labeled workflow states, or excerpts awaiting rights review.
What I researched
The v2 rebuild retained the fourteen-format collection and applied current U.S. Copyright Office guidance that fair use is contextual and has no automatic safe word count. It also reviewed current FTC guidance on clear disclosure and official NotebookLM source behavior before correcting the public truth layer.
What exists
A searchable Research Desk spanning original editorial drafts, evidence comparisons, flashcards, and science annotations; a browser-persistent reading queue with Markdown export; per-result source counts and internal status; an evidence-and-rights ledger; rights-safe quotation and passage excerpts; and the original fourteen-format library and course tools.
Who it serves
Editors, readers, educators, publishers, researchers, and psychedelic-literature communities who need a navigable source-aware workbench.
What it demonstrates
Editorial systems design, research UX, content atomization, knowledge organization, provenance signaling, rights-aware publishing, and durable client-side state.
Current evidence
The live production artifact verifies 1,399 indexed editorial objects across fourteen formats, including 238 full editorial drafts, 337 quote-card objects, 563 flashcards, 112 then-versus-now comparisons, and the remaining learning and planning formats. The Research Desk exposes source-entry counts and internal editorial states, saves a local queue, and exports it. The site now states that 1,399 is an object count—not proof of external publication, peer review, licensing, independent fact-checking, or clinical authority. Third-party quotation and passage excerpts are shortened pending item-level rights review; editorial-complete and editorial-ready are internal workflow labels.
Verified build record
What is actually running, and what it is not.
LiveLive · 454 published objects drawn from a 1,664-record ledger
The problem. A reading list in a contested field is a set of assertions about what is worth reading, usually made without showing where anything came from or whether the rights to use it were ever checked.
What it does. Publishes 454 editorial objects — quote cards, then-and-now comparisons, flashcards, mini-essays, educational modules, character profiles, passage spotlights, companion reading lists, a scientific annotation layer, source packs — each drawn from a 1,664-record provenance ledger with per-item source visibility and rights-review notes. A research desk lets a reader hold a saved query across a session.
Built on. A static site with a committed provenance directory and a governance page, served from Vercel.
What it does not establish. The published set is a subset of the ledger by design; items without settled rights review stay unpublished. It indexes and annotates literature, it does not reproduce it.
This record is generated from the same inventory as the complete build index: the production URL was checked at the last regeneration, and the status line above repeats what the build reports about itself rather than restating an intention.