At one point I thought ContentMold would be this product, but now its a whole movement, but the name worked well for this app too.

MoldAbout is a product for teachers to make curricullum decisions on the fly, to be empowered to use their own taste and judgement. This is valuable now more than ever, because the temptation to resort to AI-generated bullshit is on the rise. If the kids see that lazy crap, they'll learn to make lazy crap too.

MoldAbout applies Semantic Web Technology to curriculum management. As a math teacher, it was frustrating to either be stuck inside one curriculum for the whole year. Integrating other resources was of course possible, but the consequences of straying from the main curricullum were recursive.

A good curricullum has to have coherence, has to account for consistent review and evaluation, and requires a lot of time and effort. Moreover, this long-term unity very easily becomes a prison. When students turn out to be very interested in some particular application of what they're learning, it seems foolish to stifle that enthusiasm and move on to the next icy and mechanical "Lesson 63".

I always wanted to have a kind of unified schema of the various resources I was using, so that I could automatically incorporate review and generate evaluation. Even for my own study, I want to be able to merge several different books on a single topic, to make a unified study across many different resources.

Ontologies are the pinacle of collaborative world models in science– although they're still kind of esoteric. In biology, they allow researchers to contribute they're data-heavy findings into a centralized representation. This is the natural tool to use to model the underlying domains of these curriculla. It's also an appropriate tool to model the resources too, so that relations of aboutness can be made explicit.

This, in combination with an improved information discovery and management could create a paradigm centered on collaborative ontologies; turning doom-scrolling into curriculla building/execution.

As of September 2025, I'm trying to settle on an Ontology. The bare minimum before I'll publish the app:

• Basic document CRUD (curriculla are generally a sequence of several types of documents)
• Standards model (a better word than standards might be domain model)
• Dependency relationships between standards
• Document aboutness relations to the standards

I'll need a decent proving ground, and I think math is a great place for that. I could do set theory, maybe some logic. If I could make an interface that connects multiple good math textbooks to a central domain ontology, it will have been a complete success.