2026
- August 27 - v0.9.0 — public beta
- August 27 - What we are building, and what we are not
- August 28 - How to read a research paper with AI, and check what it tells you
- August 30 - The mind map was the right shape all along
- September 2 - Why AI invents citations, and the one check that catches most of them
- September 5 - Chatting with multiple PDFs at once — what goes wrong, and how to check it
- September 9 - How to OCR a scanned PDF into text you can actually quote
- September 11 - How to translate a whole EPUB book with AI and keep the terms consistent
- September 16 - The AI annotates your book sparsely, on purpose
- September 16 - Why there is no vector database in it
- September 17 - v1.0 — automatic updates, voice input and a rebuilt editor
- September 19 - Using AI with your Obsidian vault — including the PDFs you never read
- September 22 - It looks like a screenshot. It is not one.
- September 23 - The subscription is a convenience, not a gate
- September 25 - How to turn a ChatGPT or Claude answer into a proper Word document
- September 26 - Thinking models in practice: the pre-mortem
- September 27 - Ollama and LM Studio for your documents — what a local model can and cannot carry
- September 29 - How to read Kindle books on your desktop with AI (.mobi and .azw3)
- September 30 - An AI should never rewrite your document silently
- October 1 - Thinking models in practice: the steelman
- October 2 - How to study for an exam from lecture slides with AI
- October 3 - How to write an AI skill (SKILL.md) that actually gets used
- October 3 - Thinking models in practice: first principles
- October 4 - Voice notes to Markdown — capture a thought without leaving what you are doing
- October 5 - Thinking models in practice: SCAMPER
- October 5 - Answering an RFP or security questionnaire with AI — and the mistake that costs you
- October 6 - How to write a thesis chapter with AI without losing your argument
- October 6 - Thinking models in practice: six thinking hats
- October 7 - What "verbatim" means when the source is a PDF
- October 7 - Thinking models in practice: the decision matrix
- October 8 - What is free in MindMax, and what you actually pay for
- October 8 - How to ask AI about a whole book — and why pasting it in is not enough
- October 9 - Review someone else's draft with AI — and send back Word comments, not a chat log
- October 9 - Let AI edit your Word document — and keep it a Word document
- October 10 - An AI that fixes your notes — and refuses to add a single fact
- October 12 - v1.1 — PowerPoint and Kindle, AI edits in Word files, and quick notes
- October 18 - How to get AI to write in your style — show it, don't describe it
- October 19 - v1.2 — writing rebuilt around the document, and workspaces
- October 19 - Introducing MindMax — the workspace knowledge work never had
- October 20 - v1.2.2 — ask anyone for comments on a draft
- October 20 - Sending a thesis chapter to your supervisor — and turning the comments into a second draft
- October 20 - How to get comments on a draft — on the sentences, from people who won't install anything
- October 24 - Why MindMax starts with an editor, not a chat box
- October 29 - v1.3 — document chat for every file, single files, and web apps
- October 29 - An AI thinking canvas for the question you keep circling
- October 30 - Why we built a document editor you can open and just write in