13 posts tagged with "Notes"

AI invents citations because, to a language model, a reference is just more text that should look plausible — and a plausible title, author and page number are easy to produce without any document behind them. The check that catches most of it is simple: require the exact quoted words, and match them against the source text before trusting the claim.

That is a mechanical check, so software can do it. Most tools do not, and the gap is where the embarrassing stories come from.

An AI mind map is worth using again because the old weakness was never the diagram — it was that a blank map only holds the angles you already thought of. When each branch can apply a named thinking model to your actual material, the map stops reflecting your habits and starts widening them.

Mind mapping has been quietly out of fashion for a decade, and the usual explanation — that the tools were clunky — has never been true. The tools were fine. Something else was wrong, and it is worth naming precisely, because it turns out to be the part that changed.

MindMax is a desktop app for macOS and Windows that reads, thinks and writes with you inside a folder you already own. Answers about your documents carry verbatim quotes you can click back to the page, and every AI edit to your writing arrives as a tracked change you accept or reject.

There are a lot of tools now that will read a PDF and talk to you about it. We built a different shape of thing, and it is worth being clear about why.