Desktop AI agent for knowledge work
What MindMax does
Read, think and write with you — in the folder you already have. No import, no index to build, no lock-in. Every conclusion carries verbatim quotes back to the source page.
How it fits together
One folder, one assistant, four kinds of work
Your notes, and the two hundred PDFs you read to write them, sit in one folder — where a single AI works across both. Tools you would otherwise stitch together each hold one half of that.
Found by the word or by the meaning, with nothing to set up — how search works.
Read
Get through the material
Documents open in place, out of a folder you already have. Annotations stay in the file, and every answer points back at the page it came from.
Opens in place
What you can do with it
Say what you are reading it for. It marks up the whole document, tells you what can wait, and writes up what it found.
Guide · Critique · StudyIt drafts comments on the exact passages, major or minor. Keep the ones you agree with, in your words, and export them into a copy of the .docx.
Word commentsThe words under the box travel with it, so numbers come from the text, not the picture. The same box works in PDFs, books, slides and images.
Keeps the source textPDF, Word, slides, spreadsheets and ebooks — short ones read whole, long ones by structure, every answer quoting the passage it stands on.
Cited answersOne search across PDFs, books, Office files and notes — exact matches and ranked passages side by side, each opening on the sentence it found.
Nothing to set upStart it once and it works through all 300 pages holding one set of terms — checkpointed, and read against the original.
One set of termsThink
Work an idea over
Between reading the material and writing the thing, there is the part where you work out what you actually make of it. That part usually happens in your head, badly. Here it happens on a canvas: spread a question out, put a named method on it, or lay a book out beside the page.
A question opens out in several directions at once, each a branch with its reasons. Follow the ones worth exploring and dig into any line.
Branches filled inSCAMPER, first principles, a red team, an option matrix — each carried out on your problem and your documents, not just named.
Forty-four AI SkillsLay a whole book out on a canvas before you start, then grow the map from the passages you select — every card one click from its source.
Book overviewWrite
Produce the thing
From a thought said out loud to a draft that holds together over a hundred pages — plain Markdown in your own folder, and an AI that edits at the cursor.
[[Links]], backlinks, real tables and version history on ordinary files, plus an assistant you call right where you are typing.
Inline AIYour thought written down correctly and filed under the right heading — nothing added, nothing dropped — and the note tidied when you ask.
Scribe and secretaryOne shortcut over any app: say or type it, read it, and it is in today’s note — or hand it to the AI to file.
From any appApprove the outline first; then every section is written against a ledger of what the draft has already argued, defined and promised.
Book scaleAI writes in Markdown; your readers open Word. Answers from here or from ChatGPT and Claude leave as Word, PDF or image cards — real tables, editable equations.
AI to WordRevise
Improve what you wrote
The report from last night, the chapter going to your supervisor, a draft it wrote for you. Say what should change, or comment in the margin; the edits come back marked on your own text and are saved only when you accept them. Works on the Markdown documents in your folder, and on Word files, where accepted edits become Word tracked changes.
Changes come back marked on your own text for you to accept or reject; whole-draft revisions in groups, each with its reason. Never a regenerated copy.
Accept or rejectWays to ask
A passage, at the cursorSelect it and say what to change; the suggestion appears in place, as one change to accept or reject.Markdown editor →The whole document, said once“Make it more concise and keep my voice.” Edits come back across every section, in groups, each with its reason.Whole-document revision →Your comments, all at onceComment the way you would for a colleague, then revise from all of them; each group names the comment it answers.Revise a draft from feedback →A Word file or a PDF@ it and say the change. Accepted edits land in the same .docx as Word tracked changes; a PDF gets an editable copy beside it.Word & PDF revision →Where next