Revise
Hand it the draft you wrote. Keep the edits you agree with.
Your report, your chapter, your essay — or a draft it wrote for you. Point at what is wrong with a comment, or say it once for the whole draft. MindMax reads the whole document, makes the changes, and hands them back in groups on your own text, each with its reason. Keep the ones you want. The rest of the file stays as you wrote it.
The same second draft, revised two ways
Most of the time spent writing with AI goes on the rounds after the first draft: saying what is wrong, getting it fixed, checking the fix. Done in a chat window, every one of those steps is yours.
- Paste the draft in, then spend half the prompt saying where each problem is: “the paragraph after the table in section two…”.
- Get back a whole new version, with changes you did not ask for mixed in.
- Reread all of it to find what moved.
- Take the copy as it is, or carry the good parts back into your document by hand.
- For the next round, paste it in and explain again.
- Leave a comment on the passage itself, or @ the document and say the change once.
- It reads the whole document and works out which passages the request reaches.
- The edits come back marked on your text, in groups, each with a title and a reason.
- Accept eight groups, reject four. Only the accepted ones are written.
- Comments behind the accepted groups are closed. The rest stay open for the next round.
Point at the passage instead of describing it
In a chat, half of every request is saying where the problem is. A comment already knows: it is attached to the words it is about. That is how editors have always marked up a manuscript, and here the mark-up is the instruction.
- Comment on any passage, as many times as you like, the way you would on a colleague’s draft. Nothing happens until you press Revise from all, or tick a few comments and revise from just those.
- Each comment is carried out on the passage it is attached to, plus whatever around it has to change with it. Paragraphs you did not mention are left alone.
- Write it the way you would to an editor. “This contradicts section two, keep the later figure” gets you the edit you meant. A comment it cannot act on safely may be set aside with the reason, not carried out on a guess.
Say it once for the whole draft
Some problems are not in one place: the terminology drifts, the piece repeats itself, the introduction promises more than the ending delivers. Say it once, and it finds every place that has to change.
- In the agent conversation, @ the document and describe the change, or type /rewrite with it open. A Word file works the same way, and the accepted edits go back into it as Word tracked changes.
- It reads the whole text, splits a compound request into separate edits and groups them. One request can come back as a dozen small changes across the document, each small enough to judge on its own.
- Add more than one document and the same request spans them, for example a term renamed across a set of chapters.
One round, start to finish
However you asked, the round ends the same way. You choose what to keep. You do not reread the draft.
Mark it up, or say it
Comments on the passages, or one request in the conversation. Either way you describe the change once.
Read what it intends
A short summary of the whole revision, then the groups, each with a title and the reason for it. You know what changed before you read a single edit.
Check each group where it sits
Every group is marked on your text. Step from one change to the next without scrolling to hunt for them.
Keep what you want
Accept or reject group by group, or all at once. Nothing is written to the file until you apply. Reject everything and the file is exactly as it was.
Pick up where the round stopped
Comments behind accepted groups are marked done. Rejected ones stay open, and anything it set aside is listed with the reason and a retry. Sharpen a comment and run the next round on what is left.
What keeps the round quick and safe
Small enough to judge
Each group is one change with a title and a reason, not one long rewrite. Deciding on it takes seconds.
Citations and links watched
If an edit would drop a citation or a link, its group says so before you accept it.
Undo after the fact
An applied revision becomes a version in the document’s history, so you can go back to the draft as it was before.
Version history →The same review everywhere
Every AI edit in MindMax reaches you this way, from the cursor to a whole book.
Tracked changes →Where it gets hard
- Comments revise Markdown; requests also reach Word and PDF
Revising from comments works on the Markdown documents in your folder. A request in the conversation also works on a Word file — the accepted edits are written into the same .docx as Word tracked changes — and on a PDF, whose edits go into a Markdown copy beside it. Ebooks and slides are read and annotated, not edited. What a Word or PDF revision keeps and leaves out.
- Whole-document requests take a while
Reading a long document and working out where each change lands is real work. It takes minutes, not seconds, and spends credits accordingly. For one sentence, select it and ask at the cursor instead.
Common questions
Can the AI revise a whole document, not just a selected paragraph?
Yes. @ the file in the conversation, or type /rewrite with it open, and say what should change: tighten the argument in chapter three, cut the repetition, make the terminology consistent. It reads the whole document, works out where each change has to land, and brings the edits back in groups for you to review.
Can it revise a draft from my own comments?
Yes. Mark up the draft the way you would a manuscript, with as many comments as you like, then press Revise from all at the top of the comments panel, or tick a few and revise from just those. Each group of changes says which comment it answers, and accepting it marks that comment done.
Can I keep some of the changes and not others?
Yes. Changes come back in groups, and you accept or reject each group on its own. Only the accepted groups are written when you apply. Rejected comments stay open for another round.
Does it change my file straight away?
No. The revision arrives as tracked changes in the document. Nothing is written until you apply, and an applied revision can still be rolled back from the document’s history.
Can it revise a Word file or a PDF?
Yes, from a request in the conversation. @ the .docx and say what should change; the edits come back in groups for review, and the accepted ones are written into the same file as Word tracked changes, with its styles, numbering and headers left as they were. A PDF itself is never changed: its edits go into a Markdown file with the same name beside it, which you can export to PDF or Word. Revising from comments works on Markdown documents only, and comments collaborators left in a Word file are not read as instructions.
See also
How every AI edit reaches you: marked on your text until you accept.
The same round on a .docx, written back as Word tracked changes — or on a PDF, into a copy.
Where the same revision covers chapters you did not write by hand.
The assistant you describe the change to, and what else it does.
The other direction: the AI leaves the margin notes on something you are reading.
Comment intents, the review panel, conflicts and what to do when a revision will not start.