Write
AI writes in Markdown. The people you send it to open Word.
Whatever the AI wrote for you — here, or in ChatGPT, Claude or any other assistant — becomes a document you read and revise, and leaves as a Word file, a PDF or image cards laid out the way you saw it. No stray asterisks, no broken tables, no hour of reformatting.
Every AI assistant writes the same way underneath: Markdown, a plain-text shorthand where ** means bold,
# means heading and a table is a grid of vertical bars. On screen it looks finished. Paste it into Word
and you find out what it really is — asterisks around every bold phrase, hash signs in front of headings,
a table collapsed into lines of |, and equations as strings like $\frac{a}{b}$.
So the last step of AI-assisted writing is still manual: clean it up by hand, or send a screenshot and hope nobody needs to change anything. Your supervisor, your client and your colleagues work in Word and PDF. They should not have to know what Markdown is.
Everything the AI writes ends up as one document you can hand over
Answers, branches, drafts and translations do not stay inside the window they were made in. Each lands in your folder as an ordinary document, and every document has the same way out.
- An answer in the chat can be saved as a document of its own. A branch on the canvas converts to a note. Reports and chapters from the writing pipeline, and whole translated documents, are written into the folder to begin with.
- There you read it, revise it, accept the AI’s changes you want and reject the rest — before anyone else sees it. Export is the last step, not the cleanup.
- An answer from another assistant works too: paste it into a note, and it is the same Markdown the rest of your folder is made of.
- ChatAn answer worth keepingSave as document
- CanvasA branch you thought throughConvert to note
- WritingA report or a chapterDrafted into the folder
- TranslationA whole document, translatedSaved beside the original
- ElsewhereAn answer from ChatGPT, Claude or any assistantCopy, then paste into a note
Already have the answer? Bring it here.
The answer does not have to come from MindMax. Whatever assistant you already use, this is the way from its chat window to a file you can send.
Copy the answer
Use the copy button under the answer in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or whichever assistant you use. It hands over the text with its formatting written out.
Paste it into a note
Any note in any folder. Equations written the way ChatGPT writes them, between \( \) and \[ \], are converted on the way in, so they show as equations rather than code.
See it as a document
Headings, lists, tables and equations appear the way they will print. Nothing is left as asterisks or hash signs.
Fix what needs fixing
Edit it like any document, or ask the AI here to revise it — every change marked for you to accept or reject.
Export
Word, PDF or image cards. Exporting is done on your computer and spends no credits.
What you read on screen is what they open
Most converters re-read the Markdown and make their own decisions, so what they produce was never what you were looking at. Here, what you see while reading, what prints to PDF and what lands in the Word file come from a single definition of how a document should look.
- The things that usually break are the things that survive: tables stay tables, code keeps its highlighting, and diagrams written as text arrive as pictures of themselves.
- Sources come along. A numbered citation in the text is a numbered superscript in Word that links down to its entry — the source and the quoted passage — so the reader can check the claim without asking you.
- Images referenced from your folder are embedded in the file, so what you send is not full of broken links to your own disk.
Equations arrive as equations
The usual shortcut is to render maths to an image and paste it in. It looks right until someone needs to change a symbol.
- Maths is converted into the equation format Word uses natively, so it stays selectable, searchable and editable by whoever you send it to.
- That matters most for exactly the documents that have maths in them — a thesis chapter going to a supervisor, a methods section going to a co-author.
- In the PDF the same equations are typeset as text, not pasted in as blurry pictures.
Cards for posting, cut where the paragraphs end
Some writing is meant to be passed around rather than handed in. A note or a short piece becomes a set of images sized for social feeds, with the same typography as the page.
- Three card shapes — 3:4, 4:5 and square — each 1080 pixels wide, the width the major feeds share.
- A longer piece is split at paragraph boundaries into a numbered series; or composed into one tall image instead.
- An optional footer carries the title and the card number, so a card that travels on its own still says where it came from.
Three ways out, and what you set before it leaves
Pick the format by who is on the other end. The settings exist so you are not fixing the result in Word afterwards.
Word, for whoever edits it next
A .docx with real headings, tables and equations, ready for a co-author, a supervisor or a client to keep working in.
PDF, for whoever only reads it
The same document printed to a fixed layout nobody can reflow — for submitting, archiving or sending to many people.
Images, for a feed
Card series or one long image, for places that only take pictures.
Paper and margins
A4 or Letter, with narrow, regular or wide margins — set before the file is written.
Automatic contents
Optionally insert Word’s own table of contents from your headings, which stays updatable in Word.
Header and footer
Title along the top, page number along the bottom, or neither.
Where it gets hard
- Export is one direction
Edits made in the .docx do not come back. If a colleague marks up the Word file, you are reconciling that by hand — the Markdown in your folder is the original, and the export is a copy for other people.
- Only what you accepted goes out
The export is made from the document as it stands. AI changes still waiting for your review are not in it, and the Word file carries no tracked-change marks — accept or reject them first.
- An answer from elsewhere brings only its text
Pasting another assistant’s answer carries over the text, its formatting and its equations. Images it generated do not come with the copy, and the sources it searched arrive as ordinary links — not citations tied to a quoted passage you can check, the way answers written here are.
- It is not a typesetting system
Pagination, widow control and fine layout are whatever Word or the print engine decides. For a document with exacting layout requirements, expect to do the last pass in Word itself rather than here.
- Complicated tables are still complicated
Wide tables with many columns come across as tables, but whether they fit the page is a question of paper size and content. That is the same problem they have everywhere, and exporting does not solve it.
- Long documents as one image get unwieldy
Image export suits a note, a section or a short piece. A whole chapter becomes a picture nobody scrolls to the end of — that is what the Word and PDF paths are for.
Common questions
Why does an AI answer look broken when I paste it into Word?
Because the AI wrote it in Markdown, a plain-text format where symbols stand for formatting. Word does not read those symbols, so they show up as asterisks, hash signs and vertical bars. Saved as a document here and exported, the same text arrives as real headings, bold, tables and equations.
Can I turn a ChatGPT or Claude answer into a Word file?
Yes. Copy it with the copy button under the answer, paste it into a note, and export the note to Word or PDF. What the copy button hands over is Markdown, which is what every document here is made of.
Do equations from ChatGPT come through?
Yes. ChatGPT usually writes maths between \( \) and \[ \]. Those are converted when you paste, so the equations show in the note and arrive in Word as editable Word equations.
Does the Word file keep my formatting?
Yes. Headings, lists, tables, code blocks, diagrams and equations all come across, because the Word file and the PDF are built from the same rendered document the editor shows you rather than from a second conversion of the Markdown.
Do the AI’s citations survive the export?
Yes. Each citation becomes a numbered superscript linked to its entry in the sources, which names the source and keeps the quoted passage.
Are equations real Word equations?
Yes. Maths is converted into Word’s own equation format, so it stays editable and selectable in Word instead of arriving as a picture.
If I edit the .docx, does it come back?
No. Export is one direction. The Markdown file in your folder stays the original; the exported document is a copy for someone else to read.
See also
Mark the draft up like an editor and get the fixes back to accept — the round before it goes out.
The other thing people need before they can hand a document to someone else.
Where a document with parts, chapters and a contents page comes from in the first place.
The writing surface whose layout the export reproduces.
Where the export command lives, what each format keeps, and bringing in an answer from another assistant.