Revise
Ask anyone for comments. Get them back on the passages.
Send your draft as a link. Your supervisor, editor or client opens it in any browser, selects a sentence and says what they think — no account, nothing to install. Their comments arrive in MindMax on the passages they are about, ready for you to answer, decline or revise from.
The same round of feedback, collected two ways
The useful comments on your writing come from people who do not use your tools. Getting them is easy. Getting them back into the draft is the part that eats an evening.
- Export a copy, attach it, and hope they have the software to comment on it.
- Get back a marked-up file, a long email, or “some thoughts” in a chat message.
- Work out which paragraph each remark is about, with the two files side by side.
- Copy each point back into your own draft before you can act on any of it.
- Send a new copy for the second round, and explain what you changed.
- Send a link. It opens in any browser, phone included, with nothing to install.
- They select a sentence and comment on it, or suggest the wording they would use.
- The comments appear in your comments panel, attached to those same sentences.
- Revise from them like your own comments, or reply, or decline with a reason.
- Send a new round to the same link; they see what changed and what you did with each comment.
Nothing for your reviewer to learn
The people whose opinion matters most are often the least willing to install something to give it. The review page asks nothing of them: it is your draft, laid out the way MindMax lays it out, with a comments column beside it.
- Selecting text opens a comment box. On a phone, tap a sentence and tap the next one to extend, instead of fighting with the selection handles.
- They pick what kind of comment it is. A suggested rewrite has its own “Change to:” box, so you get the wording they mean, not a description of it.
- You can tell them what to focus on — “does the argument in part two hold up?” — and it sits at the top of the page.
- Reviewers see each other’s comments by default, like a shared document. Turn that off and each sees only their own.
Their comments, in your comments panel
An outside comment is an ordinary comment once it arrives: on the passage it is about, in the same panel as your own, tagged with the reviewer’s name. Everything you can do with a comment, you can do with theirs.
- Comments come back on their own while MindMax is open, or when you fetch them. An External filter shows only theirs.
- Press Revise from all and their comments are carried out with yours. Each group of edits names the comment it answers, so you can check the change against what they asked.
- Reply, mark it done, or Decline with a reason. They see “Author replied”, “Changed as suggested” or “Author kept it as is” on their page.
- If someone is unhelpful, Block stops them commenting and hides their comments from the other reviewers.
One review, start to finish
From a draft you are not sure about to a second draft your reviewer can check.
Send the link
In a Markdown document, open the menu in the comments panel and choose Request review. Preview what they will see, add what to focus on, pick how long it stays open, and send. The link is copied for you.
They comment
In their browser, on the passages. You can be told by email when new comments arrive, at most once a day.
Revise from their comments
They land in your comments panel. Revise from all of them, or tick the ones you agree with. The edits come back as tracked changes for you to accept or reject.
Answer the rest
Reply to questions, decline what you will not change and say why. Your replies and decisions show up on their page.
Send the next round
The same link opens the new version. They can switch to See changes for what moved since last time, with each earlier comment and what you did about it. End the review when you are done.
What you control
You see what they see
The preview before you send is the page they will get. It is a read-only copy of that version, not a live view of your file.
Nothing else in your folder goes with it
Links to your other notes keep their text and lose their target, so the names and paths of other files are not exposed.
It ends when you say
Open for 7, 14 or 30 days, extendable. End the review to close comments, or withdraw the link to delete the copy and the comments at once.
What came back stays
Comments that reached your document stay there after the review ends or the link is withdrawn.
Where it gets hard
- Markdown documents only, for now
You can send a Markdown document you write in. PDFs, ebooks and Word files cannot be sent for review yet; to give feedback on someone else’s Word file, see AI document review.
- A copy goes to our servers
This is the one MindMax feature that puts a document on our servers: a read-only copy of the version you sent, readable by anyone with the link, deleted when you withdraw it or 30 days after the review ends. It needs a MindMax account. What is stored, and for how long.
- One review at a time on the free plan
A free account can have one review open at a time; paid plans can have ten. Each document can have one open review, and a document with its images must be under 15 MB.
- Comments, not co-editing
Reviewers comment and suggest; they cannot change your text. Their suggestions only become edits if you revise from them and accept the result.
Common questions
Do my reviewers need a MindMax account or the app?
No. The link opens a web page in any browser, on a computer or a phone. The first time they comment they type a name, which is what you see next to their comments. There is no sign-up and no email address to give.
Where do their comments end up?
In the comments panel of the document you sent, attached to the passages they selected, marked with the reviewer’s name as an external reviewer. They arrive on their own while MindMax is open, and you can fetch them at any time. From there they work like any comment: reply, mark done, decline, or revise the draft from them.
Can the AI revise my draft from my supervisor’s comments?
Yes. Once their comments are in your panel, press Revise from all, or tick the ones you agree with and revise from those. The edits come back in groups, each naming the comment it answers, and nothing is written until you accept it. When you accept a group, their page shows that comment as changed as suggested.
What happens when I change the draft after sending it?
The link keeps showing the version you sent until you send a new round. A new round goes to the same link; the reviewer sees the new version and can switch to a view of what changed since the last round, with the earlier comments and how you handled each one.
Who can open the link, and can I take it back?
Anyone who has the link can read that version and comment, so send it only to the people you want. You can end the review, which closes comments, or withdraw the link, which deletes the online copy and its comments immediately. Comments already in your document are kept either way.
Is this the same as sharing a Google Doc?
Not quite. Your reviewers get a similar experience — open a link, select text, comment — but there is no shared live document: your draft stays a file in your own folder, the copy they see is fixed until you send the next round, and their comments come back into your file’s comments panel instead of living in someone else’s workspace.
See also
What happens after the comments come in: one round of edits, in groups, each answering a comment.
The whole loop as a use case, from sending the link to the second round.
How every edit reaches you: marked on your own text until you accept it.
The other side: when you are the one reviewing a colleague’s draft.
Sending, rounds, ending a review, and what to do when comments do not show up.