Use cases
Things people actually do with MindMax
Sorted by what they cost you, not by which feature they show off. Start at the top — the first one is ten minutes, and it is the cheapest way to find out whether any of this is for you.
Done tonight
Half an hour or less, and you know whether it reads your documents well enough to keep.
About ten minutesRead
Get up to speed on a folder you just inherited
Open it as it is, find out what is in it and what matters, and keep a one-page note where every point quotes its document.
About half an hourRead
Understand a paper outside your field
Come out able to say what it actually claims and what that rests on — with the two claims that matter checked yourself.
An hour to an afternoon
One sitting, one thing finished: a document you can send, a draft you revised, a decision, a subject you tested yourself on.
Ten minutes on FridayWrite
Keep a project log that writes your weekly update
Say each decision as it happens, let the AI file it and spell it right, then tidy the week and draft the update.
About an hourWrite
Turn a stack of reports into a brief you can send
An outline you approved, your edits as tracked changes, and a Word file whose citations still point at the page.
About an hourWrite
Turn feedback on a draft into a second draft
Put each point on the passage it is about, let the AI draft the edits, and accept them one group at a time.
About an hourRead
Review a colleague’s draft and send back Word comments
Comments drafted on the exact passages, the ones you agree with kept in your words, and a Word file to send back.
About an hour per passThink
Learn a new field on the canvas
What you are missing underneath, a study order, and a test that tells you where you are wrong.
About two hoursWrite
Answer a questionnaire from the documents you already have
Every question in its own wording and order, each answer quoting the policy or report it rests on, delivered as Word.
An evening per lectureRead
Study for an exam from the lecture slides
Every page you did not follow explained, questions you answer before you look, and a record of what you got wrong.
An afternoonThink
Think through a decision you keep going round on
The real options on one ruler, what each gives up, and a memo you can still read in three months.
An afternoon, then unattendedWrite
Translate a book you need to read
One glossary you approve, then three hundred pages that agree with each other.
An afternoonWrite
Turn a week of reading notes into something you can publish
Find the argument you have been circling, write the spine yourself, and draft against it.
Longer projects
Work that runs as long as the book does, in sessions you control.
As long as the book takesRead
Read a book and end up with notes you can use
Read with a second reader in the margin, and finish holding the argument rather than a highlighted file.
WeeksWrite
Write a thesis or a book
Approve the outline, draft against a ledger of what you already argued, and review every change rather than regenerating chapters.
Why these are written the way they are
Each one starts with what you end up holding, says how much of the time is actually yours, and ends with a section on where it gets hard. That last part is not modesty — it is the part that saves you an afternoon, and it is the honest answer to "will this work on my material".