Use caseWrite
Get feedback on a draft from people who don’t use MindMax
Comments from your supervisor, editor or client on the exact sentences they are about — in your own draft, not in an email — and a second round they can check against what they asked for.
- You start with
- A draft in Markdown in your folder, and one to three people whose opinion you want. They need a browser and nothing else.
- Time
- A few days end to end, most of it waiting for them.
- Your part
- About an hour: ten minutes to send, the rest deciding what to do with what comes back.
What you'll end up with
- Every comment attached to the passage it is about, with the reviewer’s name on it, in your comments panel.
- A second draft where each change names the comment it answers.
- A record, visible to your reviewers, of what you changed, what you declined and why.
The last one is what makes a second round quick: they check your answers instead of rereading the whole draft.
How to get feedback on a draft, step by step
Decide what you want them to look at.
You“Any thoughts?” gets you thoughts. “Does the argument in section two hold up, and is the method clear enough to repeat?” gets you comments you can act on.
Send the review link.
YouWith the draft open, choose Request review from the comments panel menu. Write the focus in one line, check the preview, pick 7, 14 or 30 days, and send. The link is copied; paste it into the email or chat you would have used anyway.
Let them comment where they like.
YouThey open it in a browser, select a sentence and comment, ask a question or suggest a rewrite. No account, no install — a phone works. You can be emailed when comments arrive.
Revise from the comments you agree with.
You ask · MindMax answersTheir comments are in your comments panel, on the passages. Tick the ones you agree with and revise from them. The edits come back in groups, each naming the comment it answers.
Accept, reject, then answer the rest.
YouAccept the groups you want. Reply to questions, and decline what you will not change with a one-line reason. Your replies and decisions appear on their page.
Send the next round to the same link.
YouSend new round. They see the new version and can switch to See changes for what moved and how you handled each earlier comment. When you are done, end the review.
Why it works here
Reviewers need nothing but a browser
No account, no download, no file format to argue about. The people whose opinion you most want are the least likely to install something to give it.
Request review →Their comments are already where you work
Nothing to copy back: each comment arrives attached to its passage, in the same panel as your own, so revising from it is one more press of a button.
Whole-document revision →Nothing changes until you accept it
Edits made from their comments arrive as tracked changes. Accept one, reject another; declining a comment tells them why instead of quietly ignoring it.
Tracked changes →Also used here: Guide: requesting review · Guide: reviewing AI revisions
Where it gets hard
- The draft has to be Markdown.
You can send a Markdown document you write in MindMax. A Word file or a PDF cannot be sent for review yet — open the Markdown version, or keep the reviewer’s Word comments and place them by hand as described in revising a draft from feedback.
- Anyone with the link can read it.
A read-only copy of the version you sent is kept on our servers until you withdraw the link, or 30 days after the review ends. Send the link only to the people you mean, and withdraw it if it went further.
- Some reviewers will still send an email.
Not everyone will use the page. When the feedback comes as a list in an email, put each point on its passage as your own comment — it ends up in the same place.
- Vague comments make vague edits.
“This part is weak” is honest but hard to act on. Reply and ask what they would change, or turn it into an instruction yourself before revising from it.
- One open review at a time on the free plan.
A free account can have one review open; paid plans can have ten. Send several people the same link rather than one link each.
Then what
About an hour
When the feedback is already in hand, from any source.
About an hour
The other side: when you are the one giving the feedback.
A project that runs for weeks
When there will be many rounds, chapter by chapter.