Projects

A project represents a broad scope of study — a field, subfield, or domain — and acts as the container for all research work within it. Libraries are attached at the project level and shared across all its mindmaps. Each project holds one or more mindmaps, each representing a focused research effort within that scope. Most users organize their work with one project per field or research area, and multiple mindmaps inside it for individual papers, questions, or lines of inquiry.

Note: Keep your libraries broad rather than narrow. Each library can hold hundreds of documents, and its terminology graph, which maps how concepts co-occur across your papers, is scoped to a single library. A larger library yields richer concept relationships.

What's inside a project

• Mindmaps — each mindmap is a focused research effort within the project. You build a tree of citation-backed claims with the agent, and every mindmap keeps its own conversation history.
• Attached libraries — the collections of papers the agent is allowed to search. A project can attach multiple libraries, and the agent searches across all of them.
• Labels — your own labels applied to citations (search results), scoped to this project (see Labeled Items).
• Search Papers — search across this project's attached libraries and label the results directly from the results view.

Creating a project

Your account is created with a project called My Project. To add another, open the Manage Projects view, click New Project, and give it a name and optional description.

A project starts empty — You then attach libraries to it and create mindmaps to work on your research.

Attaching libraries

Open a project → Manage Libraries → pick from your libraries by pressing the '+' button.

The agent only sees the libraries attached to the current project.

When to make a new project vs. a new mindmap

Create a new project when:

• You're moving into a different field or domain where the relevant sources and attached libraries would be substantially different.
• You want a clean organizational boundary — for a different department, or area of expertise.

Create a new mindmap (within the same project) when:

• You're starting a new paper, question, or angle within the same field.

What's next

• Libraries — the collections of papers projects pull from.
• Mindmaps, Nodes & Claims — what fills a project up.