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. Knowledge bases 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 knowledge bases broad rather than narrow. Each KB can hold hundreds of documents, and its terminology graph — which maps how concepts co-occur across your corpus — is scoped to a single KB, so a larger KB 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 knowledge bases — the corpora the agent is allowed to retrieve from. A project can attach multiple KBs; the agent searches across all of them.
  • Labels — your own labels applied to citations (RAG results), scoped to this project (see Labeled Items).
  • RAG search — search across this project's attached KBs and label the results directly from the results view.

Creating a project

From the projects list, click New Project and give it a name and optional description. The first project you create can be done through the welcome flow; subsequent ones from the Manage Projects view.

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

Attaching knowledge bases

Open a project → Manage Knowledge Bases → pick from your KBs by pressing the '+' button.

The agent only sees the KBs 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 KB attachments 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