The Interface
A short tour of the app so you know where everything lives.
The sidebar
The left sidebar switches between the main areas of the app:
- Projects: create and edit projects, and attach libraries to them. Mindmaps, item labels, and searches are scoped per project.
- Libraries: your collections of indexed papers, independent of any one project. A single library can be attached to multiple projects.
- Project Selection: switch between projects.
- Project Contextual Tools: project-scoped labeled items and search.
- Labeled Items: your theme analysis labels, which can be applied to any search result. Labeled items can be viewed, searched, edited, and managed here.
- Search Papers: search the papers in your project's libraries by meaning. Use it to discover information and label passages. A similar search is also available in the mindmap view.
- Mindmaps: create, edit, and view your mindmaps, which are the home for your research notes and claims.
The mindmap view
Opening a mindmap drops you into its mindmap canvas with several panels arranged around it.
Mindmap canvas (center)
The interactive tree of nodes.
- Sibling nodes under the same parent often represent the same level of abstraction within a topic. For example, a parent node "Leading theories of Anthropic Reasoning" might have child nodes for each leading theory, with the next level holding the details of each.
- The mindmap agent uses this structure to place information at the right level of abstraction. For example, if you ask for "an overview of leading theories", the agent will create sibling nodes for each theory. If you then ask to "expand the second theory", it will add child nodes under that theory's node.
- Each node holds content and may have citations attached to it.
- Citation-backed nodes show a badge inline — green for indexed citations, orange for manually assigned ones.
- Clicking the badge opens the Indexed Citations tab or the Manual Citations tab in the right sidebar.
- The Indexed Citations tab shows the full citation and lets you view the source document or jump directly to the relevant section in the built-in PDF reader.
You can pan, zoom, select single or multiple nodes, expand/collapse subtrees, arrange nodes by moving them around, and edit their content manually. All actions are accessible via keyboard shortcuts and the right-click context menu.
Right sidebar
The right sidebar has multiple tabs that allow you to interact with the agent and view or edit contextual information based on the currently selected node.
Chat Tab
The Chat Tab lists all past conversations with the agent. Clicking a conversation opens it, where you can read the history and add follow-up instructions. Typing a message in the list view starts a new conversation. When the agent is running, the panel streams its progress in real time.
Node Properties Tab
The Node Properties Tab shows the content of the currently selected node and lets you edit it.
Indexed Citations Tab
The Indexed Citations Tab shows the citations that are attached to the currently selected node and lets you view their details, including the source document and a link to open the relevant section in the PDF reader. The citation can be expanded to show the full original text and metadata.
Manual Citations Tab
The Manual Citations Tab shows the citations that you have manually attached to the currently selected node. You can view their details and manage them from this tab.
Knowledge Search Tab
The Knowledge Search Tab is where you can search the libraries attached to the project by meaning. You can view results ranked by relevance, label them, and attach citations directly to the selected node from here by pressing the + button on any result. Full citation text can also be copied to the clipboard.
Labeled Items Tab
The Labeled Items Tab shows the citation items that you have labeled in your project. You can search labeled citations by free text, and filter them by specific label(s), view their details, and attach them directly to the selected node.
Agent Chat Panel
The chat message input panel lets you send instructions to the agent. Each message carries node/subtree context and the full conversation history, so the agent can refer back to previous instructions and its own responses.
- Model and effort — The button next to the mode shows the current model and effort, for example "GPT-6 Luna Medium". Click it to open the effort slider. Click the effort name at the top of the slider to choose a different model. Older models sit under "Other".
- Mode — Controls how the agent classifies your instruction. Auto lets the agent decide based on context and analyzed intent. Ask restricts it to answering questions and searching only (no mindmap edits). Research forces it to look for new factual information in the attached libraries. Edit restricts it to restructuring or rewriting existing nodes without research.
- Effort — One slider sets how hard the agent thinks and how widely it searches your libraries:
- Light: low reasoning, a single search pass, up to 10 citations.
- Medium (default): medium reasoning, up to 2 passes, up to 20 citations.
- High: high reasoning, up to 2 passes, up to 20 citations.
- Extra High: high reasoning, up to 3 passes, up to 40 citations.
The agent always receives the full conversation history alongside the node context you provide. There are two types of context nodes:
- Selected nodes — Nodes selected on the canvas are passed as previews. The agent reads them and decides whether to load their full content or search for additional context in the mindmap.
- Pinned nodes — Always provided as full subtree context, regardless of what the agent decides. Press
Ato pin a selected node, or double-click it. PressXto unpin.
For a deeper explanation of how context scoping works, see Agent Context.
Additionally, you are able to limit the research performed by the agent to a group of documents that you tag by providing a list of tags with your message.
What's next
- Zotero Integration — bring your existing library in.
- Credits & Billing — how usage is metered.