Your first five minutes

OpenMind turns natural-language conversations into a typed knowledge graph you can export as a mindmap. Here's the shortest path from sign-in to a useful map.

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   Step 1.

   Sign in with your email

   The hosted service is invite-only: once you have an invitation, go to the sign-in page, enter that email, and click the magic link we send you — or type the code from the same email. No password needed; the link expires after an hour.

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   Step 2.

   Create a project

   A project is a single knowledge graph plus its conversation history. Click 'New project', give it a title ("Apartment renovation", "Q3 product strategy", "Master's thesis"), and you're in.

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   Step 3.

   Add your API key (hosted service)

   On the hosted service OpenMind runs on your own key: add an Anthropic or OpenAI key under Settings → LLM provider. Until one is stored, sending a message is refused and nothing goes to a model. A self-hosted instance can use a server-configured key instead.

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   Step 4.

   Describe it in plain language

   Send your first message: Chat is for telling OpenMind about your project. Talk like you would to a teammate: who's involved, what you're deciding, what's blocking you, what risks you see. Don't structure it — that's the model's job. Later, Ask the graph is for questioning your graph, and its answers come with sources.

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   Step 5.

   Watch the mindmap form

   While you talk, OpenMind extracts entities, relations, decisions, and requirements in the background. The mindmap on the right refreshes automatically, and the chip under your message reports how many nodes and edges just landed.

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   Step 6.

   Export when you need it elsewhere

   The export menu in the project header gives you Markdown, Mermaid, OPML, FreeMind, PNG, and SVG. Markdown is the most useful for handing the graph to another LLM; Mermaid renders inline in GitHub PRs; FreeMind opens in any classic mindmap editor.