YouMind Quick Start Guide

Most AI tools can chat with your files or generate a draft in one click. Useful, but shallow.

YouMind is different. It turns curiosity into creation. We designed it so your learning, thinking, and creating in one continuous flow. This guide shows the fastest way to start.

Practical Use Cases

To show you how YouMind works in real scenarios, here are three use cases you can try right away in your creation worklow.

Research for your curiosity

You’re curious about a topic but don’t know where to start. Use New Board to kick off research with a one line, then let YouMind to expand your realm.

New Board instruction

Simply type a subject, say:

OpenAI recapitalization process.

And you are all set. YouMind gathers sources, extracts key ideas, and structures a report you can extend with your own materials and annotations.

Brainstorm to get your story ideas

You’ve been saving, highlighting and notes-taking for weeks, but the blank page still stares back. Use YouMind to surface patterns from what you picked and noted, and direct you to the story that you are truly interested to tell.

Chat prompt

Look through all my materials, notes, and picks in @ThisBoard. What are 3–5 potential story angles or topics I could write about? For each angle, show me which materials and picks support it, and suggest a working title.

Or try:

I want to write something about @TopicX, but I'm not sure what angle to take. Based on what I highlighted and noted, what perspective am I naturally drawn to? What connections can you find between my picks?

Write social posts with your style

You found a strong podcast interview and want to publish takeaways with your stance and phrasing. Personalize YouMind agents to research, script, and repurpose so you publish faster without losing your tone.

Chat prompt

I need to write a blog article about my takeways on @VideoMaterialA. combine with my notes and picks I took. Write this blog by using @Blog-WritingStyleGuide . After the blog post was done, repurpose it to a few different tweets for promotional goals, by using @SocialPostStyleGuide, keep those conversational and natural. You can select an appropriate hook or add a couple of jokes.

Remember,

• Always points towards creation. Think YouMind as a production pipeline, every input is built for output
• Everything in YouMind stays editable. AI-generated content is just the starting point for you to refine into a final work.

Key Features of YouMind

To seamlessly integrate YouMind into your workflow, consider incorporating these essential features.

Save

• Install the browser extension to capture web pages, YouTube, and podcasts.
• Upload files: PDFs, docs, images, audio, slides.
• Use mobile for more flexible entries, speak on YouMind app to record ideas on the go.

Understand

• Review the saved in Materials for clean, distraction-free reading.
• Get full transcripts for videos/podcasts with timeline jumps.
• Pick passages (highglights) and add Notes to mark what matters.
• Convert long reads into short audio overviews to listen on the go.
• Chat with built-in AI, Ask questions, check facts, or discuss ideas with multiple LLM models.

Create

• Open a Page and start drafting, or use prebuilt templates to get somewhere to begin.
• Select your highlights, notes, and sources to synthesize a first draft that reflects your thinking.
• Chat to Agents to iterate: structure, compare, write, and polish until it’s share-worthy.
• Generate images, audio, diagrams from your text when needed.
• Keep everything editable—AI output is raw clay for your voice.

Glossary

YouMind is built on an IPO flow: Input → Process → Output. The table below explains terms of the features you’ll use the most at each stage.