Every Format
Notes, links, files, videos, CSVs, Markdown, JSON, and more — one shortcut captures them all. Email, Notion, and Google Drive imports are on the way.
How it works
When to use it
PDFs of papers, CSVs of datasets, MP3s of interview recordings, and typed notes about each one, all in the same Space. Mindly reads inside the PDFs and transcribes the audio, so the entire library is searchable by content, not just by filename.
Screenshots, hi-res images, and Figma exports sit alongside the notes you wrote while looking at them. Mindly applies visual tags (colour palette, layout style, subject matter) so finding the right reference is a search, not a scroll.
Drop a JSON config, a CSV export, or a Markdown spec into your library. AI parses the structure and tags by content. Months later you can find "that API response shape we used for v2" by description, not by where you saved the file.
Voice memos, podcast episodes, and video clips up to several gigabytes each. Mindly transcribes the audio, generates a summary, and stores the transcript searchable alongside the file. The video that mentioned the idea is findable by the idea, not the date.
How Mindly handles each format
PDF, DOCX, Markdown, TXT, RTF, HTML, JSON, CSV, YAML, XML. Mindly extracts the text content, runs AI tagging and summarization on it, and makes the contents searchable. The file is not just a blob — it is a participant in your library.
PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, SVG. Mindly applies visual tags using image-understanding models: subject matter, colour palette, layout type, text in the image (OCR). A screenshot of a Figma file gets tagged differently from a photo of a whiteboard.
MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, MP4, MOV, WebM. Mindly transcribes the audio track, summarizes the content, and stores the transcript as searchable text alongside the file. Hour-long recordings become navigable.
ZIP archives, code files (JS, PY, TS, etc.), spreadsheets (XLSX), presentations (PPTX), and proprietary formats land in your library with filename and metadata tags. Even formats Mindly cannot read inside are organized by what you wrote about them.
Why it matters
Most note apps force you to choose what to save: text-only, or only what their parser understands, or only files under a certain size. The result is a fragmented memory. The paper is in Mendeley, the screenshot is in Dropbox, the voice memo is on iCloud, the spreadsheet is in Downloads, and the notes about all of them are in Notion. Six places for one idea is six places to check when you want to find the idea again — and nobody actually checks all six. Mindly closes the gap. Every file type lands in the same library. AI reads inside the ones it can parse, tags the ones it cannot, and surfaces all of them through a single search. The "where did I put that" problem disappears because there is only one "where". That is the real promise of a second brain: not just notes, but everything you saved, in one place that works.
Common questions
Notes (typed text), links (URLs with rich previews), images (PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, SVG), documents (PDF, DOCX, RTF, Markdown, TXT, HTML), spreadsheets (CSV, XLSX), data files (JSON, YAML, XML), presentations (PPTX), audio (MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC), video (MP4, MOV, WebM), code files, and ZIP archives. AI processing depth varies by type.
Yes. Text-based files get content-aware processing: Mindly extracts the text, runs AI tagging and summarization on it, and makes the contents searchable. A PDF you saved a year ago is findable by a phrase inside it, not just by filename.
Yes. Mindly transcribes the audio track of voice memos, podcasts, and video clips using cloud transcription. The transcript is stored alongside the file and is fully searchable. Hour-long recordings become navigable; a phrase you remember is enough to find it.
Yes. CSVs are parsed for column structure and content; JSON is parsed for key paths; Markdown is rendered with full formatting. All three are searchable inside, and Mindly applies content-based tags rather than just filename ones.
Email and Notion are on the roadmap, not yet shipped. Google Drive integration is also planned. Today you can manually import individual files (a Notion export DOCX, an email saved as PDF) and Mindly will handle them like any other document.
Images and PDFs render inline with thumbnails in the library and full preview on click. Audio and video files show a player. Documents show the first page or first paragraph as a snippet. Code and data files show syntax-highlighted content.
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