Daily journal
One note per day, written in five minutes before logging off. AI summaries collapse a week into a paragraph, so you can scan months at a glance and spot the themes you keep returning to. The journal itself is private to your Mac.
Write
Mindly’s editor is a calm canvas for quick thoughts or finished drafts. No tab chaos. No app-switching. Just you and the page.
How it works
When to use it
One note per day, written in five minutes before logging off. AI summaries collapse a week into a paragraph, so you can scan months at a glance and spot the themes you keep returning to. The journal itself is private to your Mac.
Pull from the reading, quotes, and voice memos you have already saved without leaving the editor. The source material is one click away (or pasted inline) and the draft lives next to it, so the rewrite loop stays in one window.
Live capture during the call: bullet points, action items, names. After the meeting Mindly auto-tags the note with the project it belongs to, summarizes the decisions, and links to past meetings on the same topic. Your follow-up is half-done before you stand up.
Chapter outlines, full prose, and research notes live in the same Space. Switch between sources and writing without app-switching. The editor handles thousands of words per note without slowing down.
How the editor behaves
Type Markdown (`# heading`, `**bold**`, `- bullet`) and it converts to formatted text as you go. Or use the toolbar. Or hit ⌘B for bold like every other editor. The choice is yours; both work in the same document.
Drag a PDF, a screenshot, an audio file, or a video clip directly into the editor. They render inline. Quote a passage from another note by hitting ⌘K and picking the source. The draft is multimedia by default.
Your library sits to the left, your draft in the middle, suggested related items on the right. Everything you need to write is in one window. No more "let me just check that other tab" tangents.
Export a note as Markdown, PDF, DOCX, or plain text. The formats that other apps can read, so a draft you started in Mindly can finish in Google Docs, Word, or wherever the next step lives.
Why it matters
Most writing apps make you choose: research mode (clipping, saving, organizing) or writing mode (open a blank document, start typing). The seam between the two is where most drafts die. You collect a hundred sources for a piece you never finish because moving from "I have material" to "I am writing" requires a context switch every single time. Mindly closes the seam. The editor is the same surface where your research already lives. Pull a quote, paste a screenshot, reference an earlier note — without leaving the document. The friction of "is this in research mode or writing mode" disappears, which means the draft actually gets written. The math is simple: ten minutes saved per session, three sessions a week, fifty-two weeks a year. That is how a writing app pays for itself.
Common questions
A rich-text editor with Markdown shortcuts. Type Markdown (`# heading`, `**bold**`) and it renders as formatted text. Use the toolbar or ⌘-shortcuts if you prefer. Headings, lists, code blocks, tables, quotes, images, and inline file embeds are all supported.
Markdown is supported as input and as an export format, but the underlying storage is structured rich text. So you can write in Markdown, export to Markdown, and the format round-trips cleanly, but the editor also handles things Markdown cannot (inline files, embedded voice notes, structured tables).
Yes. Drag a PDF, image, audio, or video into the editor and it renders inline. Paste a URL and Mindly fetches a rich preview. Reference another note in your library with ⌘K and pick from a list — the reference becomes a live link.
Yes. Tables (with sortable columns), code blocks with syntax highlighting for 40+ languages, blockquotes, callouts, checklists, numbered and bulleted lists, and full inline formatting (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, links).
Yes. Each note can be exported as Markdown, PDF, DOCX, HTML, or plain text. Bulk export is available for whole Spaces. You are never locked in; your writing leaves Mindly in formats other apps can read.
Yes. Notes you write in Mindly live in your library on your Mac. AI features (tagging, summaries, suggested links) run on cloud APIs, so content is processed remotely for those features, but the canonical copy of your notes stays local.
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Get started
Download Mindly and start a daily note. By next week, the references will be ready when the draft is.