a mac app by inkbench. not built yet
Mind maps you keep as files, in your own folders.
A Mac mind map and outliner that saves plain files wherever you keep your work. Buy it once. Claude or ChatGPT can read and rearrange your maps.
Every map is a plain file. Markdown or OPML, in any folder you choose, so it syncs with whatever already syncs your folders and opens in any text editor. No library, no account.
Map and outline, one tree. Keyboard-first editing, drag to reparent, fold branches. Import OPML, FreeMind and Markdown. Export PNG, PDF, OPML, Markdown and a task list.
Your AI can use this app. Ask Claude or ChatGPT to turn an outline into a map, add and move nodes, rename a branch, or list the maps in a folder, and it edits the file.
Works with Claude, ChatGPT and other AI tools that can use local apps. What you hand to your AI goes to that AI, the same as pasting it.
This app isn't built yet. This page is a waitlist for an app I haven’t built. I’m running it to find out whether enough people want it. If I build it, you get the waitlist price. If I don’t, you get one email saying so.
My notes are plain files, so I can search them, back them up, and let my AI read them. Mind maps are the exception. The one I used keeps them in its own library behind a yearly fee, and the company says files on disk would break its sync. I want maps that are just files in my folders. If enough of you want it too, I’ll build it.
Jay Letlow, Inkbench