A Claude skill that transforms documents, articles, brainstorms, and ideas into interactive mind maps — then connects them into a personal knowledge atlas. Contradiction detection, gap analysis, source attribution, 7 export formats, and adaptive layouts.
Pan, zoom, click branches to collapse, switch palettes. Built from real content.
Content intelligence that surfaces contradictions, gaps, consensus, and hidden connections.
When sources disagree, both nodes get flagged and connected with a red dashed arc.
Thin evidence areas get inquiry nodes — dashed borders signaling questions, not assertions.
Dotted arcs connect ideas across branches with relationship labels like "enables" or "blocks."
Isolate any branch — everything else fades to 8%. Navigate dense maps effortlessly.
One click to fill the viewport. Escape to exit. The map finally gets the screen real estate it deserves.
Toggle between keyword-only map view and full detail reading mode. One artifact, two uses.
Nodes traced to their origin with clickable 🔗 on hover. Footer shows numbered reference list.
Bauhaus, Ocean Sunset, Nordic Forest, Pastel Garden — switchable at runtime via 🎨 selector.
SVG, PNG (retina), PDF (vector), Markdown, Mermaid, and embeddable HTML with iframe snippet.
Related branches sit adjacent. Physical proximity encodes conceptual relatedness — space becomes meaning.
One-click export to a self-contained HTML file. Host it anywhere, embed via iframe. Zero dependencies.
Connectors start and end at pill edges, not node centers. No line ever overlaps text.
"Add X under Y", "move Z to W", "merge these two." Surgical edits without regenerating from scratch — 40–50% cheaper.
Auto-selects radial, semi-circular, tree, or flow based on content shape. Processes get flow, taxonomies get tree. Say "make it a tree" to override.
Save maps across sessions. Come back tomorrow and pick up where you left off. Auto-saves on edits.
"Show my atlas" renders all your saved maps as a force-directed network. Shared concepts between maps are detected automatically and shown as connections.
Not a productivity gimmick. Decades of cognitive research explain why spatial, visual organization outperforms linear notes.
The human brain does not think in linear sequences. It thinks in interconnected webs of association. Mind mapping is simply the external expression of how thinking already works. — Tony Buzan, inventor of the modern mind map (1974)
Allan Paivio's research (1986) demonstrated that information encoded through both visual and verbal channels creates two independent memory traces — making retrieval significantly more reliable than either channel alone.
Where something is on a map becomes part of its memory encoding. The brain's hippocampus — the same region that handles physical navigation — activates when processing spatial layouts of information.
Single words and short phrases force deeper processing than copying full sentences. This "generation effect" means the act of distilling ideas into keywords strengthens the memory trace — you learn by compressing.
Distinct colors create separate memory channels per branch. Studies show color-coded information is recalled 55–78% more accurately than monochrome versions. Each color becomes a retrieval cue.
A 2006 study comparing mind maps to linear notes found that mind mappers generated 32% more ideas in brainstorming sessions and reported higher confidence in the completeness of their thinking.
Clear parent-child hierarchies externalize the organizational work your brain would otherwise do internally. Sweller's cognitive load theory explains why: freeing working memory for analysis instead of structure.
Every map you save becomes a node in a personal knowledge graph. Shared concepts are detected automatically. Over time, a picture of how your knowledge connects emerges.
Mind map articles, books, meetings, PDFs, or any topic. Each one is a structured knowledge snapshot.
Click 💾 and the map persists across sessions. Come back tomorrow and it's still there.
The system auto-detects shared concepts between maps. "Inflation" in your crypto map links to "rate decisions" in your Fed map.
Say "show my atlas" — a force-directed graph shows all your maps, their connections, and where your knowledge clusters.
Grab mindmap.skill from the latest release.
Drag it into any Claude chat, or go to Settings → Profile → Custom Skills.
Say "mind map this" with any content — pasted text, a PDF, or just a topic.