Lenses

You capture so you have a second brain. You build a lens so other people can use it.

A lens is a link. Open it and you get a small chat, but instead of a generic assistant it answers from your memory, limited to the slice you chose to share. Send the link to a friend, a customer, a community, or a candidate, and they can ask it things without you being in the room. Try a live one at mindola.ai/me/charles-darwin.

Your lens is your workspace

You are always working inside one lens. Everything you see in the app (Home, Knowledge, your Inbox) belongs to the lens you are currently in. To move to another lens or create a new one, click your avatar in the top-right and pick it under Lens. The app refreshes and everything on screen now belongs to that lens.

There is no separate “all lenses” page. The lens switcher in your profile menu is how you move between them, and Lens in the sidebar always opens the one you are inside.

What visitors see

Open a lens link and you land on a profile, not a blank chat. The banner at the top shows a small map of what the lens knows, drawn straight from the shared content itself. Everything you uploaded is grouped into clusters by meaning, so related ideas sit together and each cluster is sized by how much it holds. Tap the expand icon in the top-right of the banner and the map opens full screen as a 3D brain visitors can explore. Every note and passage floats inside it as a point of light, colored by cluster, with the connections between related ideas glowing as the brain slowly turns. Drag to rotate it, scroll or pinch to fly all the way inside, and hover over a point to light up its neighborhood. Tap a point to ask about it, or double-tap one to dive straight to it (double-tap empty space to pull back out). If a lens is new or small, the banner floats your topic words instead.

Below the banner sit your photo with a Share button beside it, your name and status, and a short bio. Long bios start folded with a Read more link. Under that come any links you added (LinkedIn, a website, a newsletter, a booking page) and a list of starter questions under Ask me about.

One message bar sits at the bottom of the screen. Visitors type their question there, or tap the microphone to speak it. While they talk, a waveform fills the bar and moves with their voice. It is live, so it only dances when they are actually speaking. Tapping the button again stops the recording, and their words drop into the bar as text so they can check or edit them before sending. It works the same on phone and desktop: one tap to start recording, one tap to stop. The Call button on the right side of the bar starts a hands-free voice conversation instead; see Voice calls.

Visitors can pick a starter question or just start typing. Everything answers from your notes, in your voice. The full visitor experience is covered in Visitor chat.

What a lens can and can’t do

A lens can answer from the spaces you scoped it to, in the voice and tone you set. It can’t see anything outside that scope, invent details, or hand out sensitive material. Privacy rules are built in and always win.

A few ways people use lenses

• A creator sharing their thinking with their audience.
• A founder giving customers an always-on answer to “how does this work?”
• A professional letting people get to know how they work before a call.
• A friend group sharing recommendations, plans, and running jokes.

How to make one

Click your avatar and choose New lens. It is a single field, the name. Everything else is refined later; start with Building a lens and Lens settings.

Talk to it, then manage it

Lens in the sidebar opens the chat itself: you talking to your own lens, seeing exactly what visitors see. Ask it questions, and drop files straight into the conversation to teach it. Your test chats never appear in your Inbox or Analytics.

The top bar of that page holds everything else. Copy or share the public link, pause and resume the lens, and open Customize, one settings page with a live preview covering the lens’s identity, personality, voice, appearance, access, monetization (paid lenses), and distribution (Slack, webhooks, embed). Per-lens numbers live on the Analytics page. Pausing a lens kills the link immediately; you can resume it anytime.