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Asking your brain

Chat with your own knowledge - grounded answers with sources, honest gaps, and controls for how hard the AI works and how it sounds.

Your knowledge is not just storage. Open chat, type a question, and Mindola answers from what you have already captured. Nothing you say in chat is saved as new knowledge; captures go through the composer on Home or Knowledge instead. See Adding knowledge.

When to use it

  • “What did I save about pricing last week?”
  • “Pull up that article on hiring.”
  • “Summarize my notes on the launch.”
  • “What do I know about this competitor?”

How answers work

  • Mindola searches your captured notes, links, files, transcripts, and prior conversations.
  • When the answer is in your brain, it pulls the relevant pieces and tells you where they came from.
  • When it is not, it says so plainly (“I don’t see anything about that in your captures”) and shows what related material is there, so you know the gap.
  • Chat never extracts new memories. The assistant is a librarian, not a journaling partner.

Your first message starts a conversation thread. Past threads stay in your history, and you can get back to them from the Inbox. See Inbox.

Quality modes

The toggle in the composer toolbar sets how much effort goes into each answer:

  • Fast: quick and cheap, good for everyday questions. The default.
  • Smart: a stronger model, better for nuanced or detailed work.
  • Think: the model reasons step by step before answering. Best for hard problems.

Smart and Think use more capable models. Which ones you can reach depends on your plan; the details are shown in the app. See Plans and billing.

Chat modes

Chat modes change the AI’s personality, not its knowledge. Open Options in the composer to switch:

  • Default: a balanced, helpful assistant.
  • Support: patient and reassuring.
  • Teacher: explains and checks your understanding.
  • Brainstorm: generates lots of angles fast.
  • Journal: reflective, good for thinking out loud.
  • Coaching: asks questions to move you forward.

Every plan can use all chat modes. Switch freely whenever you like.

Picking a model directly

Most people never need this. If you want a specific model, open Options and choose Model. Otherwise Mindola picks the right one for your quality mode automatically.

Your knowledge is private and personal, so it does not know today’s news, prices, or release notes. When a question needs current information, web search fills that gap.

Open Options in the composer and turn on web search for your next message. Mindola searches the web, reads the results, and folds them into its answer alongside what it knows from your memory. When an answer uses the web, it shows where the information came from.

Web search is part of paid plans. If you do not see the toggle, it is not enabled on your current plan; your plan’s limits are shown in the app.

Try this

  • Stay on Fast for daily use. Reach for Think only when an answer really needs reasoning; it is slower and uses more of your daily allowance.
  • Ask a personal question and a current one together: “Given my trip plans, what’s the weather looking like in Lisbon next week?” It blends your knowledge with live results.