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The interview

Do not know where to start? The interview asks you short questions and files each answer into your knowledge as a fact.

What it’s for

An empty mind, or a lens with only a thin slice behind it, is hard to use. The interview helps you get started from nothing: Mindola asks you short, focused questions one at a time, and saves each answer as a fact.

How it works

Open Interview in the app, then:

  1. Pick a space for the answers to land in, or let it ask broadly. See Spaces.
  2. Optionally add a focus line, like “ask me about my work history”, to steer the questions.
  3. Answer in your own words. Each reply becomes a fact in that space.
  4. Hit Done when you have covered enough.

When to use it

  • Right after signing up, to seed your brain quickly.
  • When a lens feels empty. Interview yourself on that lens’s topic to fill the gap.
  • Any time you want to capture a whole area at once instead of one small piece at a time.

Try this

  • Building a lens about your job? Run an interview focused on your role first, scoped to that lens’s space. Ten minutes of questions makes a lens feel real. See Building a lens.