Search and review

Search your mind

Open Mind and use the search box to look across every fact and source you have captured. It matches meaning, not just exact words, so you do not have to remember how you phrased something.

Narrow it down

Alongside search you can filter by:

• Type: facts only, or sources only.
• Space: everything filed under one space.
• Source: every chunk from one document or link.

Combine filters with a keyword to find things fast.

The command bar

Press ⌘K anywhere in the app to open the command bar, a quick way to jump to a space, a lens, or a setting without leaving what you are doing.

Review your facts

Your life changes: jobs, preferences, plans, people. A second brain is only useful if it stays true, and Review is a quick way to keep it that way.

Review shows you one fact at a time, like a flashcard. For each one you can:

• Confirm: it is still true, keep it.
• Archive: it is out of date, retire it.

Archived facts stop showing up in answers and stop reaching your lenses. They are not deleted; they are just no longer part of your active memory.

A few minutes every week or two is plenty. It is especially worth doing before you build or refresh a lens; you do not want a shared brain repeating something that is no longer true.

The knowledge graph

Click Graph at the top of the Knowledge page to see a visual map of what your lens knows. Everything you have captured is laid out as connected points, clustered by meaning, so you can see the shape of your knowledge at a glance.

It is worth a look because you can:

• Spot which areas of your brain are rich and which are thin.
• Find clusters you did not realize were related.
• Decide what is worth sharing; a dense, well-connected area makes a strong lens.

Click a node to focus on it. Use the graph to explore; use Mind to edit. They are two views of the same knowledge. See Your mind.

Try this

• Can’t find something a lens should be answering? Search for it in Mind first. If it is not there, it is not captured. If it is, check which space it is in. See Access and privacy.
• Right after a big life change (new role, move, new project), run a quick review to catch facts that just went stale.
• Before building a lens, open the graph and look for a cluster that is complete enough to stand on its own. That cluster is your lens scope.