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The Shared Brain Between You and Your AI

*May 9, 2026 · 5 min read*

Every AI conversation starts from zero. You re-explain the same context, re-establish the same patterns, and lose your best thinking between sessions. Meanwhile, your notes scatter across half a dozen apps that don't talk to each other.

That's the problem MindWiki was built to solve.

Two surfaces, one vault

MindWiki ships as a native macOS app and a web app, both pointed at the same vault. Edits propagate both ways within seconds. You capture on the web while your laptop is asleep, sit down at your Mac later, and the captures are already there waiting.

The vault is plain markdown. No proprietary format. Frontmatter for metadata. [[wikilinks]] between pages. The macOS app gives you the full editing surface — slash commands, properties inspector, knowledge graph, attachments, full keyboard navigation. The web app is the lighter capture and review surface plus account, billing, and AI connections.

Capture is its own thing

The only folder MindWiki ships pre-built is capture/. That's intentional. Different brains organize differently, and forcing one template on every user just gets in the way. The vault grows the way you actually think — folders appear when you need them, not before.

Capturing is everywhere:

  • The web app's Quick Capture box
  • Cmd+N in the macOS app
  • Forwarding email to your personal {username}@mindwiki.io address
  • The mindwiki_capture MCP tool, when an AI saves a useful fragment of conversation

Pro connects your AI

The product splits cleanly into two plans.

Free is a complete personal vault — unlimited pages, web and macOS, live sync, search, knowledge graph, manual capture, full export. Yours forever, no time limit.

Pro ($12/mo) adds AI access and automation:

  • MCP server — one URL, https://api.mindwiki.io/mcp. Paste it into Claude.ai, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor — anything that speaks MCP. OAuth-approved in your browser, no manual token paste.
  • API keys with explicit read and write scopes for scripts, automations, Readwise, Notion, ClickUp, Make, Zapier, or anything else that can speak HTTP.
  • Auto-Linker — daily mechanical wikilink suggestions, surfaced as proposals.
  • Weekly Classifier — capture review with proposed moves and tags.
  • Pattern Detection — cross-domain pattern surfacing via tag clustering and title overlap.
  • Monthly Summary — automatic month-end report at outputs/monthly-summary/YYYY-MM.md.
  • Context Packs and the agents workspace where every AI tool call is logged.

Proposal-first AI, with one explicit exception

Three of the four Pro automations are proposal-first. They create entries you review in the Agents workspace before anything lands in the vault. The Auto-Linker doesn't add a wikilink directly — it proposes one and shows you the context. The Weekly Classifier doesn't move a capture — it proposes the move with the tokens it matched on. Pattern Detection doesn't write a pattern page — it surfaces a candidate cluster and waits.

The exception is Monthly Summary. It writes one additive monthly page directly at outputs/monthly-summary/YYYY-MM.md so the month-end recap is automatic. It never edits anything you wrote — only appends new pages under that path.

The design philosophy: AI is visible, scoped, and consensual. Every tool call is logged. Every change to your existing notes is your call to make. The only place AI writes without asking is a dedicated, predictable, additive folder you can ignore or read at your leisure.

The result

You stop re-explaining context to your AI. You stop losing your best thinking between sessions. Your notes compound instead of accumulate.

Open MindWiki, capture a thought. Ask Claude about it next week. Watch it pull the right pages without you specifying which ones. That's what the shared brain looks like.

*Try it at mindwiki.io. Free is generous and everything you need to start.*