Use case · researchers
MindWiki for researchers.
A connected literature notebook your AI can read alongside you — that's the version of MindWiki that fits research workflows best.
Why MindWiki fits research
- Plain-text vault: critical for anything you might still need in five years.
- Frontmatter handles citation metadata (title, authors, year, status, doi).
- Wikilinks let one source feed many projects without copy-pasting.
- Knowledge graph view shows entire sub-fields as one cluster.
- AI clients connect over MCP — "what do I have on X?" works without rebuilding context.
A working setup
- sources/ folder — one page per paper or article. Frontmatter: title, authors, year, journal, citation, status (read / skim / queue).
- research/ folder — projects, hypotheses, ongoing writeups. Pages link to source pages with [[wikilinks]].
- Capture: forward articles to your {username}@mindwiki.io address, or drop highlights via MCP capture.
- AI: connect Claude or ChatGPT via MCP. Ask "summarize sources tagged thermodynamics from 2023" — it uses your vault.
- Weekly Classifier (Pro) proposes moves; you confirm or reject.
Honest about limits
- Not a citation manager. Pair with Zotero or similar for full bibliographic management. Cross-link entries by DOI or Zotero key in MindWiki frontmatter.
- Not a PDF reader. Attach PDFs in _assets/ and excerpt into source pages; do reading itself in your preferred reader.
- Single-user. Lab-wide shared vaults are not shipped.