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Space to think.

Place every thought, see how they connect and grow into something worth sharing. A mind garden for visual thinkers.

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Double-click to plant a thought. Select a card, then drag its + to connect. Drag to pan, Ctrl + scroll to zoom

Think visually

See what's on your mind

Every thought gets a card and a place of its own, so the whole problem stays in view while you work on it.

A Neural Garden canvas titled How to learn anything faster: the question “Why do I forget what I study?” at the top, the card “Retrieval practice” selected in the middle with its + handles, and neighbouring cards joined by labelled lines such as answers, breaks and an example of. The menu floats on the left, and the selected thought's panel, with its actions and the command bar, sits at the bottom right.

Place.

Put a thought where it belongs, next to the ideas it goes with.

Connect.

Draw a line between two thoughts and name how they relate.

Grow.

Grow your thoughts into creations you can share.

The research

Think outside your head

Why we believe a canvas helps you think, in the researchers' own words.

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“The magical number 4 in short-term memory”

Working memory holds about four things at once. Everything past that needs somewhere to go.

Nelson Cowan, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001
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“Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?”

A notebook you rely on becomes part of how you think. A garden is that notebook, with room to spread out.

Andy Clark & David Chalmers, “The Extended Mind”, 1998
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“Why a diagram is (sometimes) worth ten thousand words”

Laid out in space, the links between ideas are there to see instead of worked out in your head.

Jill Larkin & Herbert Simon, Cognitive Science, 1987

Come back to it

Find it where you left it

Capture a thought on your phone the moment it comes. Your gardens sync to your account, so it's there when you come back knowing more.

How the phone version works
The same garden on a phone: “Retrieval practice” open in the bottom panel with its type, description and a backlink from the study plan, the canvas above it and the command bar at the bottom of the panel.

Share

Your mind is a black box, even to you

It's hard to know what you think, and harder to show someone else. Once it's on the canvas, you can see it, share it, and give the AI something clear to work with.

  • With people. Share a garden by link, list it in the gallery, or invite others to think on it with you.

  • With the AI. Every suggestion starts from your garden: the thought, what it connects to, and the goal you set. The clearer the garden, the better the suggestions.

  • Your key. Claude, OpenAI, Grok or a local Ollama. Your key is stored in your browser, never on our server.

Gallery

See how others think

Gardens people chose to publish. Open one, look around, and copy it into your own as a starting point.

Make space to think.

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