Getting Started
A quick introduction to Neural Garden — your AI-powered second brain on an infinite canvas.
What is Neural Garden?
Neural Garden is an AI-powered second brain built on an infinite canvas. Drop thoughts, draw connections between them, and let AI reveal patterns you missed. It works like a visual wiki for your ideas — every thought is a card you can move, connect, nest, and type.
Creating your first garden
Gardens are workspaces that hold your thoughts. When you sign in for the first time, a default garden is created for you automatically.
- 1Sign in with Google or GitHub.
- 2Your default garden opens automatically.
- 3Double-click or double-tap anywhere on the canvas to create your first thought.
- 4Give it a title and start writing.
Core concepts
There are four building blocks in Neural Garden:
- 1Thoughts — individual cards on the canvas. Each has a title, rich-text body, and optional type.
- 2Connections — lines you draw between thoughts to show relationships.
- 3Gardens — workspaces that hold collections of thoughts. You can nest gardens inside each other.
- 4Types — custom schemas you define to give thoughts structured properties (like status, priority, or color).
Navigating the canvas
The canvas is infinite — pan by clicking and dragging the background, zoom with scroll or pinch. Press F to zoom-to-fit all your content. On mobile, tap and drag to pan, pinch to zoom.
Your data syncs across devices
Neural Garden stores your data on the server and caches it locally for fast loading. Sign in with Google or GitHub to access your gardens from any device. Your thoughts sync in real time when collaborating.