Examples

What people turn into PaperMind maps.

Six real-world source types, each rendered as a sample mind map. Use them to spark ideas for what to feed PaperMind first.

💡Previews shown below — your real map updates live as you scroll.
Research paper
15 pages

Attention Is All You Need

15-page PDF · arXiv

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BackgroundRNN limitationsSelf-attention
Model architectureEncoder stackDecoder stackMulti-head
Training
ResultsBLEU 28.4 EN-DE
Why this works: Strip away the math and see the architecture, training setup, and ablations as a navigable tree.
Book
500 pages

Thinking, Fast and Slow

EPUB · 500+ pages

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Two systemsSystem 1 (fast)System 2 (slow)
Heuristics & biasesAnchoringAvailability
Overconfidence
Prospect theory
Two selves
Why this works: Map the entire System 1 vs System 2 framework with quotes from each cognitive bias chapter.
Podcast
2h 20m

Lex Fridman × Andrej Karpathy

Audio · 2h 20m · transcribed

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On building Tesla AutopilotVision-only stackData engine
On GPT & LLMsTokenization issuesScaling laws
On education
Career advice
Why this works: Skip to the moments that matter — every claim links to its [12:34] timestamp.
YouTube lecture
45m

MIT 6.S191 — Deep Learning

Video · 45m · Auto-captions

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PerceptronsActivation functions
Loss & gradient descentBackprop
RegularizationDropout
Practical tips
Why this works: Lecture slides condensed into a study guide — perfect for last-minute revision.
Earnings call
22 pages

NVIDIA Q4 FY25 Earnings

PDF transcript · 22 pages

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Headline numbersDC revenue $35.6BMargin trajectory
Blackwell rampSupply constraintsDemand signals
Guidance
Q&A — China
Why this works: Cut through the prepared remarks and analyst Q&A to find what actually changed quarter-over-quarter.
Web article
Short read

The Bitter Lesson — Rich Sutton

Web · ~1500 words

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The 70-year patternChess — search beats heuristicsGo — same lessonSpeech — same lessonVision — same lesson
The takeaway
Why this works: A small essay deserves a small map — 6 nodes that capture the entire argument.

Other ways people use PaperMind

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Study a dense textbook chapter

Map the chapter, generate self-quiz prompts via chat, jump to citations for revision.

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Triage a stack of research papers

Ingest 10 papers, ask each one 'what's the actual claim?' Decide which to read deeply.

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Compare two earnings calls

Map both. Ask: what changed in management's tone between Q2 and Q3?

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Catch up on a podcast backlog

2 hours of audio → 90 seconds of mind map. Listen to the parts that actually interest you.

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Pre-read for a book club

Drop the EPUB, get a chapter-by-chapter map. Walk into the discussion prepared.

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Mine a YouTube lecture series

Pull the key takeaways from a 10-hour course without watching the whole thing.

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Survey a long-form article

That 8000-word essay you saved to Pocket? Map → chat → archive.

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Read a legal filing

Get the structure (parties, claims, prayer for relief) before diving in.

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Brief-prep for an interview

Map the candidate's prior writing or talks. Walk in with informed questions.

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