Features
Everything you need to read at the speed of thought.
One product, one pipeline, every format. From upload to actionable insight in under 90 seconds.
Sources
PDF papers + reports
Up to 50 MB, 1000+ pages. Page-aware citations.
EPUB & DOCX
Books, manuscripts and Word docs — same pipeline.
YouTube videos
Auto-captions parsed into timestamped chunks.
Podcast episodes
Audio transcribed with sub-minute timestamps. Up to 25 MB per episode.
Web articles
Just the article — navigation, ads, comments and boilerplate stripped automatically.
Mind maps
Two-pass synthesis
A two-pass process — section-by-section first, then merged into a single coherent tree.
Substring-verified citations
Every quote checked against the source before it ships.
Public sharing
Mint a public link with one click. Revoke any time.
Markdown export
Download your map as .md — re-import into any outline tool.
Interactive viewer
Zoom, pan, expand and collapse branches of your map.
Chat
Grounded answers
Combines semantic and keyword search across your source so the assistant always finds the right passage to cite.
Streaming responses
Tokens arrive as soon as the model emits them — no spinning while you wait.
Click-through citations
Each [chunk-NN] marker becomes a pill that opens the exact passage.
Persistent history
Your conversation per-source is saved. Come back, pick up where you left off.
Workflow
Drag-and-drop upload
Or paste a URL — we auto-detect the kind.
Hash-based dedup
Re-upload the same PDF? We reuse the existing source.
Background processing
Jobs run on a worker queue so the UI stays snappy.
Live progress
Real-time job status polling — see exactly where ingestion is.
Why PaperMind vs. the alternatives?
| Capability | PaperMind | Plain ChatGPT | PDF summarizers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Citations verified per claim | Yes | No | sometimes |
| Mind-map output | Yes | No | No |
| YouTube + podcast ingest | Yes | No | No |
| Click-to-source passage | Yes | No | No |
| Cross-format pipeline | Yes | No | PDF only |
| Public sharing | Yes | No | limited |