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?

CapabilityPaperMindPlain ChatGPTPDF summarizers
Citations verified per claimYesNosometimes
Mind-map outputYesNoNo
YouTube + podcast ingestYesNoNo
Click-to-source passageYesNoNo
Cross-format pipelineYesNoPDF only
Public sharingYesNolimited

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