Introduction To Mind Dump
Mind Dump is your ultimate digital brain, a beautifully adaptable workspace designed to capture the chaos of your thoughts and seamlessly transform them into crystal-clear action. Rather than forcing you into a rigid organisational structure, it moulds to your unique workflow by letting you segregate different areas of your life—from daily task lists and web research to comprehensive personal CRMs—into dedicated, customised workspaces. By unifying quick-capture notes, seamless email integration, AI-powered insights, and dynamic perspectives like mind maps, Kanban boards, and calendars, Mind Dump ensures that, whether you are brainstorming a complex project or executing today's agenda, your information is always intuitively organised and presented in the exact context you need to do your best work.
Brief Overview
Mind Dump
Mind Dump organises your data into customisable "Sessions"—independent databases for date-driven tasks or alphabetical knowledge bases—that you can effortlessly filter, export, and securely share using the flexible Report Builder.
Security
Mind Dump keeps your data strictly yours, combining zero-knowledge, client-side encryption for your sensitive secrets with secure Google OAuth for your private files.
Views
Mind Dump separates your data from its presentation, letting you plan using dynamic Kanban boards, Outlines, and Mind-Maps, and execute by dragging those same tasks directly onto your Calendar to time-block your day.
Quick-Capture The Scratch Pad
To ensure friction never gets in the way of capturing a thought, Mind Dump features the Scratch Pad. This quick-capture tool allows you to instantly save fleeting notes, extract URLs, or paste directly from your computer's clipboard. These items are held in a processing queue, ready for you to review them and convert them into structured tasks or subtasks later.
Email Integration
Mind Dump seamlessly integrates your inbox, letting you instantly turn emails into actionable tasks or visualise your communication history as an interactive Mind-Map.
Bookmarks and CMS View
Mind Dump tames the web with a dedicated bookmarking extension, while the CMS View transforms your knowledge bases into a beautiful, clutter-free reading experience.
The Form Builder
Mind Dump’s Form Builder extends your workspace to the outside world, letting clients and colleagues feed data directly into your sessions via shareable links or website embeds without ever needing an account.
Integrated but Optional AI
Mind Dump features an optional Claude or Gemini AI assistant to analyse your sessions and draft notes, enhancing a fiercely capable workspace that works perfectly with or without it.
Overview In-Depth
To achieve this vision, Mind Dump relies on a robust architecture that starts with how your data is structured. At its core, the app allows you to create separate, customisable lists—known as Sessions—that act as independent databases. Depending on your needs, you can set these sessions to be either date-centric for time-sensitive task management or alphabetically driven to build personal knowledge bases and reference libraries. You can then extract and share this information using the highly flexible report builder, which enables you to filter, sort, and group your data to generate customised CSVs, stylised PDFs, or password-protected, publicly shareable links.
Security
Because your data is your own, Mind Dump prioritises security. It utilises a zero-knowledge, client-side end-to-end encryption (E2E) system, meaning your most sensitive "Secret" custom fields are encrypted in your browser using a passphrase before they ever reach the server. To safely handle your external files, the app features a Google OAuth integration that securely authenticates your account, allowing you to load, embed, and preview private Google Drive documents, spreadsheets, and images directly inside your records.
Mind Dump Views
Mind Dump’s true power lies in its dynamic presentation layer, which separates your raw data from how you view it. You can seamlessly switch between specialised perspectives to suit your current workflow: The Kanban Board lets you drag and drop cards across columns grouped by due dates or your own custom fields; the Outline View provides a structured environment for managing complex projects using nested, hierarchical numbering; and the Mind Map View allows visual thinkers to explore task relationships and priorities on an expansive, interactive canvas. When it is time to execute on those plans, the Calendar View empowers you to map out your day directly from your task lists. You can drag unscheduled tasks onto an hourly grid to time-block your agenda, manage overdue items, and print daily or weekly schedules to keep yourself on track.
The Scratch Pad for Quick-Capture
To ensure friction never gets in the way of capturing a thought, Mind Dump features the Scratch Pad. This quick-capture tool allows you to instantly save fleeting notes, extract URLs, or paste directly from your computer's clipboard. These items are held in a processing queue, ready for you to review them and convert them into structured tasks or subtasks later.
Email Integration
Your communications are also seamlessly integrated. Mind Dump includes a full IMAP/SMTP Email System that allows you to read, reply to, and forward messages directly within the app. You can effortlessly link emails to existing task notes or convert incoming messages into brand-new tasks with a single click. For those who process information spatially, the Email Mind Map feature visualises your inbox. It maps out your last 7 days of emails—or historical archives—as an interactive bilateral tree, allowing visual workers to instantly grasp unread threads and gain structural insights into their communications.
Bookmarks and CMS View
Mind Dump also brings order to the wider web. The Bookmarks feature works in tandem with a dedicated browser extension to let you save web pages on the fly. It transforms your saved links into a beautiful, highly visual bookmarks dashboard that is accessible from any device, making web navigation and research significantly easier. When you simply want to read or reference your data without the clutter of task management controls, the CMS View (Content Management System) offers an uncomplicated, beautiful reading experience, displaying your knowledge bases as clean folder cards and clipboard-style records.
The Form Builder
The ecosystem even extends to external collaborators through the Form Builder. This feature allows you to design custom data intake forms and embed them on external websites or share them via URLs. This means clients, colleagues, or friends can add data directly into your designated Mind Dump sessions without ever needing an account or logging into the app.
Integrated but Optional AI
Finally, Mind Dump offers powerful AI Assistant capabilities. You can connect with Anthropic Claude or Google Gemini to analyse your sessions, chat about your projects, generate daily digests, or draft content directly inside your task notes. However, this AI integration is designed strictly as an optional enhancement; Mind Dump remains a fiercely capable and fully functional information manager whether you choose to use the AI features or not.
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