Video Tutorials

MindForger video tutorials - a quick way to see MindForger in action before (or while) you read the user documentation.

All the videos below can be found on YouTube:

• 🎞 MindForger tutorials playlist
• 🎞 MindForger channel

Getting started

Start here - what MindForger is and how to make your first steps in it. See also Installation and Getting Started.

🎞 MindForger: Getting started w/ Markdown IDE and Thinking Notebook

MindForger from a Markdown editor to a thinking notebook - the tour of the main window, workspaces, notebooks and notes.

🎞 MindForger: First Steps - New Notebook, Note, Repository and Markdown File

Create your first notebook and note, open a workspace and edit a plain Markdown file.

Wingman: AI assistant

Wingman is MindForger's private AI assistant which brings a large language model (LLM) - local ollama, OpenAI or OpenRouter - to your notes. See LLM provider configuration to set it up.

🎞 MindForger: Fix grammar with Wingman @ LLM

Fix grammar of the text you wrote.

🎞 MindForger: Text summarization with Wingman @ LLM

Summarize a note or a selected text.

🎞 MindForger: ELI5 - explain terms and concepts like I'm 5 with Wingman @ LLM

Explain like I'm 5 - get a simple explanation of a term or a concept.

🎞 MindForger: Translate text with Wingman @ LLM

Translate a note or a selected text to another language.

🎞 MindForger: Write your notes with Wingman @ LLM

Complete text and rewrite what you have written.

🎞 MindForger: Get synonyms and antonyms with Wingman @ LLM

Find a better word - synonyms and antonyms for the selected text.

Notebooks and notes

Creating and forgetting the knowledge in your workspace.

🎞 MindForger: New Workspace, Notebook and Note

Create a new workspace, notebook and note.

🎞 MindForger: Notebook deprecation

Notebooks are not deleted, but deprecated - they are moved to the limbo directory from where they can be purged or resurrected.

Markdown editor

Writing Markdown in the Markdown editor.

🎞 MindForger: Live markdown preview

Toggle the live HTML preview of the edited Markdown.

🎞 MindForger: Link completion in the note editor

Write a prefix of a notebook/note name and let MindForger create the Markdown link for you - see link completion.

🎞 MindForger: Table of contents generator for Markdown documents

Generate the table of contents of a Markdown document.

🎞 MindForger: Editing notes with an external editor

Edit a note in your favorite external editor.

Search and organize

Finding the knowledge in your workspace and giving it a structure.

🎞 MindForger: Find notebooks and notes by name, phrase or tag

Search your workspace by full-text, name or tag.

🎞 MindForger: Outliner

Promote, demote and move notes to structure a notebook - see outliner.

🎞 MindForger: Kanban

Organize notes to the columns of a Kanban board using tags.

🎞 MindForger: Knowledge graph navigator

Browse your workspace as a graph of notebooks, notes and tags - see knowledge graph navigator.

Tools

MindForger tools.

🎞 MindForger: Terminal

Run a simple command line from the current MindForger workspace - menu View/Terminal. See also CLI.