Understand your papers, dig deeper with maps and notes

Upload PDFs, slides, or recordings and Ponder reads them into mind maps and notes. Ask from any node, expand it further, and trace every conclusion back to the original text.

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Mind maps for structure, notes for the argument

Upload PDFs, slides or recordings. Ponder reads them closely and organizes them into mind maps and notes: the map shows the whole picture at a glance, the notes walk through the argument. Both are saved as files in your project.

Rehearsal vs. refreshing
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Ask and expand from any node

Keep asking from wherever you are: pick a node to ask AI, dive deeper or explain. New content attaches under that node, and the map grows as you read.

Rehearsal vs. refreshingSleep & memory+
Tighten 2.3 — the claim about rehearsal is stronger than the evidence.
Read File2.3 Maintenance mechanisms.md
Paper ReaderCamos 2009.pdf · pages 3–6
Select Evidence2 passages
Writeedit 2.3 Maintenance mechanisms.md · modified 1 line
Softened the claim and cited the dissociation to pages 3–6. Applied to the document as v3 — v2 is one click away.
2.3 Maintenance mechanisms.mdAsk anything — @ to add references, drag or paste files to upload+Claude Sonnet 4.5 ▾↑
2.3 Maintenance mechanisms.mdAPA 7 ▾ · v2
2.3 Maintenance mechanisms
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Every conclusion traces back to the original text

Everything in your maps and notes carries citations. Open one to see the passage it rests on; places based only on an abstract are marked.

Definitions of short-term storage differ on whether it is attention-based .

Cowan (2017) · p. 1158Short-term storage has been defined as the passive (i.e., non-attention-based, nonstrategic) component of WM or, alternatively, as a passive store separate from an attention-based WM.
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