Space to think.

Your mind holds a few ideas at a time. Plant the rest on one canvas, see how they connect, and watch them grow.

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Double-click or double-tap to plant a thought. Select a card, then drag from its + to connect.

Think visually

See what's on your mind

Every thought gets a card and a place of its own, so the whole problem stays in view while you work on it.

A Neural Garden canvas titled How to learn anything faster: the question “Why do I forget what I study?” at the top, the card “Retrieval practice” selected in the middle with its toolbar and + handles, and neighbouring cards joined by labelled lines such as answers, breaks and an example of. The sidebar is on the left and the dock at the bottom.

Place. Put a thought where it belongs, next to the ideas it goes with.

Connect. Draw a line between two thoughts and name how they relate.

Nest. Drop a thought into another, or open any thought as a garden of its own.

The research

Thinking outside your head

Why we believe a canvas helps you think, in the researchers' own words.

“The magical number 4 in short-term memory”

Nelson Cowan, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001

Working memory holds about four things at once. Everything past that needs somewhere to go.

“Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?”

Andy Clark & David Chalmers, “The Extended Mind”, 1998

A notebook you rely on becomes part of how you think. A garden is that notebook, with room to spread out.

“Why a diagram is (sometimes) worth ten thousand words”

Jill Larkin & Herbert Simon, Cognitive Science, 1987

Laid out in space, the links between ideas are there to see instead of worked out in your head.

Your mind is a black box, even to you

It's hard to know what you think, and harder to show someone else. Once it's on the canvas, you can see it, share it, and give the AI something clear to work with.

With people. Share a garden by link, list it in the gallery, or invite others to think on it with you.
With the AI. Every suggestion starts from your garden: the thought, what it connects to, and the goal you set. The clearer the garden, the better the suggestions.
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