Getting Started

Creating your first garden

Gardens are workspaces that hold your thoughts. When you sign in for the first time, a default garden is created for you automatically.

1. 1Enter your email address and we'll send you a one-time sign-in link (no password needed) — the link works once and expires after 15 minutes. Signing in for the first time creates your account automatically; there's no separate sign-up. Or continue with Google or GitHub.
2. 2Your default garden opens automatically.
3. 3Double-click or double-tap anywhere on the canvas to create your first thought.
4. 4Give it a title and start writing.

Closed beta and the waitlist

While Neural Garden is in closed beta, new accounts start on a waitlist. Signing in still creates your account — you just land on the waitlist page instead of your garden until you're approved.

1. 1Tell us about yourself and how you'd use Neural Garden. That answer is what we use to send invites, so a sentence or two helps.
2. 2When your invite is approved you'll get an email at the address you signed in with. Sign in again (the link prefills your email) and your garden opens.
3. 3Invited to someone's garden already, or the first person to sign in on a fresh install? You skip the waitlist.
4. 4Admins: open Admin → Users and switch to the Waitlist tab to read answers and approve people. Approving sends the invite email (resend it from the row's actions if it bounced). Search by name, email or answer, sort by join date, and on mobile every row has a ⋯ menu.

Core concepts

There are four building blocks in Neural Garden:

1. 1Thoughts — individual cards on the canvas. Each has a title, rich-text body, and optional type.
2. 2Connections — lines you draw between thoughts to show relationships.
3. 3Gardens — workspaces that hold collections of thoughts. You can nest gardens inside each other.
4. 4Types — custom schemas you define to give thoughts structured properties (like status, priority, or color).

Navigating the canvas

The canvas is infinite — pan by clicking and dragging the background, zoom with scroll or pinch. Press F to zoom-to-fit all your content. On mobile, tap and drag to pan, pinch to zoom.

Your data syncs across devices

Neural Garden stores your data on the server and caches it locally for fast loading. Sign in with Google, GitHub, or an email sign-in link to access your gardens from any device — accounts with the same email address are linked automatically. Your thoughts sync in real time when collaborating.

Your profile, signing out, and clearing this device

Your avatar at the bottom of the sidebar (your picture, or the first letter of your name) opens your profile menu: Settings, Help, Report a bug, and Log out. Logging out also removes the copy of your gardens this browser keeps — along with your AI key and cached pages — so a shared computer holds nothing of yours afterwards; if changes are still waiting to sync, you are asked to sync them first or leave without them. The Account section at the bottom of Settings offers the same without signing out: "Clear local data" removes this device's copy only (use it on a shared computer, or if the local database has broken), and "Delete my account" — the last item in Settings, behind a typed confirmation — permanently removes your account, every garden you own, your uploads and your shared links — thoughts you wrote in other people's gardens stay with those gardens, without your name. Export a backup first if you want to keep anything. If your sign-in expires while the app is open — after a long time away, or after clearing cookies — Neural Garden asks you to sign in again; everything you did in the meantime stays on this device and syncs once you are back.

Reporting a bug

Found something broken? Open your profile menu and choose "Report a bug" (or type it into ⌘K), then describe what you did, what you expected, and what happened instead. The report goes out together with technical details about your device — browser and operating system, screen and window size, memory, connection, the page you were on, the app build and your sync state — and the dialog lists every one of them before you send. It never includes the content of your thoughts. Reports land on the team's board and in their inbox.