Minerva documentation
Minerva is a desktop workspace for taking notes and thinking with the help of AI. This guide covers everything you can do in it: how notes work, how to move around, how to write and view, and what each panel of the workspace is for. New here? Start with Getting started, then come back for the details.
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What is a thoughtbase?
The big picture — what a thoughtbase is, what people build one for, everything it holds, and how to create, open, and switch between them.
🧵Notes
What a note is — and every kind of content you can embed: links, callouts, math, diagrams, charts, code, tables, images, and more.
🧭Navigation
Move between notes: the command palette, quick switch, wiki-links, search, breadcrumbs, and back/forward.
👁️Viewing options
Source, preview, and split view modes; themes; font size and zoom; splitting panes and windows.
✍️Editor
The writing surface: markdown formatting, keyboard shortcuts, link autocomplete, footnotes, and voice dictation.
📂Left sidebar
The workspace rail: the Notes tree, Sources, Tags, Tables, and Bookmarks.
🕸️Right sidebar
Context on the current note: backlinks, outline, properties, proposals, citations, tags, and related notes.
💬Conversations
Think alongside the AI, then review and file what it proposes — nothing lands until you approve it.
🧠Thinking tools
The Learning, Research, and Analysis skills — structured thinking moves you run over a note.
⚙️Settings
Tune the editor, appearance, behaviors, formatter, bibliography, compute, AI, and skills.
🔎Working with data
How your notes become a queryable knowledge graph and database — and the Query menu commands for asking questions of them.