Release 3: Multi-Pane, the Browser Tab, and a Workspace for Thinking

What’s New in Release 3

This release delivers on a part of Mindwork’s premise we’ve been chasing since day one: turning your workspace into something that doesn’t just hold your thinking, but shapes it.

• Multi-pane support. Open multiple tabs side by side and work across them at once. The headline of the release.
• Browser tab. The first non-note tab in Mindwork. Load any URL inside your workspace, next to your notes.
• Send note selections to the assistant. The floating toolbar now has an “Add to chat” button — highlight any passage and hand it to the assistant as context.
• More ways to interact with the assistant. Delete messages, edit them in place, and stop the assistant mid-response.

Thinking on Paper

There’s a famous exchange between the historian Charles Weiner and Richard Feynman. Looking at Feynman’s notebooks, Weiner called them a wonderful record of his day-to-day work. Feynman pushed back: “No, no! They aren’t a record of my thinking process. They are my thinking process. I actually did the work on the paper.”

The paper wasn’t a transcript of ideas formed in his head — it was where the ideas formed. Laying equations next to each other, scribbling in the margin, crossing things out: that was the thinking. The medium shapes what you can think, not just what you can save.

That’s the bet behind Mindwork’s uninterruptible workflow. The shape of the surface — what’s in front of you, what’s one keystroke away, what you have to leave the room to reach — decides what kind of thinking is even possible.

Multi-pane and the browser tab are the moment that bet starts to pay off:

On the left, your note. In the middle, the source you’re learning from — open as a browser tab inside the workspace. On the right, the Mindwork Assistant, with the source and the note already in its context. You read a section, talk it through, hand the assistant a specific passage when it matters, and ask it to write the insight back into your note.

You never leave the workspace. No tabbing out to a browser, no switching windows, no copy-paste between apps. You just move your eyes.

It isn’t a place to record your thinking. It’s a place to do it.

What’s Next

Multi-pane, the browser tab, and tighter assistant context open up a lot. More on top of this foundation soon.