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What IdeaM can do

Every capability, in one place.

A straight, no-fluff map of what IdeaM does — grouped by how an idea travels from raw sources to finished, published work. Each row links to a step-by-step how-to in the guide.

Want the complete reference instead — every single function, grouped by area? See the full function list.

Bring it in (Import)

Import Anything

Pull in YouTube videos, PDFs, web pages, audio, images, and documents; IdeaM reads them for you.

Import Email

Drop in an email or a whole thread → a clean outline of the key points, decisions, and to-dos.

Capture from Image

Photograph a whiteboard, a sticky-note wall, or a hand-drawn mind map — IdeaM turns it into a structured branch you review before it lands.

Research

Research

Import many sources at once and IdeaM does the research and the synthesis: one coherent, structured outline of what matters.

Ask Your Knowledge (Second Brain)

Everything you gather becomes a private, searchable library you can question in your own words.

Quick Capture

A passing thought lands in your Second Brain inbox from anywhere, in seconds — auto-tagged, and findable later with free, instant, offline search.

Refresh from Web

Keep any outline current against the live web. Every proposed change comes with citations and a side-by-side preview — you accept or reject each one.

Develop the idea

The engineering of thought
Everyday AI

Generate a sub-outline from any topic, write or expand content, reformat with plain-English instructions — or just tell the AI command bar what you want done.

Answer Styles

The prompt techniques that circulate as insider tricks — “be blunt with me,” “poke holes in this,” “explain it simply,” “give me the 20% that matters” — as one-tap chips under the question field. Combine a few; they guide the answer without changing your words. No extra cost.

Get the Gist

One click turns a dense outline into the essentials.

Reshape Your Outline

Change its structure, length, or style on demand.

Your Voice

Teach IdeaM how you write, then every draft sounds like you.

Proposed Changes

AI shows you every edit before it happens; you approve, adjust, or discard.

“Show Me…” Views

Type or dictate what you want to see — the outline folds to just the matches, with visible filter rows you can edit by hand and save as named living views. Works fully without AI.

Board View

Right-click a section to see it as a board — sub-sections become columns, items become draggable cards, and dragging a card genuinely restructures the outline. Undoable, free, no AI.

Project Management

Turn any outline into a working plan: task items with statuses, priorities, due dates, and prerequisites — with “blocked by” warnings and five instant no-AI reports. Opt-in via Settings.

Find & Focus

Search that unfolds just the matches, zoom into one branch, filter by tag, multi-select for bulk edits, link outlines to each other, and dictate anywhere you can type.

Produce finished work

Wizards

One-click recipes that run a whole workflow end to end. Four are live — Automatic Book, Website Building, Podcast, and YouTube Video — with five more previewed in the gallery.

Make a Podcast

Turn a chapter into a two-host conversation that plays the moment it’s done.

Make a Video

Turn a chapter into a finished, branded narrated slideshow video.

Cinematic AI Video Scenes

Optionally render real AI-generated footage for every scene of your video — on your own Google key, typically about $1–2 per scene (estimates only), with unchanged scenes cached and never re-billed.

AI Music for Your Videos

Add a themed instrumental under your video’s narration — it automatically ducks beneath the voice. On your own Google key, typically about 5–10 cents per video, estimates only.

Update Changed

Regenerate a podcast or video you’ve made before, and only the sections you edited get rebuilt — “2 of 4 changed” — faster, and cheaper on paid voices and scenes.

Make a Slide Deck

Turn an outline into a branded slide deck that opens in PowerPoint or Keynote — with your data auto-charted.

Mind Maps & Flowcharts

Draw a mind map or flowchart straight from your outline’s structure — free, instant, no AI used.

Translate

Produce your work in 21 languages.

Publish it (Export)

Export as Email

Turn any branch into a ready-to-send email (Gmail, your mail app, copy, or download).

Share to Social

One idea → ready-to-post content for X, Instagram (branded carousels), LinkedIn, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, and YouTube, in your voice.

Export a Real Book-Quality PDF

Not a text dump: on the Mac app, a title page, a table of contents, and an index, generated from your outline and ready to share.

Build a Website

Turn an outline into a polished multi-page website — pick from 8 professional templates and customize the look.

Share Link

Publish any outline as a clean, read-only web page on our domain and send the link — update it anytime, and unpublish whenever you like.

23 Export Formats

Your work leaves in whatever shape you need: documents (PDF, and Word with a cover and navigable table of contents), e-book (ePub with cover and chapters), slides, outliners (OPML, Obsidian, Notion, and more), mind maps, and data formats. Never locked in.

Foundations

Privacy-First

On-device AI and bring-your-own-key; your thinking stays yours.

Works Everywhere

Mac, iPhone, iPad, and web.

Quality-Checked

Every AI draft runs an automatic check that flags possible errors before you send.

Cost Transparency

Every AI operation that could cost real money tells you who pays and what it typically costs — and asks first. A private on-device ledger records your AI activity for your eyes only.

Your Work, Protected

Automatic backups with restore snapshots, an auto-snapshot before every AI transform, results saved as new outlines by default, and one Undo that reverses anything.

Agent-Safe OutlinesEarly access

Outside AI assistants — like Claude Desktop — can read and search your outlines, but only suggest changes. You approve everything, in IdeaM.

Coming soon

Coming soon
One Inbox for EverythingNot yet available

Unify your email AND your physical mail into one AI-organized inbox.

In development — not available yet.

Want the full how-to?

The guide walks through every feature step by step — with the exact clicks, menus, and options.