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1.4.2
What's new in MindMax 1.4.2
Improvements
- Sharper canvas thinking skills. Brainstorm now sharpens your question before diverging, analogies are drawn at the mechanism level, and each method's hub card names the one decisive tension (or assumption, or combination) to act on first — less "five cards saying the same thing", more thinking that moves.
- "Open canvas" button on AI-host cards. The canvas card shown inside MCP hosts (Claude, ChatGPT, WorkBuddy, …) gains a persistent header button that opens the whole canvas in MindMax, and now works even in hosts that don't hand the canvas data to the card — it falls back to a deep link.
- Connect to Gemini CLI. Settings → Connections can now write the MindMax MCP server into Gemini CLI's config (
~/.gemini/settings.json), alongside Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf and WorkBuddy. - Clearer connection guidance. When a host (like WorkBuddy) needs you to enable the new connector in its own settings before first use, Connections now shows the exact steps instead of leaving you with a stuck "not yet used" status.
Release notes on the blog: https://mindmax.me/blog/
Download / manual upgrade: https://mindmax.me/download/
Installed copies update themselves; this note is also shown in the in-app update dialog.
1.4.1
What's new in MindMax 1.4.1
- PDF to Markdown extraction now uses the open-source @mindmax/pdf-markdown engine.
- Canvas collaboration with external AI agents (WorkBuddy, Claude Code) improved, including detection and canvas status.
- AI reading lens and AI comment display refinements, and clearer error messages.
- Website: PDF converter material, corpus results and SEO updates.
Release notes on the blog: https://mindmax.me/blog/
Download / manual upgrade: https://mindmax.me/download/
Installed copies update themselves; this note is also shown in the in-app update dialog.
1.4.0
What's new in MindMax 1.4.0
- External AI agents can work inside MindMax: the desktop MCP server exposes reader, editor and canvas tools.
- Diagram cards on the canvas, with diagrams generated from the material.
- Pending revision proposals from AI agents stay visible after a restart; the crash when opening one is fixed.
- Web annotations and voice-to-text, Markdown table editing and language fixes.
- Windows packaging fixed by building the desktop bundles through the esbuild API.
Release notes on the blog: https://mindmax.me/blog/
Download / manual upgrade: https://mindmax.me/download/
Installed copies update themselves; this note is also shown in the in-app update dialog.
1.3.0
What's new in MindMax 1.3.0
MindMax v1.3 removes the friction between your documents and AI.
Highlights:
- Document chat for every file.
- Launchpad as the Workspace Agent.
- Open single files without a workspace.
- Image hover toolbar.
Release notes on the blog: https://mindmax.me/blog/v1-3
Download / manual upgrade: https://mindmax.me/download/
Installed copies update themselves; this note is also shown in the in-app update dialog.
1.2.5
What's new in MindMax 1.2.5
- Two-column CJK and bilingual papers read column by column; inline formulas are no longer mistaken for tables, and body text, notes and tables parse faithfully.
- PDF highlighter, inline AI menu and editor polish; UI fixes.
Release notes on the blog: https://mindmax.me/blog/v1-2
Download / manual upgrade: https://mindmax.me/download/
Installed copies update themselves; this note is also shown in the in-app update dialog.
1.2.4
What's new in MindMax 1.2.4
- MindMax Think web canvas goes live: scenario-led start, desktop-style toolbar, share links, evidence on cards and open-in-desktop.
- PDF page citations now jump to the cited page rather than a same-named bookmark; pdf.js CMap and standard-font data fixed.
- Launchpad keeps one composer on screen and always starts a new chat.
- UI and language fixes.
Release notes on the blog: https://mindmax.me/blog/v1-2
Download / manual upgrade: https://mindmax.me/download/
Installed copies update themselves; this note is also shown in the in-app update dialog.
1.2.3
What's new in MindMax 1.2.3
- Browser editor work at mindmax.me/write and new Tools pages on the website.
- Diagram generation and web editor improvements, plus small fixes.
Release notes on the blog: https://mindmax.me/blog/v1-2
Download / manual upgrade: https://mindmax.me/download/
Installed copies update themselves; this note is also shown in the in-app update dialog.
1.2.2
What's new in MindMax 1.2.2
MindMax v1.2.2 is about the comments that matter most and that MindMax could not reach before: the ones from people who do not use it.
Highlights:
- Request review. In a Markdown document, choose Request review… from the comments panel menu.
- Their comments land in your comments panel.
- They see what you did. Reply, mark a comment done, or Decline it with a reason.
- Rounds on the same link. After revising, Send new round.
Release notes on the blog: https://mindmax.me/blog/v1-2-2
Download / manual upgrade: https://mindmax.me/download/
Installed copies update themselves; this note is also shown in the in-app update dialog.
1.2.1
What's new in MindMax 1.2.1
- UI polish across the editor.
- Corrected the checksum in the auto-update manifest.
Release notes on the blog: https://mindmax.me/blog/v1-2
Download / manual upgrade: https://mindmax.me/download/
Installed copies update themselves; this note is also shown in the in-app update dialog.
1.2.0
What's new in MindMax 1.2.0
MindMax v1.2.0 is one change more than anything else: AI writing was rebuilt so that the document you are writing is also where you steer it.
Highlights:
- The plan is in the document.
- An outline first, unless you say otherwise.
- Where only you know the facts, it asks.
- A read-through at the end.
Release notes on the blog: https://mindmax.me/blog/v1-2
Download / manual upgrade: https://mindmax.me/download/
Installed copies update themselves; this note is also shown in the in-app update dialog.