Learn Minda: what to say, where to press, what it does next.

Students

Research a topic, with sources you can check

A short report built from pages Minda really read, each fact ending in a numbered source.

1. Press Alt+Q on Windows, or the chat button in the toolbar, to open the SI chat.
2. Open the Modes menu in the chat box and switch on Research, or type /research.
3. Send your question. Minda plans, searches, reads the pages and writes a report: a TL;DR, Findings with [1] [2] after each fact, and Sources, only the pages it read.
4. Open a source by its number to check it, then Share and save the report as PDF or Word for your notes.

Try saying“Minda, research how cities along the Mississippi manage spring floods, with sources.”

Cite the sources, not Minda.

Students

Turn any page into a study guide, flashcards or a tutor

Learn the page in front of you instead of copying it.

1. Open the page you are studying and press Alt+Q.
2. Type /study and your level, such as “/study 10th grade”: the 5 to 8 key concepts, how they connect, common mistakes and 8 practice questions, with the answers at the end. Anything Minda adds from general knowledge is marked.
3. Type /flashcards for 15 cards you can import into Anki or Quizlet.
4. Type /tutor and a topic: Minda asks one question at a time, says what you got right and asks a harder one.

Try typing“/tutor the causes of the American Revolution”

These are three of the 36 ready-made skills in Settings, Skills, Gallery, under Education.

StudentsDeaf or hard of hearing

A class, meeting or video as text

Every word of a Zoom class or a recorded lecture as text you can read, search and keep.

1. On Google Meet, Zoom on the web, Teams or any tab, press Take meeting notes in the toolbar.
2. A card shows each line as it is said, with its time, marked You or Others. The microphone button leaves your own voice out of the notes.
3. Press Stop: the note ends with a summary, decisions and action items.
4. For a video, ask the SI chat for its transcript, then for a summary. The page tools also translate a page and read the text in a picture on Windows.

Try saying“Minda, summarize this video and list the terms I should know.”

Free with your own OpenAI key or Windows' own recognizer, Minda SI credits otherwise. Audio is never saved, and the note names only You and Others.

Blind or low visionReading is hard

Hear the page, and every reply

A long page becomes a short answer you can listen to, and every reply is read to you.

1. Press the microphone button in the toolbar, or Alt+W on Windows. The first time, a notice says where your voice goes; press Turn on Minda voice.
2. Say “Minda, what does this page say?” Minda speaks the answer and the pill at the bottom of the page shows its words; yours appear in the chat.
3. In the chat box, open Modes and switch on Read replies aloud: every reply is read as it finishes. The speaker under any reply reads that one.
4. Your computer's own voice is free; a natural Minda voice uses credits. Pick one in the microphone's menu.

Try saying“Minda, open npr.org and read me the page.”

Hard to use a mouse or keyboard

Let the SI agent do the clicking and typing

Forms filled, pages found and buttons pressed for you, in tabs you never have to reach.

1. Press Alt+Q, or just say “Minda”, and say what you want done in plain words.
2. The SI agent opens the page in a hidden tab and clicks, types and fills the form on its own. A live checklist shows each step; Show tab brings that page on screen.
3. Before anything that pays, or when you said “for my review”, a card says Needs your OK: press Allow or Deny.
4. The same card reaches Minda on your phone: Allow, Deny or Stop from there. Log-ins and CAPTCHAs are yours: take over, then hand the page back.

Try saying“Minda, renew my books on my public library's site, for my review.”

Keyboard usersAnyone

Keys you can change

Every command on one page, with the keys that run it now, and any key you like instead.

1. Open Settings, Keyboard shortcuts.
2. Alt+Q opens the AI chat and Alt+W turns Minda's microphone on or off; Chrome's own keys work as before.
3. Press Change on a row and press the keys you want. × turns a command's keys off; Reset brings its default back, and Reset all shortcuts every one's.
4. If another app already takes a key, the row says so; press Ask AI to fix and the chat finds one that works. Your keys follow you to your other computers.

Try typing“Set Ctrl+Shift+M to turn Minda's microphone on or off.”

Low visionReading or writing is hard

Bigger text, simpler words, spelling fixed as you type

Pages you can read, and writing you can send without worry.

1. Settings, Appearance, Fonts and page zoom: pick a larger Font size and a Page zoom such as 125%. Or say “Minda, zoom in.”
2. Select hard words on any page and choose Explain or Summarize; Translate puts them in your language.
3. In a text box, select your own words and choose Fix grammar, Rewrite or Shorten; Ctrl+Z undoes it.
4. Auto-correct fixes a misspelled word as you type the space after it, with no AI and nothing sent: “recieve” becomes “receive”, and Ctrl+Z puts your word back.

Try asking, with words selected“Explain this in simpler words.”

Auto-correct is English only for now, in Minda and in Minda SI for Chrome.

Speaking is hardAnyone

Have Minda make the call, and talk for you if you want

A phone, WhatsApp or Telegram call placed for you; on a web call, Minda can speak for you.

1. Say who to call and how: “Call Riverside Dental on WhatsApp.” You asked in your own words, so Minda places it; in Careful mode, or when a page or a mail asked for the call, a card waits for Allow or Deny. Minda calls only a number you gave or one the chat showed.
2. Minda opens the call in your own WhatsApp Web or Telegram Web tab, or hands the number to your computer's phone app. By default you do the talking.
3. Add “talk for me” and what to ask: Minda says it is an AI calling for you, follows what you asked and tells you what was said.
4. Take over the call at any time; Minda never hangs up on you.

Try saying“Minda, call Riverside Dental on WhatsApp and ask if they have an opening Thursday afternoon. Talk for me.”

A call Minda talks on uses Minda SI credits, and the call's audio goes to Minda SI.

New to computersOlder adults

Just talk to it

Say what you want, the way you would to a person.

1. Press the microphone button once. From then on, say “Minda” and what you want: “open my email”, “search for a pharmacy near me”.
2. In the microphone's menu, switch on Live conversation: Minda talks back like a person, you can interrupt it, and it asks when it is not sure.
3. Ask the SI chat for a reminder, “remind me at 3 pm to call Dana”: a notification with a sound, and no credits.
4. Want your voice to stay on your computer? Turn on Keep AI on this computer in Settings: Windows' own recognizer listens and nothing is sent.

Try saying“Minda, what's on my calendar today?”