Socra helps you ask better questions and leave a session with reusable notes. MindMax Read, Think and Write pick up from there — over your sources, on a thinking canvas, and in a document you can export. Both are free to start in the browser.
Socra is for working out what you think. MindMax is for working with the documents and drafts that come out of it. Neither one replaces the other, and no shared account is required.
Students, researchers and writers who move between reading, questioning and drafting.
Socratic tutoring, guided practice, or adaptive assessment — that part stays in Socra.
MindMax Read, Think and Write. No sign-up, no installation, one document at a time.
Optional. It opens a whole folder of notes, PDFs and books on macOS and Windows.
Reading, writing and local search are free; AI work uses a weekly allowance, a subscription, or your own API key.
Each tool stands on its own. Use the one that matches where you are in the task — the links open the free browser version, with nothing to install.
Ask a document, check every answer
Upload a paper, report or ebook and ask questions across the whole file. Every claim carries a verbatim quote you can click back to the page it came from.
Spread a question across a canvas
Put a question, a claim or an article in the middle and expand it as connected cards. Methods such as first principles, MECE, SCAMPER and steelman arguments push back on your first answer.
Turn an AI answer into a real document
Paste a draft from Socra, ChatGPT or Claude and edit it with inline AI. Equations, tables and Mermaid diagrams survive the paste, and the export is a real Word or PDF file.
Start a goal-focused dialogue. Guided follow-up questions get you to what you actually need to know, and the session ends with notes and follow-up readings instead of a disappearing chat.
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Open the paper or book behind those notes in MindMax Read and verify the two or three claims your argument really rests on.
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Lay out options, counterarguments and missing evidence as cards, then pull the branches you keep into an outline.
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Paste the outline and your notes, draft against them, accept revisions one group at a time, and export Word or PDF.
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There is no account-to-account sync and no shared workspace. Socra gives you notes and artifacts you can copy; the MindMax browser tools accept pasted text, and MindMax Write also supports an import link (#import=) where the document travels inside the URL fragment and is never sent to a server.
No. MindMax Read, Think and Write run in the browser without sign-up, and Socra runs at hisocra.com/dialogue. The MindMax desktop app is optional and only needed when you want one AI working across a whole folder of files.
No. They are separate products with separate accounts and no shared workspace. This page describes a workflow between them; neither product reads the other’s data unless you copy or paste it yourself.
Start with Socra when you are still working out what you think or need to learn a concept. Switch to MindMax Read when you need to check a source, to Think when you need to compare options, and to Write when you have a draft to finish.
Yes. Both products have Simplified Chinese interfaces, and documents can be in any language. Links on this page open MindMax in the language of the page you are reading.
Both are free to start. MindMax charges only for AI work, through a weekly free allowance, a subscription, or your own API key; reading, writing and local search cost nothing.
See the full loop from a learning goal through guided questions to reusable notes.
Open workflow pageTurn a finished dialogue into notes, summaries and drafts you can take elsewhere.
Open artifacts pageThe learning principles behind Socratic dialogue and active learning.
Open methodologyPricing, privacy and platform questions about Socra.
Open FAQNo credit card required. Start in your browser now, then continue on iOS or Android whenever you want.
The fastest way to begin your first goal-focused session.