YouMind 1.0 | Create bolder
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Two years ago, we opened YouMind to our first beta users. They thought they were signing up for another AI note-taking tool—something to help them research and draft documents.
Fast forward to today.
Among those early users, someone published their first social media article ever. Another created a viral post that hit 2 million views. One creator turned years of professional expertise into a Skill and earned their first $2,000 on YouMind. Most of them weren't trained content creators. But here, they discovered something powerful: the ability to turn ideas into work that matters.
Many people call YouMind just another AI wrapper—you give it instructions, it delivers output.
Yes and no.
YouMind does integrate the world's most advanced AI models without compromise, giving users full access to cutting-edge capabilities and ensuring quality output.
But what we're really building is something different: magic paper and pen for the AI age. Ordinary tools do the work for you. Magic paper and pen give you the confidence to create bolder.
That's why "Create Bolder" became our north star. For the past two years, we've been asking ourselves one question: Where do creators actually get stuck?
Every upgrade in 1.0 grew from that question.
This is the story of what we built, and why.
I. Creation capabilities: 6 pillars, fully upgraded
Creation is what YouMind is built on. Our capabilities span six domains: writing, image generation, audio/video, slides, webpages, and learning. Most general-purpose AI agents can do these things too—but their output tends to feel generic. Same sentence patterns, same color palettes, same rhythm. You can spot it instantly.
YouMind embeds aesthetic standards and creative know-how into each of these six domains, so what you create here stands out. In version 1.0, we've pushed each capability further.
Writing: Built-in skills & precision editing
Writing is the most frequent creative task on YouMind. We studied how different communities write, analyzed their workflows, habits, and standards, and distilled six common genres: Essay, Story, Professional, Technical, Emails & Letters, and Marketing. Each became a built-in Skill.
The writing agent automatically detects what you're working on, loads the right Skill, and researches, structures, and drafts according to that genre's standards. Whether it's an opinion piece, a screenplay, academic writing, or a business proposal, YouMind knows how it should be written—and what makes it good.
Auto-loading the Emails & Letters Skill based on user intent
We also refined paragraph-level precision editing in 1.0. Select a paragraph, a sentence, or even a single word—the AI targets exactly that span and edits only what you highlighted. Point and shoot.
Precision editing down to the word
Images & Slides: New editors
Before 1.0, YouMind's image generation was already strong. But users kept hitting the same wall: once an image was generated, it was hard to tweak. Want to change the background, remove an element, adjust a corner? You had to regenerate from scratch.
So in 1.0, we added an image editor. Click any image to open the toolbar. Select the area you want to modify or describe what you need, and you can edit text, quick-edit regions, crop, or erase.
The same editing power now extends to slides. Since slides are built on image generation models, the pain point was identical—no way to fine-tune generated elements. The 1.0 slide editor lets you edit text, quick-edit, crop, erase, and now also remove backgrounds, so you can adjust every element and layout on every page.
Audio/Video: Smart assembly, Cast, face reference & voice cloning
YouMind 1.0 can now turn finished slides into narrated videos with one click. Click "One-click video creation" in the top-left corner of any slide deck. YouMind generates a script for each page, synthesizes the corresponding audio, and integrates the voiceover back into the slides to create a narrated presentation video.
You can freely adjust background music, narration voice, subtitles, and transitions. You can also edit the script for any individual page and regenerate just that segment's audio.
One-click smart assembly workflow
This approach—breaking video production into controllable steps—is what we call Cast in YouMind 1.0.
Video is one of the most information-dense content formats, and accordingly, one of the hardest to produce. A decent video requires scripting, storyboarding, assets, voiceover, editing, and music. Miss one piece and the whole thing falls apart.
That's why Cast exists. Beyond narrated slide videos, if you want to generate a video using a model like Seedance 2.0, you can invoke the "Create cast" Skill in the Task dialog. Just describe what you want to make—say, a 15-second headphone ad.
YouMind will generate the script, reference assets, storyboard frames, and voiceover track step by step. At each stage, it asks for your confirmation and lets you make adjustments before assembling everything into the final video.
Create cast Skill workflow: generating the storyboard script
Create cast Skill workflow: generating frames, audio, and final assembly
In YouMind 1.0, you can now upload a real face as a character reference for Seedance 2.0 video generation, and clone a real voice for narration. That means you can appear in your videos with your own face and voice, making your content more personal and authentic.
Webpages: Dynamic curation with auto-update
Many users build webpages in YouMind to showcase content from their Boards. But maintenance was a pain. Every time you added a new article, portfolio piece, or reference link, you had to manually update the webpage and republish.
So in 1.0, we added dynamic curation. When building a webpage, you can @ select an entire Board. From then on, any new content you add to that Board automatically appears on the webpage—no manual updates required. Dynamic curation works for all kinds of use cases:
- Portfolio: Designers drop new work into a Board, and the homepage updates itself
- Resource library: Course materials, industry reports, reference links keep growing
- Blog / content hub: Weekly notes and articles auto-organize into a public page
- Inspiration board: Home renovation, travel, topic ideas, design references all in one place
For example, YouMind engineer Dancang has a scheduled task that fetches AI news sources daily and saves a summary to his Board. He built a webpage from that Board, and every new daily report automatically appears on the page.
Webpage auto-updates with Board content
Learning: Browser use integration for real-time access
Learn & Research is YouMind's agent for deep learning and investigation. It gathers information from multiple sources, cross-verifies, and generates structured notes or research reports.
But there was a limitation: the agent could only read search engine snippets and static snapshots. Pages requiring login, dynamic loading, or anti-scraping measures were out of reach.
So in 1.0, we integrated Browser Use. After upgrading the plugin, enable browser permissions in the Task dialog, and the agent can directly control your browser—logging in, reading live page content, and accessing dynamically loaded data.
II. YouMind Skills: Creator rewards plan
YouMind has always let creators package their workflows into Skills. But for a long time, the value of Skills was hidden. Many Skills were built on years of professional expertise, and creators weren't eager to give them away for free. Beyond the content itself, creators needed more ways to monetize.
So in May this year, we launched the Creator rewards plan. Creators can price their Skills using credits, list them in the YouMind Skill Marketplace, and earn rewards.
YouMind Skills let creators package professional judgment, workflows, and problem-solving approaches into executable, reusable, monetizable products. And because Skills are built with natural language, you don't need to code to productize your expertise.
The Skill Marketplace now hosts over 2,000 creator Skills. And some creators have already earned their first $2,000 on YouMind.
III. Sprite: Your long-term creation partner
Most AI products are task-oriented: you give instructions, it completes the task, conversation ends. That design works great for one-off jobs, but it doesn't fully fit creative work.
First, creation is continuous. The article you write, the video you make—it carries the imprint of you, your brand, your project over time. But every time you open a new AI conversation, it forgets everything. You have to teach it who you are all over again.
Second, creation isn't always goal-driven. Sometimes you just heard a podcast or read an inspiring article. You don't have a clear creative intent yet—you just want to talk, let your thoughts wander. In those moments, you need something more open, something that can sit with you and help you turn vague ideas over, shake them loose.
That's why YouMind 1.0 introduces Sprite.
Sprite has long-term Memory and an editable Soul document. It knows who you are, what you care about, what you're working on. It remembers what you've written, the ideas you've discussed, the preferences you've expressed.
Sprite can invoke all the agent capabilities from Task mode. It lives in every Board workspace, and when you need it, it can get things done just like Task.
Invoking Sprite within a Board
Sprite can also connect to Telegram and WeChat. If you see a great article and want to talk about it, or a sudden idea hits you, just message Sprite. It responds faster and more conveniently.
Connecting Sprite to messaging apps
In short: Task is for goal-driven creative work. Sprite is your long-term creative partner.
IV. Mobile & Desktop: YouMind beyond the browser
YouMind's latest iOS app is now live. Share content from X or YouTube directly to Sprite, and it automatically saves to your Board. Browse the Skill Marketplace, install Skills, and invoke them with one tap. YouMind is always on—capturing ideas, advancing tasks, following up on schedule. The entire creative workflow fits in your pocket.
Android and desktop apps are coming soon.
V. YouMind API: Let your agents access YouMind
If you use YouMind as your knowledge base and want coding agents like Codex or Claude Code to read your content—or if you use OpenClaw and want to bring YouMind's creative capabilities into ClawBot—just copy this prompt to your agent. It will guide you to generate a YouMind API Key, and your agent will be able to read from your workspace and use YouMind's creation tools.
1Read https://youmind.com/skill.md and follow the instructions to use YouMind.23If you can install skills, run:4npx skills add https://github.com/YouMind-OpenLab/skills --skill youmind
Connecting external agents to YouMind via API
Conversely, if you have historical materials or communication context stored in Notion, Linear, or Slack, you can use YouMind Connectors to pull that content in.
To make the path from creation to publication smoother, YouMind now integrates with X and WeChat Official Accounts. You can send drafts from YouMind directly to X Articles or WeChat draft boxes with one click—no reformatting required.
Sending YouMind documents to WeChat Official Account drafts
Sending YouMind documents to X Articles
Welcome, and thank you for staying with YouMind
Two years ago, YouMind was a tool with too many concepts and a steep learning curve. Today, YouMind 1.0 is a creative space that makes every step—from input to process to output—flow more smoothly.
We still hold to the Input → Process → Output (IPO) creative methodology, supporting your workflow at every iteration, making the act of creation more joyful.
Two years in. Welcome to YouMind. And thank you for still being here.
Together, let's create bolder.