Generating outlines or drafts from your map

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Contextminds integrates a whiteboard with GPT so it takes just one click to draft an outline or article that incorporates everything on your whiteboard - all your topics, keywords, questions, headings and articles.

Note: Sticky notes, frame labels, and content styles are intended as your internal notes. They do not affect your search queries or generated texts.

Start by switching to the "Generate" tab in the top left corner.

Next, click Generate content from map to get a complete draft, or Generate outline from map for an outline.

Pro tip: you can select a single item or a group of items to generate content specific to what you've selected. This is useful when you need a paragraph or keyword based on a single topic and wish to exclude some items on your whiteboard.

Once you click Generate content or Generate outline, Contextminds will ask you to choose a content style. Content style is a preset of content format, length, audience and other features for which you want to generate the draft or outline.

You can either choose one of the predefined content styles or define your own.

If you choose to define your own, we recommend filling in at least the format. Fill in the other fields as you wish, or leave them blank.

Pro tip: every time you create or use a content style, it is added as an item to your map. This way you can easily see the content styles you used with that particular map. Moreover, you can always reuse the content style in another map by copy&pasting it or searching for it in the search sidebar.

Once you choose your content style, ContextMinds will start generating the text or outline. That can take a few seconds. When it is finished, click the copy button to copy generated text to clipboard, so you can paste it to your favorite text editor and continue editing.

It is also useful to save the text to your map - to keep track of different versions and formats. Click the + button or drag it with your mouse to add the generated text as a new item on your whiteboard - with the text attached as a note. Optionally, you can pin it just as a note, without adding an item to the whiteboard.

If you find there is something missing in the draft, or need any other changes, you can continue the conversation with the AI and ask it to make the changes.

You can also restart the generation. That is useful if you changed your map or need to use a different content style.

Important note: once you generate your first draft or outline, the content style you chose is added as an item to your map. If you have just one content style and click Generate (content or outline), that one content style will be used automatically with no questions asked. If you want to use different one, add it as a new item to your whiteboard from the item toolbar at the bottom.

The way you organize your items on the whiteboard does not matter to the AI when you click Generate - with two exceptions:

• You can structure your headings to define how you want them to appear in the draft.
• You can link articles to headings when you want them mentioned in a particular place in the text.

You can organize headings by dragging them into a frame in the desired order.

1. Create a frame and label it "Outline" or however you like.
2. Drag your headings into the frame.
3. Place subheadings indented under the parent headings.

Create a link from an article item to a heading item to have it referenced in the corresponding section of your text or outline.