That's what the mind map view is for. Drop one idea in the middle of an endless canvas, branch it in whatever direction your head goes, and worry about structure later.
Where AI actually helps
It's easy to bolt AI onto a product and call it a feature. The useful question is narrower: when you're staring at a half-built map, what would a helpful colleague do? Usually one of three things.
- Suggest the next branches. You've got a node and you're stuck. Ask for ideas and get a handful of sensible directions to accept or ignore.
- Find connections you missed. Two branches are secretly the same thing. AI spots the link so you can merge them.
- Turn a conversation into a map. Describe the idea in plain language, or paste a link, and get a first draft you can reshape.
AI shouldn't make the decisions. It should clear the blank-page moment so you can.
And where it should stay out of the way
The map is yours. AI suggestions arrive clearly marked, easy to keep or throw away, and never reshuffle your work without asking. The point is momentum, not autopilot.
From map to actual work
The best part comes after the thinking. When a branch is ready to become real work, it turns into cards on your board without a copy-paste in sight. The messy thinking and the tidy doing live in the same place.