Terminology

These are the names you will see while using ThinkForge.

Project Navigator

The main project workspace. Its views are Files, Overview, Workspace, Insights, and Clusters.

Floating Navigator

A separate project tree that stays available above other applications. Opening a document there uses a separate document window.

Power Strip

The floating command bar for quick capture, project access, sidecar panels, Tools, and Chrome-aware actions. A sidecar is a compact panel opened beside the strip.

Tool and deployment

A Tool is a reusable workflow with a saved sequence of actions.

A deployment places a Tool somewhere you can configure and run it. Each placement can have its own input, settings, model, and triggers.

Skill

An action a Tool can use, such as processing text, reading input, or writing a result.

Automation

Several Tools connected on a visual canvas. An automation can pass results between Tools, choose paths using rules, merge results, or process a list of items.

Workspace

A saved grouping of project documents and context you can return to.

Project Map

A visual workspace for organizing ideas in a hierarchy. Nodes can have notes, document attachments, links, and actions. The desktop control is labeled Mind Map. See Project Map.

Cluster Graph

The document map in Project Navigator's Clusters view. It groups documents by relationships such as meaning, tags, folder, or date.

SK Memory

ThinkForge's project search system. It indexes supported text documents and supports keyword and semantic search.

Document editor and code editor

The document editor formats prose in Markdown and HTML and can display imported RTF. The code editor works with code and plain text in main-window tabs.

Smart Clipboard

A persistent clipboard history shared across projects. You can reuse copied text, files, folders, and images.

Think Forge Extension and Think Forge Chat

The Think Forge Extension desktop companion connects Chrome captures and commands to ThinkForge Desktop.

Think Forge Chat is the separate Chrome Web Store extension for organizing browser conversations. It does not connect to ThinkForge Desktop.

Desktop Bridge and MCP

Desktop Bridge is the local connection used by the desktop companion extension.

ThinkForge MCP lets compatible AI clients search projects and read or safely update documents while ThinkForge is running.