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Start with the setup guides, then open the section for the task you want to do.

ThinkForge keeps your project documents, search, notes, Tools, and automations together. You work with ordinary files on your computer, while the desktop app adds ways to find, connect, and use them.

Use Settings → Account to see your sign-in and desktop-license status. Account access and desktop licensing are separate checks.

These are the names you will see while using ThinkForge.

Install ThinkForge Desktop before connecting the Chrome extension or an AI client. Those connections need the desktop app to be running.

Create a project, add a document, and use search to find it again. You can then connect the optional browser and AI features you need.

Use document links to move between related project documents or between headings in one document. The links are saved in the Markdown file, so they remain part of the document.

The folder tree is the primary navigation surface in ThinkForge. It appears as a sidebar panel showing project content organized into collapsible sections — physical files and folders, workspaces, pinned items, shortcuts, recents, tags, tools, automations, Smart Clipboard, and trash.

Application shortcuts work while ThinkForge is active, including when a document editor has focus. Global hotkeys let you use Power Strip and Smart Clipboard from other applications.

Keep each project's work in its own folder. ThinkForge adds browsing, search, tags, workspaces, and capture actions while your documents remain ordinary files.

Open Settings from the main command bar, then choose a section from the left sidebar. Changes save differently by section: some apply immediately, while others have a save action.

Add tags to group documents by topic, status, or another label that helps you find them. Tags belong to the project's ThinkForge data; adding a tag does not change the document's text.

Open Tasks from the main command bar to track work for your project. Power Strip's Tasks command opens a separate window with the same controls and views.

The Automations tab is where you build an automation. You place Tool cards on a canvas, connect them, add rules to the connections, test with Run, and save the result with Publish to Library.

Automations connect several Agent Tools so one Tool's result feeds the next. You can run Tools one after another, send a result down more than one path, choose a path based on what a Tool returned, bring paths back together, and run a Tool once for each item in a list.

Use these limits when choosing how to build and run an automation.

Publishing saves an automation to the shared library. Deploying places a copy of it where you can run it: the Tools page, the Ribbon, a project folder, or a Power Strip button. Each placement belongs to one project and has its own input, settings, and triggers.

You can run an automation from the canvas to test it, or run a placed copy from the Tools page, the Ribbon, a project folder, Power Strip, or a trigger. They all use the same runner, so an automation behaves the same way wherever you start it.

You never need to open these files to use automations. Knowing where they live helps when you back up your work or move a project.

The Think Forge Extension is an optional Chrome extension that connects supported AI-chat pages and browser content to the ThinkForge desktop app. Its features include conversation navigation, bookmarks, cross-platform branching, desktop launchers, project-document insertion, and browser-to-project capture.

The Think Forge Extension is installed as an unpacked Chrome extension. It isn't available in the Chrome Web Store.

The Think Forge Extension version 2.0.0 supports eight AI-chat platforms. Site support depends on page structure, so a site redesign can affect extraction until support is updated.

The Think Forge side panel is the extension's main browser interface. It runs beside the active page and has four tabs: Navigator, Organize, Tools, and Settings.

Web Capture moves browser content into the active ThinkForge desktop project. The extension extracts the page or selection, sends the result to the desktop, and ThinkForge saves and indexes the resulting project file.

Open a code or plain-text file in a main-window tab to edit its text. The code editor shows line numbers, syntax highlighting where available, and your line and column position.

Open a Markdown or HTML document to write and format it in ThinkForge. Use the Home, Insert, and Format ribbon tabs above the document.

Open a supported file from Project Navigator, or use File → Open... to choose a file directly. Images, PDFs, videos, and CSV or TSV files use viewers rather than document-editing controls.

Use Floating Navigator to find project files, search, and use Smart Clipboard while working in another application. It shows the project folder tree in a separate window. Select a document to read or edit it in a popup beside the navigator.

ThinkForge can open focused help for the control you are currently using. The help window searches the bundled User Docs project, so its results describe the same released behavior as this guide.

Your connected AI client calls these operations when you ask it to work with ThinkForge. You do not need to write requests yourself. Tell it the project, task, and whether it may change files.

Give an AI client standing rules for a ThinkForge project in a root file named THINKFORGE.md. Use it for terminology, writing style, where work belongs, and checks the client should make.

Connect a compatible AI client to ThinkForge MCP so it can search your projects, read documents, and save or revise project files. ThinkForge must be running on the same computer.

The ThinkForge MCP server works with any tool that supports the Model Context Protocol. This document covers which clients are supported, how to configure them, and how to verify the connection.

Use Power Strip's Agent and Automation buttons to run configured workflows without opening the full Tools page. Each button keeps its own settings and saved input.

The AI Activity Power Strip sidecar shows recent successful document changes made through ThinkForge MCP for the active project. It is available in the Power Strip customization catalog but is not added to default or existing profiles automatically.

Use Power Strip's browser commands to save or capture content from the active Chrome tab and run a configured Tool or automation with that page as input.

Use Power Strip to capture content, open project views, and run configured Tools. Select a command for its action or sidecar; right-click it for options.

Select the + button at the end of Power Strip to open Customize. Use Commands to choose buttons, Settings for appearance and position, and Status to review the current project and action log.

Keep quick capture and project actions available while using other applications. Power Strip is a floating command bar with buttons and compact sidecar panels.

Power Strip sidecars are compact panels that open beside the desktop strip. They provide focused access to project content and configured tools without opening the full ThinkForge window.

Project Map is a visual workspace for organizing a project, planning a system, or breaking a large idea into manageable parts. You can build a map with ThinkForge's Tool Agent, turn the current project's folder structure into a map, or start with one node and build it yourself.

Overview is Project Navigator's project summary. It is designed for quick re-entry: open the project, scan what exists and what was recently active, then move to the folder, workspace, or document you need.

The Clusters view shows the Cluster Graph, a spatial map of indexed documents. Each document is a node on a force-directed canvas. The view helps you see related material without relying on folder paths alone. Hover or focus the Clusters view selector and press F1 to open a prepopulated search of these User Docs for the SK Memory and relationship features behind the map.

Files is the default file-browsing view in Project Navigator. It shows the current folder's immediate subfolders and supported files. A selection in the folder tree activates the pinned Files tab, so other working tabs keep their state.

Insights View summarizes the active project's explicit document-link graph. It helps you find highly connected documents, documents with no manual links, and the relationship intents used across the project.

Project Navigator is ThinkForge's main project workspace. It combines project navigation, document browsing, activity recovery, and relationship views in one desktop surface. Automations have their own separate tab.

Workspaces are saved project contexts for a task or topic. They collect references to files, up to three goals, and attached ThinkForge tools so you can return to a stream of work without reconstructing it from memory.

Project templates give new projects a head start. Instead of creating an empty project and building structure from scratch, you select a template that provisions a set of documents, folders, and optionally agent deployments tailored to a specific type of work.

ThinkForge ships with 21 workspace templates organized into four categories. Each template creates a set of pre-configured documents tailored to a specific type of work.

Semantic search helps you find related meaning even when your query does not repeat the document's exact words. ThinkForge prepares local representations of document text, called embeddings, to support this search and related-document suggestions.

Open Project Navigator to search the active project's documents. You can search filenames and paths, document content, related meaning, or tags.

Find project documents by their words, meaning, or tags. SK Memory is the search system behind Project Navigator, related-document suggestions, and connected AI clients.

Reuse things you copied earlier without finding them again. Smart Clipboard keeps a persistent history of text, files, folders, and images across all your projects.

ThinkForge themes can be created through the Theme Editor in the desktop app, or by writing JSON files directly. This document covers both approaches and explains the structure of a theme file.

Choose a ThinkForge theme to change the application's colors and appearance. Switching a theme updates the whole interface immediately — there is no save step and no restart.

External service integrations require credentials — API keys or OAuth tokens — to authenticate. This document covers how credentials are stored, configured, and used by tools.

ThinkForge connects to 11 external services through the CallConnectedAPI skill. Connected services let tools read data from and push data to the platforms you use daily — project management, communication, CRM, scheduling, and financial tools.

Give a Tool the material it needs before running it. On the Tools page, select a deployment, then choose Documents or folders, Optional guidance, or Save New Files To to open its context editor.

A skill is an action a Tool can use. When creating a Tool, describe the work and the result you need; ThinkForge proposes the available actions for that workflow.

Create a reusable tool from the Tools page by describing the workflow in a conversation.

A tool stores a reusable workflow. A deployment places that tool on the Tools page, Power Strip, Ribbon, or a project folder.

The CallConnectedAPI skill connects tools to 11 external services. A single skill handles all services — the service and operation arguments determine which API endpoint gets called.

Use a Tool to read supporting files, find project files, and save processed results. Choose the main work under Documents or folders and review the destination before running it.

Run an existing Python script as a reusable ThinkForge Tool. Each deployment can use its own interpreter, script, arguments, input, and save destination.

Open Tools from the main command bar, select a deployment, and choose Run. The Tool uses the context and settings saved for that placement.

Detailed operation reference for each connected service. For each service, this lists the available operations, their target parameters (configured once), and content parameters (provided per execution).

A Tool is a sequence of actions called skills. A skill can read files, find project information, transform text or data, ask an AI to process it, contact a service, or save a result.

A saved tool contains a reusable workflow. A deployment is the configured placement you run from the Tools page or another surface.

Choose input and a place to run your Tool that match the workflow. These limits affect what you can rely on during a run.

A tool reports progress as its steps run and shows the final result or error.

A tool contains a reusable workflow. A deployment places that tool somewhere you can configure and run it. Each deployment can have its own context, settings, AI model, and triggers.

Triggers start a Tool or automation placement automatically, on a schedule or when files change in a folder. Each placement keeps its own triggers, so two copies of the same Tool can run at different times or watch different folders.

The Chrome extension does not provide a browser-native tool library or result viewer.

A Tool performs a saved workflow that you can use again with different input. It might summarize a document, transform text, save a result, search project knowledge, call a connected service, or run a local script.

Voice to Text turns an explicit microphone recording into editable text with a local Whisper model. Desktop recordings are captured and transcribed locally on your Windows or Mac computer. No online transcription service is used.

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