AI import
The document said something.
Now you can work with it.
Drop in a .docx or .odt and Atlas Red reads the whole thing — headings, structure, and the actual content — then builds a map you can edit, extend and export. Not a picture of your document. Not a tree of its headings. A map of what it says.
How it works
Pick your file
Word, OpenDocument, PDF or a caption file — or paste the text straight in if it lives somewhere else.
Say what you want out of it
Choose how detailed, and name the fields the AI should fill on every topic. Or skip it — the defaults are sensible.
Get a map, not a summary
Every topic is editable, linkable and exportable to any of 14 formats. Imports run in the background.
The part other tools skip.
Most document-to-mind-map tools hand back a tree of your section headings. That's a table of contents in a fan shape — and if the document's headings were vague, so is the map. It tells you the document exists. It doesn't tell you anything the document said.
Atlas Red reads the content: the decisions, the numbers, the owners, the open questions. A specification becomes the constraints it imposes. A meeting write-up becomes what was decided and what wasn't. A research paper becomes its claims, not its section titles.
This is also the easiest route for meeting transcripts, which is not obvious: Microsoft Teams and Google Meet both export a transcript as .docx, so the file you already have imports directly — nothing to copy. See transcript to mind map for what to name your fields.
Fields make it queryable
Before the import, name the values you want on every topic. The AI fills them in as it reads:
The result is a map you can sort and filter, not just look at — every open item with no owner, everything due this month, every high-risk branch. You can define up to 20 fields, or none at all. You can also give a sentence or two of focus telling the import what the map should be about, and it follows it.
Size is yours too: overview for a roughly 15-node summary, balanced for around 40, detailed for around 100. That choice is about usefulness — a 100-node dump of a two-page memo is worse than a 15-node map of it.
What it costs
Document import is AI, so it's one of the few things in Atlas Red that costs anything — and only when you use it. There is no AI subscription:
$1 trial credit
Every new account starts with it — no credit card required, valid 30 days.
AI credit packs
Top up when you like — no subscription, no expiry. Failed jobs are never charged.
Bring your own key Pro
With a Pro license, connect your own API key and pay only your provider. Atlas Red adds no markup, ever.
You pay for what the model costs, and the app shows the cost of every job. A long report or a full meeting transcript usually costs 10–30¢ at the Balanced setting; a page or two is a few cents, and Detailed costs more again. Documents cap at 200,000 characters — a long report or a short book; past that the import tells you plainly instead of quietly dropping the end.
Questions people ask
Which document formats can I import?
Word (.docx), OpenDocument text (.odt), PDF, subtitle and caption files (.vtt, .srt), and plain text or Markdown pasted straight in. A PDF with a real text layer is read as text; a scanned one falls back to reading the pages as images.
Does it just turn my headings into branches?
No — that's what most tools do. Atlas Red reads what the document says: decisions, numbers, owners, open questions. A document with bad headings still produces a useful map.
Can I control how big or detailed the map is?
Yes — overview for roughly 15 nodes, balanced for around 40, detailed for around 100. You can also give a sentence or two of focus, and the import follows it.
What are fields, and why would I set them?
Structured values on every topic — Owner, Due date, Status, Risk, whatever your work needs. Name them first and the AI fills them in as it reads, so the map is sortable and filterable rather than only readable. Up to 20, or skip it entirely.
Is there a limit on document length?
200,000 characters — a long report or a short book. Over that the import refuses with a clear message rather than silently dropping the end, and you can import a section at a time.
What does a document import cost?
Every new account starts with $1 of trial credit, valid 30 days, no credit card. After that, prepaid packs with no subscription and no expiry — or with a Pro license, your own API key at no markup. Failed jobs are never charged.
Also AI import: PDF, photos and whiteboards, meeting transcripts. Already have an outline? Markdown imports free.