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Best Practices/June 20, 2026

Bring your AI tools closer to how you think

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Ethan Palm

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Bring your AI tools closer to how you think
SUMMARY

You know a lot of things that aren't findable. Your decisions, your research, your hard-won context, scattered across Notion, Google Docs, and notes apps. Mintlify gives you a personal knowledge base that's structured for retrieval by both you and the AI tools you use every day.

You've written it down somewhere. The decision you made last quarter, the research you spent a week on, the thing you figured out that you don't want to figure out again. It's in Notion, or a Google Doc, or a note you took on your phone. When you need it, you can't find it. When your AI assistant needs it, it can't see it at all.

The issue isn't volume. Nothing connects your knowledge where it lives.

Your knowledge, connected and searchable

You use Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT daily. But they don't know your current projects, your past decisions, or what you've already tried. Every conversation starts from scratch. You end up re-explaining context you've already written down somewhere, or worse, you forget you already solved this.

Your notes are in one place, decisions in another, research somewhere else, with no structure to connect them.

"By the time knowledge issues become visible, they're already expensive."

— David Hou, Decagon

Write once, find it forever

Most personal knowledge systems are write-only in practice. You capture something, and it disappears into a folder you'll never open.

Semantic search finds what you wrote even when you don't remember the exact words. Search for the idea, not the phrase. Your notes become a resource you can actually use.

Your AI tools know your full context

Your knowledge base connects directly to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI tool. When you ask your assistant a question, it queries your notes, your decisions, and your research rather than starting from scratch.

An AI tool that can't read your notes gives generic answers. One that can gives you specific ones.

"Today, humans talk to an agent that queries the site. The next step is an agent that finds the site and acts autonomously. Mintlify is the layer that makes both possible."

— Patrick Marsceill, Notion

Start free. No credit card required. Build your knowledge base today and give your AI tools the context they need.

AI tools can query your knowledge directly

Your content is readable and queryable by AI tools by design, not as an afterthought. An llms.txt file is generated automatically for your knowledge base. You don't need to configure anything. The structure is there when you need it.

The format is becoming standard: Anthropic, Together.ai, Vercel, and Coinbase have all published llms.txt files for their docs. The same structure that makes their documentation AI-queryable works for your personal knowledge base too.

Ask your notes questions, get cited answers

Ask questions and get cited answers from what you've actually written and decided, not from a general training corpus. Ask "what did I decide about the API structure for that project" and get an answer with a link to the note it came from.

Your knowledge lives in a repo you own

Your content lives in a repository you control, not in a vendor's database that you lose access to if you cancel. Write in Markdown or MDX. Publish to a clean URL. Keep a copy locally. It's yours.

Build a knowledge base that works for you

Mintlify is the layer that makes your knowledge accessible, to you and to the agentic tools that need it.

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Connect your notes. Your knowledge base is live in minutes.