Show HN: doXmind – for people who want docs, not all of Notion
We built doXmind for people who want docs and AI, but not all of Notion.
Notion is powerful, but if your main use case is writing, collaboration, and AI help inside documents, it can feel like more than you actually need. You end up inside a much bigger workspace of databases, templates, and project management features, when sometimes all you really want is a clean doc editor with strong AI built in.
So we took a different approach.
In doXmind, AI works directly in the document instead of living in a sidebar chat. It reads the structure of what you’re writing, helps with multi-step workflows like research → draft → revise → format, and applies changes inline. Every AI edit shows up as a diff, so you can review and accept or reject each change instead of getting a black-box rewrite.
You can also upload PDFs, research papers, and style guides into a knowledge base. doXmind searches across those sources, pulls relevant context into the writing flow, and cites what it used.
We’ve also built support for cross-document AI across your files, version history with restore, BYOK, diagram support, presentation mode, and export to Markdown, PDF, and Word.
We’re two co-founders bootstrapping from Toronto. We don’t train on your content.
It’s free to try: https://app.doxmind.com
We’re also running an early-bird Pro plan at $2.99/month.
If you’ve wanted something lighter than Notion for writing-focused work, I’d love to hear what matters most to you in a doc editor.
Question about the knowledge base: when it pulls from uploaded PDFs and cites sources, how granular are the citations? Page-level? Paragraph-level? For research-heavy writing, the difference between "this came from your uploaded paper" vs "this came from page 12, paragraph 3 of your uploaded paper" is huge for trust.
The $2.99/month early-bird is aggressive pricing. At that price point the unit economics only work if AI usage per user is relatively low - have you modeled what happens if power users start running heavy AI workflows across large documents? BYOK helps here but most casual users will not bring their own key.
One thing that might strengthen the positioning: the "lighter than Notion" framing undersells it a bit. You are not just Notion-minus-features, you are building something Notion cannot easily bolt on - deep document-native AI with provenance tracking. That is a genuinely different product category.