MindToo manual · Chapter 5
Settings and the licence.
Every section of the Settings screen, and what the trial and the licence actually do.
Licence
The trial, and after it.
- The trial
Fourteen days with everything working. Settings shows how many days are left.
- When it ends
Keeping new things waits for a licence; reading, search and export stay open. Your memory is never held hostage.
- Buying
Press Buy on the MindToo page. Polar handles payment, VAT and receipts, and emails your licence key as soon as you buy. A founding licence is £29 once, with every 1.x update, on up to three of your own computers.
- Activating
In Settings, under Licence, paste the key and activate. Or, from a terminal,
mindtoo activate KEY. Settings then reads "Active" with the key masked, and the window shows Licensed.- Re-checks and offline
The key is checked with the shop once, then about weekly, and keeps working for 30 days without a connection. If it has gone longer than that, connect once so it can be checked.
- Refunds
There is no automatic refund: the fourteen-day trial is for deciding before you pay. A request after buying is considered on its own; write to support@privateai.ltd.
- Moving computers
Your key is on your Polar purchases page, where you sign in with the email you bought with, and can free a computer to use the licence on another.
The rest of Settings
Section by section.
- Appearance
Dark by default, light if you prefer, or whatever Windows is set to.
- Remember everything
The switch that keeps every message you send and every reply, in every connected assistant, only on this computer. Turning it on or off takes effect when each assistant is quit and reopened.
- Start with Windows
MindToo starts quietly in the tray when you sign in, so your assistants always have their memory.
- Search by meaning
A small model built into MindToo finds memories that mean the same as your question, even with different words. It runs on this computer and never goes online. If you run your own local embeddings server,
mindtoo embeddings URL MODELpoints MindToo at it instead.- Backups
A complete copy of your memory, made every day, and whenever you ask for one. Restoring a backup brings back anything deleted after it was made; nothing you have now is changed.
- Your data
Everything MindToo holds is in one file on this computer. Export it any time, even without a licence, with Export everything;
mindtoo import FILEbrings an export back.- Uninstalling
Uninstall from Windows Settings like any app. Your memory stays in the
.mindtoofolder; install MindToo again and it is all still there.- About
The version you are running, who made it (PrivateAI, Belfast Ltd), and where to write: support@privateai.ltd. About MindToo in the Help menu says the same.
Next: Chapter 6, the command line, and when something is wrong.