HELP & DOCS

Everything you need
to ship strategy on a canvas.

Magical Nodes is a visual research canvas: drop sources, wire them into AI chat hubs, run custom slash-command skills, and export polished decks. Pick a section below.

From zero to first deck in five minutes

The mental model is simple: canvas → sources → chat hub → report. Source nodes pull in raw content. Edges feed that content into a chat hub. The hub uses it as context. You ship the answer as Markdown, PDF, or a polished PowerPoint.

1 · Create your first board

From the Boards page click + New board. You’ll land on a fresh canvas with a single Main chat hub seeded for you.

2 · Add a source

Hit + Add source in the toolbar. Pick what you have — a YouTube URL, a PDF, a website, a Google Maps query, a SERP keyword, anything from the 13+ source types. Magical Nodes fetches the content automatically (transcripts, HTML, PDFs, reviews, places, etc.).

Most sources are scraped via Apify in the background — so a Maps search or SERP scrape can take 10–30 seconds while the node says “fetching…”. You can keep working — the canvas is fully async.

3 · Connect it to the hub

Drag from the right edge of any source node to the left edge of a Chat hub. The hub now uses that source’s content as context. Connect as many as you want — multiple sources are merged into a single context bundle (capped at ~35K characters per call to stay inside model budgets).

4 · Chat with your sources

Open the hub and ask in plain English. Use the model picker (top of the chat) to switch between Claude Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5.2 mid-conversation. Custom starter prompts are auto-generated based on what you have connected — a Maps node shows “Compare top 5 by reviews”, a YouTube node shows “Summarise the video in 3 bullets”.

5 · Ship the output

Two paths:

A
Send chat to a Report node
Reports format your conversation into structured Markdown ready for export.
B
Run /make-deck inline
Type /make-deck inside the hub and you get a brand-themed PowerPoint deck back as a download link, generated server-side using the upgraded Anthropic-skill-aligned renderer.

Cheat sheet

Add a sourceToolbar → + Add source
Connect nodesDrag from right handle to left handle
Open chat hubClick the hub node
Slash commandsType / inside a chat — autocomplete pops up
Save as templateHeader → Save as template
Browse templatesToolbar → Templates (orange)
Switch modelModel picker at the top of the chat panel
Export deck/make-deck inside chat, or Report node → PPTX
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Built on Anthropic + OpenAI + Apify Keys encrypted (Fernet/AES) No training on your data Brand-themed PPTX export Embeddable widgets