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With relative compact flagship Making a quiet comeback, it is no surprise that OnePlus wants to have. The compact size OnePlus 13sExclusive to India, the company’s latest efforts to get a balance between size, premium hardware, a few calculated compromises and a reasonable price point. It also comes close, with a Snapdragon 8 elite chipsetA hand friendly 6.3-inch screen, and a large battery. It also brings with it the new plus key and a renewed focus on AI. To be fair, OnePlus has been talking about AI for a while, just like any other smartphone marks, but the 13th century feels like the first time it is trying to make it central to the user experience.
Mind Space feels more like a bookmarking tool than an AI assistant.
This shift is anchored by the Plus key, a hardware shortcut to trigger a selection of shortcuts such as profiles, flashlight, camera and, of course, AI-powered features. Among them is Mind Space, a tool that is intended to help users save and organize what is on screen. It’s not a big leap from Pixel screen imageswhat Nothing does with essential spaceOr what several productivity apps have experimented with, but Mind Space, paired with the Plus key, shows potential as a digital memory bank for screens, copied text and other excerpts. In theory it is useful. In practice, it still feels half -baked.
Mind Space needs a better way to organize information
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The idea behind the mental room is simple enough. Press the plus key or trigger a gesture if you are on a device that OnePlus 13 It doesn’t have a plus key and you can catch what you see on the screen. A website, an image, a paragraph, even part of an interface, and send it to a central interface. OnePlus uses AI on devices to analyze and sort your content into different categories. It is a feature that is clearly designed for the way we actually use our phones in 2025. In the information overload time for information, we all grip things to look at later, whether it is a recipe, a product coupling, a boarding passport or something you don’t have time to read at the moment. The problem, however, is that the room room does not go far enough yet.
This can be a really useful tool for people living online. It’s just not there yet.
My first grip is a pretty big one, but I think seriously that the interface needs Mertek. Right now it is more of a linear dump than an organized system. Everything you capture is erected chronologically with minimal sorting. You can filter for content source, but it’s about it. There is no tagging, no folders, no smart grouping beyond the source – a feature pixel screens handle a little better. Mind Space would benefit from Automatic categorization. In fact, this should have been a standard function given the use of an LLM on devices. Receipts, personal notes, ideas, social media screens, even summaries of websites, with manual override for people who want control, are what I want to see. If there is a room to manage everything you have caught, it must offer more than one feed.
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Search is another weak point. AI can retrieve a certain context, but it is affected or missed. Search for “portable appointments” and it can find your saved screen from Amazon, or can’t. Search for date or vague context, and the results will be even more inconsistent. A real semantic search engine that understands what you meant, not just what you wrote, would go far. The OCR functionality should not just dump information from one page. It should summarize and categorize it better. I understand that this is just the first iteration of the app, but it needs these features to build an audience and critical mass. I want to love the ability to use Mind Space to build a collection of must-reads shared by Instagram Booktok creators, but it can’t. Or what about summarized versions of interesting articles? At the moment, everything I get a link, author information and publication date is. It is not very useful for a summary tool.
For a feature located as a personal productivity tool, it is strangely disconnected from the rest of the phone.
Automation is another area where the cousin can grow. Right now, everything requires a manual trigger. But the potential here is in passive catch. If the system notifies I have copied the same text several times, it can offer to save it. If I always take screens of recipes or Instagram ads, it can automatically tag and sort them into collections. OnePlus has AI on a device that runs anyway, so why not let it predict my behavior and suggest prisoners or even actions based on what I save? Taking it a step further will also help speech entrance. If I could say “Remember this restaurant” or “Save this address to later” and get AI to find and save relevant content, it will make your mind feel more like a real assistant. There is no reason why the voice cannot be part of the interface, especially when other OEMs move quickly to add voice control over their AI features.
Then there is none cloud synchronization. As niche as my grip sounds, it is important for the way I argue information. Mind Space is completely local, which means that everything I store life only on my phone. Replace devices, lose your phone, or try to work across a tablet or laptop, and all that is captured content is gone or inaccessible. If OnePlus is serious about building an AI-driven memorial system, it must offer a way to back up and synchronize the mind space across devices. Even better, a web or desktop client will let users organize and shop on stored content outside the phone. Until then, it is not really a memorial system. It’s just a temporary closet.
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Then there is the fenced garden problem. Mind Space is not meaningful with other apps or services. I can’t export content to Google Drive or send it to my Notes app. The only integration across apps I’ve come across so far is the ability to make calendar events. As convenient as it is, it is not enough. For a feature located as a personal productivity tool, it is strangely disconnected from the rest of the phone. OnePlus should think seriously about app integrations, Whether it is through deep coupling, system -level shortcuts or a proper API that allows developers to connect in the neat room.
Export Is a pain point too. When something is in mind, it is not easy to get it out. There is no bulk export and no way to send content to third -party apps in a structured format. For users who want to write notes in documents or track stored things in a spreadsheet, Mind Space is a dead end. A proper export function, although limited to standard formats such as PDF or Markdown, would make the tool more useful in everyday workflows.
Privacy is another concern for me. While OnePlus says that most of Mind Space is AI on one device, there is no real transparency about what data is stored, how long they are retained or what happens when you delete something. For a feature designed to capture all kinds of personal information, there is a problem. A dedicated privacy panel with switches for data storage, synchronization of ever introduced, and analysis history will help to build trust.
Most of all, if OnePlus is really serious about this, Mind Space must be more than just a scrapbook. Give it a little structure. Let users add checklists or reminders of stored content. Show clippings in the context of a timeline. What you saved, when and why. Maybe even repetitive themes over time. If someone continues to save screens on an upcoming trip, it is probably worth surface like a smart folder or project. This is the kind of use cases that AI stands out.
The mind is close but not essential
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Look, I like what OnePlus tries with the nicknome. It is a real problem for users like me using a rich amount of information every day. But for it to succeed, the native room should feel personal. Not just in what it saves, but how it develops. If a user tends to cut content during working hours, you can prioritize showing these items first. If someone mostly stores posts in social media and shopping couplings, you can offer price tracking or AI summaries, or extracting more information as the book -examination I mentioned earlier. This is not the opportunity, as dedicated apps already let you do it.
Right now, Mind Space feels like a public beta concept. A good concept, but still a concept. It is not useless, but it does not pack enough tools to build a workflow around. That may change. The foundation is solid, the hardware support is already there, and the wider trend towards Ai-First experiences only fetches the speed. But in order for the mental room to do something, OnePlus needs to treat it as more than a checkout route on the function list.
Right now, Mind Space feels like a public beta concept. A good concept, but still a concept.
Mind Space has to become a key part of how people use their phones every day. When paired with OnePlus’s Excellent tablets For content consumption, I could see that this was a compelling reason to switch to the company’s ecosystem. But it’s not there yet. If OnePlus wants to build an ecosystem that is smarter, more contextually and more personal, this is the right place to start, but it has worked to cut it out.