How do I figure out what I want to study or do?

By trying, not by guessing. On Fields you pick any topic you are curious about, rockets, the brain, game design, and it becomes a field you actually work inside. If it is not it, you drop it and try another. There is no cost to switching, and no wrong answer.

Fields is a free space by MindsNet built around one thing you are curious about. It is not a course platform and not a feed: it is a lab where you track what matters in your field, build real things, work with people from anywhere, and keep your whole journey recorded as you go.

I already know what I'm obsessed with. What does Fields give me?

Depth and a record. Go all in on your field: build inside it with people from anywhere in the world, and have the whole journey kept in one place instead of lost across forum threads, old notes, and forgotten tabs.

Yes. Fields is free on the web and as a mobile app.

Working in Labs

Use Lab blocks and the unified Feed

Choose blocks for the work, use Feed perspectives and lenses, and understand solo versus shared items.

Current Fields experience4 sections

In this guide

Blocks are work surfaces

Blocks give a Lab a specific workflow: messages, personal agent, Feed, roadmap, dataset, projects, experiments, open problems, tools, and other Field or Polymath methods. Available blocks depend on Lab mode.

Solo and shared work

Solo items are visible only to their creator.
Shared items are visible to Lab members.
Public visibility is a separate owner setting at block level.
Moving or sharing an item changes its audience; review the destination first.

Unified Feed

Group shows content relevant to the Lab's Fields.
Mine focuses on your own pull and saved context.
Saved lenses are reusable filtering perspectives.
Community contains work shared by members.
Refresh requests can have quota and cooldown limits; an active pull continues on the server while the client polls its status.

Create a useful lens

1Name the outcome rather than a broad topic.
2Add terms that distinguish useful results from generic results.
3Choose a cadence and balance that matches how quickly the Field changes.
4Review results before keeping the lens; delete lenses that repeatedly produce noise.

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