A 5-minute tour of Eden

If you read one help article, read this one. Five minutes here saves you a week of poking around.

What Eden is for

Eden helps creators write posts that have a real chance of hitting. Most of the work behind a post that hits happens before the writing. The best creators spend hours studying what is already working in their niche. Teams build whole research workflows around it, with researchers, shared swipe files, and inspiration boards. Eden gives a solo creator the same setup.

Three jobs the product does:

• Surfaces outliers. Posts that did meaningfully better than the creator's own average get filtered to the top.
• Saves anything. Drop in posts from Discover, links from anywhere on the internet, images, and PDFs. A board can be a swipe file. It can be a content board with sections for ideas, research, drafts, tweets, and scripts for the week.
• Sits next to your writing. Outline, jot ideas, organize a content calendar, write your next post against the examples you saved. A minimalist workspace built for creators.

That is the whole product. Everything below is detail.

The three surfaces

Discover

The outlier feed and creator directory. It has three tabs:

• Discover. Search 3 million+ posts across YouTube, TikTok, X, Substack, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Filter by platform and niche. Each post shows an outlier multiplier telling you how much better that post performed than the creator's own typical post. A 5x outlier means the post got five times the views or likes that creator usually gets, depending on the platform. Read the outlier multiplier article for the full mental model.
• Creators. Find any creator and pull up their feed, filtered by what is performing. Add any of their posts to a board with one click, the same way you would from the Discover tab. This is one of the best sources of "what works" you can study.
• My lists. Group creators into a list and read the list as a single feed. Open "Productivity creators" and you see every recent top post from those people. Lists are most useful as a focused content feed for one niche or one project.

Boards

The library. Anything worth keeping goes on a board. Save posts from Discover with one click. Paste links from anywhere on the internet. Upload images and PDFs. Drop in a thought you had in the shower. Or save straight from the web as you browse with the Chrome extension.

Each board has two useful views. Grid view keeps a swipe file structured and sortable by custom order, name, item type, or date. Freeform canvas lets you arrange research, links, drafts, and multiple chats spatially when you need to see an entire project at once. Switch views without moving the underlying work to another app.

Inside a board, you can split items into sections. A weekly content board, for example, can have sections for Ideas, Research, Drafts, Tweets, and Reels.

You can also group related boards into a space in the sidebar. A space is a one-layer folder. Spaces do not nest inside other spaces.

Chat

Eden's AI chat uses whatever you give it as source material. Open it next to a board and the chat sees every item on that board. Select specific items to scope it down. A prompts board where you pick the right prompt for the moment is a common pattern. You can also @ mention any board or item to pull it in without leaving your current view. Use it for research, outlining, hooks, and stress-testing ideas. Final voice and judgement stay yours.

The one workflow that makes it click

Most users find Eden useful the moment they run this loop end to end:

1. 01

   Set your topics in Discover

   On the Discover tab, pick the platforms and pillars (top-level topics) you care about. Discover indexes millions of posts across every major platform. Filtering by your pillar narrows it to the posts worth studying.

2. 02

   Skim Discover for ten minutes

   Save anything that gives you a "I could do my own version of that" reaction. Drop them onto a board called something like "swipe file" or "next month's ideas".

3. 03

   Open the board next to your draft

   The board sits beside the post you are writing. You read the saved examples, you see what worked, you write your version with that vocabulary in your head.

4. 04

   Optionally, chat with the board

   When you need a head start on hooks, titles, or structure, open the chat panel and ask. The AI references the items on the board so the suggestions stay grounded in posts that actually performed.

The key thing: research goes onto a board. Social posts, links, PDFs, your own notes. The board sits next to your writing. That is the whole loop. Content work has its own place, separate from grocery lists, meeting notes, and project docs. That separation is part of why it works.

Beyond the core loop

Once the find-save-write loop is running, a few more parts of Eden do the heavy lifting:

• Strategy briefs. Instead of skimming Discover yourself, let Eden's strategist sweep your niche every week and hand you a plan backed by real breakout posts.
• Scheduling. When a draft is ready, queue it and Eden publishes it to X, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Substack at the right time.
• Eden MCP. Connect Eden to Claude, ChatGPT, or another AI client and pull your research, saved posts, and voice into the chat you already write in.

What Eden is not

A few things people sometimes expect that Eden does not do:

• Eden does not write your posts for you. We built the AI to be a thought partner and stress tester for ideas. For creators, your voice is the asset. The ones who keep their writing their own will hold the advantage as the average person hands more of theirs over to AI.
• Eden does not host your finished work. Drafts live in Eden. The published post lives on YouTube, X, Substack, or wherever.

Where to go next

• New to boards? Read creating your first board.
• Curious how the outlier number is computed? Read the outlier multiplier explainer.
• Coming from beta.eden.so? Read the beta migration article.