# Quickstart Guide!

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1. If you haven't already, sign up for an account at <https://topicalmap.ai>
2. Head to yours <https://topicalmap.ai/maps> page
3. Click the "add new map" button
4. Name your map (whatever you like)
5. Enter your niche (see next page for more tips here)!
6. Choose an output language
7. Choose the amount of topics (this is a *general* setting, rather than a *precise* number, etc)
8. Choose whether you'd like to edit the topics & subtopics BEFORE generating the map (see below)
9. Click submit
10. Wait a few mins
11. Browse your new map, click to copy to clipboard, or download the .CSV file!

### Using the "Edit subtopics" setting 👇

If you choose "yes" to editing the topics and subtopics, you'll have an extra step after hitting the submit button.

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To edit the subtopic or parent topic, simply click the words and start typing.

(Clicking away or pressing 'tab' saves this!)

To delete a subtopic/topic, click the red 'remove' button.

To add a new subtopic/topic, click the 'add' button towards the bottom, **then click the PLACEHOLDER topic and start typing!**

When you're done, hit submit to generate the map with the microtopics, etc.


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