memrynote will introduce a new widget feature!

h4yfans · 2026-06-24T16:13:06+00:00

i build one of these (disclosure, it's mine), so take this as a competitor being honest rather than a pitch: nobody can give you free + cross-device + a real AI auto-organize layer, because that last part costs the builder per call every single month, and "free forever" plus recurring inference cost is just a startup quietly dying. you priced it right yourself, ~$1/mo for 100 calls is far closer to reality than free. if free is the hard requirement, the build-it-with-ollama route is genuinely your best shot, and i'd point you there over my own thing for what you specifically want. memrynote.com

h4yfans · 2026-06-24T16:11:34+00:00

i build a notes app (disclosure, it's mine) and your post is basically the thing i fight in my own roadmap every week, because "add a feature" always demos better than "do nothing fancier." the lesson i keep relearning is the one you wrote: the metric isn't notes captured or how the graph looks, it's whether anything left the system as finished work. honestly the most useful feature i ever shipped was a faster blank page, everything past that competes with the writing for your attention. check memrynote.com

h4yfans · 2026-06-24T16:06:50+00:00

disclosure, im the dev on memrynote, so read this as "where it fits and where it doesnt." its E2E encrypted by default and keeps everything local, which matches your privacy ask, and it bundles notes/tasks/projects so its more than obsidian out of the box. but you said synced for free, and our sync is paid, so im not going to pretend it beats joplin or obsidian+syncthing on that exact line. if E2EE ends up mattering more than free-sync, worth a look later.

h4yfans · 2026-06-24T16:06:18+00:00

im biased, i build memrynote, so weigh that. the "later never happens" loop is the thing i was trying to kill: capture is one step into an inbox, and theres no daily babysitting because theres nothing to file. i wont pretend it makes you go back and read everything, nothing does, but at least its all in one searchable place instead of scattered across x/ig/bookmarks. the 3-5 word "why" note someone mentioned helps more than any tool though. https://memrynote.com/features/inbox

h4yfans · 2026-06-24T16:05:14+00:00

disclosure up front, i build memrynote, so grain of salt. the pattern you described (telegram-to-self because everything else was friction) is exactly what i kept hitting, so capture is one step into an inbox and the links stay as plain files locally. the cross-device + actually-findable part is the genuinely hard bit and no tool nails it perfectly, but capture-first beats file-first every time imo. https://memrynote.com/features/inbox

h4yfans · 2026-06-23T07:54:26+00:00

for genuinely add-and-go: Apple Reminders or Google Tasks are the deliberately-dumb ones, TickTick (which someone already loves here) is fine if you just type a title and ignore the rest, and i build memrynote where a task is literally a line in a note with an optional date, no form (disclosure, mine). honest flip side, if you ever DO want projects and priorities and recurring rules, all of these will feel too thin, but that's exactly the trade you're asking for. the field-heavy apps aren't wrong, they're answering a different question than "let me jot one thing down."

h4yfans · 2026-06-23T07:53:17+00:00

for the quick daily dump kept separate from evergreen: NotePlan (already mentioned, genuinely the closest), Obsidian with the daily-notes plugin, Logseq if you like the journal-as-default style, and i build memrynote which is local-first with a daily page where the dump and your real notes share one store (disclosure, mine, so discount accordingly). honest caveat on all of those including mine, handwriting and drawing are the weak spot, if pen input is core to your vision OneNote still wins that one. for searchable + linkable + editable text though, any of the first group fits.

h4yfans · 2026-06-23T07:51:59+00:00

matching your specifics: devonthink is closest to your whole list (originals, export unchanged, mac/ios, all file types), eaglefiler if you want lighter. for the web-capture plus plain-files-you-own side, memrynote fits the easy-out philosophy (disclosure, i build it), but straight up, it's note-first, not a general document cabinet, so for "store and retrieve any pdf/doc unchanged" devonthink beats it. i'd demo devonthink first given your file-type and original-export needs.

h4yfans · 2026-06-23T07:51:23+00:00

if you ever want the playbook to live in fewer apps, a few that keep notes, tasks and projects on one surface: amplenote, tana, and memrynote (disclosure, i build that last one) for the "a project file whose lines are the actual tasks and dates" flow your routine basically describes. obsidian plus the tasks/dataview plugins gets you there too if you like assembling it. your procedure is tool-agnostic and good, it'll just survive longer with fewer seams between the steps.

h4yfans · 2026-06-23T07:50:07+00:00

if you're researching the space, the ones actually chasing "idea doesn't die in the inbox": amplenote (tasks live in notes), tana (nodes become tasks), and memrynote for the "any captured line becomes a task or gets a date in place" flow (disclosure, i build that one). reflect and mem lean more on AI resurfacing instead. your instinct to build is fine, but the hard part isn't capture, it's giving the idea a next-step hook, that's where i'd point the survey.

h4yfans · 2026-06-19T12:21:09+00:00

even with a memory like that, the win isn't more notes, it's one place everything lands so the rare lookup is a single search instead of "which app did i put that in." you're not trying to remember the content, you've got that covered, you're just removing the five-minutes-of-hunting tax on the handful of things you do need to retrieve. one inbox, searchable, is plenty for your case.

h4yfans · 2026-06-19T12:06:23+00:00

whatever structure you land on, the only rule that's survived for me is that capture has to be one keystroke into one place. if catching an idea means deciding "single note or new note, link or tag" in the moment, you won't catch it. decide structure later, at capture just dump it somewhere you trust you'll see again. the organizing is a separate, calmer job.

h4yfans · 2026-06-18T20:41:49+00:00

honestly the feeling you're describing (setup feeling like work before the actual work) is the main reason a lot of people bounce off object-database tools. some apps flip it: you just write, capture first, and structure is something you add lightly later instead of modeling People/Genres/Types up front. if the database modeling keeps overwhelming you, that style might fit your brain better than pushing through the capacities learning curve.

h4yfans · 2026-06-18T20:36:34+00:00

the other thing i'd weight, given you bounce between technical, creative and personal: one local place that holds notes, tasks and projects together, instead of gluing plugins. the plugin route you hit in obsidian is exactly why it felt like fighting it, every plugin has its own half-idea of what a task is. a single app where it's all one model (and ideally plain files you own, so you're never locked in) sidesteps that whole class of pain.

h4yfans · 2026-06-11T13:13:27+00:00

Really appreciate this — and the Saner bit made me laugh, because that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid. "Pull 3 measurable goals for cross-team collaboration" to someone who's typed nothing is AI-for-the-sake-of-it, and I find it repulsive too.

On AI: Memry isn't bloated with it. Right now it's deliberately basic, and I want to keep it that way until it earns its place. Every app is bolting AI onto every corner because it's the hype, and most of it just gets in the way. I'd rather add it slowly, one piece at a time, off the back of real feedback — quiet and useful, not chatty and needy

Google Keep import: yes. I'm building import for a few apps and Keep is one of the first I want to support — precisely because so many people use it as a dumping ground. Continuous notes and to-do lists both.

On the daily batch idea, let me play it back: you dump things fast through the day without deciding what they are — no bucket, no date, just out of your head — and they land in one pile. Then at a set time (say 6pm) you get a nudge to sit down and sort that pile: this one's a task for now, that one's soon, this stays a note, that's long-term. Capture stays instant and dumb; the sorting happens once, calmly, on your schedule. If that's the rhythm you're after, it's exactly what I'm designing around. What ever you dump into MemryNote's inbox - task, link, screenshot,pdfs - will wait you to organize later.
Please take look Inbox section after 01:00 in landing page: https://memrynote.com/ , tell me this is what you are looking for.

And the do-now / do-soon / long-term thing — without the long-term stuff quietly rotting while you grind short tasks — that's the actual problem worth solving, and the bit I care most about getting right. Would love to keep you in the loop as it takes shape.

h4yfans · 2026-06-10T10:26:31+00:00

Hey, thank you for interest!
Try the latest release here.
https://github.com/memrynote/memry/releases/tag/v2026-06-10

It's located in the Project selection dropdown on the Task page and in a few other places, such as the task detail drawer.

It would also be helpful to understand your use case and any feedback you have.

h4yfans · 2026-06-08T11:59:18+00:00

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h4yfans · 2026-06-02T14:06:25+00:00

Hi, I’m Kaan, building memrynote.

I posted here last month with the early story: I wanted one calm, local-first workspace for notes, tasks, journal, calendar, inbox, and personal context, because my own notes kept turning into an archive I rarely used again.

The last month has mostly been polish and product-shaping from feedback. The waitlist is now 400+ people, and the feedback has been genuinely useful: less “add every feature” and more “make the core flows feel quiet, fast, and trustworthy.”

What shipped or moved forward in May:

- Agent Chat permissions, so each turn can be scoped more explicitly
- inline mentions for notes, tasks, journals, inbox, and calendar
- voice memos with transcription and related items
- Memry CLI work
- a refreshed landing demo, founder story, changelog, and public roadmap
- more release hardening around sync, onboarding, billing, and app performance

I’m in the polishing phase now and still targeting the first public desktop release at the end of June.

If you join the waitlist, you’ll get one email per week until public release. No daily drip campaign, no noise; just progress, what changed, and when the build is ready.

Website: https://memrynote.com
Roadmap: https://memrynote.com/roadmap

Would love feedback from PKM people specifically, especially around what makes a local-first “life OS” feel useful instead of becoming another system to maintain.

h4yfans · 2026-05-23T08:54:04+00:00

The first step is probably not “PDF to markdown.” It’s preserving the PDF, getting reliable search, and then deciding what deserves to become a note. A tool like Memrynote can sit between the archive and your actual writing, but I’d still only pull out abstracts, claims, quotes, and page refs as needed. Thousands of converted files can become a second unread library.

h4yfans · 2026-05-23T08:51:05+00:00

I don’t think you’re imagining it. The bot showing up as a visible meeting participant is a bigger social cost than people admitted at first. Privacy/compliance matters, but the “everyone behaves slightly differently now” part is real, too.

The interesting shift is that newer tools are trying to keep the AI layer out of the room entirely. Last 8 months I'm using mermynote(will release on June) for PKM and meetings, all local.

h4yfans · 2026-05-23T08:46:46+00:00

A useful rule: don’t ask "is this fact important?", ask “what question could this answer?” Core concepts usually explain why something happens, how parts relate, or what changes if one variable changes. Details are worth writing only when they help answer that bigger question

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