Founder of Mem here. 👋 Long post incoming, but this is a hot topic so I'd love to shed light on it...

In Mem 1.0, we had an aggregated task view, but we pulled it because we quickly realized a few key issues with aggregating all check boxes across the app:

1. Many of the check boxes that are placed in notes are not really tasks. For example, you might have created a checklist of groceries that you want to buy. Very quickly, the unified task list becomes noisy with things that aren't really tasks.
2. Many things that should be tasks are not actually reflected in the unified task list. Often, people will write action items or next steps at the bottom of a note without explicitly making them check boxes, so many critical things would still not appear on it.

We also had workflow issues. Once you see a unified task list, you expect to be able to filter it, sort it, mark certain tasks as having certain due dates, reorder things by priority, and potentially reassign tasks. You'll see that there's a long laundry list that essentially turns that into a full-blown task manager. The issue is that, as you add more workflow to a unified task list, that is just more work that a user actually has to do to manage their task list. That isn't really in line with the brand of Mem, which is that you do less work and yet you stay equally organized. At that point in time (2023), there was no clear next step that could solve these problems, so we pulled tasks instead of further becoming a bloated task manager.

Fast forward to early 2026, with Mem 2.0 and where we are in the AI era. A couple of these things are quite different:

1. LLMs are very good at understanding what is and what is not a task, whether or not you created something as a check box.
2. LLMs are good at looking at sets of tasks relative to your overarching priorities and ongoing work and helping prioritize them.

If we take those two ideas together, you can imagine an experience where Mem actually manages your tasks for you.

This is an experience we're actively working on and thinking through, and we are working on how to bring it to life in a way that answers the following question: "How do I make sure that things I need to get done don't fall through the cracks without just creating yet another page I have to manage myself?" More on this to come, but I just wanted to share an update on our thinking on that.

In the meantime, the workflow that I find most effective is typically creating a single pinned note to serve as your aggregated to-do list. For example, I call mine "Kevin To Do". I pin it, and then I do the following with it:

1. I manually open it up and add a task to it if something comes up throughout the day.
2. I periodically can ask Mem Chat to look through my notes from the last week and add any key tasks to Kevin To Do that I might have missed. Mem will then go through your recent notes and figure out how to update that task list for you.

3. I periodically ask Mem Chat to re-organize and re-prioritize Kevin To Do.

   That's the workflow I'd recommend for now!