so as you can imagine the last few years has shown us a plenty of productivity applications we've
seen the rise of notion the rise of evernote and many more and we see applications enter
the space and leave faster than you can imagine today's video i'm going to dive into why i think
this note-taking application called mem is of interest in 2022 and why i think it's one
of those apps to watch so let's dive into today's video so if you're new here and you're interested
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below if you want to and if you like this video hit like as well so i'm really bullish on mam
mem is a note-taking application that has grown a lot of traction in the last year
they received quite a heavy round of funding but most importantly it is got a ton of features i
think are quite exciting when it comes to a note-taking application i want to talk today
starting about the features and elements that interest me and why that they make uh sort of
a different experience compared to the other applications and then i'm going to talk about
the sort of future elements that i believe are pretty fundamental primarily mem is a note-taking
application it's got a timeline view so you can create new notes and view the notes you've opened
as well um but it's very similar to sort of a basic text editor to some extent although
you can add the regular image files and everything else you'd expect not databases but obviously it's
not trying to be an ocean replacement it's also got an inbox it's got tasks and it's got groups
for collaborating on different documents with other people and it's also got flows as well now
the flows elements probably the element that gets me most excited because you've got the templates
that you can set up and press slash command and bring up templates pretty instantaneously you've
also got scheduled mems so you can organize mems that pop up and you can start typing away on them
i also like some of the zapier integrations where you can connect your mail as well and you can
really build up some great workflows as well and you've even got a daily mem as well for journaling
too so it's got some really nice workflows that you can implement inside of the application
there is a feature inside of mem that gets me really interested and it's something called
spotlight now the great thing about spotlight is you can bring it up on mac and windows
they recently added that where you can basically go ahead and create a new mem now you can press
tab for example and start a mem like just note take while you're on top of an application
or you can search anything that you might have inside of your memo account um i don't
have anything inside this memo account at the moment but you can search anything from hashtags
to more extensive mems or notes that you've created and if you're on any of the pages um
for example you're on google and you're reading an article you can clip an article and not just
add it as a brand new member you can also add it to existing mem at the bottom of it so it really
does give you an interesting layer uh when it comes to being able to capture stuff on the web
so this is actually a feature that from day one a lot of applications don't have and that's really
interesting because this this is like almost like what it took evernote like ages to get to what it
took notion to get to uh in terms of being able to capture stuff so it's really exciting to see
features like this that people can jump into and really get involved in who do i think mem
is best for i think this application is probably suitable for those who want to take bi-directional
note-taking um but they don't want that heavy education and applications like rome and obsidian
will have when they start um so as you can imagine uh it allows you to do uh quite a bit uh off the
bat without having to have that large amount of learning and education about how to use the tool
mem also does smaller things like connects to your calendar so you can have meeting notes allows you
to collaborate with other people and more recently allows you to publish your notes whether to the
web or whether to other people to be able to view them one of my favorite features as well
is inside a spotlight you can actually capture stuff and anything that's captured can go into
inbox so you can process it for later and tasks also help you to keep on track of what's going on
inside of notes which is something that evernote's just recently added to be honest this application
is super early days and that brings me on to talking about the future of the app now when i
actually chatted with the team um behind mem they were more interested in the long term elements of
mem and how that's contextually relevant so mem wants to be more of this sort of engine for your
productivity so being able to help you plug into other applications in the future to give you um
and be able to communicate with those applications to be able to uh really fuel whatever you're
working on um and that's quite an interesting concept because that's where i think productivity
uh personal productivity applications will go in the future i think they'll become almost like the
opportunity uh providers with connecting to other applications and doing stuff in the background as
well imagine opening your mem in say five to ten years time and it's automatically uh brought in
you know your plane tickets and communicated with other applications um and maybe even
uh it brought up your checklist for their trip um it's that sort of like machine learning that
i think will be relevant with this application and that's where i think this app is well placed in
terms of the market is being able to connect with other applications and i'm really impressed at
how in its early stages it's doing in terms of how it's set up and also in terms of the speed of
development as well i tend to get feelings about applications um i had that feeling with notion i
remember the first time i tried it um in 2017 and i was like okay this is something very different
to what uh the productivity spaces ever sort of felt and this is also getting that same feeling
in terms of being able to use this application to a lot further and i think it's going to be a hit
with people who are note takers people who care about their sort of management of their own uh
personal uh information and i think um it's got a really interesting next couple of months for sure
i'll probably be covering the more recent mem features that do get launched but if
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i hope you enjoyed today's video and why i'm interested in this app mem for 2022. cheers folks
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