So this is Memex, Memex is a hyper in-depth
bookmarking tool its privacy focus in aims to be the organizer for your
searches in today's video we explore
Memex a little bit more
Chat with Oliver's sorter one of their founders and give you all you need to know about this fairly new Chrome
extension and tool for capturing all of your thoughts and
Searches on the web. So today's video is sponsored by pipedrive. I'll share a little bit more about pipedrive a little later in this video
So Memex is a tool that can be downloaded on Chrome it can also be downloaded on Firefox as well as a
Extension and it's fairly easy to get set up you go through a little bit of a setup process
That gives you how you want to set it up inside of your day to day use
so once you all set up you'll see a layout a
Little bit like this and I will showcase some of the features before we dive into how the product works
So as you can see by this central column, it's beginning to track all of my history of web searches
Now that's one of the features a full text and web
history so that you can search for
Specific sites that you may have been on you can even filter this down a little bit more to be very specific about the domains
the tags and the dates and whether they've been hearted in your system now the second and I would say
Coolest feature is probably the annotation abilities
So if you're inside of an article
You can choose to select a piece of work or a bit of text and you
Can either highlight it which creates a highlight on the page and that will appear next time?
you are in side of that page or you can annotate it allowing you to add a few private notes to a
Specific lesson that it may have been in there say you're reading an article that could be quite useful
So as you can see here, this is the annotation ability and from here. It pops out as a little sidebar on your Chrome
Now you can choose to see all of your notes that you've taken for the day or you can see ones that you've taken for
specific pages
And you can choose those just up here and you can even visit all of the pages you've been on across the day
now once you are able to add annotation
You can also add in tag and also favorite it if you wish and over here
you can also bookmark the page and notes - page and tags - page and
Pages - something called a collection and also access more settings here
You can even search anything you've previously accessed in your Memex - so if you wanted to view the notes you've taken you can go
And find them associated to the page, which is very helpful. So you can start collecting
useful things that have been sprouted insider pages
It works a little bit like how mediums highlighter or annotation works in their
application now a few notes on the terms of the data stuff because I was actually a little bit worried like
You know full text history search. You know, what are they going to be doing with the data?
And how are they going to be accessing it?
so apparently all data is stored offline first and synced with end-to-end encryption and
Apparently Memex is funded without venture capital investments
They also state that medics only shares error logs and anomalous usage statistics
And it never shares the content you save or search
I actually originally found this when I saw that tiago Forte had Oliver Salter over on his channel
You can check out their full interview below. But here's how all of the describes what Memex is
Yeah, so Memex is a browser extension that should help you to ease your information overload when doing online research
and
Doing so on two levels
one is when you need to organize incoming information or things you read online you have maybe run into these issues of
having hundreds of bookmarking folders that you save stuff, but you never really be able to surface stuff again or
tabs that are open for
weeks because you don't want to lose stuff and
What you can do with Memex is you can instead of you organize anything it automatically indexes every website
That's your visit and then you can full-text search it meaning you can search with these big memories that you have about it
And we gradually will expand those memory
Parameters by for example things like hey, did I share or like it on social media?
Did I annotate it etc. And so you this is how you remember things and so it's basically
idea were thoughts and and
connected I connected thought into
bookmarking tool that's so let's feature them one the second way it improves your ability to
cope with information overload right now is
This issue that you maybe have when you need to remember certain segments of a particular piece that you read you have to copy paste
Stick texts and your notes to another app that's used may be your own nation, etc. And
with mimics you can annotate so you can highlight and add notes directly in the browser and
Bring them over then into your favorite locations such use
So yeah, if that's what you mix does. Well, it's an offline first product. So all of the data is locally stored
We care a lot for you, and we have also mobile app
distinct between mobile and
Browser extension is enter and encrypted
and all of that is open source, so you can remix I'm
Refun key like stuff with it and bring it into the to your own workflows eventually
very important under the hood is a
technology we have now in kind of an alpha mode which is storage hub which is essentially a
Zapier and offline first zap year that also stores all the process data locally
Meaning what you can do with that is then suddenly you can integrate Memex
but also any other tool much more entry own workflow by saying for example, hey, I want to
Use all the links that I saved in Memex about kovat and I want to create a public
collection in my notion or I want to put it in my in my room it said and
The idea is here that we want that we are aware that everyone has
different knowledge workflows and there will never be a single tool that can cater for this huge long tail of
Different workflows that are existent and so would we rather optimize for is interoperability?
Meaning that you over time can adapt your own workflows much better and the tools can adapt with you
By having full control in a local environment on how you connect your workflows with other applications
So over on this side, you can go ahead and create collections inside of collections
You can give them a list name in this case. I could say articles
Read if you actually download the mobile edition
You'll need the pro account to actually get the sync of which connects your accounts up a little bit
How bear works you need to pay the premium enable for the applications to sync together
If you go to articles rent you can filter out certain items
so if I went back to this area here and I decided to add it to a collections for example articles read I
Can then go over to articles read and it's essentially a fold rank system here
So if I wanted to find any bookmarked items I can actually go to this heart and find it fairly quickly
So inside of settings, there's a little bit more in terms of their annotations and also some of the custom abilities
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So this is the settings area and you can see here you can create some of the keyboard shortcuts
So if you wanted to be able to quickly highlight selected text or open the sidebar you can use shift R
Which is very easy to do as well as shift a you to create an annotation
But you can switch them on or off and even enable them to get started. So they were automatically switched off
If you are starting up your account now one of the things to note about account creation
You don't actually have to create a brand new account
You don't even actually have to have an account
but if you want to have that sync that will be set up after you can sign in and
You can also get manual backups and syncing as well. We'll go through how that works in the pricing though
So as you can see here
You can show memik search that will be a little bit like how you would for example search in like evernote say for example
If you search something using the Evernote search, it will appear on that right hand side and memik search will do the same thing
Doesn't mean it'll search or show it to other people
It just means that it's easy access when you're trying to find things you've already two clipped so you can make a few
Indexing preferences as well. But as you can imagine you can set them up as you're actually setting up your Mamet's account
so one thing that is cool is you can actually
import from other applications
So for example, if you've got pocket and other browser bookmarking services, for example, the like said Diigo raindrop
Apparently they're able to import you can import HTML files, but you can also import all of your browser history
But apparently that's going to take about an hour if I wanted to do that
So from here I can also backup my data
I can connect to a cloud provider and you can start the wizard to connect it to for example
Google Drive or a for example local hard storage and that can be Dropbox spike rope and
And the G Drive if you wanted to
So anything automatically backs up there, there are some beta features, but do note that the application on mobile is in beta
You can also have a block list for sites as well. For example
you can have certain sites and you don't want to be consistently tracked or
Visited or even indexed then you can have that be blocked there
You can also see how their privacy works as well. It seems to be like that privacy
It's a core focus of the company after speaking with
Oliver it seemed that their their focus was making sure that your data is secure
If you wanted this also a tutorial here that is actually available through notion
so one of the things that when I was chatting with Oliver
He shared his vision for the company was actually sort of improved web research a little bit more
and I found it quite interesting because he talked about this concept that
connecting people up with
The the Memex so for example, you can add friends or add people, you know
and it would basically give you
background information and helpful for fact-checking on sites allow people to comment and annotate so you've got
You know the ability to you know
Highlight things and see what the article is about
Maybe people can make some comments and even quality ratings for websites and content based stuff on their interactions with them
There's also the intent to add social search as well. So for example, you can filter
What you and your groups are actually are clipping as you go across a web. But as you can imagine this is all
Meant to be for the public side of it versus the private side which is all of the stuff that's already available and that stuff
Not available right now, but it's planning to be in the future
But in terms of the pricing there's a free model which gives you unlimited full-text history search
Unlimited annotations unlimited collection and tanks access to the mobile app iOS and Android although you won't get the syncing
and also unlimited manual backups
In the pro plan, which is at 3 euros per month
I believe that's going to be the same price in the US
But I've double check they can lose everything in the basic automatic backups and end-to-end encryption between your mobile phone
So they've also got into an encryption sync between your mobile
phones
So actually connects up that mobile phone access beginner for you new free trial and I think that's a pretty decent free plan
Especially for a company. So focused on privacy now if you want my opinion, I think this is a really nice looking application
I'm gonna play around with it for a couple of weeks. I really like how you can clip
Little pieces as you find them across a web and maybe learnings you come across
And it could be quite useful
Because recently I've not been reading as many articles as I should be and I would really like to be able to clip some learnings
from them and
Be able to have a sort of place. I can come back to to be a bit more specific. Obviously. There are other tools like
Pocket and things like that, but I quite like the way that the annotation ability works on this
And the fact that you've got that sidebar that pops up - and it seems really intuitive
Maybe I haven't checked in on what pocket looks like for a fair while but I definitely think this is something that looks very nice
So folks I'll include all the links in description below. But I hope you find this video useful
Hope it was a nice overview of Memex and let me know your thoughts on remick's have you tried it if you'd be playing around?
With it. Let us know in the comments below. So folks a big THANK YOU, and I'll talk to you all very soon. Cheerio
It's pretty interesting it sort of is it like that? It's the best way to describe is that Marek sort of the middle man?
With these guns. Yeah. Yeah
We're trying to build this kind of connector glue in between
and
Particularly focus on the step where you want to process
information that you see online
Where do you see you guys in the next six months to a year time in terms of features?
And where you where would you like to be as well? Yeah, so
The larger vision of this project is how do we help you cope with information? Overload?
we have
Quite recently solved it on the personal organization level
But what's definitely missing is how do you vet and evaluate incoming information?
So when you read something like how do you make sure this is actually qualitative
How do you understand context around it so you can process?
Many more topics much more deeply and with more perspectives
So you're not as overloaded as you're right now when you are in social media, etc. And
The next phase of our project is has two angles one is sharing in collaboration
Meaning that I can start sharing the research that I accumulate and make it accessible to others
So that vice on the vice-versa I can accept this
knowledge of other people much more easily
So I can make faster and more like a deeper online research about topics that I might not know that much about
and the second part is integrations, so
we want to be much more integrated into the workflows of other applications where
We are aware that mimics. Is this like binding element
In between and we're like we're seeing the kind of are the workflow pipeline in which Memex serves is
That we have done business tools like hypothesis. Sorry like notion when I grow that are really there for
creating knowledge and
structuring like brain work
and we're positioning ourselves in the part that helps to feed new information into that process and
specifically web-based information