Search every word of every website you visited or bookmarked.
And filter by visit time, domain, custom tags [and soon*] if you shared it, liked it or cited it on social media.
It only takes you seconds to find "that article I saw last week on Tom's timeline with the words 'cats in tuxedos' somewhere in the text"
You never know when you need to re-read or cite a specific article again, if you do, recover it in seconds.
Who wants to bookmark stuff or take 30 minutes to recover a single link? That time is certainly better spent elsewhere.
Don't waste time organising what you find into bookmarking folders, only to then spend time to find it again later. Keep your knowledge organised with little to no effort. Just find it.
You never know when you need to re-read or cite a specific article again, if you do, recover it in seconds. Even without having them bookmarked.
Find the right article to reference in seconds, and be able to communicate your knowledge faster and with more people. Never leave a discussion without citing sources anymore. Especially those at parties. 😜🎉
Don't waste time organising what you find into bookmarking folders, only to then spend time to find it again later. Keep your knowledge organised with the least amount of effort. Just find it when you need it.
You never know when you need to re-read or cite a specific article. If you do, never again waste 10 minutes (or more) of your important time on finding "that one article".
Instead, recover it in seconds.
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Highlight, Comment and Annotate on any website
[Soon] Share and discuss them with your peers and the public.*
[Soon] See comments of your peers made in all social networks.*
No need to manage a chaos of unconnected notes anymore. Keep all of them in the context of the page, or even single paragraphs.
Share and discuss the annotations you made with others and dissect the relevant pieces together.
Highlight, add comment, create link, share. Done.
Take notes right in context of the website, instead of external note taking applications. Easily share them with peers.
Highlight, add comment, create link, share. Done.
Discuss annotations, comments and highlights with your peers and effectively collaborate on understanding your source material and its context.
Share and discuss annotations with your audience, and invite them to critique what you write in a private, or public space.
Ditch copy/pasting a url, all your comments and important quotes to a Google Doc (or to other note-taking apps)
Highlight text, add comment, create link. Share it. Done.
Share the notes you took with your students and give them better contextual understanding of what they're learning.
Let students share their annotations with you, and have in-depth discussions about the material you provide.
Ditch copy/pasting a url, all your comments and important quotes to a Google Doc (or to other note-taking apps)
Highlight text, add comment, create link. Share it. Done.
Have the discussions where they belong: To the website you are talking about, not in disconnected news-feeds.
Looking at a prospect's website? Add any note you want to the whole page, or any piece of text on it.
Simply share a website with all your annotations with colleagues and discuss the relevant parts with them.
A blog post they wrote? A website that has a typo?
Highlight, comment on, share any piece of text on the web.
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Highlight any piece of text and share a link to it with anyone.
No more copy pasting of quote and url, if you want to show someone a specific piece of an article. 1 click and your're done
Don't just link the url of the whole document you are referring to. Show others specific, relevant pieces in it.
Don't just link the url of the whole document you are referring to. Show others specific, relevant pieces in it.
Highlight, 1 click, share link, done.
Don't waste time copy pasting quotes and urls in order to show others specific pieces in a document.
How often do people skip reading provided sources because they have to find the relevant parts themselves. Make it easy for them to follow your argument.
Create, (publicly) share* and co-curate collections of useful websites, comments and annotations*.
Add them on the fly with a few clicks. via the Memex browser menu.
Be it your favourite cat memes, a list of awesome inspirational videos, or all the books you want to read.
How often do you randomly find content while doing something unrelated? Save it to your collection with 3 clicks.
Collaborate with peers in creating lists of resources for your assignments and group work, or all the good bars for your next trip. Anything goes.
Provide the best lists for your friends to use and share. (Publicly) share quality collections and build your reputation.
All articles you still need to read?
Just add them to a collection with 3 clicks.
Invite multiple people to add content to a collection. Easily keep everyone up to date about the must-reads for a story.
Engage your readers in sourcing material for your next story.
Share the resources you read to prepare for a story, and add the comments, annotations and highlights you made.
Be it studies around climate change, health care or the affects of vaccinations. Anything goes.
Collaborate on creating lists of useful resources and annotations to help people stay informed on topics.
Push out the most widely respected collections and build up reputation in your professional field and community.
Share the best resources your students could read in preparation for an exam, assignment or course.
Let students hand in the results of their work by adding it to a collections you created.
All the twitter profiles and websites of investors you want to approach? A list of all startups you find interesting in the space?
(Publicly) share lists of the most valuable resources for a given topic and build reputation as a source of knowledge.
Invite your colleagues and use Collaborative Collections and Annotations to qualify prospects as a team.
Use collections and annotations to build communities geared towards curation of web content and contextual knowledge.
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Perform Google-like queries:
“decentralization -newyorker.com”
Dig deeper into the past. You can optionally import your existing browsing history and bookmarks.
In any case, Memex stays in sync with the bookmarks you make in your browser.
Prevent websites from being indexed, by simply blacklisting them.
Don’t want to index everything?
No problem. Add a visit timer, only index title and URL by default, or only allow bookmarked/tagged/highlighted pages to be indexed.
Need to go incognito?
No problem. You can pause Memex whenever you need.
Find anything on any PDF you open in your browser.
Safely backup your data to G-Drive, Dropbox or local machine
Share and discuss annotations with your peers.
Share your best curations or crowdsource them with others.
Save websites to read them at a later time, also when offline.
Miscellaneous
What you can’t do yet
What you can’t do yet
Saving Content
Collections (once launched)
What you can’t do yet
What you can’t do yet
What you can’t do yet?
Your personal data is fully stored locally on your device. We will never have access to it without your approval.
To provide you with the Memex.Link services, the url and the highlight you want to send are stored on our servers. We do not store any personally identifiable information with it, like IP addresses of you or the people requesting it.
We do however receive anonymized usage statistics about how people use the extension and its features. It will not contain any urls visited or terms searched, only interactions with the software itself.
You can always opt-out and we respect the browser’s ‘do not track’ requests.
Find out more in our privacy policy.
Our software is open-source so you can verify these claims yourself by looking at our source code.
Our business model does not depend on analysing and/or selling your data.
We want to be profitable because we deliver real value to you and other users.
This will happen through our premium features of Memex.Cloud, which will provide encrypted cloud backups, multi-device support and enhanced sharing of annotations and collections.
Storage
With 20.000 visited websites you end up with about 1GB of data. If you are a heavy web-user it will be about 4-5GB per year.
Our upcoming cloud plan allows you to backup your data to an encrypted to the cloud, or host this cloud yourself.
Memory
When browsing around, the extension needs around 80-130MB of Ram, which can go up to about 250-300 when you are using the search overview. Only when you import your existing browsing history and bookmarks, the CPU load will significantly increase and RAM can spike to around 500MB, because it needs to re-fetch all websites and index them in continuously.
CPU
The only CPU spikes you’ll experience are small peaks when you import your history and bookmarks, or about 10 seconds after you visit a website, because of the resources needed to index pages.
Users with a modern setup should not experience any lag. Some low-spec machines may do, but we are constantly working on performance improvements.
With our upcoming premium service, you can also offload most of that work to the cloud.
We understand that for your work you don’t want to reference links that might disappear later.
We are committed to make sure that the already created link will always be available, even if worldbrain.io does not exist anymore. The costs of running this service are very low.
We are also looking for appropriate partners to steward the public sharing server for these Memex.Links.
If all else fails, each Memex.Link URL hast the full original URL in it, so that users can still reach the page linked to without problems.
Yeah, that can be a bit scary. However, those permissions are necessary for the extension to function properly.
As you can see in our source code we do not send any of your personal data anywhere. It is all on your computer.
The clipboard permission in particular is only there to copy stuff into the clipboard, NOT read anything from it.
