No matter how they work or think, countless people have told us mymind complements their brain in a way no other tool has before.
Among those people are those with ADD/ADHD. According to our members, the automated organization and visualization of mymind works beautifully with the ADHD-leaning mind.
These comments have not been scientifically proven nor should they be taken as medical advice (: But they sure do make us feel good, knowing mymind is making a difference.
Another Sunday, another peek into our minds. Here's what we've been thinking about this week.
The work of Italian designer Vico Magistretti
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This writing advice from Ray Bradbury
"What you’ve got to do from this night forward is stuff your head with more different things from various fields . . . I’ll give you a program to follow every night, very simple program.
For the next thousand nights, before you go to bed every night, read one short story. That’ll take you ten minutes, 15 minutes. Okay, then read one poem a night from the vast history of poetry. Stay away from most modern poems. It’s crap. It’s not poetry! But one poem a night, one short story a night, one essay a night, for the next 1,000 nights. From various fields: archaeology, zoology, biology, all the great philosophers of time, comparing them… I want you to read essays in every field. On politics, analyzing literature, pick your own. But that means that every night then, before you go to bed, you’re stuffing your head with one poem, one short story, one essay—at the end of a thousand nights, Jesus God, you’ll be full of stuff, won’t you?"
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This simple commentary on growth
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That's all for now. We'll continue stuffing our heads this week and hope you do the same.
From the minds of our members
"I am absolutely obsessed with mymind. After leaving my full-time role, I realized I had so much time to actually watch all of the artsy movies on my list, pick up a book (or two), and save all the YouTube videos that have been in the back of my mind into one central location.
I am always seeing new books and movies that have the potential to inspire me in my filmmaking and photography efforts, so I never want to forget their names! I am a frequent user of mymind because I believe having items that inspire you easily accessible is the key to staying creative and learning."
“I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, ‘Please, just don't talk about me!’ Because they always got it wrong. Always. I just didn't want them to tell anyone anything about me.”
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This question
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That concludes this week's peek into our minds. What's on yours? Reply with an image, quote, article, series – anything you've been thinking on lately. You'll reach real people on the other side.
NEW: From the minds of our members
"mymind is synonymous with recall. I love being creative and finding inspiration from books, tweets, pictures and all sorts of things. But the process needs to be effortless. That's what mymind gives me; the ability to be inspired without the burden of worrying I won't be able to recall that thing I want to to pull back up."
Today, it requires strong motivation and a sense of immediate payoff to do so.
We’re more accustomed to skimming summaries of those articles. Reading Instagram captions with two-sentence takeaways. Scanning whatever headlines we happen to catch from our push notifications.
If we do decide to dive into a full article, we have dozens of distractions (pop-ups! paywalls! clickbait headlines!) edging in at every line.
We’re left with a vague impression of the subject matter, at best – which sadly amounts to a shallow understanding of the world around us and the subjects we’re interested in.
This is why we created Reading Mode.
(a Mastermind-only feature)
Save an article to mymind and it strips away all the clutter, distractions and barriers that decrease your chances of actually reading. You’ll have one clean view of the full article, which you can read directly within mymind.
Reading Mode also serves as an article archiver. Your saved articles are kept in your mind whether the original source is deleted, broken or moved later on. You’ll have your own copy tucked away safely in your mind.
We hope this feature serves a small step toward more thoughtful consumption of information online. That it encourages more depth of understanding for the things that interest you, and less skimming and scanning.
The much-discussed Netflix series explores 5 communities around the world where people live exceptionally long, vibrant lives – and what may be the cause of it.
Spaces give you the mental satisfaction of having things in their respective place, like separating socks and underwear in drawers.
But unlike drawers (or folders, or buckets, or however you visualize your collections) you don’t have to create Spaces manually in mymind. Your mind does it for you.
Here’s how we’ve seen our members using Spaces so far.
As a reading list
Search #read later or “articles” within your mind and hit enter. Save it as a Smart Space, and now any new article you save to your mind will automatically be sorted into this space.
To plan a trip or event
Some use mymind in combination with tags to auto-sort plans and ideas for upcoming events. For example: Add the tag “honeymoon” to articles, images, videos, todos and notes you save for your trip, then turn that tag search into a Smart Space.
As a mood board or vision board
Search “interiors” or “gardens” or “fashion” or “packaging” or “green” or “Mercedes” and save that search as a Smart Space. You’ll have an instant mood board that auto-updates every time you save something containing that object, keyword or theme.
For work or research projects
Search “brainwaves” or “PDFs” or #thesis and save it as a Smart Space. If you need to manually add a related item that falls outside those parameters, just right click it and and click “Add to Space.”
For motivation and inspiration
Search “highlights” or “quotes” and save it as a space. Or search #lifeadvice and save every card with that tag in its own space.
How are you using Spaces? Reply and let us know. Or dive into your mind now and try it out.
Pro tip: Search for the different wave types on YouTube, including the “hz” level, for more precise results.
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This letter from John Steinbeck
In November of 1958, Steinbeck responded to a letter from his son, Thom, regarding a girl named Susan he'd fallen for at boarding school. Here's an excerpt:
"First — if you are in love — that's a good thing — that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don't let anyone make it small or light to you.
Second — There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had."
Save a post from Mastodon just like you would save any other URL, by clicking the + sign in your browser via our browser extension. On mobile, select “share” next to the post and choose the mymind app from the share panel.
The post will save beautifully in mymind with its own special card, including a preview of the post and link to the original source.
Bonus: You’ll always have a copy of the post in your mind, whether the original is deleted later or not.
It's Sunday. A day rest and reenergize the mind. Or dive into a project that's inspiring you. Or perhaps you're sleeping in and doing nothing at all. Or you may have a full workday ahead of you.
We're not here to tell you how to spend your days. We're here to share what's been on our minds this week.
These comics by Anna-Laura Sullivan
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"To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notion of us.
We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait: a gist for imaginative empathy, evidence of our willingness to give. Of course I will play Francesca to your Paolo, Helen Keller to anyone’s Annie Sullivan; no expectation is too misplaced, no role too ludicrous. At the mercy of those we cannot but hold in contempt, we play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us."
The work of Italian designer Vico Magistretti
From the minds of our members
Pro tip: Search for the different wave types on YouTube, including the “hz” level, for more precise results.
