Just like your real mind, mymind is visual by nature. And as you might have already discovered, it pays close attention to color.
– Search any color and you’ll see every image or graphic containing that color in your mind. Search any color in your mind right now to create an instant mood board, or perhaps reveal a special color you didn’t even know you loved.
– Put a hex code (like this one: #FF8B8B) in your mind and it will save the color visually. You can later copy the hex code when you find the perfect project for it.
– You can even save your own color palettes. Just add a comma between multiple hex codes. You’ll slowly build a personal library of colors for future projects or just for a mood boost.
After collecting colors for years, we made our own Color Gallery to share with you. Browse our favorite colors, save them to your mind and come back anytime. We’re always hunting color palettes and saving them like souvenirs to our minds.
Did you know you can use multiple keywords to narrow down your search in mymind? Just add one word, hit enter and add another to refine the results even further.
Say you’re decorating your apartment and saved multiple options for your couch. Search the word COUCH, press enter and add BLUE (or any color). You’ll then only see blue couches.
Trying to remember a specific quote you read last week, but can’t recall a keyword? Search LAST WEEK, hit enter and add QUOTES. You’ll then see only the quotes you saved last week. (This is a time travel deep search, which we’ll dig into more soon.)
Say you saved a specific book to your mind and you can remember the author, but not the name. Just search BOOKS, hit enter and type the author’s name.
Looking for a good weekend read from your bookmarks? Search ARTICLES + NEW YORKER (or whichever publication you’re in the mood for) and find an article that sparks your interest.
Remember the Clear My Mind preview we shared with you recently?
Now it's officially part of your mind. Just log in on your desktop, then click the little icon on the left to explore your mind in a more serendipitous way.
One by one, you'll be presented with random pieces of your mind you can either keep or forget. Along the way, you're reaffirming what's important to you and keeping your mind fresh. (The whole experience takes no more than 2 minutes.)
✺ This feature works best if you have at least 25 cards saved in your mind.✺
So if you just started using mymind, continue saving and come back later to this feature. It will feel much more magical then.
Think of it like a meditative ritual:
✺ Use it once a month to clear out any clutter from your mind. Old meeting notes, todo lists, products you saved and don't want anymore, articles you already read and don't need to keep.
✺ Or once a week as a quick mental escape between tasks. It takes 2 minutes, and feels like a refreshing shower for your mind in the middle of a long workday.
✺ Or whenever you need a little boost of inspiration or beauty. Give your mind a beautiful place to rest for a moment.
It also works on mobile.
Just go to access.mymind.com/clear in your browser and swipe through each item one by one as it’s resurfaced from the depths of your mind.
If you have two minutes of space in your day, take it as a little gift for your mind. A reminder of your ideas, dreams, memories and plans for the future.
Everything in your mind is private – we can’t even see what’s in there as the creators of mymind.
But sometimes, you want to share a piece of your mind with someone else. A passage or quote you appreciated from an article, or a beautiful color palette, or a product on your wishlist.
In those cases, you can create a temporary share link.
Inside any expanded card, just click the little toggle to create a temporary share link. Share that link with anyone and they can see only that item (nothing else) from your mind for 24 hours. After that, the link expires and it’s private again.
Try it out with a funny meme or motivating quote from your mind. Create the link, send it in your work Slack group. Share a little glimpse into your brilliant mind.
Thanks to artificial intelligence, your mind can remember things for you as soon as you need them. But sometimes, you want to keep a few important items at the forefront of your mind:
A todo list, a motivating quote, or visuals and notes related to a current project.
You can now keep those special things Top of Mind.
Just drag & drop a card under the search bar in your mind to pin it to the top. You’ll then see it first thing every time you enter your mind. Once it’s no longer relevant, just drag it back out again.
Now you can keep the most intimate details of your every day Top of Mind. And the rest is still only a thought away.
Everyone from writers to scientists use mymind. You don’t have to be a visual creator to appreciate the clean and visual nature of it. As designers ourselves, we couldn’t help but build some special features for the visually minded person. Here are just a few ways designers use mymind, which might be useful to you whether you design or not.
To save visual inspiration without thinking
Typically, you’re saving Instagram posts, littering your Camera Roll and desktop with screenshots, creating messy folders in Dropbox and who knows where else. With mymind, you can save all your visual inspiration in one place. You don’t need to organize it because your mind does it for you. Your real brain can keep moving without interruption, opening you up to even more beauty and ideas.
To create instant, curated mood boards
It starts by saving a photo you took, or an image you found browsing online. Then a typeface you want to remember for a future project. Maybe a poster or a logo you find interesting. When starting a new project later on, you either search “typeface,” or a specific tag like “poster,” or even just a color, and you instantly have an inspiring mood board for your project.
To save a personal library of colors
Every time you add an image to your mind, it magically extracts the most prominent colors and creates a color palette around it. So that sunset or moody city shot you captured could define the colors for a future campaign or branding project. You can also drop hex codes or color palettes into your mind directly. So when you search the color “red,” your mind will show you every palette, hex code or image containing the color red. It’s like having your own little library of colors always within reach.
We’re making your mind better all the time, but some magic tricks you don’t find unless you stumble upon them yourself. So I’ll share a few secrets with you now:
1. Selecting cards as a group
You can add tags to multiple cards at once, or delete multiple cards at once. Just hold down SHIFT + click on a card to select. Saves time and keeps your mind clean.
2. Searching for specific tags
Usually, when you search your mind, results are sorted by relevance and contain tags, word or AI matches. But sometimes you want to get a bit more granular.
Just type in "#decor" (replace “decor” with whatever the tag is) and press enter. Results will then show *only* items with that specific tag.
It’s especially helpful when searching for your own tags.
3. Hiding private cards from your overview
Everything in your mind is private by default.
But sometimes, you want to show something to a friend or co-worker, either via screenshare or in person. If you don’t want them to see the deepest secrets of your mind, you can hide those from your overview and search results.
Just add the tag "Private" to any of your items and they’ll no longer show up unless you search that tag.
The tag "Hidden" and "NSFW" do the same.
That’s all for now! If you want more pro tips, be sure to follow @mymind on Twitter. We’re always sharing updates and responding to requests and questions there.
All kinds of fancy writing tools exist, but we’ve found that most regular writers end up drafting their work in the most simple, basic apps. At the end of the day, they don’t care that much about special tools, grammar checking and word count. They just want to get their ideas down without distractions. So we built the mymind editor with that in mind.
Here’s how we’ve been using writers of all kinds use it so far:
– To save quotes of all kinds. A quote from a source you interviewed for an article. Or a paragraph that stuck with them from a book. Or one that inspires a new essay or blog post. Or even just a particularly good sentence they want to read again and again. Most good writers are also readers. They’re absorbing all the time, and mymind serves as their sponge.
– To capture the ideas big and small. That may be a piece of dialogue they want to fit into a story one day. Or the shower thought that might turn into their next column. Or the middle-of-the-night novel ideas that typically slip away with their dreams.
– As a swipe file with images of ads, campaigns, landing pages, emails, screenshots and other material to inspire their next big idea. In the past, you’d literally stuff all these things into a folder somewhere. Now it’s all beautifully laid out in your mind, ready to be picked up and brought into the light again whenever you need it.
– To save feedback and commentary on their writing. The reviews, comments from friends, emails from colleagues. The little pieces of positivity that remind them that others enjoy their work. You know, the things you usually stow deep in a folder somewhere to brighten a rainy day. That stuff is gold.
– And of course, to write. To capture a short idea or quick note, they can do so straight from the Note field in mymind. But when they’re ready to get in the flow without distractions, they go into Focus mode. No clunky editor tools getting in the way. No distracting grammar suggestions butting in. Just you and your ideas, uninterrupted. (But if you need a little break or fuel, you can just jump back into your mind for inspiration.)
Want more? Read how one writer uses their mind
"After passively collecting for weeks, mymind has become a resource and home base for my work. It’s my own personal search engine."
On May 27th 2020, amidst all the chaos of that year, a small portal opened. As quietly as we’d worked on it, the mymind public waitlist went live. What followed was a phase of slow, deliberate and meaningful growth as we invited new members to create their new mind. Nearly a year later in 2021, we opened mymind for everyone. No more waitlist, no more invites. It's live.
Fast forward to today and our team of two co-founders is now a team of six.
As a tiny team that grew out of necessity, we're proud to see how far we've come. Even more so, to see what wonderful community has emerged from it. mymind is still fully independent and self-funded without any outside investment, which is an important part of our privacy-first & data independence commitment. None of this would be possible without our paying Mastermind members. Thank you for your support and believing in our mission.
But let’s talk about our future.
Our mission is to build a true extension for your mind. A private place for your digital mind, far away from social networks, advertisements or algorithms. A place that you enjoy coming back to, yet at the same time you forget even exists because it fits so seamlessly into your life. A place of utility as much as a place of energy. A true second mind.
And the beauty is, we're only at the beginning of it. We created three phases within this vision, from MM-1 to MM-3.
Phase 1: MM-1
This is the phase we're currently in. Phase 1 is the most utilitarian. Our focus during this phase is to build a beautiful and functional tool that can do the things it should be doing. (We also call it the "DOH!" phase.) MM-1 is all about making it easy for you to save something to your mind and then recall it with ease. While this might sound trivial in theory, it's our base expectation and premise of mymind which involves quite a few challenges on its own.
Even more so, MM-1 is all about platform integration. This reaches from mobile apps to browser extensions and desktop apps. While this might also sound trivial, it's the task that costs the most resources & time.
Phase 2: MM-2
This is where things get even more magical. If MM-1 is all about the utilitarian and expected, then MM-2 is all about the unexpected. In the second phase, we aim beyond "save it and recall it" to building tools that give you new perspectives of your own mind. At this point, mymind will open up new connections that you didn't know existed before. Or ways to introduce serendipitous discovery between the things you have in your mind.
MM-2 is all about taking what is already there and seeing it in a new light or from a different angle. Instead of just extending your mind, MM-2 aims to upgrade your mind in unexpected ways. It's where utility meets magical.
We've already started working on MM-2 features which you'll slowly see making their way into our product.
Phase 3: MM-3
MM-3 is the phase least explored, yet most exciting. It's where we take existing models and turn them on their head. It's where we completely stop thinking in outdated terms such as folders, files or tags and think more of our mind holistically.
MM-3 is where we find new models of interaction, away from the keyboard or our screens. What does a true mind extension look like? How can we upgrade your mind while persevering our values of privacy in a world that constantly tries to invade your mind? What does it mean to remember something? Do we even need to remember something? Or do we only need to remember that we remember something? How can we help people reclaim their mind? How do you build a mind?
You may think we're crazy, and perhaps we are. We find energy in these questions and our path in answering & manifesting them into a tool we love to use. A tool that doesn't ask us to scroll more, like more or comment more, but one that helps us be more present, more productive and happier in the things we do.
It’s a simple idea in theory, but if you're familiar with modern software and the attention economy, it isn't how things are today.
So where do we go from here?
Now that we've let you into our vision for MM-1 to MM-3, we hope you have a better understanding of what mymind is now and where we're heading in the years ahead. We'd love for you to come on the journey.
In the short term, here is what we're currently working on:
1. We're currently rebuilding our iOS app from the ground up. This will increase performance, gesture based navigation and sets us up for better features in the future, including iPad support.
2. We’re focusing on deep performance updates to support ever growing and larger minds.
3. We’re entirely re-working our editor to make note taking even more enjoyable and more performant. Our goal is to give you the confidence to use mymind for all your basic note taking needs.
4. We’re finalizing our ‘Reading Mode’ which will let you read articles right inside your mind inside a beautifully designed environment without ads or other distractions. This Reading Mode will also come with the ability to sync articles as your own private copy so they’re yours even if the original articles goes offline.
5. We’re working on a range of optimizations of how we analyze things you add to your mind. It’s a massive task as the range of sources is almost endless and everyone uses mymind.
We can’t wait to show you everyting we’ve been working on. Thank you for being a member your support, it means the world to us.
We’re always saving color palettes we stumble upon or create to our minds, and now we’re sharing them with you. Browse the full collection here.
Save your favorite color palettes to your own mind and use them however you like. We’ll continue adding more so be sure to check back for inspiration for your future projects.
You can also save your own colors or color palettes inside your mind. Just paste the color HEX code into a new note, then save it. It will automatically appear as a Color Card. If you paste multiple HEX codes into a note (seperated by a space or comma), it will create a palette for you. Give it a try!
