mymind is now even better at saving, organizing and finding images for you.
Here's what's new.
✦ Smarter AI tags ✦
The automatic tags for images are now more accurate and specific, making it easier to find them later in a search.
✦ Image summaries ✦
Images now include a TLDR section, giving you a paragraph summary of the image contents. It's surprisingly smart about understanding and noting the details! This section is indexed too, meaning you have more to work with while searching.
✦ Images are now auto-titled! ✦
Your mind will title the image for you based on its understanding of the content. No more weird file names or unnamed cards. And of course, these titles are also indexed.
Good taste and tech don't always go together, which makes Will Bowers an exception. His tech reviews are refreshingly clean, keen and useful. So it was a compliment when we learned he uses mymind. We asked Bowers to share what he's been thinking on lately.
What’s the best compliment you received recently?
Not long ago, somebody who I consider to be a bit of a “digital mentor” told me they took inspiration from some of my recent work.
This was a person who I learned a LOT from over the past few years, so getting that type of recognition from them was a lovely feeling that has stuck with me for months.
What’s the last thing you read?
“The Creative Act” by Rick Rubin. Not only does this book look great on a coffee table or shelf, I believe the contents of it are essential for anyone who wants to be more in touch with their creativity.
It's currently my go-to recommendation for any of my friends who suffer from writer's block, and I find myself re-reading sections of the book whenever I need a bit of a reset.
What do you want to read next?
A book that was recently recommended to me called “The Infinite Game” by Simon Sinek. I do a lot of business/non-fiction reading so when I heard this is similar to some of the stuff I enjoyed in the past, I had to pick it up.
Beyond that, one of my favorite relaxation books I find myself revisiting often is “The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living” by Meik Wiking. This one is great to flip through before bedtime, and was a big part in my desire to create “cozy” living spaces in my home.
A quote that’s meaningful to you?
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.” - Steve Jobs
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I personally think a healthy dose of delusion is necessary when chasing one's dreams, so this quote has always been a reminder to push myself forward while ignoring the self doubt that only serves to hold me back.
Best gift you’ve ever given?
My favorite gift to give to anyone tends to be exposure to new foods and experiences. I take deep pride in being able to introduce people to new things they have never tried, and I'm always looking for personalized ways to do this for my family and friends. A delicious meal or a well thought out day trip will go a long way in my books.
Where do you want to travel to next?
I seem to have been bitten by the New York City bug in a big way as I am planning my second visit in as many years this Fall. I’m quite a big fan of the non-stop beautiful chaos that exists in the city, and after being raised in a small town in Arizona I love surrounding myself in that environment.
Australia, Spain and Japan are also high on my list of destinations I hope to visit in the not so distant future.
What would you buy, if money weren’t an issue?
I would buy a plot of land somewhere in the Vancouver area with a view of nature and enough space for all of my family and friends to visit comfortably whenever they wanted. I’d love to build myself a studio space in the home that allows me to make videos with zero friction, and an art studio for my wife.
Big picture, however, I’m realizing as I get older that I’m less motivated by physical possessions. I want to use my resources to benefit causes to preserve the planet or provide relief to marginalized communities.
What hobby would you take up, if you had the time?
I recently discovered that I am very inspired by interior design! I’ve started carving out dedicated time to learn more about this and the deeper I go, the more I realize I enjoy design as a whole.
I also have a background in the streaming/gaming space that I wish I could spend more time doing, since it was such a big part of my life when I was figuring out this whole content creation thing. Maybe it's time to revisit some of that soon.
What’s an image or piece of art you can’t get out of your head?
This shot of Charles Leclerc after finally securing his first Monaco F1 win in front of his home crowd. His big win came after years of bad luck and having it slip through his fingers countless times. The headfirst dive into the marina while still in full race clothing shows the pure elation of the moment.
A product of any kind you’ve been appreciating lately?
Lately I’ve been testing out using an iPad as a replacement for my laptop when I travel. The Apple Pencilspecifically has made me feel MUCH more creatively inspired when using this compared to a standard laptop.
The funniest thing you’ve seen lately?
I feel it is only fair to give credit for this one to the greatest cinematic masterpiece of my time: Shrek 2.
If you could build an extension of your own mind, what would it look like? How would it work?
I imagine it would be similar to the waves in the ocean. My mind is constantly cycling between periods of calm and intense periods of productivity and motion, similar to the changing tides of the sea. My focus is far from linear, but the common thread is that I know the next big “wave” is often right around the corner. ⚘
mymind is a private place to collect your thoughts without pressure to curate or censor for others. A reservoir of pure ideas, inspiration and reference to draw from.
There's a time and place to collaborate and share your ideas with others.
Spend time alone with your mind, and those ideas will be even better.
“The great enemy of writing isn’t your lack of talent, it’s being interrupted by other people.”
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This video
Every copywriter, marketer or creative director needs a swipe file.
It’s a private place to keep inspiration and references for your work. An ever-growing treasure trove of visuals, ideas, examples and research that fuel your campaign brainstorms, ad concepts and other creative projects.
Back in the day, you’d collect all of it in a physical paper folder. Now, you use mymind.
Ashley Keeper is the founder of KEEPER, a jewelry collection inspired by aerodynamics. Her pieces, sculptural and almost mystical in style, explore the liminal space between motion and suspension. We're always drawn to people who follow their curiosity or hone in on a particular obsession in this way, so we had to get a look into Keeper's mind.
What’s the best compliment you received recently?
I’ve been told a few times that I give off Sara Connor vibes from "Terminator." That’s some badass energy and I’ll take it!
With the collection, we received an awesome product review recently. In explaining a customer’s purchase: “Because it looks like a relic from an alien race.”
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Filled with some beautiful reminders, this book gave me the permission to create with no audience or outcome in mind. Carving out time to do so is healing the suppressed artist within this designer.
My partner just gifted me a signed copy after your founder recommended the book to me. I’m looking forward to reading it.
A quote that’s meaningful to you?
Designer Massimo Vignelli spoke at my university not long before he passed. Hearing all his achievements, a grad student in the back was eager to know how successful creatives get their first big break. The answer still moves me to this day.
“When a fire is burning, it’s impossible not to see it.”
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Best gift you’ve ever given?
I’ve had the pleasure of working on some beautiful custom engravings for customers. There are two in particular that come to mind:
The most recent was helping a group with a gift for their friend after his mom passed, with a message in her memory.
After the 2020 explosions in Beirut, I released a style named BEY for Beirut airport. (Each design is named after a different airport code.) A customer gave their Lebanese partner this necklace with the message, “This Too Shall Pass.”
I’m honored to be involved in making such special gifts possible. And in general, I believe in the power of design to transcend physical objects into modern heirlooms. That’s why I named the brand KEEPER.
Where do you want to travel to next?
Anywhere in nature.
What would you buy, if money weren’t an issue?
I would fabricate large scale sculptures of my jewelry pendants and install them in different landscapes around the world.
What hobby would you take up, if you had the time?
Getting a new motorcycle to go riding again. I sold my first cafe racer earlier this year, while moving from Mexico to Germany.
What’s an image or piece of art you can’t get out of your head?
The paracompass from the first "Dune" film. I’m a huge sci-fi fanatic and find Villeneuve’s work profoundly inspiring.
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A product of any kind you’ve been appreciating lately?
The Grasshopper plug-in for my 3D software. I’ve always wanted to explore parametric modeling and am developing a collection with some very cool surface details at the moment.
The funniest thing you’ve seen or heard lately?
As a recovering New Yorker, @subwaycreatures takes me right back to the zoo.
If you could build an extension of your own mind, what would it look like? How would it work?
I dreamed to build a treehouse as a kid. I loved to build things so my brother and I tried to make one. Apparently a permit was required where we lived, so it was torn down.
My inner child lives in a treehouse. While living in the jungle of Mexico, my apartment really felt like one. Being immersed in the trees acted as a constant reminder just how small I am. My vast inner world shrinks and it’s the ultimate cure for overthinking. ⚘
Just like any product or service, the cost of online tools can vary widely. Why are some apps subscriptions, others one-time payments, and many others completely free?
Well, it depends what kind of tool or service we're talking about.
Some tools are a one-time payment because they aren't offering an ongoing service, so they don't have ongoing costs to keep you around. However, these companies usually count on you bringing in more money down the road. You buy the tool once, but might purchase add-ons later on.
Others are subscription-based because they're providing an ongoing service to you. For example, say you launch a website. The company hosting your website pays ongoing costs keep it online for you, so they charge you ongoing costs in return.
Many, many other apps are "free" because they're getting something else from you that's worth much more than your money.
The unfortunate truth: no app is free
You pay for these "free" services – your social media apps, your games, your work tools, your browser platform, your fitness apps, your education, shopping, finance, podcast, video apps – in exchange for your personal information. You may pay with:
Your contact information - email address, phone number, name and age and location
Your content – creative work, images or text you create or upload to their platform
Your financial information – your credit score, your debts, salary assets and purchase history
Your personal files – your text messages, audio messages, voice recordings, emails, photos and videos, contacts
Your eye and scrolling movements
Your lifestyle & preferences – where you go frequently, where you work, the places you like to eat, your gym, your hobbies, your religious beliefs, political opinions, sleeping patterns, the websites you visit.
Your dreams & desires – The vacation you want to take and where you want to go, whether you want to buy or rent a home, your relationship status and goals, whether you have children or want them
Your fears & anxieties – Your fear of hair loss, weight gain, aging, financial problems, health issues
Your money is not your most valuable commodity for these apps. You and your data are.
Why do these apps value my information so much?
Most sites and tools are willing to risk so much on obtaining your information because there are many companies (and more every day) who are willing to pay a lot of money for it.
Advertisers want your information so they can track your habits and sell you perfectly timed ads that are suited to your current interests and lifestyle.
Big Artificial Intelligence companies want your information so they can train their AI models on it.
Social media apps like Facebook and Instagram want your information so they can optimize their algorithms and keep you coming back to spend more time and money there. Of course, they also make money selling your information to other third-party companies.
Every time we sign up for a new app or service, we blindly check boxes that agree to Terms & Services we barely understand – if we even make time to read them.
Some of us are OK with those terms. We might not mind sharing our listening information with a music app or YouTube, because of how valuable those songs or videos are to our every day. Or we're fine sharing our buying habits with Amazon, because it results in more useful product recommendations.
We all have lines we're willing to cross to get something that's more valuable to us in the moment.
Unfortunately, even if we accept this trade on the surface, we often don't fully understand its repercussions. Today, the greatest harm is the cost our psyche pays.
We alter our behavior, our very mode of being, to please algorithms and online audiences that only take from us.
We give countless hours of time to social media feeds, pleasing ad buyers and other companies who get to learn every intimate detail about us to get more of our money.
We allow those who are not looking out for our best interest – who don't even care or know who we are – to subtly paint the lines that shape our world.
Where your money goes when you pay for a mymind membership
When you pay for mymind, your money goes straight toward the service you're paying for. We pay for the services that power your mind (such as hosting your content and indexing it with artificial intelligence so you can find it later), and in turn charge you a fee to keep those services running.
Otherwise, your subscription pays our team's salaries to continue working on mymind and making it better.
We could sell mymind for free and opt to sell your data, like almost everyone else. But that goes against everything mymind is about. We're tired of using tools that take more from us than they give us, and we imagine at least a few other people out there are too.
We could go the easier route and get outside funding, but that compromises our vision as an independent, small team. We'd no longer have control over making the app we dream about, and would answer to investors rather than our members. We've never been interested in that kind of work and enjoy building small tools and communities on our own. That's always been who we are.
Then why do you offer a free guest plan?
We offer a guest plan so you have the chance to experience mymind without pressure to pay for it. This plan is limited by storage rather than time, so you can use it at your own pace without anyone urging you to upgrade.
If you stay within that storage limit, it's free to use forever. We cover the bills for it in the hope that you find it valuable enough to become a paying member.
Beyond this limit, we have to charge for mymind to cover the costs we pay to host your content and keep it safe. We offer a range of paid monthly or annual plans to make mymind as accessible as possible to everyone.
The value and trade-off of any purchase is up to the buyer to determine. With mymind, it's our goal to make that trade simple, honest and fair. It's our hope that eventually, we're not the exception.
Save a PDF to your mind with the browser extension or drag & drop, and you'll see the magic:
✦ Automatic AI tags: Just like websites and images, your mind now adds AI tags to PDFs for you, making it easier to find later.
✦ PDF summaries: PDFs now include a TLDR section, giving you a paragraph summary of the PDF contents. This section is indexed too, meaning you have more to work with while searching.
✦ Automatic PDF titles: Your mind will title the PDF for you based on its understanding of the content. No more weird file names or unnamed cards.
✧ This is our weekly inspiration roundup, in which we share a few things that moved us or made us think this week. ✧
Here's what's on our minds.
The Amalia Hernández House in Mexico City
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As described by the mymind AI summary: “Agustín Hernández Navarro designed the house for his sister, dancer Amalia Hernández, inspired by 16th-century convents and nautilus shells. The project combines organic and geometric shapes, creating emotional spaces with warm curves and sharp angles.”
“Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.”
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This interview with copywriter Harry Dry
Harry Dry is the mind behind Copywriting Examples, a brilliant resource and newsletter for ad writers, marketers and creatives. Dry takes his own medicine by writing succinct, compelling copy you actually want to read. He also happens to use mymind for collecting inspiration and references for his work. Here he kindly shares a glimpse inside.
“Think of your repertoire as the accumulation of everything you've ever seen or experienced, distilled down to its essence, ready to draw on whenever you need inspiration.”
Harry Dry is the mind behind Copywriting Examples, a brilliant resource and newsletter for ad writers, marketers and creatives. Dry takes his own medicine by writing succinct, compelling copy you actually want to read. He also happens to use mymind for collecting inspiration and references for his work. Here he kindly shares a glimpse inside.
What’s the best compliment you received recently?
“No one knew what you were going to say next.” - Andy, an attendee at a talk I did.
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A quote that’s meaningful to you?
"I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge." – Henry Miller
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Best gift you’ve ever given?
An interview with my Grandpa (who has since died) for my Dad.
Where do you want to travel to next?
I don’t know.
What would you buy, if money weren’t an issue?
A better mattress. Actually, no, if money is no object I’d like a country house in some part of England I’ve never heard of.
What hobby would you take up, if you had the time?
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A product of any kind you’ve been appreciating lately?
Can I say Copywriting Examples?! I know, I made it. But I use it every week and I’m proud of it. One hundred new examples in mymind ready to add. Godspeed!
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The funniest thing you’ve seen or heard lately?
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If you could build an extension of your own mind, what would it look like? How would it work?
I’m sure technology will march on and in another hundred years you can just think and poof – that new song ends up in some digital folder. But I really can’t be bothered with that. My mind is my mind. It doesn’t need “an extension." Pen and paper is fine. And for internet stuff, mymind is pretty good. ⚘
“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you're not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn't a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.”
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This interview with artist Alex Proba
“I've been appreciating and at the same time frightened by AI. On many levels it helps me quickly visualize and experiment with ideas in real-time. It's like having a team or co-worker that feedbacks my creative process and makes me feel like I am not a studio of One?”
Watch the video to see how it works
The lost art of letterhead design
