Why I Came Back to Mymind
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Mymind is an application I am a big fan of. I have always really liked it. I started a subscription, had it for a month or two, then canceled it because I felt like it was too expensive. It is one of the more expensive apps on the market. It is one of the older AI applications, and when it first got released they focused a lot on AI organisation: just put things into the application and search for it later. The AI auto-tagging would make sure that you'd find the things you need. It has worked from the first time I tested the app back in 2023. I have never actually had any issues finding the things I put into it. The search has always worked really well and the promise of not having to organise was kept. I didn't have to organise and I always found the thing I was looking for. But one of the issues has been the lack of features, or the feeling that I lacked features. Other apps had things like backlinks, which is a PKM feature I missed, but they also had ways of organising manually, which was something I sometimes missed. But they have recently added more amazing features and changed the way they brand the application from the AI features to an application where you can be yourself. Your private repository of things that inspire you and things you care about.
They have added so many features
Mymind has added so many new features over the last year and the first part of this year. They are also really good at adding the right features. Every time they have added a feature it feels like it has been the right one. They have mainly delivered a lot of improvements to already existing features, but they have also added some new ones. The main new feature I want to focus on is Mind Links.
Mind Links is what Mymind calls backlinks. It is a way for you to link a note to another note, just like you would in apps like Obsidian, Roam, and Logseq. It introduces a new way of organising and building a knowledge tree inside of Mymind. It is a feature I have been wanting in Mymind for a while. They started by just adding the links, simply allowing you to add new links. Then they improved on it. They added the ability to link directly from a note and create a new note; basically, I could use double square brackets to create a new note. They then allowed me to see the links in my note sidebar, and the next thing they are planning to add is the ability to link not only to notes, but also to other types in Mymind, like images, products, books, or articles. Mind Links also works in Mind Notes, which is the little sidebar note you can see whenever you open an item, so you can use that to link different things together.
But they have also added a lot of new minor features. They have improved articles and made Mymind better as a read-it-later app, which is important since we have seen a loss of a few read-it-later apps over the last couple of years. So it makes sense that they want to be used as a read-it-later app too. They also added buttons that allow you to mark something as read and use that to search. The same feature has been added to products and books too, not only articles.
They have also added support for more content types. You can now add things like Substack notes and arXiv links. They allow you to upload Markdown files and have also added analysis for note types. Before, you would not get the auto-tagging for notes, but that is something they have now added. I think the point in the long run is that you can get the same Vibe feature for notes too, a feature where AI surfaces similar notes to the one you are on. That feature currently works with images, but I believe they want it to work with notes as well, so I think this is the first step. It is also a nice feature to have because now you don't have to add manual tags to notes either. These are some of the new features; there are of course more, but I can't go into all of them, the post would just be too long.
It is not about the features though
The features are great! I love them, but it is not mainly about the features. It is about something more important, something I mentioned earlier around the new branding of Mymind. I have been trying to find myself again. I have been in a slump and have been trying to become more aware of myself and the things I like and enjoy. I have gotten back into physical media like CDs. I have been a little tired of boring tech and have just spent a lot of time working on my creativity and inspiration hub. I decided to give Mymind a chance. The philosophy behind the app felt like it fit with what I wanted in my life.
I had forgotten how fun it was, and how much I enjoyed just looking at the things I had saved and how much it helped with a lot of my creative projects. I have been working on a website project and a couple of other design projects, and Mymind has been so helpful — not just because I have a lot of inspirational material in there, but also because it puts me in the right mindset. When I start my day with Mymind, I start my day a little more inspired. It fits really well with the branding of the application. It is your personal repository. The world moves fast and there is always input coming at you from social media. But in Mymind everything is slow, and instead of algorithms guiding me in a direction, in Mymind I have chosen everything. It is intentional.
This might feel like a weird review of a note-taking app, but I think Mymind deserves a lot of praise and a review like this. Sometimes it is not just about the features. Even though Mymind has a lot of cool features, it is more about how it fits in my life — and I have been really loving Mymind.
