Deep Thinking, Brainstorm, and Lateral Synaptic Drift, explained simply

Everyday chat in Memini looks a fact up: the name of the tile shop, what the electrician said about the fuse box. The deep modes do something different. They take a question no single note can answer and think it over, with everything you’ve saved.

That’s a bigger job than it sounds. Months of voice notes, photos of paperwork, and half-typed thoughts hold more of your thinking than you can replay in your head. The deep modes are how you put all of it to work at once.

There are three: Deep Thinking, Brainstorm, and Lateral Synaptic Drift. They are part of Memini’s paid plans, and the app shows what your plan includes. Here is what each one does, and when to pick it.

The routine you only learn once

All three modes work the same way.

In the chat input, pick the mode you want. Type your question and send it like a normal message.

Then put your phone away. The run continues in the background, so you can close the app and get on with your evening.

When the result is ready, Memini sends you a notification. It arrives as its own saved chat thread, waiting whenever you are.

One more thing. If a line in the result is worth keeping, save it into your memory as a note. From then on, future answers can draw on it.

Deep Thinking: for the decision you keep circling

Deep Thinking gives you one careful answer instead of a fast one.

It works across your whole memory and weighs what you actually know, not what it assumes you know. Along the way, it can call out notes that pull in different directions and tell you when an important piece looks missing.

Say it’s that kitchen renovation. Your memory holds voice notes from showroom visits, photos of quotes, typed measurements, and a running list of things you keep changing your mind about.

Ask it: based on everything I’ve saved, what am I ready to decide, and what’s still open?

You get one grounded answer. It lays out the decisions your notes already support and the questions that still need an answer.

Pick Deep Thinking for decisions, and for the honest question underneath them: what do I actually know here?

Brainstorm: for when one answer isn’t the point

Some nights you don’t need an answer. You need options.

Brainstorm generates ideas grounded in your own notes and organizes the strongest into a tree you can explore. Because the material is yours, the ideas feel like yours, not like a generic list.

Gift ideas come from things people around you actually mentioned. Trip plans start from places your friends keep bringing up. Names for a project echo the words you already use when you describe it.

When the tree arrives, wander through it. Read the branches that pull at you, skip the ones that don’t, and save the ideas worth keeping as notes.

Pick Brainstorm for naming something, planning a trip, finding a gift, or shaping a proposal.

Lateral Synaptic Drift: for when you’re stuck

Lateral Synaptic Drift is the unusual one, and that’s its job.

Instead of answering head-on, it wanders into the distant, half-forgotten corners of your memory, looking for connections you would never think to search for.

A line you saved from a book last year sits surprisingly close to the problem on your desk right now. A photo of a poster, a note from a long car ride, and an old side-project idea all point in the same direction.

Some of what it brings back will be odd. That’s the point. An odd pairing can shake an idea loose in a way a sensible answer never will.

Run Lateral Synaptic Drift when a project has gone stale, or when you’re simply curious what your memory has been quietly holding.

Which one, in one breath

• You need to decide something, or you want an honest picture of what you know: Deep Thinking.
• You need ideas and options: Brainstorm.
• You’re stuck, or just curious: Lateral Synaptic Drift.

Not sure the question deserves a deep run? Start in everyday chat. When the quick answer feels thin for something that matters, that’s your sign.

Two things to know before your first run

A deep mode’s result is only as rich as the memory it runs on. If you started capturing a week ago, all three will come back thin. There isn’t much for them to work with yet.

These modes reward people who have been capturing for a while. Months of voice notes, typed thoughts, photos of documents, and imported files give them real material to think with.

So if your memory is young, keep going. Every week of capturing widens what a deep run can reach.

And like any AI, the deep modes can be wrong. They read your notes, not a flawless record of your life, and they can misread things. When a detail really matters, check it in everyday chat, where you can tap a source and the note opens.

Your first run

Take a decision you keep coming back to. Open Memini, pick Deep Thinking in the chat input, and ask: based on everything I’ve saved, what do I actually know about this, and what’s missing?

Send it and close the app. When the notification arrives, you’ll be reading your own thinking, gathered in one place for the first time.

Try Memini

Memini is a privacy-first AI second brain for iOS and Android, now in public beta. On iOS, join through the TestFlight public beta. On Android, the app is in closed testing.

Quick chat looks a fact up. The deep modes think it over, with everything you’ve saved.

Get started at meminiai.com.