Your first week with Memini

Ideas come to you all day. In the shower, halfway through a walk, in the middle of someone else’s meeting. Some you type into a note, and the note joins two hundred others with names like “thoughts” and “untitled 47”.

Then one evening you need one back. You know it was good. You know it’s in there. But you’d have to remember when you wrote it, where, and what words you used. So it stays buried, and you sit there trying to have the same idea twice.

That little search runs a dozen times a week, and not just for ideas. What the plumber said about the leak. The model number of the air filter.

Memini is built for those moments, and the whole idea fits in one line: notice something once, and it’s there when you ask. This guide is your first seven days of making that true.

Days 1 and 2: catch small things as they happen

There’s nothing to set up first. No folders, no tags, no system to design before you begin.

So begin now. Open the app and say the thought you’re carrying right now as a voice note. Ten seconds. That’s a complete note, and it’s your first.

Then keep going the same way. A notice goes up by your building’s door: take a photo. Memini pulls the words off the photo, so the dates and details are yours to ask for, not just pixels in your camera roll.

A booking confirmation lands in your inbox: paste the text into a note. A receipt you might need later: photograph it before it disappears into a drawer.

Ten words and a tap make a good note. If capturing feels almost too casual, you’re doing it right.

Give your memory a head start

You don’t have to start from zero. Memini imports Markdown, plain text, PDF, and Word (.docx) files, whole folders at once.

The house project list from two years ago. The notes from your last big work push. The packing list you keep rewriting. Once they’re in, answers can draw on them the same way they draw on this week’s captures.

Days 3 and 4: ask like you’d ask a person

By day three you have something to work with, so open the chat and ask.

“What did the plumber say about the leak?” “What dates were on that notice by the door?” “What were my ideas about the balcony?” No keywords, no special phrasing. If you’d say it out loud, you can ask it here.

Here’s the part worth slowing down for: under every answer sit the notes it was built from. Tap a source and the note opens, and you’re looking at the raw material yourself.

Make that glance a habit. AI can be wrong, and when it is, the opened note settles it in seconds. An answer that seems off stops being a mystery once you see what Memini had to work with.

Sometimes Memini brings in live web search to help with an answer. Even then, citations point only to your notes, never to web pages. Your notes stay the record you check against.

One small thing while you explore: you can search your memory directly when you want to find a note rather than ask a question.

When the answer is “not much yet”

Now the part most apps skip over. A memory that’s a few days old doesn’t hold much.

Some answers this week will amount to “I don’t have much on that yet.” That’s not the app failing. It’s a map of what you haven’t captured.

A new notebook is mostly blank pages on day two, and nobody blames the notebook. The difference here: each note you add gives the next answer more to draw on, and that trade stays true long after this week.

So treat a thin answer as a signal. Whatever you just asked about is exactly the thing worth capturing more of.

Days 5 through 7: make it automatic

The one rule that matters most: capture in the moment. Ten seconds now beats “I’ll write it down later,” because later rarely shows up.

Before the week ends, try catching a few of these:

• What the contractor quoted, and what the quote leaves out.
• The idea that hit you in traffic, before it dissolves.
• The decisions from a meeting, in two lines, before everyone remembers them differently.
• The model number of the air filter, so the next replacement starts with a question instead of a search of the closet.

Don’t second-guess a capture. If something turns out to be noise, delete it. You can delete any note, so there’s no cost to catching too much.

One boundary from day one: keep passwords and other credentials out entirely. Card details are different: Memini detects and swaps card and bank numbers it finds, but detection has limits, so don’t collect payment details on purpose.

What changes by Sunday

If the week goes even half well, two quiet shifts show up.

You stop retyping context. The quote, the dates on the notice, the model number: you caught each one once, so you stop typing them out again.

And you start asking instead of scrolling. One question and a glance at the sources, instead of a dig through screenshots and old messages.

No fireworks, just fewer little losses. You noticed it once, and once was enough.

One more thing about whose memory this is. Everything you capture goes into one place. It becomes your own private memory, isolated to your account, never blended into a shared pile.

You’re not locked in, either. Export your data anytime, Markdown and JSON, yours to keep. And you can delete your account yourself, right in the app.

Try Memini

Memini is in public beta. On iOS, join the public beta through TestFlight. On Android, the app is in closed testing. It all starts at meminiai.com.

Your first move is one voice note about something from today. Catch it once, ask your first questions, and see how the second week feels.