The first 10 things to put in your Memini

A second brain gives back what you feed it. Feed it nothing but noise, and no software will pull good answers out of it. So the real question for week one isn’t how much to capture. It’s what.

Your memory runs on two kinds of fuel. Facts (measurements, receipts, what people agreed to) come back as instant answers you can check. Thinking (your own ideas, the one thought worth keeping from a book, decisions and their why) is the material your memory gets to think with later. Different jobs. Both worth feeding.

Capturing either kind takes seconds, not a weekend of organizing. Speak a voice note, type a quick line, or snap a photo and let Memini read the text off it. When you want something back, ask in chat: the answer is built from your own notes and cites them, so you can open each one and check.

Here are ten places to start, thinking first. None of them require you to become a different, tidier person.

Fuel for thinking

1. Your own ideas

Shower thoughts, project sparks, the thing you’d build if you had a free month. Ideas don’t arrive on schedule, but they keep well next to everything else you know. Capture them rough, by voice if your hands are busy; polish is optional.

2. One idea per book, podcast, or article

Skip the long quote. Keep the one thought you actually want, in your own words. A highlight you never revisit isn’t memory; a sentence you can ask for later is.

3. Work decisions, and the why

What was decided, who is doing what, and why the other option lost. In three months someone will ask, and the room will go quiet while everyone scrolls old threads. You could be the one who asks their memory and reads out the answer. Reputations have been built on less.

4. Travel notes for your future self

The hotel you liked and why, the neighborhood a friend swears by, the two things you wished you’d packed. Give it a voice note on the ride home, or a few typed lines at the gate. Next trip, “where was that place we loved” becomes a question you can ask, not a thread you have to dig through.

Fuel for answers

5. The numbers of your home

Window measurements, paint codes, the model numbers on appliances and filters. The store always asks, and you are never home when it does. Snap a photo of the label or the scribbled numbers, or read them into a voice note, and the next store run stops being a guessing game.

6. What people told you

What the movers quoted, what you and the neighbor agreed about the fence, what your boss said yes to in the hallway. Agreements have a way of evaporating by dinner. A fifteen-second voice note in the elevator on the way out does not.

7. Receipts, before they fade

Photograph the receipt at the counter, before it vanishes into a jacket pocket. Memini reads the text in your photos, so months later you can ask when you bought the thing and whether the warranty might still hold. The sources point back to what Memini read from the receipt, so you can check it against the real thing.

8. The small stuff about people you love

The gift idea your sister mentioned in passing, a friend’s coffee order, the kids’ shoe sizes, the name of the neighbor’s dog. Caring is mostly remembering, and remembering is easier when there’s a place you can ask. A quick typed note right after the conversation is plenty.

9. Home and car upkeep

When the oil was changed, when the filter went in, which bulb fits the kitchen fixture. “When did we last…” is a question worth asking your memory instead of debating in a store aisle. A voice note in the driveway beats hunting for the manual.

10. Recipes and fixes that worked

The pizza dough ratio that finally behaved, the trick that cured the wobbling shelf, the settings that stopped the washing machine from walking across the floor. Success without notes gets re-earned the hard way. Spend twenty seconds saving the win while it’s fresh.

Bring the notes you already have

Years of notes may already be sitting on your computer. Memini takes them as they are: Markdown, plain text, PDF, Word (.docx), whole folders in one go. Once imported, they stop being a pile and become memory you can question.

It’s the fastest way to warm up a new Memini: import first, then ask about something you half-remember writing, and see what comes back.

Now ask three questions

Once a few captures are in, close the loop. Ask what the movers quoted. Ask what your sister said she wanted. Then ask for every idea you’ve captured so far, just to watch them come back in one place.

Every answer points at the notes it came from; open one and you are reading your own words. If the AI got something wrong, you will see it right there.

Three questions today is enough. Your memory is young, and it grows with every capture. Ten small notes from now, ask about your own life and see how much it already has to say.

That was the idea all along: a place for the facts of your life and the thoughts you’d otherwise lose, and a way to ask for both back.

Try Memini

Memini is in public beta. On iOS it’s available through the TestFlight public beta, and on Android it’s in closed testing. Your captures stay yours: export your data (Markdown and JSON, yours to keep), delete any note, or delete your whole account right in the app. Start at meminiai.com.