It required me to learn its complicated, clunky systems just to use the tool. To connect with friends, share what I was doing, follow what everyone else was doing and curate my things to please the masses. Many apps even claimed ownership of my own content once I’d posted it there. It wanted my personal information, my browsing data, my activity data, and who knows what else. It required me to categorize and organize what I’d saved, until I was so fed up with all the effort (or discouraged by my inability to keep up with it) that I gave up and abandoned the tool. Van Schneider: Every existing tool asked too much from me:
I tried every tool I could find before deciding to make my own.įrey: What needs weren’t being met by existing visual thinking and note-taking tools that convinced you that you needed to create mymind?
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The mental burden of the clutter, plus the pressure from all these tools & apps to organize my chaos, felt tiring. That’s not to mention Evernote, Pinterest, my Notes app and about a dozen other places I’d stash things that were supposedly important to me.
My Camera Roll was also a screenshot graveyard, where I’d saved grabs of social posts, random pictures of products I wanted to research, you name it. I couldn’t even remember what I wanted to read later at that point anyway.
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My browser was so full of open tabs I’d saved to read later, I would give up and just close the whole thing every week or so, accepting the loss. My desktop was littered with screenshots and random images I’d saved for inspiration. Tobias van Schneider: Like nearly everything I’ve built, it was something I wanted for myself. I recently had an opportunity to interview mymind cofounders Tobias van Schneider and Jason Nelson to learn about the story behind it, what makes it unique and how users can benefit from it.Ĭhuck Frey: What inspired you to create mymind? It then uses AI to automatically classify what you’ve curated for you. It enables you to simply and easily capture research, ideas and information in a bare-bones visual canvas. Mymind is a new visual thinking tool with a difference.
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