mymind – Extend your mind 4+

I wasn’t sure if this app would really execute on its concept but after putting my faith in it for about 2 weeks it has slowly become what it said it would be. Once you save enough things, you can search for pretty much anything and it’ll come up. The automatic tagging system is actually quite good at picking up on patterns and associations in searches once you give it enough info to work with. It was strange watching it transform. It was like the moment the music streaming service’s algorithm finally starts tol play good music. I realized I can just dump stuff into this thing and anytime I want to find something of a particular kind later, it will be there to pop up. It took awhile to really get the concept. It’s not google images but it is a personal google images for images you have added. Which doesn’t mean much until after you’ve added like at least a couple dozen things. It has a strange learning curve but I think I see the potential value in it.

I really enjoy using this app. I like using the app to write down things I want to remember to look into and it works pretty well overall. There’s a few features that I think could really be useful for navigating the app and just stuff I think would be neat. A filter-by function within the main page and the search engine would make it even easier to find notes your looking for. Being able to pin notes of great importance to the top of your main page would be a god-send if you don’t want to go through the hassle of searching. And something I just think would be really cool is a linked notes function, so that the notes can build off eachother, think something like email reply chains. Looking forward to seeing more developments and again, i’d really love to see any of these features!

-Tech these days is all about productivity and usability. But, we primal humans will always notice a thing created in beauty. An app. A person. A relationship. A poem. It doesn’t matter. We are programmed to be responsive to the thing which captivates our collective senses. Love is an example.

This app does that. It’s not that it makes me more productive, more efficient, or more responsive. But - it does make me more aware of the beauty that exists in people, particularly the beauty of creating beauty. That’s what Tobias et al have done with this app. I really wish people would wake up to their first mind, the one that silently guides them when the developed mind fails. I have a PhD, and am proud to say this app thrives because of its of emphasis on the aesthetic, sacramental, sensual value - the same I see in apple, Bose, and Australian home design.

Keep on keeping on you guys, and please - don’t stop when the tech tide changes again. Cheers.