Memex

Search, annotate and organize what you've read online.
What is Memex?
Memex is a Chrome extension that allows individuals, teams, and communities to curate, annotate, and discuss important web content. It features summarization, chat, full-text search, flexible organization, collaboration, and syncing capabilities. With Memex, you can save, view, and organize your knowledge across all your devices and backup data offline.

Extension stats

Users: 10,000+
Rating: 3.92 (102)
Version: 3.20.10 (Last updated: 2024-08-13)
Creation date: 2020-07-01
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • alarms
  • bookmarks
  • contextMenus
  • tabs
  • scripting
  • webNavigation
  • notifications
  • unlimitedStorage
  • storage
  • clipboardWrite
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 9.14M

Other platforms

Memex (v3.20.9)
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Extension summary

Deep Reading for the web. As individuals, teams and communities.

Curate, annotate and discuss the most important websites, PDFs and YouTube videos.

FEATURES:

🤖 Summarize & chat with websites, PDFs, YouTube videos 🔍 Full-text search pages and PDFs you annotated or bookmarked. 📝 Highlight and Annotate Websites & PDFs 🗄 Flexible organisation: Organise into Spaces + tab manager 🌎 Share, collaborate on and discuss Spaces of pages and notes with others. 🔗 Link to highlights and annotations
🔄 Sync to Obsidian, Readwise, Logseq 📱 Across devices: Save, View & organise your knowledge on all of your devices, phones and tablets. ⚡️ Quick onboarding.Import from every major bookmarking service with your folder structure.

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Performance and features have improved significantly over time.
  • Useful for academic citations, PDF reading, and knowledge management.
  • New UI design is praised and makes the extension more user-friendly.
  • Regular updates with nice features and functionality.
  • It allows for website annotation, which users find valuable.
Cons
  • The extension is reported to be buggy and has issues with certain features.
  • Problems with the user interface, including difficulty using YouTube.
  • Limited ability to delete accounts and manage bookmarks.
  • Data is stored offline, which some users do not prefer.
  • CJK language support has been a long-standing issue.
Most mentioned
  • Buggy performance and several unresolved issues.
  • Improvement in features and UI over the years.
  • Difficulty in using certain functionalities, particularly for CJK users.
  • User frustration with limitations around account management.
  • Positive feedback on the expansion of features and utility.
Recent reviews
Performance and features have grown from buggy to beautiful over the past 4 years! omg! I'm glad I gave this another go, there's no tool out there that does this level of knowledge utility. Academic Citations AND PDF reading, obsidian syncing, in the flow saving, love it!!! keep up the good work!!
by Chris Harris, 2024-09-24

I love the app but it's crashing the google search UI, its started 1 week ago ~
by Renan Serrano, 2024-09-05

search is buggy for CJK users
by hao hao, 2024-06-07
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Memex requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Memex has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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