Memex

Search, annotate and organize what you've read online.

Memex Chrome Extension: Search, Annotate, Organize

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.

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Extension stats

By: https://memex.garden

Users: 10,000+

Rating: 3.87

(103)

0.01

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

Email: su*****@worldbrain.io

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 7,607 ▼ 93

Other rankings

#609 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 7 #100 in summarize pdf keyword 34 ▲ 4 #190 in summarize youtube keyword 51 ▼ 3 #273 in summarize website keyword 48 ▼ 2

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Memex (v3.20.9)

4.31

(54) 392

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

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.

User reviews

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Pros

Has potential as a tool for auto-indexing and searching content
Performance and features have improved over time
Useful for academic citations and PDF reading
Provides free annotation options for live websites
New UI is well-designed and enhances usability

Cons

Bugs in search functionality, especially with special characters
Difficulty in deleting accounts and managing bookmarks
Interface widgets can be intrusive and difficult to close
Notable performance issues with certain users (e.g., CJK users)
Offline-first design limits data syncing capabilities

Most mentioned

Search functionality issues
Account management difficulties
Intrusive interface elements
Continuous updates with new features
Improved user interface design

User reviews

I don't like leaving reviews but this tool has potential so I'm hoping this reaches the dev. I found this tool mainly on the hunt for an app which auto-indexes all the html on sites like stackoverflow so that I can go back and ctrl+f certain key words later on (regular history doesn't do this). Memex achieves this well enough as I can just hit alt-q on any notable site. So far, I have two issues with using Memex for the scenario I've explained above: The first is that the search function seems to break down as soon as there are special characters. e.g. I can search for 'clone' but as soon as I search for '.clone()' then the whole search breaks down. Please fix! The second issue: please get out of my way! All I am wanting to do right now is press alt+q and save the page for later, I do not need any widgets popping up on the site I'm using. If it's useful for me I will slowly start looking into it over time. I also don't see a way to remove the youtube video widget so I have had to add ###__MEMEX-YOUTUBE-INTERFACE-ROOT into my ad-blocker to take it out of the html once it has already been injected in, which seems redundant.

Matej Kondrot, 2024-11-17

They did not delete my account 11 months after I requested it. This is both frustrating and undermines trust of their actions.

Norman 20, 2024-11-16

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!!