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What is Memory Currents?

Save what matters now. See how it connects later.

A place for what you don't want to lose

Much of what you want to remember arrives in the middle of something else. A friend mentions a book over lunch. You work out why a project keeps getting stuck. Your daughter says something on the way home that you want to remember years from now.

You may know that a moment matters without knowing where it belongs, or what you'll want to do with it later. Memory Currents gives you a place to save it while it's still fresh. You can write a sentence, a longer account, or a whole note. Each thing you save becomes a Memory.

That is the beginning of a record you can return to: what you noticed, what you decided, what you were wondering about, and what happened along the way. Some Memories will be useful tomorrow. Others may become useful only when you have more of the story.

The larger story grows from the small things

Imagine you're thinking about a trip to Italy. At first, you save a friend's restaurant recommendation. A few weeks later, you make a note about traveling by train. Then you save a conversation with your daughter about the places she wants to see.

Those are separate Memories, saved at different times. A Current brings related Memories together so you can follow the thread running through them. An Italy Trip Current could grow from a few early ideas into a record of plans, decisions, experiences, and things you want to remember afterward.

The conversation with your daughter might also belong to a Current about her. A Memory can connect to several Currents, because the same moment can matter in several parts of your life.

Currents can follow a project, a person, an interest, or a question you keep returning to. You can create one when you already know the thread. Other threads may become apparent only after you've saved enough Memories to notice a pattern.

Save first. Let the shape emerge.

You don't have to choose a folder or work out a complete system before saving something. Memory Currents can recognize kinds of thoughts, add tags, and connect a Memory to Currents you already have. Where these features are available, they help give your Memories useful structure after you save them.

Self-Organize can also look across your saved Memories and suggest new Currents. You review those suggestions and choose which ones to keep. A surprising connection may be useful; a connection that doesn't make sense to you can be left behind.

Longer notes can hold several Thoughts: a decision, an idea, and an action you want to take, for example. Memory Currents can identify separate Thoughts within your Memories and suggest ways to turn them into smaller Memories. In Preferences, you can choose to review the suggestions or enable Save split Memories automatically to save new suggestions for the Memories your configuration covers. Saving that setting gives your approval in advance; suggestions already waiting still need your review. Your original text stays intact. Automatic saves also archive the original Memory unless you choose to keep it active.

This organization helps make what you've saved easier to find and understand. Your own understanding of a Memory still matters more than the software's interpretation.

A memory that can stay with you

Memory Currents is being built for information you want to keep over time. Saving should fit into your day, and what you save should remain useful as your life and tools change.

You can save in the app, use SMS or email where those connections are available, and import existing material in the supported format. Export lets you download a readable copy of your Memories and Currents, with the additional information you choose to include.

The Product Principles explain the direction behind these choices: be available where you are, help organization emerge, keep your information portable, and respect that your data belongs to you.

Memory Currents is currently in early alpha. Features will change, and alpha software can lose data. Keep another copy of anything you cannot afford to lose.

Begin with something you want to remember

You can start with an idea, a decision, a question, or a moment from today. Save enough context that it will make sense when you return to it. You can let the larger connections develop from there.

Memories explains the things you save. Currents explains how those things come together over time.