Memex

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

Latest reviews

• (2025-06-13) Jim Hubbard: No mention of a paid service up front and their airtable questionnaire doesn't even work when you uninstall. Doesn't look like it will be around long.
• (2025-05-11) kuro neko: Please do not install this extension under any circumstances. Once you install it and create a login account, you cannot delete the account. You can send an email to request to delete your account from the app, but there is no reply. There is a chat function and the developer is online, but there is no response when you request to delete your account.
• (2025-02-14) C. B.: Highly recommended. Everything and more than what I was hoping for. It hasn't been "very buggy" for me. It's working wonders with my PKM flow and the Youtube features are a game changer for my productivity. It's still in beta and the dev seems to respond quickly here. Hopefully the complainers don't undermine a noble effort and ruin it for the rest of us.
• (2025-02-05) Aron Foster: Handy features when it works, but very buggy. Don't count on being able to reliably import or export your bookmarks, sign in, sign out, or use features promised on the memex.garden website.
• (2024-11-17) Matej Kondrot: 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.
• (2024-11-16) Norman 20: They did not delete my account 11 months after I requested it. This is both frustrating and undermines trust of their actions.
• (2024-09-24) Chris Harris: 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!!
• (2024-09-05) Renan Serrano: I love the app but it's crashing the google search UI, its started 1 week ago ~
• (2024-06-07) hao hao: search is buggy for CJK users
• (2024-04-11) Hitesh Kar: There are a lot of valuable UX. But their determination to block you from using Youtube easily is so Annoying. they need to provide "X" button to close your widget screens at ALL times. You can't lock the user into your interface that does not allowyou to use anything. No idea how to close this widget. The only way is to uninstall
• (2024-03-02) aLEKS: theres so many wrong things with this extension and app. never get fixed
• (2024-03-02) aLEKS: theres so many wrong things with this extension and app. never get fixed
• (2023-10-19) Alex Bjornstad: The first time I knew about memex was in 2019, after 4 years they FINALLY fixed CJK character issue, now I can recomand it.
• (2023-10-19) Alex Bjornstad: The first time I knew about memex was in 2019, after 4 years they FINALLY fixed CJK character issue, now I can recomand it.
• (2023-08-14) Püp Noomann: i have looked for a free way to annotate a live website like i would a pdf for 2 hours now, and this is the first option i have found that actually does what i want. i will use it religiously
• (2023-08-14) Püp Noomann: i have looked for a free way to annotate a live website like i would a pdf for 2 hours now, and this is the first option i have found that actually does what i want. i will use it religiously
• (2023-04-22) Yu Jerry: Not able to use the shortcut anymore, not sure if there is an update or paid version.
• (2023-04-22) Yu Jerry: Not able to use the shortcut anymore, not sure if there is an update or paid version.
• (2023-03-07) Samuel Schmidt: They continue to update the app with super nice features. Also FOSS
• (2023-03-07) Samuel Schmidt: They continue to update the app with super nice features. Also FOSS
• (2023-03-02) Anoir Ben Tanfous: The new UI is amazing, I forgot completely about this extension for years but now it became so well designed that I am going to make use of it on daily basis and integrate it in my workflow.
• (2023-03-02) Anoir Ben Tanfous: The new UI is amazing, I forgot completely about this extension for years but now it became so well designed that I am going to make use of it on daily basis and integrate it in my workflow.
• (2023-02-13) CHIRAG SINGHAL: I don't like Offline-first. All data is stored on your device. I want it to be synced
• (2023-02-13) CHIRAG SINGHAL: I don't like Offline-first. All data is stored on your device. I want it to be synced
• (2023-01-08) Алексей Ероховец: Хотел удалить аккаунт и не нашел где! Ужас! Если вы качаете это приложение то будьте в курсе, скорее всего ваша почта в этом приложении до конца его дней.
• (2022-10-31) Christoph: The idea seems great, but this has a long way to go. I Installed the extension but I can't even get the sidebar to show up. Option-Q does nothing and not side bar is shown even though it is "enabled permanently". So I haven't been able to test it on youtube. When it comes to pdf annotations, I'd rather go for the original, i.e. hypothe.is.
• (2022-10-31) Christoph: The idea seems great, but this has a long way to go. I Installed the extension but I can't even get the sidebar to show up. Option-Q does nothing and not side bar is shown even though it is "enabled permanently". So I haven't been able to test it on youtube. When it comes to pdf annotations, I'd rather go for the original, i.e. hypothe.is.
• (2022-08-31) Robert Smith: Improving at a fast pace! The highlighter works. The notes have formatting. The "share" a highlight social thing works (and is useful!) Horray!
• (2022-08-31) Robert Smith: Improving at a fast pace! The highlighter works. The notes have formatting. The "share" a highlight social thing works (and is useful!) Horray!
• (2022-07-14) Timothy Jarvis: I still have not gotten it down. How everything works, it lucky comes with a lot of help files, and tutorials. which is very nice. So far it seems like an amazing app, that could turn into something bigger than what it is now. I think we're just seeing the start of something that's going to take off and be big, so jump on now before the rocket takes off. You won't regret it, and I don't usually write reviews, if my profile displayed the number of reviews I wrote, this would be 3. so, you know it got to be good. It's free give it a chance.
• (2022-07-14) Timothy Jarvis: I still have not gotten it down. How everything works, it lucky comes with a lot of help files, and tutorials. which is very nice. So far it seems like an amazing app, that could turn into something bigger than what it is now. I think we're just seeing the start of something that's going to take off and be big, so jump on now before the rocket takes off. You won't regret it, and I don't usually write reviews, if my profile displayed the number of reviews I wrote, this would be 3. so, you know it got to be good. It's free give it a chance.
• (2022-01-12) Glenn Hefley: Not thrilled. I came in using this as one thing -- mainly open source and functional. Now all of the function is being taken out, its going closed source and I feel like that was a lot of time I'm never getting back. So, hell, it was free right? .. well, no, not really., Because now I bave a ton of invested time into a structure that never cared about any of the promises or features the user desired. Hell, I'm not sure what they're making now.. maybe it will be fun. Hang around. See if the sun rises. I'm -- out.
• (2022-01-12) Glenn Hefley: Not thrilled. I came in using this as one thing -- mainly open source and functional. Now all of the function is being taken out, its going closed source and I feel like that was a lot of time I'm never getting back. So, hell, it was free right? .. well, no, not really., Because now I bave a ton of invested time into a structure that never cared about any of the promises or features the user desired. Hell, I'm not sure what they're making now.. maybe it will be fun. Hang around. See if the sun rises. I'm -- out.
• (2021-09-16) Shubhamkar Ayare: Seems pretty good; hoping to update to 5 stars if I don't run into any issues! A small feature I'd love is the ability to change highlight-colors globally or even great locally. Thanks!
• (2021-09-16) Shubhamkar Ayare: Seems pretty good; hoping to update to 5 stars if I don't run into any issues! A small feature I'd love is the ability to change highlight-colors globally or even great locally. Thanks!
• (2021-01-29) Rob K: originally reviewed as 5 stars, but they killed it. I have pretty severe memory issues, and this was great. it allowed me to find any page i had ever visited, as long as i had a general idea of what i wanted to find again, literally only needed to remember one word from the page, and it would be in the search. I also read a lot of articles about different things, and of course, i forget instantly. 6 months later, i'd think of something, and want to find that exact page again, this made it easy. they deleted that feature, it no longer indexes pages you visit. (this isnt a bug, they intentionally removed it), so this extension is now useless. all the 5 star reviews you see here are for a feature that no longer exists.
• (2021-01-29) Rob K: originally reviewed as 5 stars, but they killed it. I have pretty severe memory issues, and this was great. it allowed me to find any page i had ever visited, as long as i had a general idea of what i wanted to find again, literally only needed to remember one word from the page, and it would be in the search. I also read a lot of articles about different things, and of course, i forget instantly. 6 months later, i'd think of something, and want to find that exact page again, this made it easy. they deleted that feature, it no longer indexes pages you visit. (this isnt a bug, they intentionally removed it), so this extension is now useless. all the 5 star reviews you see here are for a feature that no longer exists.
• (2021-01-18) Minh Phan: this is freaking incredible.
• (2021-01-18) Minh Phan: this is freaking incredible.
• (2020-11-24) Andreas Hjarksson: Hey guys, cool extension. Can I annotate PDFs? I tried it but doesn't seem to work for me.
• (2020-11-24) Andreas Hjarksson: Hey guys, cool extension. Can I annotate PDFs? I tried it but doesn't seem to work for me.
• (2020-11-17) V Keerthi Vikram: I have been using memex from july of this year and it has had a huge improvement in workflow. It is a must have for any privacy enthusiast or a researcher.
• (2020-11-17) V Keerthi Vikram: I have been using memex from july of this year and it has had a huge improvement in workflow. It is a must have for any privacy enthusiast or a researcher.
• (2020-10-16) William Kiely: Memex removed the full text history search, which was the whole reason I used the app. Sadly I relied on Memex to retrieve certain information I had once browsed so now I have no way of finding these pages again.
• (2020-10-16) William Kiely: Memex removed the full text history search, which was the whole reason I used the app. Sadly I relied on Memex to retrieve certain information I had once browsed so now I have no way of finding these pages again.
• (2020-09-29) Todd Carter: Sadly, their plans for this extension abruptly shifted recently, so this no longer indexes pages you visit (history). It only searches bookmarked pages and your annotations. They also are primarily focusing on "collaborations," which I have no interest. I've been following the project for several years. While this was a good idea, it seems to take them forever to make progress. And when they do, like the excellent full-text searching of visited (but not bookmarked) pages, they actually make negative progress by changing direction. In the meantime, I've found a couple of other extensions that provide similar functionality, as far as displaying visited sites/gmails on the Google search results page, which is my main reason for using it. There's also a major danger here: This doesn't automatically back up your data to Google Drive unless you pay. So you need to remember to backup your data yourself regularly or you'll lose at least your annotations if you have a major crash.
• (2020-09-29) Todd Carter: Sadly, their plans for this extension abruptly shifted recently, so this no longer indexes pages you visit (history). It only searches bookmarked pages and your annotations. They also are primarily focusing on "collaborations," which I have no interest. I've been following the project for several years. While this was a good idea, it seems to take them forever to make progress. And when they do, like the excellent full-text searching of visited (but not bookmarked) pages, they actually make negative progress by changing direction. In the meantime, I've found a couple of other extensions that provide similar functionality, as far as displaying visited sites/gmails on the Google search results page, which is my main reason for using it. There's also a major danger here: This doesn't automatically back up your data to Google Drive unless you pay. So you need to remember to backup your data yourself regularly or you'll lose at least your annotations if you have a major crash.
• (2020-08-25) Forever Sunny: Could you suggest a way the annotations could be rearranged? I tried but all the annotations were saved in reverse order based on time which meant the last annotation in the article comes on top and thereon.This doesnt seem to make sense and renders it useless. Also, is there no way of changing the highlight colour which is too glaring and stress-inducing...
• (2020-08-25) Forever Sunny: Could you suggest a way the annotations could be rearranged? I tried but all the annotations were saved in reverse order based on time which meant the last annotation in the article comes on top and thereon.This doesnt seem to make sense and renders it useless. Also, is there no way of changing the highlight colour which is too glaring and stress-inducing...
• (2020-02-28) Josiah Sprague: I've been searching for this app for years. This is one of the most exciting projects I've found in a long time. Just installed, and everything is working great. Excited to make this a regular part of my workflow.