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

Latest reviews

• (2024-03-02) aleKs o_0: 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.
• (2023-08-14) 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.
• (2023-03-07) 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.
• (2023-02-13) 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.
• (2022-08-31) 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.
• (2022-01-12) 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!
• (2021-01-29) 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.
• (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.
• (2020-10-16) 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.
• (2020-08-25) 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.
• (2020-02-27) 9uj as: 为什么取消了划词弹出的功能，双击词语还是会弹出，受不了 经常性搜不出来
• (2020-02-02) Extra Google Account: I just want to say to anyone deciding on whether to get this or not, get this - it is excellent! There were a couple two star reviews for very specific issues, but the extension has amazing functionality and truly is part of a new breed of web apps. The team has really thought through how our browsing has evolved. Traditional bookmarks and history pages are no longer sufficient for the modern web user/researcher. They have a well-developed roadmap and great new features coming up (and they used Notion for making their support/tutorial/user guide pages). To the team: I can't wait for the mobile app! I do have a feature request/question, though. I would really like to save a session (or a window) and put the session in a collection with other sessions. So, for instance, if you were working on Project X, you could save several sessions (or windows) under that topic. It would basically be adding another layer. (And lastly I am having trouble saving "all tabs." I watched the "Add many tabs" Gif and thought I did exactly what was done in the instructions. When adding tags to "all tabs," after selecting the desired tag(s), I then click "Back" and then open the dashboard to see they aren't there. Am I supposed to hit "Back" after selecting the tags?) -Thanks Worldbrains.io team!
• (2019-12-08) Daniel Turner-Lloveras: 5 stars all day until it stopped working 3 months ago, still not fixed. will change to 5 stars once its working again and i can get what i paid for.
• (2019-12-02) Yifei Kong: Not working so well. 1. Importing causes google to show captcha page. 2. Imported number is greater than anticipated. 3. Search result rank is not good. 4. No duplicate page detection, different url with same content is shown twice
• (2019-11-22) Xfly Xx: 一直在找这样一个工具，以后开始探索看看有多好用
• (2019-11-17) X GNU Bio Bio: Hey guys. If you use Bash and Terminal, you can try a little Bash Script I made. Once you have a URL list, which is easy to make through Chrome history/bookmark manager or by the terminal itself, the script will visits each URL and scrape the full-text page. Actually, it accesses webpages with cURL/Wget and uses Grep and regular expressions to search for matches. You can get a help page running the script with the flçag "-h". If you want to check: GitHub link: https://github.com/mountaineerbr/scripts/blob/master/urlgrep.sh It works differently than WorldBrain's Memex extension in that this script does not index visited pages randomly/bubbly, and you can use this script with your current history/bookmarks right away. Cheers!
• (2019-09-27) Allen Lee: After Genius, this is the best web knowledge management app I have ever use. High recommend it! 🔥
• (2019-08-07) Saul Venskutonis: This is a fantastic app! The future of note taking! Evernote watch out!
• (2019-07-21) Naved Islam: Really ambitious app which has been backing that up with solid progress. Really mature approach and plan, and once mobile apps and to-read features are ready this will be THE app
• (2019-07-21) bilderうん: 很好用
• (2019-06-26) XX Gu: The newest version updated at June 24th seems mining at the background, it makes my fan burst and my CPU usage very high
• (2019-06-18) 虞骏豪: WIN7按住W+空格键貌似没有用
• (2019-05-18) Joker Qyou: Unfortunately it does not handle numbers. I remembered visiting a webpage with some phone numbers, and I remember one of the numbers, but it does not show up in search result. If I manually go over my history I can find it, and surely it is indexed. Seems like this extension does not care for number. Too bad.
• (2019-05-13) Max: Создает базу полных текстов на основе закладок браузера и, на выбор, по истории посещения. Если у вас много интересных закладок, то получается свой небольшой гугл. Аннотации это не основной функционал, как я понял.
• (2019-04-18) Shankar Reddy: This is the best extension you can come across for your bookmarking, web history and research purposes if you are an ordinary student like me, reading articles and watching videos etc. It is way faster to use due to its keyboard shortcuts .
• (2019-03-28) Martin Lichtblau: Great for finding a page you once visited, thanks to full-text search. Simple to use for annotating and highlighting important passages on any website. Top: 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
• (2019-03-14) Михаил С: не подсвечивает текст прямо на странице. не показывает заметку при наведении на текст. бесполезно для меня
• (2019-02-09) Ross Teixeira: It doesn't seem to be saving text of pages I view, all of my searches turn up blank.
• (2018-10-18) ra ra: Meh...half the things dont work and its not intuitive at all. Wanted a better alt to crappy chrome BMs didnt yet find one.
• (2018-08-27) Biswarup Banerjee: The best extension for: 1. Performing online research 2. Searching your history to find out content from websites you have visited.
• (2018-08-03) Acer Chang: This is so impressive
• (2018-06-22) Richard Moss: I liked the principle of this extension as I have lost large amounts of time trying to find something I remember seeing/reading/passing-by-at-high-speed and I thought this extension would solve that in future and I've had this extension happily installed for some months now. However, the last update changed permissions to monitor (and modify, what!?!) clipboard activity as well and I think that is a step too far. It may be that the permissions are restrictive so you can't have a permission for reading OR writing, but either way it's irrelevant - recording searches and pages is one thing, monitoring my clipboard is out of the question and so I have now (somewhat reluctantly I must admit) removed this extension.
• (2018-03-25) Sandria A. S.: only around 38k history detected from 60k. and the process is really slow, it's often stuck. hope there's a way to just export and import manually.
• (2018-03-20) Rostislav Gogolauri: Hi Oliver) I hope the project will be improving to bring more users here^^
• (2018-01-11) Michael Berg: Been looking for a plugin like this for ages. So very happy that someone is working on it :-) That said this plugin does have a tendency to crash very often. It is currently unable to index my history. It also entered a state where it could not reindex my bookmarks unless I also indexed my history, which I didn't want to do because it crashed the plugin. I had to remove and install the plugin again. But keep up the good work, this is a much needed plugin!
• (2018-01-09) Sonia Rodriguez: Very useful tool to have running on the background. I don't realize is there unless I needed. It provided the info I was looking for by only typing some key words I remembered. Easy to use and it makes my life easier!
• (2018-01-03) Jon Pienaar: A big help for a person like me who forgets to bookmark things. I visit a lot of sites in my research, so this is like a history search *on steroids*. One day all browsers will have this ;)
• (2017-10-04) Hao Hao: crashes
• (2017-10-04) Randy Hanson: Every time I start Chrome the extension crashes. Re-Enabling does not help.

Latest issues

• (2023-04-01, v:3.3.38) aleKs o_0: not working
  its not working. please look into this issue. the annotations are not showing up on the dashboard
• (2023-03-14, v:3.3.16) Anoir Ben Tanfous: Make it non affectable by page zoom
  Some websites need to be zoomed to be properly readable, but it would be great to keep Memex at its original size or proportionally zoom by a factor with a page which isn't 1
• (2023-03-02, v:3.3.10) Anoir Ben Tanfous: MemexContainer-ccw7hg-1 bNpPaN
  overflow: hidden; It shouldn't to allow showing bubbles and also bubbles must top-most z-index...
• (2023-02-24, v:3.3.5) James Courtney: please delete my account
  please delete my account...
• (2022-09-20, v:3.2.26) Emilie Haljas: Highlights
  Was highlighting a PDF, scrolled to the end of the file and when I scrolled back up half of the highlights were gone.
• (2022-02-15, v:3.1.8) Renan Serrano: Update
  Google search and shopping are facing broken layout after the new update.
• (2022-02-03, v:3.1.1) Nara Morais: help
  hi. I been using memex for a couple a months and my had to restar my computer. Now I can access any of the data I stored. Can you help me with that?
• (2021-04-10, v:2.15.2) Toatasi Vili: get an answer
  i'm getting nowhere after paying
• (2021-04-10, v:2.15.2) Toatasi Vili: get an answer
  i'm getting nowhere after paying
• (2020-10-24, v:2.10.0) Олег Сорокин: Can't delete
  1. I click to "trashbin" button ("Delete this page and all related content"); 2. Preloader appears, "snake" rotates; 3. Nothing is happening. Reloading the page doesn't help.
• (2020-06-08, v:2.1.4) Stephen Wicklund: Causes error in DevTools
  I'm a web developer, and I've noticed that since installing this extension, it triggers an error whenever my website is reloaded. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/DLvsGDg.png I'm not sure what the issue is exactly (due to lodash's "_.all" being optimized by Chrome into machine code, apparently), but I figured it was worth reporting in the hope it could be fixed. (I'm on Chrome v81) Note that on my site, the error triggers even without "Pause on caught exceptions" enabled. Since I can't really share that project website atm, I tried reproducing on a public website. I found that it only reproduces on the public websites I tried when I enabled "Pause on caught exceptions". Anyway, here is a simple page where the error can be seen: https://web.mit.edu/physics/about/contact.html Just open dev-tools, open the Sources tab, enable "Pause on caught exceptions", reload the page, then press continue for other extensions until it hits an error in "content_script.js" from the WorldBrain's Memex extension (id: "abkf..."). I then pressed the small "pretty print" code-icon at the bottom left of the panel, to format the code nicely as seen in the screenshot. There are a few unrelated "feature testing" caught "errors", before it then gets to the error on question on the "_.all(e).catch(function() {})" line. (for me, this was at line number 36,189, after the pretty-print formatting) Anyway, not sure if this will be seen by the devs of this part, but it would be nice to get this fixed; it's quite annoying to have to press "continue" for an error each time I reload the webpage I'm building. (and Memex is the only extension I use which does this...)
• (2019-10-21, v:1.4.0) Leon E: Not saving anything
  After installing and browsing around for 30 min nothing showed up in the index too bad bc this a really good idea What could be wrong here ?
• (2019-02-23, v:0.13.0) 陈彦伯: Conflict with notion.so
  The web app of notion.so is not able to use when this extension is enabled.
• (2018-06-26, v:0.4.0) Julian Kingman: Why does it need clipboard access?
  Worldbrain became disabled because it's not requesting access to my clipboard. Why does it need clipboard access? I'm understandably wary...
• (2018-02-14, v:0.1.0.1029) Dylan Schadeck: I had to disable because of error being thown
  There seems to be an issue with the browser-polyfill.js. It keeps throwing a large number of errors.
• (2017-10-17, v:0.0.1.9007) Zhihong Lan: constant crashing
  constant crashing
• (2017-10-04, v:0.0.1.9007) Randy Hanson: Constant Crashing
  Every time I start Chrome the extension crashes. Re-Enabling does not help.
• (2017-09-25, v:0.0.1.9007) Dennis Bareis: Keeps Crashing
  I assume from my experience and other comments that it can't handle the amount of data it has collected.
• (2017-08-17, v:0.0.1.9007) Crash
  Can't re-enable in chrome. Can I save my data before re-installing?
• (2017-06-01, v:0.0.1.9007) Jinni Xue: content searched differ between the address bar and extension "Preference" page
  I can only find quite a few result by typing "w" and tab and key words in the address bar, but in the extension "preference" page, in "stored pages" section, I can find many results, why?
• (2017-05-27, v:0.0.1.9007) Guy Thomas: Keeps crashing immediately
  Mac OS, Chrome 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit)