Recognition
Mindly identifies what you saved automatically: PDF, note, link, voice memo, screenshot, code snippet, image, file. No file-type triage on your part.
Automation
One shortcut to capture anything. AI recognizes the content, tags it, summarizes it, links it to related saves, and reminds you when tasks are due. Your library organizes itself on macOS.
macOS 14+ · 4.8 / 5 from 25k+ users · Your library stays on your Mac
How it works
Save notes, links, files, voice memos, and screenshots through one shortcut. Mindly recognizes the content type, filters noise, groups related items, and generates tags and summaries so your library is useful the moment items land in it.
Instead of spending energy on manual folders and weekend cleanup sessions, you focus on thinking, studying, and execution. Structure happens in the background. When tasks have due dates, Mindly fires native macOS notifications when you scheduled them, not on a generic morning blast.
The result: a personal knowledge system that compounds. The PDF you save today links to the article you saved last month links to the voice memo you recorded on a walk. All searchable, all tagged, all on your Mac.
What gets automated
Mindly identifies what you saved automatically: PDF, note, link, voice memo, screenshot, code snippet, image, file. No file-type triage on your part.
AI applies semantic tags by topic and context. The article on attention research gets tagged "focus", "research", "psychology". Multi-tag, accurate, multilingual.
Long PDFs, articles, and voice transcripts get short AI summaries the moment they save. Scan three years of saved material in an afternoon.
Connections between related items appear automatically. The Cal Newport book links to the article on attention links to your voice memo about routines.
Add a due date and a reminder time to any task. macOS notifications fire when you scheduled them, not on a generic morning blast. Native push, not in-app only.
The mind map clusters your library by topic without you setting up a single folder. Patterns surface that you never explicitly built.
Where this pays off
Save 30 papers in a sitting. Mindly tags, summarizes, and links them while you keep saving. By Friday the literature actually maps to something.
Lecture recordings, slide screenshots, PDFs, your own notes. One shortcut captures all of them. AI sorts by course and topic so revision is fast.
Meetings, project context, links you meant to read, ideas between Zooms. Mindly handles the cross-project sorting that costs you focus otherwise.
Recipes, articles, gift ideas, travel research, mood board screenshots. One library, AI-tagged, with reminders on the things that have a deadline.
Why automate
Most note apps make you design the structure: name the folder, pick the tag, decide where this fits, remember it tomorrow. The work compounds. After a year, the system is a museum of decisions you no longer want to make.
Mindly removes the tax. AI handles tagging, summarizing, linking, and structure. You handle thinking. The library shapes itself based on what you actually save, not on a taxonomy you tried to design upfront.
And when something cannot slip, you add a due date and a reminder. The notification fires when you said. The automation goes both ways: out of your way when you are thinking, in your face when you need it.
Get started
Download Mindly, save the next ten things you would have scattered across folders, and see what the library makes of them.