The file you cannot name
You remember what a document was about but not its filename. Search the meaning and it surfaces, where ordinary search would have needed the exact words.
Personal Search Engine
You can search the whole internet in seconds but not your own notes, files, links, and screenshots. Mindly is the search box your own stuff never had: one place that reads everything you save and lets you find any of it by meaning, in plain language.
How it works
When to use it
You remember what a document was about but not its filename. Search the meaning and it surfaces, where ordinary search would have needed the exact words.
A setting, a receipt, a slide you photographed. Mindly read the text inside the image, so it is searchable like everything else you saved.
The line you saved months ago comes back from a few words about what it meant, not the phrase you would otherwise have to remember exactly.
Pull the note, the article, the PDF, and the voice memo on one subject together in a single search, instead of across four separate apps.
Why it works
System search is good at finding an exact filename or phrase, but it does not understand what a document is about, so a query in your own words often misses. Mindly reads and summarizes each item, so you can search by meaning and find things you could only describe rather than name precisely.
A screenshot full of text and a voice memo full of detail are invisible to ordinary search. Mindly extracts the text inside images and transcribes audio, so the words trapped in them become part of the same searchable index as your notes and files instead of being lost.
The note, the linked article, the screenshot, and the voice memo about one topic usually live in four apps, and nothing searches all four at once. Mindly puts them in a single index, so one query returns everything you kept on a subject regardless of where it originally came from.
Your index is built only from what you chose to keep, it lives in a folder on your Mac, and it is searchable only by you. AI processing runs over encrypted channels and content is not retained on Mindly servers after the request, so your personal search engine is genuinely personal and stays yours.
Why it matters
Your Mac already has search, so why is your own stuff still hard to find? Because the tools you have each solve a narrow slice and leave the hard part undone. Mindly is built to do the part they skip, which is understanding what you saved.
Common questions
It is one searchable index over everything you save, your notes, files, links, screenshots, and voice memos, regardless of which app or site they came from. Instead of searching each app separately, you ask a single box a plain question and it returns the right item from across your whole collection. Mindly works as one.
Spotlight finds a filename or an exact phrase, but it does not understand what your documents are about, and it does not read the text inside screenshots or transcribe voice. Mindly reads and summarizes each item so you can search by meaning across notes, files, images, and audio at once, not just match exact text.
Yes, and that is the main point. Because Mindly reads, summarizes, and tags each item, you can describe what you are looking for the way you actually remember it, by meaning, and the right result surfaces even when your wording is nothing like the original.
Yes. Mindly reads the text inside images and transcribes voice memos, so the words in a screenshot or a recording become searchable like everything else. A picture of a slide or a spoken idea is part of the same index as your notes and files.
Your index lives in a folder on your Mac, not on a vendor server. AI features run over cloud model APIs, which means content is sent for processing over encrypted channels, but it is not retained on Mindly servers after the request completes. The search engine you build from your own life stays private by default and is yours to export.
The free tier supports up to 25 items, and Mindly Pro removes the limit. Because a personal search engine gets more useful the more it holds, Pro is the natural fit once you start indexing in earnest. If you stop using Pro, items beyond the free limit become read only rather than deleted, and you can always export.
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Install Mindly free for Mac and capture ten things you would normally lose. Then ask your library a plain question and watch the right one come back, summarized and connected, from wherever it started.