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Mindstone — Save time by optimising your information diet
One click to save articles, podcasts, videos or anything else for later. Get to what’s important, discard the rest.
Get automated summaries. Dive deeper into the content that really matters. Highlight and annotate important passages.
Get automated summaries. Dive deeper into the content that really matters. Highlight and annotate important passages.
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Congratulations guys; delighted to see you out here and really exciting product 💪🏻👍🏻
The Internet is the most powerful learning resource the world has ever seen. It has made information universally available, but the quantity is simply overwhelming.
I credit much of my personal and professional growth to the many amazing articles, podcasts and videos written and produced by people much smarter than myself. I would definitely not have been able to help build SuperAwesome without it.
I was a pocket user for years, collecting, reading and learning from this amazing content, but always felt it was missing key functionality to be as effective as it should
- I built up a “graveyard of information” - my eyes being too big for my reading habits (putting aside too many articles I would never be able to read)
- I wanted to annotate, comment and share my thoughts around the content with other people
- I wanted to optimise my reading to actually remember it
And so we set out to build Mindstone to be **not just a reader**, but truly help you **optimise your information diet**. It helps you
- Prioritise what’s important, auto-archiving things that aren’t
- Extract key insights by highlighting and annotating content
- Automatically generating transcripts from podcasts & videos
- Easily share and discuss the content with friends and/or colleagues
- And much more
Hope it will help you as much as it’s already helping me. Would love to hear any feedback you have to make it better!
The internet made information universally accessible. Google organised it. And now Mindstone helps you not just consume, but truly learn from it.
@joshuawohle sounds great! Question: how does this → “Prioritise what’s important, auto-archiving things that aren’t” work?
@anna_0x Good question! There are a few ways we help you prioritise what's important:
1. We look at things like the source of a resource, the people that interacted with it, your personal "starred" indication, etc. to prioritise the content based on what is likely most valuable. Soon, we will be adding a few elements around information density, etc.
2. If something has been sitting in your inbox for 30 days, we will automatically archive it, as it's unlikely you'll get to it and we want to make sure you don't feel overwhelmed (I don't know about you, but my pocket queue became totally unmanageable).
We're also working on summaries for content, which will likely be going live later this week. That way, you can look at a summary of the content before deciding it's worth properly diving into (hence saving you time).
Does that make sense?
@joshuawohle Congrats on the launch! Discovered this product on Invincible Product Hunters Community (link in my profile) :)
@joshuawohle looking forward to summaries! Yes, it makes sense. And my Instapaper+Pocket lists are totally unmanageable as well, which is why I’m excited for a new contender in the field ^-^
After using multiple apps over the years (Pocket, Readwise, etc.) Mindstone finally improved the way I consume and organise information. If you are interested in learning faster, you must try this one out.
Really helpful to keep tabs and refresh my knowledge on all the things I read and listen to during the day! Love it (:
Love this! Sometimes it’s information overload out there and it’s difficult to keep track or even absorb what you’re reading. 👏
@dreasaez Absolutely! Hopefully we'll be able to make it somewhat easier to keep on top of :)
Writing this as I have literally 48 tabs open on my browser (likely relatable). Mindstone is a brilliant solution for turning information consumption into action.
Mindstone really helps me go from the forehose of content that comes at me every day to consuming and extracting value from what's most important. Excited to be part of the team helping others to also get the most from their information diet.
I wish Poket can automatically group the articles you added. Something like a built-in context-based recommendation system.
Would be nice to see that in Mindstone.
Congrats on the launch, guys.
@rydeck Hey Rony, that's amazing. So glad it's helpful to you! Love that it helps you even with epubs. One day we should support those out of the box! :)
I have been using the platform for a while and it is exciting to see how quickly it is evolving into something very useful! Go team Mindstone!
@canardino We're working on making it ever more useful & easier to insert into your day-to-day. If you have any ideas on how to improve we'd love to hear about it
Really cool stuff so far Josh & the whole team, an excellent product and I'm excited to see how it continues to evolve. Keep up the great work!
Great app, not just for saving resources but highlighting the practical parts you don’t want to lose.
I enjoyed using it for personal interest for a while. Now I’m doing a lot more creation it’s a much more essential part of my workflow 🤓
As someone who previously had a small mountain of bookmarks, saved articles, podcasts queued up to listen to, Mindstone has been a godsend as a way for me to organise the content I'm interested in, adding notes and annotations and now getting the right nudges and insights to help me remember it.
Moreover, I use it for portfolio companies quite a lot - I can save content into libraries for folks so that when they ask for recommendations on articles on hiring or podcasts on scaling, I can point them directly to the right resources - including my own notes on the topic.
In the interests of full disclosure, I'm not just a user, I'm an investor in the company as well, and I'm really interested for Josh to share their thoughts on the future and how they think they can save people even more time?
@eamonncarey Hey Eamonn, thanks for hunting us - really appreciate it!
Your question is spot-on and we're laser-focused on helping people save time, by optimising their information diet. In the near future, we're looking at
- Summaries: enabling you to quickly look at the key points of a resource and decide to dive in or not (avoiding junk content)
- Audio: enabling you to save articles for later and listen to them anywhere (like on a run!)
- Improving our prioritisation algorithms to including things like information density and other factors to help you spend time with content that matters and discard the rest
- Improve auto-archiving and make it personal to your requirements (want resources to disappear 7, 14, 30 days after you add them to your inbox? Your call)
And many more things coming up in the next few weeks & months
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