Where is Memex really helping you?
What are the workflows you use it for?
What do you want to achieve?
I use Memex as my personal knowledge base. Every day I read articles from sources like Stratechery, First Found Review, Meldium, personal research.
I add highlights and insight notes to any of these high quality articles that I read online. This allows me to
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Read them more thoughtfully and recap what takeaways I learned immediately after reading the article
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Save these high quality articles with labels to allow me to search by key topics in the future and quickly see major learnings / insights highlighted on them
Having notes and highlights make it easy to see what each link is really about and more easily decide if I want to re-read any particular page.
I use Memex for my daily web research as a kind of “health insurance” to not to much organisation but still find almost anything again.
I myself am not the most structured person when it comes to organising information. I was/am a really bad at bookmarking or taking notes because I couldn’t keep track of the mess of information scattered across silos and the copy-paste work involved to keep track of everything. So I was not doing any organisation after a while.
The second feature I use a lot is the annotations to mark things in articles I read, however I am hoping for a better editor (much like the live-markdown of Notion.so) and the ability to more easily connect other search results (pages, annotations) that are related, so I can organise my contextual knowledge better.
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+100, I also struggle in my life with ways to “organise my contextual knowledge better.” without the need to “keep track of the mess of information scattered across silos and the copy-paste work involved to keep track of everything”