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Thanks @dshan for the kind words! ❤️ The tl;dr behind our pivot from Pogo (a Slack bot) to Memo (a note-taking app integrated with Slack) is that bots and conversational interfaces are deeply limited, and that more often than not interactions are better done through GUI than language. We go deeper into that on our blog: https://blog.memo.ai/pogo-web-ap... Great question regarding building on top Slack! Besides the distribution potential, we think it's worth the risk for two reasons: 1. B2B software doesn't have the same network effects as B2C software, so it's unlikely that any player will have a monopoly on the market (like Facebook has for example). Basically, there will be multiple players in team communication (Microsoft Team, Hipchat, etc.) and in productivity in general (Google Apps, Dropbox, Github, etc.) and we plan to integrate with each of them (we started with Slack, since that's what we use day to day). 2. For now they have a very clear and consistent platform strategy (public roadmap, ideas, etc.) that is fundamentally aligned with their business model. More integrations are good for Slack since it makes their product stickier, but, since they don't make money off ads, they're not competing with developers for attention (unlike social media).

@mirceap Very interesting concept here. Due to cost and ability to run 'on prem' (for security reasons), we're on HipChat. We are evaluating "Hangouts Chat" too. Would like to hear any details you can provide on roadmap/timing related to HipChat

Hi @bmehling , we haven't looked deeply at Hipchat, but we do plan to support it later down the road. In the short-term, we'll add support for G Suite and GitHub login, do you use either of them?

@mirceap We are invested in the G Suite ecosystem. It sounds like you're focused on integration w/ them as OAuth providers (great!). I'm really hoping that "Hangouts Chat"* provides 'good enough' functionality for us as there's a lot of advantages for us to stay w/in one "suite". Perhaps as Hangouts Chat becomes more widely released, you'll consider supporting that. Thx! * https://www.producthunt.com/post...

@bmehling Yeah, Hangouts Chat looks very promising, I'm not sure if they have a developer API yet though. As soon as we get access to it, we're going to investigate and see how deep an integration we can build.

@mirceap @users I can't find any description of how to use memo.ai to share links. Are they treated as content in notes? That's it?

Hi @stoweboyd ! We actually display the title and description for links and Slack files like here: but it's turned off for the launch because we were still fixing some bugs. We're turning this on for everybody this week, but I can turn it on now for you if you'd like!

Thanks @titus_capilnea for being an early user and please keep the feedback coming! :)

That's great to hear, thanks @tjcsmyth! Let us know if you have thoughts or questions.

@tjcsmyth Can you tell me a bit more about your experience losing things in Asana/Slack?

@dozoisch Thanks so much for being an early user and supporter! How can we make Memo better for you? What do you like/miss the most?

@cgst the feature that made the biggest difference for me was the addition of the archiving! I would love to have my own memo account (independant of slack) where I could have my own note and be able to send them to other people (like read-only)

@dozoisch That's great to hear! We're thinking of adding Google & GitHub logins, which would enable you to hold on to your notes across different Slack teams. What would you use as your primary login? When you say sending notes to other people, are you thinking teammates or anyone on the internet who has the link?

@cgst I would totally use that as my primary login. The goal was to send it to people across different slacks. So that I dont have to worry in which slack it is saved (I guess this is what personal boards are for). I guess maybe only personal board could be "to anyone".

@dozoisch Makes sense! Thanks so much!

@cturlica Thanks Chris! We don’t currently support imports from Evernote or Google Docs but we do have it in our roadmap to work on it. However, if you copy / paste notes or documents from any of these tools, Memo should keep them nicely formatted just like in the initial document :)

@lianadumitru perfect as long as the formatting stays the same that's great. Also, any plans on live collaboration/commenting on notes (etherpad, firepad on firebase, etc)?

@cturlica Yeah, losing formatting is super annoying, so we made Memo keep it as intact as possible. We have support for collaboration—while your private notes are only editable by you and visible to you, notes from your team’s shared boards can be edited by anyone. We’ll also support live collaboration in the web editor, so you and your teammates will be able to edit the same note at the same time 👩🏻‍💻 👨🏻‍💻

@cturlica Super curious, what notes would you like to import from Evernote into Memo?

@henrythe9ths Thanks, Henry! Google Drive integration is coming soon, and we're approaching it in two stages: 1) Adding support for organizing and searching through files saved in Memo, including files from Drive. 2) Adding Google as a login provider, which allows you to organize and search through your team's Drive directly from Memo. Here's a sneak peak of (1) in action: This feature isn't released yet, but it's stable and quite useful if your team uses Drive a lot. We can enable it for your team. Would you like to give it a try?

@juliastanescu Thanks Julie, we appreciate it!

Thanks @mada299, please let us know if you have any feedback or questions!

@matthewedanwoo The short answer is yes. A slightly longer answer is that there's a way to do that right now in Memo: - we're focused on short work notes organized in boards, so when viewing a board you'll see multiple notes, like here: - each note can be edited independently by different people, so if you create a board for a meeting and have different people edit different notes it will work and feel similar to collaborative editing We understand that's not ideal, hence the plan to do real collaborative editing :)

@mirceap @2x awesome good to know, will continue exploring. Thanks for the quick response. Haven't read through all the comments but might be useful to be able to filter the notes by different elements (todo list) / topics (channels) / users. To help keep track of important information.

@matthewedanwoo You can filter by @user and #channel in "All Notes", here's how that looks: Good point about filtering by checklists, we'll look into adding that. Is there any other filter you think might be useful?

@mirceap oh didn't realize that was possible, might need a better way to discover it like the way slack has approached advance filters. Checklist - would be neat and date tags would be useful if possible, many different ways to implement that feature. If you wanted to chat more about it let me know, you can reach me at matthew.edan.woo@gmail.com

Thanks for the feedback @matthewedanwoo! We're also running a "beta program" in which users get early access to new features (a new filter/search UI is in the works, we're also working on a desktop app & mobile app). We'll reach out with more details about it.