Mindstone - We help you learn faster, remember more and get things done

Excited to finally be sharing this with the world! If you're interested in what our longer-term vision looks like, you check it out here: https://www.mindstone.com/post/m... If you want to understand the science behind how Mindstone helps you learn faster & remember more, you can find more about that here: https://www.mindstone.com/post/t...

I've known Josh since the Superawesome days, so was incredibly interested to learn about what he was building. As someone who takes a lot of notes and shares a *lot* of articles and content with different people - the idea of being able to aggregate all of that into one platform was compelling. When you layered in the spaced repetition and tech that the team are working on to help you remember and retain more of that knowledge, it became an irresistible proposition. I'm delighted that we were able to invest via The Fund. I've been testing the product for several months now - we used it to great effect with the most recent Techstars London batch, and I'm excited to see it grow and scale from here. To Josh and the team - what's been the biggest thing you've learned about how users engage with the product over the last few months of the beta, and what features are you most excited for people to test out now that it's live?

I have been an early user of MindStone and it gets better and better each week. I use it with one of my networks to share data on Covid19 tests and vaccines across 20 countries and its essential in this very noisy, very changeable environment to be able to cut through the noise and find the clear crisp learning highlights. Strongly recommend it!

I couldn't have dreamt of a better team to build what our society sorely needs: a solution to help you take ownership of your learning. We're still at the start of our journey, and I look forward to keeping developing Mindstone around learner needs.

Mindstone has quickly become integral to the way I manage and curate content I find on the internet. Now I've found it, I couldn't live without it.

I share a lot of articles and content with portfolio companies and others. This allows me to create specific libraries, annotate the text, add highlights and more. What's really interesting is how it then takes those highlights and annotations and helps people to remember the critical parts of the article. I'm sure many folks reading this have read something, thought it was incredibly interesting and valuable and resolved to come back to it again - before forgetting about it entirely. With Mindstone, I can remind myself, and their algorithms can remind me of what I've been reading and what's the part I should remember - and I can share exactly the same thing with friends, colleagues, portfolio founders, students and others.

I can't say enough good things about the product that the team is building at Mindstone. While there are quite a few tools out there to track and create reading lists, none has social built in in such a smooth and effective way. The ability to annotate, share and interact on various types of content is unparralleled and allows our team to uniquely collaborate and improve learning outcomes. The team iterates really fast and I cannot wait to see what the future holds for Mindstone

I always want to become better, learning as much as I can on a daily basis. When Josh told me about Mindstone it aimed to do just that. His vision of what we can build for people who want to learn on a continuous basis was super exciting. I have been using the product with my team for building our internal learning tools. Its a great place to keep content that you know you want to go back to and build upon. Its early days for Mindstone but this can change the way we continue to develop ourselves. I see it as a cross between a productivity tool and and education tool as it does both for me.

Are you spending a lot of time reading, watching, listening to great content on the web, while feeling that you’re getting too little learning out of all that time and effort? Of course you do: we all do. This is the problem Mindstone is fixing: turning web-time into real, durable learning pathways. I’ve been trying all kind of other products – Pocket to Evernote, Instapaper to Hypothes.is – and nothing has been as helpful as Mindstone: and we’re just seeing the beginning of it. The team at Zanichelli Venture (full disclosure: we invested in Mindstone) is using it daily to keep track collaboratively of everything we learn about the edtech (our sector) landscape.

In a world of so many failed note taking and learning businesses, it is great to see such a mature and intuitive product. Having only been around for a short time I can't wait to see how it evolves and what new features it will have!