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

Organise, share and take notes on web pages, PDFs and academic papers easily. It uses your highlights and automatically generated flashcards alongside spaced repetition, fast feedback loops and more so you can learn faster, remember more and get things done.

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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?
Thanks for "hunting" this -- excited to see how people will use this :) We've learned a lot of the last few months, but some of the biggest things we found are: 1. When people discover how Mindstone allows you to *highlight* on any piece of online content, they start to understand how the app can really help them in the long run. 2. It took us a while to get to our clear value proposition: helping people learn faster & remembering more of what they read. It seems that's the part that resonates, which is why we prioritised the "remember" feature, automatically applying spaced repetition (and optimising your retention) to things you want to remember.
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: If you want to understand the science behind how Mindstone helps you learn faster & remember more, you can find more about that here:
Hey this really seems cool, and I was trying to signup but its throwing error :-(
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!
Thanks for the support Colin, appreciated as always :)
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.
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 love the intentional approach Mindstone brings to curating documents. Something that I always felt was missing from products like Pocket and Evernote. Why did I save this? What's important/interesting about it? What does it relate to that I'm working on? It's a product that will get more and more useful over time.
I've personally been a long-term user of both of the products you mention indeed and some of what we're building comes out of the same frustration :)
Such a fantastic product idea, I wish I had this for my degree! I can't wait to turn the internet into my own personal textbook (and make notes all over it!!) Great work
Thanks for the support Niki :)
OMG this looks so well put-together! Is there any video tutorial/intro for us to check out?
absolutely. There are a few things you can do to get introduced - an onboarding process you can go through by simply signing-up (which walks you through the platform capabilities). - once you're signed-up there are a few videos in the help menu (bottom left of your screen) that showcase the features 1-1 - It's not the best, but you can have a look at this quick overview video as well if you don't have time for the 2 above methods:
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.
Spot on Enrico and thanks for the support. We have our work cut out for us, but will be iterating fast to get there :)
Thank you for your support and the time you take to give us such detailed feedback, it’s thanks to power users like yourself that we can iterate at the speed of light :)
Josh, Melody and the team- congrats! It's come a long way since the early testing days and it's so great to see it launch. I really need help keeping all the things I read in a way I can properly digest them. Can't wait for all the goodies to come too.
Working on it for sure! Thanks for the support :)
Thank you for your precious advice along the way :)
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