Mem x Women in AI Event Series

In collaboration with The New Club for their Women in AI event series, we hosted a panel in our San Francisco office with Kevin (our co-founder and CEO) and Pris (our founding designer), moderated by The New Club founder Laura.

Here are a few tidbits from the conversation:

Laura: What sets Mem apart from other note-taking apps?

Pris: Mem’s approach is different in several ways. Mem organizes on behalf of you — for example, instead of having to create your own organization system with folders, Mem intelligently suggests recommended collections or surfaces related notes to help you stay organized automatically. Mem is also simple and reliable (even offline), while still having powerful AI capabilities, when most products only focus on one or the other, because we believe you shouldn’t have to choose. Finally, Mem supports effortless rediscovery, working alongside you to surface knowledge proactively, instead of you needing to seek out the information you need.

Laura: What is Mem’s design philosophy?

Pris: We have a few key design principles.

First, we only innovate where we differentiate. This means that we focus on building features where we have a competitive edge, like the way we present related notes, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel for a feature that doesn’t need to be redesigned, like a share dialog.

Second, we focus on building trust, since it’s critical to convey that you can trust Mem with your very personal notes and thoughts. We cultivate trust in many ways. For example, we show you sources in Chat responses, so you can always understand where a piece of information came from in your notes. We ensure that Mem is 100% reliable, whether online or offline, and doesn’t lose your data.

Third, Mem adapts to your workflow and meets you where you are. We focus on making it as easy as possible to capture your thoughts, and making it just as seamless to access them later on.

Fourth, we only ship AI features that we use and love. If we don’t use it, we don’t ship it. The note-taking space is saturated with apps with flash AI capabilities, but we prioritize meaningful utility over what’s shiny and new.

Laura: What does the future of note-taking look like for Mem?

Kevin: Our future roadmap is capture-focused. We’re going to build audio-based meeting capture and internet content capture, making Mem the easiest way to remember and use something you heard in a conversation or saw on the internet. What makes Mem so powerful is that what you capture is then co-located alongside your other notes in your workspace and made instantly useful through Mem’s search, related notes, and chat features, rather than siloed in a tool that you don’t use as your daily driver or core workspace. We believe there’s a path to help people capture information 10x faster, stay organized 10x more easily, and leverage what you know 10x more effectively than you do today.

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