Why Build Miremo?

Author:Haosen·

The name Miremo comes from the English "Mirror + Memo", meaning "mirrored memory". As the name suggests, I hope it can become a mirror of your thinking, helping you see and organize your thoughts clearly.

In the era of information explosion, efficient recording and organization have become increasingly difficult. After trying many note-taking tools, I found that none completely met my needs: either the functionality was too complex and daunting, or too simple to support systematic organization.

For example:

  • Bidirectional link notes like Logseq and Obsidian are powerful but require high learning costs and configuration time; for note-taking beginners, Markdown syntax is not friendly either.
  • Notion has a friendly interface but may encounter performance and organizational bottlenecks in scenarios with a large number of notes. Its database-style hierarchy is not always convenient for quick recording.
  • Traditional tools like Evernote and OneNote are easy to get started with but lack innovation and struggle to support deeper knowledge connections and discovery.
  • Flomo is very suitable for capturing fragmented ideas but lacks the ability to systematize these scattered notes into long-term knowledge.

Miremo's Mission: Become an AI-Powered Thinking Tool

I hope Miremo can help you record and organize ideas faster and better. To this end, we've condensed the product goals into three points:

  • Record Anywhere: Quickly capture inspiration wherever you are, whatever you're reading.
  • Automatically Organize Knowledge: Classify and organize notes through intelligent means, reducing management costs.
  • Gain Insight into Knowledge Relationships: Discover connections between notes and gradually build your own knowledge network.

Recent years' progress in AI text understanding has brought new possibilities for achieving these goals. For example:

  • When reading literature, can AI automatically extract key information and generate notes?
  • After writing notes, can AI automatically complete classification and organization?
  • Can AI discover implicit connections based on existing notes and trigger new thinking?

The birth of Miremo is an attempt to address these questions: to build a note-taking product that uses AI assistance as a supplement and user thinking as the main focus.

Who is Miremo For?

Miremo is more suitable for the following types of users:

  • People who need to record ideas at any time;
  • People who want to systematize scattered ideas and manage them long-term;
  • People who want to discover new insights from existing knowledge and generate new ideas.

What is Miremo Not Suitable For?

Miremo is positioned as a "thinking tool" and does not want to replace all tools:

  • Project management: Recommend using Jira or Trello;
  • Team collaboration and multi-person documents: Recommend Google Docs or Notion;
  • Enterprise knowledge base: Recommend Confluence or Notion;
  • Professional mind mapping and drawing: Recommend MindMeister or Miro;
  • Pure bidirectional link network construction: Recommend Obsidian or Logseq;
  • Task management: Recommend Todoist or Microsoft To Do;
  • Quickly capture and share fragmented ideas: Recommend Flomo or Evernote.

Miremo's Future Vision

Over the past few years (2022–2025), AI capabilities have improved significantly. Following this trend, AI will likely become "universal information processing infrastructure" in the next decade, and note-taking tools will be profoundly changed by this capability.

I hope you can join me in witnessing Miremo become an interesting and practical thinking tool.

Miremo is actively under development. For future plans, you can read: A Letter to the Future.