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Okay, let's dive in. We've got this collection of sources about MIMO, a personal

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notes application.

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Yeah, that's right.

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And our goal today is really to break it down, make it super clear what this thing

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actually

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is, how you use it, and why you might even want to. Trying to make it easy to grasp

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for

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anyone listening.

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Exactly. We'll sift through this material and pull out the main points for you.

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And just before we jump in, a quick shout out to Safe Server for supporting this

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deep

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dive. They handle hosting and can help with digital transformation stuff. If that

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sounds

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interesting, check them out at www.safeserver.de.

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Good folk to have backing things up.

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Definitely. Okay, Mimo, looking at these sources, the core vision seems to be about

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having one

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single safe place for, well, everything you might want to remember.

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Yeah, they list things like thoughts, ideas, links, research, pictures, memories,

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basically

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all the stuff rattling around in your brain or saved in random places.

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Kind of the opposite of sticky notes everywhere or like a dozen different apps,

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right?

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Precisely. The sources frame it as simplifying your life by giving you one place to

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just

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capture whatever's on your mind. Making it easy to get started? Just get it down.

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Okay, capturing is one thing. We all try to do that. But finding it later, weeks,

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months,

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maybe years later, that's usually the tricky part. How do the sources say memo

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handles

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that?

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It's retrieval. Well, they highlight two main approaches here. First up is using

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hashtag

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hashtags.

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Ah, like on social media.

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Exactly like that. So you can tag notes, group things together, give them some

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structure that

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makes sense to you. It's pretty flexible.

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Okay, tagging helps if you're organized. But what if you forget to tag something or

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you just remember a specific word or phrase you used?

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And that's the second method they talk about, which sounds quite powerful. Full

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text search.

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Meaning?

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You can just type in a word or phrase and it'll search through the entire text of

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all

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your notes, even the ones you never tagged.

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Oh, interesting. So even if you didn't perfectly categorize something when you

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saved it, you

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can still potentially find it just by remembering what you wrote.

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That seems to be the idea. Yeah. Making it hard to actually lose stuff once it's in

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there.

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Safety net, kind of.

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That combo, tags for structure, search for everything else, sounds pretty robust.

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What

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about actually using it day to day? The sources mention the experience.

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They do. A couple of key things. One is full markdown support.

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For formatting, like bold text, lists.

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Yeah, exactly. Headings, links, all that standard stuff to make your notes more

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readable than

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just plain text. And the other big thing is how it's structured. Everything's

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apparently

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in one single continuous feed.

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One feed, not folders or notebooks.

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Doesn't sound like it. They just describe it as simple. The idea seems to be you

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capture

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everything into this stream and then rely on those hashtags and the search to find

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what

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you need when you need it.

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That is simple, I guess. Less time organizing, maybe more time just capturing. But

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with all

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your personal stuff in one place, data control must be a concern for people. What

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do the

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sources say?

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That's a point they seem to emphasize quite strongly. The phrase used is you never

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get

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locked in.

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Meaning you can get your data out.

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Yes. Important export functionality is mentioned specifically. You own your data,

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you can back

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it up, move it somewhere else if you wanted to. You're not trapped in their system.

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Okay, that's reassuring. Big plus. Does it mention anything about sharing or

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working

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with others? Or is it purely personal?

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It does touch on sharing. The sources say you can share notes, work together, even

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follow

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public feeds if people make them available.

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So it has potential for collaboration or maybe sharing knowledge publicly alongside

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the private

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stuff?

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Seems like it bridges both. And related to that openness maybe is that it's an open

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source

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project.

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Ah, okay. So the code is available.

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Yep. Get the code, contribute and enjoy. That's how they put it. So transparency,

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community

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involvement, potential, the usual benefits of open source.

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Gotcha. And there were a few technical details tucked away in the sources too.

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Just footnotes really. It's hosted on GitLab, uses an MIT license, which is a very

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permissive

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open source license. And the creation date listed is March 31st, 2025.

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So fairly recent then. Still maybe evolving.

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Could be. But putting it all together, the simple capture, the powerful findability,

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the data control, the open nature. It paints a picture of a tool designed to be

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like a

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reliable external memory for you.

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So summing up what we've pulled from these sources, Memo aims to be an easy way to

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gather

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basically everything important to you and crucially find it again easily later,

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almost

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letting the app do the remembering for you.

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That nails the core promise described.

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Okay great. And thanks once again to SafeServer for supporting us digging into this.

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Remember

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to check them out for hosting and digital transformation help at www.safeserver.de.

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Now considering that the sources talk about finding notes in many years to come,

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and that

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emphasis on being able to export and import your data, meaning it's portable, it

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makes

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you wonder, doesn't it, if you can have this comprehensive digital memory designed

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for

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the long term, but you could also potentially pack it up and take it somewhere else

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entirely.

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What does that really mean for how we think about our personal history, our digital

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selves

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across different platforms and maybe even decades?

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Hmm.

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That's yeah, that's definitely something to chew on.

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Portability of memory itself.