Articlecraigmod.com
A philosophy of software design
Argues for fewer, better tools: small surface area, durable data formats, and software that ages well instead of demanding constant migration.
- software-design
- simplicity
12 Mar 2026 / 4 min
Save anything. Find it by what you remember.
OwnMind keeps your links, notes, screenshots and articles in one private place. It reads each one, pulls out the details, and hands them back the moment you search. No folders. No tags. No filing.
Free to start, no card. Add a browser extension when you want it.
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Note
Ask about the kiln schedule before Friday
Cone 6, slow cool from 1000C. She said the old one runs about 40 degrees hot at the top shelf.
- kiln
- to-ask
14 Mar 2026
Imagescreenshot
Screenshot of the error, cropped to the message
dominant colour picked up
A flat block stands in for the image here. In the app, a real photo is described and colour tagged automatically.
- debugging
- error
9 Mar 2026
Linktypographica.org
Choosing a typeface for long reading
A practical guide to x-height, measure and the point size where a text face starts to feel tiring.
- typography
- reference
9 Mar 2026
You will not remember the folder.
You will remember the colour.
Almost everyone who saves things on the web has a folder called Ideas, and a subfolder called Ideas to sort later. The filing takes longer than the finding, and the finding is the part you actually needed.
What you really remember is not a category. It is a rough impression: a green photograph, something about letterpress, a page a friend sent you on a train. OwnMind indexes all of that, so you can search the impression instead of the label.
There are no folders here, on purpose. There is one grid, and a search box that understands what you half know.
What it actually does
Eight things, all of them real parts of the product rather than a roadmap.
One box for everything
A link, a thought, a screenshot, a whole article. Same box, and OwnMind works out which it is for you.
Tags you never wrote
Every save is labelled the moment it lands. Keywords, a readable title and a short summary, so the thing is findable later.
Search by what you remember
Type a word, a colour, a brand or a site. Add tag: or kind: when you want to be precise about it.
Read it without the noise
Saved pages are stripped of menus, adverts and pop ups. The article text is kept, so it still opens when the source disappears.
Images that describe themselves
Drop in a photo and it gets a title, a summary and the dominant colour. Text inside a screenshot becomes searchable.
Connect what belongs together
Link any two items by hand. Each link shows up on both, so a research trail stays readable months later.
Notes that stay as written
Some things are a sentence, not a document. Write it and it is filed exactly as you typed it.
Rediscover old saves
Recall brings back one thing you have not looked at in a while. Keep it or let it go, and it learns what to show you.
Three steps, then you forget about it
- 1
Drop it in
Paste a link, type a note, or drop an image into the box. One field, no format picker, no choose a folder dialog.
- 2
OwnMind reads it
The page is fetched and cleaned, the image is described, and the whole thing is labelled with a title, tags and a summary.
- 3
Find it later
Search the words you half remember. Or pin what you are working on this week and let Recall surface the rest.
There is nothing to sell here
The cheapest way to run a service is to have one thing to sell. OwnMind has one: the subscription. That is why there are no adverts, no sponsored results and no third party trackers in this app.
There is no public profile, no follower count, no leaderboard and no way for anyone else to see what you saved. Your library is reachable by your account alone, and you can export all of it as JSON whenever you want.
- No advertising, on any page
- No third party analytics scripts
- No selling or sharing of your library
- No social features and no public links
- One click export of everything you saved
- Delete your account and all of its data
Start with the last thing you saved
The free plan is not a trial that expires. Sign up, drop something in, and see whether you can find it again by describing it rather than naming it.