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Browser extension · v0.2 beta

Close every tab.
Keep every thought.

Mindlatch is the anti-hoarding memory layer for your browser. It captures why you saved something — not just what — and quietly forgets the rest, so the thinking you've already done starts working for you instead of getting lost in another folder.

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80%
of bookmarks are never revisited
47
avg tabs hoarded per user
0
folders to maintain. ever.
stratechery.com/the-end-of-bookmarks
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The End of Bookmarks
Karpathy · LLM Wikis
PG · How to Think
HN: Mindlatch
Linear · Roadmap
The End of Bookmarks
stratechery.com · 9 min read
For thirty years we've trained ourselves to perform an absurd ritual: dragging links into folders we never reopen. The web's memory layer was an artifact of 1993, not 2026 — and yet every "bookmark manager" since has only refined the storage problem, never the recall problem…
Mindlatch · Save ⌘⇧S
Why are you saving this?
📌
Reference
🤔
Decision input
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Read later
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Idea spark
Close every tab Capture the why No folders, ever Decision logs that compound Managed forgetting Local-first · privacy-first Built for people who think Close every tab Capture the why No folders, ever Decision logs that compound Managed forgetting Local-first · privacy-first Built for people who think
The five loopholes nobody fixes

Every save tool optimizes the save.

Almost none solve the return. We read hundreds of complaints — Reddit, Mozilla, Product Hunt, PKM autopsies, ACM CHI papers. The same five wounds keep bleeding. Mindlatch is designed around them.

№ 01
The Collector's Fallacy
PKM users quitting Notion, Obsidian, Roam in frustration. Tools reward hoarding instead of judgment. Saving has been confused with thinking.
"My second brain became a mausoleum."
№ 02
Tab hoarding stress
30% of users describe themselves as tab hoarders. Average is 47 open tabs. People can't close them because closing means losing.
"They sit there nagging me."
№ 03
The reasoning vacuum
No tool captures judgment, only content. Six months later, nobody remembers why a decision was made. The same debates happen twice.
"We end up redoing research."
№ 04
Taxonomy maintenance
Folders, tags, nested categories. The more you save, the more the system demands. ADHD users — a huge audience — are repelled by every existing tool.
"Decision fatigue. Avoidance."
№ 05
Stale forever-saves
No tool forgets. Old saves pile forever, drowning new ones. Academic research on "managed forgetting" exists — but no consumer tool ships it.
"I save it, then forget I saved it."
Four pillars

Built around what other tools
refuse to fix.

Four keystrokes. Zero folders. A memory layer that earns its place because it solves a wound, not a feature gap.

⌘⇧L
i.

Tab Liberation

One keystroke closes every open tab — and snapshots them all. Restore the exact session anytime. Your browser breathes. Your memory keeps everything.

Plugs · Tab hoarding stress
⌘⇧S
ii.

Intent-First Capture

Every save asks one question: why? Pick from four intents in a single tap, optionally voice-record a five-second note. No folders. No tags. No taxonomy work.

Plugs · Collector's Fallacy + ADHD
⌘⇧D
iii.

The Decision Log

The killer feature no competitor has. A 60-second guided capture of any decision. Three months later, when the same call comes up, your past reasoning surfaces automatically.

Plugs · Reasoning vacuum
FRI · 4PM
iv.

Managed Forgetting

Inspired by a decade of academic research. Saves you never touch quietly fade. Friday afternoons, a digest asks once: still need this? Goodbye to the mausoleum.

Plugs · No forgetting
Honest comparison

We're not another bookmark tool.

We're a different category. Below is what each tool actually does, not what its homepage claims.

Capability Mindlatch Raindrop Mymind Readwise Notion Clipper
Captures the why behind a save✓————
Tab Liberation (close all, keep all)✓————
Decision Log✓————
Managed Forgetting✓————
No taxonomy maintenance✓—✓——
100% local-first storage✓————
Bring-your-own AI key✓————
Pro tier price$7/mo$3/mo$13/mo$10/moBundled
Pricing

Free where it matters.
Honest where it doesn't.

Tab Liberation and unlimited saves are free forever. AI questions and Decision Logs are where Pro earns its keep.

Free · forever
$0
For everyone, for the long run.
  • Unlimited saves & tab liberation
  • Full-text snapshots
  • 1 mode (Work or Personal)
  • Bring your own AI key
  • Weekly Forgetting Digest
  • Imports from Pocket, Raindrop, Notion, Chrome
Pro · individuals
$7/month · $60/yr
For people who think for a living.
  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited Decision Logs
  • Unlimited modes (Work, Personal, per-project)
  • Voice capture & transcription
  • Ambient resurface engine
  • Hosted AI · no key needed
  • Full export anytime · Markdown, JSON
Team
$12/user/mo
Stop having the same debate twice.
  • Everything in Pro
  • Shared Decision Logs & team memory
  • Onboarding 10× faster
  • Admin controls, audit log
  • SSO at 10+ seats
  • Self-hosted option (Enterprise)
Early access · v0.2.2 beta

First 1,000 installs: Pro free, forever.

Direct download. No App Store review wait. Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Firefox 115+.

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Common questions

Answers, not promises.

Is my data really local? +
Yes. Everything you save lives in your browser's IndexedDB. Nothing syncs to our servers. The only outbound network call is to Anthropic's API when you use the "Ask" feature — and that uses your own API key, which we never see.
What browsers does it work on? +
v0.2.2 works on Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera, and Vivaldi (all Chromium-based) and Firefox 115+. Safari is on the roadmap but requires a Mac developer account and Apple review, so we're prioritizing Chromium and Firefox first.
Why "anti-hoarding"? Aren't memory tools supposed to remember everything? +
The research is unambiguous: 80% of bookmarks are never revisited. Saving everything makes the things that actually matter harder to find. We borrow from a decade of academic work on "managed forgetting" — your library should be a workshop, not a graveyard.
How is this different from Raindrop, Mymind, or Readwise? +
Those tools all optimize the save. They take the link, the text, the highlights — and stop there. Mindlatch is the only one that asks why at save time and the only one with a Decision Log, Tab Liberation, and Managed Forgetting. Different category, not a better version. See the comparison above for specifics.
When will it be on the Chrome Web Store? +
Soon. We're currently shipping as a direct-install beta so we can iterate weekly. The Chrome Web Store review process is 7–14 days, and right now that pace is too slow. Once we hit v1.0 stable, the store listing is the next step.
Who is building this? +
A small team frustrated by every PKM and save-tool they've tried. We've quit Notion four times. We dropped Roam after a year. We have 47 tabs open right now. This is the tool we wished existed.
What's the catch with "Pro free forever for the first 1,000 installs"? +
No catch. Early supporters get the full Pro tier — Decision Logs, Voice, Resurface, Hosted AI — at $0 for as long as they use Mindlatch. We'd rather have 1,000 evangelists than 1,000 trial-stage churners. Once the counter hits 1,000, regular pricing begins.

Stop hoarding.
Start remembering.

The first thousand installs are getting Pro forever, free. After that we'll be just another extension you've heard of. Don't be late.

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