Memento AI vs ThinkAloud Notes

# Memento — Don't Lose That Thought You know that moment when you think of something important and tell yourself, *“I’ll remember this later”*? And then, two hours later, it’s gone. That’s what Memento is for. Say it. Type it. Get it out of your head. Memento keeps it for you and helps bring it back when you actually need it. ## Just say what you're thinking Open Memento and start talking. No folders, tags, or complicated setup. Your voice note is automatically turned into text, so you can capture a thought in a couple of seconds and move on. ## Reminders that actually help If you mention a date or deadline, Memento can remind you. And for things that really matter, it doesn’t just remind you once and disappear. Reminders start quietly, then become more noticeable as the deadline gets closer. Done already? Mark it complete from your lock screen and the reminders stop. ## Ask your notes Instead of searching through everything you've written, just ask. **“What did I say about the roof?”** **“What do I have coming up this week?”** Memento looks through your own notes and gives you an answer. If you never wrote it down, it will tell you that too. It won't make something up just to give you an answer. ## Made for forgetful minds Maybe you have ADHD. Maybe you're just busy. Maybe your brain is full of things all the time. The problem was never really writing things down. It's remembering to come back to them. Memento is built for that part. ## Your notes are yours Your notes are private to your account. They aren't used for analytics. You can export everything whenever you want, or delete your account and all your data directly from the app. ## No complicated system Memento isn't another folder system. It isn't a habit tracker. It's just a place to put the things you don't want to forget — and a little help making sure they come back at the right time.

You think out loud. ThinkAloud writes it down. Hit record and just talk: a passing idea, a meeting, a whole lecture. When you stop, you can play the recording back and decide whether it's worth keeping before anything happens to it. Only then does the on-device AI turn it into a real note, with a title, some structure, tags, and links to the related notes you already have. Here's the part that matters. All of this happens on your phone. ThinkAloud runs Google's Gemma model locally, so your voice and your notes never get uploaded anywhere. There's no account to create, no server in the middle, and nothing to pay every month. You download the model once, and after that it works offline. Your notes are just Markdown files in an ordinary folder, the same format Obsidian uses. Point ThinkAloud at a vault you already have, or let it keep one for you. Either way you can open, edit, or back them up with any app you like. Nothing is trapped inside. What it's good at: - Voice, photos, or quick text go in; clean, tagged notes come out - Ask your notes a question in plain language and get an answer with its sources listed, so you can tap straight through to where each fact came from - A knowledge graph that builds itself as your notes start linking up - Full-text search, tags, folders, and checklists - Optional sync to your own Google Drive or iCloud. Your account, a private folder, no servers of mine in between. No ads, no analytics, no tracking, no accounts. I made ThinkAloud because I wanted a notebook that was actually mine. That's the whole idea. The on-device model needs around 3 GB of free space and a fairly recent device.