MyMind vs. Spaceduck

Posted by tberni
Mar 14, 2025 at 09:16 PM

Dear Stephen:

I too like to stay informed of the software market related to organizing and thinking tools, but (again) you just surprised me with your nose for new resources.

A few months ago I was trying MyMind for a few weeks and I was not convinced due to several reasons:

1.) I had the feeling that it didn’t offer me a high enough quality service for what they intended to charge for it.
2.) Added to this was the fact that we seem to be paying for applications that are very pretty but which - at the end of the day - offer little more than other more conventional systems.
3.) And finally, there is the issue of privacy and the use that these companies make of our data and the information we entrust to them.

I have now approached the Spaceduck website, and without having tried it, it seemed to me that they pretend to offer a service that goes beyond that offered by MyMind. They sell Spaceduck as a space to organize and think, and very much linked to all the “bells and whistles” (as I think you say in the USA) linked to the misnamed artificial intelligence.

I have investigated further and found that it is a company based in Sydney (Australia), with 4-5 workers, with less than a year and a half of life and for which it is not possible to know anything about the founders and directors of the same (I have not been able or known).

Having said all this, with your proposal you have made me think about the following questions that I would like to share with everyone:

- Shouldn’t we feel some concern about security issues before this type of private companies, quite opaque, in relation to what they do with the data that users entrust to them?

- Is it not possible that certain more conventional tools, more in the hands of the user, could be as convenient as these and safer from the point of view of data handling, data security and privacy?

These are issues that are of great interest to me and that I think are worth discussing.

Best regards.