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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 14, 2025 at 01:54 PM
Hi, all.
I’ve been using MyMind as my “junk drawer” info dump for a couple of years and have been pretty happy with it. I especially like how it can hoover up almost anything, either through the browser extension or the iOS app. It is always easy to find content. In short, it does that job well.
But today I learned of an app called Spaceduck, which seems like MyMind-plus… and I mean plus a lot. It allows you to hoover stuff up pretty well, but you can also segment your items into collections called Spaces (you can have Spaces in MyMind, which are just saved searches). You can add full-blown documents to your information base. You can create whiteboards and Kanban boards for analyzing and managing your info. It is slightly less expensive than MyMind. And, it is still being aggressively developed (MyMind has received few significant upgrades recently).
I am wondering if anyone has any experience with Spaceduck or any insights into how to maximize the features of MyMind, as I am considering switching.
Thank you.
Steve
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 14, 2025 at 01:54 PM
By the way, if you want to check out Spaceduck, here is the website:
Steve
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.
Posted by Dormouse
Mar 15, 2025 at 01:16 AM
I actively avoid using apps which advertise or incorporate AI features. I am increasingly suspicious of big tech that has started to apply AI behind the scenes.
I have a highly stratified approach to my data. Some is never exposed to the internet, some is paper only, etc. I consider how private and secure any app is likely to be, I consider how trustworthy any vendor is likely to be. I use Proton (free has been sufficient so far), and am testing Notesnook and Standard Notes. I collect highlights and webpages into Readwise (I know who they are and there’s nothing private in there); I use Lattics (Chinese company, but local data, and there’s nothing private in there except some of my writing). I’ve stopped publishing anything that might have value until I know how to legally protect my copyrights since the present UK government seems determined to hand it all over to big tech AI.
So I do care. But then I don’t need to increase ‘my’ productivity by having AI do my work for me. afaics the biggest risks come from corporate dependence on AI, even if that AI has been trained primarily on the personal information of individuals; there’s little any of us will be able to do about that. The thoughts, writings and creations of individuals rarely have significant monetary value. I try not to think about what needs to happen to make AI carbon neutral.
Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Mar 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Here some background information about spaceduck:
Year Founded: 2023
Status: Private
Employees: 5
Latest Deal Type: Early Stage VC
Investors: 1
Description:
Developer of a product research platform designed to help product teams build and ship incredible products with unparalleled speed. The company’s platform offers features such as patterns, components, find and learn to capture and bookmark web content, organizing it into an artificial intelligence-driven repository for seamless research, learning and collaboration, enabling product teams to improve their product research process.
Financing Status:Venture Capital-Backed, Investor: Blackbird Ventures (https://www.blackbird.vc/about-blackbird)
Primary Industry: Media and Information Services (B2B)
Corporate Office: Sydney, New South Wales 2000 Australia
YouTube: Joined on the 6th June 2023, 55 subscribers (as of the 15th March 2025)