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.
Free version is genuinely free. Pro adds Imports + Voice + Ask — $5/mo. · 86 KB
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Almost none solve the return. We read hundreds of complaints — Reddit, Mozilla, Product Hunt, ACM CHI papers. The same wounds keep bleeding. Mindlatch is designed around them.
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."
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."
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."
Four moves. Zero folders. A memory layer that earns its place because it solves a wound, not a feature gap.
Every save asks one question: why? Type a 280-character note to your future self. No folders. No tags. No taxonomy work.
Plugs · Collector's Fallacy
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
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
Select any passage on any page. Latch it with a note about why it matters. The library indexes the quote and your reasoning together — search for either, find both.
Plugs · Collector's Fallacy + Reasoning vacuum
We're a different category. Below is what each tool actually does — including what competitors do better than us.
| Capability | Mindlatch | Raindrop | Mymind | Readwise | Notion Clipper |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Captures the why behind a save | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Tab Liberation (close all, keep all) | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Decision Log | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Highlights with notes | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| Visual / AI auto-organize | — | — | ✓ | — | — |
| Spaced repetition recall | — | — | — | ✓ | — |
| Folders / tags / taxonomy | Optional | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| 100% local-first (no servers) | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Export your data anytime | ✓ MD/HTML/JSON | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pro tier price | Free now | $3/mo | $13/mo | $10/mo | Bundled |
The core — save, highlight, liberate, decide, export — is free, forever. Pro unlocks Imports, Voice, and Ask for $5/month.
For everyone. The core is genuinely free.
For people who think for a living.
Stop having the same debate twice.
Imports brings every link you've ever saved across to Mindlatch. Voice lets you talk your note. Ask answers questions about your library using your own AI key — the library never leaves your browser.
After paying, you'll get a license key by email. Paste it into the extension's Settings page to unlock.
Now live on the Chrome Web Store. Works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera, and Vivaldi — anything Chromium-based.
Add to Chrome — free Chrome Web StoreOr, if you prefer manual install: download the .zip, then in Chrome go to chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode, and use Load unpacked.
In order. We ship weekly. Subscribe to the changelog at /changelog.
Bring your library in from Pocket, Raindrop, Notion, or browser bookmarks. Talk your save note via browser-native voice transcription. Ask your library natural-language questions with your own AI key. Pro launched at $5/mo, honor-system license.
Free-text tags with autocomplete from your own corpus, in both the save dialog and library. Click any chip to filter. Choose between Claude Sonnet 4.6 / Haiku 4.5 / Opus 4.7 (or GPT models) per your own cost preferences.
30-day trash bin with restore. Forgetting Digest surfaces stale saves and lets you Keep / Trash / Skip in batch. A library should be a workshop, not a graveyard.
Now live on the Chrome Web Store. Public listing, one-click install for everyone. Continued direct-install for power users who want weekly builds.
Embeddings-based search for richer results in Ask. Find saves by meaning, not just keywords. Local embeddings option for full privacy.
Bring-your-own-storage: Google Drive, Dropbox, WebDAV, or self-hosted. Zero-knowledge end-to-end encryption. Your data, your servers.
If you've got one I haven't answered, email hello@mindlatch.app.
Yes. Everything you save lives in your browser's IndexedDB. Nothing syncs to our servers — we don't have servers for that. There are no analytics. No telemetry. No fingerprinting. The only outbound network call will be to your chosen AI provider when v0.6 ships, and that uses your API key — we never see it.
v0.6.0 works on Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera, and Vivaldi (all Chromium-based) — install in one click from the Chrome Web Store. Firefox 115+ is in testing — drop your email on the waitlist for the Firefox build. Safari is on the roadmap but requires Apple's review process, so we're prioritizing Chromium and Firefox first.
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. The Forgetting Digest (v0.4) is how that becomes a feature.
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, the only one with Tab Liberation, and the only one with a Decision Log. See the comparison table above — we credit competitors where they're better than us, too.
Yes — live now. Install in one click from the Chrome Web Store. If you prefer manual install (for example, to run the latest weekly build before it lands in the store), the .zip is still available for chrome://extensions developer-mode installs.
Pro unlocks three features: Imports (Pocket / Raindrop / Notion / browser bookmarks), Voice capture (talk your note instead of typing), and Ask your library (natural-language search using your own AI key — Mindlatch never sees the key, question, or answer). $5/month covers the cost of building these well and the runway to keep shipping the rest of the roadmap. Cancel anytime. The Free tier stays genuinely free, forever.
Export your library to Markdown, HTML, or JSON whenever you want. Uninstall and the data is gone — from us too, because we never had it. No vendor lock-in. No "subscription downgrade" purgatory. The exits work as well as the entrances.
A small team frustrated by every PKM and save-tool we've tried. We've quit Notion four times. We dropped Roam after a year. We had 47 tabs open when we started building this. Mindlatch is the tool we wished existed — built in public, shipped weekly, and free for the people who help us find the bugs.
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