MemNote Docs

Getting started

Create your account, verify your email, and write your first note.

MemNote has native apps for Windows, macOS, Android, and iPhone, and your notes follow you across all of them. Install it from the store for your platform on the MemNote home page, then come back here.

Create an account

Open the app. The first screen is Welcome Back, with three ways in:

  • Email and password. Tap Need an account? Sign Up, enter your email and a password of at least 6 characters, and tap Sign Up.
  • Sign in with Google.
  • Sign in with Apple.

If you forgot your password, Forgot Password? on the sign-in screen sends a reset link to your email address.

Verify your email

MemNote sends a verification email as soon as your account is created, and shows Account created! Please check your email to verify.

Verification is required. Until you have clicked the link, the app sits on the Verify your email screen and no notes are loaded. Open the email, click the link, and the app moves on by itself within a few seconds — you do not have to restart it. The screen also has Resend Email if it never arrived, I’ve Verified to check immediately, and Sign Out.

This applies to every sign-in method, including Google and Apple.

Write your first note

Once you are verified you land in the note list.

  • On a phone or a narrow window, tap the + button at the bottom right.
  • On a desktop-sized window, use the + in the tab bar above the editor (its tooltip is New Note), or the + button when no note is open.

Then just start typing. There is no title field and no Save button:

  • The first line becomes the title. MemNote strips markdown from it, so # Grocery list shows up as “Grocery list” in the list, on the map, and in the timeline. A note with no text shows as Untitled.
  • Saving is automatic. MemNote saves a couple of seconds after you stop typing, and always when you close the note or switch to another one.

While that first note is being created, MemNote also records where and when you were — see Context capture. The first time it does, your operating system asks for location permission. Allowing it is what makes the map useful; declining it just means notes have no place attached.

Finding your way around

On a desktop-sized window (roughly 800 pixels wide or more) you get a narrow icon rail down the left edge — Tags, Notes, Timeline, Map, and at the bottom Trash and Settings — then an optional tag pane, then the note list, then the editor. Notes open as tabs, so you can keep several at once. The dividers between the panes can be dragged to resize them.

On a phone, one screen shows at a time. The menu button in the top-left opens a drawer with All Notes, Timeline, Map View, Trash, your tag tree, and Settings. Opening a note fills the screen; back returns to the list.

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