Memex

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• May 2, 2026
  description

  Deep Reading for the web. As individuals, teams and communities. 
  
  Curate, annotate and discuss the most important websites, PDFs and YouTube videos.
  
  FEATURES:
  =========
  🤖 Summarize & chat with websites, PDFs, YouTube videos
  🔍 Full-text search pages and PDFs you annotated or bookmarked. 
  📝 Highlight and Annotate Websites & PDFs
  🗄 Flexible organisation: Organise into Spaces + tab manager
  🌎 Share, collaborate on and discuss Spaces of pages and notes with others.
  🔗 Link to highlights and annotations  
  🔄 Sync to Obsidian, Readwise, Logseq
  📱 Across devices: Save, View & organise your knowledge on all of your devices, phones and tablets.
  ⚡️ Quick onboarding.Import from every major bookmarking service with your folder structure.
  😎 Offline-first. All data is stored on your device.
  ⛅ Backup your data to any of your favourite cloud providers via file system sync
  
  View our privacy policy: https://links.memex.garden/privacy
  
  
  HOW TO USE
  =============
  🔍 Search: Type in 'm' followed by pressing the 'space' bar or tab in the address bar. 
  📝 Annotate: Highlight any piece of text and right click
  🗄Organise: Move with the mouse to the right side of the screen, or click on the little 'brain' icon in the extension bar
  
  
  FEEDBACK and TROUBLESHOOTING
  ============================
  
  To leave bug reports and feature requests: community.memex.social
  Support email: [email protected]
  Chat with the team: memex.garden > the chat bubble in the bottom right corner
  
  If Memex causes issues, there is this trick as old as computer service people are around:
  Have you tried restarting the extension? 🤓
  You can do so via chrome://extensions.
  
  If a problem persists, keep the extension deactivated and drop by in our help section (above). 
  When deactivated then does not need RAM or CPU.

  Deprecated, use Memex V2 instead: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/memex/jafcdndekgfbdajgmkiogbjackacckdp
  
  Deep Reading for the web. As individuals, teams and communities. 
  
  Curate, annotate and discuss the most important websites, PDFs and YouTube videos.
  
  FEATURES:
  =========
  🤖 Summarize & chat with websites, PDFs, YouTube videos
  🔍 Full-text search pages and PDFs you annotated or bookmarked. 
  📝 Highlight and Annotate Websites & PDFs
  🗄 Flexible organisation: Organise into Spaces + tab manager
  🌎 Share, collaborate on and discuss Spaces of pages and notes with others.
  🔗 Link to highlights and annotations  
  🔄 Sync to Obsidian, Readwise, Logseq
  📱 Across devices: Save, View & organise your knowledge on all of your devices, phones and tablets.
  ⚡️ Quick onboarding.Import from every major bookmarking service with your folder structure.
  😎 Offline-first. All data is stored on your device.
  ⛅ Backup your data to any of your favourite cloud providers via file system sync
  
  View our privacy policy: https://links.memex.garden/privacy
  
  
  HOW TO USE
  =============
  🔍 Search: Type in 'm' followed by pressing the 'space' bar or tab in the address bar. 
  📝 Annotate: Highlight any piece of text and right click
  🗄Organise: Move with the mouse to the right side of the screen, or click on the little 'brain' icon in the extension bar
  
  
  FEEDBACK and TROUBLESHOOTING
  ============================
  
  To leave bug reports and feature requests: community.memex.social
  Support email: [email protected]
  Chat with the team: memex.garden > the chat bubble in the bottom right corner
  
  If Memex causes issues, there is this trick as old as computer service people are around:
  Have you tried restarting the extension? 🤓
  You can do so via chrome://extensions.
  
  If a problem persists, keep the extension deactivated and drop by in our help section (above). 
  When deactivated then does not need RAM or CPU.

Permissions & access

Permissions

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