Articles
On memory, journaling, and building Mento.
Start hereWhy I built Mento
I kept forgetting the moments I most wanted to keep. So I built a journal that remembers them for me — and can answer questions about my own life.
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Why keyword search fails your journal
You never wrote the word you are searching for. Semantic search finds the entry anyway — here is how Mento searches your journal by meaning.
How it works
Voice journaling: the fastest journal is the one you keep
Most journals die because writing costs too much effort. Speaking costs almost none — Mento transcribes your voice into clean, searchable entries.
How it works
The month you already forgot
Weeks blur together and months vanish. Mento writes a weekly and monthly reflection from your own entries, so you can see the shape of time you lived.
Privacy
Is an AI journal private? A straight answer
What happens to your entries in Mento: where they are stored, what AI processing means in practice, and what we do not do with your journal.