Capture · Access · Remember

The notes you save here don't go to die.

Capture ideas before they're gone. Find them in seconds. Practice what matters — and walk into exam day actually knowing it.

A topic about the Renaissance open in Mento, with cover image, sidebar hierarchy and tagged study cards

"You save notes in three different apps. You never look at them again. That's not a you problem — it's a tool problem."


How it works

Three verbs. One product.

Most apps help you capture. A few help you organize. A different few help you memorize. Mento does all three — because the loop between them is where ideas go to die in every other tool.

Before they evaporate. The friction between a thought and the app is the point of failure — so Mento removes it.

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Most apps do one of these. Mento closes the loop.


The loop

Nobody else closes all three.

The apps people try either drop the capture step, drop the structure step, or drop the retention step — and that's the reason saved notes turn into graveyards.

Tool
Capture
Access
Remember
Apple Notes / Keep
Goodnotes / Notability
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Notion
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Obsidian / Capacities
Quizlet / Anki
Readwise
Mento

Why it works

Structure is recall.

Your brain doesn't store isolated facts — it stores relationships. When every card lives inside a Topic, inside a Space, alongside its source material, the organizational structure itself becomes a retrieval cue.

Most note apps — one flat list

European HistorySpace
The Enlightenment8 cards Topic
The French RevolutionTopic
CausesSection
Fiscal crisis of the crownCard
The Estates-GeneralCard
Key EventsSection
Storming of the Bastille· 1789Card
The Reign of TerrorCard
AftermathSection
The rise of NapoleonCard
The Napoleonic Wars12 cards Topic

Storming of the Bastille1789

European HistoryThe French RevolutionKey Events

Flat flashcard decks work for vocabulary. But for complex material — organ systems, legal doctrines, programming concepts — you need structure that reflects the relationships between ideas. Mento doesn't just store your notes. It gives them an architecture that makes retrieval natural.


Your AI toolkit

AI that works with your notes.

Not a chatbot. One AI layer that generates, refines, and organizes your material — automatically.

Generate

Any source → structured cards.

Feed a PDF chapter, a page of notes, or a whole topic to an AI Flow — a multi-step recipe — and get flashcards organized by concept, ready to review.

Lecture 4 — The Solar System

The Sun's gravity holds the planets in elliptical orbits, with the rocky inner worlds circling far faster than the distant gas giants…

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Generated 3 cards

What holds the planets in orbit?

Which planets are the rocky inner worlds?

Why do inner planets orbit faster?

Add to topic
Refine

Reusable instructions, one click.

Save your best prompts — “explain like I’m 5,” “give me a mnemonic,” “cut to one sentence” — as Snippets, and apply them to any card instantly.

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The Solar System · Card

Order of the planets from the Sun?

 

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

“My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos” — Mercury → Venus → Earth → …

Start at the Sun and walk outward: four small rocky planets first, then the four giant gas ones.

Save to card
Organize

AI files and connects.

Dump ideas into your inbox without deciding where they go. AI sorts each into the right space and topic, and tags cut across the hierarchy so related cards study together.

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Suggest organization
“Mars has 2 moons”
“Consideration must be sufficient”
“Bastille stormed, 1789”
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Solar System

in Astronomy

Contract Law

in Law School

French Revolution

in European History

#planets links 2 cards across different topics


Who it's for

Anyone who collects more than they can hold.

Put the loop to work from day one.


The payoff

Everything you save comes back as questions.

Daily practice pulls due cards from every space and brings back the ones you miss sooner. This is where the loop closes.

A flashcard review session mid-progress in Mento, showing a question card, know / still-learning counts and session progress
A flashcard session in Mento — every card traces back to something you captured.

Mento is the notebook you wish your brain came with — the one where the things you save actually stay.


Mento

Notes you remember.

Start capturing. Find everything. Remember what matters.