I've been using Pensieve regularly for a few months now. The killer feature for me is being able to search all of my online accounts at once. I can never remember if I put something in Google Drive, or if someone shared it with me in email, or if it was in Slack, or in Evernote, or worse if it's somewhere I rarely go on my own but still have an account like Dropbox or OneDrive. So now I can just hit OPT+SPACE and find what I want right away. And because it's now my go-to place for search, I also now use Pensieve directly for quick notes-to-self, instead of Evernote or Slacks to myself or offline text files. It's just a much better way to keep track of everything.

I'm curious to see where they take it next -- seems like it could go in a lot of different directions from here. But as is, it's already very valuable.

Pros:

#1 Pro: Searching + ACTUALLY FINDING my content wherever it is online. No more searching 7 different places b/c I had no idea where to look.

Cons:

Can't yet partially-authorize an account, like a specific Evernote notebook, so when I search I sometimes see irrelevant "personal" results.

I’ve been usung it for a month now. It replaced the notes app for me as a way to capture all these information pieces along the work day. Pensieve is fast and flexible to capture unstructured stream of notes and help organizing them.

Pros:

Simple to use, lightspot that replaces notes and expands to all your external knowledge sources

Cons:

Integration with mac is not perfect, icon is visible in dock

I've been using Pensieve for about a month now, and it is an amazing tool for jotting down quick notes. I am not a very organized person, so the ability to quickly take notes and search them is game changing. I've used other note taking tools before, but they always become a mess for me because the search is not front and center. I use Pensieve for my todo list, funky command line syntax that I can't remember, random thoughts, meeting notes and more!

Pros:

Taking and searching notes without interrupting my workflow is amazing!

Cons:

Sometimes I stumble over the UX for creating and editing a new note

The features as they evolve should make this very compelling .. so much data is hard to search past a few days .. and the ability to index everything across all my different production modes is a huge time saver.

Pros:

A single search through all of my different content stores that actually works is a pretty tremendously useful thing for me. Love it !

Cons:

No cons yet, excited to see the feature set evolve here !

The memories created in Pensieve itself can be quickly referenced inline and also be pinned for quick, regular lookups. This will be really powerful once the same can be done with content residing in other tools that Pensieve links to.

Pros:

take quick notes without creating "documents". No need for organization. Easy retrieval

Cons:

Needs a way to bulk import notes from existing tools like Apple Notes etc.

Neat idea! Could you please clarify how it works without storing my data? Purely through APIs? Btw… I also use InVisionapp. Can you find comments from there?

Hello PH! This is my first time posting on Product Hunt, and our second take on Pensieve. Pensieve lets you search across all your tools from one safe, convenient place, so you’re never wondering whether the sales pitch deck was shared via slack or gmail, or where the latest design doc is kept. The problem that we’re trying to solve — information being lost in different tools, and not being able to consolidate it in one place — is one that I’ve felt acutely, everywhere I’ve worked. Whether it was developing device drivers or building large scale infrastructure or managing teams; be it at a large company or a startup. We’ve learned a ton from our first attempt; and have hopefully executed on all the lessons and feedback. We’d love to hear your thoughts. We’re also running a fun contest — Win a $400 Amazon gift card by tweeting your best Pensieve puns @pensieveai with #PensieveForYourThoughts. We'll announce the winner on Monday June 18th. Be creative! ❤

Hi Product Hunters! I’m Aaron, the other half of the Pensieve team. Renuka and I worked at the same couple companies over a few years, and things just went better when we were on the same team so we decided to “drop out of school” and see if we could make it on our own. While building Pensieve, we talked to loads of folks who feel the pain Pensieve aims to soothe, and one of the most consistent things we heard from them was concern that their data be kept secure. Data security is especially important for us since connecting to multiple services makes us an appealing target for hackers. To keep our users safe, we built our system from the ground up to require no user data or credentials stored on our servers or in our database. This means even if someone were to compromise our servers, they wouldn’t find any of your stuff there. If you’d like to talk more about how we think about data security, I’d be happy to chat. We also heard from people about the tools they use today, including cloud services where they search for things, and note taking tools, but we’re always looking for more. How many tools do you have to search regularly? Got one you use a lot that we don’t support yet (gmail, gdrive, dropbox, slack, evernote)? Tell us about it.