We've been thinking about memory longer than the models have.
The tools changed. The AIs changed. Your memory shouldn't have to.
— Why we built MythOS
Origin · 01
From a notebook to a protocol.
In 2017, MythOS was a personal system — tags, mentions, cross-links, all in Markdown. The point wasn't to build an app. The point was to never lose an idea again.
Then the models arrived. ChatGPT, Claude, every successor. Each one asked the same questions: who are you, what do you think, what have you already written? And every time, you had to start over.
We kept watching people paste the same paragraph into every new chat. Rebuild the same context. Re-explain themselves to a machine that already had access to the most advanced language understanding in history — but not to them.
So we turned the notebook into a protocol. MythOS is the missing layer: a library that lives outside any one model, addressable by all of them.
Doctrine · 02
Memory. Mind. Mouth.
Every thinking person already has these three systems. Most are scattered. We organized them.
Memory is the library: every memo, every hashtag, every link. Markdown by default so it survives everything.
Mind is the layer that makes the library think back. Chat with your memos. Let agents orchestrate them. Every answer grounded in your own words.
Mouth is the public-facing half: publish a memo, send it as a newsletter, host a conversation, get surfaced in search — human and machine.
The goal is not a note-taking app. The goal is the connective tissue between how you think and how you show up online.
The long road to now.
2017
Personal experiment.
2020
First public memo.
2023
The model flood.
2024
Portable context.
/llms.txt
. Your library becomes addressable from any model, any agent, any script.2026
MythOS v5.
What we will and won't build.
01
Yours, forever .
02
Model- agnostic on purpose.
03
Private by default .
04
Craft over features .
05
No ads. Ever.
06
Open where it counts .
/llms.txt
discoverable. Portability is a feature, not a favor.Who's building this.
A small team. Writers and systems people who've been doing this long enough to care about the shape.
Brian Swichkow
Founder · Writing
Asha Kaur
Engineering · Platform
Reza Molina
Engineering · Agents
Jade Nakamura
Design · Editor
Tomás Okafor
Community · Support