Memos by Brian Swichkow

Trilium
Trilium Notes is a free and open-source, cross-platform hierarchical note-taking application focused on building large personal knowledge bases. Notes can be arranged into an arbitrarily deep tree,...
Joplin
Joplin is a free, open source note-taking and to-do application available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, with a terminal app also offered. Its documentation describes Joplin as "offline...
Workflowy
Workflowy is a tool for organizing notes and work as one nested list of bullets, which its API reference calls an outline. Its homepage tells users to "Indent bullets to create order, keeping you...
Reddit for Startups
Reddit for Startups is the use of Reddit by startups for marketing.
TiddlyWiki
TiddlyWiki is an open-source notebook that its project site describes as "a unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising and sharing complex information." Its official GitHub README calls it...
Reddit Marketing Automation
Reddit Marketing Automation is the use of software to automate parts of marketing on Reddit.
Reddit vs. LinkedIn for B2B
Reddit vs. LinkedIn for B2B compares Reddit and LinkedIn as channels for business-to-business marketing.
SiYuan
SiYuan is an open-source, local-first note-taking app for personal knowledge management, built around Markdown editing, block references, bidirectional links, databases and multi-device sync. Its...
Notesnook
Notesnook is a free and open-source note-taking app focused on user privacy and ease of use, available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and the web. It is developed, supported and funded by...
Athens Research
Athens Research was an open-source, collaborative knowledge graph application, as its official GitHub repository describes it. The repository's README says Athens "helps teams capture and synthesize...
Dynalist
Dynalist is what its homepage calls an outlining app, a place where ideas are "captured, fleshed out, and realized." Its download page offers apps for Windows, macOS and Linux, with the Windows app...
AppFlowy
AppFlowy is an AI workspace that brings projects, wikis and teams together. Its repository README describes it as "the AI workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data." The...
Reddit's Independent Agency Program
Reddit's Independent Agency Program is a partnership program, expanded on April 13, 2023, that gives independent advertising agencies commercial and strategic benefits Reddit typically reserved for...
Reddit Overtakes TikTok
Reddit Overtakes TikTok refers to Ofcom's finding that Reddit passed TikTok to become the fourth most-visited social media service in the UK, reaching 60% of UK online adults in May 2025. Ofcom, the...
Reddit's Data Licensing Deals
Reddit's Data Licensing Deals are commercial agreements under which AI companies, including Google and OpenAI, pay for structured access to Reddit content through Reddit's Data API. Google announced...
Shopping Product Experience (Reddit)
Shopping Product Experience (Reddit) is Reddit's test of AI-powered product discovery in its search and conversations, announced February 19, 2026, which pairs products people discuss on Reddit with...
Reddit Deprecating r/all
Reddit Deprecating r/all refers to Reddit's April 2, 2026 shutdown of r/all, the feed that displayed popular posts across all subreddits regardless of user subscriptions. Reddit's help center...
Mymind
mymind describes itself as "the extension for your mind." Its homepage opens with the line "Remember everything. Organize nothing." and states, "Folders are dead. This is your personal search...
Glasp
Glasp describes itself as a "Social Web Highlighter for Writers, Readers, and Learners." Its about page says the name is short for "Greatest Legacy Accumulated as Shared Proof" and describes the aim...
Claude Projects and Claude memory
Claude Projects and Claude memory are two Claude features: Projects are self-contained workspaces with their own chat histories and knowledge bases, and memory is saved as individual topics, with...