#112 - Mem.ai: How AI is revolutionizing my note-taking

Hello, back this week to share with you the top news that caught my attention this week.

I'll start by sharing with you a little revelation that I had while using a new note-taking application.

It's called Mem and I've really had a bit of a beating since I've been using it as it goes beyond what we usually expect from a note-taking app. notes.

🤯 How AI is revolutionizing my note-taking
📉 Landline calls and text messages are collapsing in the face of new uses
🕶️ Ray-Ban improves its Facebook glasses
💥 Some news in brief

🤯 How AI is revolutionizing my note-taking

Even if I have 15 interesting examples on AI to share with you this week, I will just share with you my revelation following the use of Mem.AI, a note-taking application released a few years ago but which made a big splash by integrating AI in a unique way.

Good incidentally Open AI is one of Mem's main investors.

Even if Mem is not the first note-taking application to integrate AI (Notion has been doing this in a disappointing way for several months), this is the first time that my notes have really worked for me.

Automatic organization

First of all, Mem is able to automatically organize my notesby displaying As soon as I am on a note the related notes based on the topics covered.

Enrich the notes with AI

Then Mem is able to enrich my notes with AI in a few seconds. Summarize a note, make it into a blog article or a Twitter thread.

I often use it to summarize links that I have saved like here:

We see at no time do I need to open a link

Query your notes like ChatGPT

Finally and this is certainly the craziest, Mem transforms my notes into a knowledge base.

Concretely this means that I can ask questions to my notes as I would with ChatGPT.

Here I ask Mem to summarize my last meetings for me

There I ask it for information on a note, it displays the answer and the source note

Since I have been taking notes this is the first time where I am certain that they will be useful when I need them, regardless of my note-taking method.

It's a revolution for me and I won't be surprised if we see similar features appearing in the different note applications.

The bad news: You have to use the $8/month version of Mem.ai to be able to exploit the AI features.

Personally I went for it as such an approach changes everything.

We talk about it in more detail in the last episode of our Podcast👇:

📉 landline calls and SMS are collapsing in the face of new uses

A new survey by Arcep (the telecoms regulator in France) has just come across the evolution of calls and SMS sent each month.

We returned in 2022 to an average of 118 SMS sent/month, i.e. the 2009 level.

The situation is more nuanced on calls since the duration of mobile calls is increasing but this is explained by a collapse in landline calls.

Data from the Electronic Communications Observatory 2022 © Arcep

Let us point out that these figures do not take into account messages and calls sent from mobile applications such as Whatsapp or Facetime.

And with the rise of new modes of communication such as the famous voice messages, in the end it is difficult to draw any lessons from them other than the shift in the means of conversations to closed protocols held by companies.

Besides, if the subject of voice messages interests you, I recommend listening to our podcast on voice messages.

🕶️ Ray-Ban improves its Facebook glasses

Last year Ray-Ban released a range of connected glasses in partnership with Facebook: the Ray-Ban Stories.

Several good ideas in this product:

Taking inspiration from Ray-Ban's best sellers rather than introducing a new model
A list of simple but well-executed features (listen to music, take photos and videos)
A charging case similar to Airpods (so you never find yourself plugging in your glasses via USB😅)

I have been using these glasses for about 1 year and the least we can say is that they are excellent for taking videos when your hands are busy by controlling them by voice.

Good news Ray-Ban continues to evolve its product since a big update was deployed this week last.

On the program:

The integration of Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger
Reading and writing messages on these platforms
The possibility of taking or rejecting a call by voice
Better audio quality for music or calls

It's always interesting to see "gadget" products like these glasses being maintained several months after their launch.

Personally I'm taking advantage of this update (and especially the return of the sun) to update my Ray-Ban Stories.

💥 In brief

Some news in brief to share with you

Tencent, the Chinese technology giant, has launched its fWeChat Palm payment function in Beijing, which allows users to pay on the subway by scanning their palm.
The fascinating phenomenon of YouTube videos deliberately empty and incredibly long like a 24-hour black screen
How to annoy Queen B (yes I'm talking about Beyonce)?
Photoshop integrates a generative AI to retouch and transform your images with a simple prompt. Some of the results are crazy like the removal of surgical masks from these images.
AudioPen.Ai: the intelligent dictaphone summarizes your audio notes into perfectly usable text. Well it translates my words into English but it works incredibly well. You can test for 3 minutes without registering.
The official ChatGPT application that I told you about last week is finally available in France. Very practical all the same to be able to do your research by voice dictation.

And that's it for this week!
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