Why OwnMind
A private place to put things, run by the person who uses it
What we gave up, and why
Every one of these would have made the product easier to grow. None of them make it better to use.
- Folders and tags
- You already know that filing takes longer than finding. A tool that makes you maintain a taxonomy is asking for work before it returns any.
- Social features
- A public library turns private saving into a performance. Sharing would also mean moderation, ranking and a reason to keep you here, which is the opposite of the point.
- Advertising
- Ads pay for themselves by watching you. This app knows what you read, what you save and what you are researching. That is not something to hand to an ad network.
- Analytics scripts
- There are none in this application. We do not need to know which button you hovered, and neither does anyone else.
- Vanity numbers
- No user counter, no testimonial wall, no logo strip. Until there are real customers willing to be named, a made up number is just a lie with a rounded font.
- A folder-shaped mind
- Your memory is not organised by category. It is organised by resemblance, colour, mood and the situation you saved something in. The index follows that, not a folder tree.
What you actually get to keep
Your notes, links, images, tags, summaries and the connections you made between items are yours. Not licensed back to you on request, yours.
Settings has a button that exports the lot as a single JSON file. It works without asking anyone. If this service disappeared tomorrow, you would still have the text and the structure.
Deleting your account removes the account and every row attached to it. There is no retention period and no soft delete holding a second copy.
Who is behind it
OwnMind is a small independent project, based in Remote, India. It is funded by subscriptions rather than investors, which is the practical reason there is no growth target attached to your data.
If something is wrong, write to support@sriprayagclasses.in. You will get a reply from the person who wrote the code.
The trade, stated plainly
A single person running a service with no ads and no data selling still has hosting, storage and a model provider to pay for. Subscriptions are how that gets covered. There is no free tier that is engineered to become a paid one later, and no feature held back to force an upgrade.
What the paid plans add is capacity and the more expensive labelling work, not the ability to find your own notes. See the pricing page for the exact split.