LoginSign Up
← Back to all sparks
M

Memos

COLLAB
Velocity7.5

Lightweight self-hosted note-taking and memo hub.

usememos.com ↗

Memos is turning a personal note store into an agent-addressable, private-by-default service

note-takingself-hostedmcpbreaking-changesaccess-control
◆Current state
The release candidates in this window carry unusually heavy changes for a self-hosted note app: an embedded MCP endpoint exposing memo CRUD, comments, attachments and tags to AI clients; live updates over server-sent events; revocable share links; and a browser Web Clipper for saving pages and selections as Markdown. A parallel candidate makes instances without an explicit instance URL run in private mode and rewrites filters onto CEL timestamps.
◆Where it's heading
Two directions are converging. One is machine access — MCP moved from a stateful server with prompts and resources to a stateless, tools-only endpoint generated from the OpenAPI schema, which is a deliberate narrowing toward something agents can call reliably. The other is defaults that assume the instance is private until an admin says otherwise. Together they reposition Memos from a personal web app to a small API-shaped service with a human UI on top.
◆Prediction
Expect the MCP surface to stabilise against the OpenAPI schema as the source of truth and the private-by-default posture to carry into a general release, with clients that relied on prompts, resources or unprefixed tool names needing to migrate.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3d ago

    Embedded MCP endpoint, live SSE updates, and revocable share links

    ⚡ SPARK

    The release that makes Memos addressable by AI clients in-process rather than through an external bridge, while adding real-time updates and share links. It is the clearest expression of the shift from note app to service described in the trajectory above.

    View source ↗
  2. 9d ago

    Memos Web Clipper and a redesigned memo detail rail

    A Chrome and Firefox extension for saving pages, selections and images as Markdown, plus a reworked memo detail sidebar and expanded access-token settings. It widens the capture path into Memos without changing the underlying model.

    View source ↗
  3. 15d ago

    Private by default, CEL time filters, and a stateless MCP endpoint

    ⚡ SPARK

    A breaking candidate that flips unconfigured instances to private mode, moves filters to CEL timestamp expressions, and strips MCP down to a stateless tools-only endpoint. It sets the access-control and machine-interface posture the rest of this window builds on.

    View source ↗
  4. 3mo ago

    Mentions, voice recording, and Live Photo attachments

    Adds @username mentions, voice recording, and Live and Motion Photo attachment support. Solid capture-side additions from earlier in the cycle, before the MCP and access-control work took over.

    View source ↗