Beyond Beautiful Interfaces: From MyMind to Fabric

After years of using MyMind and recently experimenting with Fabric in parallel, I’ve decided to fully migrate all my bookmarks, design inspiration, and random findings into Fabric. This wasn’t an easy choice — MyMind’s beautiful interface has been a joy to use, but several factors tipped the scales in Fabric’s favor.

Development Pace and User Engagement

While Fabric is still in its early stages and admittedly has some rough edges, its rapid development pace and innovation trajectory are impressive. The founder’s active involvement in their Discord community adds a personal touch and suggests a strong commitment to user feedback. This stands in stark contrast to MyMind, where development has been notably slower, with longstanding bugs, particularly in the iOS app, remaining unaddressed.

Search and Organization

Fabric has been reliably giving me better search results, despite having stored more data. MyMind, on the other hand, which often returns noisy results with relevant items buried deep down. The ability to search within specific Spaces using filters is particularly valuable.

Speaking of Spaces, this is an another area where Fabric outperforms MyMind. MyMind’s implementation of Spaces feels half-baked at best — you can’t search within a space, rename it, adjust the smart space filters, or change the order of spaces. With Fabric, when inside a space, I can quickly search and filter to find exactly what I’m looking for.

To do that, I do have to put certain things in certain spaces in the first place. I came to recognize that I actually like this minimal friction to decide what type of information something is.

AI Integration and Smart Features

Fabric’s AI integration is particularly impressive. You can query specific items, collections, or your entire database with AI-powered context awareness.

Asking the Fabric Assistant about the topic of non-dual mindfulness and safe its results as a new note

The “Name this for me“ feature, which automatically generates titles for text notes, images, and PDFs, has become an indispensable part of my workflow.

The web clipper is another thoughtful implementation, showing whether a URL is already saved and displaying any existing comments about that URL. I like being able to “annotate everything on the web” and have it come up when I visit the same URL again.

While MyMind’s “Same Vibe” feature is visually stunning, Fabric’s “Similar Content” feature, while not as beautiful to looks at, proves very practical in its own right, comparing not just images but also bookmarks and other file types.

Additional Conveniences

Some other features that have enhanced my experience with Fabric include:

• Weekly recap emails that summarize my saved content
• Richer formatting options in notes, including image support
• A basic but promising voice notes feature that preserves both audio and transcription

Getting out

The export functionality in Fabric is notably superior to MyMind’s approach. You can:

• Export selectively (by space/folder) or everything at once
• Preserve subfolder structures
• Export bookmarks in standard HTML format
• Maintain original file names
• Export native notes as HTML files

This contrasts sharply with MyMind’s export system, which only offers full exports with randomly named files in a flat structure.

What I Do Miss

Despite my switch to Fabric, there are aspects of MyMind I genuinely miss:

• The overall joy of use and polished design details
• Serendipity mode to rediscovery or discard old entries
• Full-height scrollable webpage screenshots (although it’s annoying they’re included in the Same Vibe results and excluded from export)
• Natural-language date search, e.g. Oct 2024 or last 12 days automatically turns into the correct date filters

Being on Fabric’s lifetime plan made this decision even easier for me personally. But even without the financial factor, Fabric’s momentum, practical features, and superior organization tools make it the more compelling choice for my needs.