04/06/2026
What inspired the idea of MemPalace is that I realized after months of meticulous filing, AI is just not great at finding things, even if you keep the best files. Every system out there still has it using keywords to search through and that’s really clunky and messy in my opinion.
In the end, your folder is like a huge warehouse and all those files are akin to a pile of junk with dates and names on it, so you’re still having to do these archaic word searches across thousands of documents and in the end, probably not even finding exactly what you were looking for.
Which gave me an idea. I wanted to create a new way to make filing and retrieving more intuitive.
I had read a lot about how Ancient Greeks memorized long speeches and how the most famous memory masters are able to remember up to 70k decimal places of the number Pie. I felt like we should be able to give AI the ability to remember information in a more “organic” way.
And how this was achieved was through what experts call a “Memory Palace”. Ben and I discussed it and thought “Why not create a virtual Memory Palace?”I mean at that point anything would be better than a warehouse full of junk.I came up with the architecture which is fairly logical: splitting the big, open space into different rooms.
This took me months of making many mistakes and starting from scratch (and with almost 1k docs, I’m sure anyone can relate how frustrating it got), but in the end, it was worth it. Because out of all that research and various blueprints that didn’t work, I finally managed to create the architecture and Ben engineered and “fine tuned”, that brought our “MemPalace” to life. Click the link in my bio and check out the MemPalace GitHub for free today!
