The trap of unlimited ✍️
Or how I moved back to a free plan.
I started using Mymind as a simple tool for quick retrieval. You know, save something, find it later. The free plan gave me 100 cards, which felt like enough until it wasn’t. I was saving a lot, so I upgraded to premium for unlimited cards. It was convenient. Too convenient, as it turned out.
What started as a quick-access tool slowly became something else: an archive of everything. Articles I’d read. Movies I’d watched. Tools I might try someday. Quotes that felt meaningful in the moment. The collection grew, and I felt productive. Organised, even. With my search spaces.
Recently, my subscription came up for renewal. My credit card had expired, and for the first time in a year, I was forced to pause and actually look at what I’d built. Over 506 cards, many saved for later. Except later never came. I went through all of them and asked myself honestly: does this still matter? I ended up keeping 60. The other 446 were dead weight. Things I’d never returned to.
It reminded me of an article by Joan Westenberg, where she deleted her entire second brain. 10,000 notes, 7 years of ideas, every thought she’d ever tried to save. When I first read it, I thought it was a bit dramatic. Now I get it completely.
Unlimited is a trap. It’s like having a big house: the more room you have, the more you start filling it. You don’t notice how much useless stuff you’ve accumulated until you’re forced to move. But in a small house, you constantly reassess. Every new thing that comes in means deciding what’s worth keeping.
So, here I am, back on the free plan. 100 cards. And honestly, that’s probably more than I need.
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