Notes · Flashcards · Spaced repetition
The notes you take here quiz you back.quiz you back.
Type or handwrite them, record a lecture, or drop in a PDF. Mento turns them into flashcards and brings them back before you forget.
"You save notes in three different apps. You never look at them again. That's not a you problem — it's a tool problem."
How it works
Write it once. It comes back as a question.
Turning notes into questions is the chore everyone skips. Mento does that part for you.
Before they evaporate. The friction between a thought and the app is the point of failure — so Mento removes it.
Other apps stop at the note.
Where it breaks
Notes in one app, cards in another.
Most tools do one part well and leave you the handoff. That handoff is the first thing to go in a busy week, and it's why saved notes turn into graveyards.
Built-in features as of September 2026. ~ = partial, or via plugins.
Why it works
Structure is recall.
Your brain doesn't store isolated facts — it stores relationships. When every card lives inside a Topic, inside a Space, alongside its source material, the organizational structure itself becomes a retrieval cue.
Most note apps — one flat list
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Flat flashcard decks work for vocabulary. But for complex material — organ systems, legal doctrines, programming concepts — you need structure that reflects the relationships between ideas. Mento doesn't just store your notes. It gives them an architecture that makes retrieval natural.
Your AI toolkit
AI that works with your notes.
Not a chatbot. One AI layer that generates, refines, and organizes your material — automatically.
Any source → structured cards.
Feed a PDF chapter, a page of notes, or a whole topic to an AI Flow — a multi-step recipe — and get flashcards organized by concept, ready to review.
The Sun's gravity holds the planets in elliptical orbits, with the rocky inner worlds circling far faster than the distant gas giants…
Make cardsWhat holds the planets in orbit?
Which planets are the rocky inner worlds?
Why do inner planets orbit faster?
Reusable instructions, one click.
Save your best prompts — “explain like I’m 5,” “give me a mnemonic,” “cut to one sentence” — as Snippets, and apply them to any card instantly.
The Solar System · Card
Order of the planets from the Sun?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
“My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos” — Mercury → Venus → Earth → …
Start at the Sun and walk outward: four small rocky planets first, then the four giant gas ones.
AI files and connects.
Dump ideas into your inbox without deciding where they go. AI sorts each into the right space and topic, and tags cut across the hierarchy so related cards study together.
Solar System
in Astronomy
Contract Law
in Law School
French Revolution
in European History
#planets links 2 cards across different topics
Who it's for
Anyone who collects more than they can hold.
Put the loop to work from day one.
Med students & boards prep
From a 40-page PDF to exam-ready cards
Drop a pathology chapter into Mento, highlight as you read, and generate flashcards organized by system. Daily practice keeps resurfacing the ones you miss — until you don't.
Learn more →Law students & bar prep
Outlines that turn into testable questions
Build your Negligence outline in sections — duty, breach, causation, damages — then turn every element into cards and drill MBE subjects with spaced repetition that tracks your weak spots.
Learn more →Self-learners & second brain
Capture everywhere, remember for real
Send book quotes, podcast ideas, and screenshots into your Inbox. AI files them into the right space, and adaptive review makes sure the good parts still come to mind next month.
Learn more →The payoff
Everything you save comes back as questions.
Daily practice pulls due cards from every space and brings back the ones you miss sooner. This is where the loop closes.
Mento is the notebook you wish your brain came with — the one where the things you save actually stay.
Notes you remember.
Start capturing. Find everything. Remember what matters.