Memento (rcarmo)
Hacker ApprovedEmail search tool in AI tools
Self-hosted tool that searches and organizes email locally, with shared notes and task lists across agent sessions. One critic says it may not add much value.
Self-hosted tool that searches and organizes email locally, with shared notes and task lists across agent sessions. One critic says it may not add much value.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 92%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 11 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Runs locally, privacy-friendly
“One task list every session reads, on your machines, 10 USD an agent a month.”
Comment from 21 Oct 2026 in “Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling” “we wanted to organize email locally in a privacy-friendly way”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Memento – Self-hosted agentic search and LLM wiki over your email” Shared notes across sessions
“One task list every session reads, on your machines, 10 USD an agent a month.”
Comment from 21 Oct 2026 in “Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling” “Memento is for that kind of cross-project, long term notes.”
Comment from 13 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5”
What people said
12 of the 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“One task list every session reads, on your machines, 10 USD an agent a month.”
“Memento in chronological order was completely boring”
“It was an interesting novelty in Memento (and fit thematically) but gets old pretty quick.”
“I would appreciate Claude testers since I mostly use Codex”
“Memento is for that kind of cross-project, long term notes.”
“I think Memento is one of the most important movies for anyone working with AI to watch.”
“Memento was much more focused on the mental state of both the protagonist and audience, and in that sense was a better dramatic film”
“they explore the thematic, cinematic, and psychological meaning of that word”
“Memento gives me a different look with a lot more features to it.”
“we wanted to organize email locally in a privacy-friendly way”
“If you're looking for a quiet single-player shard to play around with, I've enjoyed Memento.”
“It might still not add much value, but at least it would live in a separate place that is easily filtered out”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.