Notes from the flock.
Ideas, tips and deep dives on visual thinking — and everything Mena can do to turn a blank canvas into your second brain.
One Infinite Canvas for Every Idea
Stop fighting pages and folders. Mena gives you a boundless space where notes, images, sketches and links live side by side — and stay connected the way you think.
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Mena Finds Your Topics for You
You should not have to file your own ideas. Mena reads the notes you already made and quietly surfaces the topics running through them — no folders, no tags, no queries. Open Topics and your thinking is already organised.
Watch YouTube Right on Your Canvas
A lecture, a tutorial, a talk you keep meaning to watch — paste its link into Mena and it becomes a video you can play right on the canvas, sitting next to the notes you take on it.
Flashcards, Generated From Your Notes
Making flashcards by hand is the chore that stops most people studying. Mena removes it: select the notes you already wrote, tap once, and it turns them into question-and-answer cards — ready to review.
See How Your Ideas Connect: The Graph View
Sometimes you want to see the shape of your thinking. The graph view turns your notes into a calm, pannable map of how every idea connects — a constellation of your own knowledge you can drift through.
Save Anything to Mena from Any App
The idea worth keeping usually shows up inside another app — a link in Safari, a paragraph in Mail, a PDF in Files, a clip in Photos. Mena lives in the share sheet, so whatever you are looking at is one tap from your canvas.
An Inbox for Your Fleeting Captures
Not every capture deserves a decision. Sometimes you just need to get the thing into Mena and sort it out later. That is what the Inbox is for — a no-questions-asked landing pad for anything you throw at it.
Bring Your Anki Decks to Mena
Switching study apps usually means abandoning years of decks. Not here. Mena imports your Anki .apkg files directly — cards, content and scheduling — so you pick up exactly where you left off.
Read PDFs and Turn Highlights into Cards
Research does not live in a folder of PDFs you never reopen. In Mena a PDF sits on the canvas as something you actually read — and every passage you highlight becomes a card on the board, right where you are thinking.
10 Creative Ways to Use Mena’s Infinite Canvas
A blank canvas can be anything. Here are ten ways people put Mena to work — from mood boards and mind maps to trip plans, reading logs and full project command centres.
Mind Maps That Connect Everything
Ideas are not lists — they are networks. Draw connections between any two elements on your canvas and watch a loose pile of thoughts become a structure you can actually reason about.
Mena for Students: A Study System That Sticks
Lecture notes, diagrams, readings and revision — scattered across five apps, they fall apart. On one canvas, they become a study system: capture in class, connect the ideas, review with flashcards.
Apple Pencil, Meet Mena
Sketch a diagram, annotate a screenshot, or just think with your hands. Mena treats ink as a native citizen of the canvas — pressure-sensitive, low-latency, and always exactly where you left it.
Capture Ideas Anywhere: Mena on iPhone
The best ideas do not wait for your desk. With Mena on iPhone, you capture the thought the second it strikes — and it is on the big canvas of your iPad by the time you sit down.
Study Smarter with FSRS Flashcards
Turn the notes already on your canvas into flashcards, then let a modern spaced-repetition engine schedule exactly what you review and when. Less cramming, more remembering.
Writing on an Infinite Canvas: Outline, Draft, Connect
Linear documents force your writing into order before you know what you think. On a canvas, scenes, arguments and fragments float freely — so you can find the structure instead of forcing it.
Your Second Brain, Synced with iCloud
Start a board on your iPad, add to it from your iPhone on the train, and find every change waiting for you. Mena syncs privately through your own iCloud — no extra account, no servers in the middle.
From Idea to Launch: Plan a Whole Project on One Canvas
Briefs, tasks, references, sketches and timelines usually live in five tools that never talk. Put them on one Mena board and your project finally has a single source of truth you can see at a glance.
Why We Built Mena
A short story about frustration with rigid note apps, a love of open canvases, and a small black crow who thinks visually — and why we think this is a better way to hold your ideas.
Organize Everything: Boards, Search & Structure in Mena
An infinite canvas is freeing — until you have fifty of them. Here is how to keep your ideas findable: a system of boards, a little visual structure, and search that gets you there fast.
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