A new app called Weavit wants to be a "Shazam for your thoughts", that is, it wants to offer people a different way to quickly capture their thoughts in a note-taking tool with a press of a button, which are then matched to other content in a broader You can link your notes to your contacts, meetings, topics, and other weblinks without having to organize them in a more structured way.
The startup believes that this is similar to how your brain works.
Komal Narwani, co-founder of Weavit, says that "every thought that we have in our mind, sometimes, is completely unstructured and simply does not fit within an existing note that we have." You want the machine to do the organization for you, so you can surface that information at a later stage and have it all neatly organized.
To use the app, you can either type or dictate what you want to do.
The app uses natural language processing to link items in a note to people, places, events and other topics. For instance, if you wrote down the name of the person you met at the event, it would be linked to other content where the name "CES" was also included. Weavit connects to over 60 million Wikimedia topics to aid in these sorts of connections. The person in your note could be linked to your company, past locations, and more.
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It's easier for people to build on their own knowledge with this automated form of linking. Users will be able to make more manual connections using the common tools, like the # or the mention.
Lefort came up with the idea for the note-taking app while working at a bank. The sales staff at the bank were not able to take advantage of the information in people's personal networks to sell financial products to their clients. He thought it would be interesting if there was a way to connect information automatically without having to enter it manually.
Weavit isn't yet at the stage of connecting its users' content to others across a distributed network of some kind, but that is more of a long-term goal.
Everything recorded in the Weavit app is private. We are told that the data is also secure.
Weavit is only available to users with an access code, as the startup is still in the early stages of testing.
The code "braincrunch" can be used to try the app.
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Weavit could fill a niche by being a more accessible app, as well as other tools that are similar to graph databases, like Roam Research or Obsidian, which are Markdown-based knowledge management tools. Productivity apps are more complicated to adopt for everyday users who aren't as technical. Weavit could be used by anyone for notes about their work or their research, but also for organizing everyday bits of information, like movie recommendations, the names of your kids' teachers, or websites on a particular subject.
The startup raised a $1.25 million seed round in 2020 and is a team of six full-time employees.
The app was retooled and relaunched in December of 2021, based on user feedback. The live version of the app is a few weeks old. The new version of Weavit gained 1,500 sign-ups in its first ten days on the App Store, according to the company.
The Weavit team is working on a web app and will soon launch a Chrome extension for capturing images and web pages while browsing, to make Weavit capable of collecting content from the web, not just your own thoughts, ideas and inspiration. There is an app on the phone.
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