I’m lucky to live close enough to London that I can get there and back again in an afternoon.
My wife has wanted to visit the Tate Modern in the city for a long time.
What better time to go than for her birthday?
From the outside, the Tate Modern is an ugly block of a building. But when you’re inside, you appreciate the space straight away.
The 30 degree heat was left behind as we walked through the entrance hall.
How often do you look back at your photos?
In the gallery, you were never far away from someone trying to take a photo of a painting.
Were they really going to look at those photos again?
Will they remember the artist?
Will they understand why it sparked that interest in them?
Some people took selfies and I feel like those are the only photos they’ll ever look back on.
Our phones get filled up with photos we’ll never see again.
Save your favourites to mymind
That’s where one of my favourite apps comes in.
It’s called mymind..
I’ve been told I have a knack for finding beautiful and functional apps.
mymind now lives permanently on my laptop and phone.
It’s where I capture anything I find interesting, either on the internet or in the real world.
I took photos of my favourite pieces of art.
Then I uploaded them to mymind and let their AI do its thing.
The AI tagging lets me easily search for the photos again in the future.
For example, a search for “art” or “painting” will fetch all the images that match those terms. Without any manual tagging by me.
There’s a space for notes too.
I used the iPhone’s image-to-text function to copy the art’s description from the wall straight into the app.
Now I have my own personal art gallery.
This is what mymind looks like
This app isn’t just for collecting art. It’s for collecting everything that creates a spark of interest inside you.
Articles, memes, books, albums, notes, PDFs. You can add it all to mymind.
There’s also a lovely serendipity mode where you’re shown a selection of your saved content to decide if you want to keep or remove it.
This is a perfect way to revisit old notes.
Why bother?
So why did I save all of these pictures of art to mymind?
Like Aristotle said:
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
Aristotle
We can understand ourselves better by reflecting on the art we enjoy. And mymind is the perfect app to achieve that.
Have a look at the books you go back to again and again.
What video games do you sit down with just to soak in the atmosphere?
If we start collecting and taking note of what we enjoy, maybe we’ll learn more about ourselves in the process.
Here are my favourite pieces from the gallery that day: x.com
Thank you for reading.
