The trap of unlimited ✍️

Or how I moved back to a free plan. I started using Mymind as a simple tool for quick retrieval. You know, save something, find it later. The free plan gave me 100 cards, which felt like enough until it wasn’t. I was saving a lot, so I upgraded to premium for unlimited cards. It was convenient. Too convenient, as it turned out. What started as a quick-access tool slowly became something else: an archive of everything. Articles I’d read. Movies I’d watched. Tools I might try someday. Quotes that felt meaningful in the moment. The collection grew, and I felt productive. Organised, even. With my search spaces. Recently, my subscription came up for renewal. My credit card had expired, and for the first time in a year, I was forced to pause and actually look at what I’d built. Over 506 cards, many saved for later. Except later never came. I went through all of them and asked myself honestly: does this still matter? I ended up keeping 60. The other 446 were dead weight. Things I’d never…