After serious reflection and discussions with users we decided to change the way of who is allowed to see Items in your public Sets. However, in contrast to well known social networks our privacy rules are not loosened.They are getting stricter instead – for giving you more safety that you’re not publishing information that you wanted to be kept secret.

Question: What has changed?
Answer: Until today, all of the items in your public Sets have been made public as well – and therefore been visible for everyone. From today on, you have to decide for each Item whether you want to have it visible for your eyes only (default), for anyone (public) or for your friends. When moving a private Item into a public Set – for example by mistake – it will still be kept private.

Q: How can I share Items with other people?
A: Sharing Items with other people is still possible. Just click on the “Permissions” menu for seeing your options. Select one of “private”, “public” or “friends”.

Q: How do I see if I have public Sets?
A: Click on “Manage” on the side of your Sets list for opening the Sets management view. The color code on the right tells you who is able to see the Set. If the icon is green, the Set is public. Yellow indicates that your friends can see the Set. And finally, red Sets are only visible by you.

Q: What do other users see if I make a Set public?
A: With today’s change, there is no effect on the Items inside a Set anymore if you make a Set public. What still happens is that public Sets are listed in your collection and can be seen by any user (Example). Use this if you want your data to become discoverable and browsable.

Q: I want to share all my Items with everyone and do not feel like changing the permission level every time. How do I do that?
A: If you use the bookmarklet for saving items, your settings (selected Set and permission level) will be remembered for further use.

Q: Why are you doing this?
A: Each Memonic user shall decide which of her/his Items are shared and which ones are not. The previous implementation left room for unintended publication, for example by simply moving an Item into a wrong Set. As we are respecting the user’s privacy are constantly trying to eliminate side-effects that could lead to private data being published by mistake.

We hope that you agree with our decision and continue to use Memonic and keep the essential of the Web – for yourself, your friends or everyone.