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Phongsak Yuhun is lecturer in Departement of Agricultural Science at a University in Thailanda and an avid Memonic user. We recently had the chance to talk to him and ask him, well, three questions:

Question: You're a Memonic user right from start. Why?

Phongsak: I have a habit of collecting information from web pages that I am interested in for my future research. Before Memonic, I had been using Google Notebook but Google stopped doing more work on it and I found Memonic offering similar service with some extra convenient features. I like the idea of keeping my data on the Internet so I can access them from anywhere. It may be a good idea if you can also allow us to keep other files in your servers.

Q: What do you dislike about Memonic and yet you keep using the service?

Phongsak: May be the fee charged and the uncertainty whether Memonic will expire before me. May I also suggest a button that allow me to enter my personal notes to save instead of contents from the web page, and a drop-down menu for selecting my folders before saving. This will save me time from actually going into my Memonic account to do it.

Q: How does Memonic compare to Google?

Phongsak: It does help with my other activities by provinding immediately relevant information I need instead of Googling every time I need information.

Marc works for local.ch, Switzerland's leading local search engine and needs to do a lot of web research for his job. We got the chance to talk to him the other day and asked him three questions:

Question: You're a Memonic user right from start. Why?

Marc: It's part of my job to be up-to-date with online- and mobile-trends. Browsing through the news-channels I discover a lot of valuable information like products (e.g. newspaper articles, press releases, blogs, tweets, videos), figures (e.g. market shares, market potentials) or best-practices (e.g. videos, interviews, blogs, market research reports).

Before Memonic I just saved the link with del.icio.us with the challenge that the information was not searchable or just disappeared after some time. Memonic helps me to store and find all my relevant web-information easily within seconds, which safes me a lot of time.

Q: What do you dislike about Memonic and yet you keep using the service?

Marc: The integration of "sharing" and "working in groups" came a bit late. I'm now basically used to work with Memonic by my own - and used other tools to work in groups. But I'll give it a try :-)

Q: How does Memonic compare to reading?

Marc: Memonic helps me to not only to store - but also to recommend interesting articles. Years ago I had to take a hard-copy of a book-page or an article and then to send it to my friends and work-mates. Now I simply save an interesting read from the Web on memonic and share it on Facebook, Twitter or by email with people. It's not only more efficient, i also profit from a lot more feedback and emerging discussions on private and business reads. And this is really a broadening experience, kind of a "big virtual reader circle".

Helene works as web designer and developer and writes about her discoveries, thoughts and much more on her blog. We recently asked her a few questions:

Question: To warm up: You're a Memonic user right from start. Why?

Helene: Because I was excited about Memonic right from start. I used to spend a lot of time to copy/paste various articles, posts, webpages, etc. into a word document in order to keep the valuable information. Sadly I never really looked at most of these clips because I lost an awful lot of time to find them again. Finally, I can collect all my items, safely store them in one place, and organize them in a nifty way. 

Q: What do you dislike about Memonic and yet you keep using the service?

Helene: That I can't clip and save all webpages yet. There are still plenty of websites employing frames that I can't clip. Also you can't save PDFs (Note of the editor: Since yesterday you can). I'm a bit bemused when clicking in bookmarklet bar on inbox to immediately leave the page. Can't that be fixed technically?

Q: How does Memonic compare with casual browsing?

Helene: I love browsing the web and casually collect news and reports all through the web as source material for my own blog. Memonic is a huge help! Quite simply I can collect items found and include them in my next blog post. That's making research real fun! Big thanks to the Memonic Team!

Joel is a software developer at liip, a web consultancy here in Zurich. He is a Memonic user right from start. We recently asked him a few questions:

Question: To warm up we asked: Why do you use Memonic?

Joel: I'm a Memonic user by discipline. I try to teach myself to use it because it solves a problem we got used to and we shouldn't have.

If I buy a nice tshirt and place it in my cupboard at home I really expect it will still be there a month later. On the web it's different. I won't really freak out if that page I found some weeks earlier is not online anymore. That's actually crazy if think about it. And no one's really complaining. It became normal. Memomic provides me the tool go around that problem. Saving stuff to my own space, organizing it and make sure it'll be there whenever I need it.

Q: Surely there are plenty of things that you don't like about Memonic?

Joel: What I don't like with Memonic is that I don't use it for everything I should. I guess I still haven't really realized all the benefits of collecting my stuff for the amount of work it requires to save and organise it. But I use it because a such great team like yours has certainly lots of ideas for features to motivate me using it even more.

Q: To conclude: What has cooking and Memonic in common - or not?

Joel: I would compare : the capturing tool to the kitchenware the items to the recipes to use again and again the sharing collections to inviting friends for tasting your dishes the items editing to your the own touch you add to given recipes the items organizations to our freedom of mixing dishes the mobile access to.... ok that's harder... so I guess this is what's different with cooking. There's no app for using your mobile phone as a stove. Not yet.

Thanks Joel!