Install
The extension is built for Chrome and works on every Chromium-based browser (Brave, Arc, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi).1
Open the Chrome Web Store listing
On a Chrome-based browser without the extension, the top of your Inspirations page offers Add to Chrome, which opens the listing. You can also search for Memo — Inspiration Board Capture in the Chrome Web Store.
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Click Add to Chrome
Confirm the permissions dialog. The extension needs broad host permissions because the whole point is capturing from any site you visit — but it only reads pages when you explicitly invoke it.
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Pin the icon
Open the puzzle-piece menu in your browser toolbar and pin Memo so it’s always one click away.
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Sign in
Open app.memo.solutions and sign in (or sign up) once. The extension reads your session cookie automatically — there’s no separate API key or credentials to copy.
Capture from the page or toolbar
Capture panel — hover a large image or video and click the Memo icon, or click Memo in the browser toolbar. Both open the same panel and use the same capture process. Preview the reference, choose your workspace and an optional collection, then click Save to board. For videos, Include clip is selected by default. Downloadable clips preview as muted loops; reduced motion keeps them still. If only a decoded frame or cover is available, the preview shows that instead.Save several references together
Open the capture panel from either icon and choose Select more references. Your first reference is selected already. Click other images or posts on the same page to add them; click a selected post again, or its row in the panel, to remove it. You can scroll to select more, up to 20 references at once. Choose one workspace and optional collection, then click Save N references. Each reference becomes a separate inspiration with its own source. A supported Instagram or X carousel stays together inside its own inspiration; selecting several pins does not merge them into a carousel. References queued means the selection has been stored for background saving. You can close the panel or source tab; the extension badge shows how many saves are still pending. Temporary upload or collection errors retry automatically. A full queue or permission error keeps your selection in the panel. A source that cannot be read must be removed before saving the rest. The panel stays open when you click elsewhere. After saving, choose Add more references to start a new selection without reopening it. Press Escape or Close to dismiss it; unsaved selections are then discarded. This selects references from the current page, not across tabs. Whole-post completeness still depends on the source exposing its media; a visible pin or image does not certify hidden carousel slides. Screenshot and crop tools — choose the … button in the capture panel. These tools open in a browser popup for region capture and manual element selection. The popup is also used for right-click captures and pages where the in-page panel is unavailable. Right-click — context menu shortcuts on images, links, and the page itself:- Add Image to Memo on any image
- Add Link to Memo on any link
- Add Page to Memo on the page background
Cmd+Shift+M on Mac, Ctrl+Shift+M on Windows or Linux. Opens Memo for the current page, using the same capture panel where available.
What the extension captures
- Images from the page (PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP — SVGs are converted to PNG on save)
- YouTube and Vimeo thumbnails (auto-detected)
- Region screenshots — drag a box around any part of the page
- The link itself, with the page title and source URL attached automatically
Whole posts and motion
Open the source post, then open Memo’s capture panel. When Memo can read the complete post, all its slides are selected together. Save once to keep them as one inspiration, in their original order. The viewer provides thumbnails, arrows, keyboard navigation and touch gestures. Carousel clips loop without a native video toolbar; reduced-motion users can start playback explicitly.
A missing slide stays in its position and is marked incomplete. New Instagram captures keep unavailable videos pending for retry rather than saving their covers as successful videos. Older captures, and frame fallbacks on other sites, may show Preview only. These states never count as a complete save. Private posts, expired sources and site changes can prevent capture; keep access to the original post while saving.
What you don’t have to fill in
Title, description, and source URL are populated from the page you’re on. After save, Memo’s AI rewrites the title and description into a clean 5–8 word title and a 1–2 sentence summary so your library reads consistently. You only choose what to capture, which tags to apply, and which workspace to send it to.Switching workspaces
The popup has a workspace dropdown. The extension remembers your last choice and uses it as the default for the next capture. If you don’t have edit access to the selected workspace, the Add to Board button is disabled and the popup explains why.Privacy at a glance
- Capture requests go to Memo and the source website or its media servers. Instagram recovery uses your existing Instagram session; your Instagram cookies are not sent to Memo. The extension adds no third-party trackers or ad networks.
- The element-picker overlay is only injected when you click Click to Select Element. It doesn’t run while you browse.
- Your auth token is stored locally in
chrome.storage.local, isolated to the extension’s origin, and cleared when you sign out from the popup or uninstall the extension.
Troubleshooting
A reference preview is blank or unavailable. The hover panel tries the image displayed on the page when its larger image URL fails. Videos use a decoded frame or their cover image. If the site prevents both, the panel says Preview unavailable. You can still try saving. This message describes the preview only: wait for the save result to confirm whether the image, clip, or a fallback frame reached your board. If an older extension shows a broken-image icon, update it and refresh the source page. For a remaining problem, include the page URL and a screenshot in your support report. The extension button is greyed out. You’re probably signed out. Click the extension icon and sign back in via app.memo.solutions. The keyboard shortcut doesn’t work. Another extension may have the same shortcut. Openchrome://extensions/shortcuts and reassign Memo to a free combination.
Right-click menu doesn’t show “Add to Memo”.
Refresh the page once after installing — the context menu only attaches on pages loaded after the extension is enabled.
I get a “permission denied” message.
You’re trying to save into a workspace where your role is viewer. Either switch workspaces in the popup, or ask an admin to upgrade your role.
The popup says my session expired.
Browser cookies were cleared or your session timed out. Open app.memo.solutions, sign back in, and the popup will pick up the new session automatically.
It says “Upload limit reached” and the save is queued.
Your plan allows a set number of uploads per hour (20 on Free). The save is kept, not lost: the extension retries it on its own once the limit resets, and the badge on the Memo icon shows how many saves are waiting.
It says “Taking too long — check your board in a moment”.
A large selection can take longer than the panel waits. The extension keeps saving in the background, so check your board before saving the same items again.
One slide is missing.
Leave the extension enabled. Pending captures retry automatically, including after a browser restart or extension update, and successful slides are reused. A retry updates the same post. If a known carousel initially exposed only some slides, a later complete media response can fill the missing slots while reusing successful uploads. If the source remains unavailable after the retries, Memo retains the successful slides and reports the incomplete result. Open the source to try again. An older still-only save needs a new capture of its original source to recover motion.
The floating icon and toolbar look different after an update.
The extension refreshes its floating controls in already-open pages after an update. If an older tab still shows stale controls, refresh that source page. When testing an unpacked build, disable the store copy so only one Memo extension is enabled.