Built for researchers, Manex Hub lets you capture papers, screenshots, documents, and notes, preserve what you thought when you saved them, and return later for deeper research conversations grounded in your own archive.
Hub is the brain. iPhone is the companion. Vision Pro is the spatial layer.
Mac-first research memory · 75 free moments on Hub · No cloud · No internet required
Manex is built for research that unfolds over time. Save the source, preserve your interpretation, then come back later and keep the conversation going.
One view helps you capture and annotate source material. The other helps you return later and continue the inquiry as a research conversation.
Upload papers, screenshots, images, or PDFs. Manex reads the source material, extracts what matters, and prepares it for retrieval later.
Then add your annotation before saving it as a moment in your research graph. Each moment combines source material with your own interpretation.
Return later and ask any question in plain language. Manex retrieves the most relevant moments across your archive and responds with a grounded research conversation.
You can save that conversation as another moment, so your later questions become part of the graph too. Research in Manex does not end with retrieval. It compounds.
Vision Pro is the spatial layer for Manex Hub. It is a free client that lets you explore your research graph in immersive space while the Mac stays in charge of the actual thinking.
Manex Go for iPhone and iPad is the companion to Manex Hub. Capture moments on the move, revisit your graph away from your desk, and when you are back near your Mac it reconnects to Hub automatically.
Your papers, screenshots, notes, annotations, and research conversations stay on your devices. Manex is built for people who want better recall without giving up privacy.
One Mac becomes the Hub. Your lab, studio, or research team can return to the same archive of sources, annotations, and saved conversations without sending sensitive material to the cloud.
Get in touchPapers, screenshots, references, reading notes, and evolving questions in one private graph that gets more valuable the longer you use it.
Literature reviews, internal findings, grant drafts, and annotated source material stay on the lab's own hardware while the team's collective memory deepens.
Turn scattered documents, decks, screenshots, and notes into a shared body of understanding that can be queried and extended over time.
Competitive research, product thinking, user notes, and market documents become one private memory system instead of a scattered trail of tabs and screenshots.
One Mac runs Manex Hub and holds the shared archive of sources, annotations, and saved research conversations.
Team members connect from nearby devices, revisit the archive, ask new questions, and keep extending the same body of work.
Saved conversations become new moments, so the shared graph becomes richer every time the team comes back to it.
Manex is not just a place to store source material. It is a place to preserve interpretation, return with better questions, and save the resulting conversation back into the graph.
There is no backend, no analytics pipeline, no third-party AI service. Your team's knowledge graph lives entirely within your local network. For industries where data sovereignty isn't optional — it's the only architecture that makes sense.
Manex Hub is a standalone macOS app for researchers and serious knowledge workers. It helps you capture papers, screenshots, documents, and notes as moments, preserve what you thought when you saved them, and return later for source-grounded research conversations. No internet connection is required for the core workflow.
Manex is built around moments. A moment can be a saved paper, screenshot, PDF, note, or even a later research conversation. That means Manex preserves not just source material, but your interpretation and the questions you return with over time.
Yes. When you return to your archive and have a research conversation in Manex, that conversation can itself be saved as a new moment. This is how the graph deepens: source material, your first interpretation, later questions, and later answers all become part of the record.
Never. Your papers, screenshots, notes, annotations, and saved conversations stay on your hardware. There is no backend server, no analytics pipeline, and no third-party AI service receiving your research material.
Images: PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, WebP. PDFs: both text-based and scanned. That makes Manex a good fit for papers, article screenshots, diagrams, whiteboards, and visual research notes.
The Manex Vision Pro app is a free spatial client for Hub. When your Vision Pro and Mac are on the same local network, the headset connects to Hub automatically. The Mac remains the brain, while Vision Pro becomes a spatial way to explore your research graph.
Manex is a portmanteau. Part of it nods quietly to Vannevar Bush's 1945 concept of the Memex — a vision of a machine that could store and associate human knowledge the way the mind does. The rest draws from ancient traditions in which commentary on a subject was considered as valuable as the subject itself. The name carries both ideas: associative memory and the primacy of the annotator's perspective.