memo.link is a free web service that turns long or forgettable URLs into memorable, named addresses people can type, say or scan.
Claim your name
Free to use.
is yours for the next 15 minutes.
Register to keep it. Nobody else can take it in the meantime.
Register and keep itA link like this
events.example.com/session?id=58392&ref=speakerbecomes this
maria.memo.link/slidesThe idea
A named link replaces an address that’s difficult to remember with words that mean something to you and the people you share it with.
The link still works in a browser like any other address. It just looks like something a person might remember.
Three steps
Your memo.link name is your namespace.
Add a word for the thing you want to share.
Type it, say it, print it or use its QR code.
On your computer
memo.link has a free browser extension for Chrome and other Chromium browsers — Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, Arc. It is for computers: phones and tablets cannot install browser extensions.
Click the icon and memo.link proposes an address built from the page’s own title. The words arrive as chips you can switch off or drag into the order you would say them in — or type a name of your own, with the same rules the site uses.
One press makes the address, puts it on your clipboard and shows its QR code. The keyboard shortcut skips even that.
Open it on a page you have captured before and it shows the address you already made, instead of quietly making a second.
Three permissions and one address — your own memo.link account. It reads no page content, injects nothing, and reaches no other site.
Why
Share maria.memo.link/slides aloud without reading out a string of random characters.
Someone can enter the address directly instead of finding the message, post or slide where they first saw it.
Every memo can have a QR code that points to the same named address.
Meaningful words give people something to remember when the original link is no longer in front of them.
Underneath your name
Keep maria.memo.link/talk while changing where it leads.
Before an event it can lead to the programme. During it, the livestream. Afterwards, the recording.
If someone gets close to one of your published memo.link addresses, memo.link can offer the memo they probably meant instead of leaving them at a dead end.
maria.memo.link/slide Did you mean maria.memo.link/slides?
Every memo comes with a QR code. Put the code and its address together and people get two ways in: scan the code now, or type the words later.
maria.memo.link/, your main address is a simple page containing the memos you choose to publish.
Examples, not segments
Share maria.memo.link/slides aloud, put it on a slide, or leave it on screen for people to type later.
Use one memorable event address before, during and after the event while changing the destination behind it.
Put a readable address next to a QR code on a menu, window, counter or flyer.
Use an address that still makes sense when someone does not scan the code immediately.
Give participants one named address for notes, resources or follow-up material.
Give the thing you are reading a name you will recognise in six months, while it is still in front of you.
Analytics
memo.link counts how often a memo is reached without storing a visitor-level event history.
You can see counts such as scans, typed visits, tagged QR placements and when a memo was last used, without building a profile of the person behind the number.
Category
Traditional URL shorteners mainly make long URLs compact enough to click and share. memo.link is designed to give links meaningful names that can also be remembered, spoken and typed.
A QR code gives someone something to scan. memo.link gives the same destination both a QR code and a readable address, so people can scan it now or type it later.
A memo.link name can have a profile page, but individual links also have their own addresses such as maria.memo.link/menu.
Questions
memo.link is a free web service for creating memorable, named links. You claim a namespace such as maria.memo.link and create addresses such as maria.memo.link/slides.
A named link is a web address that uses meaningful words instead of an arbitrary code, making it easier to recognize, remember, type or say.
memo.link is currently free to use.
No. Your links use a memo.link address such as maria.memo.link/slides.
Yes. You can change the destination behind a memo without changing its memo.link address.
Yes. A memo can use scheduled destinations so the same address can lead somewhere different at different times.
Yes. Every memo can have a QR code corresponding to the same named address.
Yes. memo.link has a free extension for Chrome and other Chromium browsers such as Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Opera and Arc. It names the page you are on without leaving it. You need a memo.link account, and a computer — phones and tablets cannot install browser extensions.
No. Everything the extension does can be done on the site. It saves you copying the address and pasting it in.
If they get close to one of the published addresses in your namespace, memo.link can offer the memo they probably meant.
memo.link uses counters rather than visitor-level event histories. Public memo pages do not use visitor cookies, third-party analytics scripts or retargeting pixels.
memo.link can make a long destination easier to share, but its main purpose is to give links meaningful names that people can remember, type, say or scan.
Yes. Your root memo.link address can show the memos you choose to publish.