7 reasons night-time thinkers are putting a whiteboard in their wallet

Unlocking a phone at 11 PM to type a note means walking past every app on the way. MEMO is a whiteboard and nothing else — open, write, close, back to the conversation.

A notebook only works if it's there when the idea lands. Your wallet already is — on the bar, next to the keys, in your pocket. MEMO makes the thing you always carry the thing you write on.

Sleep researchers describe overnight memory as triage: the brain keeps what was rehearsed and quietly drops the rest. An idea you touched once at 11 PM is exactly what gets cleared. Writing it down is how it makes the cut.

Inside is a 6-inch whiteboard and a 0.8mm pen that clicks in magnetically. Enough room for the six words that bring the whole idea back — not a journal, a catch.

Pay for your coffee and last night's note is right there, in your own handwriting. Move it to your real list, wipe the board clean, carry on.

Terrace, couch, barstool — good ideas pick relaxed moments and bad infrastructure. MEMO works wherever your guard is down, which is exactly where the thinking happens.

MEMO won the iF Design Award 2024 and has shipped to 41 countries from the Netherlands. It holds 6 cards with RFID blocking — a real wallet that happens to save your evenings.