Reactions & Comments

Beyond writing your own notes, Memos supports lightweight collaboration on memos: emoji reactions, threaded comments, and user mentions. These work on any memo you can see, subject to visibility and sign-in.

Reactions

React to a memo with an emoji from the reaction selector in the memo header.

• reactions are available to signed-in users on any non-archived memo, including memos in the Explore feed
• click an emoji to add your reaction; click it again to remove it
• the set of allowed reactions is configured by admins in Settings → Memo

Reactions are a fast way to acknowledge a memo without writing a comment.

Comments

Open a memo's detail page to read and add comments.

• the write a comment button appears when you are signed in
• comments support the full Markdown editor, just like memos
• each comment is stored as its own memo nested under the parent, so it can be reacted to and linked directly
• the memo's author is notified in their inbox when a new comment is posted

Comments live on the memo's detail page rather than in the main timeline, which keeps feeds focused on top-level notes.

Mentions

Reference another user inside a memo or comment with @, for example @alice. Mentioned users receive a notification in their inbox linking back to the memo, which makes mentions useful for looping someone into a note or comment thread.

Good habits

• use reactions for quick acknowledgement and comments for anything that needs a reply
• keep comment threads on-topic with the parent memo
• mention people sparingly so notifications stay meaningful
• remember that anonymous viewers of a public or shared memo can read reactions and comments but cannot add their own