Editing Memex (section)

===Other features===
According to Bush, the memex would have features other than linking. The user could record new information on microfilm, by taking photos from paper or from a touch-sensitive translucent screen. A user could "...insert a comment of his own, either linking it into the main trail or joining it by a side trail to a particular item. ...Thus he builds a trail of his interest through the maze of materials available to him."{{Sfn|Bush|1945|loc=Section 7}} A user could also create a copy of an interesting trail (containing references and personal annotations) and "...pass it to his friend for insertion in his own memex, there to be linked into the more general trail."{{Sfn|Bush|1945|loc=Section 7}} 

In September 1945, [[ Life magazine|''Life'' magazine]] published an illustration by [[Alfred D. Crimi]] showing the "Memex desk". According to ''Life'' magazine, the Memex desk "would instantly bring files and material on an subject to the operator's fingertips". The mechanical core of the desk would also include "a mechanism which automatically photographs longhand notes, pictures and letters, then file them in the desk for future reference."{{sfn|Barnet|2013|p=27}}