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Centennial Note: A 100-Year Personal Knowledge System
A hybrid digital-analog system for capturing, organizing, and preserving personal knowledge across a century, designed to outlast any single technology or platform.
The Attentive Room
A room-scale ambient productivity system that uses light, sound, and scent to help you focus, switch tasks, and wind down—no screens, no notifications, just your environment working with you.
ProcrastiNation: The Social Productivity Playground
A gamified, collaborative productivity platform where you and your friends turn to-do lists into shared adventures, complete with boss battles, loot drops, and a digital potluck of tasks.
FirstSteps: A Distraction-Free Productivity Coach for Absolute Beginners
A gentle, gamified productivity system that teaches complete beginners how to build focus and momentum without overwhelming them—designed by someone who remembered what it felt like to start at zero.
AquaSprint: Mission Control for Subsea Productivity
A synchronized task-rhythm platform for small crews living months in subsea habitats, blending circadian light cycles, life-support constraints, and deep-work blocks into one calm, resilient schedule.
Tactile: Open-Source Physical Task Management
A modular, open-source hardware system that uses physical tokens on a smart surface to capture and organize tasks, automatically syncing to your digital task manager.
The Weft: A Hyperlink-Rich Personal Knowledge Base Without a Single Server
A cross-platform, offline-first personal knowledge base that stores everything locally and syncs peer-to-peer only on demand—no cloud, no accounts, just your thoughts.
The Detroit Connector
A hyperlocal productivity app that turns Detroit's scatter of repurposed factory coworking spaces and informal errand networks into a single, dynamic hub for focused work and neighborhood collaboration.
Paper Mind: The Index Card Productivity System for Absolute Beginners
A zero-friction, card-based productivity system designed from scratch for people who have never used any productivity method before. No apps, no rules—just one task per card, sorted by urgency.
PocketPal: Reviving the Focused PDA
A modern e-ink personal digital assistant that brings back the focused, distraction-free productivity of the Palm Pilot, synced with today's cloud and powered by open-source software.
DayDrum: The One-Beat Daily Focus
A deliberately minimal, single-task daily practice app that replaces todo lists, calendars, and complex systems with one drum beat per day—designed for absolute beginners who feel overwhelmed by productivity culture.
Orion Protocol: A Productivity System for Deep-Space Crews
An offline-first, adaptive productivity system that keeps astronauts focused and sane during multi-year missions, using local AI to schedule tasks based on energy, mood, and criticality.