ProjectsFour apps, four stages
What we are building
Here is what each one does, why you might want it, and exactly how far along it is.
01Notebook
SILONotes
A private notebook for your phone and computer, with an assistant that answers from your own notes and shows its sources.
Why you would want it
Your notes stay yours
There is no account. Your notes live on your device, and nothing leaves it until you turn on a feature that needs to. Even the update check is off until you tick it.
You can ask your own notes
Sam, the robot librarian in the app, searches on your device and answers with a numbered link to every note he used, so you can check him. In our own tests he found the right fact 95 times in 100. How we tested
Phone and computer, paired with six words
No account and no password to make up. Read six words off one device, type them into the other, and they are linked. Notes travel through a folder or a server you own.
Every checkbox can be a task
Give any checkbox in a note a due date. Tasks gathers them from every note, by day, by priority or as a board, and ticking one there ticks it in the note.
Speak it, read it, hear it
Record a thought and it is typed up, even offline with a speech model on your computer. Bring in a book as EPUB, PDF or Word, highlight it, and have it read aloud.
It looks the way you like
Six themes, or make your own in Theme Studio. Pick your text size and typeface, including OpenDyslexic, and keep separate notebooks, called SILOs, for work, health or a journal.
02Game
LOOM Engine
A tabletop roleplaying game for one, run by an AI dungeon master in worlds embroidered by hand.
Why you would want it
A table that is always ready
There is no group to gather and no night to plan around. Sit down, choose a world, and the story picks up where you left it.
A dungeon master who plays fair
Your rolls stand and the rules hold. You can try the dice on its site.
A world that remembers
It remembers every choice you make, and so does the world. Long-term campaign memory is part of the game.
Scenes stitched by hand
Every scene is an embroidered tapestry, and the tapestries move: clouds cross Daybreak, and a whale swims through the Night Sky.
03Visualizer
ADdes
A slow, luminous fractal dream engine: something beautiful to watch, alone or with music.
Why you would want it
It never repeats itself
Every dream grows from its own seed: fractal flames and strange attractors that unfold, drift and morph into one another. The same seed always grows the same dream.
It moves with your music
A drone sings in the key of the dream, or the dream tints gently with whatever music you are playing.
It will not startle you
ADdes holds itself to written limits on flashing, brightness change and speed, and tests them. The project's own ten-minute test runs recorded zero flashes; the figures and their caveats are on its site. How it is measured
On a TV, as a screensaver, or all around you
Run it full screen, as a Windows screensaver across every monitor, or in a Quest headset, where the dream wraps all the way around you.
It asks nothing of the internet
ADdes stays fully offline. There is no account, no server and nothing to sign in to.
04Health
Mend
A private health companion that runs on your own computer, for understanding your records and getting ready for the next visit.
Why you would want it
It is built for bad days first
If fog, pain or low energy make screens hard, Mend should still work: one clear next step on each screen, nothing to remember between screens, and undo wherever it is safe.
Logging how you feel takes seconds
A daily check-in is a row of taps. Each tap saves, and you can skip anything you like. Over time it shows patterns in your symptoms, labs and vitals.
Every answer shows its source
Ask Mae, the assistant, about your own records. Every medical claim in an answer is checked against your record or a published paper, and a sentence that cannot be matched is taken out.
You walk into appointments prepared
Mend turns your records and notes into questions, tests and options to raise with your clinician. The Visit Planner gathers them for one appointment and prints as a page you can hand over.
It knows what it must not do
Mend does not diagnose and never gives doses. Your records live on your own computer, not on a server of ours.
It is gentle on your eyes
Four themes chosen for people with light sensitivity and screen pain, with controls for text size, spacing and line width.
Want to know more about one of these?
Press, partnerships, hiring and other business questions are welcome.