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FieldNote
Full session

A contextual note-taking app that knows where you are and what you're doing. Notes are tagged automatically by location, time, and activity — so you never have to organize, just capture. The twist: it learns your patterns and starts suggesting when you should be taking notes based on past behavior.

Full route Mar 28, 2026
Concept Fully explored
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Who it's for: Field researchers, journalists, real estate agents — people whose work happens in places, not at desks. They need to capture observations without stopping to think about filing systems.

The real problem: Note apps assume you'll organize later. You won't. The gap between capturing and finding is where notes go to die.

The twist: Context-aware auto-tagging means the app does the organizing in real time. Location, time patterns, calendar events, and motion sensors build a rich context layer underneath each note.
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Mission: Make capturing knowledge in the field as natural as looking around. Zero-friction note creation with automatic contextual organization.

Persona: Maya, a wildlife biologist who spends 4 days a week in the field. She currently uses voice memos and photos, then spends Friday afternoons trying to match observations to locations and dates.

Character: Quiet competence. The app should feel like a trusted field notebook — sturdy, reliable, never in the way.
Book Drop Confessional
Full session

A neighborhood discovery app that maps little free libraries and community book exchanges. Leave a book, leave a note about why. The confession is the hook — what this book meant to you, why you're letting it go.

Full route Mar 22, 2026
Concept Pressure tested
Elaboration
Who it's for: Readers who see books as conversations, not possessions. People who get a thrill from finding a book left by a stranger and want to know the story behind why it was left.

The real problem: Little free libraries are everywhere but invisible. And the best part — the human story behind why someone left a specific book — is completely lost.

The twist: Each book gets a "confessional" — a short note from the person leaving it. Over time, a book accumulates confessionals as it travels from library to library, creating a narrative chain.
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Murmur
Topic session

Voice memos that auto-organize into threads based on topic — for people who think out loud. Uses lightweight speech-to-text and semantic clustering to group related thoughts without manual tagging.

Topic route Mar 15, 2026
Concept Elaborated
Elaboration
Who it's for: Founders, writers, and consultants who have their best ideas while walking, driving, or showering. They capture voice memos but never listen to them again because the pile becomes unmanageable.

The real problem: Voice memos are write-only. The friction isn't in capturing — it's in retrieval. Without organization, a voice memo library becomes a graveyard of good ideas.
Tempo
Added manually

A practice timer for musicians that adapts tempo based on accuracy. Start slow, and as you nail a passage, it gradually speeds up. Miss notes and it eases back down. Like a patient teacher who knows exactly when to push.

Manual Mar 10, 2026
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PlotHound
App session

A continuity tracker for fiction writers. Characters, timelines, locations, and relationships in a visual graph. Catches contradictions before your readers do.

App route Mar 5, 2026
Concept Deep dived
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Who it's for: Novelists and showrunners managing complex narratives. The person writing a 12-episode season who can't remember if Character B was in Paris or Prague in episode 4.

The twist: It's not a wiki — it's a graph. Relationships, timelines, and locations are nodes and edges. Contradictions surface as visual conflicts in the graph.
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Tide Table
Added manually

A habit tracker that works on cycles, not streaks. Some habits are daily, some are seasonal. Instead of punishing a broken streak, it shows your rhythm — when you naturally do things and when you don't.

Manual Feb 28, 2026
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FieldNote

A contextual note-taking app that knows where you are and what you're doing.

Mar 28
Book Drop Confessional

A neighborhood discovery app that maps little free libraries and community book exchanges.

Mar 22
Murmur

Voice memos that auto-organize into threads based on topic.

Mar 15
Tempo

A practice timer for musicians that adapts tempo based on accuracy.

Mar 10
PlotHound

A continuity tracker for fiction writers.

Mar 5
Tide Table

A habit tracker that works on cycles, not streaks.

Feb 28