Thinking on productivity, focus, product design, and building tools that respect your attention.
Everyone is bolting AI onto existing apps. We asked a different question: what if the workspace itself was intelligent from the ground up? Here's what we learned building Planito's Intelligence layer — and why context is everything.
Todoist, Notion, Slack, email, sticky notes — the average knowledge worker juggles 4.8 task systems. Here's the cognitive cost, and why one well-designed list beats them all.
Three redesigns, 200 user interviews, and one uncomfortable truth: people don't use calendar apps to schedule — they use them to think. Here's what changed when we designed for that.
Most teams reach for React Flow or D3 for graph UIs. We didn't. Here's the full technical breakdown of building Planito's Structure View with pure state, SVG, and pointer events.
We quit our jobs in January 2026. By April, Planito had 24,000 active users. No funding hype, no viral launch — just relentless shipping and listening. Here's every decision that mattered.
Slack pings, calendar chaos, and 47 open tabs have made sustained focus nearly impossible. We looked at how high-output teams are using structured workspaces — not willpower — to do their best work.
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