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Thoughts on software, sound, design, and the tools we build.

· announcements · utilities

Essential Focus Timer

Most productivity timers try to do too much. This one does one thing: count down. That's all you need.

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· sr-7 · ideas

SR-7 Use Case: Journaling

Voice capture as a journaling practice. Lower the barrier, keep the texture, let AI find the patterns.

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· ideas · sr-7

SR-7 Use Case: Your Recordings as Context

Every recording you make adds to a body of knowledge. Transcribed, summarised, and searchable, it becomes the richest context you have.

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· chaos-studies

Chaos Studies in the Wild

Few things beat seeing your product used in ways you didn't anticipate.

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· ideas · sr-7

Async by Design

AI's immediate feedback loop is addictive — and exhausting when spread across too many things. Capture now, process later, engage on your own schedule.

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· ideas

Fewer Things, Done Well

When everything is possible, nothing feels finished. The hardest skill in an AI-augmented workflow isn't prompting — it's deciding what not to do.

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· ideas · sr-7

The Sound of Your Thoughts

Writing pulls you into editing mode before the thought has finished arriving. The tools we use to capture shape how we think — and speaking turns out to be more relevant than ever.

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· announcements

A New Home

Field Bureau + Werkstatt has a new website — a single place for our products, our thinking, and what's coming next.

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· announcements · chaos-studies

Chaos Studies Is Here

What started as a coding experiment on a tiny handheld became an immersive app for iOS and macOS. Nine strange attractors, spatial audio, and no goal whatsoever.

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