# Field Bureau + Werkstatt

> Software tools for people who care about how they work. We build macOS, iOS, and web applications with a focus on intentionality, craft, and respect for how people actually think.

## Products

- [SR-7](https://fieldbw.com/sr-7): Native audio recorder for macOS and iOS. On-device transcription, AI summaries, MCP server for AI workflows.
- [TR-1](https://tr1.fieldbw.com): GTD-inspired task management with MCP server for AI agent collaboration. Currently in beta.
- [Chaos Studies](https://fieldbw.com/chaos-studies): Strange attractor visualiser for iOS, macOS, and Playdate.
- [Focus Timer](https://fieldbw.com/focus-timer): Minimal pomodoro timer. One thing: count down.
- [MIDI Volume Control](https://fieldbw.com/midi-volume): System volume via MIDI for macOS.
- [Menu Volume](https://fieldbw.com/menu-volume): Precise menu bar volume control for macOS.

## Blog Posts

- [Essential Focus Timer](https://fieldbw.com/blog/focus-timer/): Most productivity timers try to do too much. This one does one thing: count down. That's all you need.
- [SR-7 Use Case: Journaling](https://fieldbw.com/blog/journaling-with-sr7/): Voice capture as a journaling practice. Lower the barrier, keep the texture, let AI find the patterns.
- [SR-7 Use Case: Your Recordings as Context](https://fieldbw.com/blog/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.
- [Chaos Studies in the Wild](https://fieldbw.com/blog/chaos-studies-in-the-wild/): Few things beat seeing your product used in ways you didn't anticipate.
- [Async by Design](https://fieldbw.com/blog/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.
- [Fewer Things, Done Well](https://fieldbw.com/blog/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.
- [The Sound of Your Thoughts](https://fieldbw.com/blog/voice-is-thinking/): 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.
- [A New Home](https://fieldbw.com/blog/welcome/): Field Bureau + Werkstatt has a new website — a single place for our products, our thinking, and what's coming next.
- [Chaos Studies Is Here](https://fieldbw.com/blog/chaos-studies-launch/): 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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