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A spatial AI workboard for 
knowledge work

Notes, todos, AI chat, websites, and calendar, tiled on one canvas. Everything stays on your Mac.

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Q2 Roadmap
Ship v1.0 by end of May. Canvas perf is the priority. Everything else is secondary.
• Tiling engine rewrite
• AI context window
• Data persistence layer
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2.Ask HN: How do you organize your thinking?
3.The case for local-first software (2024)
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Deep Work, Cal Newport
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The Beginning of Infinity
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci

Spatial Canvas

Add cards. The canvas arranges itself.

Drop a note. It fills the whole canvas.

Add a todo list. The canvas splits to fit.

Open AI chat. The layout rebalances itself.

Embed a website. Everything adapts.

Calendar joins. One workspace, everything visible.

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Q2 Planning — Apr 10
Ship v1.0 by end of May. Focus on stability over features.
“The canvas should feel like thinking out loud.”
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Melo reads your notes, manages todos, and answers questions about your work. It has full context of everything on your board.

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Themes, fonts, layouts, desktop pets. Melo looks different for everyone.

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Control your canvas with hand gestures

Wave, pinch, and swipe in front of your camera to navigate the canvas. No controller needed.

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Pull in data from the apps you already use. Melo tiles everything together.

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Ship v1.0 by May
Tiling engine rewrite
AI context window
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9:00Standup
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Everything you copy, always at hand

Melo quietly tracks your clipboard in the background. Text, images, links. Pull up your history with one shortcut and paste anything from the last 7 days.

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Ship v1.0 by end of May. Focus on stability over features.
“The canvas should feel like thinking out loud.”
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Ship v1.0 by May, prioritize stability...
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CUTENESS OVERLOAD
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Chapter 4: Cognitive Load Theory

 

Working memory can hold approximately 7±2 items at any given time (Miller, 1956). When instructional materials exceed this capacity, learning is impaired.

 

Intrinsic load refers to the inherent complexity of the material being learned. Extraneous load is caused by poor instructional design. Germane load is the effort dedicated to creating lasting mental schemas.

 

Sweller (1988) proposed that instructional design should minimize extraneous load while optimizing germane load, ensuring working memory resources are directed toward schema construction.

 

4.1 Implications for Multimedia Learning

 

Mayer's cognitive theory of multimedia learning (2001) builds on CLT by arguing that people learn more deeply from words and pictures than from words alone. However, adding pictures only helps when they reduce extraneous processing.

 

The redundancy principle states that presenting the same information in multiple formats simultaneously can actually increase cognitive load rather than reduce it.

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Cognitive Load Theory

 

Working memory = ~7 items

3 types of load:

• Intrinsic = complexity of material

• Extraneous = bad design

• Germane = effort → schemas

 

Goal: minimize extraneous, maximize germane

Look up: Miller 1956, Sweller 1988

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