There is a recurring story shared by many great works, which is that they are just brought to the world by someone who gets bored more than enough, and cannot help but burst into pondering odd questions or making something eccentric. We love this story and believe boredom has a critical role in creative work.

Living in an era where attention is the scarcest resource, our mind is never left bored with endless pokes.

Besides that, all the recent tech breakthroughs add another layer hijacking our boredom. With LLM (large language model), whether like or not, tools become talkative colleagues with inflated self-efficacy. Online realtime collaboration leads us to a new realm of bombarding notifications.

The venture-capital-driven startup scene unleashes obsession with adding sexy tech keywords and bloating products into platforms. It creates a gravitational field toward massive swiss-army-knife software with every imaginable feature implemented with immature quality. It is well aligned with investor values, not user values.

Facing a sea of buttons with tons of new buttons coming, our mind never gets bored.

It is why we take BORINGNESS seriously in tools for the creative minds. I like this saying: "a computer is a bicycle for the mind". Whoever can ride a bicycle must know how wonderful it feels to ride it. With a little experience, you happen to forget the very act of maneuvering. You are just running like the wind. This cognitive vanishing of tools is what we ultimately pursue. It leaves the mind unoccupied, free and even bored!

Otherwise, it is the tools that ride our mind.

We are currently making an offline note-taking application "PANO" (codename), which operates on good old txt files and whose default view is panoramic for consuming and producing notes together in their shared context. That's all. Let's see how boring it will be.