Wanting to organize myself and my thoughts goes deeper than just “getting things done”. It’s how I make sense of my life and what makes me feel excited and grateful every day.

In theory, technology should help us get to a point where we truly understand ourselves, and what steps to take to become the people we want to be. But we’ve really only touched the surface. The “productivity” software available today is either too plain and boring, or too complicated to be practical.

Most importantly, productivity software has made us obsessed with being accomplished and knowledgeable, instead of present and observant.

My adventure into changing this reality starts with Bleep, what many people would consider an anti-productivity app. And here’s why I think that’s a good thing:

Ideas come in many shapes

One of the things that I dislike the most about note-taking apps is the required title. I don’t always want to title my notes, but seeing an “Untitled” at the top of the page makes me feel unwelcome.

Also, who says I want to write a note to begin with? Maybe I just learned about a new movie and all I have time for is a link. What should I do? Make a new note just for that link, or do I switch to a completely different app to save that movie?

These sound like small problems, but I see a pattern of friction. Whenever you want to save anything, you shouldn’t have to stop and ask yourself “how?” or “where?”

Chaos is necessary

You should be able to embrace messy, unfiltered thoughts and ideas all in one place, side by side, without needing to worry about where to put things. What most tools get wrong about organization is the idea that you have to create structure from the get-go. Structure comes