FIELD NOTE 001
08.21
The first version is part of the memory.
Keep the voice memo. Keep the half-sentence. Find the useful thread without erasing where it came from.
Independent software studio
Make room for the thought beneath the thought.
Proxy Draft makes small, thoughtful software for capturing ideas and turning them into something useful.
Currently one project in development, with a few more notes in the margins.
Notes from the workbench
Keep the rough edges
01 / The studio
Useful things, made with a little more attention.
Proxy Draft is a small independent studio for tools that respect the original thought instead of sanding it away.
We’re interested in the space between a messy capture and a clear idea: the scribble before the paragraph, the voice note before the plan, the question before the answer.
The work is intentionally human-sized. Fewer dashboards. Less noise. More room to notice what’s actually there.
Project 01 / In development
Groundmatter
An Android notes app for messy thoughts, voice rambles, transcripts, and the ideas hiding underneath them.
A project by Proxy Draft coming into focus
“Capture something messy.”
Groundmatter starts with the things that don’t arrive polished: a typed note, a recording from the walk home, a transcript full of false starts. It helps you find what’s useful while keeping the original close at hand.
The thinking underneath
THURSDAY / 8:42 AM
Things I don’t want to forget
The good idea usually shows up sideways. Leave a little room around it.
Groundmatter / 001
02 / What we keep in mind
Tools should leave more of you in the room.
Preserve the original
Rough notes, half-sentences, and voice memos are not clutter. They are evidence of how an idea got here.
Find the useful thread
Good tools help a thought become clearer without pretending they made the thought for you.
Stay human-sized
Small surfaces. Clear choices. No need to turn a notebook into a command center.
A note from Proxy Draft