Local by design
Your library is a folder on your Mac. No account, no sync, no server.
A quiet home for everything you notice.
A local-first library for the images, links, colours and notes you keep. One folder you own.
- Local by design
- Three views
- Keyboard first
- A folder you own
A quiet place for what you notice — and for what you can't name yet.
Three readings
Grid, canvas and infinity over the same shelf. Switch without moving a file.
Originals, copied
Byte-for-byte files, hashed locally, with thumbnails made on your Mac.
Keyboard first
Search, focus, inspect and export without leaving the keys.
A browser bridge
Point at an element on a page; the app keeps it in your library.
Three views of one library
For the things you find mid-scroll.
Save it, file it, find it again. Your library is sorted by the time you're back.
The whole shelf
Justified rows, a waterfall, or a flat list. Pinch to resize; tiles lift under the pointer.
Arrange it your way
Each collection gets a free plane. Put things next to each other and they stay there.
No edge, no end
A phyllotaxis plane you can pan and zoom without reaching a border.
Everything in one place
Get the extension
Images, links, colours, notes — kept together.
Image
That frame, still moving.
Click an element with the picker, or drag the file in. GIFs keep their loop; video plays in place.
study-01-dial.png
Image · 1600 × 1200
Study 01 — Dial133 KB · SHA-256
Link
That link you'll want later.
The title, source, description and your note, kept as one card. Select a passage and send it too.
Quiet Objects — a field note
boring.studio · Link
An essay about the objects that ask nothing of you: a radio, a scale, a lamp. Notes on restraint and the useful surface.
BORING.STUDIO
Colour
That colour you can't name.
Sample a palette from the page, or paste a hex. Swatches keep their value, their name and their note.
Ember
#E8642C · Colour
The accent from the studio’s field notes. Keep it for the next set of studies.
What will you keep?
From a moodboard to a client hand-off, a place for whatever you don't want to lose.
A moodboard that coheres
Objects, surfaces and colours from one project, side by side.
A colour study
Swatches with values, names, and the note you'd otherwise forget.
Every still from a film
A grid of frames you can step through in focus.
A reading list
Links with the title, the source, and why you kept them.
Materials for an idea
Textures, finishes and details, arranged on a canvas.
Interface patterns
Screens, states, and the small decisions inside them.
Type specimens
Pairings, sizes, and the type you keep returning to.
A visual “what if”
References for the thing you haven't made yet.
Notes from a museum
Photos, captions, and the colour of the wall.
A client hand-off
A portable folder with originals and a clean JSON file.
The week you noticed
A quiet inbox of images, links and loose notes.
Things you can't name yet
Keep them anyway. The name comes later.