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October 8, 2026

I Built an App Called Now. Then I Noticed Something.

I made too much this year. Images, tools, pages, drafts. AI makes the making easy. It doesn't make choosing or focusing easy.

Even my favorite task apps couldn't keep up. Maybe you can relate. So I built one page. Active projects, open decisions, next actions. I called it Now.

It helped a lot. But everything on a page called Now was past or future. Plans I'd made. Conclusions I'd reached. Even what belonged on the page was already decided.

That's the part AI can't fix. It scales whatever we hand it, including the things we never questioned.

So beside each open decision, I added two words.

Look again.

Look as if I hadn't decided yet.

Those two words are the only thing on the page that happens now. No tool can do the looking for me. It can only ask.

That's what all my work at SEE DIFFERENT comes down to. I think it's also what productivity tools are missing.

Now is one of more than a dozen Perception Tools I built this year. I'm bringing them together into one app for looking again in the AI age.

The waitlist is open.
perceptiontools.xyz

— BF

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