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14 applications · 12 active, 1 release candidate, 1 retired

Software built on off-days.

Built on nights and off-days, each app answers one concrete friction of my own: a case going unlogged, a budget going unopened, a moment going unremembered. Small, single-purpose, and built around constraints rather than feature lists — most are in daily use; a few are still taking shape. Most are private, built for an audience of one. Kosh is the exception: a free Windows release candidate that anyone can download.

Screenshots show the apps running on demonstration data only — invented cases, invented figures, invented notes, and example reading material in Kosh. No clinical, financial, or personal records appear anywhere on this page.

The applications

Active

Surgical Log

If a case isn't logged, it can't compound.

A case log for brief capture between cases. It builds an operative record for reviewing exposure and primary-versus-assist counts.

Built because memory is a bad registrar.

Surgical Log dashboard showing demonstration cases and counts
Active

Bench

Surgical skill is also built away from the table.

A deliberate-practice bench for knots and suturing — timed sessions, rep counts, and structured GRS self-scoring. Practice gets a scoreboard instead of a vibe.

Bench today screen showing a demonstration practice streak and drill queue
Active

Tend

Get it out of your head.

A five-lane capture board for the constant stream of small obligations. Everything gets dumped into one inbox, triaged later, and closed with a tick — the point is a quiet head during rounds.

Tend board showing demonstration cards across its lanes
Active

Nook

A cosy shelf for the internet.

Links, papers, and ideas get parked on a warm pinboard instead of dying across four hundred open tabs. Old saves resurface on their own, so nothing rots unseen.

Nook pinboard showing demonstration saves
Active

Sift

Find what is worth keeping.

Saved carousels and screenshots become searchable text through local AI models on my laptop. Captures pass through my private storage, and originals remain available for checking the extraction. Incomplete and failed captures carry status messages; the text still needs a reader's judgement.

Built because bookmarks are where good finds go to die.

Sift inbox showing demonstration captures
Active

Darj

दर्ज — 'entered, recorded'

Type it once; approve where it lands.

A chat thread on my phone where I type the day as it comes, in Hinglish if that is how it comes. Each item comes back as a card addressed to one of eight of my apps, filled only from what I said: blanks stay blank, and the fields that must be asked are asked, not guessed.

Nothing reaches those apps until I approve the card, and an approved entry can be undone. Built because I wanted an agent on my phone, and one I had built myself.

Darj chat thread on demonstration data: one typed message split into cards for Tend, Sovereign Craft and Sift
Active

Vaachan

वाचन — 'reading aloud'

Books that read themselves.

Drop in a PDF — a textbook chapter, a paper — and it reads aloud with word-by-word highlighting. Built for commutes and tired eyes.

Vaachan reader with a demonstration passage loaded and playback controls
Active

Developing

A film camera for two people.

A private two-person photo roll: both shoot blind, and the film develops at a time set when the roll is loaded — photographs as delayed gratification.

Nobody sees a photo before then, not even their own. The constraint is the product.

Developing camera screen with a demonstration scene in the viewfinder
Active

Mirror

A quiet ledger, not a lecture.

Spend capture in one screen, then a month-level view of what is actually left: on-hand cash against the forecast, EMIs coming up, and a watch on the two categories that leak.

Built because a budget you do not open is a budget you do not have.

Mirror capture screen with demonstration figures
Active

Kshan

क्षण — 'a moment'

A moment a day, sealed for a month.

A native Android journal for a short daily video, with a choice of beat for the month-end film. Daily footage stays sealed until the month closes.

The film follows the calendar month, with an option to include missed days.

Kshan's cold-open screen: the क्षण wordmark centred on paper, the current month set small at the foot
Active

Sovereign Craft

Plan the day. Close it honestly.

A native Android app for one daily loop: plan, record what actually happened, close the day with a short note on what was true, then look for patterns. Meals, focus, sleep and training are kept on the phone first, with an online backup.

A meal photo or a typed description becomes a draft I correct, and nothing is saved until I confirm it. No points, badges or levels. Built on one rule: I do not live to prove hardness; I live to build enduring worth.

Sovereign Craft Today screen on demonstration data: a closed day with its meal and focus strip, the closing note and the day's totals
Active

Lekh

लेख — 'a piece of writing'

One topic, seven days, then it locks.

A private essay app built around one constraint. I draw a topic or bring my own, then have seven days to write. At the deadline the essay locks; under 300 words it is marked missed and stays private.

Finished essays go to an AI copy editor on my own server, with instructions to fix mechanics and preserve my voice. I review the edits and choose what to publish in Written Works; nothing reaches this site without my approval.

Lekh desktop in the yellow Front page theme, showing the seven-day essay timer, calendar and an empty writing area
Release candidate

Kosh

From papers to a manuscript, in one local workspace.

A Windows desk for the work between a stack of papers and a manuscript: import, read, keep notes linked to their sources, draft with citations, and export. The library stays on your computer, with no account and no telemetry; AI assistance is optional.

Free and open source under AGPL-3.0-only. Read how it works, see the app and download it for Windows.

Details and download for Kosh
Kosh reading view: an example PDF with a highlighted sentence beside controls for citing the page and writing with the source
Retired

Commonplace Fieldbook

A commonplace book, the old way, on new paper.

Reading notes captured as leaves and threaded by theme — the Renaissance commonplace tradition rebuilt as a book-styled notebook, paper grain included.

Commonplace Fieldbook index showing demonstration leaves
A sketched Prateek hammering at a workbench; he pauses and waves when you scroll up