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Sidequests · 4 apps

Surgery and study

The craft itself: the case record, deliberate practice, and the road from a stack of papers to a manuscript.

Screenshots show the apps running on demonstration data only — invented cases, invented figures, invented notes, and example reading material in Kosh — except Lekh’s, which shows the real week that produced “The hour before the hospital”, before a word was written. No clinical, financial, or personal records appear in any screenshot.

Surgical Log dashboard showing demonstration cases and counts
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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.

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

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

From papers to a manuscript, in one local workspace.

Writing a paper usually means a PDF reader, a reference manager, a notes file and Word, none of which know about each other. Kosh keeps them in one window: import papers, read the original pages, save highlights and notes that point back to the page they came from, and draft with the source beside you.

You cite as you write, in Vancouver, APA, IEEE, Chicago or a CSL style, and the manuscript exports to Word, PDF or LaTeX. The library stays on your computer, with no account and no telemetry; AI help is optional. Free and open source under AGPL-3.0-only: a Windows release candidate, not yet code-signed.

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Vaachan reader with a demonstration passage loaded and playback controls
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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.

A sketched Prateek hammering at a workbench; he pauses and waves when you scroll up