Notes from the work.
Short pieces on product principles, Lumi’s design, and the quiet decisions behind tentus.
- Juan · elmt studio
Why tentus builds its own integrations
It would be faster to bolt on a generic integration platform and call it a day. Here's why we mostly didn't, and the two places we did anyway.
engineeringintegrations - Juan · elmt studio
The meeting doesn't end when the call does
Zoom, Google Meet, Teams — meetings are where a lot of real thinking happens and almost none of it gets captured. Here's how tentus closes that gap without asking you to do anything different.
meetingscapture - Juan · elmt studio
Lumi can act, not just answer
A second brain that only retrieves is a search engine with better manners. Actions are where tentus starts doing things on your behalf — carefully.
lumiproduct - Juan · elmt studio
A task is a note that wants to be done
Tasks in tentus didn't arrive as a separate app bolted onto the side of the product. Here's why they had to grow out of the same capture-first foundation as everything else.
producttasks - Juan · elmt studio
Notes that file themselves
Topics are the part of tentus that does the filing you never asked it to do. Here's how a workspace organizes itself without a folder in sight.
productorganization - Juan · elmt studio
Why we say no to Lumi, sometimes
Every AI feature we didn't ship says as much about tentus as the ones we did. A running list of the guardrails, and why each one is there.
lumiprinciples - Juan · elmt studio
Pricing a second brain, honestly
Free tiers are usually a trap disguised as a gift. Here's what we tried to get right about tentus's pricing, and where the real trade-offs actually sit.
pricingproduct - Juan · elmt studio
Why your second brain shouldn't ask you to organize it
The promise of a second brain breaks the moment it asks you to do the filing. Here's why tentus pushes the organizing work onto the software.
productprinciples - Juan · elmt studio
Building Lumi: what it knows, what it won't guess
Lumi only knows what you've told it. That sounds like a limit. It's actually the most important design decision in the product.
lumiengineering - Juan · elmt studio
Capture without friction (and why we're not adding more buttons)
Every UI button is a tax on the act of capture. Here's why tentus's editor stays nearly empty, and what's behind that restraint.
designcapture - Juan · elmt studio
A morning made from your own thinking
What a tentus morning briefing looks like, and why it's stitched only from the sources in your workspace.
briefingslumi
More on the way. Want to write a guest piece on quiet thinking tools? Reach hello@tentus.io.