01 / Color
Ink
#000000Paper
#FFFFFFCanary
#F4FF00Yellow marks intention, selection, and action.
Design system / 02
Small pieces.
For right now.
Components that gather around an intent.
Useful for a moment. Easy to leave.
Catch me up. Three minutes.↵
A little less
to catch up on.
01Fold opens its beta↗
02Room for unfinished ideas↗
MCIRLNFrom people you follow
One for later.The thought stays. The view goes.
The essentials
Design tokens ↗02 / Type
AaMartel / expression
AaNunito Sans / interface
One expressive voice. One familiar interface.
03 / Form
1 px line
12 px corner
Full pill
Flat fills. No shadows. An 8 px spacing base.
02 / The component kit
Familiar pieces.
Flexible company.
Intent field
01 / Ask → composeTry “catch me up” or “one thing.”
01 Fold beta02 Less interface03 Open studio
Preference switches
02 / RefineA little more you.
BriefAll interests · 3 pieces
Social post
03 / A familiar anchorMara Chen@marac · 07:10
FollowingLess interface takes more editorial work.
A thought worth keeping
Save for this page visit.
Conversation thread
04 / Find the contextF
Fold team 07:00
Comments now live beside the prototype.
IR
Ivo Reed 07:30
One fewer screenshot to paste.
See the original posts +
Fold beta lets a team leave comments on a shared prototype. Ivo reports that the comments stay attached to the scene under review.
Reading card
05 / Slow downNiko Vale / A short read
A little room to wander.
Read ↗
The nicest part of a bookshop is finding something I did not arrive looking for. I am trying to leave that kind of room in a digital collection.
Completion state
06 / ReleaseYou’re caught up.
Keep the thought. Close the view.
Room for what’s next.
Your preferences stay.
03 / A day, composed
Your day changes.
Your tools follow.
Prepare. Meet. Follow through.
Scripted day · no inference or real calls
Before the first meeting
A little preparation.
Leave it here.
Your agenda, notes, and completed work stay for this page visit.
Ephemeral UI composes familiar tools around the current task. Read the design story ↗
04 / Under the surface
System One makes a guess.
You keep the last word.
Sample signals → weighted scores → tools.
Illustrative shares, not calibrated probabilities.
“System One” names this hand-authored rule system. Nothing is learned or inferred by a model.
The composition
Change the assumptions.
1. Scoresᵢ = 3tᵢ + 2dᵢ + 1hᵢSignals t, d, h range from 0 to 1.
2. Normalizepᵢ = 100 × exp(sᵢ / 1.5) / Σⱼ exp(sⱼ / 1.5)Temperature 1.5 softens the ranking.
3. Composetop need + compatible runner-up ≥ 25%At most 3 unique components. Equal top scores keep the calendar.
| Need | Timing t | Open work d | Habit h | Score s | Share p |
|---|
The source facts and signal rules +
Timing: prep = max(0, 1 − minutes to next meeting / 90); live meeting = 1 while active; follow-up = max(0, 1 − minutes since the last meeting ended / 180). Outreach and reading use their sample time windows, tapering to 0 over 90 minutes outside them.
Open work: remaining / available relevant items. Prep counts unready agendas and unreviewed documents for meetings in the next 120 minutes; meeting counts an active meeting; follow-up counts available action items; outreach counts calls; reflection counts unread pieces plus an unsaved reflection. An empty set scores 0.
Habits: authored example strengths for each time slot. They are not observations of you. Explicit view choices override composition without changing these scores.
Combinations: preparation + meeting, meeting + follow-up, or follow-up + outreach. Reserve two components for the main need and one for a compatible need: review queue for prep, capture for meetings, action list for follow-ups, or call queue for outreach. Meeting combinations keep the room and capture tools. Remove duplicates; use at most 3. Retain the mounted layout while you edit; apply an updated suggestion when ready.
01Intent first.
Your context or request chooses the pieces.
02Anchors stay.
Identity, preferences, saved items.
03A view can end.
Release the layout. Keep the work.