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📓 I've kept a small paper notebook for over a year now — one page a day, nothing fancy. Somewhere in there it started borrowing from books I kept coming back to: Getting Things Done's habit of capturing everything, Tiny Habits' obsession with the smallest possible step, The 5 Second Rule's push past hesitation, bullet journaling's quick shorthand for marking what moved and what didn't. No app I tried ever matched how that notebook actually felt to use, so I built one.
🐸 Tao Toad opens the day with a line worth sitting with instead of a backlog, keeps the Notebook to today only (nothing overdue, nothing carried in shame — just a small mark showing what traveled with you), and gives everything else a Desk to wait on. Soft Paper colors, serif type, hand-drawn line icons. Built solo, brand to interaction details.
Merging GTD and Tiny Habits into a serene, distraction free space is such a thoughtful approach. Replacing a looming task mountain with a meaningful prompt and a dedicated "Desk" gives task management the calm energy it actually needs!
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Portfolio update day 7/30 : Three.js website.
Today I drafted the interactions. Removed a few sections from the layout and combined different shading variations.
The idea is to make transitions seamless but for the preview it's already enough to have not so clean transitions.
Will go polishing it now, update shading to get more realistic environment and when all these steps are ready, will manually redraw all layout to get perfect results.
My stack is pretty simple - just Blender, Claude, React Three Fiber and Figma
(and ElevenLabs on the first stage) - I think it's more than enough for perfect results.
Keep building!
Amazing work my friend! How did you record this video? Screenstudio? Also did you make all the website using Claude? Any specific IDE or direct on Terminal? I am getting used to this workflow
A few days ago, I asked you to vote for the color palette of this concept. Thank you to everyone who shared their opinion! 💜
Here's another screen from the project. How do you like the direction it's taking? 👀
