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Noggin?

Stay curious. A place for the thoughts you don’t want to lose.

Open Noggin? ↗Live · v1.0
Stage
v1.0 live, November 2026
Platform
Installable PWA, offline first, phone and desktop
Role
Research, design and build
Works with
Nudge!: steps become tasks, one passkey for both

The problem

Curious thoughts arrive when you can’t stop to look them up. They get forgotten, scattered across notes or lost in open tabs.

Hypothesis

If saving a thought takes seconds and old ones come back gently, people will return to their curiosity instead of losing it, and act on the ones that matter.

How it works

Calm by design: no points, streaks or red counts
  1. 01Catch itSave a Curiosity (an idea) or a Wondering (a question) in seconds. No account needed.
  2. 02Meet it againOnce a day at most, an old thought you haven’t opened comes back as a quiet Still curious? card.
  3. 03Act on itBreak it into next steps and send them to Nudge!, where they become tasks.
Curiosities and WonderingsIdeas and questions get their own homes, so neither gets lost in the other.
Suggested categoriesLearning, Ideas, Work or Life is picked for you. Change it with one tap.
Still curious?One old thought a day, never more. Open it, snooze it or archive it.
Steps to Nudge!Send next steps as tasks. Signed in, Noggin? shows when each one is done.

Screens

Real screens with sample data. Dark mode shows each app’s dark theme.
Noggin? Curiosities · your ideasNoggin? Curiosities · your ideas, dark theme
Curiosities · your ideas
Noggin? Wonderings · with a Still curious? cardNoggin? Wonderings · with a Still curious? card, dark theme
Wonderings · with a Still curious? card
Noggin? A thought · next steps ready for Nudge!Noggin? A thought · next steps ready for Nudge!, dark theme
A thought · next steps ready for Nudge!

Progress

  • ✓Concept, principles and product discovery doc
  • ✓Bible, design system and mockups for every screen
  • ✓v1.0 shipped in 8 phases, November 2026
  • ✓Steps hand off to Nudge!, with one shared passkey
  • Interviews with people who collect random questions
  • Quick research with AI (planned; for now, a What I found note)
  • Test how often Still curious? should appear

Open questions

  • How much should an AI answer say, and how should it show its sources?
  • Is one resurfaced thought a day the right amount?
  • Do people need tags or pins beyond categories and search?