Gareth Paul Jones

The curiosity cabinet.

Useful tools. Honest failures. A few things worth keeping.

Gareth Paul Jones
AI products at Poe / Quora.
On the web since Geocities.More about me ↗
  1. An imagined ivory enamel desk timer: a material metaphor for making room for focus01FlowTimerMake room for focus
  2. An imagined charcoal desk microphone: a material metaphor for turning speech into text02JonesAudioFrom thought to text
  3. An imagined folded paper face mask: a material metaphor for lessons from Maskito03MaskitoA useful failure · 2016
  4. Imagined swimming goggles on a notebook: a material metaphor for giving agent work separate lanes04SwimlanesGive agents some order
Choose an object. Open its story.Imagined objects · GPT-Image-2. Real projects below.
01 / Personal software / macOS

FlowTimer

A small timer with a useful interruption: a chance to notice your attention and decide whether to continue, extend, or stop.

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FlowTimer’s timer window showing a five-minute session with 3:02 remaining
The timer window
FlowTimer’s macOS menu-bar duration menu, with 25 minutes highlighted
Durations in the menu bar
Two views of FlowTimer for macOS.Small enough to stay out of the way.
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02 / Personal software / macOS

JonesAudio

Press fn + Space, speak, and insert the text at your cursor. Capture the idea without switching windows or moving text by hand.

Explore the project
JonesAudio’s actual macOS menu, with Record, fn Space, and microphone selection
Ready when the thought arrives.JonesAudio’s menu-bar recording control.
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03 / Lessons from building / December 2016

Maskito

I bought people coffee to talk through paper mockups, then didn’t act on the feedback. More login screens couldn’t fix the thing that mattered: better face filters.

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Gareth’s original paper phone mockup for Maskito, showing a sketched face and filter choices beside a pen
The paper prototype, from the original essay.Design → coding → distribution → lessons.
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