The Need

Information creation, distribution, and duplication is out of control. People need a space to collect their thoughts, to remember things, and to act on what they know, individually and together.

People need space to collect and organize their thoughts, to remember things and act on what they know, individually and together. Yet, as the amount of published information increases exponentially, finding space and time to collect our thoughts, to evaluate new information, to remember, to act, to interact has become increasingly difficult. This is because there are no clear means for collecting, sorting, retaining, and acting on new information over time.

The Alternatives

Microsoft, Google, Mindjet, 37signals and others offer a variety of content creation, management, and coordination solutions, most of which interact minimally with one another, none of which are "workflow coherent."

File systems, various kinds of digital document creators and editors, wikis, blogs, photo albums, and the like all help us to store data; but, they do not help us evalute and organize— to interact over time— with data. Instead, we use current information systems clumsily to control a stream of chaotic semi-permanent publication digitally stored.

This may sound audacious, it is not. We all are familiar with the inadequacy of current solutions to the problem. We are made aware of it when we lose track of which document is the most recent, or best. We are made aware of the problem when we've found the document we want, but need to expend additional work to discover if it is the one we sent to a coworker. We are aware of the problem when we open document after document to find the one sentence, quote, link, or snippet for which we've found a perfect use, but cannot. We are aware of it, when hesitantly, and with trepidation, we comb through our computers and delete what we hope are bona fide duplicates of our most important files. Tacitly, in those moments, we already understand what the problem is.

Just as revealing, if you find yourself, on occasion, looking frantically for that napkin, scrap of paper, sketch pad, or voice message, which contains that one brilliant thought, crucial fact, or contact number (even as you worry that you may have accidentally thrown it away or deleted the gem), then, despite all the pain and headache such a system causes you, you must find that writing your thoughts on scraps is the best solution. This is because we tacitly acknowledge that there is still no solution good enough to make you go digital: our actions prove there is of yet no good solution.

Why go CMNDO?

CMNDO unifies all common data tasks from the ground up; CMNDO makes the correct workflow distinctions between brainstorm, drafting, and final creation, and makes sure you never duplicate work: we are the arrival of "single entry digital work."

CMNDO puts an end to the above problems. CMNDO is the coherent solution to content creation, project management, interpersonal cordination, and digital organization.

CMNDO solves the content creation, management, personal and interpersonal coordination problems we face by distilling our most essential computing and data storage tasks to their functional core, and then making those tasks intuitive and alive on the computer. CMNDO makes the correct workflow distinctions between brainstorm, drafting, and final creation, and with those distinctions in mind, removes massive redundancy from our current digital workflow, providing sensible streamlined solutions for digital knowledge work and computer-aided coordination. CMNDO goes beyond merely integrating content creation and management. CMNDO charges forward into content inter-activity, functionalizing what has been stored for use and action into the future.

Private Beta and Contact Info

Scrapper, Palettes, and Task Assembler go into private beta this July, 2009.

We will be holding a private beta. Want a spot? Drop us a line, tell us about yourself, and we'll let you know when we have a spot for you.

Email us at helloworld@cmndo.com

July 2009