How Pip is being made.
Short posts about the decisions behind Pip, a calm to-do list and notes app, written while it’s being built. Pip is in development, so nothing here can be downloaded or bought yet.
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What Pip hears in a line
Pip reads a task the way you’d say it. Which words it understands, what it makes of them, and what it leaves exactly as you typed it.
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· 3 min read
Twenty-three rounds for a dot
What the design rounds that failed had in common, the small loop that finally worked, and how a dark panel at the top of the list became one orange dot.
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Why Pip has one orange
Pip uses one accent colour and almost nothing else. What the orange marks, the colour setting we took out, and the one exception.
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Notes are just files
Every note in Pip is a plain Markdown file in a folder called Pip Notes. What Pip writes there, what it never writes, and why tasks live somewhere else.
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What coming soon means
Pip has no release date yet. Here is what exists today, what doesn’t, and what the one waitlist email will say.