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A lab for inner work

Software for the partsof becomingthat most software ignores.

Enma Labs is a small software studio for inner work. Balsam is the first product. The journal keeps the notes while the rest of the lab is still taking shape.

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The Work

Balsam is first. The rest is still forming.

One tool is being made in public. The others are still in outline.

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Balsam

For the work of inner healing

An iPhone companion for the weeks you need a thing that doesn't make the weeks worse. It remembers where you left off, and it doesn't ask you to rate your mood on a ten-point scale.

iOSIn development
II

For burning the noise away

Still forming. The intent: what happens when a tool treats attention as something to protect, not harvest. More when there's more to say.

macOSForming
III

For holding what you've learned

This one comes later. The intent: helping a person keep what they've actually learned about themselves, instead of losing it to the next week.

iOSForming
IV

For the parts that only make sense together

Further out. This one might not happen for a long time. But it's where the lab is pointed.

iOS + macOSDistant

A small evening with Balsam

Try the rhythm before the app exists in your hand.

This is not the finished product. It is a small interactive study of how Balsam should feel when a tired person opens it at night.

Tap the moments. The phone changes with them.

9:12 PMBalsam

Resume last session

Last night, unfinished.

Continue where you left off

Resume the same sequenceReady
Saved for tonightQueued
Return to this tomorrowSaved

Listening memory

The app keeps the shape of the evening so you do not have to build it again.

Journal

Notes from the process.

The journal stays public while the products are still finding their shape.

Note

What the tools don't do.

Every app I've admired this year has a quiet list of things it refuses to do. I'm noticing the refusals more than the features.

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Note

Balsam is one tool. There have to be more.

No single app can do the whole of inner work. That's the premise the lab starts from.

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Note

Slow is the point, not the apology.

I've been building at a pace that would get a VC-funded founder fired. That's a feature of the lab, not a bug.

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