A connected creative workspace · in development
Prismathic brings everything for your project into one connected workspace — notes, tasks, references, ideas and the work itself — from first spark to final output.
Welcome back — last session Thursday, in Manifest. You finished the final details on the face. Next: varnish the surface.
Continue →Varnish needs 24 hours — don't frame before Sunday.
A real project, shown in the project dashboard design. The workspace runs today in the working prototype; Resume Session and breadcrumbs are in design — the full status is below.
01 — The problem
Every time you switch apps, hunt for a file or try to remember where you saved something, you pay a small cognitive tax. Part of your mind stays attached to the last context while you rebuild the next one. The cost isn't the seconds — it's the focus.
Add it up across a project and the result is familiar: broken focus, lost energy, stalled momentum — and a beginning that feels heavier than continuing.
Everything for one project lives in different places — references in one app, notes in another, tasks in a third, the work itself somewhere else.
Ideas, tasks and references can't meaningfully connect to each other, so nothing compounds and nothing points at the work.
Returning after a day or a week means reconstructing what was happening — the system asks you to manage tools instead of make the work.
02 — The answer
Your ideas, notes, tasks, references, mood boards, media and decisions each keep their own place — while still belonging to the same project. Collections hold the material; the project connects it. Open the project and see the work as a whole.
PrismathicRedrawn from the working prototype — a single application that already runs. Not yet a public release.
03 — The proof moment
Come back after a day or a month and Prismathic restores the last meaningful context: what you were doing, what you decided, what comes next. No AI required — it's built from your own activity and your own words.
And before you leave, a quiet prompt: what should future you remember? One sentence now saves twenty minutes of reconstruction later.
Resume Session and breadcrumbs are in design for the standalone application — shown here as the working concept.
Welcome back — you were in Manifest, finishing the final details. Next: varnish the surface.
Continue →Varnish needs 24 hours — don't frame before Sunday.
Warm ground under the blacks — the cold version deadened the face.
04 — The method, when you want it
PRISM — Pursue, Record, Inspect, Synthesize, Manifest. Five optional lenses over a project, not a filing system and not homework. Selecting a mode doesn't move anything; it changes what the workspace foregrounds. Creative work loops — the modes loop with it. Don't want a methodology? Stay in All Project view.
A prism doesn't add anything to light — it reveals what was already there. Painting, filmmaking, writing and research aren't separate careers. They're one practice, refracted.
05 — Already running
These screens are redrawn from the working prototype — populated with work from the studio, because that's what it was built for.
A freeform canvas where notes, images and fragments sit side by side — drag a thread from one card to another and the relationship is kept. Studies next to stills next to the sentence that started it all.
Also in the prototype: Kanban boards, storyboards you draw on, 16:9 frame tools, mood boards.
Every hard-won technique gets a home — tagged by software, searchable, next to the project that needed it. The next time you need that camera-projection trick, it's one click away instead of three evenings of forum archaeology.
Books, films, podcasts with timestamped notes, tutorials and workflows share one shelf.
06 — Control and trust
Prismathic is designed to be useful with everything switched off. The connected workspace, the modes, the memory — none of it depends on the cloud or a model.
Projects and notes stay on your device in durable, portable formats — export everything, any time. Your life's work shouldn't live at someone else's mercy.
Private, encrypted sync across devices is planned as an optional subscription. Turn it off and the application keeps working, with your files intact.
Planned AI is scoped and explicit — you see what context is sent before it's sent, and nothing runs in the background. It helps you inspect the material. It doesn't decide what the work means.
07 — Origin
Years across VFX, animation and a painting practice meant references in PureRef, notes in OneNote and Obsidian, tasks in Todoist, planning somewhere else — and the actual making inside the specialist tools. Each app worked. The project itself was fragmented.
Prismathic is the attempt to give the project one connected home. It began as a set of systems inside Obsidian, proved itself in daily use, and is now being built as standalone software.
RHA Gold Medal 2015 · BA & MFA, NCAD Dublin
Senior 3D — Scanline VFX · Brown Bag Films · Giant Animation
08 — Documented
A documentary series following the process of making paintings, films and creative tools — including this one. The craft leads; the software carries it. Not a launch campaign — a record of the work.
The Polymath Journey ↗09 — Where it actually is
No launch theatre. The left column runs in the prototype right now. The right column is designed and in progress — honest about which is which.
Running in the prototype.
The direction for the standalone application.
10 — The model, when it ships
The planned shape: the application is yours — bought once, working forever, files always yours. A subscription exists only for things that cost something to run: sync, hosted AI, an evolving service around an app you already own.
Prismathic is in development — nothing is on sale yet.
These are the planned founding rates for when the software is ready. No countdown, no fake scarcity.
Subscribe to Polymath for 12 months and the Master licence is yours to keep — nobody rents Prismathic forever.
11 — Early access
The prototype is working and the standalone application is being built in the open. Join the waitlist for progress notes and demonstrations — and reply to any update if you'd like to be an early tester.
Occasional development updates. No launch theatre, no spam.