Synesis
Email that lives on your machine first. Windows and Android, SQLite on device, sync in the background via Microsoft Graph or plain IMAP. Your mail, your copy — no mystery cloud required to read your inbox.
About SynesisLiveBytes is where the work lives.
Leading and making were never opposites — a studio for local-first software, practical tools, and notes from building them.
Organon
Aristotle's organon was the toolkit for clear thinking — logic, categories, the works. Organon here is the same idea, applied a little loosely: instruments for a full life and real craft. Instruments, not vibes.
Phronesis
A personal organizer for a complicated day — calm capture, plan today, focus, offline on your device. Not a team workspace. Real software in progress; honest about that upfront.
About PhronesisTech leadership was never the opposite of making things.
Built by Trish Putnam · software, music, theater, and a few other threads on the side.
Notes from the studio
Synesis
Why my mail lives in SQLite before it lives anywhere else
On-device truth, background sync, and the quiet relief of owning your inbox copy. Or: why the spinning circle doesn’t get to gatekeep mail I already have.
Studio
Notes from the studio – what I’m doing, and why
I’ve spent a lot of years involved with building software under other people’s logos. Fine work. Also: you eventually notice the logo isn’t the interesting part, whatever the company would like everyone to believe. LiveBytes is where the work lives when it’s mine: local-first tools, a product house called Organon, and a place to write without pretending every post is a product launch. This is Notes from the studio: the public bench.