Your second brain didn't die because you were lazy.
It died because every note app makes you file a thought before it'll let you keep it. Folder. Tag. Database. You pay that tax dozens of times a day, always at the worst moment.
It has a name now: the filing tax.
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Naumu 0.117.0 is out - Naumu on Every Desktop
- Windows + Linux desktop apps, auto-updating
- Reminders ring in your unreads
- Swipeable media viewer for images and PDFs
- AI reads office docs (docx, xlsx, pptx)
We spent months on a permissions system. The final design is a hashtag.
You know the Slack ritual. A good discussion is happening in a channel, and you realize the one person who actually needs to see it is not in the channel. So you copy the link into a DM. Or you screenshot it. Or you add them to the channel and now they see everything, forever, including the twelve threads that were none of their business. The conversation fragments into channels, DMs, and pasted links, and the context stays behind.
In Naumu the thread itself widens. Type #marketing inside a message and that IS the share: the thread files itself into the topic and everyone there can see it. Realize sales should weigh in? Someone types #sales mid-sentence and the same thread now lives in both topics, full history included. Need one specific teammate? Tag them the same way.
You progressively disclose a conversation instead of relocating it. No modal, no channel-invite side quest, no "adding you here for visibility" DM. If you can type, you can share exactly as much as you mean to.
Topics are live in Naumu now. The video shows the whole idea in 30 seconds.
Topics Change Everything.
"Can you share that thread with me?"
In most tools that's a modal, a permissions dropdown, and a wrong guess about who can see what.
In Naumu it's five keystrokes: #sales. Typing the topic shares the thread, moves the access, and tells the team, in one gesture.
Topics Change Everything.
#buildinginpublic #productivitytools #naumu #productivity #collaboration #startup #organization
@ashwingop Which is exactly what @naumu_ai is for. Your company brain stays yours, inspectable, permissioned & portable. Model-agnostic and on-prem coming soon. Already runs today very well and so much cheaper than claude tag :D
The API errors in @claudeai consistently start after 6:00 PM GMT+1 (aka 9:00 AM san francisco time)...
Looks like Europe is being treated as a second class citizen during the west coast workday...