About

A place to put a thought the moment you have it, from whichever device is in your hand, and find it later next to the other thoughts it belongs with. Notes, checklists, deadlines, and the people and topics you file them under. It syncs while you watch, works with no signal, and never asks you to choose a folder before you're allowed to write something down.

What it deliberately is not: a project manager, a wiki, or a place to keep documentation. Those exist and are good at what they do. This is for the layer underneath them: the things you would otherwise have kept in your head, or on the back of an envelope, or in a text message to yourself.

It began as one person's own tool, built for one problem and nothing else: get a note down on a phone in the middle of a conversation, and have it waiting on the big screen back at the desk. That first version was not much to look at. It got used every day anyway, and everything since is whatever turned out to be missing while using it.

Worth saying plainly, because it explains the shape of the rest. None of this was designed as a product and then filled in; it accumulated in the order the problems actually arrived.

An unfiltered stream of thought is static: always running, mostly formless, gone the moment you stop paying attention. Modulation is what makes a signal carry, imposing structure on a wave so that what you put in can be taken back out somewhere else, later, intact. Writing something down, giving it a tag, putting a person's name on it: that's the same operation. Hence the waveform in the mark, and hence the name.

Products are easier to judge by what they refuse to do than by what they list. These are the refusals. Most of them started as something that got in the way on an ordinary day rather than as a principle, which is why each one is visible in the running software instead of sitting here as a statement of intent.

• ·Nothing you write disappears on its own. Notes stay until you archive them. Nothing expires, nothing is cleaned up for you, and no note is deleted because you stopped paying. The free limits simply apply again.
• ·Capture is never the thing that gets blocked. Even at the free plan's ceiling, writing a new note still works. A wall on the compose box at the moment somebody is trying to catch a thought would break the one thing the product is for, so the limit falls on editing older notes instead.
• ·Work is offered, not assigned. You can put an action on somebody's name, and they accept or decline it, with a reason. Most tools in this space will drop a task into another person's queue on your say-so. This one asks them.
• ·Your prep stays yours. What you meant to raise in a meeting and what was actually said are separate fields, and the first stays private even when everyone else is on the same meeting. The notes are shared; the strategy isn't.
• ·Leaving is as easy as arriving. Export is free on every plan and returns everything in one file. So is import. A product that is easy to enter and hard to leave is relying on something other than being good.
• ·You are not the product. No advertising, no third-party analytics, no tracking pixels, nothing sold or shared for advertising. The page-view counting we do is our own and never leaves our servers. The privacy policy says the same thing in the register a regulator reads.

modulate.pro is built and operated by Nupik Wenpach LLC. It is small. Small enough that the address at the bottom of this page reaches a person who can change the software, and small enough that there is no support department to be routed through.

That cuts both ways, and the security page is blunt about which ways. There is no SOC 2 report and no 24-hour on-call rota. There is also nobody who has to be convinced that a bug you reported is worth fixing.

Being told what is coming is worth less than being told what is here, so the rule this site follows is that anything not built yet is marked as not built yet: on the pricing page, in the comparison table, and next to the plan that would include it. Nobody is charged for a feature that doesn't exist.

What that leaves is a straightforward promise rather than a roadmap: the product gets better in the direction of the people using it, which is the only way it has ever been built, and you can always take everything you've written and go somewhere else.

Write to noah@nupikwenpach.com with questions, problems, feature requests, or to tell us we've got something wrong. It is read by a person, and you will get a reply from one.