Show HN: GYST – Digital organizer that replicates the feeling of a physical desk

Just a note, I almost immediately closed your site after opening because on my phone all I see when it first opens is a sign up form. I did end up scrolling and seeing the content, but I'd recommend dropping that form either off the front page or at least below the description of what your product is.

Very nice. The site is down at the moment, but I watched the video tour and liked what I saw.

I built a prototype of something vaguely similar a few years ago that replicated a desk with papers stacked in piles. No searching, no sorting, no tagging--just typing on notes, dragging them into stacks, and a paintbrush to draw on the deck. This lets you leverage the brain's natural tendency to associate locations with ideas, like a memory palace. Want that recipe from a few weeks ago? You remember it was in a pile by a blue house you drew.

I see a similar philosophy here, expanded with more features and a larger scope. It's also great seeing a notes/organization system that isn't the same stupid three panels, tags on the left, etc.

Looking forward to trying it out when the site returns. Thanks for sharing!

Very cool explanation. I love how you have simplified the life cycle of info. I also like your approach to “organization” being modeled after a general whiteboard.

I’m working on ideas for replicating a physical desk in a digital space. Your project is a good start. Additional layers are communication (email, chat, video) and shared access (shared library?, read only access to desk).

It might be the nostalgia, but I miss the leatherbound feeling of Lotus Organizer, and was hoping this website was something similar. Maybe it could support themes?

This is cool. And I get where you are going with this...

Being endless is a power. And having structure ie. being able to emerge structure out of this would also be powerful.

I like it. If you make it open source, or maybe a plugin system would allow people to add what they think it would be needed without you having to implement it.

Or just play with this and see where it takes you.

I watched the demo and love the philosophy behind the product.

Do you plan to support code blocks with syntax highlighting? Markdown text blocks ?

I open the link. All I see first is "Sign up". Closed in 2 seconds,sorry. Didn't even see the product.

I'd love the inverse: a physical desk that responds like a digital filesystem.

nice start. i signed up. looking forward to mobile version.

some observations:

items -> stacks, items -> folders, folders -> stacks, stacks -> desktop. each item can only be in single folder. copies of items can go into different folders. drag item to copier machines to duplicate.

This is a really cool idea!

I like the idea a lot; seems similar to the abandoned KDE Baskets?

can the each page be exported to static html/css? That will be killer feature and also makes this a instant WISIWG editor.

Might be a great obsidian plugin!