Ground
Ground turns your entire screen into an infinite whiteboard. Open it with one keystroke, click anywhere to write or draw, and close it whenever you’re done.
How it works
⌃⌥G. The screen becomes a wall.
3. Method
We consider a frozen encoder f and measure the shift in correspondence accuracy under cosmetic marker variants. Two readout modes are compared: a clean coordinate-only pass, and a marked pass in which the marker is rendered into the image before encoding.
Across all variants the encoder’s attention concentrates on the marker rather than the referent, which suggests the benchmark measures marker salience at least as much as it measures grounding.
Why I built it
Sometimes I have too many connected thoughts in my head and can’t make sense of any of them. It might be my goals, a new research field, people I interviewed for a startup, or what I actually want to spend my time doing. A normal note felt too linear, so I wanted a blank wall where I could let everything out, connect ideas, and slowly turn a messy thought into something clear.
What it does
- Press ⌃⌥G from anywhere to open a full-screen infinite canvas.
- Click anywhere to write, draw lines, and turn your thoughts into diagrams.
- Exit with one keystroke and return to whatever you were doing.
- Everything you draw is stored locally on your computer, so you can return to old canvases whenever you want. Nothing ever leaves your machine.
Use it if your thoughts feel too mixed up to explain and you want to find clarity right in front of you.
One of the diagrams I drew in Ground eventually inspired the homepage of this website.