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I'm building Zenta, a small set of offline tools to help you focus and stay present. And Flow – a terminal app that helps you track deep work without distractions. It runs locally,…

Writing isn’t about being remembered. It’s about helping others remember the ideas themselves.

After building Zenta https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44394929 , a tiny CLI tool to pause and breathe, I realized I needed more than awareness — I needed to protect my attentio…

Thank you again to everyone who shared feedback here — it helped a lot. I took some time to reflect and wrote about why I built Zenta, and how mindfulness became part of my work: h…

After building Zenta, a small tool to help me pause and breathe during work, I felt the need to write down the story behind it. It’s not just about the tool — it’s about what chang…

Why connect it to Claude, when it already connects you to the universe through your breath?

Honestly, I spent a whole day trying it, but it doesn't work for me. Zenta's way is simple: notice you're stuck in thoughts, return to your breath, then continue working with aware…

Thank you both for this feedback! You're right. I made a mistake by not testing thoroughly enough. I was being overly conservative based on assumptions rather than actual testing. …

Runs offline. Powered by consciousness. :)

Great idea! Just fixed this. Now when you rename zenta to relax, all help messages automatically show "relax" instead of "zenta". Available in v0.3.2. Thanks!

The best breath is the one you notice, not the one you're told to take.

Beautiful idea! I’ll explore how to let the breath respond to your keys.

Whether spa or rock, both return you to now.

It is only what it is. Thank you for seeing

Update: Just released v0.3.1 with Terminal.app compatibility fixed! The tool now auto-detects your terminal and adapts gracefully. You'll see a beautiful progressive breathing anim…

Thanks for the feedback! You're right. I haven’t tested it on Terminal.app yet. It works well on iTerm2 and most Linux terminals, but I’ll review it on Terminal.app soon and update…