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🇮🇹 Design engineer from Milano ⚓️ Creator of Anchor

Joined October 2022
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Happy Monday! Apple’s date picker was the one screen in Anchor I never liked. So now tapping the date unfolds your whole month, with your focus blocks under each day. New vs old 👇 Just sent it to Apple for review, it will be with you soon!
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Anchor 2 is out! And it's on Mac!!! I have packed so much into V2 and can't wait for you to try it.
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Hello Cyprus. Anchor just hit #top100 there and I have no idea why, but Ευχαριστώ πολύ!
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Katy Sander and I joined forces to trap a demon and bind it to the Mac notch. He wasn’t happy about it. But he’s just as helpful as the other agents, and a lot funnier. Meet Notchling. contra.com/community/zO04HBz…
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When it works, it really does feel like magic. Especially when you’re in airplane mode ✈️ Sound on 🔊
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Working on completely rethinking navigation for Anchor 2.0. Also spending an unreasonable amount of time making sure tasks look scared when you delete them. I'll never delete a task anymore.
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Having the best time building Anchor. It now has a little notch widget that keeps your time blocks in view while you work. And wait till you see what's coming to the iPhone app 👀
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Borrowed the model picker from the ChatGPT app (seriously great product design) and turned it into the priority picker for Anchor 2. It's weirdly addictive. Everything on my list is now super urgent.
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It’s been a little quiet here. Mostly because I’ve been working on Anchor. It’s finally ready for testing!
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Anchor update: Dark mode is coming next week 🌙 Been working on making Anchor feel even more “invisible” at night.
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This widget is where everything started, so I wanted to stay as faithful as possible to the original vision in the final version. It’s definitely more visual than functional and not the most useful widget for Anchor, but it felt right to make it the first. More will follow.
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macOS Tahoe 26: what could have been VS what we got. 🥲 Share your thoughts!
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Little sneak peek from our recent work at No Matter Studio. Hope you guys like it!
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No Matter’s new home is live! 🚀 nomatter.studio/ I spent a month building the branding and website for my agency; launched it...then realized I hated it. Together with my co-founder, we decided to start from scratch. Now, seeing it live, I know it was the right move.
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I’m crafting Anchor to be opinionated and to feel right for those who connect with it. Settings are nestled within the project menu. No icons, no affordances. Early on, it will guide you with visual cues. Over time, they will fade, trusting you’ll know your way around.
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I know I should move on, but this is soo addictive...
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Apple already had everything they needed, they only had to apply Vision OS to their ecosystem... The new OS direction feels too heavy-handed. It feels like a fake leak.
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