A spatial public learning library, built openly. iOS / Swift / forkable infrastructure for curiosity.
Most of what we read online is chosen for us. Ranked, recommended, optimised. Inquiry has been replaced with consumption.
undrmnd is built on a different premise: Research should feel open to anyone. Continued education should not require credentials. A healthier digital environment is one where curiosity, not algorithms, decides what you encounter next.
We are building a quiet, public‑interest place to read, discuss, and contribute. It's a bit more like a little free library than a platform. Oh, and it's counter-algorithmic, too.
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The library should send you outside more often than it pulls you in.
Type a curiosity. Anything. A word, a fragment, a wondering. The map opens around it.
Nearby knowledge (readings, notes, contributions from others) clusters into Strata. Everything else is fog.
When you contribute to (or even just read!) a Strata, the fog starts to lift. The library grows, through collective attention.
What you have to say matters. Your personal research and contributions are how we support each other.
A short reading on how lichen recolonisation tracks declining sulphur dioxide in post-industrial cities, why this matters as a folk indicator of air quality, and what readers in different geographies have begun to notice on their own walks.
A reader-friendly walk through the rotational anomalies of galaxies, the gravitational lensing evidence, and why most physicists think the universe is mostly something we have not yet directly seen — without claiming we already know what it is.
We have described roughly two million; estimates of the total range from eight million to a trillion once microbes are counted. A short reading on what "species" even means across kingdoms, why the number keeps moving, and how amateur naturalists keep adding to it.
AI is already saturated in education as an all-knowing tutor. We don't think that is what learning needs.
In undrmnd, AI helps interpret a curiosity into a starting point on the map, and surfaces related Strata that a reader might not have found alone. That is the limit of its role.
It does not decide what you wonder about. It does not generate the community's intellectual life. It does not replace the slow work of reading something carefully, or the dignity of contributing what you know.
The thinking belongs to the people in the library.
undrmnd is shared infrastructure for inquiry. A little free library, but for research, notes, and quiet expertise.
It connects strangers around adjacent curiosity, not identity or follower count. Every reader is also a participant. The map is built by the people walking it.
It will be open source, and forkable. The library should outlive its authors.
There is a name for the dulling that happens when overstimulating digital systems flatten the pleasures of offline life: digital anhedonia. The mushroom on the walk home stops being interesting. The weather stops being weather.
Field Notes are how undrmnd pushes back. A reader can attach a sketch, a recording, a question, a small experiment, a noticing — and tether it to a Strata. Online curiosity becomes a reason to look up from the screen.
The app should send you outside more often than it pulls you in.
Meant for you. Authored by you. Held in common for all of us. undrmnd is being developed openly as a native iOS application in Swift—unfinished on purpose, and built to be forkable infrastructure for public learning over time.
$ git clone https://github.com/eremmele/undrmnd.git $ cd undrmnd
$ open Undrmnd.xcworkspace # Xcode 15+, iOS 17 SDK
$ xcodebuild -scheme Undrmnd build # or hit ⌘R in Xcode