# Personal software

> Personal software examples and practical guides by Kushal Patankar: why I build tools for myself, how to start, and what makes them useful.

Personal software is built around one person’s routines. These are the tools I design and build for mine — from browser utilities to a workspace for notes and meetings.

## Why build your own tools?

A small recurring problem can deserve its own software. Start with the idea, build one useful tool, then see what it takes to keep an archive working.

1. [What is personal software?](https://peritissimus.com/blog/what-is-personal-software) — Why it matters, with examples and perspectives from other builders.
2. [Build your first personal tool](https://peritissimus.com/blog/how-to-build-personal-software) — A small brief, a clear scope, and checks before you rely on it.
3. [Inside a searchable X bookmark archive](https://peritissimus.com/blog/searchable-x-bookmark-archive) — Birdbrain’s capture, storage, search, and cloud AI tradeoffs.

- [Stone](https://peritissimus.com/work/stone) (2025 – Present): Stone is a free, open-source, local-first note-taking app for Mac. Notes, journals, tasks, and meeting transcripts stay as plain Markdown files on your own disk.
- [Blueprint](https://peritissimus.com/work/blueprint) (October 2026): A 2.5D floor-plan maker for furnishing my flat, with daylight that follows the real sun over Bengaluru.
- [Tabbit](https://peritissimus.com/work/tabbit) (2026): A personal Chrome new tab with work shortcuts, dev servers, an AI brief, a discovery feed, and native tab organization.
- [Turntable](https://peritissimus.com/work/turntable) (2026): A browser-based 3D device mockup studio for turning interface screenshots into polished product imagery.
- [Fitroom](https://peritissimus.com/work/fitroom) (2026): An AI couple try-on studio that renders two people in chosen outfits as a single true-to-height portrait.
- [Strid](https://peritissimus.com/work/strid) (2026): An on-device redaction engine and native document workflow with first-class support for Indian banking identifiers.
- [Birdbrain](https://peritissimus.com/work/birdbrain) (2026): A private Twitter/X bookmark archive with AI summaries, topic classification, search, and automatic hydration.
- [Paperfolio](https://peritissimus.com/work/paperfolio) (January 2026): A paper-trading and research platform for screening Indian equities and testing portfolio strategies.
- [Garatch](https://peritissimus.com/work/garatch) (2025 – Present): A collection of information-dense Garmin watch faces exploring typography, glanceability, and wearable data.
- [Kaze](https://peritissimus.com/work/kaze) (2025): A local code-search CLI for finding relevant files, functions, classes, and methods with natural-language queries.
- [Dotfiles](https://peritissimus.com/work/dotfiles) (2021 - Present): A terminal-first setup for macOS and Linux — Ghostty, Fish, Neovim, and tmux, with a status line that tracks AI coding agents.

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