What Eychgras is.
Eychgras is a slow-frequency editorial publication about living and working more intentionally with digital tools. It is not a productivity blog. It does not publish daily. It does not have trending content, a comment section, likes, share counts, or any social proof metric anywhere on the site.
The name is not an acronym. It does not mean anything in any language we are aware of. It was chosen because it was available, unusual, and difficult to confuse with an existing brand. These seemed like reasonable criteria.
Content is organised into three formats. Dispatches are long essays — typically 1,200 to 1,800 words — on subjects that require that kind of length to treat honestly. Field Notes are shorter observations, written closer to the moment and more provisional in their conclusions. Clearings are curated collections of tools, resources, and principles, annotated with honest assessments of what each item is and is not good for.
We also maintain a small set of interactive tools, which are prompts for reflection rather than productivity systems. They store nothing. They track nothing. They work without an account.
Eychgras is funded by its readers. We do not accept sponsored content. We do not publish affiliate links without explicit disclosure on the item in question. Our editorial policy is published in full and linked from every page.
Who writes it.
Maren Solvik
Dispatches · Attention, internet behavior, cognitive claritySpent eight years as a UX researcher at a Northern European public broadcaster before leaving to write independently. Her work examines the psychological dimension of digital design decisions — how the choices made by designers and product teams shape the cognitive experience of the people who use what they make. She writes Dispatches on attention, internet behavior, and cognitive clarity, and curates collections on workspace and information management.
Tobias Fendt
Field Notes · Tool philosophy, workflow, ClearingsFormer systems administrator turned independent consultant who works with small organisations on workflow architecture. Has maintained a plain-text daily notes practice since 2011. His writing tends toward the specific and the empirical — what a particular tool does, what a particular change produced, what a three-week experiment revealed. He covers Field Notes, tool philosophy, and Clearings.
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