Empty your head right now.
One thought per line. Every line becomes an orb on your board the moment you sign up.
Catch the thought, Claude files it.
The hard part is just getting it out of your head. Do that however it leaves you, and the sorting is handled.
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Say it or type it
Tap the mic and talk, or type a line. On the walk home, in a meeting, at 2am, wherever it hits you.
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Or snap a screenshot
A messy inbox, a sticky note, a whiteboard. Claude reads it and pulls out the real loops.
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It lands sorted
Each loop is filed by focus, weight and theme, so you open to a calm board, not a to-do pile.
Sharpen the axe, then go swing it.
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I'll spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Mute is the sharpening. Two minutes to clear your head, then you carry that calm into whatever you already use to do the work.
Most tools add to your plate. Mute empties it first.
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Dump it
Everything in your head, out in two minutes.
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See it
Loops become orbs, what's pressing floats close.
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Sort it
Park it, plan it, or let it go. The decision is the relief.
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Go do it
Open your real tools with a clear, quiet head.
Then execute where you already live. Mute doesn't replace these, it's the calm step before them.
Direct sync is coming soon.
How your mental load adds up.
Every loop gets a weight from a few honest things. Add them all up and that's your number. The trick: it drops when you put a loop down, not when you finish it.
How big it is
A quick reply weighs less than “file the tax return”.
How urgent
A deadline on your neck counts for more.
How long it's sat
The longer a loop stays open, the heavier it grows.
How many parts
More steps living inside it, more weight it carries.
Then where you put it scales that weight, full in your head, almost nothing once you let it go:
- In your head
- Floating
- Parked
- Planned
- Let go
Heaviest on the left, lighter as you sort, gone on the right. Hold more than about four loops live at once and each extra one weighs even more, so the number climbs fast and falls fast as you clear.
Relief isn't a vibe. It's a mechanism.
Mute turns the formless pile into a finite, countable picture, and the relief comes from putting loops down, not finishing them. Every claim below links to the actual peer-reviewed paper.
Plan it, don't finish it
A written next step kills the mental noise an open loop makes, no completion required.
Masicampo & BaumeisterJ. Personality & Social Psychology, 2011Read the study →Peer-reviewedYou hold four things, not forty
Working memory caps out around four items. Mute holds the rest, so your head doesn't have to.
Nelson CowanBehavioral & Brain Sciences, 2001Read the study →Peer-reviewedHalf-finished work follows you
Open loops leave “attention residue” on whatever you do next. Putting them down clears it.
Sophie LeroyOrg. Behavior & Human Decision Processes, 2009Read the study →Peer-reviewedA stretched mind has less to give
When attention is preoccupied, less is left for the task in front of you. Quiet what your mind holds and that capacity comes back.
Mani, Mullainathan, Shafir & ZhaoScience, 2013Read the study →I built this for my own overloaded head. Two kids, work that never switches off, and a hundred small things everyone needs from me, all living in there at once. The weight was never the work, it was carrying it. Mute is two minutes to put it all down. I open it every morning.
Start the day clear
Two minutes to empty your head before anyone else gets a vote in it.
See the one thing
What matters holds the centre. The other forty wait quietly, out of mind.
Watch the number fall
Your whole head, distilled to one score. Every loop you put down, you watch it drop. That was you.
Your board, your rules
No streaks, no nudges, no one watching. You move what you want, when you want, and nothing judges what you put down.
Calm, for the price of a coffee.
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tim@sondersites.comStraight answers.
My brain has 47 tabs open. Is this for me?
That's exactly who it's for. Getting loops out of your head and into a space you can see is one of the best-studied ways to quiet the noise, especially when focus is a fight.
Is this just another to-do app?
No, it's the step before one. Mute is where everything gets out and gets sorted. Your task manager is where the work gets done.
Why do I feel lighter when nothing got done?
Because the weight isn't the work, it's the holding. A plan for an open loop removes its mental interference without finishing it (Masicampo & Baumeister, 2011).
Is there a free plan?
Yes. Start free, 14 days of full Pro, no card. After that keep a free tier (a few orbs), or go Pro for $9/mo: unlimited orbs, every theme, AI sort and phone capture.
Quiet the noise. Let your mind breathe.
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