A tool for people who work with their hands, made by one of them.
Tine is for carvers — two quiet places under one roof. A private journal for the wood you've worked, and a shared field for the wood you've spotted. It started the way most small tools do — as a frustration with the alternatives, and then as a weekend sketch.
Tine is two pillars under one roof, each with its own posture.
The journal is private and presence-led. Most apps built around creative work treat output as a stream: the newest thing on top, a rolling feed, metrics tallied at the edges. That frame fits broadcasting. It doesn't fit craft. The journal is built around memory — atomic moments that connect to material, and material that connects back to the tree.
The field is shared and connection-led. Carvers see the wood out there: a fallen birch on a logging road, a black walnut in a friend's yard, a tree being taken down next week. The field is for sharing that information about wood — not interactions between people. Pins, photos, species guesses, and short notes; no replies, no likes, no feeds.
When you split a log into billets, each billet carries the log's story with it. When a billet becomes a spoon, the spoon still remembers. When you spot a tree on a walk, that's the start of a story too. Tine is built to keep both kinds of memory honest.
- 01Atomic moments.
A photo and a note, nothing required. Material, project, and lineage are optional and earned later — not gates.
- 02Material lineage.
A log becomes billets; a billet becomes a spoon. Tine keeps the thread unbroken, so a finished piece can point back to the tree.
- 03Quiet by design.
No streaks, counts, or rewards. No feeds, no follower counts. The reward is the record.
I've been splitting and turning green wood for a few years out of a small shop. I kept a paper logbook for material and a camera roll for moments, and neither talked to the other. Tine is what happened when I stopped wanting them to.
It's built slowly, in evenings, for an audience of one that might one day be more. If the shape of it resonates, I'd love to hear from you.