Associative Trails / tools
Tools
We build small tools to do our own work better, then publish them. Take them, adapt them, tell us where they fall short.
- Underway: still changing
- Stable: finished, kept in working order
Open sourceTake them, adapt them
Prompt frameworkUnderway
Roundtable
Prompts and personas for structured, multi-expert deliberation with any AI assistant. You set the panel; each critic reads the work from its own position, and the session ends with where they agree and where they do not.
- Last surveyed
- 1 Sep 2026
- Built in
- HTML, Markdown
Data collectionUnderway
Ookbook
Turns a one-off data collection into a file that can run itself again. The output is a markdown record with the steps to repeat the same collection next month.
Developer toolStable
Docknroll
A small macOS launcher that starts a Docker-based Django development environment with one command.