A RECORD OF THE JOURNEY

How Octui is taking shape.

A timeline of the milestones, experiments, and ideas behind Octui, including its earliest work under the name SortAi.

About these dates

The dates below describe when development activities took place. Some linked journal entries were written retrospectively in October 2026 and are labeled accordingly.

Starting fresh

A clean restart of the mobile app project gave it a basic Flutter shell, defined routes, and initial navigation.

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Importing the actual memories

Android multiple-photo selection and a staged local import pipeline moved the app closer to real-world use.

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Home, Projects and People

Work progressed on persistent navigation, local project records, and useful browsing tools. This was still active development rather than a finished release.

A bigger vision

The idea evolved toward a memory intelligence system, including a possible on-device Personal Octui Brain and privacy-preserving global learning methods. These remain long-term concepts.

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A public website and a new journal

getoctui.com provides a public introduction, actual app previews, and a place to document the journey.

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