What We Do
I’m a practicing physical therapist building provider-driven software and hardware. The most pressing problem, in my opinion, is not the documentation quality, it’s how it pulls us from patient care. Too much care through a keyboard. The goal here is simple: get clinicians off the keyboard and back to the patient.
This project is an upgrade to our lowest-friction mode of note-taking: paper and pencil. It captures a clinician’s handwriting throughout each treatment using a digital version of a familiar flowsheet, then converts the day’s handwritten record into a clean, chronological roll-up paragraph that can be exported into whatever documentation system we’re required to use. It is not a full documentation system replacement.
Input is via stylus on a tablet and the system works offline. A push-button talk-to-text option allows longer entries and quick one-offs, which are folded into the same roll-up alongside handwritten notes. The system is currently being built on a modest desktop, powered by a slightly less modest amount of coffee.
The Gist Mill — Introduction
Chapter 1 — Domain Blindness
A two minute story.
Chapter 2 — More than an idea, less than finished. A Silent Movie
a silent movie of the clipboard prototype
Chapter 3 — Coming Soon
Our Projects
Clipboard
A stylus-first documentation interface for fast, structured charting at the point of care.
Charteyes
A handwriting-to-text model built for real PT note-taking styles, abbreviations, and shorthand.
Chartears
A speech-to-text engine designed for noisy clinic environments and natural speech.
Get in Touch
Have a question, collaboration idea, or want to follow our work? Reach out anytime at contact@gistmill.studio.