A true paper-based system makes phones obsolete? Scroll no more.
What if your next productivity breakthrough didn’t come from an app but from a blank sheet of paper? In this 10‑minute keynote presentation straight from The Wright Innovation Hangar — you’ll discover Outforms, a radical paper‑first system that reimagines how we think, plan, and create.
NOTETAKINGTECHNOLOGY
Antos Sivyh
5/5/20255 min read
Introduction to Alt Tech
As the world gets more saturated with screens, smartphones and laptops and as screen time continues to grow, it’s rare to see a product that tries reinvents how we interact with technology. On May 5, 2025, visionary inventor and artist Antos Sivyh has presented Outforms. It is an analog, paper OS that is designed to make physical paper as dynamic and intuitive as any digital device. In this keynote, Sivyh draws on 5,000 years of innovation—from the first piece of paper to Leonardo da Vinci’s universal notebook—to present a revolutionary user interface and limitless paper system that adapts to your ideas, not the other way around. Below, you’ll find a concise overview, the full (reformatted) transcript, and links to the historic figures whose insights inspired this leap forward.
Key Highlights
Outforms: A single device combining a creative notebook, a master productivity system, and a dynamic knowledge commonplace.
Revolutionary user interface: Adapts organically to each task, eliminating rigid buttons and screens.
Limitless paper: Harnesses the power of pen and mind maps with AI‑powered precision.
Patented technology that “understands your intentions, ignores distractions, and feels like magic.”
Full Transcript of the Keynote
Speaker: Antos Sivyh
Event: Outforms Keynote; The Wright Innovation Hangar, Memo Mediateque
Date: May 5, 2025
This is a day I’ve been looking forward to for 5,000 years — for all of recorded history. Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. And one is very fortunate if they get to work on even one of these in their lifetime. We have been very fortunate.
I’ve had the privilege of helping introduce a few of these to the world. In 105 AD, we introduced the first piece of paper—it changed the entire media industry. In 1478, Leonardo da Vinci popularized the use of the universal notebook—and that didn’t just change how we write, it transformed how we think.
Today, we’re introducing three revolutionary products of this class:
A creative notebook with full control to help you shape your ideas
A master productivity system to manage every task
A dynamic knowledge commonplace to collect and draw out information
These aren’t three separate devices. This is one device—and we’re calling it Outforms. Today, we’re going to reinvent the paper.
But before I get into it, let’s talk about a category. The most advanced phones today are called smartphones. Supposedly, they combine a phone, messaging, and what they call the internet—sort of a baby internet—into one device, all with a touchscreen.
But the problem is, they’re not as smart as you, and they’re not so easy to use. If you plot smartness versus ease of use, smartphones don’t score high on either axis. Simple tasks now take longer and feel harder. Notifications, screen time, distractions everywhere—we’ve become addicted and miserable.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. We believe technology should empower us to do more, not less. Let’s redefine what technology can do for you.
Laptops? A little smarter, but far more complicated. Just finding and learning applications is a struggle. We don’t want any of that.
What we want is a product that’s way smarter than any mobile device, and super easy to use. That’s what Outforms is.
We’re reinventing paper.
We start with a revolutionary user interface — the result of years of research and development, combining hardware and software in harmony.
Why do we need a revolutionary UI? Let’s look at the usual suspects: phone, laptop, computer, tablet. What’s wrong with their interfaces? They’re constrained by apps and rigid controls—six buttons encased in plastic and glass—uniform across every task. But every application demands something unique. We need an organic interface, one that adapts to the task, not the other way around.
What happens when you think of a great idea six months from now? Smartphones are already shipped—you’d need a developer to modify them. They can’t evolve with your thinking.
But we already solved this: 500 years ago, with paper. Paper was the original limitless interface. With a pen, you had full control.
In today’s fast-paced world, how do we bring this magic back? We eliminate rigid screens and buttons—and create a new, ultimate, limitless paper designed for this generation.
How do we interact with it? We don’t want a scroll, a heavy laptop, or VR glasses—no one wants that. We don’t need a “digital detox” to think clearly.
Instead, we use the best supercomputer—our mind—and the best pointing device—our fingers. We invented a new technology: Outforms. It works like magic: no VR glasses, no apps, no AI assistant. It understands your intentions, ignores distractions, and is remarkably perceptive.
You integrate ideas and tasks with natural gestures—and yes, we’ve patented it.
Outforms isn’t just a step forward—it’s a leap into a future where your mind and a piece of paper unlock infinite possibilities.
Through history, we’ve introduced revolutionary writing tools: the wheel, the typewriter, and now Outforms. Each has sparked a creative revolution—yet at their core, they’re all about pen and paper, reimagined in a fun, powerful way.
We start with a revolutionary interface—then we build breakthrough software on top. Current mobile software is like baby software; ours feels 5,000 years wiser.
Outforms runs all possible mind maps: multitasking, networking, management, security, privacy—all built right into paper. It’s desktop‑class creativity, in your hands.
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”
— Z. Clark
“Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
— Albert Einstein
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
Innovation distinguishes leaders from followers. Our vision is to lead—transforming how people interact with ideas, work, and thought.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic—and that’s what we’re building: seamless, intuitive, magical.
And now, I hand it over to Antos for a demo—showing how Outforms replaces your computer with a physical OS: paper, notebooks, or anything you choose.
Thank you for being here.
Register for Outforms 10-day program here (Summer 2025): https://sivyh.com/outforms