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Entryways, forgetting, the smart home. Written by the people building Dory, the smart key tray that remembers for you.

  1. Smart homePhysical triggers for your smart home: what they are and when they helpA physical trigger is a device that starts an automation from something happening in the real world, rather than from a phone's location or a clock. [...]Written by Published on 5 min read
  2. Smart homeWhy leaving-home automations fire lateLeaving-home automations fire late because almost all of them rely on your phone's location, which gets sampled at intervals across a radius of at [...]Written by Published on 5 min read
  3. Smart homeWhat Matter is and why it changes the smart homeMatter is a standard that lets smart devices from different brands talk to each other without a separate app for each one. A Matter-certified device [...]Written by Published on 5 min read
  4. ForgettingGifts for people who forget everythingThe right gift for someone who forgets everything doesn't help them remember better. It removes the need to remember. The gifts that work have one [...]Written by Published on 4 min read
  5. EntrywayAirTag, Tile or a smart key tray: what you actually needA tracker like AirTag or Tile helps you find your keys once they're already lost. A smart key tray tells you what you're about to forget while you're [...]Written by Published on 5 min read
  6. ForgettingWhy phone reminders don't workPhone reminders fail because they ask for four things in a row. Remembering to set them. Being available when they fire. Remembering why you set them. [...]Written by Published on 5 min read
  7. ForgettingThe mental load at home: who remembers everything for everyoneMental load is the invisible work of holding the state of a household in your head: what's due tomorrow, who needs to bring what, what's running out [...]Written by Published on 5 min read
  9. NewsB4i Investor Day: the day we put Dory in front of investorsOn July 1 we took the stage at the B4i Investor Day to present Dory to a room full of investors. Three months of pre-acceleration in Batch XIII ended [...]Written by Published on 2 min read
  10. NewsDeep Tech Matching Day: a full day of letting people try DoryOn June 30 we spent the day at the Deep Tech Matching Day, among 56 deep tech startups, with Dory on a counter and dozens of corporates and investors [...]Written by Published on 2 min read
  11. ForgettingADHD and everyday forgetfulness: change the environment, not your headWith ADHD, everyday forgetting is more often a cueing problem than a memory problem. The information is there. What's missing is the signal that [...]Written by Published on 5 min read
  12. ForgettingHow to stop forgetting things when you leave homeTo stop forgetting things when you leave home, change the environment instead of training your memory. An object placed on your path beats a list you [...]Written by Published on 4 min read
  13. EntrywayHow to organize your entrywayTo organize your entryway, start from the path rather than the furniture. Watch where your hand actually lands coming in and going out. Put things [...]Written by Published on 5 min read
  14. ForgettingWhy we always forget our keysYou forget your keys because by the time you reach the door, your head has already arrived where you're going. Your body is still at home. Your [...]Written by Published on 5 min read
  15. EntrywaySmart key tray: what it is and how it worksA smart key tray is an entryway tray that notices when you pick up or put down your keys and uses that moment to remind you of something. From the [...]Written by Published on 4 min read
  16. OtherWhat Kickstarter is, and why we're launching Dory thereKickstarter is where projects raise the money to exist. People who believe in an idea back it before it goes on sale. If enough of them do, the [...]Written by Published on 3 min read