Vision

​Technology that supports you

Mission

To provide a technology system to the world which:

• Supports you in performing the most common tasks that technology is used for, such as creating, managing and enjoying media (photos, music, books, movies and TV shows), communicating (email, instant messaging, voice and video calling, online journalling), creating, managing and viewing professional and creative documents (word processing documents, spreadsheets, websites, presentations, drawings and databases).
• Helps you live a happy, prosperous and fulfilling life by integrating personal growth into your life in a fun, enjoyable and easy way, including:
  • Identifying your core values
  • Creating a vision of how you want your life to be based on those values
  • Helping you to build positive habits that automatically lead you towards goals that fulfil your vision
• Is consistent, and therefore reliable and easy to learn
• Is intuitive, yet powerful
• Is accessible as many people as possible
• Works seamlessly across all kinds of technology
• Is easy to build upon by others and whose power grows exponentially as it is built upon

How?: By uniting the power of many different open-source computer applications into one consistent, easy-to-use yet powerful application called 'Synthesystem'.

Current Goal (long-term):
A single, unified, easy-to-use system to perform the most useful tasks an everyday person uses technology for.
Why?:

• Consistency: learn something once and then use that knowledge over and over. This makes learning to use technology more intuitive, faster and more enjoyable! Synthesystem will significantly reduce the amount of time required to learn common tasks compared to using different applications for those same tasks, so you can spend more time using your technology instead of struggling with your technology. This leads to several advantages: lower cost of training employees for businesses, better health due to reduced stress, and, most importantly, happier people around the world!
• Compatibility: as Synthesystem grows, it will be capable of more and more tasks: viewing, editing and organising your photos; playing, organising and editing your music and videos, reading and organising electronic books, doing word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphic design, email, web browsing, and much, much more. Because it is one system, you will be able to switch between these tasks seamlessly, no longer having to worry about compatibility issues
• Power: when a new, generic, feature is added to Synthesystem, it is immediately available 'across the board', meaning everywhere within Synthesystem. For example, it will be possible in a future version of Synthesystem indicate how much you like the media on your devices by choosing a rating out of 10 (1/10 is poor, 10/10 is excellent). In Synthesystem, unlike in other systems, this will not only apply to media such as music and photos, but to any of your digital files/items/media - word processing documents, games, website links, spreadsheets, and any other kind of digital 'item'. This will let you choose your favourites from your different kinds of items, so that you can spend most of your time with the things you like the most - for example, seeing your favourite photos and listening to your favourite music. To show the advantage of taking a general approach, it means that it will let you search and filter the items on your computer in powerful yet easy ways, like "show me a slideshow of my favourite photos taken from 2010-2014 and play my favourite music to go with it" or "show me which CVs/résumés impressed me the most on my first review of the applicants for the new job".

John Gillanders
Managing Director
Technaturally Ltd
​Ōtepoti/Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand