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About Coil
Purpose
Focus and simplify your inbox.
[Article to be updated]
Office 2.0
Smart, simple, done.
[Article to be updated]
The Attention Economy
The true cost of advertising.
[Article to be updated]
Organic vs. Mechanic
How the user can take control of their work.
This is not a science-fiction screenplay.
Organic computing is meant to serve the needs of people whose lives & livelihood are increasingly becoming dependent on computers. Where computers were first designed to enhance our “computational” power, they have steadily been transformed into ubiquitous systems for commerce, communication, and organization. We rely on them in our day-to-day living, and we rely on them for the stability of our social networks.
Yet the base model has not changed. We "input" our "data" into systems which operate using only bits of the whole picture. What gets left out, when we are just numbers? Organic computing reverses this orientation: by making the goals of the user the most basic organizational unit, an organic system like Coil is rooted in real-life processes. Data and applications are relevant, personal knowledge-work driven by the fulfillment of an individuals needs and goals.
In organic computing, the people using the application are never left out of the equation.
Clearpaper
An abstract introduction to Coil.
Does staring into your computer screen make you smarter, more productive? You could argue that yes, you learn new things, you connect and communicate with people all over the world, you continually refine your skillset. But what is happening in between those moments of acquired knowledge? How many otherwise worthless interactions does it take to get from one worthwhile point of information to another? The answer is always "too many". This attention waste is the byproduct of computing.
The problem with computing today and the root of its inefficiencies are not to be solved with faster, more powerful machines running data-crunching programs. More information can be processed in less time, but of what value is that information without inherent relevance to the person attempting to apply it? A gulf exists between the applications within a computer and the people who use them. A gulf which requires a new approach to computing in order to be crossed.
Software is built with a purpose, to accomplish some predefined application or process. The user who applies this appropriately will - if the software is successful - achieve the intended result. With the ubiquity of computing today, an inordinate amount of software has been developed to accomodate an only slightly less inordinate range of human processes. For every software, there is an intended application. Or in other words, for any application a software program must first be built.
The limitations of this model are tremendous. Computers today are like trains which go only as far as the tracks they run on. Even the wide range of available software does not account for the ways information processing could be applied to empower people's day-to-day life processes. The recent breathroughs of 'social software' and 'user-generated content' illustrate how software must evolve to stay relevant: the dynamic and oft-shifting goals of each individual user must drive the application of the software. For this to happen, software must first incorporate the context and objects which define the user's intended application.
Organic Computing
Thus, the next step in this evolution is organic - goal-oriented - software. When information is translated and organized in terms of a person's goals or interactions with those goals, the gulf between user and computer is bridged by the development of a common language. The software gains a basis for "understanding" dynamic human processes. While data interactions are sorted and "recycled" into contextually-relevant, personalized, and potentially insightful information.
Coil achieves the fundamentals of organic computing by
(1) providing an interface for people to interact within the context of their goals,
(2) using organic elements to define and organize interactions within a computer network, and
(3) displaying information according to relevance established by human interaction.
This is the origin of Coil as a Context and Objects Interface Language.
Enjoy
Freedom, clarity, simplicity.
Coil takes computing beyond the desktop, outside the office, and into the real world. Step outside the box and enjoy a software that fits the way you work, not the other way around.
Focused
Turn your time into an asset.
The reports are out. We spend approximately one-third of our day doing... what? We don't really remember. Maybe it was important. Or maybe it was just filler.
Coil helps you focus your work habits. Prioritize tasks, manage your time and schedule, and measure your work's progress. When you keep track of your own progress, you not only become more productive, your knowledge becomes an asset.
You can use Coil to report on completed projects and tasks. Present clients with accurate, detailed timesheets and gain back the value of your work.
Redundant Storage
Your PC will never be 100% secure.
Important files. Links you'd never find again. Your doctor's phone number. Why store valuable data in one place? Not only is it vulnearble to being lost, but you can't always get to it when you need it.
In Coil, you can safely and easily store your data as you work. Coil makes back-ups of your back-ups, and with your own SSL-encrypted virtual private network, you won't have to worry about a thing.
Relevance
Beyond the search.
[Article to be updated]
Company Overview
Our story.
Coil's mission is to help people coordinate their work.
We believe that if we give people a way to organize and manage their goals, then we can also give them a way to translate mass incoming information into personal, relevant bits of knowledge. This is organic computing. This is Coil.
In 1998, lawyer-turned-technologist Steve VanZutphen began asking the question, where is the software that can keep pace with busy professionals and still remain relevant? Coil was founded in 2001 to reach all those unserved by expensive (and clunky) legacy apps or limited-use web-apps.
Today, Coil is releasing a software that fits the way people work. The Coil team has quietly prepared a scalable, synchronized network to support and enhance the way people do business. As Coil continues to improve its techne, this alpha release will become increasingly available.
Coil has offices in Riverside, California and Nicosia, Cyprus, and virtual offices all over the world.
Why "Coil"?
The engineering acronym COIL stands for Context and Objects Interface Language. We discovered this after we had already settled on the name "Coil". But because it reflects the way Coil describes human processes, we figured we must be doing something right.
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