Humanized launches Enso

When I spoke at ChiPy last spring, I shared the spotlight with Atul Varna. Yesterday Atul's company, Humanized, launched their product suite, Enso. These guys are unique for a few reasons. First, they are a software company, but their product isn't web-based. Second, they are young and brilliant, but aren't backed by Paul Graham.

More importantly, though, Enso is the fruit of work started by legendary interface designer Jef Raskin. Jef invented the Macintosh, and until his untimely passing was working on a project called Archy, based on his book The Humane Interface. Jef's son Aza carries on his father's legacy at Humanized, and I imagine this launch carries no small amount of pride and emotion for Aza in particular. Congratulations of the first order to Aza, Atul & Co.!

I've actually been part of Enso's beta program, and I can tell you that it's become a regular part of my workflow. I use Enso Launcher's open command all the time (although I don't use go as much, preferring an Exposé knock-off). And now that spellcheck works with dual monitors again, I'm starting to appreciate it too. The product is indeed humane, the implementation is rock solid, the packaging is slick, and I expect that this is just the beginning.

And oh yeah, it's written in Python. Feed back to Chad Whitacre.