ProsoPlate
iPhone
Mindful eating, one plate at a time - slow down, notice, and taste the meal in front of you.
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προσοχή prosoche - the art of attention
Train your attention.
Train your attention.
Come home to your own mind.
Quietly crafted iOS tools for paying attention - grounded in Stoic and Buddhist practice, and built by someone who uses them every single day.
The tools
Four small apps. One practice.
Each one takes a single everyday moment - eating, walking, breathing, remembering - and turns it into a few minutes of trained attention. No streaks to defend, no noise. Just the practice.
ProsoStride
iPhoneApple Watch
Walking and running the Niko-Niko way - a gentle, conversational pace set by cadence, not pace.
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ProsoEase
iPhoneiPad
Breathing, walking and reflection practices, with your own recorded voice on the exhale - short resets, no streaks to protect.
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ProsoEcho
iPhoneiPadMac
Learn the words that matter by heart - collect quotes and passages, rehearse them aloud, and let text-to-speech read them back. The ancient art of memorising, not filing away.
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The idea
What is prosoche?
Prosoche (προσοχή) is the ancient Greek word for attention - the continuous, watchful presence of mind the Stoics placed at the centre of their practice. Pierre Hadot called it the fundamental Stoic spiritual attitude.
It's the same muscle the Buddhist traditions train as mindfulness. Two lineages, one human capacity: the ability to notice where your mind is, and to bring it home.
Read the longer story"Nowhere you can go is more peaceful - more free of interruptions - than your own soul."Marcus Aurelius · Meditations 4.3, Hays translation
Writing
Two kinds of writing, kept apart on purpose.
The Journal stays close to the practice. The personal corner - everything that's just me - lives in its own room, in my own name. Both now live here, on one domain.
The Journal
on the practice
The thinking behind the tools - attention, the evening review, interoception, the traditions they draw from.
Mar ’26 The Evening Review: Three Traditions, One Practice Mar ’26 Interoception: The Skill Nobody Taught You Mar ’26 Why I Don't Count Calories (And What I Track Instead)
Splinters of the Whole
personal · public
My own notes - building the apps in the open, plus the occasional thought on life and the world. Written in my own name, speaking only for myself.
May ’26 ProsoStride is here Mar ’26 Version 1.5 - Less Friction, More Seeing Feb ’26 Version 1.2 - One Question at a TimePick a lane - each tag is its own feed, so you only get what you came for.
Who builds this
"I build these because I use them. Every day, before anyone else does."
I'm Bart - 52, in London, with a day job and three teenagers. Prosoche is what I make in the five to ten hours a week I can find: the contemplative tools I wished existed, made honest by the fact that I depend on them. No growth team, no dark patterns. One person trying to practise well, in public.