Reinventing
Normal
Ordinary work, rebuilt.
First product: NormalFiche. File. Form. Flow.
Work should not stall in a mailbox.
Software for work
that still lives in email.
Reinventing Normal builds tools that cut the drag of ordinary office work — at a school, a club, a city desk, or a company. Packets, approvals, and final_USE_THIS.pdf should not stall in a mailbox.
NormalFiche
File. Form. Flow.
The filing cabinet that finishes the work. Document management plus the process around it. Keep the original file. Collect answers on a worksheet. Tell the next person automatically. Nothing to install. You sign in from a browser.
Know what it is.
Know how long it stays.
Cabinets and folders hold the real file. The point is classification: a type, the labels that belong on that type, and a keep-for so the drawer does not grow forever.
Document type and description are required. Policy, invoice, filled form, correspondence — the kind decides the rest.
A template hangs the fields that kind of file needs. Search by department, date, or whatever you stamped.
Set how long a type or description stays. Once a quarter, someone archives, deletes, or keeps what is past the window.
A worksheet.
Not an attachment.
Build the questions. Mark what is required. Share a unique link. Later chapters open on the same record — so the next person finishes what you started. Submit can start the workflow by itself.
The next person
is told. Automatically.
Draw when work starts, who acts, and where the packet goes. A person or a group claims the task. They approve. Reminders fire. The file is already in the drawer.
Three beats. Every time.
Someone answers the worksheet.
The next person gets a task.
The real copy lands in a cabinet.
The rest of the filing room.
People sit in named teams. The team holds the file rules and the shared task inbox — not a one-off share on each document.
A workflow can email someone. They answer from their inbox. The thread is stored on the related task.
Everyday work first. Admins also get Set up the site. Progress saves to the signed-in account.
Tell us what should stop living in email.
Questions about Reinventing Normal or NormalFiche. It goes to hello@reinventing-normal.com.