An always on playground for ideas, idearound has interactive apps to help get things done and interactive apps for exploring, learning and play; idearound also has growing collections of art, poetry, games and, hopefully much more as time goes by.
On idearound you will find interactive apps and games – old and new ideas expressed as apps, tools to help you learn or remember something about time, useful database apps (apps that remember) and games to explore – and always available art and poetry, a growing list of opportunities for discovery, fun, learning, knowing, long and short‑term memory recall, strategic thinking, decision‑making, task completion and play.
Your comments about what you find here, your ideas for apps or games you are willing to make public, and your art, music, and poetry are welcome. Original ideas will display your copyright. Send comments and ideas to Bill@wceDesign.com or call me at 207 701‑9001 between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. When I can, I’ll take your call. If I don’t answer, please leave a message with your number and times I can call you back or send me a text. You can also record your ideas in the public idea database that is part of idearound.com. Thanks. When I can, I’ll try to make your ideas come to life.
My goal is to add more “idearounding” to life. Thank you to Anthropic’s team of thinkers and programmers and their AI user interface Claude Code for making it much easier and much, much faster for me to complete the design, coding and technical work necessary to bring so many ideas to life in the short time this website has been live – in Collections, poems, strings of poems and poetry books from local poets; art, strings of art (galleries) from local artists; in Time Apps, “How Many Days?” “Remembrance” and “How Long Has It Been?;” in Ideas, the Idea and Checklist databases plus the game and toy design playpen Choices; and following the Idea database the present crop of other useful tools and gadgets, the session timers, Double Timer and Triple Timer, and database apps, Life Timer, To-Do Database, Gifts Database, Project Timer, Meeting Notes and PT Exercises; and games like The Button Game, abc · 123, The Read, and WODIFF. That includes increasingly sophistocated additions to the database apps, now with searching, sorting, exporting, public and private records, secure logins and private session monitoring to warn users if they login more than once (e.g. from a computer and then their phone), and optional login timeouts. Many apps and games will change and improve over time. And interesting ideas will continue to pop into existence here.
If your interactions with these apps and games are successful, you will have fun, learn, discover, gain more control of your life, reflect, and hopefully be a bit more thankful for your precious life, the precious lives of others, and the wonders of human creativity. Thank you. I’m glad you’re here
All interactive apps and games are free to use at idearound.com, are available for installation on networks and websites for no licensing charge to parents, educators and educational organizatons under open source licensing, and to businesses and other individuals for nominal fees. Please see our licensing page for more information.
My first complex relationship with AI began on Monday May 4, 2026 when I started using AI to help me build this interactive website with apps and games. Ideas I had thought and dreamed about for many years and could describe to the AI in detail could be created in, literally, minutes. Instead of hours, days, weeks, months of research and hard work demanding careful attention to details, if I could envision an idea and describe what I wanted to Sonnet (a Claude mid-tier model) AI and later, to Claude Code AI wired to a programmer’s editor, I could collaborate with the AI doing the hard, intricate work, knowing in its web sized mind all the proven solutions, and proven designs also, to do anything I had in mind. My experience as a programmer and database developer helped me communicate, test, correct and tune each solution. It’s important to note that my collaboration with Claude Code is also becoming more valuable over time; I can ask Claude to remember operations that I know I will want to do again. That growing store of know-how makes our work together more and more efficient. As a subnote, one reason I started working with AI on the idearound.com project was to do research for a planned series of poetry books about humans and machines in the future. I did not expect the human acceleration and transformation that occured.
idearound is a publishing and promotion platform for ideas — art, music, poetry, apps, and games — created by and for artists, musicians, poets, dreamers, inventors, game designers, game players and life-long learners everywhere
Collections and sequences, named sets – “strings” – to explore, create, or share. Art shows, galleries, books and selections from books (current focus is poetry), named sets of poems, links and more.
Explore collections → a poem about reality Days & DatesThree calculators: “How Many Days?” for Birthdays, “Remembrance” a shared Memorial, and “How Long Has It Been?” for any two dates including BC.
Choose an app → a poem about time GamesWord games, puzzles and learning games — including games designed to be played by an adult with a preschool child. More games, including simple strategic board games, coming soon.
Choose a game → about Bill and games Idea Apps & ToysA simple game design idea toy called “Choices,” a Checklist Database and the Idea Database. The databases support public or private records that can be shared with other database users.
Explore ideas → a poem titled “artist” Useful AppsDouble Timer runs two named timers in alternating sequence — work and move, talk and listen, any two‑phase rhythm. Triple Timer does the same for a three‑phase rhythm. You’ll also find the Gifts Database, Life Timer, Meeting Notes, Project Timer, PT Exercises, and the To‑Do Database. All database apps support both public and private records with a simple login scheme. These apps can be used anytime, from anywhere, on any device that connects to the internet.
Open tools → a poem about clever ideas