1. The Infinite Canvas
Aleph (ℵ) is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, but it is also used in mathematical set theory to represent the size of infinite sets. Specifically, Aleph-null represents the cardinality of the natural numbers, a set of numbers that is infinite but countable.
When you brainstorm with AI, ideas don't fit neatly into a top-to-bottom chat interface. You ask a question, get an answer, ask for an alternative, and suddenly your thought process branches in three different directions. Alyph is built on an infinite canvas to give those infinite possibilities the space they deserve.
2. Seeing Everything at Once
In 1945, the writer Jorge Luis Borges published a famous short story called The Aleph. In the story, the Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points. Anyone who gazes into it can see the entire universe from every conceivable angle simultaneously, without distortion or overlapping.
Standard AI chatbots suffer from tunnel vision. To see an old idea, you have to scroll up, losing your current context. By laying out your conversation spatially, Alyph attempts to be exactly what Borges described: a single interface where you can zoom out and see every iteration, every branch, and every idea at the exact same time.
3. The Blocks Themselves
Finally, the spelling. In typography, a Glyph is the specific shape, design, or representation of a character.
In our codebase, the individual messages on your whiteboard aren't called messages or bubbles—they are called Glyphs. They are the tangible, draggable, physical blocks of thought that make up your map.