Early product notes often contain information you are not ready to publish: a customer conversation, a half-formed name, a pricing worry, or the reason an idea matters to you. Palm gives those notes a focused place to become a product direction without requiring you to put the whole process in a shared online workspace.
Planning, not prompt theatre
Palm is designed around a small sequence. State the idea. Describe the person it helps. Choose the smallest useful version. Decide how you will find out if it is wanted. The point is not to produce an impressive wall of text; it is to make the next decision easier.
What local-first changes
Keeping the workspace on your Mac makes it easier to work with your existing notes, images and drafts. It also makes the boundary clear: Palm can help you reason about a product, but you remain responsible for the claims, customer research and code that follow.
From brief to launch
Once the direction feels coherent, use Palm’s launch planning flow to draft a page, a store story and a short distribution list. Then leave the workspace and talk to people. A private plan earns its value when it produces a public test.