SENOTE'S GARDEN

HELLO, I'M SENOTE 👋

I'm a dentist in Melbourne, and I'm building two small things in dental tech: Apollonia (a 4K camera that records what I do at work) and DentalScribe (an AI sidekick that writes my clinical notes so I don't have to). I grew up between Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Australia, burned out at 23, and spent the better part of a year wandering through Latin America before coming home with a slightly different idea of what to do with my life.

This little site is my garden, a place to keep notes on what I'm building, what I'm learning, and what I'm doing with the rest of my time. It grows slowly. Nothing here is finished. (That's kind of the point.)

what i'm up to right now

2026-04-12

side quests

clinical evergreen

Notes on restorative, endo, ortho, and the craft of clinical dentistry.
apollonia growing

Building a 4K camera that records dental treatment. Hardware, optics, firmware.
dentalscribe growing

AI clinical documentation — product thinking, NLP, and dental workflows.
travels evergreen

25 countries and counting. Routes, photos, and lessons from the road.
reading seedling

Books, papers, and articles that shaped how I think.
tools seedling

Software, hardware, and workflows I rely on daily.

what i'm building

Apollonia

beta

A 4K camera that records dental treatment, with an AR roadmap. Currently in beta with 5 clinicians.

DentalScribe

live

AI clinical documentation SaaS for dentists. Features Smart Dictation, Walk-Through Templates, and Script Assist. $49/month.

recent notes

sep 05
Don Draper's Earthly Odyssey Through the 9 Circles of Hell
jun 30
The Dichotomy of Control — A Simple Heuristic for Peace of Mind · 2min
may 27
America’s Failure on the Issue of Gun Control · 4min
may 19
Memento Mori: A morbid practice or exercise in humility? · 2min
may 05
The Fundamental Argument Against the Death Penalty · 2min
apr 21
Should the Rosetta Stone be returned to Egypt? · 3min
jul 22
George Orwell’s 1984 and the Inextricable Link Between Human Language and Human Consciousness · 4min
jun 15
The 4 ways atomic habits can be used to enhance productivity · 4min
jun 10
Cut them some slack with Hanlon’s razor · 1min

places i've wandered

lived visited not yet

26 countries · 5 continents · ~13% of the world · 169+ still to go

full country list

lived

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇦🇺 Australia 🇪🇬 Egypt

visited

🇦🇪 UAE 🇴🇲 Oman 🇨🇳 China 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇲🇴 Macau 🇹🇼 Taiwan 🇸🇬 Singapore 🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇹🇭 Thailand 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇫🇷 France 🇺🇸 USA 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇬🇹 Guatemala 🇸🇻 El Salvador 🇭🇳 Honduras 🇳🇮 Nicaragua 🇨🇷 Costa Rica 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇺🇾 Uruguay 🇦🇷 Argentina 🇫🇯 Fiji

elsewhere on the web