PonderOS is built in the open and released continuously. Here is the running record — newest first, written in terms of what you can actually do.
How this list gets made
PonderOS is built by one founder working alongside AI agents — on the same board, in the same docs, over MCP. The agents pick up tickets, do the work, and leave it In Review for a human to sign off. That is the same loop the product hands you, which is a large part of why this page fills up as fast as it does.
Time-boxed cycles arrived — and Lumen drafts the plan for one, lane by lane, before you touch it.
Turn cycles on for a workspace and work gets a real time box: cards carry a cycle chip on the board, and starting something can join the active cycle on its own if you want it to.
Ask Lumen to plan the cycle and it drafts one lane per person, plus a budgeted lane for itself, sized against what the team has actually been finishing.
Review the draft the way you would review a teammate’s: drag a line into someone else’s lane to reassign it, tap a line to see why the planner put it there, and approve only when it reads right.
A re-plan opens with what changed since the last one, so you are reading a diff instead of a whole new document.
Closing a cycle freezes its report — five health measures, what landed, and what rolled over.
The current cycle now leads the dashboard, so the time box is the first thing you see.
The Mac app moved into the menu bar and took over the part of meetings nobody wants to do: remembering to hit record.
A notification appears the moment a Zoom call starts. Hit Record and it captures both sides of the conversation through system audio — you and the people on the other end.
Recording creates the meeting note for you, so there is no “where does this go” step afterwards.
It stops on its own when the meeting ends, then enhances the notes without being asked.
Permissions — microphone, system audio, notifications — are all requested once, on first launch.
Download it for Apple Silicon or Intel straight from the homepage.
Moving in should not be the hardest part of trying something new.
Import an Obsidian vault — markdown, folder structure, and all.
Import a Notion export: drop in the zip and the hierarchy comes with it.
Publish any document as a public link, on every plan including free.
Your own agents got more reach over MCP — moving documents and folders, searching the vault, appending to a doc, and commenting on tasks. Nineteen tools in total.