Overview
Pond is a messaging tool designed to save users 3-5 hours a week by prioritizing important messages and streamlining communication.
Key Features:
- Priority message display
- Automatic tagging and filtering
- Snooze and schedule send options
- AI-generated customizable message drafts
- Lightning search and keyboard shortcuts
Use Cases:
- Managing personal and team communications
- Responding to urgent messages efficiently
- Organizing conversations with automatic tags
- Preparing quick replies with one-click drafts
- Scheduling messages for optimal delivery
Benefits:
- Increased productivity through time savings
- Improved message organization and clarity
- Enhanced response speed with keyboard shortcuts
- Reduced clutter in messaging platforms
- Personalized communication with automated replies
Capabilities
- Installs macOS (ARM64) desktop app via direct download or Homebrew cask (brew tap pond-ai/pond).
- Connects to iMessage on Mac and reads/indexes conversations for search and automation.
- Indexes and auto-tags conversations locally to surface priority messages and enable search.
- Provides fast keyboard-driven search/navigation across messages (lightning search).
- Lets users snooze conversations and schedule message sends from within the app.
- Generates one-click AI message drafts and in-conversation personalized replies.
- Generates on-demand conversation recaps/summaries of selected threads.
- Offers Pro features (Quick Draft, Auto Draft) that send selected text to third-party AI providers.
- Sends only explicitly selected conversation content to external AI services for Pro features.
- Stores and processes Google Calendar data locally and can create calendar events when connected.
- Performs message indexing/filtering on-device by default; optional server-side processing for Pro.
- Uses Stripe for payments and provides a Homebrew repo to automate installation via GitHub.
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