FAQ

Ponder is an extended mind for visionaries: people who carry a lot of ideas and plans for a long time, and need to share them with the people they build with.

You talk or type, and Ponder’s AI agent turns your thinking into a graph on a shared canvas. Each idea becomes its own small node, connected to the ideas around it. You can take in the shape of your whole thinking at a glance, and the graph is still there the next time you pick it up.

Obsidian is built around documents. You write notes and link them together, and the graph view draws each note as a dot and each link as a line.

That graph tells you which notes are related, but not what they say. To follow your own thinking, you still have to open each note and read it.

Ponder is built around the graph itself. It breaks your thinking into small, separate ideas, and each one sits on the canvas as a node you can read. When you look at a Ponder graph, you see the thoughts themselves and how they fit together. The graph is the thinking, not a map of where it’s stored.

Ponder also has a voice AI agent built in. Think out loud, and the agent adds and connects ideas on the canvas as you speak. Obsidian doesn’t offer anything like that out of the box.

Notion is great for organizing work that has already taken shape: docs, wikis, databases, and project plans.

Ponder is for the step before that, while ideas are still forming. Instead of forcing early thoughts into pages and tables, you lay them out as connected nodes on a canvas, where the whole picture stays visible without clicking through nested pages.

Ponder is where you figure it out. Notion is where you write it down.

Granola helps after the meeting. It listens in, then gives you tidy notes and a summary once the call ends. Those notes are personal by default. You can share them, but they’re your record of what happened.

Ponder helps during the meeting. As people talk, the discussion appears as a live graph on one canvas that every participant sees. Watching the conversation take shape changes it: the group notices which ideas connect, which questions are still open, and what’s missing, while there’s still time to do something about it.

Ponder’s AI also works for you in the moment. Say “Hey Ponder” and ask it to add an idea, connect two threads, or restructure part of the graph, all by voice and without breaking the flow of the meeting.