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Companion. Part of OS, as a Mac app for your mail.

It sorts incoming mail, turns what needs doing into tasks in OS, and keeps your calendar beside them. A language model service of your choice helps it sort and extract, with guardrails that keep your mail safe.

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Beta via Apple TestFlight · Coming soon to the Mac App Store · macOS 14 or later

Mail

Your mailbox, on your Mac.

A native mailbox for your work mail. Each mail is tagged as it arrives: a request, a deadline, a paper to read. A long mail can be summarised in place.

Companion on the Mac: the inbox, with a mail about a sequencing run’s QC report open, tagged action required and high priority
The inbox, with a mail tagged action required and high priority. Example data.

Then each mail gets an answer ↓

Triage

Every mail gets one of four answers.

Triage shows one mail at a time. You move it one of four ways, and the filters learn from what you choose.

  • Keep as taskLands in your active tasks. Trains the action filter.
  • Not a to-doRemoves it from Triage. Trains the action filter.
  • SpamFiles it as spam. Trains the spam filter.
  • Set asideRemoves it from Triage. No training.

Your answer is kept. When mail is sorted again, what you decided stays, and every correction is recorded for the filters.

Companion’s Triage: one mail as a card, with keep as task to the right, not a to-do to the left, spam above and set aside below
One mail in Triage, with its four directions.

What needs doing becomes a task ↓

Tasks

What needs doing becomes a task in OS.

A task keeps the mail it came from, a short summary, its date, its priority and its project. Today and Tasks show what is due and what is waiting, in one list.

A task made from a mail: review the QC report for sequencing run 2417, with the source mail, its summary, due date, priority and project The same tasks on a board

  1. Mail arrivesCompanion reads it and tags it: a request, a deadline, a paper to read.
  2. A task is proposedThe proposal waits in Triage. Nothing is created until you look at it.
  3. You decideAccept, change the person or the date, or dismiss. Accepted tasks appear in Today.
  4. The lab sees itWith team sync on, the task is in OS too, next to the chat and the project it belongs to.

With the calendar beside them ↓

Calendar

Your calendar, with the tasks beside your meetings.

The calendar of your mail account, editable, by day, week, month or as an agenda. Each task shows on the day it is due.

  • CalendarYour meetings, editable on the Mac.
  • TasksDue tasks beside the meetings of that day.
  • WidgetsNext up, on the desktop.
Companion’s calendar, one week: meetings in the day columns and tasks due that day along the top
One week: meetings in the columns, tasks due along the top.

Why it is a Mac app ↓

Your choice of AI

You choose the model it works with.

Companion uses a language model service you pick: your institute’s, your lab’s server, or your own through a standard API. Nothing is sent until you agree, mailbox by mailbox.

  • Your institute’sUse the service your institute runs, such as Helmholtz Blablador.
  • Your lab’s serverIf your lab’s collaboration server offers a model, Companion can use it.
  • Off until you agreeAI features stay off until you set up a service and agree for each mailbox.
  • NativeA Mac app, for macOS 14 or later.

Part of OS ↓

Part of OS

Your mailbox stays yours. The work goes to the lab.

Optional: switch on team sync, and Companion shares with the lab in OS.

  • ChatThe lab’s channels, next to your mail.
  • People and projectsThe same people and projects as in the browser.
  • TasksShared tasks, with the ones from your mail among them.
  • Add-onsNotepad, lab seminars, lab links, work time.
PartCompanionOS in the browser
Mail and mailboxYes, on your MacNo
Tasks, calendar, peopleYesYes
Chat and projectsYes, through team syncYes
Analysis, figures, writerNoYes
Where it runsmacOS 14 or laterAny browser
More about OS →

Start with a pilot ↓

Bring your mail into OS.

Companion is part of OS. We are looking for research groups and institutes to pilot OS with us, with Companion on their Macs.

Request a pilotMore about OS

Or write to support@ongoingscience.com