Daily journal from your new tab.
Ponder guides you through daily journaling right from your new tab. With self-reflective prompts, fast keyboard shortcuts, aesthetic backgrounds, and privately-stored entries, you can just focus on writing — Ponder takes care of the rest.
Features:
- Replaces your new tab window with a beautiful page so you can start writing immediately
- Respond to thought-provoking prompts organized into 6 different categories — Daily Productivity, Daily Lists, Daily Reflection, Creative, Self-Reflection, and Free-Write
- Set gentle reminders to write daily when visiting unproductive websites
- Use built-in keyboard shortcuts for a seamless writing experience
- Enjoy aesthetic morning, afternoon, and evening backgrounds
- Write at any moment with 2 minimalist editors in either light or dark mode
- View, filter, and search past entries by category and content
- Built-in timer to write longer prompts easily
- Your entries are safe, private, and secure — stored locally with an option to sync with Ponder's secure online storage for peace of mind
- Password-enabled entries page so no one but you can read your entries
- Ability to customize daily questions and number of questions asked
- Habit-building progress view that tracks writing streaks and displays analytics
- Custom backgrounds that change daily
- Custom prompts for whatever occasion!
- Auto dictate your entries
What are you waiting for? Install Ponder and start writing now.
Happy journaling!
Latest reviews
- (2022-12-30) Philip Smith: Beautiful app! Simple, clean, very promising. I am knee-deep in my Spanish language studies and need to start a language journal. Everything seemed lovely and I was making great (albeit slow) progress in my first entry in Spanish. I clicked "Take a Break" to get a coffee but when I returned to the entry - none of it was saved! Only the first sentence of the four paragraph entry was kept.... :-( Very depressing and even if this was just a glitch or "user error", if I continue to use this app to journal I would be anxious that any hard earned progress made would just be lost in the ether. So long Ponder...I Ponder why your app does not have a frequent autosave feature.
- (2022-11-14) J G: Although the prompts and the UI are really nice, it doesnt' allow you to delete old entries that you may not want for whatever reason, or to add onto them and edit them, which limits the scope of what you can use it for. It's great for getting you writing but limiting if you want to push it a bit more.
- (2022-07-18) 何晓琴: Could you support Chinese? The word tracker doesn't work well.
- (2021-02-28) Lotus Derry: Such cute and clean design! I wanted to get into bullet journaling, but couldn't find the motivation to physically whip out a notebook everyday. Ponder integrates into my daily life and sets the mood for a productive day!
- (2021-02-24) Lauren Oh: The UI of Ponder is really nice! Tbh I don't use it for journaling too much, but I really like having its aesthetic for my new tabs.
- (2021-02-20) Raymond Peng: I love it! I've been looking for a virtual bullet journal for a long time. This one is perfect for the job and covers everything I need. Only complaint I would have is more prompts.
- (2021-02-19) Laura H: Love this extension and the UI! The thoughtful prompts really make me think and reflect, and I use this daily to write down whatever thoughts come to mind at any point in the day. I used to rarely journal but having it on my Chrome homepage makes it so easy and fun!
- (2021-02-18) Lucy Wang: Love this idea and the UX! Having it as an extension made it super easy to start journaling every day. I love the prompts a lot too - usually I don't know what to write so having the prompts gives me ideas and motivates me to write. I would highly recommend trying this out, especially if you're new to journaling!
- (2021-02-18) Ariana Deng: Really love this extension! I've never been someone who could ever consistently journal on paper so this really helped me start getting into the habit of writing down my thoughts and daily reflections. I really appreciate the different features/modes from scripted to blank, and I can honestly use this extension for anything as well as customize it for my personal needs! The daily prompts are really helpful and brief so now I really don't have an excuse not to journal. Overall, I would highly recommend people to try this extension :)
- (2021-02-18) Christabel Agbugba: I love love love this idea especially during the pandemic where everything happens from out of laptops. It's so easy to get lost working, learning, or even being entertained but this plugin helps to bring you back to self-awareness. My excuse for not journaling before was that my journal was too far away but with this plugin, I have no excuse- I am always on my laptop, so, I know that I'll always see the journal prompts. Rreally really great initiative! Thank you!
- (2021-02-18) Sachi Shrestha: i love the simplicity and the setting options. I am looking forward to using it daily.
- (2021-02-17) Jason Cui: Love this extension! Such an effective and unobtrusive way to journal.
- (2021-02-02) Andy Zhang: This is so clean! I love using it everyday :)
- (2021-01-23) Max von Wolff: Love the UX & simplicity! Really gets me excited about writing daily reflections.