Changelog

Postal Keeps Working After You Walk Away

The release that changes what kind of product Postal is. Until now, an AI assistant only worked while you watched it. As of this month, you can ask Postal to research something, close the laptop, and the finished answer is waiting for you — on any device — when you come back.

Ask, leave, return to the answer

Research requests, chat questions, and task work now complete on their own, whether or not the app is open. Ask from your phone in line for coffee; read the result on your Mac at your desk. If you leave mid-question, Postal picks the conversation right back up the next time you open it — nothing gets lost.

A design worthy of daily use

The entire app was refined to feel calm and native: task details slide up in an Apple-style sheet on every device, the day starts with a redesigned Morning Postal briefing, and the sidebar was simplified to two views — Today and Library — so there is exactly one place to look for what matters now and one place for everything else.

You can see Postal working

A subtle indicator shows what Postal is doing in the background — live research, watched pages, ongoing work — so long-running jobs feel trustworthy instead of mysterious.

One home for your data

Signed in, your tasks, notes, and conversations live in one place and follow you across desktop, web, and phone. Deleted notes show up honestly in past conversations — struck through, with a one-click Restore.

Ready for Strangers: Mobile, Trust & a Real Business Model

The stretch where Postal grew from a product friends use into one strangers can pay for.

Pricing people can say yes to

The free trial grew to 30 days — enough to build a real habit before deciding. Power users who bring their own AI key can use Postal free, indefinitely. Tiers were restructured around how people actually use the app.

A phone experience that earns its place

Navigation, note-taking, and dismissal gestures now follow the patterns iPhone users already know — down to respecting the notch. Postal became something you genuinely run your day from on a phone, not a desktop app squeezed onto a small screen.

Trust, earned in the details

Sync became something you never think about: every device shows the same thing, edits never silently vanish, and staying signed in just works. Workspaces with thousands of items load fast. First-time users land in a guided welcome conversation instead of a blank screen.

Chat Becomes the Center — and Google Comes Inside

Two bets placed in the same two weeks: that conversation is the right interface for personal organization, and that the assistant should reach into the tools you already live in.

The chat-first redesign

The interface was rebuilt around a single conversation with your assistant. Replies arrive as rich, tappable cards — task previews, reminders, checklists — not walls of text. Everything else steps back until you need it.

Gmail, Calendar & Docs from one conversation

Connect Google and the assistant reads and triages your inbox, drafts and sends replies, schedules meetings, and pulls what you need from your documents — all from chat. “Find the email from my accountant and remind me to reply Thursday” is one sentence, not five app switches.

Find anything by meaning

Search works across every task, note, and conversation, and understands intent — “groceries” finds your shopping list even if the word never appears in it.

An Assistant That Actually Knows You

The era where Postal stopped being a tool you operate and started being a colleague that remembers.

Memory that persists

Tell Postal something once — “remember my wife's birthday is in June,” “I prefer short answers” — and it knows it in every future conversation, on every device. Frequently useful memories stay front of mind; stale ones gracefully fade.

It reaches out at the right moments

Postal now notices what deserves attention — a deadline approaching, a task going stale — and says something useful about it, at a respectful cadence you control, from “check in often” to “only urgent things.”

Radical simplicity

Onboarding became one step. Settings became three cards. Half the pop-ups disappeared. A focus mode surfaces what matters today and quiets everything else. For the impatient, YOLO mode lets the assistant act without asking permission for every step.

Reliability as a feature

A dedicated hardening pass made the everyday feel solid: instant startup, immediate catch-up when your laptop wakes, and edits from two devices merging instead of overwriting each other.

Postal Goes Everywhere

One month after the AI-native release, Postal left the desktop: same data, same assistant, on the web and on your phone — with accounts, subscriptions, and managed AI so anyone can start in a browser with zero setup.

Start in ten seconds

No download required. Sign in, and AI works out of the box — no API keys, no configuration. Voice input that just works, everywhere.

Capture from anywhere

A global shortcut captures a thought from any app on your Mac. Drag a task into the conversation to talk about it. Ask for deep research and keep working while Postal reads the internet for you.

The AI-Native Turn

The release that turned Postal from a task manager into a command center. You talk to Postal, and it does things.

An assistant with hands

Create tasks, update notes, set reminders, organize with labels — in plain language. Ask a question and it searches the web or X and answers with sources. Say “research this” and a full write-up appears in your notes while you do something else.

Eyes on the things you care about

Point Postal at any web page — a price, a waitlist, a policy — and it watches for changes and tells you, in plain language, what actually changed.

Your day, briefed

Every morning, a short briefing: what's due, what's coming, what deserves attention. Voice input transcribes privately, on your machine. Chat lives inside every note, so questions happen where the content is.

Foundations

Postal began as a fast, private, keyboard-friendly home for tasks and notes — your data in plain files you own, readable by you and by any AI assistant you choose. Shared projects and workspaces, a focus timer, and Markdown notes rounded out the core. Everything since is built on this foundation: your data stays yours.