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Today the biggest update since I launched presentOS is live. Honestly, it feels like a new app.
This time I approached it differently. I asked myself two questions:
How can I build presentOS in a way that I find it so incredibly useful that I want to use it every single day myself?
And:
How can I build presentOS in a way that it gives me an experience that I can’t get with any other app?
Here is the result:
How presentOS helps me daily:
It makes me name what I’m afraid of and break intimidating tasks into pieces I can actually tackle.
It tracks my most important tasks and keeps me accountable, gently.
It makes focus fun: nature sounds, binaural frequencies, and curated mixtapes to enter flow and stay there.
Every minute in flow grows my organism in our shared garden, the Present mycelium network.
When I’m stuck, I get real support: from Present People I can talk to, or from the Sensei, who knows my Thing and my journey.
In Present Space, I share what I’m working on and get feedback from people who get it.
My Present People Profile shows my current and past Things, my garden, and my connections.
Start With Your Thing
On the new Start, naming Your Thing is front and center. Once you name it, you break it down to the smallest next action and begin a Flow session. If you need support instead, you go to the How Do You Feel? section, or explore the app freely.
How Do You Feel? Survival Kits
If you feel stuck, you choose how you feel and presentOS assembles a curated package for you, based on your Thing and composed from the Present Library. You tell presentOS how you feel, it hands you exactly what helps.
Our Mycelium Network
Your organism grows with every minute of focused flow you log doing your Thing. And no organism stands alone: together, all Present People doing their Thing form one garden, our mycelium network. You grow yours, and you grow ours.
Present People Space
I built a graph of the whole universe of Present People. Community members, magazine contributors, cities, connections between people. You can explore it all. The goal: make it easier for Present People to find each other and collaborate.
You can claim your public profile page on presentOS now. And if you prefer to stay private, you can opt out and it stays private.
The heart of it all remains our bi-weekly Community Call, the Consistency Club. All recaps now live inside presentOS. Step by step, our whole community is moving into presentOS.
Revamped Present Library
The new library now contains handmade book summaries through the Present lens, films, podcasts, and more. Everything is curated and categorized, which is how the Survival Kits know what to hand you.
Introducing: Wisdom Base
This one was 20 years in the making. That's how long I've been collecting wisdom and quotes, and I still add new ones every week. I find it everywhere: in old books and new ones, in conversations, while travelling. All of it is now categorized through the Present lens and lives inside presentOS as an interactive database. Search it, filter it, get served the right words at the right moment.
This is all live from today. If you already have presentOS, just close and reopen the app.
Download the Desktop version here: presentOS for Mac
If you are on your computer, you can use presentOS in your browser as well: os.present.zone
Or download for iPhone on the App Store.
And one more thing: Present Pro.
Here’s the deal. With v2, presentOS gets a paid tier for the first time. It’s called Present Pro.
And if you ever wanted to support my work: this is the most effective way to do it, across all areas. The magazine, the app, the community, the writing. It all runs on the same engine, and Present Pro keeps that engine running: independent, ad-free, investor-free.
I want to be transparent about why: the money goes into paying the infrastructure that keeps PRESENT alive. I want to break even. Present Pro is my idea of keeping this project sustainable, so it can help as many people as possible.
Early bird price: 12€/month on the yearly plan, or 18€/month on the monthly plan. What you get:
You keep PRESENT alive and support an independent project
You get full and unlimited access to all features of presentOS
You get my book and framework, Do The Thing*, when it launches
You get your Present People Membercard and your name in the Supporters Hall of Fame (digital and print)
You get complete access to the Magazine Archive, the full Wisdom Base, the Present Space Board with every session recap, and the Community Workshop Calls
*Included in the yearly plan. And if you already pre-ordered the book and want to become Pro: you legend! You get a refund on your prior purchase.
Everything that was free stays free: Start, the Reset Breathings, the Survival Kits, your Garden, the Present Space network, your Present People Profile, and a generous taste of DeepFlow, Sensei, the Wisdom Base, and the Library.
More info on the Present Pro website
And if you want to become Pro but can’t pay at the moment: write me. We will figure it out.
I’ll go deeper on the vision behind Present Pro in an upcoming letter. Today is about the app. Go try it out!
Speak to you soon,
Hugo
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…sieht gut aus !
…wir haben Jutta soeben „eingelockt“
Herzl. Friedhelm