Ponds

Clip anything on the web into a private visual library you can search by meaning.

Ponds is a private visual library for what you find on the web. Press a shortcut, click what you want to keep, and it's saved as an image in a folder on your computer. CLIP ANYTHING • Press Ctrl+. on any page and point at an image, a paragraph or a whole section. ↑ widens the selection to what's around it. Drag to draw a box over anything else, such as a video. • Add a note if you like, then press Enter. Ponds keeps a picture of what you chose, the page it came from, and the page's text for search. • Right-click an image and choose Save Image to Ponds to keep the original at full size. • The toolbar button clips everything on screen, or opens your library. • Drop image files onto the library, or put them in the folder yourself. FIND IT AGAIN • Search by words, or by meaning: "calm grey rooms" finds quiet interiors even when no clip says so. • Open a clip to see the ones most like it, by look and by meaning, and keep going from one to the next. • Search by meaning runs on your computer after a one-time download of up to 900 MB, and needs WebGPU. Without it, search by words still works. YOUR LIBRARY IS A FOLDER Your library is a folder you choose, like an Obsidian vault. Clips are ordinary image files you can open, rename, move and back up, and Ponds keeps its notes about them in a hidden .ponds folder, in an open, documented format. Removing Ponds never touches the folder: reinstall, choose the same folder, and your library comes back. A folder in iCloud Drive, Dropbox or another sync service works too. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no telemetry, no analytics. Ponds never uploads your clips, your notes or your searches. • Ponds asks for no access to the sites you visit. It runs on a page only when you press the shortcut, click the toolbar button or use the right-click menu, and only in that tab. • Ponds goes online for three things: the one-time model download, an image you ask it to save, and, if you turn on X bookmarks, the pictures in your bookmarked posts. X BOOKMARKS (OPTIONAL) Turn it on in Settings to clip posts as you bookmark them on X, or to sync all your bookmarks at once (experimental). Ponds asks for access to x.com only when you turn it on, and never sends requests to X itself. REQUIREMENTS Chrome 124 or later on a computer, or another Chromium browser with folder access (the File System Access API). In Brave, turn it on at brave://flags/#file-system-access-api. Ponds is open source under the MIT license.