Traverse
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What's next, and who's on it
Traverse is your own workspace for the work you're responsible for: tasks, projects, a morning briefing, and an inbox where AI turns meetings and threads into tasks you approve. It connects to Plane for your team, and nothing reaches them until you send it.
Download for MacInstall in three steps
A couple of minutes. Nothing else to install.
Open the download and drag Traverse to Applications
Double-click Traverse-arm64.dmg in your Downloads, then drag Traverse onto the Applications folder next to it.
Open it the first time with “Open Anyway”
Open Traverse from Applications. macOS says it “can't verify” Traverse and offers only Done or Move to Trash: click Done. Then:
- Open System Settings (Apple menu) → Privacy & Security.
- Scroll down to “Traverse” was blocked to protect your Mac and click Open Anyway.
- Enter your Mac password if asked, then click Open Anyway once more.
Why: Traverse isn't signed with a paid Apple developer certificate yet, so macOS asks you to confirm once. Updates install from inside the app without this step.
Start with your tasks
A window opens and a small icon appears in your menu bar. Add tasks and projects by hand. For the AI parts, add a Claude, OpenAI or Gemini key in Settings, or point it at a local model through Ollama. To see your team's work, add your Plane API key there too.
What it does
A workspace for one person, built to sit beside the tool your team already uses.
Tasks and projects
My tasks by day and week, projects with milestones and progress, and a board you can drag across. Everything works with no account and no connection.
A morning briefing
Muster shows what moved since you last looked and suggests a plan for the day around your meetings. You accept, reorder or drop each pick.
An inbox that does the typing
Paste an email, a Slack thread or notes. AI proposes the tasks with owners and due dates, and you accept, edit or drop each one.
Plane, on your terms
See your team's work in Traverse. Changes go to Plane only when you send them, after a field-by-field preview, and never overwrite a teammate's edit. Nothing is ever deleted there.
Works with Claude
Claude Desktop and Claude Code can read your plate and file things in your inbox. Anything meant for Plane waits for your approval.
Private by default
Your work stays on your Mac. Lockdown stops every cloud call with one switch, paid AI shows its cost first, and your keys are never shown again once saved.
Your meetings, filed
With Trailmix, the action items from your recorded meetings turn up in the inbox, each saying which meeting it came from.
Safe to update
It backs up your data before each update, and one click goes back to the version you had.
Want the details: how it's built, how it talks to Plane, where data lives? It's all on GitHub.
Questions
What do I need?
A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer) on macOS 14 or later. The AI features need your own Claude, OpenAI or Gemini key, or a local model through Ollama; everything else works without one.
Does anything leave my Mac?
Your tasks and notes are stored on your Mac, in ~/Library/Application Support/Traverse. Something leaves only when you ask for it: text you have the AI read goes to the provider you chose, and changes you approve go to Plane. Turn on Lockdown and nothing does.
Do I need Plane?
No. Traverse works on its own. Plane is the first connection it supports; others are planned.
How do updates work?
Traverse checks for new versions and offers to install them from its menu bar or Settings → Updates. Turn on Beta updates there to get new versions a few days early. If one lets you down, Go back returns to the version you had.
Windows, Linux or an Intel Mac?
Not as an app. The server also runs in Docker; ARCHITECTURE.md on GitHub says how.