Guide
Learn how to use Matrix OS day to day, from opening your workspace and connecting tools to creating apps, running agents, and managing your files.
Maintained by the Matrix OS team. Product instructions are updated with the supported workflow.
What Is Matrix OS?
Matrix OS is a personal AI operating system. It gives you a web workspace where an AI can understand your context, use connected services, create apps, organize files, remember preferences, and help you get real work done.
You do not use Matrix by configuring infrastructure. You use it by asking for outcomes.
The simple version
Matrix is your AI workspace: chat with it, connect your tools, ask it to build what you need, and keep everything organized in one place.
What Matrix Helps With
Personal Productivity
Plan your day, summarize information, make checklists, track habits, organize files, and turn messy thoughts into clear next actions.
Connected Work
Work across Gmail, Calendar, Drive, GitHub, Slack, Discord, and other services without jumping between tabs.
Custom Apps
Ask Matrix to create apps for your life or business: trackers, planners, dashboards, CRMs, games, study tools, and internal tools.
Matrix App Gallery
Learn about planned curated discovery and how it differs from your installed Apps. Public publishing and community installation are later steps.
Communication
Use Matrix through the web workspace and, as channels come online, through messaging surfaces.
Memory And Data
Keep files, app data, memories, and workspace state in your own Matrix environment.
Developer Workflow
Give Claude, Codex, Cursor, Cline, or another coding agent a persistent Matrix computer to work from.
Example Workflows
"Help Me Run My Day"
Connect calendar and email, then ask Matrix:
"What should I focus on today? Pull from my calendar, unread email, and existing tasks."
Matrix can summarize what matters, create tasks, draft replies, and build a plan.
"Build Me A Tool"
Ask:
"Build a clean app to track subscriptions, renewal dates, monthly cost, and cancellation notes."
Matrix can build a personal web app in your workspace. Review it in Web Canvas, Web Desktop, or Electron Desktop and check that a sample record saves and reopens. See the Apps guide for device support.
"Organize This Project"
Ask:
"Create a workspace for launching my podcast. Include episodes, guests, sponsors, publishing checklist, and files."
Matrix can create apps, tasks, notes, and a Canvas layout for the project.
"Use My Connected Services"
Ask:
"Find the last email from my accountant, summarize it, and draft a response. Ask before sending."
Matrix uses integrations to read context and prepare work while keeping you in control.
"Remember How I Work"
Tell Matrix:
"When I ask for a daily plan, keep it under five bullets and separate urgent from optional."
Matrix can use preferences and context in later conversations.
Where To Go Next
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