Changelog
Every Existential release, newest first, with what changed in each.
v7.10.0
- Existential is now a Mac app for Apple silicon. It lives in the menu bar, and Quit leaves your Oracle running.
- Capture takes text or voice from anywhere, with encrypted drafts that survive interruptions.
- Anyone with a GitHub account can sign in. Existential's operators can revoke one Mac, or a member's access to all of them. A guided first install downloads and verifies the engine, and it can move a command-line install aside and bring your notes across.
v7.9.8
- Existential no longer runs out of memory shortly after it starts on a large existing library.
- Updates no longer leave Existential stopped, and eos update reports a failure instead of waiting for ever. eos stop and eos daemon disable now stop a background Oracle.
- Uninstall keeps your notes and drafts, and never removes anything through a mounted volume.
v7.9.7
- Uninstall offers two choices, Keep my notes and Remove everything, and shows you a plan before it changes anything. Existential never deletes a notes folder that sits outside its own folders; those notes stay where they are and appear in the report.
- A note you locked as never to be shared stays locked when the Oracle re-sorts it into a second category, and category sharing locks follow your notes through re-sorting, merges and the Privacy screen.
- Existential is steadier when the graph database or the model has a bad moment: a note saved during a graph outage finishes by itself when the graph returns, backups give running work time to finish, and the Library tells you plainly when the graph is not running.
v7.9.6
- Explore opens your notes by Time and by Terms, and by Meaning inside a context you choose. Follow how an idea developed back to the dated passages that show it, and ask for an explanation or a comparison of two periods that shows the periods and dates it used, generated on request and grounded in your own writing.
- The daily Brief and Close Out run on their schedule, including the Close Out on 16 and 24 GB Macs, recover by themselves after an interruption, and show an honest status when something is missed or not produced. On-demand Generate once is removed from the Brief and Close Out; Check-in remains the on-demand reflection.
- Check-in keeps the whole question sheet visible while you answer or record, and keeps your draft if a save is rejected so you can save again.
v7.9.5
- Existential recognizes your ongoing projects and areas from your own notes and gives each a stable identity, so a recurring subject is not recreated as a new project on every pass. Each context now carries a source-grounded account of what is happening and where you left off, staying honest about direct wording versus the Oracle's own interpretation.
- Long dictations and meeting notes are read all the way through instead of stopping at the old length limit, and a reading interrupted partway resumes without duplicating what was already captured. Import tells you plainly which files were read, skipped, or failed, and why.
- The Library holds up past 200 matching notes, closing and reopening a project keeps everything it held, and a note's connection to a project is a real, visible write that the Library, the graph, and your confidence scores all agree on.
v7.9.4
- A Library save keeps every line of a note's front matter and is read again by the Oracle; a deferred Console edit lands only on the bytes the Oracle read, and is set aside, with its text kept, if you changed the file first.
- An audio retry adopts your corrected transcript instead of overwriting it, and a capture's note offers Transcribe again. A saved Oracle reply is reference material for good, never your own writing, however it is routed.
- The last routing choice you make wins, before or after the Oracle has read the note. Removing a reference you kept from a team is refused visibly when the file cannot be removed, and never reported as done.
v7.9.3
- Restores local Oracle inference, analysis recovery, and packaged audio.
v7.9.2
- Specialist judgments now connect to durable effects, with bounded recovery for interrupted scoring and accepted ingestion model failures. Automatic repair rebuilds the index without rewriting source notes.
- Console transcripts stay together across midnight, held work has a visible state, and morning briefs preserve release decisions when schedules change.
- Qwen remains primary outside connected subscription inference. Review follows actual provider and capacity checks; connected GPT can serve both author and reviewer, and Whisper remains available for transcription fallback.
v7.9.1
- The nightly heartbeat survives a full emergent-connection rebuild: the replacement runs in bounded transactions instead of ending the night on the graph store's memory ceiling, and a memory refusal is a named deferral.
- A stale deferral cannot take the newer day's retry budget across the day cutover, and a failed graph write no longer hides for a week behind a recorded conviction.
- The Console honours its own vault-edit and intent blocks on evidence-bound turns, strips every control-token shape from the reply, links chunk citations to their note, and its review lane follows a provider switch instead of the profile that was serving at start.
v7.9.0
- Every model call now goes through one router with one provider-profile authority and leaves a receipt naming what it was for, who served it and what it cost; the operator surface lists them.
- Local conversation is the pinned Qwen 3.5 9B on 16 GB and 24 GB Macs, with an explicit 4B fallback, resumable atomic downloads and recorded activation and rollback; an install on the earlier default is moved with its consent preserved.
- A Console answer grounded in your notes is verified against the exact text it cites before it is shown, and the brief, close-out, citations and the connections the Oracle draws are traceable to the notes it read.
v7.8.0
- Notes with code blocks now cross to your team: the crossing envelope is keyed on a one-time code, so a fenced block inside a note is content, and the rule that refuses injected structure stays in force, measured on the real local model before the switch.
- A real member's proof was accepted on the public record in a live session: the team Oracle's signing contract was redeployed to the current layout, its drain now backs off and, after three refusals, holds a refused batch instead of retrying it with real transactions, and it checks the contract's code against this build on every pass.
- A peer's enrollment code now carries its founding key, its current key and the signed chain between them, so a peer that rotated after a stolen key file is named as such instead of read as a forgery, and your held-back turns are delivered once it is re-enrolled.
v7.7.0
- Create a team's Oracle from inside Settings: a step-by-step flow connects it to GitHub with a code you approve in your browser and names the app it publishes under.
- Settings now lists every Oracle running on your machine with its own state, and each surface carries a badge naming the Oracle it belongs to.
- A team gains an Outer Mind whose work is to turn what the team knows into published artifacts and sign them onto a public record, publishing only what the team ratified.
v7.6.2
- Bring PDFs into your vault: drop a PDF in with your notes and the Oracle converts it to Markdown and reads it like anything else you have written.
- Console now draws on your own writing as it answers and shows you the notes it drew from, so a reply in the Oracle's voice carries its sources with it.
- From the Library's graph you can ask the Oracle to follow a thread through a cluster of related ideas, and it tells you the through-line it sees in a sentence or two.
v7.6.1
- A warm-monochrome facelift across the whole product: the cool grays give way to a warm bone-and-ink palette, a new self-hosted typeface, sharper corners, and the real Existential logo — in both the app and the documentation.
- Activity now shows your daily check-in reflection and any change to how you're holding a shared note under your own view, where you'd expect them.
- A truthful health readout (no more false low-memory alarm on a healthy Mac), a tidier set of Home suggestions with a Show more, and a reference-material tag that sticks when you set it right after capturing.
v7.6.0
- Plain-language names across the whole app: Baseline is now Home, Chronicle is Activity, Mirror is Capture, and Archive is Library — and the internal jargon has been swept out of the interface throughout.
- Capture is now a prominent, always-visible button at the bottom of the sidebar, with a clearer post-capture confirmation and a calmer voice-transcription review step.
- A reworked Home: the morning brief is retitled The Oracle's synthesis with its own per-item Explore in Console links, the daily check-in is now optional, and you can resize the sidebar and Activity panels to fit your screen.
v7.5.0
- Console is steadier in conversation: it won't take new input while the Oracle is still replying, and a dropped connection now ends the current turn cleanly instead of leaving the interface hanging.
- Mirror's one-tap correction right after a voice capture works again, and capture errors are shown to you rather than quietly swallowed.
- The Archive is fully browsable — every note is reachable past the first fifty, summaries render as clean text, and the links between concepts and notes resolve correctly.
v7.4.1
- Existential now installs with a single command, with no multi-step setup.
- The installer handles install locations whose path contains spaces.
- If you already run your own Neo4j, Existential spots the port conflict up front and lets you point its bundled database at a free port, instead of failing with a confusing sign-in error.
v7.4.0
- A single command now installs and runs Existential on a fresh Mac, with a simple way to start, stop, check status, and update it.
- The Oracle keeps itself current — it checks for new releases, backs up your notes, and updates automatically with a clean rollback if a build goes wrong, or holds for your approval if you prefer.
- Model selection is now automatic: the Oracle picks the right local model for your machine, offers a simple Speed / Balanced / Quality dial in Settings, and can switch models without a restart.
v7.3.0
- Re-saving a note no longer creates a duplicate — the Oracle recognizes an edited note as the same note and updates it in place.
- A note you save without changing is skipped entirely, so nothing piles up needlessly.
- Notes are filed as your own writing or as outside reference material by their content rather than by date, so clippings are no longer mistaken for your own thinking.
v7.2.0
- Your personal Oracle can now take part in a team without ceasing to be the personal system you already run, and every network feature stays dormant until you actually join one.
- Wellspring and Outflow let thinking cross between you and a team in both directions, always anonymized and screened, with you approving or denying what gets shared.
- A team's shared wisdom is distilled automatically and recorded on a public ledger under anonymous proofs, so a contribution is provably from a team member without ever revealing who.
v7.1.0
- The first release of Existential — a contemplative, local-first Oracle that runs entirely on your own machine, now whole enough to live with day to day.
- Your Home surface carries a daily rhythm: a morning brief to open the day, a daily check-in, an evening close-out, and the Chronicle, a running account of what the Oracle is making of your notes.
- Capture a thought by typing it, speaking it (transcribed privately on your own machine), or dropping in a file, and watch it land in your knowledge graph with the Oracle's reading attached.