This is the largest member-facing release so far, and almost all of it came from the cohort's own feedback over the first weeks of daily use. The throughline is plain language and a calmer surface — the app now says what it means, the things you reach for most are where you expect them, and the quieter machinery stays out of the way.

Plainer names, plainer language

The four main areas now have names that say what they are: Baseline is now Home, Chronicle is Activity, Mirror is Capture, and Archive is Library. The internal vocabulary that had leaked into the interface is gone too — sharing within a team is described as "shared" rather than "crossed," the Oracle's sense of how much a note matters is called "confidence," and labels throughout Library, the note view, and the capture flow have been reworded from jargon into plain English (for example, "Discuss in Console" instead of "Converse against this," and "Your take" instead of "Your view"). Nothing about how these features work changed — only the words.

Capture, front and center

Capture is now a filled, prominent button pinned to the bottom of the sidebar, so the app's central action — handing a thought to the Oracle — is always one obvious click away, and the keyboard shortcut you may already use still works. After you save, the confirmation offers a View in Library link and the composer resets to a fresh blank, so you can keep capturing without reopening it. Voice capture's transcription step is now clearly labeled "Check the transcription" ("This is what gets saved"), so the review reads as intended rather than as an error, and its confirm button is now the familiar Save.

A calmer Home

The morning brief is now titled to make plain what it is — a standing read, not a to-do list. Every thread and open question carries its own Explore in Console link, the labels are plain ("The one thing," "What question is on your mind today?"), the empty state explains itself, and the helpful and not-helpful controls are now mutually exclusive. The optional daily check-in offers three clear choices — respond, capture a thought instead, or dismiss it for the day — and a new toggle in Settings hides it entirely if you would rather not see it. You can also resize the layout: drag the sidebar and the Activity panel to any width, and your choice is remembered across reloads, with the Activity panel staying bounded so it never crowds the center column.

Bringing in your existing notes is calmer too. While a bulk import is being read, a quiet card on Home shows the progress, the file being read right now, and how many remain, and it disappears on its own when the import finishes. The Import dialog now keeps a history of recent imports, lets you queue a second import while one is running so it starts automatically when the first completes, and gives a plain heads-up before a large import — that it may keep the Oracle reading for hours, that the machine may run warm, and that it all happens in the background so you can keep working.

Activity

Entries now read as plain narration of the Oracle's work — noting the concept "forest symbiosis," or noticing a connection between forest symbiosis and a mycorrhizal network — each with a relative timestamp. A run of the same kind of action folds into one counted line, such as "noticed 3 connections," which you can expand to see each item, and empty passes where nothing happened are suppressed. The panel's collapse control now reads Hide panel and Show panel rather than an ambiguous "hide," and a first-run tip explains that the earliest entries are simply the Oracle reading the example notes the app ships with.

Library and Domains

Library is clearer and easier to explore. The internal brief and check-in templates no longer appear among your notes, so counts and search reflect only your own writing; the Connections panel no longer shows a concept twice; a permanent "still reading this one" placeholder is gone; and Markdown tables, strikethrough, task lists, and links now render correctly in notes and in Console replies. The knowledge graph is more readable as well — concept nodes are solid and labeled at every zoom level, a Fit button re-centers the view, epiphany nodes show their full text rather than a truncated label, and a new "Explore a concept" search opens a panel of co-occurring concepts and the connections the Oracle drew between them.

A new Domains page gives the emergent topic areas the Oracle forms across your notes a place of their own: each area lists its lifecycle status and how many concepts and notes it holds, and you can rename, split, or affirm a domain from the same menu you use for categories. Merging or retiring a domain that is still proposed is deliberately held back until the Oracle has confirmed it, so you cannot discard an area before it has had a chance to form.

The distinction between notes you wrote and material you keep for reference is now expressed in the same plain words everywhere — capture, the Home reclassification card, bulk import, the Library filter, and the note badge all say "your writing" and "reference material." A new Library filter shows one kind at a time and reflects the choice in the address bar, so you can bookmark it. When the Oracle suggests a reclassification, the card now explains its reasoning in plain language ("A hunch — written in the first person"), and a correction you make by hand now sticks through re-reading instead of being silently overwritten.

Exchange

Wellspring and Outflow — two sidebar entries that were easy to confuse, especially when empty — are now a single Exchange surface with a Received and Shared toggle, and the channel filters follow whichever direction you are viewing. Sharing no longer has to wait for the overnight pass: a Share now button in the Shared view runs it on demand and tells you plainly what happened. Two display fixes round it out — an "in common" count is now hidden on the cards where it cannot be verified, while genuine counts are kept, and previews no longer leak the raw header of the underlying file.

Console

When you ask the Oracle to rewrite a file in conversation, it now composes the revision and writes it to your vault when you leave, surfaced in Activity with an immediate way to revert the edit. The leave-Console control is now always available, even while a session is opening or has failed, and always returns you where you came from. A gentler empty state describes what the Console is before your first message, and the Oracle now reflects with you from general understanding when it has nothing specific on file, rather than leading with that absence.

An abandoned Console — a closed tab, a navigation away, or a refresh — is now detected and closed on its own, so the Oracle's background work resumes promptly instead of staying paused, and leaving cleanly returns your presence to idle right away. The input's padding is restored, so text no longer hugs the edge.

Settings and teams

The labels are plainer throughout: "Follow OS" is now "Use system settings," the auto-update choice reads "Update automatically," and the membership copy is plain English. The single privacy switch, which governs sharing in both directions, outbound and inbound, is now labeled and described that way ("Allow the Oracle to exchange"). A new Settings section shows where your notes live on disk, so you can open or back them up in Finder.

A team's workspace now opens with an "About this inner mind" card — a link to the shared repository, the founding document rendered as readable text, and the member roster, shown only to the extent your own access already allows, with initials avatars and no outbound image requests.

First run, tips, and help

The first-run orientation has been rewritten from philosophy into a plain how-to, with a "where things live" map of the interface and the always-running choice reframed as an honest question. The orientation cards scattered through the app now identify themselves as tips — a lightbulb and a label such as "Tip · Library" — and dismiss with a small close control, and the note History section now opens with a one-line description of what its chart means.

The in-app help grew too. Six new pages were added — Exchange, Domains, Settings, Activity, importing in bulk, and a plain-language guide to your writing versus reference material — and seventeen existing pages were swept for accuracy so the help matches how the app actually behaves today. The in-app help now also shares the app's visual styling, so moving between the app and its help no longer feels like leaving for a different site.

Fixes

  • The feedback dialog now explains in plain language what the screenshot captures, confirms with a simple "Sent — thank you for the feedback" rather than a raw link, and applies the same size and empty-text limits whether or not you are online, so you get a consistent response either way.
  • The sidebar badge now correctly reads LOCAL on your own machine and CLOUD on the hosted instance.
  • Library renders a calm empty state instead of a white screen if a response comes back malformed.