Field Notes

v7.6.2

June 30, 2026

• 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.
• Settings has a new Uninstall control that removes Existential from your machine, with a clear choice to keep your notes or remove everything.
• Existential now runs on 16 GB Macs, and roomier machines gain a speed-and-quality dial so you can choose how hard the Oracle thinks.
• Your team's shared knowledge now draws on both your own writing and the reference material you keep, and only ever what you have chosen to share.
• The Updates section stays visible in Settings on every install, with its controls matching how you run the app.
• A wide quality pass across the whole product: cleaner citations in Console, calmer and clearer controls, more accurate reasoning in the Library, steadier behavior under the hood, and many accessibility and wording improvements.

v7.6.1

June 26, 2026

• 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.
• Share now in Exchange asks you to confirm before anything is published to your team.
• The documentation is now written for members: the internal operator sections are gone, the product is named Existential throughout, and an Intro to the Oracle replaces the old landing page.

v7.6.0

June 24, 2026

• 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.
• Activity now reads as plain narration of the Oracle's work — what it noted and which connections it noticed — with repeated actions folded into a single expandable line.
• Wellspring and Outflow are unified into a single Exchange surface with a Received and Shared toggle and an on-demand Share now control.
• A new Domains browser shows the emergent topic areas the Oracle has formed across your notes, with light curation you can apply.
• Library is clearer and more explorable: a decluttered note list, corrected rendering of connections and Markdown, and a readable knowledge graph with concept search.
• Console now actually applies the file edits you ask for (with one-click revert), always lets you leave, and recovers cleanly when a session is abandoned.
• Plain-language clarifications throughout Settings, onboarding, bulk import, and feedback — including an honest privacy toggle that governs sharing in both directions, and a new section showing where your notes live on disk.
• Six new in-app help pages and an accuracy sweep of the documentation, plus fixes to a misleading Exchange badge, a stuck-presence bug, and the local/cloud sidebar label.