Changelog

v0.6.5 — your handwriting, your pictures (August 17, 2026)

Atlas 0.6.5 is about getting the messy, physical half of studying into your vault. Drop a photo of handwritten notes into Ingest and a new Transcribe with AI button turns the page into clean markdown — equations included, rendered as real math rather than OCR soup. Scanned PDFs join in: Atlas now notices when a PDF is really just pictures of pages and offers to transcribe the whole document, page count up front. Opt-in, per item, using your own Anthropic key; the free on-device OCR stays the default.

Notes also get pictures that behave: paste an image and it renders right under its line while you write, with a drag handle to resize and hover buttons to align it — Atlas writes the sizing into the file as plain markdown, so nothing about your vault format changes. Browse, export and print all follow suit.

The editor itself slims to two modes — Source to write, Browse to read, ⌘E between them — and finally keeps your place when you switch: back to Source means back to the exact line you were editing. The Σ math picker grows into the full KaTeX catalog: 474 symbols across 17 groups — every arrow (rotation arrows for moment diagrams included), operators, geometry marks, derivative-dot accents, plus fill-in templates for fractions, matrices and piecewise cases — searchable in English and Norwegian. Rounding things out: a Chat tab that discusses the open note with your local LM Studio model (session-only, fully offline), ::definitions:: that understand the subject of the note they’re in, a folder tree that opens tidy instead of fully unfolded, and an Ingest cleanup that no longer silently truncates long documents.

v0.6.2 — Claude can write — per-tool permissions (July 24, 2026)

Atlas 0.6.2 turns the Claude Connector from a window into a pair of hands — with you holding the keys. Write access is now granted per tool: a new Write tools list in the connector settings shows every action Claude could take, each with its own switch, each off until you say otherwise.

Flip on what you’re comfortable with and Claude can create and edit notes (version history keeps every prior copy, and an append-only daily-note tool covers quick capture), manage your calendar with the full event editor — start/end, all-day, repeat, subject, location, notes, colour — including syncing edits back to Apple Calendar for linked events, add and edit subjects, log real grade results that count toward your average, and edit existing tasks (“push my essay to Monday”). A new read tool exposes your vault’s folder tree so new notes get filed where they belong.

Every write still pops a notification the moment it happens and lands flagged in the connector’s activity log, and all permissions are enforced inside Atlas’s local server — nothing leaves your machine.

Also in this release: notes created from a template now keep the title you typed instead of the template’s expanded heading, the 12-/24-hour Time format setting finally changes every time Atlas displays, the What’s-new panel stays dismissed when closed with Esc, backlinks appear immediately for newly created notes, and the Archive no longer files an early-morning completion under yesterday’s date.

v0.6.3 — in-app updating, for real (July 24, 2026)

Atlas 0.6.3 closes the loop the updater always promised. Until now, Check for updates could find, download and verify a new version — and then restart into the old one; the final step, actually swapping the app, didn’t exist. It does now: on restart Atlas verifies the downloaded copy twice (checksum against the release feed, then the code signature of the extracted app) before touching anything, swaps it into place, and rolls back to the untouched old version if anything goes wrong.

Because older versions carry the do-nothing restart, 0.6.3 itself must be downloaded and installed by hand — the last time that’s ever necessary. From here on, Restart to update means it.

Also fixed: the in-app feedback form had been failing with a 404 — it was still posting to the site’s old domain after the move to atlasnow.app. Feedback flows again, and every outbound link in the app (About panel, What’s-new changelog) now points at the live site. Feedback that failed to send is still saved in the app’s history and can be resent.

v0.6.1 — grammar check & autocomplete (July 15, 2026)

Atlas 0.6.1 turns the note editor into a writing tool. Grammar check underlines problems with a wavy blue line a couple of seconds after you stop typing — hover for what’s wrong, right-click for ranked fixes — catching grammar, mechanics and the real-word slips a dictionary can’t, like their/there/they’re. Inline autocomplete finishes your sentences: pause, and a dimmed continuation appears at your cursor for Tab to accept.

Both run on a local model through LM Studio, so your notes stay on your machine. A new Settings ▸ AI section picks which model to use, and lets definitions and grammar check each choose local or Anthropic. Autocomplete is local-only by design — it fires on every natural pause, so it has to be instant.

Atlas also ships six note templates ready on first launch — daily, lecture, Cornell, exam prep, meeting and weekly planning — and finally has an app icon of its own in the Dock and Finder.

See the full changelog for everything in this release.

v0.6.0 — word & term definitions (July 11, 2026)

Atlas 0.6.0 adds word and term definitions to the note editor. Wrap a word or phrase in ::double colons:: — or use the new toolbar button — and Atlas fetches its definition automatically: the free dictionary API first, your configured AI model as a fallback for phrases or words the dictionary doesn’t know. The term renders in blue with an underline; hover it to see the definition in a small card.

The note side panel also gains a fourth tab, Glossary, listing every term defined in the current note for quick reference.

See the full changelog for everything in this release.

v0.5.2 — the polish release (July 10, 2026)

Atlas 0.5.2 is a polish-and-fixes release. The app now remembers where you left off — the notes folder tree, side panel, scroll position, and calendar view all persist across navigation and restarts — and the note editor picks up undo/redo, optional line numbers, drag-to-move for notes and folders, and spellcheck autocorrect with right-click suggestions.

Alongside that: Home’s daily progress pill no longer shrinks as you complete tasks, Apple Calendar sync correctly triggers macOS’s permission prompt, ingesting a duplicate filename now asks before overwriting, Subjects’ “Fetch from URL” can read JavaScript-rendered course pages, and ⌘K can create a new task instead of only editing existing ones — plus graph-view, grades, and calendar-recenter fixes.

Also in this release

• Create and link a task directly from a calendar event.
• Ingest supports drag-and-drop, and watched folders route into the review queue and scan subfolders.
• New-from-template lets you pick a destination folder and creates _templates automatically.
• The Cards (flashcards) button, Rec (recording) tab, and calendar Tasks band are removed.

See the full changelog for everything in this release.

v0.5.25 — the symbol picker (July 10, 2026)

Atlas 0.5.25 adds two small editor upgrades. The note toolbar’s new Σ button opens a searchable picker of 127 math and logic symbols — connectives, quantifiers, set theory, number sets, calculus, Greek letters, and more — across nine categories; each tile shows the symbol next to its LaTeX command, so picking one teaches you how to type it next time. A new Underline button now sits next to Bold, Italic, and Strikethrough.

See the full changelog for everything in this release.

v0.5.1 — the disk manager release (July 8, 2026)

Atlas installs its first plugin from the new marketplace: Disk Manager. Visualize what’s using space across Local and iCloud in a clickable treemap, then reclaim it with a fast keep/delete/evict swipe — duplicates pre-flagged, biggest wins first. Connect a local model via LM Studio for AI-assisted reorganization: it proposes a plan, you approve it, nothing moves without your OK. A running tally and per-action undo log track everything a session frees up. Install it from Plugins ▸ Browse — no restart required. Atlas also now checks for new releases from Settings ▸ About, and the dark-mode note editor’s fold gutter is fixed.

v0.5.0 — the plugins release (July 6, 2026)

Atlas opens up with a new Plugins view and its first plugin: the Claude Connector. Connect Claude Desktop to your real Atlas data — tasks, deadlines, schedule, notes, and grades — fully on-device, with no account and nothing leaving your Mac. Nine read tools are on by default and individually toggleable; two opt-in write tools (create and complete tasks) stay off until you enable them, always fire a notification, and log to a reviewable activity history. One click configures Claude Desktop for you, with a manual-copy fallback if you’d rather do it yourself. Browse, install, and manage add-ons from the new Plugins tab — the Claude Connector ships pre-installed as its first entry.

v0.4.0 — the redesign (July 4, 2026)

A full visual and structural redesign of Atlas — every existing feature re-skinned to a new design system, plus several net-new surfaces. Home is now Today Focus: your daily note, due-today tasks, and schedule, without the old widget grid. Notes gets a toolbar-first editor with three modes (Rendered/Source/Browse) and new math and code-block tools. Archive, Settings, and Feedback are now full views instead of panels and modals, Calendar adds a day-timeline and per-event note/task linking, and Subjects gets course code/faculty fields and a tabbed detail page. Flashcards, Ask your vault, and Pomodoro/focus tracking are removed in this release.

v0.3.0 — the study release (June 29, 2026)

The biggest release yet for serious note-taking, with full-text search, version history, note export & print, inline images, per-subject grades, an outline pane, and natural-language quick-add. Your vault is now iCloud-safe (atomic writes + external-change reload), and a new What’s new panel greets you after each update.

v0.2.0 — the notes release (June 10, 2026)

An all-new notes editor headlines this release: three modes — Source, Live, and Reading — with a live preview that hides markup as you write, plus math rendering (KaTeX), syntax-highlighted code blocks, and proper tables, all fully offline.

Beyond notes: tasks can now skip the deadline entirely; calendar events can link to a subject (inheriting its colour), repeat on a schedule, and be logged in the past; hovering any task or event shows a quick info card; the Archive opens as a side panel so your dashboard stays visible; and the Graph now always reflects your real vault. Subjects can carry a course link and description, and a new in-app Send feedback button (with an optional diagnostics log) goes straight to the developer. Signed and notarized for Apple Silicon Macs.

v0.1.0 — initial release (June 9, 2026)

First public build of Atlas: the Home dashboard (weekly view, tasks and metrics), Notes with backlinks, Calendar with two-way Apple Calendar sync and ICS subscriptions, file Ingest (PDF/docx/images/audio → markdown, on-device OCR and transcription), the link Graph, deadline reminders and a ⌘K command palette. Signed and notarized for Apple Silicon Macs.