Check off tasks without disturbing your writing, return to existing workspaces, and tell same-named thoughts apart.
Writing
Checking or unchecking a task updates its row without rebuilding the whole editor, keeping your scroll position, selection and surrounding writing steady.
Workspaces
Explore connections reuses an existing workspace for the thought or passage, preserving its arrangement and zoom. Opening a thought from the sidebar no longer leads to another workspace on each exploration.
Create a separate canvas deliberately with New workspace from thought. Automatically suggested names avoid existing workspace names, and saving again does not create another workspace.
Exploring from Search, Library or Trash now closes the previous view and opens the intended canvas consistently.
Finding the right thought
Thoughts with the same name now show distinguishing context, such as their imported parent page, in the sidebar, Search, Library and destination pickers.
Search accepts that context too. Separate documents keep their names and writing; matching titles do not cause them to be combined.
Before you update
Requires macOS 14 or later. The universal installer supports Apple silicon and Intel; this release is locally signed and is not Apple-notarized.
macOS may ask you to allow Mentis to access its saved Account or AI connection after updating. Approve the Keychain prompt to restore that connection.
Personal History brings the thoughts, tasks and workspaces you opened and changed into a horizontal timeline, with search and a simple way back to the original.
Personal History
Open History from the sidebar to browse your days horizontally. Activity is grouped by thought, task or workspace so repeated edits stay together.
Open a day for its full activity, search your history, narrow the results, or jump to a date. Opening an original and going Back restores your place.
Thought edits, task changes, workspace actions and imports appear as meaningful activity. Launch restoration, background processing and sync delivery do not create visits.
History starts recording after this update. Earlier days are not reconstructed, and History does not store or restore full document versions.
Recording and sync
Recording starts automatically and keeps the last year. Settings → Library lets you stop recording, exclude opened items, or clear History without deleting your writing.
History syncs separately from writing when signed in. Update each Mac to 1.4.0 to see activity across them. Offline Macs reconcile recording and clearing changes when they reconnect.
Refinements
History has its own sidebar destination; Library remains the home for saved thoughts and workspaces.
Jump to date uses the shared calendar, readable date previews and clear feedback for unavailable dates.
Back, Forward and page titles keep a consistent leading alignment at wide and compact window sizes.
The writing background stays the same when the outline opens or closes, including in compact windows.
Before you update
Requires macOS 14 or later. The universal installer supports Apple silicon and Intel; this release is locally signed and is not Apple-notarized.
macOS may ask you to allow Mentis to access its saved Account or AI connection after updating. Approve the Keychain prompt to restore that connection.
Navigate long thoughts with a softly rounded outline that fits the writing around it and keeps your place easy to see.
Outline navigation
The outline now floats inside the editor frame with rounded corners, comfortable insets and a soft shadow, replacing the full-height panel and hard divider.
Short outlines fit their contents. Longer outlines scroll within a bounded panel, leaving the writing surface calm and uncluttered.
Clearer heading hierarchy, readable labels and a subtle current-section marker help you find your place. Keyboard selection stays visually distinct from the section you are reading.
On compact windows, choosing a heading closes the outline and returns you to the writing. Click outside or press Escape to dismiss it; use the toolbar or ⇧⌘O to open it again.
Dark mode, light mode and increased contrast share the same rounded design. The editor colors and outer frame are unchanged.
Before you update
Requires macOS 14 or later. The universal installer supports Apple silicon and Intel; this release is locally signed and is not Apple-notarized.
macOS may ask you to allow Mentis to access its saved Account or AI connection after updating. Approve the Keychain prompt to restore that connection.
A maintenance release that refines the writing environment and makes everyday editing, task planning, search, sync, and recovery more predictable.
Writing and navigation
A flatter dark editor sits slightly below the surrounding frame, with readable secondary text and consistent sidebar, toolbar, card, and floating-tool surfaces. Light mode and increased contrast remain supported.
Links, mentions, media drafts, table actions, and block commands stay attached to the writing they were opened from, protecting against applying an old action to a new selection.
Outline navigation, calendar controls, search, Library, and workspace pickers preserve focus more reliably and retire results or actions when their source changes.
Connections gain immediate filtering, a clear button, arrow-key and Return navigation, and an explicit Close control.
Tasks and sync
Shift-arrow and Shift-click task selections expand and contract from a stable starting point. Deselect remains available while storage recovery prevents editing.
Standalone tasks no longer cause false “Review synced edits” warnings. Genuine conflicting writing still keeps both versions available for review.
Sync review shows complete versions of writing, allows independent selection, and checks that the source is still current before applying a decision.
Safer recovery
Account and AI settings retain connection progress across navigation, explain Keychain waits, and offer clearer recovery from expired sign-in attempts and connection failures.
Device actions, notifications, imports, backups, and storage recovery provide clearer, more consistent availability and feedback. Storage retries preserve unsaved writing; backup restoration saves durably before replacing visible content.
Cancelling an update restart restores the update controls. Destructive actions check their current scope and preserve unrelated navigation history.
Before you update
Requires macOS 14 or later. The universal installer supports Apple silicon and Intel; this release is locally signed and is not Apple-notarized.
macOS may ask you to allow Mentis to access its saved Account or AI connection after updating. Approve the Keychain prompt to restore that connection.
This release brings together the editor, task planning, navigation, and workspace improvements developed since 1.2.0.
Writing and editing
Write with three heading levels, callouts, collapsible sections, equations, and richer inline formatting, including underline, strikethrough, text color, and highlights.
Add images, video, audio, PDFs, files, and web bookmarks. Open originals in the appropriate viewer; attachments sync between updated Macs.
Code blocks gain syntax coloring, language selection, Copy, indentation, and predictable keyboard navigation. Wide tables keep readable columns with horizontal scrolling and column resizing.
Type inline Markdown for bold, italic, strikethrough, code, and links. Find formatting and block actions through the searchable command menu (⇧⌘P).
Find within a thought with ⌘F, including code, tables, and folded sections. Use ⌘G and ⇧⌘G to move between matches.
Lists and checkboxes continue correctly on Return. Caret alignment, empty blocks, conversion, deletion, and Undo are more consistent across block types.
Repeated Select All advances from text to blocks. Batch conversion, duplication, moving, and deletion respect the selection and preserve nested and folded content.
Tasks from your writing
A dedicated Tasks view brings checkboxes together with Today, All, and Completed views, filtering, source context, and workspace scope.
Capture a quick task, plan its day, set a due date or reminder, reorder Today, and update several selected tasks together.
Edit a task in place, open its source thought, or move a standalone task into your writing with Undo.
Finding your way
Browse all thoughts and workspaces in Library (⇧⌘L), with local name and writing search that works without an AI connection.
Back and Forward restore your place across thoughts, search, Tasks, Library, and workspaces.
Choose a thought’s name explicitly, keep a heading outline beside long writing, and return to remembered reading positions and collapsed sections.
A clearer sidebar separates pinned items, recent workspaces, and recent thoughts. Settings and native controls are simpler and more consistent.
Calmer workspaces
Cards show compact excerpts or clearly labeled generated overviews. Open thought, double-click, or Return takes you to the full thought; Back restores the canvas.
Card content is passive: click selects, drag moves, and double-click opens. Links and checkbox markers no longer trigger separate actions. Editing, expanded card reading, and task completion have moved out of cards.
Related writing is prepared in the background and revealed when requested. Review the supporting source passage before deciding what to add.
Card dragging, panning, zooming, preview preparation, and suggestion placement are smoother in larger workspaces.
Reliability and responsiveness
Incremental local saving and editing reduce repeated work in large libraries and long thoughts.
Improved startup, shutdown, search, task scrolling, and sync processing, with expanded regression coverage for editing, navigation, storage, and recovery.
Before you update
⌘B formats text as bold. Show or hide the sidebar with ⌥⌘B. Search uses ⌘K inside Mentis; the former system-wide search shortcut has been removed.
Update every Mac to 1.3.0 before syncing the new task and writing features. Local libraries migrate automatically; use Settings to keep a backup before updating, and avoid reopening the library with an older app.
Requires macOS 14 or later, with Apple silicon and Intel builds. This release is not notarized by Apple. Manual validation on a second physical Mac and Intel hardware remains pending.
