This release introduces ambient audio playback with built-in nature sounds to enhance focus while taking notes. It also adds anonymous usage analytics that track app launches and active usage time without collecting any personal or note content data, improving insight into app usage while respecting privacy.
Added
- Ambient audio feature with three built-in sounds: Running Water, White Noise, and Forest, playable in a loop with adjustable volume to create a focused writing environment.
- Support for custom ambient sound files placed in a specific folder within the vault, allowing users to personalize their ambient audio experience.
- Anonymous usage analytics that record only app launches and foreground usage duration, without collecting note content, filenames, prompts, account data, or API keys, enhancing privacy while enabling usage insights.
- New editor focus modes including sentence and paragraph focus that dim surrounding text to help concentrate on the current writing unit, plus an option to keep the cursor vertically centered in the editor.
- Minimal Mode for distraction-free writing on macOS, hiding sidebar and AI companion panels to maximize note space.
- New Mac shortcuts for toggling Minimal Mode, editor focus modes, and cursor centering to improve navigation and writing workflow.
- UI and settings updates reflecting these new features, including updated welcome notes and settings panels describing focus modes and ambient audio.