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August 2026

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August turned the foundations laid at the end of July (the item tree, cascading fields, collaborative notes and the first list, board, calendar, gallery and timeline views) into a workspace you could live in.

Editor#

  • Columns, collapsible sections, references and two new text marks in a new document schema version.

  • A drag handle on every block, colour and highlight from a selection bubble, toggles and columns that repair themselves after a merge.

  • Wiki links with an item picker, a slash menu read from the document, and a backlinks panel.

  • Picture picker with paste, drop, thumbnail and undo.

  • Optional Vim and Emacs key bindings, and collaborative undo and redo shortcuts.

Views and data#

  • Spreadsheet bodies, with resizable columns.

  • Smart lists and a cross-container query view; form and spreadsheet views over a container's children.

  • Interactive forms behind revocable public links, and a guided studio for setting up structured views.

  • Gallery card sizes. Drag unscheduled items onto the hour they belong at.

  • A collated workspace calendar that gathers every calendar into one, with drag to reschedule and a filter by note.

  • Task fields with meaning: due date, start date, completion, priority, estimate and assignee, plus an Assigned to me smart list.

  • Recurring tasks, worked out when read rather than copied.

  • Formula and rollup fields, and the chart view.

  • Keyboard navigation between list cells.

  • A rail of destinations, notes side by side, tabs per pane with preview and pinned tabs, moving tabs between panes, and F6 to cycle regions.

  • A single New menu, a draggable sidebar width, a drawer on small screens and an Undo toast instead of a delete confirmation.

  • Bookmarks, so you can keep items from wherever you are looking at them.

  • A command palette and permission-filtered search.

  • The first workspace graph: drag, zoom, labels on demand and open a note from its node.

Import, export and templates#

  • Export to .nix, PDF and Word, then Markdown, with a loss report and views drawn into the document.

  • Markdown import in the web app and from nixctl, with a preview, a report and undo. Markdown pipe tables become editor tables.

  • Workspace templates with atomic capture and apply, and managed templates kept up to date on deployment.

nixctl#

  • The first release of nixctl: workspaces, items, schema, properties, views, queries, search, note bodies as Markdown, import, export and recurrence.

  • Stress commands for seeding a container at scale and measuring read, query and search latency.

Accounts and the app#

  • Personal access tokens, with a management screen.

  • Sign-in mediated by Core, with personal workspaces created on first sign-in.

  • Shared workspaces with invitations, membership and roles.

  • Daily notes and a Today shortcut.

  • Nix became installable as an app.

  • Durable background jobs and Go workers over RabbitMQ for imports and exports.

Canvas#

  • Item cards that show properties and open their item, images, a shape library and multi-selection.