What's new

You can now sign in with an email link instead of Google — enter your email on the sign-in screen and a one-time link arrives, valid for 15 minutes. If you already have a Google account under that email, the email link signs into the same account.

Cleaned out several old internal debug and admin pages that were no longer part of the app. No change to anything you use.

Slate now opens on a true white background with medium-gray text and shadows carrying the depth, instead of borders. The amber accent is reserved for the handful of lines the app actually draws — the top bar's rule, the running timer's spine, the active status strip's border, a blockquote's rule, and the text cursor. Everything else — buttons, badges, hover states — is grayscale.

Added a fourth step (XS) below Small in Text size, in the menu's A-/A+ control. Also fixed a bug where, if you'd never touched text size before, the app could silently load at the smallest size instead of the Medium default.

"Move to Done" is now "Archive Done items" — checked-off tasks leave your note entirely and move into a new Archive view (Open Archive), still grouped by project and activity the same way the Time Log is. Nothing in the Archive is editable; it's a record, not a working list.

The Today modal now fills most of the screen (about 92% of the viewport) with larger type throughout, instead of a fixed-width box that left most of a big screen empty.

After signing in, the very first load sometimes left buttons and typing completely unresponsive until the page was refreshed a second time. The sign-in redirect was skipping the startup code that wires up every control — it now always runs.

Pasting into a line could drop the cursor at the start of the line, or at the end of the pasted text instead of where it belonged. The rebuild that runs right after a paste wasn't restoring the cursor afterward — now it is.

If two project headings look like the same project with a typo ("Acme Corp" vs "Acme Corp."), the Today view now notices and offers a one-click merge — dismissible, and it won't ask about the same pair twice.

Items without a [now]/[later]/[assign]/[park] tag used to always show in full in the Today view. That list can now be collapsed to just a count, and expanded again when you want to see it.

Opening the profile panel after scrolling down could show it hanging at a fixed distance down the page instead of under the nav bar where you're looking — the same bug already fixed for the menu drawer. Now it's always anchored to the nav bar.

New keyboard shortcut for Collapse all — if any section is expanded, it folds everything; if all are already collapsed, it expands everything. Layout-independent: matches the / character so it works on AZERTY and other non-US keyboards too. Same as clicking Collapse all in the nav bar, and shown in the button's tooltip.

The Today button now shows the number of [now] items inline — "Today · 3". Turns amber when the count exceeds five. When you clear the last [now] item, the button briefly shows a ✓ before resetting. Ctrl+G still opens and closes the modal.

"Collapse all" is now in the nav bar alongside the individual H1 chevrons. One tap folds every project section simultaneously. Individual sections can still be expanded independently after.

The burger menu now groups its controls under labeled sections: Text (font size, family), Note (Move to Done, Collapse all, Clear log, History), Sync (sync now, check for updates), Theme (Light/Dark/Auto, Slate), and Read (Help, Privacy, Terms). Easier to find what you need.

The timer now starts on whatever line the cursor is actually on. Previously, in some cases it would start on the previously-selected line rather than the current one. Also: the clock in the nav bar stopped updating every second in some scroll positions — now fixed.

Blank lines between sections now render as a faint horizontal rule — just enough to give the eye a pause without adding visual weight. Configurable: the rule only appears if two or more consecutive blank lines are present, so spaced notes don't get cluttered.

The collapse chevron next to H1 headings now has a larger tap target — the whole left-gutter area is tappable, not just the small icon. Makes collapsing sections reliable on mobile.

The nav bar now hides when you scroll down and reappears when you scroll up — giving the note more vertical room without losing access to the timer pill or Today button. The bar always reappears immediately on any upward scroll, even a small one.

On phones (≤768px), the AI Tidy button and ⓘ button are removed from the nav bar. Both remain accessible via the burger menu. The mobile nav now shows: burger · Desklog · Today · timer pill · avatar.

A subtle vertical line now runs down the left gutter of all content under an H1 heading — no text moves, no indent. The line disappears automatically when you collapse the section via the chevron, and reappears on expand. Works as a pair with H1 collapse: the line closing is the visual confirmation the section is closed.

Bulleted lines now indent 1.25em — scales with the editor font size. Wrapped text hangs to the text's own left edge rather than back under the dot. The indent also applies while editing the line, so it no longer jumps sideways as the caret enters and leaves.

Background pill removed. Icon now matches the logo's color and height — reads as "≡ Desklog" as one unit. Touch target preserved via an invisible hit area extension.

The A-/A+ font size steps now scale proportionally with viewport width on phones using CSS clamp(). Desktop rendering is unchanged — the scaling only applies at phone widths where 24px serif was cramping text to ~22 characters per line.

Hardened checkbox styling against mobile browser native-rendering fallbacks — several engines ignore appearance:none alone and paint a grey square on tap. Fixed with additional CSS resets targeting known failure modes across iOS, Android WebView, and Firefox mobile.

The burger drawer was anchored to the document rather than the viewport — opening it after scrolling showed a blank area until you scrolled back up. Now fixed with position: fixed pinned dynamically to the nav bar's actual position. A backdrop overlay now covers the rest of the screen while the drawer is open.

Daily snapshots now taken automatically at local midnight (Free tier, 15-day retention). Pro tier gets a snapshot every 3 hours (30-day retention, plus one per month for 12 months). The status strip now warns when sync hasn't happened in 20+ minutes or a snapshot is overdue. Burger drawer shows "Last snapshot: X ago" at all times.

All four chips now render at the same width (sized to the longest — "assign"), so tags line up cleanly in the left margin regardless of label length.

A small chevron next to each H1 heading collapses everything under it — tasks, sub-headings, all content — leaving just the heading visible. Click again to expand. Useful for large notes with multiple projects.

The timer now lives in the nav bar as a compact ▶/■ pill — always visible, always accessible. Running state shows the clock and task name inline. Stopped state briefly shows logged duration then clears. Pause and Reset removed — start and stop are the only two states.

The nav bar is now sticky — it stays at the top of the viewport as the note content scrolls. Required for the timer pill to always be accessible.