What's new

Every Nodez release so far, described by what changed for you. The developer changelog lives in the app repository if you want the technical version.

Nodez is in alpha, so releases are frequent and some of these entries are fixes for things that should not have shipped broken in the first place. They are listed anyway.

0.5.1#

Clicking a node in the 3D graph no longer throws the camera at it. A click now lights the node and leaves your view where you put it, the way the graph on the website behaves. The camera still travels when you pick a node from the lists in the side panel, or when you trace a path, the places where being moved is the point.

A selected node shows you what it touches. Its connections and the notes on the other end of them stay lit while the rest of the graph fades back, so you can see a note's actual neighbourhood instead of hunting for its lines in the tangle. Click the same node again, or click empty space, to clear it.

The graph opens whole again. It used to preselect whichever note you had open, which (now that selecting dims everything else) would have meant opening the graph to a mostly grey screen. It opens showing the whole graph, and you choose what to look at.

Auto rotate does what the button says. Most of the time it was switched on but the graph was not turning, and the only way to start it was to switch it off and on again. It now starts on its own.

The task box in AI handoff is optional. It is tucked behind an "Add task" control rather than sitting in the middle of the dialog waiting to be filled in. Most handoffs are copied without one.

0.5.0#

Handing work to an AI agent is now a proper screen. There is an AI handoff button under the file list. It opens a dialog that shows exactly what the agent will be told: which vault, which repository, which note you have open, how much of your selection is coming along, and gives you a box to write the task in. Previously this was a copy button that handed you a prompt with a blank space where the task should go, to be filled in somewhere else. You can copy the whole package, just the prompt, or just the connection settings.

The graph is easier to reach. There is a Graph button beside AI handoff, and the graph summary in the right-hand panel now opens the graph when you click it, instead of sitting above a separate button that said the same thing twice.

Your agent setup follows you between computers. If you work on both a Mac and a Windows machine, the connection settings you save on one now find the right vault on the other, as long as the vault folder has the same name. Before this, a setup written on one computer pointed at a folder path that did not exist on the other.

Smaller fixes. The arrow on the recent-folders dropdown sat off-centre and too close to its edge. Long folder names in that menu stretched the row instead of trimming with an ellipsis. Both are fixed.

If you have been using Nodez since before the rename

Nodez was called Diamante until 0.4.0, and until now the app quietly read the old files left behind by those builds. That compatibility is gone in 0.5.0. If you have a vault or an installation you have not opened since the rename, Nodez will treat it as new: your notes on disk are untouched and safe, but your theme, layout preferences, recent-folder list and saved graph layout start fresh, and you may need to point Nodez at the vault again. Anything you have opened in 0.4.x is unaffected.

0.4.3#

Reorganising notes is now a proper workflow. Drag notes and folders in the sidebar to move them. Nodez asks before it commits the move, tells you how many links will be updated, and repairs path-based wikilinks and Markdown links along the way.

The app stays responsive around big folders. Opening a vault, switching projects, indexing a repository and writing graph artifacts no longer block the window in the same way. Long work now reports what it is doing instead of leaving you staring at a frozen interface.

Typing feels lighter. Editing a note no longer rebuilds the whole vault on every keystroke. The live editor work stays immediate, while heavier graph and backlink updates settle shortly afterwards.

Startup feels intentional. Nodez now shows a real boot screen while the app loads and restores your workspace, instead of flashing a blank window or a half-ready interface.

Background indexing is visible without taking over. The graph button shows when repository indexing is running, but stays clickable because the graph can open on a partial index.

0.4.2#

Getting back to a folder you use often. The vault and repo pickers now remember where you have been, so switching between projects no longer means browsing the filesystem every time. If a folder has moved or been deleted, it quietly drops off the list instead of failing every time you pick it.

Knowing when your vault is behind. The status bar now tells you when your git remote has commits you do not, and clicking it opens the sync panel. This never worked before: Nodez was comparing against a stale local copy of the remote, so the count was always zero. It now checks with the remote when you open a vault. Checking is read-only - nothing is committed, pulled or pushed unless you ask.

Seeing that indexing is happening. A small spinner in the status bar while a repository is being indexed, so a busy app no longer looks like a stuck one.

A connections panel that says something. Selecting a node used to produce a list of identical-looking rows, each labelled with the relationship type and the file you already had selected - so a note with eight links showed eight rows that never named what it was connected to. Rows now lead with the neighbour's name, collapse repeats into a count, and jump to that neighbour when clicked. Direction is colour-coded down the left edge, so outgoing and incoming links read as two separate streams.

The 3D graph had lost its colour. Opening it greyed out everything except two or three nodes. Nodez was quietly selecting a start and an end point for path tracing the moment the graph opened, and path mode dims everything off the path - so it looked like a rendering fault but was a path you never asked for. It no longer picks endpoints for you, and there is now a Reset button and a click-empty-space gesture to get back to the full graph.

The 3D graph was not actually 3D. It was drawing everything on a flat plane. Nodes now settle into a ball, and opening the graph shows the whole thing rather than zooming into whichever note you came from.

The 2D graph opens with nothing selected, instead of preselecting your current note and dimming everything around it.

Task lists look right. A checklist item no longer shows a bullet and a checkbox, and task text lines up with ordinary bullets beside it.

Node.js is now something you install yourself. Nodez used to try to ship a copy for the AI assistant connection. It never actually worked - the runtime was missing from the installer - so rather than pretend, Nodez now checks whether you have Node.js, tells you if you do not, and shows you how to install it.

0.4.1#

Connecting an assistant without a terminal. The AI connection shipped inside the installer, so tools like Claude Desktop and Cursor could be pointed at Nodez without setting anything up by hand.

Handing your work to an assistant. Copy your current note, your selection and the connection details in one action, from the command palette or Settings.

Asking questions inside the app. A panel for asking a model about the note you are looking at, and inserting the answer. Works with OpenAI-compatible services or a local Ollama install.

Long names stopped being cut off in the graph side panel, with the full name on hover.

0.4.0#

The app became Nodez. New name, new icon, and a home at getnodez.app. Existing vaults keep working - Nodez still reads everything written under the old name.

0.3.0#

A serious interface overhaul. The app was rebuilt around a calmer, more consistent layout.

Updates arrive in the app. Settings now checks for new versions and can install them, with releases signed so your machine can verify they came from us.

Themes that are actually different. Seven of them. Previously five of the seven swatches quietly rendered as plain dark or light.

The graph keeps its own colours regardless of which theme you are using, so clusters stay readable.

Note properties collapse by default, and the sidebar gained a note count.

0.2.0#

The first release aimed at other people, with a Windows installer.

A setup wizard that walks you from choosing a vault through connecting an assistant.

Assistants could read, not just query. List, search and read notes, ask what a connection means, ask what a change would affect, and see detected clusters.

0.1.0#

The first working version: a Markdown editor with wikilinks, backlinks, tags, a graph preview, and a folder on disk.