A simple self-organizing tool for text.
more changes to meetings recordings and long/lock recordings. Now they are uploaded in progress, for better speed, and most importantly support for very long transcriptions. Still testing, but trying to make this increasingly reliable.
massive improvement on quick edit and ai/edit via speech feature. It's stateful now, so it has a bit of a short term memory. Successive edits work a lot better. Undo even works quite often. Also added a diff transition so the update isn't so abrupt. very nice!
Many many many tiny papercut level bug fixes deployed.
Some significant bug fixes. There were some hidden UI elements that were interfering with text positioning on mobile. Frustrating bug. Happy that's fixed. Redesigned the block settings. And there's an MVP of ENHANCED NOTES, which is a little AI routine to take a long meeting transcript and convert it to concise notes.
ui improvements on mobile. trying to remove a lot of jankyness that's slowly crept in. needs work, but already better.
bug fix. block deletes are handled better -- bug was when a auto generated block was deleted, a page refresh was required for it to come back. now it just works. bug fix. Add lightweight rendering for large prompts (150+ blocks). blocks older than a month. keeps page size reasonable for multiple years of notes.
big adjustment to audio ui -- can now switch target on the fly. also improvements in meeting and lock mode. and screen lock applied to upload phase as well.
pretty massive deploy of new audio features. - The meeting and lock buttons now allow the rest of the app to be usuable while recording (don't click links however). - The meeting uses Eleven Labs speech to text now, vastly better results for multi-speaker audio - There is a new recording page under menu -- recordings are stored realtime locally, so much less chance of data loss! This is a big step! - Meeting and Lock recordings now get put in sub-blocks automatically... Will me making some adjustments over the next few days, but this is a big step!
added ability to rename a prompt! Added tabs and a little ui tune up on prompt settings modal. Added a diff all button, ie so it's easy to inspect many block changes at once.
Some interface improvements in chat. Better model picker and small ui tweaks. Some mobile ui fixes where keyboard would get in the way of the last block.
a little ui clean up of ai memory features.
Massive deploy. AI Memory added. Makes a huge difference in continuity over conversations. This is so cool.
Chat panel now shows which prompt's conversations you're viewing, with easy toggle to see all chats or filter back to the current page.
Fixed issues with Gemini getting confused and failing on tool calls. And gave it better tools to find and explore available prompts. Pretty huge improvement all around.
Fixed big brain formatting on mobile when it's processing.
Added a calendar print view Fixed prompt page view regression where structured data would take up too much of the screen and did not scroll properly.
Fixed a bunch of small ui problems. Improved big brain and chat prompts. Added gifting. Added use cases page. Added atheletic training plans blog.
calendar view added to prompt pages. available on desktop, not mobile.
length limits on regular entity and date parsing increase to 50k tokens from 10k. For very long notes.
fix the chat message branching. ie left and right arrows after you edit and resubmit a message.
some follow up fixes on yesterdays long edits fix. Added 'view' button when ai edits long blocks and doesn't already present them in full. Small css and formatting fixes on block pages. slight updates to ai system prompts -- Improved tool calling and reliability making edits across prompt pages and multiple blocks work a lot better.
a whole number of updates to chat tools. Old chats were also unavailable for 5 hours due to regression, but fixed. Basically editing should work better, be able to handle long edits. Lots of little bugs and rough edges fixed.
added warnings when chat output gets truncated or llm hits max length/token limit
refactored the previous scroll-to-refresh bug in chat ui -- as it wasn't working on prompt pages. bug fix, published link to blocks from the block was a broken link
corrected temperature on kimi k2 thinking (grug speed model) to from 0.6 to 1.0
fixed bug where scrolling in chat would trigger refresh on mobile grug ai/edit and audio ai/edit switched to groq -- faster and better evals. more testing in production :)
slight ui and reliability improvements to audio input
ui improvements in big brain agent and some bug fixes, optimizations, and overall improvements. fixed misaligned datepicker new intro video on landing page
ui improvement in prompt settings. more clarity on 'mode' and datatype. overall just a slight bit simpler than it was. add note button added to right sidebar when there are no blocks or nothing on the day.
improved ai tagging and date parsing reliability.
fixed tab to complete on all prompt search inputs. added bulk publishing of prompt pages some cleanup on published pages
Very bad regression for gmail logins fixed. It broke note saving for the last couple days! TOS and Privacy Policy updated. The Ctrl+Return emoji/prefix toggle now matches text case-insensitively, so if your settings have "TODO, DONE", it will correctly cycle through lines starting with "todo", "Todo", or "TODO" instead of treating them as different prefixes. Default company and person datatypes are created on account creation instead of lazily -- which makes for better, ie less janky signup experience.
Subscription page improvements allowing upgrading and downgrading plans. Minor landing page speed optimizations and clean up.
Fix big brain error on home page chats: the apply all button would error when trying to add plans to daily notes. Also fixed move logic to be more robust.
Chat models upgraded. Grug is now gpt-5.1 and Oracle is Gemini 3. It's so good.
Serious upgrade to Grug Chat. Speed model is much better, uses Kimi K2 Thinking via Fireworks AI (usa). Removed manual parsing of attributes, so key:: value only parses if the key was defined in datastructure of the prompt or type. Before this change, any :: would get processed and could get quite mess pasting in css or whatever code. So we cut it for now. Fixed a bug in chat -- when using 2nd Opinion feature, the earlier messages would go missing.
Fixed cookie error specific to safari that would break chat functionality.
fixed pull to refresh bug on prompt pages for mobile that caused undesired refresh. also fixed x-axis movement on scrolling.
Fixed sync conflicts overwriting checkbox/QuickToggle edits Fixed diff modal accept buttons failing with empty content Fix date mismatch causing blocks created in Grug Chat to Apply button to fail in certain timezones or certain times of day.
Fixed a weird loading loop bug when resizing from desktop size below to mobile widths. Fixed infinite scroll into past. Added infinite scroll to future.
fixed a rendering error in edit mode where underline tags would cause overlapping text in safari and ios. Essentially, comma's and periods after an tag are included in the underline. Subtle but annoying bug if you came across it!
Holy smokes, longest refactor and redesign ever! Code files 22087 insertions(+), 6229 deletions(-). The gist is that we got rid of the 3 column layout. Many found it confusing. Replaced with right sidebar and a tabs system. Many other changes! Will explain and update further asap. Email keizo@grugnotes.com if this causes any problems for you!
minor bug fix: front end race condition fixed
small front end bug fix, caused hanging after adding. a block or during ai call.
Added semi-realtime sync to the user home page Added/improved error logging to help improve and squash bugs faster. Chat will see sub-blocks or child blocks when reading a note now.
regression fix on llm date detection bug fixes on email parsing for email to notes feature -- still in testing, ie beta. bug fix on date/timezone issue on email parsing
Initial release of email to notes feature. See the settings page.
fixed regression bug with autotags -- they're now working again fixed add prompt on data pages fixed clicking on a prompt in the search hints while adding a block fixed duplicate block issue
Fixed logout on 'mouse over' of logout. Fixed intermittent csrf error on login -- was a caching issue.
regression fix, search/ask navigates to the date page if a single date alone is typed. regression fix, infinity icon shows up properly for scratch pad or persistent prompts. clean up on on boarding note, and help page
regression fix for Grug Speed, wasn't working yesterday Diff view rendering, removed strike through on deletions. Fixed partial accept bug on last diff. Fixed rendering bug that left some deletions not highlighted correctly.
massive deploy! Grug is now powered with GPT-5 -- it's slower, but after a lot of system prompt tuning, I'm finding it's ability to plan and write superior than O3. One of my test cases has been making endurance training programs -- try this on a 'prompt' page of your choosing. On finalization of a plan, it will trigger Big Brain to fill out daily blocks. Big Brain also has faster generation and actually more consistent with Gemini 2.5 flash and 2.5 Pro for task verification. Lots of improvements on system prompts for all chat llm calls. Major speed optimization on chat page loading. Regression fixes on Add Block button.
fixed a race condition bug that seemingly randomly 'unset' Daily Notes as the "focus" prompt. *I think.* Added subscription plans and edited landing page a small amount.
improved cache busting of static assets disabled cloudflare -- as it added 20-100ms overhead in my experience. It would inflate brotli compressed pages to zstd which is silly. slight refactor of svg pipeline and inline js, reduced home loading size a bit
Added deep linking, ie a unique url to each chat. Better block resizing when opening and closing chat panel.
added audio input to chat input field regression fixed on 'add block' typeahead/hints feature
Oracle/Gemini bug fix on tool calls. Added a 'remove date filter' in search when it gets automatic date filtering incorrect.
Grug Chat now has an internal search tool. Kind of a big deal! Search/ask has been significantly improved and optimized. Keywords are now matched with existing prompts in the ranking process.
UI clean up on settings, imports/exports, and subscriptions page. Added ability to link and unlink google auth account. Fixed ui bug where chat would pop open on login with google.
Grug Chat added to the home page. Still a work in progress. Diff/compare feature added to chat experience. Some small bug fixes for urls. Links with ' or " at the end of it would cause rendering errors.
Some clean up. Better titles, meta tags, robots.txt etc. BORING. ok bye.
HUGE UPDATE Way faster and way more accurate search. This one is big. It's so much better. Much better date handling, ie filtering on dates. Streams in as the final answer is resolved. Stoked. (ok had a full day of new production bugs, but it looks to be working!) Chat (available only on prompt pages and individual block pages so far) is now powered primarily by chatgpt o3. It's slow, but also absolutely better given the quality of the model. Agent mode aka 'Big Brain' was a huge rewrite -- it's also slow, but output can be way better. A lot here is still a work in progress. But it will eventually be added to your main page. More complete documentation and videos coming as it gets polished up. New landing page. New subscription info page. Adjusted ui layout. Move menu back to right corner.
had a some down time this morning due to Google Cloud outage -- Grug Notes along with a lot of the internet. Sorry!
Added a user home page to published notes.
Added full markdown export feature!
Fairly large update. Fixed a nasty caching bug that caused new prompt pages to fail. Terrible that was up for so long. Sorry! Large update to chat. Now uses claude sonnet 4 and does longer block generations with gemini pro 2.5. Still lots to polish. But try chat on any prompt page. Significantly optimized loading of past and future sections. Hope to get back to more regular deploys. Development has continued, but chat/agent progress has been challenging!
small bug fix on block pages -- sometimes similar blocks wouldn't load template error bug fix on published blocks
published/public pages now have a very basic prompt level view
small css updates and fixes on side bar moved "last week" and "next week" sections back to the bottom of the columns. Added a dropdown allowing you to move the to other columns.
switched to noto emoji library so side bar renders consistently across platforms
very big ui update -- added a side bar. Removed the second search box (find/create). Added + buttons on home page to add new prompt/blocks. Each prompt is auto assigned an emoji now -- used throughout for headers and side bar. Added a favorite setting for each prompt, allows for additions to the side bar. There are a good number of incomplete features, and I'm sure some bugs. But didn't want to go too long without a deploy. Fixes coming. noticed some layout shifting (double user/home link) and the date is not positioned right on Windows Chrome... not fixed yet. will fix tonight. **actually this seems to have been a caching issue. Went away...
we had some on and off downtime the last 24 hours -- due to ssl config related to cloudflare and google cloud run. adjustments have been made to hopefully prevent it happening in the future.
formatting improvements with how the chat toggles open
more consistent rendering of chats -- safer, more reliable handling of code, tables, etc.
smoother streaming of text in the chat. also better handling of rendering and code blocks in chat. oops, also some regressions -- broke the apply all button. Will fix tonight. *fixed
bug found on persistent blocks -- Quick Edit and AI/Edit still not working properly if it hasn't been updated on the current day. Not fixed yet.
slight improvements to chat feature. stop button added while streaming. some bug fixes. first iteration to fit on mobile screen.
Chat feature added to block pages. Chat uses Sonnet 3.5, agent feature uses 3.7. Date picker added to block pages and some small ui adjustments. Found a bug in markdown table rendering -- doesn't work with code blocks. Not fixed yet. *fixed
preliminary support for Markdown Tables -- including checkboxes in table cells. adjustment to Quick Edit and audio AI/Edit prompts, improved reliablity. small bug fix on persistent blocks -- Quick Edit and AI/Edit were not working unless it the block had been saved on the day.
nooo, oops I broke the subscription page. Will fix tonight. *fixed
small ui and formatting improvements around prompt page and chat feature.
fixed bug when Quick Edit fails. todo -- add notification added placeholder explanation on quick edit, and link to chat. Needs improvement, but it's slightly better.
caching issue when attributes update fixed. Basically, when ai would find attributes, sometimes they didn't show up on the prompt page until a hard refresh.
ok, the chat feature seems to be working! i'm sure there's still bugs, lots to go. But core concept is there. Ask it to make you a workout schedule for the month! or plan anything. It's Claude 3.7 -- state of the art model in Grug Notes! It's like [Cursor](https://www.cursor.com) in your notes! Oof google api currently broken today, causing entity/auto tagging to break -- will fix this evening. *fixed did some old prompt updating and migrations to newer faster llms (google flash) -- nothing critical
pretty massive deploy it's an mvp version of chat with notes feature. Only available through a prompt page at the bottom right currently until I get it more polished. The killer feature is ability to generate notes, great for planning just about anything. fixed some regressions on ai parsing attributes
Shipped an MVP version of Grug AI Editor. The button is at the bottom right of blocks or use ctrl-l. The prompt needs some work, but it's still useful at times! It's stateless, not a chat. Currently identical to audio ai/edit functionality, but at some point I expect it to diverge some. Embedding regression bugfix from OpenAI API change last week or so. Was affecting synonyms loading at times. Bug fix where viewing revision history would block drag/drop from working after. Probably been around a while, but just noticed!
regression fix. oops, publishing content moderation was not working
published blocks are now cached on cloudflare and serverside. Both caches are invalidated on save. regression from yesterday with ai calls from openai api update fixed
minimum viable implementation for block publishing
bug fix where enter key wouldn't create a new line, was a regression from last week
bug fix: title saving on new blocks fixed.
started using cloudflare
Changes to tab functionality. Now it shifts line to right with cursor anywhere. Similar to Obsidian instead of VS Code or Sublime Text. I couldn't think of an instance where you need to add four spaces in the middle of text. Shift-tab works. Initial deploy of a macro functionality. [] typed at beginning of a line will convert to a markdown checkbox. Return key handles markdown checkboxes like they should now. ~~i think there is one regression, space key on mobile should tab. I’ll fix that tomorrow. ~~ *fixed 30 min later* *30 min later* quickToggle regression fixed in ios/safari Happy New Year!
added support for markdown checkboxes. as of now, don't think i'm making it a default on the quick toggle buttons...
bug fix -- occasional rendering error when toggling between editing and rendered state (ie clicking on and off a block)
added smart wrapping and the indentation indicator (vertical gray lines) to code blocks added language header and copy button to code blocks!
very basic support for code blocks implemented. Use three backticks. No code highlighting or anything fancy yet. Improvements coming. *later today* Code highlights via prism.js added. So nice lol. *later later* Fixed resize issue where rendered code could overflow.
another major optimization for voice activity detection. like 10x faster! In practice, this shaves off about 1/10th of a second on all voice transcriptions. :)
voice activity detection redesigned -- should be much more reliable. less false negatives and false positives. This is a big big quality improvement. finally tested on an android phone. Some fixes deployed last week. Lower nav bar was not showing at times...
adjusted some formatting in the help page. Also made a toggle for pull to refresh, so you can't refresh accidentally while the help drawer is open on mobile.
Significant improvements to audio and ai/edit features: Improved voice activity detection Using Gemini Flash 2.0 -- better in every way 👉 Displays speech recognition, and spinner until it's done Alternations to the prompt for improved accuracy 👉 Fireworks.ai added as a backup to Groq for transcription services. Ask Grug (generative ai search) is faster, switched to Flash 1.5 from gpt4o-mini
menu and audio button positioning regression (from a few days ago) fixed
improvement in the reliability of ai/edit audio feature. Still hunting for bugs, but it's notably better.
cursor handling added while audio recording. Basically, cursor position should be maintained while using audio.
bug fix -- audio ai/edit on an empty or new unsaved block was broken
initial prototype of audio lock feature for longer recordings and of diarization (meeting aka multispeaker transcription). Unfortunately not sure how to solve the problem of ios/pwa falling asleep!!! https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254545
Crazy speed improvement on speech to text. Switched speech to text transcription api to Groq Whisper-3-large. It falls back to OpenAI api (whisper 2) which should make everything a little more reliable with that redundancy. I tried whisper-3-large-turbo, and while faster, doesn't seem quite as accurate. Also added voice activity detection. Basically it should prevent the random hallucination or jibberish if you submit empty audio. VAD is shockingly tricky to get right. Not absolutely sure this is right. But testing live!
regression fix from yesterday, affected new accounts for a few hours. small changes to ai/edit feature. added spinning indicator. Switched ai/edit feature to Gemini Flash model. It's just faster and seems on par with 3.5 haiku. Small bug fix in that feature too where html entities would sometimes get throw in.
fixed help drawer -- it didn't scroll on desktop and sometimes it was needed. some backend adjustments and refactoring to embeddings. Don't expect any visible changes from this. some very subtle improvements to search voice ai/edit feature uses claude 3.5 haiku -- much improved!
prompt settings button, clean up -- consistently use svg.
added mouse over hovers to most all the links lol. after 2 years.
added underscore style markdown parsing for bold and italic
improved the fetching code for csrf. Basically send the request sooner, so there is much less chance of a csrf error.
Adjusted amount of context llm gets for natural language dates prompt. Should be an improvement in accuracy. fixed regression, prompt settings were mistakenly hidden in a quest for optimizing loading speed. :|
some caching bugs -- too aggressive caching. Right click on entity to change type slightly more reliable, but not quite 100%.
past and future sections removed from mobile screens. I never used it. More likely to use calendar to change days. And slight adjustment on past/future layout (nothing notable, just hoping it fixes occasional layout bug).
more prefetching on mouseovers and click on mouse down. FASTER woo also fixed a bug where the page would sometimes scroll with the quick toggle button on a line.
fixed a rendering bug on iOS when spaces would push to the next line. seriously this one was starting to drive me insane. I hope it's all fixed lol. I will never abandon the <textarea>!
persistent prompt pages now work -- that is the block for today is copied from the previous day it was edited, the same way it does on the home page. persistent prompts also no longer show up on any future day pages. That doesn't make sense.
added ability to "add to home" for any prompt page. Each prompt page now has it's own manifest.json that allow for this.
If you press and hold the little button to the left of the line, it'll do the same as ctrl-shift-return, ie strike through by default. Great for mobile.
Minimum viable offline support. Edits are stored in local storage and cleared once synced. Also added a very basic service worker that caches static files. Appears to load faster for those who ‘add to home’ and use on mobile.
error fixed on similar block feature for empty blocks. Inconsequential, but feels good to make errors in the logs go away.
removed any dependencies on gpt 3.5 duplicate backlinks where the context is identical are filtered to only show one -- on the home page at least.
added title text to block settings button polished the copy button a little more, added quick animation on click and cleaned up the code a little.
minimum viable copy button added. need improvement, but seems to work. moved save indicator and made it fade out
stripe/subscription sync errors fixed subscribe banner added back to free accounts. it went missing from a template upgrade regression a while back. django 5 to 5.1 upgrade
So stoked! There's been a nagging rendering error when a name or company was tagged within a url. Basically random occasions would cause crazy overlapping text during editing. Swapped anchor tag for span during edit mode. Cross our fingers, no more weirdness. It's interesting, chrome seems to treat anchor slightly different. Safari seems to do it better.
slight adjustment and improvement to date tagging prompt.
made some changes to how manifest.json is served -- now fully loaded into memory and served static, hopefully as efficiently as possible. I think it was causing a db hit and contributing to crashing during hacker news traffic.
csrf error fixed when on prompt page and trying to adjust block title or block settings. super big rewrite and expansion of help/docs page. Added to menu button on computer view as well, even though it's redundant with bottom left link.
some huge fixes on roam import. More robust and hoping urls correctly load now after the import.
login with google in one click -- instead of it previously going to another page to then click again. Nice quality of life improvement.
bug fix for accounts with a username that started or ended with an underscore significant fixes with roam research import tool. Handles conflicts and duplicates much better. additional templates moved to jinja -- faster, but not much of a noticeable change.
small layout adjustments. Better alignment of user name and audio input button. small fix with caching. it would take a hard refresh for a block to disappear after you delete it. Now it properly clears the cache and it goes away. small type error in frontend fixed. don't think it was causing any issues.
removed unlinked blocks from datatype pages. it's not needed and saves a db query.
beta of roam research json import feature added to menu
tiny bugfix when archive is empty, error at endpoint for new accounts.
fixed regression where 'today' could be tagged as a natural language dates since the recent update in date parsing. In general, backlinks should not be created to the day of the note.
Front end bug fix, where sometimes audio buttons would be hidden on mobile after you press record.
bug fix -- prompts would be missing older blocks due to template mistake. bug fix -- doesn't wig out (scroll weirdly) trying to make a selection on mobile.
fixed a couple javascript errors on landing page. switched person and company entity recognition to gpt4o-mini. search/ask is smarter! :) some lines of code deleted that were causing ai attributes to not work, ie recognizing phone numbers on existing people wasn't reliable. Still needs work and testing. slight adjustment to automatic date filtering in search/ask as it was sometimes falsely finding a date
date handling has been gutted. And largely turned over to claude 3.5 Sonnet. Seems good so far. Still some optimizing to do, but not slower and seemingly much more reliable than the rule based methods. Previously it was a combo of chatgpt 3.5 and rule based methods. But it would fail a good number of tests and was a patchwork of if statements. And got quite slow. The new method looks for any date entities on the server, and if any are found, claude is called to intelligently decide the dates. let me know if it fails you! keizo@grugnotes.com
currently experiencing openai api issues/rate limits. May break ai entity identification and search. fixed The core ai functionality has been gutted. Date recognition is now entirely ruled based with some help from small natural language libraries to determine past or future dates. many tests are good need more bad with holidays llm/chatgpt still responsible for tagging people and companies. could use additional testing still a lot of room for basic speed improvements fixed funky scroll on mouse click bug
templating issue fixed if you had a mention on your home page grr. weird bug on persistent blocks going blank -- just refresh and it comes back, but annoying. will investigate tonight. fixed a server side error (I think this was it) update it is not! but i understand the problem a little more caused by polling an unsaved persistent block... gotta love sync problems fixed (I think) css adjustment for the buttons to the left of the lines. better on mobile, same on desktop.
Some new front end code that helps with more natural scrolling and keeping the text within view -- both on computer and in ios. Typo fix on template.
Finally switched to newer embedding model 'text-embedding-3-large' for search functionality. Seemingly better and faster search results already, but still needs tuning. fixed ai breakage on new accounts caused by this ~12 hrs later New templating backend deployed. No visible changes, but slight speed improvement, especially for more complex or long pages.
small bug fix in find/create prompt search. It was broken if the prompt was set to 'generate_today' but not show on this day... if that makes sense. Also now, when a block is already existing on the day, it correctly sets focus to that block. small bug fix -- html properly escaped on archived blocks (anything older displayed as plain text for rendering speed)
Search and similar prompts features fixed from the Pinecone vector database issues.
Vector database service Pinecone is down as their service has gone through some breaking changes. Will take 1-2 days to update. Sorry! This means search is failing and similar prompts. :(
on a prompt page, blocks were listed first, then backlinks. Now they are listed mixed together in order of original block date. Works, but still needs ui and speed optimizations.
fixed a caching bug. if you delete a block on the main home page, the cache now correctly clears. For the past few weeks, it would appear to no be deleted until a full refresh or something else changed.
fixed the crazy bug from yesterday where new line or lines added at the start of an existing note would not save. Weirdest thing ever. Browser would seem to remove new lines unless the html started with a new line. Basically my template needed to be <textarea> text</textarea> instead of: <textarea>text</textarea> crazy right?
new model and prompt deployed for ai/edit voice editing feature. Uses full context of the note -- it's a lot better, but I'm sure it's not perfect. Also found a crazy bug where a new line added to the start of an existing note doesn't save. Like wut -- need investigation asap.
Updated copy on landing page. Small adjustment on revision history so the text is selectable.
brotli added back to landing page
bug fix with similar prompts feature that would cause them to never load -- I think related to django upgrade some weeks back.
More major issues fixed for usernames with capital letters in it. Future, Past, Archive may not have been loading and search issues as well. Grug take long time! But work now. Some backend updates. Switched PyMYSQL to mysqlclient. Not sure if it makes a speed difference, but I'd like to think it's an improvement. Also laid groundwork for websockets if needed, though note used for anything yet.
Ooof, fixed a csrf error on audio recording -- partially broken since april 7th.
fixed a few endpoints that were no longer getting compressed due to yesterdays upgrades.
first deploy migrating from Django 3.2 to 5! and gunicorn to uvicorn server! Welcome to modern web dev Grug. We have server sent events -- it means slightly better device sync. You can try type in the same note on two different devices. This was a massive deploy. Hopefully nothing fundamentally broken, but Grug watch closely. 😅 Door open for many more improvements. 🤗
fixed drag and drop blocks that were broken last week from revision history update...
More aggressive caching on home, usually clearing cache on write. Shooting for sub 100ms server response. Actually, there were like 4-6 deploys today with various bugfixes of the caching.
A bunch more orm/sql query optimizations. Less queries on load. And a couple indexes added. And importantly pretty significant improvement on save function. SPEED! yay. Some adjustments to html to improve load speed.
A few small and subtle query optimizations. Very small speed improvement.
Minor adjustments to caching so stale data is avoided. Better handling of pasted text and auto adjusting the textarea height.
Speed update! Better preloading and some initial client side caching. Little snappier responses. 😍 wondering what I broke 😅🤓
minimum implementation of edit 'revision history' for each block deployed. Needs work and needs diff formating still. Not functional on mobile yet, but soon!
Small bug fix and reliability improvement to search/ask. Alteration and hopefully improve to how known entities are relied on vs chatgpt entity recognition. I'm sparse on details here, but changes deployed to production! :)
A bunch of backend work on how backlinks are saved. Backlinks now have a creation date that will persist through saves and minor changes. It's not much of a big deal right now, but I'm hoping it can provide some additional context in the future, to help identify stale tasks for example. Backlinks are copied to new days on persistent blocks. Persistent blocks remove lines that are strikethroughed out the next day. That is, if the line is surrounded by ~~, it gets deleted. Will be adding this as a user setting soon. Small front end rendering fix.
oh man, fixed a bad bug. Tags from hashtags and brackets were not properly creating backlinks for a while. Shaved 6 queries off the home screen load. Probably not a noticeable speed difference, but it brings joy to my heart.
Encoding issues kinda fixed with latest version of chrome. Everything was rendering as symbols. Now seems ok.
Made the headers sticky on the datatype pages.
such a dumb bug to last this long. Capital letters in usernames no longer break urls.
right clicking on the quick toggle button does the equivalent of ctrl-shift-return -- the default being markdown strike through around the line. Already found a cursor positioning bug, will fix later this week lol.
Sorry! there was a major bug since mid january that made natural language dates no longer link -- or actually they were linked, but it wasn't visible on that day. It should be fixed now.
Right clicking on a link brings up a context menu that allows changing the datatype. Minimum viable features! Most useful if AI gets it wrong. Also allows creating autotags. Needs to be in view mode, it doesn't make sense in edit mode. Unlinked mentions or backlinks are show at the bottom of prompt pages. WIP. There are still some edge cases and bugs related to these features!
Added Inter and Roboto as fonts.
one line bug fix to prevent possible creation of two unique blocks within the same prompt and date. Which should be only possible if you set a title. In this case, the path was created with a timestamp which shouldn't be possible.
small bug fix where ai tags could occur within existing manual links or urls
fixed a diff match patch error that caused some sync errors around emoji.
First deploy of quick toggle ui feature that adds the ctrl-return shortcut as a clickable feature on desktop and on mobile.
drag handles moved to top of blocks
Fixed some formatting issues from dark design update, probably a dozen or so little tweaks. Fixed some issues on date views where 'persistent blocks' wouldn't display.
Darker, but cleaner design deployed. Smaller text on mobile.
fixed a bug. If two browsers or devices were open. And the block was brand new, ie never saved, typing in one would not sync to the other with out a refresh. Now it should.
Some tests written, and non-visible improvements/bugfixes to sync. Chasing one last bug where you would lose a few words on save. Grug saw maybe 3x a month. Grug think we got it! But needs battle testing. Slight alteration to speech to text ai/edit prompt. Handles some situations a little more consistently. UnboundLocalError on search bug fix. Small font change to make date and prompt filtering more obvious during search.
small ui updates, replaced some emoji with svg started work on save history ui, incomplete
small bug fix on prompt settings form where the textarea formatting was bad
implemented 'generate on days'
Changed favicons & app icons to new logo. Draft privacy and terms are online. Made 👉, ✅ default as autotags on new accounts.
Some optimizations to javascript and stopped loading the archive at bottom of the page on mobile only. It was causing performance issues. added semantically similar blocks on individual block pages. minimum viable feature. not sure how useful yet.
some small formatting adjustments with new logo fixed on window resize bug where the textarea would not correctly size fixed some type error bugs in search fixed formatting on password reset page
landing page update and logo change!
First deploy with autotags implemented.
Fixed bug introduced on oct 22 where speech to search and speech to find broke. :|
Added links to the day headings under "past" and "future". Changed the permalink style from an anchor emoji to / Mon xx. It's a little weird, but I think I like it better than the emoji. Maybe I'll consider a lone #, we used to do that for permalinks in the old web. Blocks are unique by the url now. The improvement here is that there can be more than one block in the same prompt on the same day -- if one is given a 'title'. Basically this makes it function like a wiki much more effectively. More work to be done. It's now possible to create a prompt with only an emoji or with emoji's in it. It will convert to a text string that works in the url. However, it was mainly a bug fix and it only works in the backend. More work to be done on the front end to make it a functional feature. #TODO
Another improvement on block ordering -- new blocks created are always appended in whatever column the prompt last had or default to column 3. The vertical row ordering is unique to each day. Column is universal or at the prompt level. Fixed funky ios bug where links would need to be touched twice before they would go... iOS devices no longer tres to focus on loading -- since they keyboard can't come out because that's the way iOS works. But at least now, links and stuff on Daily Notes or wherever work on loading. bug fix -- block pages would break if the prompt didn't exist yet.
found another sync bug! But also may have fixed it today. Added another check to prevent duplicate requests. Optimistic this helps a great deal. increase the clickable area by 5px around AI generated tag/links. Nice ui improvement!
improved audio record button response speed after you get microphone permission from the user. The trick was removing noice cancelation and auto gain things from MediaRecorder set up. Whisper speech to text is so good, don't think it matters there will be no on device noise reduction.
fixed some accessibility things, and increase contrast for a lot of the ui
some refactoring work on sync. Reduced extra sync requests by slight bit. And now server responds with correct hash when a block doesn't exist. There is/was a bug here where sometimes server would overwrite user that happens to me 1-2x a month. Would lose a few words perhaps from seconds ago. This might fix -- but yet to confirm. :|
few hours focusing on speed -- major one is deferring all javascript. Much improved loading speed. Small improvements and error fixes.
fixed a bug where past & future were not formatting correctly on load
fixed bug where search/ask would break when extra spaces were present
first deploy of ai/edit via audio feature. Experimental... but cool! bug fix: adding a prompt to automatic speech recognition from the prompt's settings caused an error. bug fix: legacy code on settings page caused an error when changing automatic speech recognition settings
improved positioning of past and future sections at 2 column width
small error bug fix where the entity recognition wouldn't work right away, it would take a refresh or two, on new accounts.
a new user created a username with a space, and it broke the account. Fixed the validation bug.
fixed a formatting issue where column 2 (daily notes usually) would overlap today's mentions
it shouldn't matter much in daily use, but refactored and improved caching of embeddings -- basically more efficient :) very low chance, but also made sure no possibility of duplicates in "similar prompts" on prompt pages.
removed all the prompt settings from the settings page. There is no real need since prompts are drag and drop sortable now. increase contrast on block and prompt settings. Removed a click by direct linking to prompt settings from block settings. Not great, but an improvement.
Improved ordering of blocks when it transitions to 2 col and 1 column from 3.
Better word wrapping, and fixed a rendering error with long words. We no longer break-words. Just wrap on overflow. Little bit of javascript refactoring. Fixed the padding/height being too short issue when the page is first loaded.
little javascript refactor, fixed a bug that was calling ai endpoint twice!!!
Finally implemented drag and drop moving of blocks. This changes the column and ordering at the 'prompt' level so the view will be the same on any day.
Did some refactoring of some llm prompts and test code to make converting singular/plural prompt names more robust. Mostly not noticeable, but feels good to get done!
some ui fixes when there is a pop-over style thing, ie search. Fades out properly and no more pointer affecting things in the background issues.
Some small rendering error bugs fixed when there's punctuation around natural language dates. Also fixed rendering error where inline style wasn't removed correctly on focus out. Surfaced as overlapping text. Slight ui improvements on speech to text. On desktop, trigger to get microphone access requires 100 ms mouse over, hopefully fewer accidental triggers. On mobile, got initialization response a little faster -- ie nicer to use.
small ui changes -- home button added at bottom left on mobile. Help button moved to menu. wider table widths on prompt pages for attributes
bunch of small bug fixes w/css and ui. Moved the signup link to be at bottom. Fixed pull to refresh -- as it was doing it anywhere on the page. Adjusted css, so textareas don't interrupt scrolling Can now have prompt level keywords for speech to text.
deployed mvp of speech to text. This took a while, and did quite a bit of experimentation.
Cursor placement with multiuser editing is getting pretty good. Patches should get applied and the cursor or selection does the right thing.
Small update to search prompts to consider todays
Added a web manifest, so "add to home" runs as a progressive web app -- meaning the url bar is dropped and it loads from cache more instantly. This is possible now that there is sync functionality. HOWEVER, there is no offline support yet -- but the path is closer. Some small ui improvements and ui bug fixes with that, more to come.
more work on sync. A few bug fixes so that things should converge between all clients.
More work on sync -- made a pretty significant change. Let's call it *semi realtime sync*. It's not google docs level collaborative, but updates do happen and things mostly converge. Using differential sync. For Grug purposes, it does the job -- and creates a path towards multiuser notebooks and tracking changes over time. still an mvp feature still need to match cursor position when updates happen some odd things happen if actually trying to edit exactly at the same time, but this is very much not typical use case.
improved sync. some changes to optimistic locking. Should see far less false errors
changed the css technique on underlines (uses border now) for ai links -- this was a major source of rendering errors. improved front end -- fixed some rendering errors on resize and refactored code to be more efficient
fixed a front end error that came up from hidden characters
fix some breakages from open ai updates change to optimistic locking. No longer relies strictly on the last modified for the locking, but an integer. This should fix the occasional out of sync error that would occur when saves would happen back to back and htmx hadn't return the server last modified time. The save count is updated on the front end, so it should stay in sync and only go out of sync if another client updates it.
On prompt pages, the data fields will update after ai is called. So the page feels live. :)
search will now redirect to the 'date' view if you only type in a date. Things like aug 5, tomorrow, monday, a year from now, etc should all go direct to that page. fixed bug, find/create will add block to the date of the datepage it's currently on, instead of always today
ctrl-shift return keyboard shortcut for wrapping a line with ~~ or other characters. First version. Needs work to apply to selections.
ui improvements, better menu and datatype link formatting for both desktop and mobile. Started using alpine js... made subscriptions page visible in menu added ctrl-k short cut to move cursor to search and then find/create prompt and back to default focus if it a third time bug fix on find/create prompt where search results wouldn't disappear after hitting enter.
Implemented a simple warning when block length is over 3000 tokens. When getting primary entities, text will be truncated after 3200 tokens. Previously was not handled at all. #WIP
Updated the intro text on first login.
Fixed some more issues related to persistent prompts. When an empty persistent prompt was created, the main page would crash without an existing block. Fixed auto-focus on settings page. When creating a prompt from a data type page, the data type is set with more "confidence" so it will be recognized.
Fixed a bug or two related issues with "persistent" prompts. It was a significant problem with the Scratch Pad default!!! Deleting all notes would result in save failure. Fixed. Also removed some old behavior where persistent blocks would get copied to tomorrow. Now it should always copy from the past to today.
some small improvements on mobile search formatting. Better, not great yet.
better handling of llm mistakes and manual overrides of entities bunch of database optimizations htmx preload! faster.
search fix where natural language dates were not selecting local timezone.
rewrote landing page with updated copy bug fix on login where settings and sign out links would not show due to timezone issue
made search on prompt pages filter to that prompt only
search/ask grug... mvp feature deployed. This one took a while. Chatgpt based only when you ask a question. All the rest of the time, it presents semantic and keywords search results. When there is one clear best result, it'll be presented up top.
some corrections to natural language dates. fixed things like this past wednesday. before it was putting that as next week.
small front end bug fix where tags were still highlighted within a longer word. "Action" within extraction for example.
backend changes with ai prompts to use json instead of custom formatting. aiming to be a little more robust on random output from llm.
css improvements for mobile datatypes at bottom of screen fomatting fixes on block view bug fix where some blocks weren't show in archive. specifically where the prompt had setting generate in past checked.
fixed tiny front end bug where prompts got replaced with prompt capitalizations. So lower case company, might get capitalized and cause a rendering error.
pretty major deploy! major backend changes chatgpt api, makes costs manageable! and a lot faster! known entities are tagged from database! this major, helps ai perform better as well quite a few tweaks and improvements on the front end with tag highlighting less filter conflicts, as text is tokenized so we can manage the chaos better no double tagging -- longer tags go first a lot of refactoring
broke the date display in yesterdays deploy. fixed. on mobile -- made it so the space key tabs in when it's white space before the cursor. seems to work! best feature ever!
removed auto login/signup form, replaced with a simpler login form. Should fix any password manager issues, and prevent accidental account creation.
partial rewrite of filters/rendering front end. Fixes many rendering bugs when tags would interfere with each other. Text is tokenized before tags are highlighted to prevent html from getting jammed up.
