What's new in Nexus

v4.0.0 — Quick Capture, Vault Stats & Rail Redesign

Released: August 25, 2026

New

• Quick Capture. A new capture button at the top of the rail lets you jot a stray thought from anywhere in the app — Browser, Assistant, Graph — without switching to the Notes tab first. The first line becomes the note's title, everything after becomes the body. Save with the button or ⌘/Ctrl+Enter.
• Vault Stats. A new Stats tab (between Assistant and Graph) surfaces a snapshot of your knowledge base: total notes, total words written, average words per note, notes created this week, most-used tag, and longest note. Computed entirely from data already stored locally — no new tracking, nothing sent anywhere.
• Active tab indicator. The rail now shows a subtle accent bar next to whichever tab is active, replacing the flat background-only highlight.

Changed

• Rail layout restructured. Nav icons are now top-anchored with Settings pinned to the bottom via a single spacer, replacing the previous logo-anchored layout.

Fixed

• Rail vertical layout bug. Removing the old logo mark had left two competing auto-margins in the rail, pushing icons into the middle of the sidebar instead of the top. Rail spacing is now single-sourced from one spacer above Settings.

Removed

• Rail logo mark (.rail-mark). Replaced by the Quick Capture button in the same position.

v3.3.0 — Google Gemini Assistant

Released: August 24, 2026

New

• Google Gemini Assistant. Nexus now uses Google Gemini as its AI provider. Bring your own Gemini API key to use the Assistant.
• Secure API key storage. Gemini API keys use the same secure storage model as before — stored in the OS credential store and never written to disk in plain text.

Changed

• Switched AI provider from OpenRouter to Google Gemini. The Assistant now communicates directly with Google Gemini instead of OpenRouter.
• Gemini API key setup. Settings now use a Gemini API key instead of an OpenRouter API key.

Removed

• OpenRouter integration. Removed OpenRouter support entirely, including its API integration and related configuration.
• OpenRouter free-tier routing. Nexus no longer uses OpenRouter's free-tier routing as a fallback infrastructure.

v3.0.0 — Trash, Version History & Themes

Released: August 23, 2026

New

• Trash. Deleting a note now soft-deletes it instead of removing it outright — restore it any time, or delete it forever from the new Trash panel. Includes an "Empty Trash" bulk action.
• Version History. Nexus now snapshots a note roughly once a minute while you edit. Browse every earlier version in a two-pane panel and restore any of them — restoring saves your current state as a version too, so nothing is ever truly lost.
• Pin notes to keep the ones you care about at the top of the list.
• Command Palette (Cmd/Ctrl+K) — fuzzy-search your notes by title or jump straight to any tab or action.
• Four themes: Default, Dusk (navy), Daylight (light mode), and Dawn (warm/amber), switchable from Settings.
• Backup & Restore. One-click database backup via SQLite's VACUUM INTO, restore from a previous backup file, and export every note as a folder-preserving Markdown .zip.
• Smart paste. Code copied from VS Code (or anything that pastes syntax-highlighted HTML) is automatically wrapped in a fenced code block with the right language tag.
• Auto-capitalization for the start of sentences, new lines, and a standalone lowercase "i" — skips code blocks and common abbreviations ("Mr.", "Etc.") automatically.

Improved

• Folder picker is now a fully themed custom dropdown — the previous native <select> ignored dark mode and rendered with OS chrome.
• Full formatting toolbar: bold/italic/underline/strikethrough, headings, quotes, bulleted & numbered lists (Notion-style — Enter continues the list), inline code, code blocks, links, and case transforms.
• Settings reorganized into clear sections: Appearance, Assistant, Browser, Editor, Data, About.
• Code blocks are now syntax-highlighted (highlight.js).

Fixed

• Assorted stability fixes across the note editor and version-save timing.

v2.1.0 — Tags

Released: August 22, 2026

New

• Tags. Type #something anywhere in a note and it becomes a real, filterable tag automatically once the note is saved — no separate tag-management screen, and tags disappear on their own once nothing references them.

Fixed

• Small stability fixes following the larger 2.0.0 release.

v2.0.0 — Browser, Assistant & Knowledge Graph

Released: August 22, 2026

The biggest release yet — three major subsystems in one drop.

New

• Browser tab. A real, multi-tab browser (up to 8 tabs) built on native child webviews rather than iframes, so sites that block framing (banks, most social platforms) still work correctly. Includes back/forward/reload, bookmarks, and download tracking.
• AI Assistant tab. Chat that's grounded in your notes and, optionally, whatever page is open in the Browser tab. Conversation history is saved locally and survives a restart.
• Local semantic search. A small embedding model runs entirely on-device (WASM, no network call) to index your notes by meaning, not just keywords — nothing about your notes is sent anywhere to power search.
• Knowledge Graph view. A force-directed, draggable, zoomable graph of your notes.
• [[Wiki Links]] — type [[Note Title]] in any note to link it to another; it becomes a real edge in the graph and shows up in a backlinks/outgoing-links panel on the note itself.

Improved

• Replaced window.confirm / window.prompt with themed in-app dialogs — the native versions were unreliable inside the Tauri webview.

v1.0.0 — First Stable Release

Released: August 21, 2026

New

• Folders. Organize notes into folders and move a note between them from the editor header.

Improved

• General stability and UI polish following the 0.1.0 preview build.

v0.1.0 — Initial Preview

Released: August 20, 2026

New

• First build of Nexus: create, edit, and search notes, stored locally in a single SQLite database — nothing leaves your device.
• Markdown editor with live preview.
• Local-first desktop app built on Tauri — no account, no server, no telemetry.