Release notes, from the first beta to 0.10

ReticulOS started in March 2026 as a small floating panel for saving bits of text. Four months later it was a workspace you could ask questions of. These are the releases in between, as they shipped. A few details have changed since: the AI chat that arrived in 0.10 is now called Ret and lives inside the widget, for one. Everything built after 0.10 is on the features page.

0.10: Ask your notes

2 July 2026. The release the name was always pointing at. Every collection became something you could simply ask, the editor grew up and arrived in the widget, and daily notes got a day book of their own.

• AI chat with citations. Ask one collection or all of them at once. Answers stream in with numbered citations back to the exact notes they came from, a panel shows which notes were used, and any answer can be saved as a note.
• Search by meaning. A local index, stored inside the encrypted database, works alongside ordinary text search, so questions find the right notes even when the words don't match.
• A much richer editor. Tables with column alignment and editing tools, callouts in five styles, folding toggle sections, code blocks with language labels, nested lists, and highlight and underline. And the full editor now opens in the widget too, not just in Reticulum.
• The day book. A daily journal with a week strip, free-form tags with autocomplete, a view of every entry with a tag across days, unfinished to-dos carried forward to today, and one-click summaries of a day.
• Export, any time. Everything as a folder of Markdown files with your pictures saved as real files, or as a single file that keeps everything.
• Safer deletes. Deleted notes can be brought back with Undo, and are only removed for good after 30 days.

It also fixed three bugs in the packaged app that never showed up during development, two of which stopped it launching at all, and added a check that runs before every build so that kind of mistake can't ship again.

0.9.4: Windows catches up

12 June 2026. The Linux work came to Windows in one go.

• Reticulum on Windows, with grid, list and canvas views, card colours and pinning.
• An encrypted database, with the key protected by Windows.
• The password vault, which locks itself after five minutes and clears copied passwords from the clipboard after 45 seconds.
• The search overlay, with CtrlShift/ from any app.
• A one-time move of notes from the older storage format into the new database, done automatically.

0.8: Reticulum, the full workspace

11 June 2026. The widget got a big sibling: a full window for browsing, organising and editing everything you save. This was also the release where the database became encrypted on disk, and where every platform moved to a single version number.

• Reticulum, with collections as tabs, a collapsible sidebar and a quick-capture bar. Open it from the widget, the tray, or straight from launch.
• Three views per collection: grid, list, and a free canvas that remembers where you put things.
• The editor: type / for headings, checklists and code, a formatting toolbar on selected text, and everything saved as you type, as plain Markdown.
• Encryption at rest. Existing databases were encrypted in place, with a backup taken first.
• Card colours and a pinned shelf, so the notes that matter sit at the top.
• Capture anywhere: select text on screen and press CtrlShift=, or press CtrlV anywhere in Reticulum to turn the clipboard into a note.

0.1.5 and 0.1.0: The first betas

March 2026. The first builds: a panel that floats above your other windows, a global shortcut to save text, links and images from any app, and named collections to keep them in. The first Linux build arrived alongside a Windows update, and added the basics you'd expect: the widget remembers its size and position, reopens on the collection you were last looking at, and keeps unsaved drafts.

What's next

Since 0.10, a lot has been built: Ret inside the widget, search that understands pictures, PDFs and recordings, one-click recording, form filling from your notes, connecting AI apps like Claude and Cursor, and signed self-updates on Linux. You'll find all of it on the features page, and we'll write up each release here as it ships.