- A page can say what it’s for, how long it should be, and what you still have to check. The new Draft pane (in the palette panel, beside Info and Context) holds three things every long piece of writing needs and no page could hold before: a synopsis — a line or two saying what the section is about, written while it’s still an intention, shown wherever the page is listed; a word target, with a bar that fills as you write and turns green when you arrive; and notes to yourself — check that figure, ask a co-author, this paragraph is borrowed. The synopsis and the notes are yours alone: they turn up in search, and they are never exported and never printed, so the note you’d otherwise scribble in the margin and have to remember to delete can simply stay. Compile adds the targets up, so a folder tells you the whole paper’s progress.
- Your papers and books are read for meaning too. The wiki’s meaning index quietly skipped every PDF and ePub in it — so the one feature that can say “this relates to that” was blind to your whole library. It reads them now: a paragraph you’re writing can surface the paper it belongs beside, Rediscover can hand back a book you skimmed months ago, and asking your wiki a question can answer from a document you’d forgotten you had. A long document is sampled across its whole length, so its findings weigh as much as its opening pages. All of it local, as before.
- Asking a question reads the part that answers it. When a source ran long, the answer was written from its first page or two — a book’s title page, in other words. The passage handed to the model is now the one that actually matches what you asked.
- Finding related pages got faster, not slower. Adding books could have made it crawl; a cheaper first pass means it now does roughly a ninth of the work it used to, even with the documents in.
- Stopping a followed folder asks what to do with its pages. It used to keep them, always, and say so in passing — leaving a folder in your sidebar that looked exactly as it had a moment before. Now it asks: keep the pages, each still linked to its own file, or remove them, in which case they go to Recently Deleted (yours for 30 days) and the folder leaves the sidebar with them. The files on your Mac are left alone either way. The same choice is in the folder’s own right-click menu, which now says Stop Following rather than Remove Folder — because removing that folder was never a tidy-up; the wiki went on following it, invisibly. (From a DEVONthink reader testing the new linked folders — thank you.)
- Following a folder again brings it back. If a folder had gone from your sidebar while the wiki was still following it, choosing Link a Folder… and picking it again did nothing you could see: the pages were already here, so nothing was created, nothing was said, and the folder stayed missing. Picking it now puts the folder back with everything that came from it inside, and says as much in a dialog rather than a line in the corner. Pages you removed come back from Recently Deleted as the same pages — same links, same place in the tree — instead of arriving a second time beside their own ghosts. (From the same reader, who found both of these in an afternoon — thank you.)
- A page you deleted stays deleted. A page that came from a followed folder reappeared the next time anything in that folder changed, or the next time you opened the document — as a new page, with the old one still in Recently Deleted. Deleting one now means it, and only asking for that folder again brings it back.
- Restoring a page doesn’t overwrite its file. A linked page restored from Recently Deleted pushed its own words back over the file — a month later, that’s a month of work in another app gone, or a conflict bar out of nowhere. The file is the one that’s been in use, so the page now takes what the file says, and returns to its folder in the sidebar while it’s at it. If another page has taken over that file in the meantime, the restored one comes back as words alone rather than fighting over it.
- A closed window lets go of the folders it was watching. Closing a document left MojoPad checking its followed folders for the rest of the session — and, if you opened that document again, made Stop Following unable to stop the checking at all. Both end when the window does.