- Searching by meaning needs nothing installed. Finding a page by what it is about, rather than by the words that happen to be in it, used to require installing and configuring a separate AI program — so on most Macs the whole of it was simply dark, and a wiki indexed for a year went quiet the day that program stopped running. MojoPad now brings its own small model for this. It comes down once — about 35 MB, roughly a podcast episode — and after that works here with no connection at all and nothing you write ever leaving your Mac. Ask for pottery firing and the note that says fired the kiln overnight at cone six comes back, though it shares not one word with what you typed. If you already keep models on this Mac, pick one of yours in Settings ▸ AI instead — and changing that choice rebuilds each wiki’s index from scratch, because two models don’t measure alike and comparing one against the other produces a confident answer that means nothing.
- Read a library you already keep. Your papers already live somewhere — a reference manager, a folder you have curated for years, a drive. Bringing them in the ordinary way copies every one of them into your wiki: a second copy of everything, and from that moment two versions that drift apart. File ▸ Read a Library… does the other thing. Point MojoPad at the folder and it makes a page for each paper that says where the paper is, reads the words out of each one so it turns up in search and among related pages, and never copies, moves or changes anything. Sub-folders come too. You grant a folder, not a list of files, and that permission stays on this Mac and never travels inside the document — send the wiki to somebody else and they get pages that know a paper’s name and nothing they can read until they point MojoPad at their own copy. One thing is still missing: papers read this way can be read, searched, found and quoted, but not yet highlighted. A highlight remembers a place on a page, and a paper you do not own can be re-downloaded or replaced at any moment — a highlight that quietly slid onto the wrong paragraph is worse than none.
- Citations you can check. When you ask your wiki something, the answer names the pages it drew on — and every one of those names is now checked against the pages the answer was actually written from. A name that checks out becomes a link you can click. A name that is a page of yours the answer never read is marked as exactly that: the assistant recognised the name without having read it, which is worth knowing before you lean on the claim. A name that is no page at all keeps its brackets and is marked plainly. Underneath, the sources split into Cited and Also read, because a thin answer sitting under a long list of sources looks better supported than it is. None of this asks the AI anything — it is plain name-matching, so it works the same whatever model you use.
- Questions about your whole wiki now read your whole wiki. Where do my notes disagree with each other? has been offered since the Ask drawer had suggestions, and it was answered from the handful of pages that best matched the words in the question — a question about everything, answered from six pages, with nothing on screen to say so. Ask one of those now and MojoPad says so, and offers the choice: read every page, in stages, which takes some minutes of your Mac’s own thinking and can be stopped at any point — or answer from the closest pages, which is quick. Nothing long ever starts without you asking for it, and if the reading turns up nothing it says that too rather than assembling an answer out of whatever it happened to see.
- Where your notes disagree, waiting on the morning you open the Journal. MojoPad has been able to find places where two of your own notes genuinely argue — your March self against your November self — for a long time, but only if you went looking for it in a panel you had to remember. Now it can come to you. Turn on Look for places my own notes disagree in Settings ▸ Journal and anything it finds is waiting at the top of today: the two notes, a sentence naming the argument, and a line saying why they were put together at all. Turn on the second switch and it keeps looking while you are away from the keyboard — which is only affordable because the thinking happens on your own machine. It stops the instant you touch a key, never wakes a model on battery or on a Mac already running hot, does a fixed amount of thinking per wiki each time you sit down and then stops, never interrupts, and runs only while MojoPad is open.
- Importing twenty years of VoodooPad is a wait you can watch. A very large document looked like a hang: minutes of work with nothing on screen, and no way to tell it from a crash. It was reading each page’s details with seven separate calls where one would do, and doing the whole thing in one unbroken run that left the window unable to answer. Now it is one call, the window stays alive throughout, and a progress bar says Reading page 3,412 of 11,208 with a rough time remaining. That bar now appears wherever MojoPad knows how much of a job is left, including imports and following a folder.
- A file whose words can’t be read now says so. A scanned PDF is a picture of a page — there is no text in it to find. MojoPad gave up silently and permanently, so that page dropped out of search, related pages, Ask and Rediscover with nothing said anywhere. It now tells you, in the reader, that it looks like a scan and what to do about it.
- Share more than one document, on the port you choose. The built-in web server now serves every open document rather than one, lets you set the port, and announces itself on the network so another Mac on the same Wi-Fi can find it without being told a URL.
- One list of notes for a whole paper, and a compile that says what it left out. Long-form writing keeps a single list of notes across every section, and compiling reports what it skipped rather than quietly dropping it. The Draft pane also no longer swallows what you type into it.
- New Page from a File… accepts everything that following a folder accepts — the same formats, rather than a shorter list.
- A new voice in Ask: The Gardener, for asking about your own accumulation — what has grown, what has gone to seed, and what keeps coming back. The Ask suggestions now start from your own material rather than from “my notes” in general.