Release log

Press / or hit Search and the field grows out of the button, right in the header. Results appear as you type: the closest matches first, with the tags that fit shown underneath, so you can jump to an entry or narrow by tag without leaving the feed. There's a second search box beside New entry at the bottom, for when you've scrolled a long way down.

Entries you've already loaded show up instantly, then the rest of your log fills in behind them. When you open an entry from a result, or edit one, Back drops you in the same place on the feed you left.

Settings now slides in from the right over your feed instead of taking over the page, and it's laid out as simple rows: the name on the left, the control on the right. Plan & AI is one card with your plan, today's usage and your own key. Adding a key is a single field with a provider icon and a Verify button. Notifications moved under Preferences, and Download lives under Data & privacy.

The feed header shows your plan beside Feedback, and a small ring under your streak shows how much of today's Wandel AI you've used. Accounts without a beta invite or their own key get 20 Wandel AI actions a day, which reset at midnight UTC. Add your own key and the limit goes away. Beta members keep Wandel AI included, so you won't see a limit.

Saving an entry now shows a quiet receipt at the bottom of the screen with Undo, or Retry if the save didn't go through. Hovering an entry washes the row in from the divider instead of shifting it sideways. Switching between light and dark now fades across the page, rather than snapping.

In the activity grid, the current month sits in the middle with five months either side, future days are quieter, and a line marks where one year turns into the next. The small swap button beside your streak flips it to your total entries, and Wandel remembers which you prefer.

A few fixes you won't see. If your account ever signed in without a profile row, Wandel now creates it for you instead of leaving you on a blank feed, and new invites get one automatically. We also cleared the warnings from Supabase's security advisor: tightened permissions on a few database functions and moved the search extension out of the public schema. Search works exactly as before.

Broad Context used to be a short note under a link. It's now a summary of the page itself: a few sentences on what it's about, key points when there are some worth pulling out, and the passage you captured shown where it sits on the page, with a line on how your note connects to it. It opens in its own panel over your feed, so there's room for it to read properly.

When Wandel can't read a page honestly — a paywall, a login wall, a page that only draws itself in the browser — it no longer writes a summary that merely sounds right. You'll see the title and description, a plain line on why, and an option to read it with your browser instead. Older contexts keep their short version until you press Update summary.

If you're signed in to Instagram, Medium, Substack or anywhere else, Wandel's servers can't see what you see, and shouldn't. With the Chrome extension, Wandel can read a saved page in your browser instead, using your own session, and send back only the text. Chrome asks you to allow each site once. Wandel never reads mail, banking, health or messaging sites, you can add exclusions of your own, and you can switch the whole thing off under Page context & privacy in the extension popup or in Settings.

Some sites draw themselves in the browser, so on Instagram or X you'll often get a title and description rather than a full summary. Links saved from the iOS Shortcut have no browser to borrow, so they stay with what's public.

Hover, or tab to, the source link on an entry and a small preview card opens: the site, the title, a couple of lines of description, and buttons to open the page in a new tab or copy the link. It waits a beat so it doesn't flicker as your pointer passes, and it stays out of the way of clicking through. On a touch screen a tap just opens the link, as before.

The classifying, the tag suggestions and the page summaries can now run on your own key. Add one from Anthropic, OpenAI or Google under Settings → AI. It's checked once with the provider, stored encrypted, and never shown again, and the usage is billed to your account with them. Everyone in the beta keeps Wandel AI included, so there's nothing you need to do.

Without a key or Wandel AI, the AI steps out of the way: you choose TIL or TID yourself, tags are yours to type, and entries save exactly as they always did. Wandel AI now runs on Claude Haiku 5.5, and the loading states for the link preview and Broad Context use the same orb as the rest of the app.

1.0.5 adds the page reading above, a Page context & privacy section in the popup, and a fix for 1.0.4, where the popup could fail to load and show an empty window. It's with the Chrome Web Store for review, so it will reach you once they approve it. If your popup looks empty today, that's the bug, and the update fixes it.

Save a link and Wandel now reads the page and keeps some context with the entry: the text around what you captured, and a short note on what the page is about. Open it from the Context button on the entry. It's on by default, you can turn it off in Settings or for a single capture from the extension, and pages on mail, banking and similar sites are never read.

Two changes you won't see. The extension now has to be signed in to use the AI, and its usage events go through Wandel's own server instead of carrying an analytics key inside the extension. Nothing looks different, which is the point.

Two things from August land in the extension with this update. While Wandel is figuring out what kind of entry you made, you'll see a small thinking orb instead of a blank wait. And if you saved something from the toolbar popup, there's now a button to jump straight into the entry and edit it — rather than the form just resetting and leaving you wondering if it worked.

1.0.3 is live on the Chrome Web Store.

Editing a tag or swapping out a source URL now gets saved to the entry's history, same as changing the text itself. The history panel shows exactly what moved — not the whole entry reprinted with one word different. If you're the kind of person who goes back and refines things, this makes that a lot more legible.

The AI loading states — classifying your entry, suggesting tags — now show a small animated orb with a shimmering label. It's the same in the web app and the extension. Quieter than a spinner, a bit more honest about the fact that something is actually thinking.

After you highlight text and capture it, you've always been able to open the entry in Wandel. That same button is now on the toolbar popup too. It stays on screen long enough to actually use it.

The 100-entry cap for beta is also gone — write as much as you need to.