LOGWhat’s newUpdated · 2026-09-28 · 24 releases
Everything that changed, dated.
nTilia ships continuously, so there is no version number to remember. Each entry below is a dated release note covering the editor, the field tools, the AI suite and the public journal.
Travel Mode you cannot be forced to undo
Turning Travel Mode off now takes 24 hours, unless your safe recipient approves it sooner, so nobody can make you reopen your notebook at a checkpoint. A seized phone can be emptied or burned remotely, by you or your recipient, and an emptied device is signed out. Your public journal can be hidden for the trip. Profile data that should have stayed private is no longer readable by other accounts.
New- Remote wipe: “Empty my other devices” and “Burn everything remotely” in Travel Mode settings. Each device checks at sync, before anything else, and erases its notes if it has not seen the request yet. A device that stays offline is not reached.
- When an account asks to turn off Travel Mode, its safe recipient is told by e-mail and by a banner in the app, with a reminder to check through another channel that the request was not made under duress.
- Safe recipients get an “Accounts that trust you” section: approve a requested deactivation, empty that person’s devices or burn their private cloud when they can no longer act.
- Hide your public journal: profile, articles, feeds, sitemaps, search and the fediverse return “not found” for everyone but you. Your safe recipient can hide it for you; only you can restore it, and never while Travel Mode is on.
Improved- Travel Mode settings show whether the private cloud was destroyed or is still waiting for a network.
Security- Travel Mode deactivation is delayed by 24 hours on the server. Your safe recipient can approve it sooner from their account; you can cancel the request. While the mode is on, the safe recipient and the missions you carry can no longer be changed to get around the delay.
- Travel Mode now requires the vault. Empty and Burn destroy the vault key before erasing, so whatever stays on disk is unreadable, then sign the device out once the server step has gone through (at the next signal when offline). A device emptied remotely signs itself out too.
- Profiles now expose only public journal fields through the API. Plan, Stripe customer, Travel Mode state and safe recipient were readable by other accounts; they are now visible to their owner only.
A calmer editor and AI you review word by word
The editor gets a single header, a “/” block menu, a Publish button that follows the article’s state, and an iA Writer–style focus mode. AI proposals open in a word-level diff you can retouch before accepting, and new AI tools arrive — from “Do no harm” to fact-checking. Settings and journal palettes are redesigned.
New- “/” block menu: type / at the start of a line to insert headings, lists, tasks, quotes, code, tables, images, YouTube, links, note links, footnotes, or formulas — filtered as you type. AI stays the first entry. Selecting text shows a floating bar (bold, italic, strike, link, H2, quote, AI) with mouse or keyboard.
- One Publish button whose label follows the lifecycle — Publish, Scheduled, Update, Published, or Archived — with scheduling, private publishing, reverting, and archiving in its menu. It replaces the “unpublished changes” banner.
- AI review in three views — Changes (inline word diff), Side by side, and Result, which you can edit before accepting — with +/− word counts and a clear “Nothing to change”.
- New AI tools: “Do no harm” (identifiable people, minors, precise locations, consent — high risks rewritten, the rest flagged), quote extraction from transcripts with speaker and timecode, fact-checking with sourced verdicts from web searches (Pro+), and Ask my mission notes with answers cited as [[links]] (Pro, vault notes excluded).
- Table of contents: insert [TOC] from the / menu. In the Research profile, long articles (1,000+ words, 3+ sections) get one automatically — [NOTOC] turns it off. Shown in preview, on the journal, in print, and in PDF.
Improved- Write mode now fades every paragraph but the current one, keeps the cursor mid-screen (typewriter scrolling), and hides the toolbar while you type. H1 / H2 / H3 are merged into a single “Paragraph ▾” style menu.
- Tools and actions share a single header row on wide screens. The status bar becomes a small pill at the bottom right (save · words · reading time), and a failed save now says “Not saved”.
- Properties panel reorganised into Note · Publication · Sources · Media · Outline tabs, with keyboard navigation and the last tab remembered. Publication shows a status card; “Chain” is now “Provenance”.
- The ⋯ menu is grouped (Note, Share and export, Help) with an Export submenu (.md, .pdf, .docx). Confirmations, errors, and long tasks (Zenodo, dictation, AI, sending to the desk) share one toast channel, with Undo for pinning.
- AI tags are suggested as chips you tick instead of being added automatically; titles offer Title only, Deck only, and More suggestions. Translate now covers 10 languages, and captions are written from the image itself.
- Redesigned Settings: grouped navigation (Workspace, Publishing, Account and billing), one theme picker for Editor or Journal, and destructive actions isolated in warning cards. Journal palettes are crisper and more modern across all 13 themes (Harvest becomes Clay).
- Without an account, the rail invites you to turn on sync instead of counting pending notes. Note metadata is decluttered, and “Not signed in” no longer appears in automatic sync.
- French pages no longer redirect to English; a banner offers the other language instead. Pro journals get their own llms.txt, richer structured data, and sitemaps limited to published languages.
Fixed- AI on the Free plan works again, cut-off or refused answers are refunded instead of shown half-finished, and long rewrites stream without timing out. Pro+ now runs on Claude Opus 5.
- Synced scrolling between editor and preview is smooth again — clicked text no longer jumps.
Prepare departure, a portable ZIP, and an All notes view
Before leaving for the field, one gesture syncs a Mission and saves its pack as a ZIP you can re-import anywhere. Exports now carry photos, an All notes view spans every Mission, sources can be imported from the note body, and code blocks render on the public journal.
New- Prepare departure for a Mission: sync (when signed in and online), then a plain ZIP of the Mission pack, with a banner when the pack is out of date. Travel mode (.ntilia) remains a separate gesture.
- Portable export: the workspace ZIP is the same Mission pack (notes, images, audio, takes, manifest) and can be re-imported into the active Mission. Photos now appear in DOCX, PDF, and EPUB exports instead of [caption] placeholders.
- All notes view: a flat list across Missions and folders, newest first, with search and Mission / status filters. The vault stays on the device.
- Import sources from the note body: headings, lists, DOIs, URLs, ISBNs, and APA references become a checklist, without overwriting or duplicating. Source dates keep a bare year (2018) instead of inventing 1 January.
- Code fences on the public journal render as editorial figures with line numbers and a Copy button, in the nTilia palette.
Write mode, optional preview, and a quieter desk
A shortcut folds the rail, inspector, and preview so the daily editor is title and text — plus the live recording bar when a take is running. Preview sits to the right only when you open it. Publication, Sources, Media, and Outline stay closed until you open properties — or after Stop. Storage, ZIP, and offline-model warnings are a single status line, not stacked banners.
New- Write mode (Ctrl/⌘⇧E, or the Write control): hide the rail, inspector, and preview. Escape returns. A running recording keeps its bar.
Improved- The Markdown preview is no longer a permanent desktop split. It opens to the right on demand, and stays closed by default on a narrow viewport.
- The inspector (Publication / Sources / Media / Outline) no longer opens by default. Open it from Properties, or after Stop on a recording.
- Local storage, ZIP, and offline-model (Whisper / Tesseract) notices are a single status line with a dot — not stacked banners above the editor.
Desk outline, Mission wikilinks, live citekeys, and submission export
Stay in nTilia from field notes to the newsroom desk: an outline with Whisper timestamps, Mission-scoped [[links]], local Zotero/BibTeX citekeys while writing, note skeletons, and Mission→DOCX profiles.
New- Outline tab in the inspector: jump to H1–H3 headings and Whisper [mm:ss] cues in the open note.
- Local bibliography (Better CSL JSON or BibTeX): choose a file in the Outline tab, then type [@citekey] — nothing is sent to the cloud.
- Note skeletons at creation: blank, 5W, interview, and lab method, with date / place / GPS tokens.
- Mission export for newsroom: journalism or science .docx profiles that aggregate Mission notes (alongside the existing recueil / ZIP).
Improved- [[Note links]] autocomplete and insert now cover Mission drafts (not only public journal notes).
Extract from Takes, Review on transcripts, and optional 2FA
Photo takes can be read on the device or captioned with Claude vision (Pro), a Whisper transcript can be reviewed with AI, and any account can turn on TOTP.
New- Extract on a photo take: local Tesseract (offline, English / French / Dutch) with page-aware preprocessing, a Photo | Text review with zoom, then a linked block in the open note. Extract with AI and Re-read with AI use Claude Opus 5 — Pro and Pro+ only, 5 credits, with a confirmation that the photo is sent to Anthropic.
- Extract with AI on a scene or evidence photo writes a Caption — what the photo shows — not only notebook or sign text. Same door and contract (Claude Opus 5, Pro and Pro+, 5 credits, Photo | Text). Tesseract stays the offline printed path.
- Review with AI after an on-device Whisper transcript (glossary and mission names), 2 credits. The audio file stays on the device; you still accept in Audio | Text.
- A dedicated AI abstract action, separate from the subtitle (deck / châpo): it fills the research abstract field once the note is long enough.
Improved- Takes panel: Extract is the primary gesture, OCR status is readable, more space in the list.
- Editorial journals: redesigned theme, a cover-led Une with dek excerpts and a digest slot, pagination, and a live gallery of the eight journal styles.
- Public pages describe nTilia as a notes app (French: application de notes).
- Admin console still requires MFA; it now shares the same TOTP helpers as regular accounts.
Security- Account settings: enable or disable TOTP, scan a QR code, and save one-time recovery codes. Login asks for a code only when 2FA is on — never at sign-up.
Open data in the background dossier and a publishable mission context
The background dossier gains a credit-free Data tab fed by public sources, and a reviewed dossier can now be published as a versioned, citable “Mission context” attached to a series and its articles.
New- Data tab in the background dossier (Pro+): country facts from Wikidata and the World Bank, humanitarian indicators from HDX (population, refugees, IDPs, people in need, INFORM risk, IPC 3+) and recent WHO outbreak news — refreshed without AI credits, each figure with its source, year and licence.
- Data lines are handed to the dossier generator as citable facts, and can be copied or inserted into a note as a Dataset source.
- Publish a mission context: pick the dossier sections to release (guide sections stay private, coordinates are stripped), attach the data sheet, choose a licence, and publish as a numbered version at /u/{username}/s/{series}/context — with Markdown twin, RIS export, print view, Report JSON-LD and a Cite block.
- Series pages show the current context; articles link the version in force when they were published and embed it as a PDF appendix. Zenodo deposit of a context version (PDF + Markdown, type report) writes the DOI on that version.
Improved- Mission ZIP exports include the data sheet as Markdown; the dossier PDF gets a Data section.
Zenodo publication types, translatable abstracts and this changelog
Research notebooks can be typed with the full Zenodo vocabulary, the translation workspace now carries the abstract, and nTilia gets a public, dated changelog with an RSS feed.
New- Publication type in the inspector (article, preprint, working paper, technical note, report and the rest of the Zenodo vocabulary), reused by the Zenodo deposit.
- Translatable abstract: the translation workspace shows the source abstract and lets you write the target one (autosave, publication, AI regeneration); the translated article page, print view, JATS and RIS use it, with a fallback to the source.
- This changelog page, in English, with an RSS feed at /changelog.xml and a Markdown twin for LLMs.
- Settings show the installed iOS / Android app version and build; the web app shows its build id. Native versions are now driven by package.json.
Improved- Zenodo creators are sent as “Last name, First name” as DataCite expects, with name particles handled.
Fixed- Public journal listings no longer show the source version of an article when a translation exists in the journal’s primary language.
Research notebooks, DOI deposits and encrypted third-party secrets
A full research profile for the editor and the journal, end-to-end Zenodo DOIs, and every third-party token now sealed at rest.
New- Research writing profile: abstract written at the top of the article, co-authors, typed sources, ScholarlyArticle linked data and an Academic journal style with numbered figures and margin notes.
- Zenodo DOI end to end: PDF + Markdown deposit, DOI shown in the Cite block, exports in APA, Chicago, BibTeX, RIS, JATS, Highwire and JSON-LD.
- GFM footnotes and KaTeX formulas rendered server-side on the public journal.
- New /research story page and a Research category on the Features page.
- Admin console for the SamionX team: database-backed role, TOTP MFA, audited actions, plan grants and billing overview.
Fixed- Zenodo file uploads are sent as application/octet-stream (the bucket API rejected other content types); the deposit banner shows in-progress, success and error states and prevents double clicks.
- Title and subtitle are capped at 300 characters so revision sync no longer fails on a database constraint.
Security- Zenodo, WordPress, Ghost and webhook secrets, plus the ActivityPub private key, are now encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM, versioned key ring) in a service-role-only table, with a rotation script.
Safe recipient for Travel Mode, press-style AI headlines, new light themes
Sensitive notes can now be handed to a chosen recipient before a checkpoint, and AI headlines follow newsroom rules.
New- Safe recipient: ECDH reception keys and the .ntilia v2 format (passphrase + recipient), with retention rules for copies.
- Tag pages on public journals (/u/{user}/tags/{slug}) with 301 redirects from the old ?tag= URLs.
Improved- Writing profile picks missions, sections or series depending on how you use nTilia.
- AI titles and standfirsts follow press editorial rules (no colons, shared style between headline and lede), enforced server-side.
- Empty / Burn everything and .ntilia re-import are available on every plan; Travel Mode alone stays Pro.
- Light themes reworked as three distinct papers (Presse, Cuivre, Moisson); Soleil removed; a surface scale (panel / surface / field) shared by the editor and the journal.
Fixed- Dictation now shows why it failed instead of a silent click.
Localized article URLs, readable mission dossiers, custom-domain favicons
Every public article now lives at /{locale}/{slug} with translated slugs and tags, and mission dossiers read like a briefing.
New- Journal articles are localized per language (/{locale}/{slug}) with translated slugs and tags; legacy URLs redirect with a 301.
- Translation workspace: AI can translate the original tags or suggest tags from the translated text; busy state while the AI works.
- Custom-domain journals can upload their own favicon.
- Missions settings tab to list and delete missions, with a contents policy (keep / archive / delete).
Improved- Mission dossier: key points, Field / Integration tabs, map tab, sticky table of contents, collapsible sections, print and PDF.
- Imported .md files attach to the active mission and can be opened right away.
- Journal SEO: titles suffixed with the publication name, og:site_name and WebSite JSON-LD per domain; translation publish dates feed lastmod and the news sitemap.
Landing and journal redesign
The marketing site, editor, settings and journal styles were reworked so they read like a 2026 product rather than a template.
Improved- Landing redesigned as an editorial field-instrument page; hero focused on offline capture and approve-first AI; mobile hamburger navigation.
- Journal styles read as real press layouts: chapô and crossheads, a photo-led Une front page with a scrolling section bar, author page as a correspondent page.
- Editor and settings share one writing surface; distinct palettes for editor and journal themes.
Fixed- Public journal stays readable when signed out (Travel Mode row-level security split); editor title wraps on mobile; /u/ prefix no longer overlaps the username field.
Travel Mode
Sensitive notes can leave the device before a checkpoint and come back afterwards.
New- Travel Mode (Pro): empty the device at a checkpoint, keep an off-body copy, restore later — told on a dedicated /travel story page.
- Authors can set an article’s journal dateline from the inspector.
Improved- Only Markdown captions are shown under journal photos.
Proof on published notes, encrypted mission exports, author pages
Published notes can carry their sources and archived snapshots, mission exports are real ZIPs (encrypted when the vault is on), and every journal gets an author page and a digest.
New- Proof attached to a published note: opted-in sources, archived public snapshots and a readable photo/audio chain; every public update archives the live snapshot so readers can compare.
- Author page with a structured biography and public profile links; series; e-mail digest with branded letters and a subscribers page; recueil export; inbound Webmentions.
- Ranked full-text search on public journals and local notes, shown as highlighted hits.
Improved- Mission export writes a real ZIP that opens in any unarchiver; .ntilia stays an explicit encrypted vault copy. Field takes sync to a private bucket.
- Editor: title and dek scroll with the body; editor and preview can lock to the same Markdown block; wider article media breaks out of the reading measure.
Fixed- Journal digest is sent only on an article’s first public appearance, never on later edits. Field audio is no longer encoded in real time so Sync + export can finish.
Security- Mission exports are encrypted again when the vault is on, so a copy in Files is useless without the passphrase. Turnstile verifies digest signups server-side.
Version history, wiki links, glossary and syndication
Notes keep their full history with visual diffs, link to each other, share a personal glossary, and the public journal becomes a citable news origin.
New- Full note version history with visual diffs, vault encryption and cloud sync.
- Wiki-style [[note]] links with autocomplete, a backlinks panel and public resolution.
- Personal glossary with offline autocomplete and public tooltips, synced across devices.
- Public journal as a citable news origin: Cite block, correction note, licence, syndication to WordPress and Ghost, newsroom DOCX export, journal-quality PDF with a running folio.
- Note duplication and pinning; per-article and per-mission view stats with a live counter; keyboard shortcuts help (Mod-/).
Improved- Humanitarian mode widened into a field-sensitive mode for journalists and missions. Quieter sidebar chrome; inspector history shown as a timeline.
Fixed- Editor crash on opening a note (CodeMirror autocompletion conflict); PDF export hanging; false offline state on journal pages.
Security- EXIF and GPS metadata are stripped from photos before upload, even when canvas re-encoding fails.
Custom domains, account deletion, USD pricing
Pro+ journals can live on their own domain, accounts can be deleted self-service, and prices are listed in USD as well as EUR.
New- Pro+ custom domains for the public journal, with public URLs that drop /u/username.
- GDPR-compliant self-service account deletion (Postgres cascade, Storage, Stripe).
- USD list prices on the pricing page, with checkout in the selected currency.
- GEO: a raw Markdown twin per public article, public journals documented in llms.txt, stable @id fragments on Person and Organization JSON-LD.
Improved- Publishing publicly requires a cloud account and a configured username; Free-plan authors are warned that public articles are not indexed.
Fixed- Guest drafts are no longer lost on sign-in; invisible text in the typed-confirmation input.
Security- AI credit gating hardened against token-draining abuse; PM2 configuration hardened for production resilience.
Vault covers the whole local store, marketing split from the product
When the vault is on, everything in IndexedDB is encrypted at rest; the marketing site is served as cacheable static HTML.
New- Field / Terrain story page (/field, /terrain) with the Bertoua scenario. Four editor themes with distinct sidebar colours.
Improved- Marketing and product split into route groups; marketing HTML served as ISR; unprefixed URLs redirect to /en or /fr with a 308; share image for social cards.
- French landing rewritten so a first visit explains the product without jargon; English aligned.
Security- The vault encrypts the whole local store, keeps the key in memory only with a bounded auto-lock, and asks before sending vault text to the AI.
Background dossier and native tab shell
Missions can generate an on-demand background briefing grounded in field sources, and the iOS/Android shells get native tabs.
New- Background dossier (Pro+) on missions: staged brief grounded in humanitarian sources (ReliefWeb) and a worldwide local-news pass, with geography and verified reuse in drafting.
- Capacitor shells get a native tab bar and an online-only sign-in, without changing the browser or PWA experience.
- Scheduled journal articles go live at a future time without the device being online. 90-day AI credit ledger in a dedicated Usage tab.
Improved- Mobile editor: 44px targets, a single toolbar, title inside the writing canvas, properties split into three tabs, phone-like overflow menu and schedule picker.
Dossiers and the Une front page
Public mission groupings become dossiers with an intro, and journalists get a newspaper-style front page.
New- Public missions presented as dossiers with an editable intro; a news front page (Une) with datelines and briefs.
Improved- Dossier editing moved into the inspector; every properties section can collapse; GPS coordinates hidden from Une datelines.
GEO surfaces, offline photos and journal profile sync
nTilia becomes readable by AI crawlers, photos can be added offline, and journal settings sync to the cloud.
New- GEO surfaces: llms.txt, Markdown twins of marketing pages, citation schema.
- Article photos can be added offline (IndexedDB) and upload on the next sync.
Improved- Journal profile fields sync to the cloud and the public /u journal.
Fixed- Android dictation repeating growing interim phrases; empty article list on mobile after sign-in; Stripe credit-pack errors surfaced and stale customers recovered.
Cloud journal at /u/username, Features page, field photos
Published articles get a public cloud address with structured data, and the editor gains photo upload, maps and more AI tools.
New- Cloud articles served at /u/username/slug with JSON-LD; unique usernames assigned by default; Edit button for the owner.
- Features page with a shared Free / Pro / Pro+ comparison matrix. Six layout and typography styles for the journal.
- Field photo upload via storage, map inserts from a place name (Nominatim), AI tag generation, personal writing voice samples and matching rewrite action.
- Conversion-focused AI tools: translate, publish-ready, cite, work tones; a dedicated FR/EN spelling and grammar pass.
Improved- AI editing moved from OpenRouter to the Anthropic Messages API. Mobile editor keeps tools above the iOS keyboard; PWA installable with a visible install prompt.
Accounts, billing and legal pages
Google and e-mail sign-in, Stripe subscriptions and credit packs, and the legal pages required to operate the service.
New- Google and e-mail/password sign-in; local guest drafts claimed into the account on login; IndexedDB isolated per account.
- Stripe billing portal, subscription mirror with next billing date, credit packs and low-credit warnings; AI credits in a dedicated settings section.
- Legal notice, privacy policy and terms; AI Act transparency for Anthropic-powered features; shared marketing footer.
- Separate editor and journal themes (forest, sage, slate); author name and photo on journals; byline icons for date, location and reading time.
Improved- Published articles sync to the cloud automatically; native alert/confirm/prompt dialogs replaced by in-app modals.
nTilia: AI suite, credits and field capture
Noterra becomes nTilia. The editor gains a full approve-first AI suite, credit-based plans, and field capture with deferred sync.
New- Rebrand from Noterra to nTilia at ntilia.com.
- AI suite: title suggestions, writing tools, opt-in ghost-text autocomplete, slash commands, image search, captions, continue-writing, Research & write with sourced drafts.
- AI credits with plan allowances, model routing and buyable packs.
- Field capture with deferred sync, mission export and OpenStreetMap maps.
Improved- Editor workspace redesigned with shortcuts, word count and a responsive toolbar; confirmation before updating a published article.
First public build
The first version of the editor and its public journal: Markdown, categories and tags, French and English, three plans.
New- Markdown editor with a format toolbar, multi-category and multi-tag support, and an optional public field journal for published notes.
- French / English interface with hybrid routing. Free, Pro and Pro+ plans.
- Journal author profile, optional humanitarian mode, Pro-only website and donation links, YouTube embeds.
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