Navigation, housekeeping by Claude, and a real mail client
The sidebar in the owner’s own order, folders that Claude names and tidies, and mail with folders, a list and a reading pane.
Version 1.1.0 came from one long request, given in a single breath. Three things stood out in it: the sidebar should be in his order and fold away, nobody should have to name files or folders by hand, and mail should become a fully working mail program inside the notebook.
A sidebar in his order
The navigation now runs exactly as asked, on the web, the tablet and the phone: Mail at the top, one entry per mailbox with its unread count; then Recent; Pages; Journal; Inbox; Archive; Trash; and a quieter group for Claude, the graph and housekeeping. Pages shows only the top-level folders, and a folder opens as a folder view with its subfolders and pages. The separate Sketches section went away, because a sketch is a page like any other.
The sidebar can fold down to a slim rail of icons, with mailboxes shown as letter tiles carrying an unread dot. Each device remembers whether you left it open or folded.
A new Recent section lists the latest pages across the notebook, and the journal has its own Recent too, visible only while it is unlocked.
Housekeeping by Claude
The rule for folders is simple: only the lowest folders hold pages. Keeping to that rule is now Claude’s job, not the owner’s. In his words: “I don’t want to be naming any files or folders myself, I want AI to do that.”
- A page created without a folder lands in the Inbox, and once nobody has touched it for ten minutes Claude files it, so nothing moves from under you while you are still writing.
- Untitled pages get titles, and folders still called “New folder” get proper names once they hold pages.
- When a folder that holds pages gains a subfolder, its pages are moved into a folder of their own, and Claude names that folder.
- Claude never fights you. A folder you named is never renamed, a page you titled is never retitled, and a page you moved is never filed somewhere else.
- Every action is recorded in a Housekeeping list and can be undone, and an undo stays undone. If a move fails halfway, what already moved is recorded too, so that can be undone as well.
- If Claude cannot be reached, nothing gets a made-up name: the job simply waits for the next pass.
A mail client in the shape of Outlook
Mail was rebuilt to follow a screenshot of the owner’s own desktop mail program: folders on the left with every mailbox as a group, the message list in the middle, and a reading pane on the right with Reply, Reply all and Forward. There is a ribbon for New email, Delete, Archive, Move, Read and Unread, Flag and Filter, and a status bar with the counts.
Compose is rich text with a formatting toolbar, address chips, attachments and drafts that save themselves. Delete moves a message to Deleted Items rather than destroying it. Remote images stay blocked until you choose to load them. Opening a message on the tablet or phone marks it read, as it does in the browser; Claude reading mail never does.
One thing deliberately did not change: mail is sent only when a person presses Send. In this release the tablet and phone could write, reply and forward, and their Send button opened the draft in the browser for that final press.
Also in 1.1.0
The tablet and phone gained the Source panel, which shows where a captured file came from and its licence. The web gained tag editing, changing the journal PIN, and revoking a device’s access to the journal.
Before it was published, 1.1.0 was run on tablet and phone emulators against a full test server.