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v1.6.0 Feature

This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.

Published 2mo Productivity & Wikis
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electron local-first markdown mcp notes vim

Summary

AI summary

First-run onboarding wizard added and Intel Mac builds restored.

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Features

  • First-run onboarding wizard — new installs are greeted with a step-by-step flow: Vim mode, theme family + light/dark/auto + contrast variant, vault folder, and vault layout (inbox vs root, daily notes). Theme previews flip between light and dark swatches as you change the mode, and contrast variants (Gruvbox Hard/Medium/Soft, Catppuccin flavors, GitHub Dimmed/High-Contrast, etc.) appear when the active family has them. Re-run it any time from the command palette: ⇧⌘P → "Show Onboarding Wizard". Returning users from v1.5.0 are not greeted with the wizard — the flag is auto-set when prior preferences are detected.
  • Reverse-proxy subpath deploys — the self-hosted server now supports ZENNOTES_BASE_PATH=/zennotes (any leading-slash path), so a single domain can host ZenNotes alongside other apps (#55). The server mounts every API route and the embedded web bundle under the prefix, refuses requests outside it, and injects a CSP-safe <meta name="zn-base-path"> tag into the SPA shell. The web client and service worker derive API and WebSocket URLs from that tag at runtime. Docs include an Nginx example.

Builds

  • Intel Mac builds are back — releases now ship both mac-arm64 and mac-x64 .dmg / .zip artifacts, and latest-mac.yml lists both so the auto-updater picks the right one per machine (#54).

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