Krate 2.1 | a graph you can read

Graph view, reworked

The graph used to pull everything toward one point, so a project ended up as a tangle with its files crossing over each other. Not any more.

• Every folder and project claims its own direction. Sibling branches fan out into their own slice of the circle, all the way down, so a project reads as a tree.
• Dragging a project takes its folders and files with it, as one piece. Same for a folder. A single file still moves alone.
• Links between projects lean them toward each other but keep a wide berth instead of merging.
• More room between nodes, names drawn on top of the background so they survive crossing a line, and connections drawn with a slight bow rather than ruler-straight.

Measured on a one-project layout: the angle between the four top folders went from 29° to 86°, and files sitting nearer a foreign folder dropped from 20 of 32 to 11.

Patch notes

• A Patch notes tab in the sidebar keeps the notes for the last ten releases, so you can look up what changed instead of hoping you read the popup.
• Updating across several versions no longer skips the news: coming from an older release now shows everything that happened in between, not just the newest one.

Moving things around

• Dialogs are dragged by their border, on all four sides, instead of by the title.
• The quick search bar can be dragged the same way, and it stays where you put it.
• Dragging a file out of the quick search closes the bar, so the drop lands on whatever was behind it.

Fixes

• Importing a folder that already had a krate.json was refused as "already a Krate project" even when this Krate did not have it. It is now taken back into the library with its notes and nicknames intact, which also makes "remove from library" undoable.

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Installing: download Krate-Setup-2.1.0.exe and run it. Existing installs update themselves within six hours, or immediately via the update bar.

Krate 2.0 | After Effects, Notes and Resources

The biggest release so far. Everything since 1.4.0 in one go.

After Effects

Krate can now read an After Effects project and pull in the footage it is missing.

• Pick an .aep (or .aepx) and the project it belongs to, then scan. Krate reads every file the project uses.
• Each file is sorted into: in the project, outside it, found elsewhere, several matches, or not found.
• Footage you dragged in from another project gets copied into a restored folder. Image sequences come along whole, and files already in the project are never copied twice.
• A script/relink.jsx is written that repoints the footage from inside After Effects (File > Scripts > Run Script File…). Your .aep is never modified.
• Choose where to search: your Resources, sources set in Settings, or every other project.

Notes

A new Notes tab: pages of blocks, the way you would write them in Notion.

• Press / to insert a heading, bullet list, numbered list, to-do, quote, code block or divider.
• Markdown shortcuts work too: # , - , 1. , [] , > , ```.
• Enter starts the next block and carries the list type. Backspace at the start of a line merges it into the one above.
• Pages can hold sub-pages, and can be linked to a project, where they show up on its Overview.
• Everything saves itself while you type.

Resources and importing

• A folder can now be a Resource instead of a Project: a place you pull files from, like an Essentials or SFX collection. No status, kept out of All Projects and the project count, own sidebar entry, and searched first by the After Effects panel.
• Folders you already have can be imported as they are. In the New dialog, switch from creating to importing, then pick a folder or drop one in. Nothing is moved.
• Switch an existing project to a Resource, or back, in its Settings tab.

Quick search and viewer

• The search bar works like a proper little file browser: double-click opens, folders open inside the bar, and Shift, Ctrl or a drag box select several files to pull out together.
• Dragging files out no longer closes the bar. Only Escape does.
• A Play button on image, video and code rows opens a built-in viewer, with a live preview for HTML.

Graph

• Notes pages appear in the graph, hanging off the project they belong to.
• Identical files living in more than one project are joined by a dashed line.
• Shift-click a folder to fold it shut, with Collapse all and Expand all.

Sidebar

• The status filters moved into a collapsible Status section, closed by default, so the sidebar starts with just All Projects, Favorites, Notes and Resources.
• Each of those four has its own colour, and the favorites star is finally yellow.

Fixes

• Adopting existing folders from a project root silently did nothing. Fixed.
• A project whose krate.json had no status showed up as "undefined" in the stats.
• Cover images can be framed after uploading: drag to move, scroll to zoom.
• Large graphs no longer fling their nodes off-screen while loading.

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Installing: download Krate-Setup-2.0.0.exe and run it. Existing installs update themselves within six hours, or immediately via the update bar.

Krate 1.4.0 | browse, preview, and fold

Quick search

• Files open on double-click; a single click just selects, like Windows.
• Click a folder to browse into it right there, instead of opening Explorer.
• Select many at once (Shift-click a range, Ctrl-click rows, or drag a box) and drag them all out together.
• Dragging files out no longer closes the bar; only Escape closes it.
• Ask the AI and it now shows the files it found as draggable rows.

Built-in viewer

• A Play button on image, video and code rows opens a viewer without leaving Krate.
• Images and videos play in the window; code and text open in a small editor (save with Ctrl+S).
• HTML files get a live Preview toggle next to the code.

Graph

• Identical files across different projects are joined by the same dashed line as related projects.
• Shift-click a folder to fold it shut, with Collapse all / Expand all buttons and a Settings option to start collapsed.

v1.3.0 | Calmer graph view & General enhancements

Krate 1.3.0: a calmer, cleaner graph view.

New

• Graph view: a Tags button hides the #tag circles, so you see only projects, folders and files.
• Graph view: big folders now build up smoothly in place instead of flying off-screen.
• Graph view: a slimmer loading bar while the graph fills in.
• The "What's new" screen is now grouped into colour-coded categories.

Install
Download Krate-Setup-1.3.0.exe below and run it. Already on Krate? It updates itself automatically.

v1.2.0 | Updates & multiple folders

Krate 1.2.0: updated experience, multiple project folders, and a smoother graph view.

New

• Updates now show a sliding bar at the top with a one-click "Update now", instead of a popup.
• A "What's new" screen appears once after each update.
• Add several default project folders and pick which one a new project goes in.
• The graph view builds up piece by piece with a progress bar, instead of appearing all at once.
• Windows can be dragged around by their title bar.

Install
Download Krate-Setup-1.2.0.exe below and run it. Already on Krate? It updates itself automatically.

Graph View update | v1.1.0

Updated the Graph View with full-depth connections, smarter layout, persistent pinning, label controls, and clearer folder/file visuals. Also includes performance improvements, various bug fixes, and small quality-of-life enhancements.

First Release v1.0.0

Krate 1.0.0, first release