Study Stash 0.13.1

What's new

• Firefox, when the add-on is already in it. If Firefox (or Zen, LibreWolf or Waterfox) is your usual browser and you've added Study Stash for Canvas to it, connecting Canvas now has I already have it in Firefox: it shows the code to paste into the add-on's own button, then waits for the browser to connect. Before, the step only said Firefox couldn't run the extension yet, and there was nowhere to get the code the add-on asks for.

Good to know

• Getting the add-on: it's still waiting on Mozilla's review, so Study Stash can't add it to Firefox for you yet. Until it's published, Study Stash sets Canvas up in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera or Vivaldi. Safari can't run it.
• Needs: on a Mac, macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, Apple silicon or Intel; on Windows, Windows 10 or 11.
• Updating: installed copies update themselves within a few hours, when nothing is recording and you aren't typing in a lecture's notes. To update now, use Settings → Your library → Library → Update now (a laptop: Settings → General → Updates), or Update now from the menu bar on a Mac.

Study Stash 0.13.0

What's new

• ChatGPT can read your lectures. The ChatGPT app on your computer connects with one button: Settings → AI tool access → ChatGPT → Connect, then start a chat in its Codex mode and ask about your classes. It only reads. On a Mac, Reopen restarts the app for you so it picks Study Stash up.
• Setup with nothing extra to install. If the ChatGPT app or the Claude app is already on your Mac, guided setup uses the AI inside it, skips the sign-in when you're signed in already, and offers to let that app read your lectures.
• Edit your notes. Edit turns a lecture's notes into text you can fix or add to; each diagram, plot and drawing is one line ([Diagram 1]) that you can move or delete. Save with ⌘S (Ctrl+S on Windows). If the notes changed meanwhile, Study Stash says so before anything is replaced. What you've typed and not saved is still there after the app quits or updates.
• Your computer's own notifications. Study Stash's notifications are now the system's: Notification Center on a Mac, the notification centre on Windows, with Focus and Do Not Disturb respected. A Mac asks once whether to allow them. If you turn them off, only what needs you (a recording that paused by itself) still shows, as Study Stash's own card.
• Canvas in the browser you use. Connecting Canvas starts from your usual browser: Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera or Vivaldi. If it can't run the extension (Safari), Study Stash says so and uses one that can. With the extension in two browsers on one computer, Study Stash asks which one you use for Canvas, and Settings → Canvas has Change browser. Firefox isn't offered yet: its add-on is waiting on Mozilla's review.
• A tidier class home. Record says just Record, and Record and Attach sit beside the class's name without covering it; a long name wraps. Link a folder sits with the folders already linked. On a Mac, the sidebar button and Back and Forward sit in the window's top left corner.

Fixes

• Links from Canvas and notes. On Windows, a Canvas link with "&" in it was cut short, and a link written for the purpose could start a program. Links now reach the browser whole, and a link in a note or on a Canvas page only ever opens a web page or an email address.
• Notes you edited in another app are kept. Saving an edit in Study Stash replaces only the summary in a lecture's note file; anything else you wrote in that file stays.
• Memory. Setup's window and Connect Canvas's window are freed when they close (setup kept about 20 MB, Connect Canvas about 6 MB each time it was opened).
• Clicking a Canvas link no longer holds the window for a moment on a Mac.

Good to know

• Needs: on a Mac, macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later, Apple silicon or Intel; on Windows, Windows 10 or 11.
• Updating: installed copies update themselves within a few hours, when nothing is recording and you aren't typing in a lecture's notes. To update now, use Settings → Your library → Library → Update now (a laptop: Settings → General → Updates), or Update now from the menu bar on a Mac.
• Editing notes needs this version on the library too. A library on an older Study Stash says to update it.

Study Stash 0.12.0

What's Changed

• UI cleanup: class switcher, folders, API keys, Home and Due homes, Granola-style pill by @eli-manning in #38
• Fix Windows CI: the list header clipped a long class name by @eli-manning in #39
• Study Stash 0.12.0 by @eli-manning in #40

Full Changelog: v0.11.0...v0.12.0

Study Stash 0.11.0

What's Changed

• UX pass: files open, links work, submissions read true, back/forward and a collapsible sidebar by @eli-manning in #36
• Study Stash 0.11.0 by @Joseph-Rus in #37

Full Changelog: v0.10.1...v0.11.0

Study Stash 0.10.1

What's Changed

• Release 0.10.1 by @Joseph-Rus in #34

Full Changelog: v0.10.0...v0.10.1

Study Stash 0.10.0

What's Changed

• The demo video in the README and on the website by @Joseph-Rus in #32
• Guided setup: pick your AI, install it, sign in, and let it set Study Stash up with you by @Joseph-Rus in #30
• Study Stash 0.10.0 by @Joseph-Rus in #33

Full Changelog: v0.9.2...v0.10.0

Study Stash 0.9.2

What's Changed

• Notifications that work right, where the system's own go by @Joseph-Rus in #29
• Study Stash 0.9.2: notifications, Buy us more Claude usage, and the recorder drag by @Joseph-Rus in #31

Full Changelog: v0.9.1...v0.9.2

Study Stash 0.9.1

What's Changed

• Study Stash 0.9.1 by @Joseph-Rus in #28
• CI: test each change once, when it reaches main; build alongside the tests by @Joseph-Rus in #23
• Close the recorder's chat, start on the compact Whisper model, a Mac extension folder Chrome can see by @Joseph-Rus in #24
• Export a lecture's notes as a PDF by @Joseph-Rus in #25
• Setup's Continue always works; Settings choices without square boxes by @Joseph-Rus in #26

Full Changelog: v0.9.0...v0.9.1

Study Stash 0.9.0

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v0.9.0

Study Stash 0.8.0

What's Changed

• Rich notes: diagrams, typeset formulas and Markdown download (beta) by @Joseph-Rus in #13
• Study Stash 0.8.0 by @Joseph-Rus in #22
• A steadier full-disk recording test by @Joseph-Rus in #14
• Windows microphone: Record works, says what's wrong in plain words, never hangs by @Joseph-Rus in #15
• Rich notes on Windows: checked on a real Windows and fixed by @Joseph-Rus in #16
• Selects and tooltips: one rounded panel, and calmer tooltips by @Joseph-Rus in #17
• Whisper model chosen by the computer's specs by @Joseph-Rus in #18
• Answers appear as they're written by @Joseph-Rus in #19
• Windows looks right on Windows: one title bar, Mica, themes that apply, a sidebar that fits by @Joseph-Rus in #20
• Canvas: the app follows a sync on its own (Windows too), plain course names, and choosing which courses to bring in by @Joseph-Rus in #21

Full Changelog: v0.7.0...v0.8.0