1.4.1: 🥷 Night Shift

Cribble 1.4.1 — 🥷 Night Shift

Night Shift is a quieter, faster, more Mac-native Cribble.

This release is about making the app feel easier to remember: smaller surfaces,
cleaner shortcuts, fewer scary AI moments, and better handoffs before anything
gets written to your notes.

🛠️ 1.4.1 Follow-Up

This small Night Shift refresh keeps the same user-facing 1.4 experience and
tightens the downloadable app package.

• Sparkle now loads correctly in the Developer ID build.
• Highlight-note hover now shows only one note card, and N edits the hovered
  highlight note before falling back to a blank note.
• The public DMG is rebuilt, signed, notarized, stapled, and ready for AppCast.
• Website links and checksums point at the refreshed Night Shift download.

✨ The Feel

Cribble now gets out of the way faster.

• The first screen is tighter and less busy.
• DemoNotes are no longer crowding the launch surface.
• The empty sidebar is smaller and more practical.
• The welcome view focuses on real work: open folder, new note, today, tasks.
• Existing DemoNotes still live in Help when you want the guided tour.

⌨️ Shortcuts You Can Actually Remember

The main shortcuts are now simple single keys while you are reading:

Key	Action
← / →	Back / Forward
S	Search files
O	Outline
I	Intelligence window
C	AI chat
N	Add note to hovered highlight / New note
T	Open Tasks
E	Open current file in your editor
L	AI Link Notes
R	Reading Trail
Space	Focus mode
F	Reveal current file in Finder
H	Highlight selected text
B	Drop or resume a bookmark
Esc	Exit highlight mode / close overlays

Copy shortcuts are simpler too:

Shortcut	Action
Command M	Copy current note as Markdown
Command L	Copy current note as a Markdown link
Command W	Copy current note as a wiki link
Command I	Import
Command N	Open today's note

Small case: press S, search, click back into the reader, then press N, R,
or C. Search focus now releases properly instead of trapping your keyboard.

🧠 Safer Intelligence

AI is still review-first.

• Empty AI diff previews now explain that no safe patch was received.
• Nothing is written unless you approve it.
• Project Intelligence makes local vs remote runner boundaries clearer.
• VPS/team OpenAI-compatible runners get explicit review text before note
  context leaves your Mac.
• Secrets stay in Keychain, not manifests, notes, docs, or diagnostics.

Small case: if AI Link Notes returns no patch, Cribble now says that directly
instead of leaving you in a vague review sheet.

🧭 Better Handoffs

Cribble now gives you more useful copy-before-write paths:

• README starters
• Reading Trail starters and summaries
• Search miss handoffs
• Missing slash-command ideas
• Diagnostics and next actions
• Diff copies for teammate review
• Project Intelligence artifact copies
• Extension/import/remote-runner review templates

Small case: if a folder has no README, copy a starter before asking AI to fill
anything. If a search misses, copy the search handoff before clearing it.

🧩 Extension Groundwork

This is the first serious extension/plugin foundation, but intentionally safe.

• API v1 stays declarative.
• First extension versions should be read-only.
• Least access and least writing are required.
• User-facing extension UI must stay native SwiftUI/system-control based.
• Import lanes and remote runner profiles are reviewable before execution.
• Executable plugins are still deferred until signing, sandboxing, permissions,
  revocation, audit trails, and native consent are real.

Good ideas can be ambitious. First PRs should still be small and safe.

⚡ Performance And Polish

• Large folders use less memory by loading note bodies on demand.
• More generated dependency/tool-cache folders are skipped.
• DemoNotes refresh to the new shortcut language on existing installs.
• The app opens into a calmer, denser workspace.

✅ Install Confidence

This DMG is:

• Developer ID signed
• notarized by Apple
• stapled
• Gatekeeper accepted
• universal: Apple Silicon + Intel
• macOS 15+

Download Cribble-1.4.1.dmg, open it, and drag Cribble into Applications.

Your notes, highlights, bookmarks, settings, and local caches are not changed by
replacing the app.

🥷 Why "Night Shift"?

Because this release came from the kind of pass that makes a product feel better
without making it louder: smaller controls, calmer onboarding, sharper keyboard
memory, and safer intelligence.