v0.3.0

Added

• Observation Projects — a whole new feature area, built up over many steps:
  • Project/session data model with one-folder-per-project/session filesystem
    persistence (plain JSON, no database).
  • The Projects browser itself: initially a three-column iMovie-style library,
    later replaced with a full-width drill-down page stack (Home → Projects →
    Project → Session), and finally topped with a proper orientation
    Dashboard as Home — resume the last session, common-task shortcuts,
    recent projects, highlighted sessions, an activity chart, and suggestions —
    with the original project grid/table moving one level down as its own
    Projects page.
  • GPS or hand-entered location on both projects and sessions.
  • Free-text + date-range search, later extended with a Filters popover
    (exact tag, observed object, equipment system, date range).
  • Ollama-backed AI session/project planning ("Ask AI to Plan…"), with a
    generous timeout and a qwen3:8b model preference (falling back to
    whatever's actually installed).
  • Quick Start — pick a common target and skip creating a project/session
    by hand; a consolidated Project menu; a project/session breadcrumb in
    the camera view.
  • Session cards, richer session history, and per-kind capture-count stats on
    both the Project and Session pages (later upgraded to a real resizable
    Table, replacing a capped-width grid).
  • Equipment management — named systems (camera/mount/optical tube plus
    optional tracking/imaging/autoguiding/power/eyepiece/smartphone-mount/other
    categories), a curated common-brand catalog, custom items, and
    project/session association with inheritance.
  • Plain-English capture notes ("Captured Saturn in Live Stack as FITS")
    generated automatically for every capture, shown on the timeline.
  • Per-capture action records — every capture now also snapshots the
    object observed, effective location, effective equipment system, and every
    acquisition parameter (gain/exposure/ROI/mode) in effect at that moment.
  • Recall Parameters — reapply a past action's exact camera settings to
    speed up setting up a similar shot again.
  • New Session Like This… — duplicate a session's goal/objects/location/
    equipment into a fresh session, without its captures.
  • Insights page — most-captured objects, most-used equipment, most
    common acquisition mode, a monthly activity chart, and "try this next"
    suggestions, aggregated across every project.
  • Archive projects/sessions, and delete with a 30-day grace period
    (Recently Deleted page, restore or purge immediately).
  • Multi-session AI project planning — "the nicest Messier objects visible
    in August" becomes one session per object in a single plan; the AI asks a
    single clarifying question first if it genuinely needs one (an unclear
    date range, an ambiguous location) instead of guessing.
  • Ask AI to Describe… — a grounded, editable plain-English description
    for a project or session, applied as either its goal (Set as Aim) or a
    dated note (Add as Note).
  • AI panel (renamed from "Assistant") — a chat panel on the right of
    every page, grounded in the current project/session, the connected
    camera, an Insights snapshot, and (new) your own ratings/favorites/top-
    rated past actions. Can propose creating a project/session or changing
    camera settings, always behind an Approve/Reject card. Resizable sidebar
    width, a multi-line compose field, a model picker (also in Settings) that
    lists whatever's actually installed on the configured Ollama server, and
    an editable server URL. Forced detached (never embedded) while a camera
    session is running, returning to the sidebar automatically once you're
    back to browsing if that's where it was before.
  • Ratings (1-5 stars) and favorites for projects, sessions, and
    individual captures — favorites sort to the top of their lists.
  • Equipment systems now persist as files (one JSON file per system,
    under a configurable Equipment folder in Settings) instead of
    UserDefaults, migrating any existing systems automatically the first
    time.
  • "Ideas for Next Time" is AI-computed when Ollama is reachable, falling
    back to the existing catalog-derived list otherwise — never an empty
    state either way.
  • A configurable AI "skill" for suggesting a full next session (name,
    goal, objects, and project — not just an object), shown as a "Suggested
    Session" card on the Dashboard; the standing instructions behind it are
    editable in Settings without touching a prompt in code.
  • Atlas view — a third Projects-page view alongside the thumbnail grid
    and table: every session across every project plotted by its target's
    real sky position (the app's own bundled Messier/bright-star catalog),
    filterable by project/object/date range, with tap-to-open navigation.
  • Save As Project…/Load Project… (File menu) — package/unpack a
    whole project folder (metadata, sessions, captures) as one .zip, for
    sharing a project across users/machines; an imported project always gets
    a fresh identity so it can never collide with one already in the library.
  • "Show All Projects" (Project menu) and a dedicated Equipment menu
    (View/Add New…) in the menu bar.
  • Bulk select on the Projects page (Archive/Delete over a whole selection).
  • Ollama connectivity diagnostics in Settings (Test Connection — checks
    both reachability and which models are actually installed, reporting
    exactly which one would be used).
• Acquisition Wizard — pick a target (planet, Moon, or curated deep-sky
  object), get its recommended gain/exposure/mode, and save/load setups as
  reusable presets.
• Smart Live Stack — live, self-curating deep-sky/planetary stacking that
  discards frames below a rolling sharpness threshold.
• Mesh Drift Correction (Experimental) in the Acquisition Wizard, with a
  triangulated interpolation and a live overlay of each vertex's search window.
• Per-channel (Red/Green/Blue) histogram and an independent Curves tab,
  in a detachable panel.
• ZWO gain/offset presets, a live dropped-frame counter, and ST4 pulse
  guiding.
• Exported-files viewer, GPU streak masking, an RGB24 processing pipeline
  (for iPhone/webcam sources), drift reduction, SER video recording, and
  planetary presets, later given telescope-specific exposure scaling.
• A "Running" status list next to the camera view for active pipelines.
• In-app Application Log (skyformac → Show Log…, ⌘⇧D) — every connection
  event, error, Quick Start, and Ollama failure, with copy/export.
• Settings window (⌘,) — the Projects folder location (choose a custom
  folder, takes effect next launch) plus the renderer/Night Mode toggles.
• README badge row (CI/platform/Swift/license/release), a centered title/link
  header, a full-width hero GIF, and a dedicated EXAMPLES.md catalog.

Changed

• Made the Projects browser the app's actual main window — the camera view
  only shows once a session is actually running.
• Widened/reordered the sidebar; split each right-hand tab into common
  controls plus a collapsed Advanced section; reordered the Home grid so Quick
  Start leads and New Project trails every existing project.
• Full-width Session, Capture, and Project Detail pages (no more Form-capped
  side margins), plus a dedicated Capture detail page for timeline thumbnails.
• Auto-open the Projects browser on a true first run.
• The Camera and Sidebar Tab menu-bar menus now only appear while a camera
  session is actually running, instead of always showing (often nonsensical)
  items regardless of what page is open.
• Removed the Home page's "Settings" tile from Common Tasks — Settings stays
  reachable from the toolbar button and ⌘,.
• Home page's "Common Tasks" cards (Equipment/Insights/Settings) now share a
  uniform width with New Project/All Projects, instead of each sizing itself
  to its own title/subtitle text length.

Fixed

• Ollama planning calls failing against a real (non-mocked) server, and
  requests timing out against a slower local reasoning model.
• Blank frames no longer get written into .ser recordings.
• Night Mode no longer tints the live image itself, only the surrounding UI.
• Removed the "SDK x.x.x" connected/disconnected toolbar badge — reported as
  not useful; connection state is already shown contextually elsewhere.
• Fixed the Insights/Dashboard activity chart showing phantom past-dated ticks
  for months with no real activity (a continuous date axis interpolating gaps
  between real data points; now a categorical month axis).
• Fixed the Atlas view crashing the app immediately on open — an invalid
  reversed axis range (360...0) that trapped at runtime.
• Cleared a GitHub Actions Node.js 20 deprecation warning (actions/checkout
  bumped to a Node 24 release).
• Widened a UI test's timeout after an isolated CI scheduling flake.