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@minseo2222 minseo2222 released this 29 May 05:36
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SessionPad v0.2.0

Summary

SessionPad v0.2.0 is a major step up from the v0.1.x line. It improves how notes are matched to your work context and gives the app a complete visual redesign: a warm, compact sticky-note panel built to live beside whatever you are working on.

This release keeps the same local-first foundation. There is no installer, cloud sync, login, telemetry, AI, UI Automation, or app-specific deep integration. Your notes still never leave the machine.

Highlights

  • A redesigned sticky-note interface with a calm off-white theme, a session color spine, underline tabs, quick-capture input, and light/dark themes.
  • Smarter matching: rename a pad, pin a pad to an app, and one pad per project for VS Code-family editors.
  • Each tab now has its own character: Key cards, Todo checklist, Command snippets, and Notes with inline editing.

Matching Improvements

  • Rename session: give the current window's pad a custom name. The name is preserved even when you return to the same window.
  • Pin to app: pin a pad to its application so it stays the same even when the window title changes (useful for browsers and terminals). Pinned pads match by application.
  • Project-level matching for VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf: switching files within the same project keeps the same pad, instead of creating a separate pad per file.
  • Existing pads from earlier versions are carried over automatically; no notes are lost.

Interface Redesign

  • Warm off-white panel with a subtle session color spine on the left edge and a light, soft depth.
  • Light and dark themes with a toggle; the choice is remembered.
  • Underline tabs for Key, Todo, Commands, and Notes, with only the active tab emphasized.
  • Quick-capture input with a context-aware placeholder per tab; press Enter to save.
  • Per-tab item styles:
    • Key: highlighted detail cards.
    • Todo: circular check with strikethrough when done, plus a done count.
    • Commands: code-snippet cards with a copy action on hover.
    • Notes: free-form cards that expand inline for full-text view, editing, and copy.
  • Delete and copy actions appear quietly on hover instead of as large repeated buttons.
  • Session rename, pin, local data controls, start-with-Windows, theme, and developer info are tucked into a settings panel, keeping the main view focused on notes.

Resident Utility Behavior

  • Lives in the system tray; closing the window hides it instead of quitting.
  • Single instance; launching again brings the existing window forward.
  • Optional start with Windows, launching silently to the tray.
  • Global hotkey Ctrl+Alt+N to bring the pad to the current window.
  • Smooth following of the attached window.

Privacy And Local-only Notes

SessionPad v0.2.0 stores only user-entered notes on the local machine.

  • No login, cloud sync, telemetry, or AI.
  • No screen scraping or terminal scraping.
  • No automatic reading of editor, browser, terminal, or project contents.
  • Clipboard is only written when you click Copy. Clipboard is not read.
  • Commands are not executed or pasted automatically.
  • Start with Windows writes only the executable path to the current-user startup registry key.

Known Limitations

  • Windows only.
  • No installer or MSIX package yet.
  • No cloud sync, login, telemetry, AI, or UI Automation.
  • No VS Code workspace detection, Windows Terminal tab detection, or browser URL detection (matching uses the window title only).
  • Pinned pads match by application, so individual windows or tabs of the same app are not tracked separately.
  • Project-level matching relies on the editor's window title and may not apply to heavily customized title formats; pinning is the fallback.
  • Attached-window following uses polling, not WinEvent hooks.
  • Multi-monitor and DPI behavior should still be manually verified.

How To Run

From source:

dotnet run --project src/SessionPad.App/SessionPad.App.csproj

From the release package:

  1. Extract SessionPad-v0.2.0.zip.
  2. Run SessionPad.App.exe.

The release package is framework-dependent and requires the .NET Desktop Runtime compatible with net10.0-windows.

To quit SessionPad fully, right-click the tray icon and choose Exit. Closing the window only hides it to the tray.

Storage Location

SessionPad stores local data under:

%APPDATA%\SessionPad

Expected files include:

%APPDATA%\SessionPad\
  settings.json
  sessions.index.json
  notes\
    default.json
    <sessionId>.json

Runtime HWND values, detected window state, attach state, follow state, and drag status are not persisted.

Delete Local Data

Open the settings panel, find the Local Data section, click Delete All Local Data, and confirm. This removes SessionPad notes and session data from this device only.

Build And Publish Information

dotnet build
dotnet build -c Release
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File scripts/publish-release.ps1

Default publish output:

artifacts/SessionPad-v0.1

Release zip:

artifacts/SessionPad-v0.2.0.zip

Generated artifacts/, publish/, bin/, and obj/ outputs are ignored by Git and should not be committed.

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