Skim v0.1.2

What's new in 0.1.2

✦ AI Recap

Opened your inbox to a pile of unread mail? One click on the ✦ AI Recap chip next to the unread counter gets you a digest of all of it — TL;DR first, action items and deadlines called out, every bullet citing its email — and marks them read. Citation chips jump straight to the message. The chip appears only in the inbox, only when there's unread mail.

Composer

• Address autocomplete — To/Cc/Bcc suggest from every address in your mailbox as you type; people you've written to rank first. Pick one, keep typing, add the next — the dropdown follows the address you're currently entering.
• AI answers (recap, summaries, mailbox chat) now render their formatting — bold, bullets, code — instead of showing raw markdown.

Fixes

• Sent mail shows up in the Sent folder seconds after sending (Gmail used to wait for the next polling cycle).
• Every folder now shows its own newest message: the inbox shows the incoming email (not your own reply), Sent shows what you sent. List previews match.

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Install: download Skim_0.1.2_x64-setup.exe below (per-user, no admin rights) · How to connect Gmail · Enabling AI

Skim v0.1.1

What's new in 0.1.1

✦ AI

• OpenRouter support — bring one key for models from every vendor: Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, or any vendor/model slug you type in. Anthropic direct remains the default; pick your provider on its tab in onboarding or Settings → Skim AI.
• "My style" — a new writing style that mimics you. Skim scans up to 100 of your sent emails (your own words only), distills an editable style guide, and the AI writer follows it.
• Smarter replies — drafts now see the whole conversation (not just the last message), answer in the language of the email you're replying to, and know today's date, weekday, and your timezone.
• Multiline instruction field in the composer (Enter sends, Shift+Enter for a new line).
• AI writer profile: your name, five writing styles, and standing instructions — all fed into every draft.
• ✦ sparkle icons on all AI actions.

Mail & desktop

• Lives in the tray — closing the window keeps mail syncing in the background; quit from the tray menu.
• Starts with Windows (minimized to tray), on by default — toggle in Settings.
• New app icon everywhere: installer, taskbar, tray, Start Menu, notifications.
• New-mail toast fixes: the notification now carries the app identity and icon reliably.

Fixes

• Clean uninstall: the uninstaller now removes the toast registration and the autostart entry; autostart survives reinstalls.
• Windows notification images are no longer silently dropped (they must live outside hidden folders — who knew; now they do).

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Install: download Skim_0.1.1_x64-setup.exe below (per-user, no admin rights) · How to connect Gmail · Enabling AI

Skim v0.1.0

Skim v0.1.0 — the first public release. A fast, native, minimalist email client for Windows with bring-your-own-key Claude AI.

Highlights

• ⚡ Native & fast — Rust core + WebView2 UI (Tauri 2), ~5 MB installer, instant cold start
• 🔒 Local-first — IMAP sync into a local SQLite cache, works offline, zero telemetry
• ✉️ Mail done right — Gmail (one-click Google sign-in or app password), Outlook/Yahoo/iCloud/any IMAP server, conversation threading, offline-queued actions, IMAP IDLE push, native notifications with a mark-read button
• ✦ Bring your own AI — paste an Anthropic API key: draft replies in your voice (shorter/warmer/formal), summarize threads, ask about a message, and chat across your whole mailbox with cited sources. Requests go directly from your machine to Claude; the key lives in Windows Credential Manager
• 🔍 Instant search — full-text (FTS5) over subject/sender/body, Ctrl+K command palette, keyboard-first (j/k/e/s/r)
• 🛡️ Safe HTML — mail is sanitized in Rust and rendered in a no-script sandboxed iframe; remote images blocked by default
• 🌍 11 languages (en, ru, sr, fr, de, es, it, pl, zh, ja, ko), light & dark themes

Install

Download Skim_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe below (per-user, no admin rights) — or the .msi for managed environments. Windows 10/11 with WebView2 (preinstalled on Win 11).

Connecting Gmail and enabling AI: see the README.

Known limitations

• One mail account per install (multi-account is on the roadmap)
• Google sign-in runs in testing mode while the OAuth app is unverified: re-login every 7 days (app passwords have no such limit)
• Desktop notifications require the installed app (Start Menu shortcut) — they don't fire from a portable exe