Skim v1.0.13 — "Chat, unchained" 🪟
The one where the AI chat stops living inside a panel and becomes an actual window you can put wherever you like. Also the one where we deleted a setting instead of adding one. 🎉
✨ New
- Pop a chat out into its own window — hit
Ctrl+Kin any AI chat (ask, palette, or the folder digest) and it flies off into a frameless window of its own. Drag it to the second monitor, keep reading mail underneath, and it keeps streaming the whole time. 🚀 - Close it and it comes home —
Esc, ✕, Alt+F4, whatever you press, the conversation slides back inline exactly where it was. No "session expired", no starting over. 🏠 - Click a citation in a popped-out chat and the actual email opens in the main window — which politely un-minimizes itself from the tray instead of making you go find it. 🔍
- Open a second, third, fourth chat window — they cascade instead of stacking pixel-perfectly on top of each other, which was funny exactly once.
🐛 Fixed
- Follow-up questions stop re-searching for mail they already have. The digest marks everything it covered as read, then the follow-up went hunting for unread mail and found… nothing. Now the model gets a list of the emails it already pulled up and just reads them by number. 🧠
- No more silent empty answers. A model that ran out of tool calls mid-plan used to just… stop, and you got a blank. Now it's told the plan ends here and to answer with what it's got — and if it genuinely returns nothing, you get a real error instead of an eloquent void. 🤐
- Closing a chat window stops the request. Previously the backend cheerfully kept generating (and billing) an answer nobody would ever read. Your API key thanks you. 💸
🧹 Housekeeping
- The AI chat used to exist twice — once expanded inside the command palette, once bolted onto the reading pane — plus a
palette_expandedsetting to choose a size. All of it collapsed into one component and one session store: 1,279 lines deleted, and the two copies can never drift apart again. 🧼 - The old "Expand / Collapse" buttons retired gracefully; a single shared toggle took their place. Farewell, you served us adequately.
- Translations refreshed across all 12 languages. 🌍