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@agongdai agongdai released this 03 Nov 12:20
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OwnKeep v1.5

A new Event Tracker module for things you follow day by day, and the whole app in English or Simplified Chinese.

Requirements

  • macOS 13 or later
  • Universal 2 — Apple Silicon and Intel

Install

Download the .dmg, open it, drag OwnKeep to Applications. On first launch macOS asks for
Accessibility permission so the ⌘⇧Space global hotkey works system-wide; OwnKeep runs in the
menu bar with no Dock icon.

Upgrading from v1.4? Drag the new app over the old one. Your vault lives outside the app bundle and
is untouched. No schema change, no migration, no Emergency Kit re-issue — v1.4 and v1.5 open each
other's vaults.

Verify this download

Signed with a Developer ID certificate, built with hardened runtime, notarized and stapled by Apple.
Check it yourself rather than taking my word for it:

spctl -a -vvv -t open --context context:primary-signature OwnKeep_1.5.0_universal.dmg
# expect: accepted / source=Notarized Developer ID

shasum -a 256 OwnKeep_1.5.0_universal.dmg
# 3e8a19bbb5a6d3b41d2bf97db319e598df8cfbc4caff06a7ec5bdc671fab72cf

Changes

  • Event Tracker module (⌥⇧7). Track something over time — a child's height, sleep, a treatment — as an event with its own quick-entry tags (number with a unit, yes/no, or text, each with an icon; star a tag to highlight it). Fill in a day from a Monday-first calendar with year and month pickers, add free-form items, a note, and photos or PDFs, and mark milestone days. A pannable, zoomable timeline filters to one tag or item; a trending view charts any number tag over a date range with change / min / max. Days can be imported from a CSV, with a preview before anything is saved. Event Tracker is not in the command bar by default; scope a query with the e prefix.
  • Photos and PDFs live inside the encrypted vault, so they are encrypted at rest and travel with every backup and restore — no separate files. Photos are downscaled to 2000 px and re-encoded as JPEG; PDFs are kept as uploaded, up to 10 MB each. To display them, the app's content security policy now allows data: images and blob: frames (the PDF reader). Scripts are still restricted to the app itself.
  • English and 简体中文. Settings → System → Appearance → Language: Follow macOS (the default), English, or 简体中文. The switch applies immediately to the command bar, the Dashboard, the menu-bar menu, dialogs and reminder notifications. Translations ship inside the app; nothing is downloaded or machine-translated.
  • Faster saves. The Dashboard shows a change immediately while the vault is re-encrypted in the background; if the write fails, it reloads what is actually on disk and tells you.

Known issues

  • Your vault is one encrypted file that is rewritten in full on every save, so many large photos make every save in every module slower.
  • Some technical error messages (a failed restore or disk error) are still in English, and the default category, tag and finance option lists stay as they were — they are your data, edit them in Settings.
  • No sync, no browser autofill, no TOTP generation — all deliberate non-goals.
  • macOS only.

Full changelog: v1.4...v1.5

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