PolyRelate v2.5

PolyRelate v2.5

New

• Capture and Save (⌃⌘S) — for a file in Finder, or a document open in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel: captures it like Capture (⌃⌘C), and also copies the file itself into iCloud so the same bookmark opens from your iPhone too, not just a reference back to this Mac
• A real menu bar for the Bookmarks window — App, File, Edit, Bookmark, View, and Window menus appear whenever the Bookmarks window is active, alongside the existing menu-bar-icon popup and right-click menu. All three now share the exact same actions, so nothing differs between them
• Copy Link and Verify, reachable from the new Bookmark menu and the right-click menu alike — Verify re-checks a single bookmark's own links on demand, without running a full Refresh
• The Bookmarks window now opens automatically when PolyRelate launches

Changed

• "Bookmark browser" is now called "Open PolyRelate" in the menu-bar icon's popup and the Dock menu
• The Bookmarks window automatically checks for new bookmarks (e.g. captured from your iPhone) every time it comes back into focus — no need to click Rescan by hand
• The Relations Refresh button now uses a clearly different icon (a circled "R") from the "Rescan for new Bookmarks" button right next to it — they used to look nearly identical
• Help content expanded: a new "Linking Notes" section covering how to paste links (the primary feature — Relations tracking is a byproduct of it, not the main event), plus coverage of Capture and Save, Tags, and the new menu bar

Fixed

• Capture and Save now tells you clearly when it couldn't copy a file, instead of failing silently — this happens for files living inside another app's own storage, most commonly a Word/Excel/PowerPoint attachment opened straight from Mail

PolyRelate v2.4

PolyRelate v2.4

LinkLayer is now PolyRelate. Renamed after finding an established company already using the LinkLayer name for embedded security/hardware. Everything moved: app name, icon, menu bar glyph, and URL scheme.

⚠️ Heads up if you're updating from an earlier version: your existing bookmarks won't carry over automatically — this app now stores its data under a new location on your Mac, by design (no silent migration). If you want your old bookmarks, ask for guidance rather than assuming they're lost — they're not. Every link you've already pasted into a note keeps working either way (see below).

New

• New app icon and menu bar glyph — a triangle-graph symbol (three connected nodes) replacing the old chain-link, same coral bookmark shape as before
• New URL scheme, polyrelate:// — every linklayer:// link you've already pasted into Obsidian or Apple Notes keeps working permanently, no action needed
• Obsidian plugin now auto-installs and self-updates whenever a vault is set in Settings — no manual plugin install step
• First-run Welcome window now offers to jump straight to Obsidian vault setup if Obsidian is detected on your Mac
• DMG installer now shows step-by-step install/open instructions directly in the window

Fixed

• Capture's "add a note" popup now correctly appears when the frontmost app is in native full-screen mode, on whichever display you're actually using
• Obsidian Paste Link window/link-insertion flicker resolved
• Diagnostic logging added around the Bookmarks browser's dropdown filters, to help chase down an intermittent unresponsive-dropdown report

Unchanged, on purpose

Your macOS permission grants (Accessibility, Automation) carry over with no re-approval needed — the app's underlying identity didn't change, only its name and appearance.

PolyRelate v2.3

LinkLayer v2.3

New

• Tags system — controlled-vocabulary registry, Manage Tags admin (rename/color/delete/merge), tag assignment, Tags filter, Tags column, click-a-pill to quick-filter
• Configurable Link Text for Paste Link — choose what appears in a pasted link's label (Bookmark text, Home, Tags, User Note, Date), each independently toggleable with its own length limit (Settings → Link Text)
• All keyboard shortcuts are now user-configurable (Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts), via the KeyboardShortcuts package
• Google Keep adapter
• Optional grid lines in the Bookmarks List view

Fixed

• ⌃⌘F ("Show in Finder") conflicted with macOS's own system-wide fullscreen shortcut — renamed to ⌃⌘L ("Locate in Finder")
• Obsidian window/link flicker on Paste Link and Show actions
• Menu bar icon's ring detail was invisible (template-image alpha masking bug)
• FROM-only notes (auto-created via Paste Link, never explicitly captured) were incorrectly showing up as standalone Bookmarks rows
• Column resize direction, header/row alignment, and toolbar label alignment in the List view
• Apple Notes relationship verification reliability

Changed

• Relationship terminology: "Backlinks" → "In-links" (matching "Out-links")
• Menu restructured around Capture / Link / Show; Bookmark browser promoted to the top; row context menu flattened

PolyRelate v2.2

Apple Notes — new zero-insertion identification

• Apple Notes bookmarks are now identified by their creation date instead of an inserted marker — nothing is ever written into your notes.
• Cleaned up: old marker-based Apple Notes bookmarks removed and re-creatable under the new scheme; leftover visible marker text removed from previously affected notes.
• Refresh (relations verification) now uses a fast, targeted Apple Notes lookup instead of scanning the whole vault, runs in the background, and shows live progress — the Bookmarks browser stays fully responsive during a refresh.

Dock icon

• On by default now. Left-click opens the Bookmarks browser; right-click shows a Capture/Show/Settings menu mirroring the menu bar.

New app icon

• Replaced the placeholder icon with the new coral bookmark icon (Dock, Finder) and a monochrome menu bar icon.

Bug fixes

• Selecting a relation row could incorrectly highlight an unrelated row elsewhere in the list.
• An Apple Note shown as a linked item sometimes displayed just "Note" instead of "Note · Apple Notes".
• Paste Link into Obsidian could pop open the Bookmarks browser or steal focus.
• Outlook Web link-opening and title display.

Other

• Outlook adapter (desktop app + Outlook Web).
• Bookmarks browser: reorderable columns, toolbar polish.
• Help: added a link back to Welcome from the "What Can I Capture?" page.
• First-run experience: fixed empty Welcome window bug, added a visual pointer to the menu bar icon.

PolyRelate v2.1

Menu v2 and Bookmarks browser toolbar rearrangement.

• Global menu redraw: Bookmark browser and current-bookmark header promoted to the top, dynamic Paste Link label, Show split into From-app/Current hierarchical submenus (In-links, Out-links, Show in Finder, Open in Browser, Edit Note…) with new shortcuts (⌃⌘I/O/F/R/E, ⌃⌘⇧I/O/F/R/E)
• "Backlinks" renamed to "In-links" throughout
• Bookmark row context menu flattened (List, Cards, and Gallery all share the same menu now), added Make Current
• Implicit first-time capture for all "Show — From app" actions, never re-capturing an already-captured Bookmark
• Bookmarks browser toolbar rearranged: View/Filter/Sort/Columns dropdowns grouped and labeled on the left, standalone column-toggle icons consolidated into one Columns dropdown

PolyRelate v2.0

Friend & Family build — Schema v3, Backlinks, Paste Link (selection)