Blurt v1.1.2

Makes Ollama a first-class part of the experience instead of a silent dependency.

• Startup gate: the pad waits until Ollama and the embedding model are ready, so notes are never saved unindexable. Reads 'blurt needs Ollama to think', with a one-click install link.
• Resilient after that: if Ollama stops mid-session, you keep typing (capture + exact search work) and the peek resumes when it's back.
• Self-heal: blurt pulls the model if Ollama appears without it, and re-indexes any notes saved while it was down, no restart needed.
• Settings now shows live engine status (Ollama, the embedding model, catch-up indexing).
• Earlier fix included: exact search no longer breaks when Ollama is down.

Update: Settings > check for updates, or pipx upgrade blurt.

Blurt v1.1.1

Fixes the macOS terminal-launch experience.

Typing blurt in a terminal now hands off to blurt.app, so you get a single dock icon with blurt's icon and name (not the Python rocket), and Blurt keeps running after you close the terminal. The earlier guard misfired because terminals also set __CFBundleIdentifier; it now checks for blurt's own bundle id.

Also: the launch line no longer prints a localhost IP, and the README's install steps cover installing pipx and Ollama up front.

Install: pipx install git+https://github.com/rbsriram/blurt then blurt. Already on Blurt? Settings > check for updates, or pipx upgrade blurt.

Blurt v1.1.0

Native desktop app: Blurt now opens in its own window and, on macOS, adds a double-clickable app to ~/Applications (dock icon, conventional menu bar). A Settings pane (⌘,) holds the notes-folder choice and an update check; your readable scratchpad.md can live in any folder (Obsidian, Dropbox) while the index stays internal.

Install: pipx install git+https://github.com/rbsriram/blurt then blurt. See the README for prerequisites (Ollama + Python 3.11+).