0.11.1May 12, 2026

Navigation history, better new tab, and Obsidian import

Move back and forward through your notes, find recent notes on every new tab, import Obsidian vault settings, plus polish across the editor, preview, and sidebar.

New

Useful blank tabs. Blank tabs now show recent notes grouped by Location, with quiet per-Location buttons to create a fresh note. Try this by pressing Cmd-T.
Import Obsidian vault settings. When you add an Obsidian folder as a Location, Cogito offers a one-time import of appearance, file sort, attachments folder settings, and more.
New note auto-filename conventions. Settings > Files now offers document title, web slug, and snake case naming. Match folder pattern is on by default and infers date or time affixes and naming style from nearby notes.
Improved onboarding. Finally improved this to be in multiple minimal pages, also offering to leave your email address to receive occasional updates.

Sidebar

Navigation history. Move backward and forward through file selections, tab switches, folder changes, and external opens with Cmd-[ and Cmd-], or the new chevrons at the top of the sidebar.
Folder sort overrides. Finally, right-click any folder to set its own sort order. Nested folders inherit from the nearest parent, and you can reset back to inheriting at any time.
Calmer expanded folders. Folders now show 10 file rows by default, with a quiet Show N more option. Head to General > Sidebar to change this to 5, 10, 20, or Unlimited.
Larger sidebar content option. A new General > Sidebar checkbox gently increases sidebar typography, glyphs, badges, and row controls without touching editor font controls.
Smoother large sidebars. Nested folder trees no longer spiral memory while scrolling, and selected-file reveal is improved.

Editor

Tab and Shift-Tab indent selected lines. With any non-empty source-mode selection, Tab now indents every selected line and Shift-Tab outdents one level, instead of replacing the selection.
Preview-to-Source jump. Double-clicking a word in Preview now switches to Source with the caret on the exact word and briefly flashes it. Super handy to quickly edit something while in Preview mode.
Outline jumps anchor near the top. Selecting a heading from the table of contents or Inspector outline now lands the heading near the top of the editor, as you would expect.
Relative source links open in Cogito. Cmd-clicking a reference-style or inline relative Markdown link now resolves against the current document and opens inside Cogito.

Preview

Basic HTML document blocks render. Snippets that wrap headings and paragraphs in <html> or <body> now display as native preview blocks. Unsupported HTML still appears as text.
Compact Mermaid diagrams keep their natural size. Small diagrams render at their authored width and center in the page; wide diagrams still scale down to fit the readable column.
Ordered lists continue across HTML figures. Numbering picks up from the source marker when an HTML figure splits an ordered list, instead of restarting at 1.
Wider Finder Quick Look previews. Quick Look in Finder now uses a slightly wider readable column for Markdown files. The in-app preview keeps its writing-focused defaults.

Fixed

Optional onboarding email is really optional. Leaving the update email field blank now continues onboarding instead of blocking on validation.
Launch crash on macOS 26.3.1. Cogito no longer crashes during startup on some macOS 26.3.1 configurations.
Tabbed titlebar stays stable and draggable. Opening more tabs no longer pushes top-bar controls down or removes the drag region. Wide tabbed windows keep tabs and document actions on one row; narrow windows stack them.
AI Chat keeps generating across notes. Sending a message and opening another note mid-generation no longer drops the reply. Each conversation runs independently, and the running state stays scoped to the note that started it.
AI provider CLIs installed through version managers. Cogito now detects Codex and other CLIs installed via nvm, fnm, asdf, mise, pnpm, Bun, and Volta, and launches them with the right PATH.
Cogito links open reliably. cogito:// URLs and files opened from outside Cogito now consistently land in your active window.
New Tab Location order matches the sidebar. Recent-note groups in blank tabs now follow your sidebar Location order instead of current-Location-first or discovery order.
Location-header + creates at the Location root. The + button in a Location header now always creates at that Location root. Folder-row + and File > New Note keep their context-aware behavior.