Changelog
Follow new updates and improvements to Jadebook.
May 5th, 2025
Improved
It’s been a while but there have been a lot of changes made to improve Jadebook. You’ll notice that we removed optional encryption and full-text search. A goal we currently have is to reduce complexity especially when it’s unnecessary and these just happened to be a part of that.
Guided Journals have been updated to include all the features from the other types of journalling
This includes AI features, covers, icons, searching, and more.
Optional encryption is no longer a thing. Everything will be encrypted always.
This also means that full-text search will no longer work. Semantic Search is now the only way the search works
Added a space under the typing cursor so the text doesn’t hit the bottom of the viewport
Update Entry UI to be much cleaner and intuitive
This includes the icon selector, top bar and now the UI will also fade away when typing to allow you to focus more
The quick actions like
add icon,add coverand thedocument datenow fade away unless you hover over near them
We’ve also removed some rich-text features. Thinking about the mobile app, these features would have made development far more difficult for no reason.
This include the text-align, subscript and superscript
Major Goals rework
Covers are now supported
The
Logseditor is wayyy betterLogs have an updated rating system. Rather than a
thumbs upandthumbs down, we now haveon track,off track,neutralandmajor updateLogs now load differently. We load the first 5 and then load more as you scroll. Previously there was so much text and data that it would be overwhelming
Slight update to how Guided Systems work — mainly performance improvements
Assets settings rework
Assets should now load faster
UI has been updated to be more intuitive
You can now see what entity the asset is linked to and go to it
Eg. If the asset is in a journal entry, you can go to that entry
April 22nd, 2025
New
A core item on our roadmap was a page where user’s can see all their assets and delete them if they want. We’ve finally added it. It’s currently available in the settings and shows file name, file size, date uploaded and let’s you delete the asset.
It should be reminded that Jadebook should not be used as a long-term storage solution. Assets are compressed on upload and we keep these files private, eg, we generate a public url that lasts maybe an hour and then expires. You should probably use something else for file storage.
Summaries
Another feature we’ve added is AI Summaries. When you memorise a journal entry, the AI will now generate a quick summary for you.
AI Chat
The AI Chat now has access to retrieve recent entries. Eg, let’s say you had a great day, well, now the AI knows that and might congratulate you.
By default, the AI Chat will only have access to memorized entries. This is because the AI features are opt-in and the user has control over that they want to share. However, having to memorise all your entries every time seems a little annoying so there is now a toggle in the settings allowing the AI to have access to all entries.
April 18th, 2025
Improved
We’ve been focusing on performance and UI. The focus this time was the notes and goals which were previously stored within their parents. I.e the notes were stored within the entry. But this meant we had to add aggressive restrictions as to not take up too much space in a single object.
But with the new Reflective Agents the previous character limit of 600 simply wasn’t enough. So with the new updates, you can now store more notes, the character limits have been increased to 2000 (1000 for free users) and entries in general should be much faster.
Update Notes and Goals
More performance and higher character limits
New settings sidebar
April 17th, 2025
Improved
We’re overhauling the UI a bit to make the newer features fit in better and overall make Jadebook a better experience.
Updated Home view
Add drafts (empty entries are shown as drafts)
Add Recommended Prompts (AI prompts based on your memory) (Pro Feature)
Minor UI Changes (eg headings are 1 size smaller)
April 14th, 2025
New
Improved
We’re introducing a new feature called Reflective Agents. The idea is that you create pre-defined prompts to run on your journal entries. For example, we have a preset called Connection with Memory which runs the following prompt:
Use the `User Memory` if available and find connections between the memory and the journal entryIt’s fairly basic but it pretty useful. You can instantly see how your recent events, personality traits or decision making is seen in the journal entry.
You’re free to create some custom AI Agents with your own prompts. Once you run an agent, if the result is lower than 1000 characters, then you can also store it in a note as reference.
General Improvements
Updated the Icon Sector popover UI to way less buggy (it was opening nested popovers which was annoying on mobile and caused issues with layers).
Improved the reliability of the Memory feature
Limited the number notes on a journal entry to 8 but increased the character limit to 1000 (up from 600).
All AI settings have been move to a seperate settings tab
Sidebar items have increased quite a bit so added some slight separation
April 13th, 2025
New
As the title says, we now have support for guided journals and passcodes.
Guided Journals
These work using systems which are collections of questions. There are a couple presets but you can create your own, custom ones. Currently you can create a maximum of 10 custom systems.
Guided journals work a little like Goal logs, where you’ll essentially splitting a large journal entries into more focused, smaller entries.
Currently, we haven’t added AI support for this yet but adding the ability to memorise guided entries will be coming soon.
Passcodes
We’ve also add passcodes. It’s a simple measure to stop people from looking into your journal. This is a client-side measure, meaning we aren’t doing anything crazy behind the hood. It’ll simply stop anything from being rendered until you input the correct passcode.
Passcodes will persist for an hour, after which you’ll have to input the passcode again.
April 12th, 2025
So, we’re introducing a change log to keep track of all the updates.
Currently the following is done:
Rich-text editing
Editor Notes
AI Memory feature
AI Chat
Covers
Tags
Print entry
Encryption
Prompted questions
Prompt generation
Export entry
Import from Daybook
Google and Github auth
Goals + Goal Logs
Search + Semantic Search
Insights
Streak tracking
Theming
Soft-delete
Billing
So many features already and so many more to go. Yay.