Release Notes
What's new in Melvin.
A running log of desktop releases, integrations, and reliability fixes.
v0.0.1 (August 2026)
Highlights
- Melvin now finds a page by what it was about, not only by the words on it. Anything it indexes stays searchable that way from here on, instead of only what was there on your first launch.
- Exact things are matched exactly: an amount, an order number, an address. Typing 1043.50 finds the page with $1,043.50 on it.
- A listing is told apart from the thing you were actually looking at, so the page you remember comes back above the search results that led you there.
- You can remove anything Melvin has stored. It goes, along with everything attached to it, and it does not come back the next time your history is read.
- Export writes your whole index to a file you choose the place for.
- Individual sites can be held back from the answer model. They stay searchable on your own Mac and are never sent when you ask a question. Mail, banking, and patient portals are already held back for you.
Fixes
- A low battery paused capture as intended, then quietly un-paused the first time you switched apps.
- Filling in the search index could make the app stop responding for a moment. It now does that work in small pieces.
- Removed some clutter: what Melvin keeps is now a line you can hover for the detail, and the category and delete prompts look like the rest of the app.