Changelog

✨ New & improved

• A command palette inside the composer. Hit Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Linux and Windows) while writing and everything the toolbar does is one search away: send, send later, insert a template, drop in a scheduling link, add an attachment, change the sender. The point is to send an email without leaving the keyboard. Send later suggests real slots, and scheduling links propose times you are actually free.

• Pictures in a message behave like attachments. Hover any image for a small Download / Copy / Show original toolbar, or right-click for the same three actions. “Show original” opens the picture full size, with click to zoom.

  

• RSVP to a meeting time change from the email. When someone proposes a new slot, you can accept it right there instead of opening a browser tab.

  

🐛 Fixes & polish

• Bugfixes about Gmail inline images, email forwards with attachments, and the Windows installer.

🐛 Fixes & polish

• [IMAP] Read state finally sticks. Mail marked read by you or by a rule stays read after sync and when you switch inboxes.
• Infinite scroll in Today. Older messages keep loading as you scroll. If archive, delete, or the unread filter shortens the list, it loads more instead of stopping.
• Send toasts. Sent and error toasts now dismiss themselves, and every toast has a close button.

🐛 Fixes & polish

• Attachment limits per provider. 25MB on Gmail and Yahoo, 20MB on Outlook and iCloud, 10MB on unknown IMAP servers. You get told before the send, not a bounce after.
• Send now. Skip the undo delay straight from the toast.
• Inbox only for sender cleanups. Archive, trash or done all from a sender view skips messages you’ve already dealt with.
• Notifications. No more repeated push for the same email, and new-email notifications that were silently swallowed now come through on Gmail, Outlook and IMAP.
• [IMAP] Read and starred sync. Servers without CONDSTORE now pull read and starred state back from the server, so changes made in another client show up.
• [IMAP] Attachment previews. Previews no longer mix up files between messages.

✅ Your board, everywhere

Your todo board and email notes now stay in sync between desktop and mobile.

• Cross-device sync. Tasks and notes follow you from phone to desktop and back. A task stays linked to the same email, whether you use Gmail, Outlook or IMAP.
• Pair a new device. Scan a QR code in the desktop app to bring your whole board to a new phone.
• Instant updates. Check off a task on your phone and see it update on desktop within seconds.

📎 Attachments & previews

Attachments are finally readable at a glance, and you can open most files without leaving the app.

• Thumbnails that mean something. PDFs show their first page, spreadsheets show a snippet of the sheet, Word files show the opening lines. No more wall of identical red badges, and everything stays sharp in dark mode too.
• Full previews in the app. Open PDFs, Excel, Word, and text files without leaving Talanoa. Search and zoom PDFs, flip through spreadsheet tabs, read documents as a page. Already downloaded files open instantly.
• Preview from inside a message. Quick view on an attachment opens the same full-screen preview as the gallery. Arrow keys flip through the rest of that email’s files; double-click and Space work too.

🐛 Fixes & polish

• Search improved New search engine implemented for better performance + remote search too.
• [IMAP] Delete or archive on one device, gone on the other. Mail you remove no longer sticks around on your other devices after a refresh.
• Unread filter stays accurate. Read emails no longer slip into the list while a sync is running.

🐛 Fixes & optimisations

• ⚡ Autocomplete rebuilt — ~340ms → ~15ms per keystroke, all connected accounts, real names kept.
• 🖼️ Images — Ask before displaying / Always display in Settings → General (desktop & mobile); remote images actually blocked when you ask.
• ✅ Tasks — Mark complete from the board without opening the card.
• Polish — Transient auth failures no longer stick as “reconnect”; newsletter blockquotes stay visible; pasted images fit the column; monogram avatars; inbox lists update live on sync.

✨ New iteration on tasks

Notes, priority, labels, filters and search. Everything you need to triage tasks without leaving the board.

🐛 Fixes & polish

• 👥 Smarter recipient autocomplete — Suggests people you’ve emailed, not just incoming senders. Skips your address and noreply mailboxes. ~137ms → ~0.3ms per keystroke on a 50k-message mailbox.
• Unread filter sync — Messages read, archived or trashed elsewhere leave the list instead of staying with a stale dot. Fixed on sync and window focus.

✨ New & improved

• 📅 Inline RSVP on calendar invites — Google Calendar invitations show a banner with one-click Yes / No / Maybe and a conflict check against your synced calendars for that day.
• 🖼️ Attachment gallery — Attachments now have a grid view with real image thumbnails, a zoom slider to size the tiles, and an in-app lightbox to browse them full-resolution.
• ⚡ Instant quick search — The / palette runs its queries faster now.
• 🔎 Search your mail server — When the local index comes up empty, the search palette now offers a “Search in email server” button that queries Gmail, Outlook and IMAP directly.
• 🚫 Unsubscribes tab — Settings → Rules now lists every unsubscribe and block you’ve made, with a one-click cancel that also removes the server-side filter.
• 🔍 Filter your rules — A search field on both the Rules and Unsubscribes tabs filters by sender, recipient, labels or category.
• 📥 Load more from a sender — The sender view can now pull up to 50 older emails straight from the mail server, past what’s stored locally.
• 🙂 Real account avatars — Personal Gmail accounts now show your Google profile photo in the sidebar and settings, while Workspace accounts keep their company favicon.

🐛 Fixes & polish

• Full sync now retries on rate limits, quota errors, 5xx and transient network failures instead of giving up.
• Attachment quick view worked only on macOS — on Linux and Windows it now opens the file with your system’s default app.

💬 Tell me what you think

Loving it? Something feel off? I read every message — write to me directly at [email protected].

📱 Big news — the mobile app is here, in alpha

Talanoa is coming to your phone. The mobile app for iOS & Android is now in alpha, and I’m looking for testers.

The Talanoa you know — Teammates, People, your custom sections and Notifications, multi-account with a unified inbox, full-text search, light & dark themes and local only.

Want in? Open Settings → Devices in the desktop app and hit “I want to be a beta tester”.

✨ New & improved

• ⭐ Star your favorite views — Every view in the inbox menu (Sent, Drafts, Snoozed…) now has a star. Starred views show up in the left sidebar right below your Pins, one click away — saved per account.

• ✍️ Quotes in the composer — Type > at the start of a line to turn it into a quote block. Enter continues the quote, a double Enter exits it, and it renders properly in your recipient’s inbox too.
• 🖋️ Your first signature becomes the default — The first signature you add to an account, whether created by hand or imported from your provider, is now automatically set as that account’s default.

🐛 Fixes & polish

• Unified inbox: opening a sender from another account now shows their conversations instead of an empty view — and sender actions (archive all, unsubscribe, block…) now target the right mailbox.
• Unified todo board: opening a task’s email from another account now displays the conversation instead of coming up empty.
• Support chat: your message clears the instant you hit send — attachments upload in the background, and mashing Enter can’t send it twice.
• The Updates settings tab now looks right in dark mode, and its button only says “Download now” when an update is actually ready.

💬 Tell me what you think

Loving it? Something feel off? I read every message — write to me directly at [email protected].

✨ New & improved

• 💬 In-app support chat — Need help or want to share an idea? You can now chat with me directly from the app: start a conversation, attach screenshots, follow its status, and get notified when I reply. Find it in your profile menu.
• ✅ One todo board for all your accounts — Your todo board is now shared across all accounts by default, so every task lives in one place. Prefer separate boards? Switch back to per-account mode in Settings.
• ⇧ Select a range with Shift-click — Tick one email’s checkbox, hold Shift and click another: everything in between gets selected. Batch triage just got a lot faster.
• 🧠 Filters that stick — The Today view now remembers your “Unread only” and “Archived only” filters per account, even after a restart.
• 🔋 Lighter in the background — When Talanoa isn’t focused, background sync slows to a calmer pace and picks right back up the moment you return — easier on your battery and network.

🐛 Fixes & polish

• Opening an email by clicking it now reliably marks it as read everywhere.
• With “Unread only” on, emails you’ve just read now leave the Today list when you navigate away, instead of lingering.
• The Help menu moved into the profile dropdown — one less button crowding the sidebar.

💬 Tell me what you think

Loving it? Something feel off? I read every message — write to me directly at [email protected].