Including the things we got wrong. Especially those.
You can now select multiple memory rows and forget them in one action. We added this because three beta users in a row asked for it after a job change — they wanted to scrub a former employer cleanly, not 47 confirmations.
Selection state is held only in the active session — closing the app clears it. There is no "forget all" button on purpose; that's the kind of action that should be deliberate.
Originally we sent the morning briefing 7 minutes before your wake target. Logs showed people were already on their phones when it arrived — it landed mid-scroll and got buried. Pushed to 14 minutes. The brief now reliably waits for you, not the other way around.
14 is not arbitrary — it's the median time between alarm dismissal and first app open, across 1,200 sessions. Below that, you miss it. Above 20 it feels stale.
Two weeks ago we shipped a 7-day briefing-read streak. We thought it would feel like quiet encouragement. Two days in, a beta tester wrote: "I read the briefing in the bathroom at 2am because I didn't want to lose my streak." That's the opposite of what An is supposed to do.
An is not supposed to compete for your attention. We knew this principle and shipped against it anyway, because streaks are 'engagement.' Streaks are out. They are not coming back.
If you had a streak, it's gone. Sorry — and also, you're welcome.
Reported by 4 users in 3 days. The priority engine had a heuristic that boosted contacts named "Mom," "Mum," "妈" or "妈妈" by 0.3 — a leftover from an early experiment we forgot to remove. For some users this meant a casual text from mom outranked a Slack from their CEO. Embarrassing. Removed.
If you actually want mom to rank above your boss, that's what the Priority People list is for — set it explicitly.
A short read at 9:48pm. Three things: what got done, what didn't, what tomorrow asks of you. We resisted shipping this for months — most apps that nag you about your day are joyless. The version that works does only one thing and ends without asking you to feel productive.
now() - 24h." data-zh="原因:生成简报的时间窗查询使用设备墙钟 · 但生成可能发生在第二天午夜前 14 分钟。所以 “昨天” 的事在技术上还落在 now() - 24h 范围内。">Cause: the time-window query that builds the briefing used the device's wall clock at generation time, but generation could happen up to 14 minutes before midnight on the next day. So an event from "yesterday" technically still fell inside now() - 24h.
Fix: window now anchored to the day boundary of the briefing's intended delivery time, not generation time. Sounds obvious in retrospect. Most bugs do.
An briefly had a feature that would say your name out loud (in your earbuds) when something high-priority arrived. We thought it would feel like a friend tapping your shoulder. It didn't — it felt like an app suddenly knowing your name and using it. Several testers described the same shiver.
Lesson: features that work in a friend can feel like surveillance in software. The bar for software using your name out loud is much higher than we thought. Pulled. Not coming back without a much better reason.
The biggest single ship of the beta: every fact An has remembered about you, viewable, editable, deletable. We built this before we built the priority engine on purpose — if we couldn't show you what An knows, we shouldn't get to use it.
Old target was 380. Read-completion was 51%. New target is 240, current read-completion is 87%. The shorter brief is doing more work because more of it is being read. Less is more, but only because we measured.
If three meetings overlapped, An previously surfaced two of them and silently dropped the third. The dropped one was usually the lowest-priority — but "usually" is not the same as "always." Fixed.
Native AppKit, shared core with iOS, lives quietly in the menu bar. We didn't ship Electron because the whole product is about not consuming your attention; an app that takes seconds to open consumes attention.
60 invited testers. The product, but barely. Briefings worked, priority engine was a stub, Memory Center didn't exist yet. We shipped what was real and labeled the rest as "coming." That label has gotten shorter every release since.