New Features in 1.2.0
- ⌘K does more than find entries. It runs things now: start a new entry, open today’s or a random one, switch journals, change views, import from another app, or format what you’re writing. Each row shows its shortcut, so you pick them up as you go. The separate Jump to date box is gone, ⌘J opens the same search, and it reads dates the way you write them, “3/14”, “March 14”, or just “2020”.
- Type / while you’re writing. A small menu opens right at your cursor with headings, lists, checklists, quotes, links, and everything you can insert, so you never reach for the toolbar mid-sentence.
- Photos and videos are a keystroke away. ⌘⇧I drops one into an entry from anywhere in the editor, and there’s an image button in the formatting bar next to audio. ⌘⇧T opens tags, ⌘⇧M logs a tracker.
- Move your journal’s folder without starting over. Settings now shows where your journal lives and lets you point it at a new folder. If you’ve moved it, just choose the new spot instead of removing the journal and adding it back.
- Ask for your location from the Add location menu. The menu now opens with “Use current location”, so if a place didn’t attach on its own you can just ask again. The list underneath stays short, your last three places, until you start typing.
- Edit on two devices, keep both. Change the same entry in two places before sync catches up, and Cozy used to quietly keep whichever saved last. Now the other version is kept beside it as a conflict copy, with a small notice so you know it happened. Nothing gets thrown away.
Improvements in 1.2.0
- The list keeps up with you. A new entry shows up the moment you make it, a deleted one stays gone instead of flashing back, and renaming or dragging a journal into a new spot lands right away rather than waiting on the folder.
- Picking a tracker option got quicker. The picker now has a search box and arrow keys, so with a long list of moods you can type a couple of letters and hit return. Escape clears what you typed, Escape again closes it.
- Every shortcut is listed in Settings. The Shortcuts tab used to show a handful. It now covers navigation, journals, inserting, formatting, tags, and trackers.
- Cloud-only entries still show their place and preview. In a cloud-synced folder, entries that hadn’t been downloaded to this computer used to show up blank. They now carry their title, preview and map location from the last time they were read, without pulling the whole file down.
- A cloud journal catches up the moment you come back. Edit on another device, and returning to Cozy refreshes your entries right away instead of making you wait. Cloud folders also check for changes more often.
- Your journals keep the name you give them. Creating or renaming a journal now names its folder the way you typed it, “Daily Journal” with its capitals and spaces intact, instead of flattening it to “daily-journal”.
- Right-click your “On this day” entries. They now open the same menu as everywhere else, so you can reveal, open, move, or delete a memory without leaving the view.
- Saving is harder to interrupt. A crash, a force-quit, even a power cut mid-save can no longer leave an entry half-written or empty. The same goes for photos and settings, including journals that live in iCloud or Google Drive.
Bug Fixes in 1.2.0
- ⌘1 sets a heading without switching journals. Pressing ⌘1 through ⌘6 while writing used to make the heading and jump you to another journal at the same time. In the editor they now only set the heading level.
- The map shows everywhere you’ve written, and keeps up as you move it. It used to plot only the cluster around your current city and stay stuck there when you panned or zoomed out. Now every entry with a location appears, wherever it is in the world, and the pins re-cluster as you explore.
- A new cover photo shows up right away. Changing or removing an entry’s cover image used to leave the old one, or a broken thumbnail, sitting in the list for a second or two. The thumbnail now updates the moment you save.
- Your location attaches more reliably. Cozy used to give up after three seconds, often before your Mac had an answer, so no place was saved and nothing said why. It now waits long enough, and tells you when it really can’t find you.
- A renamed cloud journal no longer looks empty. Renaming a journal that lives in iCloud could make its entries vanish from the list until the cloud caught up. Cozy now keeps them listed while the folder settles.
- Search works while the map is full screen. It used to open behind the map, and Escape closed the map instead of the search. Now search sits on top, and Escape closes it first.