The Consolidation We Heard You Ask For
You had three ways to trigger commands in AiFiler. Three separate palettes. Three different muscle memories to build. That friction is gone.
We've collapsed all command-triggering into Universal Command (Ctrl+Shift+A on Windows/Linux, Cmd+Shift+A on Mac). Whether you're creating a new document, searching your knowledge graph, or triggering an AI action, you hit the same keyboard shortcut. One interface. One place to think.
This sounds simple. It's actually a significant architectural change. Before, the "New Document" picker, the search palette, and the command palette were three separate React components with their own state management. Now they're unified under a single intent router that handles 87 different user intents—from "create a spreadsheet" to "find all contracts mentioning liability" to "batch-rename these files."
How to try it: Press Ctrl+Shift+A (or Cmd+Shift+A). Start typing. Try "new doc" or "find contracts" or "rename". The system understands natural language, so you don't need to memorize exact commands.
Document Viewers Got a Makeover
When you open a document for viewing, AiFiler now forces a white-paper style regardless of your theme setting. This sounds cosmetic. It's actually about clarity.
The old behavior let your dark theme bleed into document viewing. That meant reading a PDF or spreadsheet preview in a dark interface—which strains eyes and makes it harder to spot details. The new behavior treats document viewing as a separate context. You're reading, not editing. White paper, consistent typography, maximum contrast.
This applies across all document types: PDFs, spreadsheets, presentations. Click any document row, and the viewer opens in a clean, distraction-free white background. Your theme preference still applies everywhere else in the app—just not in the document viewer.
Before: Dark theme → dark document viewer → eye strain and reduced readability.
After: Any theme → white document viewer → consistent, comfortable reading experience.
The Knowledge View Got Simpler
The Knowledge View (where you see your knowledge graph, relationships, and document connections) had three separate editor mounts. Three instances of the same component, each managing its own state. This created subtle bugs—state could drift between mounts, and performance suffered when you had hundreds of nodes visible.
We collapsed this into one wrapper component. Single source of truth. Faster rendering. Fewer edge cases.
You won't see a UI change here. The view looks identical. But the app is more stable, and the knowledge graph renders noticeably faster when you're working with large document collections.
Security: Four Critical Advisories Closed
Supabase flagged four ERROR-level security advisories in our authentication flow. All four are now closed.
The details are in our security changelog, but the practical impact: your session tokens are now refreshed more aggressively, password reset flows are more resistant to timing attacks, and we've eliminated a class of race conditions that could expose auth state during rapid navigation.
If you use AiFiler in a shared environment (multiple people on the same network), this matters. If you're solo, you won't notice anything. But the foundation is stronger.
What This Means for Your Workflow
The unified command palette is the big one. If you've been switching between three different interfaces, you're about to save 10-15 seconds per action. Multiply that across a day of work—it adds up.
The document viewer change is subtle but real. If you've ever squinted at a dark-themed spreadsheet preview, you'll immediately notice the improvement.
The knowledge view consolidation is invisible but important. It's the kind of change that prevents bugs from happening in the first place.
What's Coming Next
We're working on intent detection improvements—the Universal Command will get smarter at understanding what you're trying to do without you having to be precise with your wording. We're also exploring batch operations for the knowledge graph itself (rename 50 relationships at once, for example).
The document viewer is getting a refresh too. We're adding inline annotations and collaborative commenting, so you can mark up PDFs and spreadsheets without leaving AiFiler.
For now: press Ctrl+Shift+A and start exploring. The unified command palette is ready to use.
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