What’s new in Telari 0.4.0

August 26, 2026

Highlights

• The window has been redesigned. This release rebuilds the window chrome around a three-column skeleton — a substantial visual overhaul, and the groundwork for the theming system to come:

  • The sidebar is now a flat, edge-to-edge, full-height column. It used to be (especially on macOS 26) a floating glass island — inset on all four sides, rounded, tinted by whatever desktop picture sat behind it, changing color when the wallpaper did, with no real separator on its left. It now runs flush to the window edge and up to the top, keeps a fixed background, and meets the text column at a single 1pt vertical line; the two horizontal hairlines that used to sit under the tab strip and the sidebar header are gone.

  • Tabs are now text plus an indicator line. The active tab is no longer a filled capsule but its title with a short line centered under the ink — far lighter visually. Tab titles drop the .md suffix and truncate at the tail based on their actual width. With a single tab open, the tab strip collapses to an 8pt sliver (the tab title itself hides, and the text moves up 22pt); opening a second tab brings it back exactly as it was. The + button at the end of the strip is gone — new tabs come from ⌘T or the File menu.

  • The title bar shows “document — Telari”, centered. Toolbar icons are smaller and no longer sit on glass platters; the only two items left are the sidebar and outline toggles at the ends.

  • Search has moved into the top of the sidebar: click 🔍 to expand the search row and focus it; while the field has focus, a second click (or Esc) dismisses it. Typing directly in the file list still summons search as before — and an old bug is fixed along the way: fast consecutive typing no longer drops the first character.

  • The sidebar now opens with a Workspace / Recents switcher plus a root folder row: clicking the root name (or right-clicking, or pressing Space/Return) opens one menu, with “Open Folder…” as its first item. “Clear Recents” has moved to the context menu on the Recents section header. When no workspace folder is chosen yet, the sidebar’s empty-state button now matches the welcome page’s style.

Fixed

• Inline formulas with spaces between the $ and the content — $ \xi=0 $ — now render. The prevailing rule for inline math (Pandoc, Typora, and others) requires $ to hug the content, precisely so that price lists don’t get misread as formulas; but the padded spelling is common in AI-generated documents, and such formulas used to be shown as raw source, whole. For spellings that carry clear mathematical signals (backslash commands, =, ^, _, and so on), telari now tightens the padding and renders the formula — after checking it isn’t a price, code, or similar context. $4.99/mo and $89.99 on the same line still display as-is. Known boundary: $ x $, where the content is a single bare word with no mathematical signal at all, still doesn’t render as a formula — same as Typora.

• The sidebar no longer shrinks each time it’s toggled. On macOS 26, every close-and-reopen quietly shaved 8pt off the sidebar’s width, all the way down to the minimum. Fixed. Along the way, the ⌃⌘1/⌃⌘2 shortcuts were removed — they overlapped heavily with ⌘B/⌘1 for toggling the sidebar, yet could only open it and never close it, making them the easiest way to trip this bug; the menu items remain. The sidebar’s maximum width was also raised from 360pt to 400pt, so deep folder trees can be dragged wider.

• Keyboard focus no longer gets trapped inside a collapsed sidebar. If focus was in the sidebar when you collapsed it, it used to stay in the now-invisible sidebar — Tab, arrow keys, and keyboard scrolling in the text all went dead. Collapsing now returns focus to the text; the Tab cycle between the switcher, the file list, and the search field inside the sidebar has been straightened out as well.

• At the window’s narrowest, the centered window title no longer strays across the sidebars. With both side columns open and the text column squeezed to nothing, the title used to draw right across them; at that width it now hides.

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