Release notes, part 3: the phone joins the workshop
Cataloguing parts at a desk is a fiction. The parts are on a shelf, in a drawer, in a box that came this morning — and the device you have in your hand there is a phone. Versions 0.8.0 to 0.10.0, across the first week of August 2026, were about admitting that.
0.8.0 — 1 August 2026
A phone-sized interface of its own, installable to the home screen as an app rather than a page you have to find in a browser. You pair a phone by scanning a QR code from the desktop; it stays signed in afterwards, and you can revoke it by name if it is lost.
What you can do from it:
- Stock a shelf. Scan a code, look up the part number, and let the model fill in what it can from a photograph — then correct it.
- Shoot first, sort later. Photograph the whole shelf as a run of drafts and confirm the batch afterwards, instead of finishing one card before starting the next.
- Work where there is no signal. Writes made offline are queued and applied when the network comes back, without double-counting anything.
- Fix what is already there. Find a part, correct the count, put it in a cell.
0.9.0 — 3 August 2026
Categories became a tree that owns its properties: a category defines the fields its items have, and tags can claim them. Recognition uses that — a photograph is matched into an existing category and its properties are pre-filled, rather than every item being invented from scratch.
Smaller, but noticeable: the phone opens in the same language as the desktop it was paired from, and the pairing page offers to install the app right there.
0.10.0 — 4 August 2026
One photograph per item became a set. Several frames per item, a gallery on the desktop form, and recognition that looks at the whole set — the label, the package and the thing itself — instead of whichever picture happened to be first. Exports and the assistant’s tools carry the full set too.
Next: part 4 — colours, locks and folders. Previously: part 2 — the plugins from outside. Everything above runs on your own machine: one command to install.