What’s new in Prism
Updates to Search, Ask and your connected sources.
1.10.2 · A tidier search window
- Recent searches start collapsed. Click Recent to show or hide history.
- Links from results, citations and About open in your default browser.
- The results window matches the rounded corners of the palette.
Check for the update in Settings → About & updates.
1.10.1 · Safer rebuilds, clearer limits
- Index rebuilds keep the current generation searchable until its replacement is ready. Interrupted rebuilds recover safely, and BookStack retries temporary rate limits.
- Search keeps supporting passages when results from the same document are combined. Ask and summaries budget the whole prompt and report incomplete retrieval when sources fail.
- Ask limits time spent preparing a question, retrieving sources and generating an answer. A new request cancels superseded work, and model-generated search helpers are checked before use.
- Sources separates configured services from available integrations. The palette and Settings use adjustable dark or light frost, rounded corners and animated glyphs. Theme and sync controls are more compact.
- Settings → AI exposes Ask and Summary limits. Invalid or empty edits keep the saved limits. Saved prompt templates and selected-text capture are removed from the interface; existing saved data is retained.
Local models can still produce unsupported claims or citation markers that do not render as links. Experimental reranking, precision gating and deeper multi-round Ask are not enabled in this release.
Prism updates itself. Check under Settings → About & updates.
1.10.0 · Whole passages, contextual follow-ups
- Ask reads whole source passages instead of short excerpts. Search summaries use the full passages behind the visible results and remain free on every plan.
- A follow-up such as “what about the costs?” is rewritten as a complete question before searching. If the model takes too long, Prism falls back to the earlier topic.
- Semantic search receives your whole question, and semantic results show the matching part of the document.
The first sync after updating rebuilds each semantic index once so results can include whole passages. Settings shows “Rebuilding index…” while it runs.
1.9.1 · A calmer look, a fresh start
A faint field of characters now drifts behind the search palette and the Knowledge, Settings and Compare panels. It holds still if your system asks for reduced motion and pauses when Prism isn’t in front. The panel windows have a thin border, and the light theme’s success and error colours are darker and easier to read.
A new search or question from the palette now opens a fresh results window instead of reopening your last answer. Earlier conversations stay in history.
Prism updates itself. Check under Settings → About & updates.
1.9.0 · Your license file, checked offline
Prism now accepts the license file that buyers receive. Paste it into the license field and Prism verifies it on your device, with no server involved. Keys you already have keep working as before.
Prism updates itself. Check under Settings → About & updates.
1.8.1 · A connection check you can trust
Obsidian’s Test connection now checks that your API key is accepted, not only that Obsidian answers. A rotated or mistyped key shows “HTTP 401 Unauthorized — check API key” in Settings instead of passing while searches fail.
Prism updates itself. Check under Settings → About & updates.
1.8.0 · Better answers from the same sources
Search and Ask rank what you already have more carefully: fewer repeats, the passage that answers you and query words that match their other forms.
- Ask gives each document one place in its context. When several copies of a document match, the best one leads and the others’ distinct passages come with it.
- A BookStack page or Obsidian note counts once, whether it came from the live source or the semantic index, and links to the live page.
- A semantic match strengthens a document only when it is close to the best semantic match for that search, so loosely related pages stop riding on a second vote.
- “migrations” finds “Migration” and “limits” finds “Limiting”. Names with underscores, such as
pg_ctl, match too. - Local file results show the passage that best matches your question.
Prism updates itself. Check under Settings → About & updates.
1.7.1 · A quieter interface
The palette, settings and conversations put the task at hand first. Source diagnostics and index maintenance move out of the everyday search flow.
- A compact palette footer replaces competing status and shortcut rows. Empty native lookup results and duplicate recent queries no longer add noise.
- Settings separates General, Sources, AI, Search & prompts, Advanced and About & updates. Sources shows active and paused connections, with configuration for the source you select.
- Search and Ask stay in the mode you choose. Ask retrieves fresh context, collapses earlier results and offers Stop and Jump to latest controls.
- Search conversation history, export from the conversation header and see update download progress. Setup starts with a folder and describes what is ready accurately.
- Escape dismisses the topmost overlay. Destructive confirmations focus Cancel, enabling one source leaves other paused sources alone and interrupted answers are marked incomplete.
Check for updates under Settings → About & updates. Native lookup settings now live under Sources → Local Files → Apps and filenames.
1.7.0 · Apps and filenames
Find local names as you type in the palette or Search panel. macOS uses Spotlight for apps and filenames; Windows uses Everything for filenames.
- Enable the feature under Settings → Services → Apps and filenames. It starts off, and Windows filename lookup requires Everything running under the same user account.
- Use the arrow keys to select a result and Enter to open it. With no selection, Enter runs normal knowledge search. Native lookup stays responsive while your other sources work.
- File matches follow your approved folders, supported extensions and ignore rules. Native names and paths stay outside Ask and AI summaries.
Application lookup is available on macOS. Linux retains existing knowledge search. The OS index can be incomplete or stale, so a missing name match does not prove that a file is absent.
1.6.0 · Seven more sources
Search Linear, ClickUp, Outline, Joplin, Wiki.js, Ghost and Karakeep from the desktop palette. Ask can use readable passages from each source and link back to the original.
- Configure personal API tokens in Settings. New sources start disabled, and keys stay in the operating system keychain.
- Narrow Linear to a team, ClickUp to a list, Outline to a collection or Ghost to a tag. ClickUp and Ghost support scopes of up to 500 tasks or posts.
- Clear optional filters without erasing saved credentials. Changing a source URL requires entering a key for its new destination.
Joplin needs its desktop Web Clipper service running. Wiki.js needs read:pages and read:source access. Ghost reads published content available through its Content API. Karakeep uses stored articles and notes; attachments are not extracted. Linear and ClickUp use personal tokens, with OAuth sign-in separate.
1.5.0 · Follow the conversation
- Ask follow-ups such as “summarize those” retrieve the previous topic through currently enabled sources. Saved conversations retain their citations.
- Approved local folders refresh on your configured schedule. Added, changed and removed files are reflected in the local index.
- Model System Prompt preferences apply to Ask and search summaries while preserving grounding rules.
- Source controls, embedding destination checks and updater validation are enforced across the app.