ImmaterialAI 6 is LIVE

Freeform Canvas boards, a living Nucleus graph, a home page that is a board, a refreshed Task board, a global Ctrl+K search, 50+ rebindable shortcuts, and a whole new season. Free, Lite and Plus all get a free upgrade.

Canvas Home (Plus only), Canvases available in Lite too

The flagships

• Canvas 🔵 Lite & Plus — freeform boards where you place, drag, link and
  arrange your nodes by hand.
• Task board 🔵 Lite & Plus — grouped, counted, swipe-to-complete.
• Nucleus 🟣 Plus — a living, self-arranging graph of your entire mesh.
• Canvas Home 🟣 Plus — an opt-in home page that is a canvas board,
  launcher and all.
• Ctrl+K quick search 🔵 Lite & Plus — a command palette across everything.
• Pinned bar 🟣 Plus — a taskbar-style bar for the nodes you pin.
• Configurable shortcuts— 50+ rebindable shortcuts with an in-app editor.
• Season 4 — Return to Bliss — fresh skins and two new UI modes.

Canvas

🔵 Lite & Plus. Freeform boards you build by hand — then tune to taste. Canvas is the
most customizable surface in the app, so here's the whole toolbox:

Boards & nodes

• Multiple boards — create, rename and delete them from the Canvas launcher
  (deleting a board keeps your nodes). Open a canvas node to dive into its board.
• Node display mode — switch each node between card, chip and
  title.
• Resize in both dimensions — drag or use grow/shrink buttons (with per-display
  min/max limits; buttons disable at a limit).
• Richer cards — a subtitle plus up to five description lines, all sized to
  content; image cards render at a compact landscape height.
• Move & tidy — drag anywhere (links redraw live), arrow-key nudge
  (Shift = 10px), duplicate, and Delete/Backspace.

Links & layout

• Choose which links show — all types, a subset, or hand-picked individual links;
  the link-type label appears at the line's midpoint on hover.
• Auto-arrange connected nodes — Force-directed, Grid or Radial,
  re-arranging in real time as you drag.
• Quick add-link to an existing or brand-new node (Esc cancels), and
  create a node on the spot from the Add dialog.
• Layers — a node can live on several; its badge lists them.

Look & highlight styles

• Highlight styles — highlight a node and its connections light up, in six
  per-board styles: Glow, Ring, Pulse, Stream, Halo, Spark (several animated).
• Circuit-board link effects — connected links animate to match: a directional or
  both-ways flow, a breathing glow, or a twinkle — each in that link's own colour, with
  travelling packets over dim solder-pads. Effects keep a constant on-screen size at any
  zoom and scale with link thickness.
• Highlight by Favorite, Focus, World or Tag — the palette shows which filter is
  active.
• Link appearance controls — tune lightness, thickness and
  saturation (shared with Nucleus) for readable links on any skin.

Background & board customization

• Per-board background image that behaves like a node image.
• Live background scrim — a colour wash with adjustable opacity and
  blend mode, previewed live, removable, following the board's rounded corners.
• Show task status — outline nodes red / yellow / green by
  to-do / in-progress / done.
• Favourite / focus right on the board with zoom-sized hover buttons and a
  skin-themed highlight chip.

Navigation

• Zoom & pan remembered per board; zoom out to 5%; double-tap the empty board
  to fit everything.
• Full undo / redo — buttons and Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y.

Canvas Home

🟣 Plus. Flip one switch in Settings and your home page becomes a canvas board
you browse, search and manage without ever leaving it. It's built to be shaped to your
workflow:

Layout & the side menu

• Three menu modes — hidden, rail (icons) or expanded (full
  launcher) — and you can pin it open. It remembers its mode, pin state and which
  sections are expanded across restarts.
• The whole launcher on your home — every feature box plus a single Add button
  (left-click opens the Add box, right-click the quick-add switcher).
• Translucent glass drawer so your board shows through — and in this release its
  text, icons and accents are legible on every skin, with feature icons on a
  contrasting circle so each one stands out.

Search & filters

• On-board node search — type to highlight matches live, then press Enter to
  escalate straight into the global Ctrl+K search, pre-filled with your query.
• Board-wide Focus / Favorite — toggle those filters for the whole board, and list
  the matching nodes honouring your current filters.
• Tag & world filters live in the menu, apply app-wide, support multiple
  tags, and are remembered between sessions.

The canvas switcher & board management

• Centred, self-hiding switcher — it sits at the bottom and fades out of the
  way while you pan, drag nodes or draw a link (and is inert mid-gesture, so a drag can't
  hit it by accident).
• Page between boards with arrows, PageUp/PageDown, the mouse-wheel, or a
  quick-jump menu; the landed board's name flashes as a centred toast.
• Reorder the current board (on-board arrows or Ctrl+Shift+←/→), rename
  (double-tap / F2 / ⋮ menu), set any board as home (Ctrl+H), duplicate
  (Ctrl+D), delete (with Undo) and create (Ctrl+N) — right there.

Comfort & resilience

• Resumes on your last board, repairs a deleted home board, and shows a friendly
  empty state (create button focused, so Enter makes your first board).
• Respects child lock and "disable animations", and falls back to your usual home
  wallpaper when a board has no background of its own.
• Discover every hotkey via the shortcuts help popover (Shift+? or the cycler's ?).

For everyone (including free)

• Configurable shortcuts & Help — 50+ rebindable shortcuts, an in-app editor, a
  Ctrl+? help dialog (shortcuts + gestures + a types legend), and a copyable cheat
  sheet. Global undo / redo on Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y.
• Season 4 — Return to Bliss — 12 new skins and two new UI modes:
  Aurora (free, soft glowing outlines) and Monolith (🟣 Plus, bold slabs).
• Optional remote database — point the app at a remote SQLite file instead of the
  local one (experimental; single-writer recommended).
• Faster & calmer — INSANE mode (Ctrl+Shift+I) for turbo + density, loading
  skeletons instead of spinners, precached wallpaper, and localised repaints.
• Everyday QOL — recent-nodes switcher (Ctrl+Shift+E), quick-add task
  (Ctrl+Shift+T), world context in the top bar (Alt+1…9), persisted sort, delete/pin
  confirmations with Undo, relaunch reopens your last feature, node backlinks,
  copy id / deep-link, relative timestamps, inline title editing — and a broad localisation
  sweep across 11 languages.

🔵 Lite & Plus

• Canvas — freeform boards (full details above).
• Task board — collapsible Focused / Other groups with counts, cleaner status
  headers, slicker cards, and swipe-to-complete.
• Ctrl+K quick search — nodes, worlds, types, tags and features; scope chips
  (remembered), recent searches, fully keyboard-driven.
• Solid colour background — black, white, cream, or any custom colour.

🟣 Plus

• Nucleus — a self-arranging graph of your whole mesh, centred on Everything
  or started from any node; 5 layout algorithms and several importance metrics, driven
  by your library filters, re-weighting and animating in real time, with link
  lightness/thickness/saturation controls.
• Canvas Home — your home page as a board (full details above).
• Pinned bar — a taskbar-style bottom bar for pinned nodes: auto-updates, highlights
  the node you're viewing, drag-to-reorder, translucent so your wallpaper shows through.
• World creation — the Add World flow, now reliable; Alt+1…9 switches worlds.
• v2 views — a new opt-in toggle to use the redesigned version of a view wherever
  one exists. Plus gets the redesign first.
• More customization — background blend mode + colour, custom background image
  (desktop), the Monolith UI mode, and the classic-grid ↔ canvas-board Home view switch.

Thanks for being here for version 6, it genuinely means alot to us. Definitely feels great to be back. ENJOY!

- ImmaterialAI team