dashi 的新变化。

1.0.6Not yet released

Volume, done properly — and the beginnings of a smarter search box.

A small one: the toolbar icon stops being silent about what you've turned on.

• Every dropdown in dashi is dashi's own now, not the operating system's. The native one opened on top of itself — macOS positions the menu so the current choice covers the control you just clicked — and drew a heavy system-blue outline when focused that no theme could reach. The new one opens below, follows your theme, and works entirely from the keyboard.
• dashi asks for far less when you install it. Four of the permissions Chrome used to warn about at install — reading your browsing history, reading it across your signed-in devices, managing your tab groups, and showing notifications — are now requested by the feature that needs them, at the moment you use it. Workspaces asks when you save or restore a window. Clean tabs asks when you open it. Reminders and Pomodoro ask when you set one. Add none of those and dashi never gets any of it. The install screen was listing powers for features you had not asked for, on a product whose whole claim is that nothing leaves your device.
• New: press `/` anywhere on your dashboard and a command bar opens. Type a few letters of a widget to add it without hunting through the picker, or type anything else to search the web. Google supports about 25 search operators that almost nobody uses, because using them means memorising a grammar — so pick "Search with filters" and choose from a list written in plain English instead: "Only this website", "File type", "Published after / before". The query assembles itself as you click, with a sentence describing it in ordinary words and the real operator string underneath, both of which you can edit directly. Paste `site:nytimes.com filetype:pdf` and it breaks apart into editable pills; build those pills by clicking and you have written the same line without knowing it existed. Plain searches go to whatever engine Chrome is set to, untouched.
• The toolbar popup no longer changes size as you use it. "Back to 100%" sits directly under the volume slider, whether or not the rest of the panel is open. It spent a release at the bottom of the expanded section, which meant undoing a boost started with finding a disclosure — two clicks to reverse one.
• The volume panel is one row until you ask for more. The slider is what you reach for; tone, levelling, ears and balance are set once and forgotten, so they sit behind "More" rather than charging every visit the height of eight controls. Anything you have switched on is named on the row itself, so nothing is hidden by being folded away.
• The toolbar popup no longer has a capture box. Notes, to-dos and reminders are made on the dashboard; the popup is for acting on the tab you're looking at.
• Opening the volume detail swaps the Modes section out rather than pushing the popup taller, and the two are pinned to exactly the same height — so the popup doesn't change size at all. Chrome grows a popup to fit its content but never shrinks it back, so anything that made the page longer left a pane of dead space behind the moment you closed it again.
• Every rounded corner in the toolbar popup follows the theme now. The preset buttons, the mute button and the sliders were hard-coded round, so they stayed round in Minimal while everything around them went square.
• The toolbar popup files things where they belong. "Clean tabs" moved out of Modes, where everything else is a switch with an on and an off, down to the footer — and it only appears when there are actually duplicates to close, instead of sitting there greyed out saying "No duplicates".
• New: volume, from the toolbar. Push any tab up to 600%, or down, or mute it — and unlike every other booster, what comes out at 600% is still worth listening to. Boosting is multiplication, and multiplying an already-mastered track sends it far past what the speaker can render, which is why the competition turns to gravel somewhere north of 200%. dashi puts a limiter and a soft-clip stage after the boost to catch it. The slider shows you where normal ends and boosted begins, so you can see it without reading the number.
• New: Voice and Bass. Voice cuts the rumble and the mud and lifts the narrow band consonants live in, because legibility isn't a volume problem. Bass lifts the low end and eases the top, so it reads as warmer rather than just louder.
• New: even out loud and quiet. Closes the gap between whispered dialogue and the explosion after it — on test material that swings 22 dB, it comes out at under 7. Quiet parts come up, loud parts come down, and the overall level stays where it was, so switching it on isn't just a roundabout way of turning things up. That's the thing you actually want at 1am.
• New: same sound in both ears, and balance. For one working earbud, or hearing in one ear. Almost nothing else offers it and it costs nothing to use.
• Volume up, down and mute have keyboard shortcuts, so the common case doesn't start with opening a menu.
• Any tab can be set and forgotten: "remember for this site" applies it every visit. That one asks for access to that single site, and hands it back the moment you turn it off. Everything else works on the tab in front of you with no permission at all.
• Sites that stream their audio from another domain can't be boosted, and dashi says so rather than looking broken. Routing that audio anyway would silence the tab permanently, which is a much worse trade than not boosting it.
• The toolbar icon now tells you what's on. A green dot on the icon itself while you're off the record — the one mode that's invisible from the outside and costs you something to forget. Hovering the icon lists everything else running: Focus, Keep Awake, a Pomodoro. The unread count keeps its own badge, so the two never cover each other.

1.0.5In review

Two new widgets, both about what your browser remembers about you.

This one is with the Chrome Web Store reviewers. It'll arrive on its own once they approve it — there's nothing to do.

• New widget — History. Chrome's history, with the controls it never gave you. Search a week, a month, or everything at once and delete all of it in one go, not just the first page of results. Set auto-delete rules — a site, a word in the address, or a word in the title — and matching visits are gone the moment they happen, plus one sweep of what's already there. Every rule is previewed against your real history before it exists, and one that would swallow most of it is refused outright, because deleting has no undo. Any row can become a rule with one tap: delete this, and never keep this site again. The widget starts hidden, because a tile listing where you've been shouldn't be the thing broadcasting it, and your rules stay tucked away behind a heading — they're a shorter, franker list than your history is.
• New: Off the record. Stops history being written at all — for half an hour, an hour, four hours, or until you say otherwise — without the incognito tax of being signed out of everything. It's in the toolbar popup too, so you can flip it on the page you're already looking at. An "until I stop" session ends when you restart the browser, on purpose: forgetting it was running and losing a week of history is the worse mistake.
• New widget — Location Spoof. Name the sites that should think you're somewhere else, and dashi hands them the place and timezone you picked instead. It asks for access to those sites only, one at a time, never everything you visit. The timezone half is the quiet one: a clock reading 3am narrows down your longitude whether or not you ever answered a location prompt, which is what makes this worth pairing with a VPN. Worth knowing, and the widget says so on its face: most sites place you by IP address, which no extension can change.
• New: an empty quick-links strip offers to fill itself from your most visited sites. dashi asks Chrome for that list only when you tap the button, and hands the permission back the moment it's done — so it isn't on the install screen, and dashi can't read it again afterwards. One link per site, and it never touches a strip you've already put links in.
• The Add a widget dialog is smaller, properly centred, and scrolls instead of running past the bottom of the screen. It used to size itself against the browser window rather than the space it was in, so on a tall display it stretched to fill the height.

1.0.4July 26, 2026

Rename anything by double-clicking it, plus a long list of fixes to the things that were quietly going wrong.

• New: double-click a name to rename it. Countdowns, to-dos, reminders, world clock cities, and habits (open one first — its row is the way in) all work the same way: Enter keeps it, Escape throws it away, clicking elsewhere keeps it.
• New: the Calculator has modes. Basic is the keypad you already had; Percent answers what a number is up or down a rate and the change between two numbers; Growth compounds a value over years, quarters, months or days, tells you when it doubles, and works backwards to the rate that got you there; Convert handles length, weight, temperature, volume and data.
• Habits: the delete button is gone from a habit's detail view — the list row already had one, and one way to delete a thing is enough.
• The Calculator tile is a little taller at its smallest — the mode strip needed the room the keypad's bottom row was using. An existing calculator sized to the old minimum grows slightly on update.
• Habits: you can tick any of the last 7 days, not just today. Forgetting to mark a day is the normal case, and the record is only worth keeping if you can correct it.
• Fixed: a habit's detail view laid itself out badly at any size but one — the year grid drifted into the middle of a tall tile, and on a short one the blocks squeezed until the habit's name was clipped through the letters. Everything now stacks from the top, and scrolls if it doesn't fit.
• Countdowns, Habits and Reminders can now be made much smaller. The hover-only "add" button used to reserve a strip at the bottom of the tile whether you could see it or not — it now floats, and the tiles shrink to fit what's actually in them.
• Fixed: restoring a backup wiped your board instead of bringing it back.
• Fixed: tiles no longer drift or snap back after you drop them, and two screens of different sizes stop overwriting each other's layouts.
• Fixed: a handful of widgets gave wrong answers — the calculator turned big results into `1e+21`, the world clock could show yesterday, and countdowns could land a day off.
• Fixed: opening dashi no longer flashes, and every overlay can be driven from the keyboard.
• Backups are now treated as untrusted input, so a hand-edited or corrupted file can't do anything strange to your board.
• The Dev Tools widget keeps its tool strip on small tiles and stops jumping around while you type.
• dashi's mark is now the swirl — and it replays when you hover it.
• Smaller: the popup stopped loading the whole dashboard, two modals now load only when opened, and the icons are half the bytes they were.

1.0.3July 24, 2026

The toolbar release: dashi now helps on every page, not just the new tab.

• New: the toolbar popup. Click the dashi icon on any page to capture a thought without leaving it — plain text becomes a note, a leading "-" makes it a to-do, and a time like "call mom 5pm" becomes a reminder.
• New: Float note opens a small always-on-top note window that stays up while you read or watch — same notebook as the dashboard.
• New, also from the popup: save the current page for later, get reminded about it in an hour / this evening / tomorrow, pin it to your quick links, and flip Keep Awake, Focus, and Pomodoro with their live state visible.
• New: Clean tabs spots duplicate tabs in your window and closes them in one click.
• Sync, hardened: big multi-page boards now fit comfortably inside Chrome's sync quota, and a board that outgrows it falls back to on-device storage, tells you once, and heals itself — dragging tiles on a full board no longer snaps back.
• Faster and lighter: one storage read per key shared across the whole tab, an instant first paint from a local mirror, and timers that only tick while you can see them.
• Nocturne's light mode is now a true light palette (daybreak) instead of dark-but-lighter.
• Small fixes: the habit streak flame no longer collides with the delete button, and reminder chips center their icons.

1.0.2July 23, 2026

The first public release on the Chrome Web Store.

• The dashboard: a widget canvas on your new tab — notes, to-dos, habits, weather, crypto, watchlist, world clock, countdown, reminders, Pomodoro, reading list, workspaces, and a system readout.
• Freeform pages: drag, resize, and pin tiles wherever you want them, across multiple pages — with a separate layout remembered for every screen size you use.
• Living skies that follow the time of day, and theme packs to change the whole mood.
• Private by design: no accounts, no analytics, no servers. Everything stays on your device.