What we’ve shipped

Starring a note did it every time: star it, keep typing, and the next sentence never saved. Typing while a save was still in flight did it whenever the connection was slow. The warning was wrong — nobody else had touched the note — and the Refresh button it offered reloaded over the paragraph you were in the middle of.

When the companion or Telegram adds to a note you have open, what you were typing used to be replaced without warning. Both now survive: Selah's addition goes on the end, your sentence stays where it was, and your cursor doesn't move.

A note edited in a way that overlaps what you wrote now pauses saving and offers Keep mine or Use the latest, holding your unsaved work until you pick. Nothing is discarded on your behalf.

Renaming a note while offline used to drop the rename silently as soon as any later save succeeded. Whatever didn't land now rides along with the next save.

They saved and opened normally, but search returned nothing for them and Selah answered as though you had never written them. Every note is now indexed the moment it's created, and the notes already affected have been repaired.

A note's title is part of how it gets matched, but a rename never reached the index — and editing a note's body used to drop its title out of the index entirely, so the longer you worked on a note the harder it was to find by name. Titles now stay current.

Notes were indexed three different ways depending on how they were created, so whether you could find a note by its title was effectively luck. Every note has been re-indexed the same way.

Labels, inputs, and the type choices sat almost on top of each other, so the three settings read as one dense block. The panel now has room to breathe and each setting reads as its own group.

Sometimes you know a verse but not its address. Select the words as you jotted them — "grace teaches us" — and convert the selection: Selah finds Titus 2:11-12 and puts the real passage in its place. Founder-only for now.

A scripture block takes either form in the same box: a reference like john 3:16-21, or the wording as you remember it. Typing a reference is instant and exact; a phrase is searched against the Bible text first, and only if those words appear nowhere does Selah work out what you meant.

A reference in a sentence and a full passage quote were separate blocks that happened to hold the same verse. They're one block. Show full passage opens the verse out; Shrink to reference folds it back. The wording carries across either way, so nothing reloads and nothing is lost.

A reference in the middle of a sentence now reads as part of the sentence — quiet text with a soft underline — instead of a chip that interrupted it. It matches how references already looked in Stream, the reader, and shared notes, so scripture looks the same wherever you meet it. Full passages keep their gold edge: that's when the verse itself is the point.

— refresh it in your current translation, pick a different verse, switch how it's shown, or take it out.

The source panel used to open with three fields where two were greyed out, which read as broken rather than "not yet". It now asks only who taught or wrote the note; the type and date appear once you've named someone, and the option to clear only shows when there's a source to clear.

The type choices (sermon, book, podcast, conversation) previously gave no indication of which one was set. The active one is now marked, tapping it again clears it, and a type you typed yourself comes back the way you left it.

Content you've attributed to someone else no longer shows up in your Belief Map, and no longer shapes your daily devotional or proactive check-ins as if it were your own conviction.

A note like "preparing a sermon on Romans for next Sunday" has a shelf life. Selah's check-ins were still reaching for those after they'd passed; now they only use what's still current, the same way the rest of the app already did.

Your answers about your role, your translation, your tradition, and what you're studying were saved but effectively invisible when Selah went looking for what it knows about you. They now surface like everything else it remembers.

When you opened a related note in the Connections panel, the text appeared as an unstyled wall. It now renders with proper spacing, headings, and paragraph rhythm — the same as a normal note.

When you save notes from a sermon, a book, or a podcast, you can mark who taught or wrote the content — a pastor, an author, a host — and when they said it. Selah's companion then treats that content as someone else's teaching ("Pastor Mike taught…") instead of folding it into your own beliefs, so a sermon you wrote down never quietly becomes your position in a later conversation. Your own reflections in the same note still read as yours. Set it from the "+ Source" chip in a note's top row.

When a recording's speaker is marked as someone other than you, turning it into a note now fills in who taught it and the date automatically. You can edit or clear it.

Your message appears right away, and a quiet confirmation lets you know it's on its way.

When we answer, you'll hear about it — a dot on the "Need help?" link, plus a Telegram message or email if you're not in the app.

The sidebar (and the mobile drawer) now has a support link right above Settings. It opens a panel where you can send a message directly — replies show up right there, no email needed.

New pages under selah.so/features show what each part of Selah actually does — the reader, reading plans, journal, notes, library, knowledge map, prayer board, and companion — each demonstrated with the real interface, not a screenshot. A "Coming soon" section on the notes page previews recording a sermon, yours or someone else's, into a searchable note.

About 1 in 9 verses (3,451 of them, across 45 of 66 books) were silently cut short — Esther 8:17 used to end mid-sentence, dropping "upon them." Every verse is now complete, re-sourced from the same provider already powering the Berean and World English translations.