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Every change to Selah, newest first, written for the people who use it rather than the people who built it. Last shipped .

August 8, 2026

v0.56.4.0

You can correct a belief from the map, not just the full page.

Fixed

  • You can correct a belief from the map, not just the full page.

    Tapping a belief showed you a sentence Selah pulled from your writing with no way to say it got it wrong. "Not quite right" now sits under the quote wherever you read it.

August 7, 2026

v0.54.1.0 → v0.56.3.0New

Threads: beliefs that echo each other across different notes.

Changed

  • "Grounding" now says what it actually measures.

    The explanation was vague about the one thing people want to know: it counts scripture you've tied to an idea, how much you've written about it, and whether you've engaged something that argues the other way — and it is not a judgement on whether you're right. Wrestling with a hard question raises it.

  • The related-note match score explains itself.

    The percentage now carries an info marker, so it's clear it means how closely a note matches by meaning — not a progress bar or a confidence rating.

  • Ideas you've written most about now look weightier on the map.

    A belief's dot grows a little with how much you've written under it, so a well-developed conviction stands out from one you mentioned once — without a number cluttering the label. The exact count is still on the belief itself.

  • The Belief Map shows where your beliefs actually are.

    Each idea on the map now carries the number of beliefs Selah has found in your own words under it, so a well-developed conviction looks different at a glance from one you've only mentioned once. Ideas with nothing yet stay unmarked, and a belief you've corrected stops counting immediately.

  • Your Belief Map now leads with your own sentences.

    Open a belief and the first thing you see is something you actually wrote about it, quoted word for word, with the note it came from — not Selah's summary of you. It also tells you how many beliefs it has found under that idea, so you can see there's more to read. Selah's summary is still there when it hasn't found a sentence yet.

  • The note page reads in a cleaner order.

    A divider now separates a note's properties from its body, and recordings attached to a note sit above the writing instead of below it, so they read as context rather than an afterthought.

Added

  • Every section on a belief now explains itself.

    Grounding, Sources, Related, Threads, In your words — each has a "?" that tells you in a sentence what you're looking at and where it came from. Same on the notes map. You shouldn't have to guess what Selah means by a word it invented.

  • Threads: beliefs that echo each other across different notes.

    Selah can now show you when something you wrote in one place rhymes with something you wrote somewhere else entirely — a different sermon, a different subject, months apart. It shows both sentences exactly as you wrote them, with where each came from, and never tells you what the connection means. That part is yours. Off by default while we check the pairs are worth reading.

  • A Notes view on the Belief Map.

    The map can now show your notes instead of your beliefs, linked by what they're actually about, so you can see which pieces of writing belong together. Useful when you're starting something new and half of it is already written. Off by default.

  • Related notes now show how closely they match.

    A note's Connections panel puts a percentage next to each related note, so a near-duplicate of what you're writing reads differently from a loose thematic echo. Selah already ranked them this way — now you can see it.

  • A belief can now show what you've written under related ideas.

    Selah splits a big subject into several ideas as it reads — so your beliefs about Jesus can end up spread across a dozen of them, and opening one shows you a fraction of what you actually wrote. A belief page can now gather what you've said under closely-named ideas into a "Related" section, kept clearly separate from the beliefs held under the idea itself, each one linking to where it came from. Off by default while we check the grouping is right.

  • You can now put a date on any note.

    Notes carry a date for when the content is actually from — the day you preached the sermon, not the day the file landed in Selah. It sits with the note's other properties and you can set or clear it any time. Until now a date could only be added to a note you'd marked as someone else's teaching, so your own work could never carry one.

Fixed

  • Tapping a note on the map now shows what it connects to.

    It used to open the note and leave the map, which defeated the point of looking at a map. You get a panel with the note's beliefs and the notes it relates to, and tapping one of those moves the panel there — so you can follow a thread through your writing without losing your place. Opening the note is still one tap away.

  • Scripture search and the verse popover menu are styled again.

    The "type the words as you remember them" search inside a note's scripture block, and the ⋯ menu on a verse card, had been rendering with zero styling since a merge-conflict resolution in #719 silently deleted their CSS. Restored.

  • Related beliefs now show on the map, not just the full belief page.

    Tapping an idea on the Belief Map is where you ask "what do I believe about this" — so that panel now shows what you've written under closely-named ideas too, instead of making you click through to find it.

  • Recordings on a note no longer sit flush against the writing.

    Added breathing room beneath them.

  • A belief's sources no longer show the year they were imported.

    The list of notes behind a belief was dating every one of them to the day they arrived in Selah. It now shows a note's real date when Selah knows it, and no year when it doesn't. Captures and prayers are unchanged — those are written here, so their date was already right.

  • Beliefs no longer cite the wrong year.

    A belief drawn from a note showed the date the note arrived in Selah, not when you wrote it — so an imported decade of sermons all read as this year. Selah now shows a date only when it genuinely knows one, reading it from the note's own attribution or from a date you put in the title. When there's no date to be sure of, it shows the note by name and leaves the year off, because a confident wrong date is worse than none.