The first-run screen says what Bartleby actually does
A copy fix, and one worth shipping on its own. The Full Disk Access screen — the first real thing a new user reads — described a property Bartleby no longer claims. It now says the true and more useful thing: Bartleby reads the Messages database and never writes to it.If you installed 0.1.0, the old download link now redirects here, so you cannot end up on the previous build by accident.Lists, themes, and a build you can actually install
The first version of Bartleby you can hand to someone. It reads the Messages history already on your Mac, adds the triage workflow Messages has never had, and sends through Messages itself.Triage without touching the mouse.J and K move, E archives, H
snoozes, P pins, C composes, and Z undoes whatever you just did — all
unmodified, the way Superhuman does it. Return drops you into the composer on
whichever conversation is selected. ? shows the whole map, and ⌘K opens a
command palette that searches every thread when what you typed isn’t a command.Lists, so the inbox is organized the way you think. Group people and
conversations however you like, pin the lists to the left rail, and give each one
its own icon. Nothing about this exists in Messages, and it is the difference
between an inbox and a stream.Snooze that actually wakes. A snoozed conversation comes back at the time you
chose — not the next time somebody happens to text you. This was broken until
late in the cycle; nothing published at the due date, so snoozed threads simply
vanished.The awkward message types render. Edited messages say they were edited.
Shared locations appear as locations. Group events — people joining, leaving,
renaming the thread — show up instead of silently vanishing. Tapbacks float the
conversation and summarize in the preview the way Messages does, rather than
arriving as their own message. Voice memos play in place. Invisible Ink stays
hidden until you click it.More in this release
- Themes, including a genuinely dark dark mode and Flexoki, plus five styles for pinned rows.
- Screening filters behind their own button, Messages-style.
- Send fast with
⌘⇧Z, and take it back before it goes. - A contact panel that edits people and writes changes back to Contacts.
- 169 conversations labelled SMS turned out to be iMessage, and now say so.
- Sending knows which service a thread uses, so an SMS conversation no longer gets a blue iMessage attempt that quietly fails.
- The window opens where you left it, at the size you left it.
- Unknown numbers with unread texts get their own marker.
- A thread from 2017 no longer floats to the top of the inbox because someone shared their location in it.
- Signed with a Developer ID, notarized and stapled, so it opens without the right-click ritual.