The Knowledge Map is here: a visual view of how ideas connect across your reading. We've also done backend work to get the app ready to scale as the beta grows. On the visual side, every crane illustration across AfterWord is now hand-drawn artwork instead of placeholder graphics.

The app has been packaged and sent out to beta testers for the first round of feedback.

You can now import highlights from KOReader and Libby, in addition to Kindle. We've also added book matching, so you can correct or update a book's edition by searching title, author, or ISBN if AfterWord pulls in the wrong metadata.

Alongside this, the public landing page is now live.

This past month went entirely into the app's interface. Every core screen has been rebuilt: Home, Library, Highlights, and Search now have a consistent look and feel, and I built out a proper API to support them going forward. No new features this round, but the app should feel noticeably more polished and stable.

Early versions of AfterWord parsed Kindle highlights directly, but as more highlights came in, ingestion and embedding started to get unreliable.

This update reworks how highlights are processed: imports now run as background ingestion jobs, and highlights are broken into chunks before embedding. The result is more consistent processing, especially for larger libraries, and a foundation that scales better as we add more import sources.