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From the first day we started building Reflect, our aim has been to make it as fast as possible. It’s the first of our values in fact. We joke internally that we won’t rest until we are as fast as Apple Notes. Even having to wait a second or two when opening the app causes an annoyance.
It’s also critical that we can handle unusually large sets of notes. It’s quite uncommon for someone to have a hundred thousand notes, but we want to support it if they do.
Over the past year, a lot of our time has gone into rewriting the entire frontend codebase to be powered by SQLite. We quietly launched this across iOS, web, and macOS desktop over the last two weeks.
In short you should see much faster load times, and we should handle massive note collections without issue (no more reloading issues on mobile!).
Also included in this release is: Claude Sonnet 3.7 support for our AI assistant, an in-line PDF preview that lets you view PDFs within the macOS app, and persistent search results.
📱App re-write in SQLite
We’ve completed a full re-write of the database layer powering our apps. With this update we're moving to a new database technology called SQLite, which should boost performance, reliability, and increase storage capacity.
You will experience noticeable improvements in app stability and responsiveness. For example, when you open Reflect on iOS it should now load almost instantly.
If you have used our iOS app before in the past and got frustrated from constant reloading issues, give the app another whirl again. This update should resolve all of that!
This rewrite was a massive undertaking and we are incredibly pleased with the result. For anyone more technically inclined, we’ve done a detailed writeup in this blog post.
✨ Claude Sonnet 3.7 Added to AI Features
Anthropic recently released Claude Sonnet 3.7 and it made quite the splash. The new model is significantly better at following instructions and general reasoning, making it an even better note-taking assistant. We’ve added this new model to Reflect’s AI assistant.
If you have the model set to Default or Anthropic, you’re now using Claude Sonnet 3.7 in Reflect! Give it a try by highlighting some text and selecting the ✨ icon or using the cmd j shortcut.
📑 PDF Preview in Mac
Reflect’s Mac app now lets you preview PDF files you have attached in your notes. From this preview you can download, print and copy the text to use as needed.
🔎 Persistent Search Results
When you use Reflect’s Advanced Search, the results will now persist for ten minutes. This lets you flip quickly between search results and notes. You can clear all the search criteria using cmd+backspace.
As always, we’ve been squashing bugs and making small performance improvements in the background. Next up we are working on improving the reliability of audio memos.
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