What's New?

Added

• Bring your Zotero notes, highlights and comments along with your references
• Connect Zotero in one click
• Re-import from Zotero without creating duplicates
• Import linked, ZotFile and WebDAV PDFs from Zotero
• Search Zotero group libraries when adding a reference
• Import a BibTeX or RIS file
• Import from Mendeley through its exported file
• Export your notes and highlights as Markdown
• Add a comment to a highlight
• Ask agent mode which of your references cite each other
• Add a setting to turn usage analytics off

Improved

• Keep every bibliographic field from a Zotero import
• Let AI answers run longer before they are cut short
• Say why an answer was cut short
• Animate menus and confirmation dialogs

Fixed

• Stop an answer from spending more credits than you have left
• Reopen a PDF where you left off

Added

• Invite co-authors to a project to share references, PDFs and materials
• Add new AI models, including Claude 5.5, GPT-6 and DeepSeek
• Bring your own AI key for unlimited AI chat
• Attach code, data or any materials to references and projects
• Include materials in AI chats
• Filter references by “has materials”
• Add notifications for invitations and co-author activity
• Email you when you’re removed from a project

Improved

• Show co-authors on project cards and pages
• Make published pages look like your project page
• Publish without a password, update or unpublish later
• Show when a page was published
• Show what’s new in a short tour after updates
• Download a reference’s PDF in one click
• Open Milton without a network connection
• Explain AI key errors clearly
• Smooth out theme switching and button feedback

Fixed

• Point page citations at a real page of the PDF
• Fix signing out getting stuck
• Keep restore progress when leaving the references list

Added

• Publish a collection, project or reference as a password-protected web page
• Give a friend 200 AI credits, earn 400 a month while they subscribe
• Undo removing references from a collection or project with Cmd + Z
• Move a side panel into its own window
• Back up and restore your AI conversations
• Welcome new users with a four-slide tour and a welcome email

Improved

• Redesign the sidebar with counts and a Recents list
• Redesign project pages and collections
• Require every search word to match, and make years searchable
• Add a search bar to the References page
• Use the same bulk-action toolbar everywhere
• Name found PDFs after the reference
• Show when a PDF is still being restored
• Restore your profile along with your library
• Clarify the AI thinking indicator

Fixed

• Keep smart filters accurate when tags change
• Fix account deletion for users with tags
• Stop equations overflowing the chat
• Fix tag chips in the dark theme
• Reset your plan fully on sign-out

Added

• Back up your library and PDFs automatically on paid plans
• Restore your whole library onto a new device
• Restore your library to an earlier state after a mistake
• Add a Backup tab showing status, last backup and space used
• Sync changes across your devices

Improved

• Bring AI usage, credit packs, indexing and auto-repair into one settings panel
• Show how many references auto-tagging will tag before it runs
• Read more of the text in some PDFs
• Say “references” consistently across the app

Fixed

• Update smart filters as soon as they’re saved
• Fix a crash when several PDFs were read at once

Added

• Chat with a whole collection or project at once
• Jump to the cited page of the PDF from any chat answer
• Show figures, equations and tables in chat answers
• Choose exactly which pages the AI reads
• Start a chat from presets like Summarize, Key points or Limitations
• Edit your last question or regenerate the last answer
• Attach your own image to a chat message
• Search over several steps for large questions on paid plans
• Tag new references automatically on paid plans
• Tag your whole library in one click on paid plans
• Repair messy tags in one step, with a summary of changes

Improved

• Add References, AI Chat and Notes tabs to collections and projects
• Open collection and project chats in the side panel
• Name group-chat sources by author and year
• Move a reference’s Notes, PDF, AI Chat and Info into header tabs
• Index PDFs for AI chat automatically
• Show in Settings which references the AI can’t read yet, and why
• Read text, scans, figures and math more reliably
• Redesign the chat composer
• Improve keyword search with several words
• Say when a long-PDF answer comes from searching it

Fixed

• Make side panel resizing smooth on large collections and projects
• Stop reporting references without a PDF as “not indexed”
• Stop retrying unreadable PDFs on every launch
• Hide the ”?” help button while the side panel is open

Added

• Find references by meaning, not only exact words, on paid plans
• Index your library in the background after upgrading
• Read scanned PDFs with OCR on paid plans

Improved

• Use fewer credits when chatting with an indexed PDF
• Show references live as a Zotero import runs
• Keep the import card through a reload
• Download Zotero PDFs after the import, showing which are pending
• Explain library indexing with a ”?” instead of a Cancel button
• Let you clear a project or collection description

Fixed

• Fix several problems when chatting about a PDF
• Fix the import loader in the dark theme

Improved

• Rebuild the dark theme on a new color system
• Keep each settings page’s title in view while scrolling
• Search your tags in Settings
• Point to the browser extension from the Help menu and sidebar
• Confirm when a manual update check finds nothing new

Fixed

• Explain what to do when AI chat can’t read a PDF
• Close a pinned tab with its X instead of unpinning it

Added

• Save a filter and a sort together as a pinned view
• Add a Help menu with a keyboard shortcuts cheatsheet
• Add an Updates tab in Settings

Improved

• Install updates in the background when you quit

Fixed

• Fix PDFs failing to load in the released app
• Show the Pro upgrade message once, not on every launch

Added

• Chat with any reference’s PDF
• List, rename and delete your conversations
• Add a more capable AI model on paid plans
• Complete missing metadata with AI, with regenerate and undo
• Add an “Incomplete metadata” filter
• Add AI credits, usage in Settings, and credit packs
• Redesign Plan & billing in Settings

Improved

• Make references and PDF storage unlimited on the free plan
• Repair metadata automatically on paid plans, with a setting to turn it off
• Extract text from PDFs more faithfully
• Explain Zotero group access errors and retry failed PDF downloads
• Show what a re-import created, updated or left unchanged
• Update an existing reference instead of duplicating it on recapture
• Go straight to onboarding after confirming your email
• Keep a separate Zotero key per Milton account

Fixed

• Reset views when signing out
• Show a clear message when Google sign-in times out
• Keep the right side panel for each tab and pinned tab
• Allow up to 50 open PDF tabs instead of 10
• Stop the ”/” menu in notes from overflowing the window

Added

• Select every reference in view with Cmd/Ctrl + A
• Show a select checkbox when hovering a reference card

Improved

• Move a running import to the sidebar after a few seconds

Added

• Import Zotero group libraries
• Turn each Zotero group library into a Milton project
• Choose between three layouts for reference cards
• Show the abstract as a reference’s summary until you write one

Improved

• Open the References page in the table view by default
• Resize table columns and expand rows to read the full summary
• Open large libraries and switch views much faster
• Show a page-shaped placeholder while lists load
• Show summaries in search previews
• Collapse extra tags in filters into “+N”, selected tags first

Fixed

• Import PDFs whose text can’t be read, and mark them clearly
• Fit the table to the window when resizing
• Scroll a long list of tabs in the sidebar

Added

• Add the Milton browser extension to capture references from any tab
• Import your whole Zotero library in the background, with live progress
• Find missing PDFs automatically during a Zotero import
• Add a dedicated import page to onboarding for Zotero users
• Turn a collection into a project, and back, with one-click undo
• Look up arXiv, Zenodo, OSF and other DataCite DOIs

Improved

• Redesign the Add reference window with Web/DOI and From scratch tabs
• Accept a PDF URL in the Web/DOI tab
• Attach the PDF automatically when capturing a PDF page
• Speed up navigation between references, projects and collections
• Return to an open tab instantly, keeping its scroll position
• Make revisiting any list near-instant
• Polish popovers, crossfades and tooltips
• Restyle the bibliography style picker

Fixed

• Fix clicks going through to elements under a closing menu
• Fix the note editor freezing when switching tabs with the side panel open
• Fix author names in global search
• Review security, accessibility and performance across the app
• Fix various other small bugs

Added

• Add a new PDF engine with sharper rendering and faster page loads
• Add highlight, underline, strike-through and squiggle annotations
• Add tab groups to keep research threads separate
• Add a unified Bibliography and Machine-readable export dialog
• Make links inside PDFs clickable, with a preview on hover
• Search within the current project, collection or PDF

Improved

• Switch between PDF tabs instantly, keeping page, scroll and zoom
• Remember each tab’s side panel
• Reorder tabs and tab groups by drag and drop
• Move a tab to another group from its right-click menu
• Fill in metadata from a PDF’s embedded data and a CrossRef title search
• Include 7 PDF analyses per 7 days on the free plan

Fixed

• Show the grabbing cursor while dragging a tab
• Fix tab focus after dragging the active tab into a hidden group
• Use Milton’s brand blue for PDF text selection
• Fix many other small bugs

Added

• Show cards in Auto, 1, 2 or 3 columns, or as a compact table
• Remember the view mode per project and collection
• Fill in metadata automatically from a DOI via CrossRef
• Make notes searchable in global search
• Prepare Milton for the upcoming browser extension

Improved

• Speed up Zotero search from ~6 seconds to under a second
• Hide already-imported references in Zotero search
• Keep tabs and side panels open across restarts
• Lead reference cards with the formatted citation
• Swap or detach a reference’s PDF from the side panel
• Copy DOI, URL or title in one click
• Accept dates typed in any natural format

Fixed

• Fix the local search bar’s position in the toolbar
• Show Zotero errors in plain English
• Anchor sort, filter and picker popovers to their buttons
• Fix many other small bugs

Added

• Add Ctrl + Tab to switch between open tabs
• Find open-access PDFs for your references automatically (Magic PDF)

Improved

• Make PDF zoom continuous instead of fixed steps
• Make swapping references more intuitive

Fixed

• Confirm when a PDF is added manually from the side panel
• Fix PDFs not displaying in the side panel after collapsing a reference

Added

• Open several references in the same side panel
• Show a PDF indicator on reference cards
• Show an update modal after each app update
• Prevent adding the same reference twice

Improved

• Smooth out PDF navigation and zoom
• Clarify the Zotero setup instructions

Fixed

• Fix PDFs that sometimes wouldn’t open
• Fix several navigation bugs
• Fix various minor frontend errors