What’s New February Update

AFFiNE 0.20.0 Release Note

Packed with Productivity: AFFiNE 0.20.0 Network Searching, Templates, Simple Table, Permission Control, Mobile Version, and More.

🔹 AI Network Searching

🔹 Doc-level permission management

🔹 User storage manager

🔹 Table block

🔹 Page block polish

🔹 Template

🔹 Journal integration

🔹 Database - Text property supports dual-links

🔹 Split view

🔹 Edgeless improvements

🔹 Attachment&URL block improvements

AI Network Searching

AI has been greatly enhanced in 0.20. Now, AI Chat can search for the latest information and content by connecting to the internet, without the need to open additional products for searching. At the same time, we also support uploading different types of documents to allow AI to perform complex contextual analysis.

Doc-level permission management

Page-level permission control is rolling out! For Pro and above worksapces, you can now control the permissions of a single document on an individual user basis, including options such as Can Manage, Can Edit, or Can Read, so that super important documents will not be unintentionally changed.

Three access level to choose from: Can manage (everything, including changing access settings), Can edit (content only), Can read.

You can share with the whole workspace or specific members of your workspace.

We are still investing to implement No Access; if that's your use case, please stay tuned for future updates

User storage manager

Reduce the size of a workspace has become much easier with storage managers! Since the storage is mostly occupied by images, attachments, etc. (blobs), and such files may be shared across files or have to be saved in the page history, simply removing documents may help very little in cleaning up workspaces. Now, you can manage the blob files of your workspace more efficiently through Settings -> Storage, helping you better maintain your workspace

Table block

Although the database is good, do you still want something simple that just works, like a simple table? We heard you. With the release of version 0.20, we now support the simple table feature. You can organize your data in the most intuitive way. No complex setup required—just insert rows and columns, start editing quickly, and flexibly adjust the table structure to meet your daily management needs.

Page Block Polish

This feature allows blocks from Page Mode to become a fully editable element in Edgeless Mode. Displaying notes in both modes keeps your work organized and accessible in every scenario.

Template

Templates are great tools for improving efficiency. In the previous version, we launched the Affine templates to share pre-made templates. Now, anyone can save documents as templates and call them up at any time. Whether it's long-term projects in PARA, daily recurring ToDo lists, or report documents built with AFFiNE AI, they can all be saved with one click as templates for easy reuse.

• Introduced a new template management system allowing users to create, edit, and delete templates easily.

• You can now apply templates to your existing documents or start fresh with new ones using templates.

Journal Integration:

Want recurring templates even more with every day's journal? We just added functionality to apply templates specifically for journal entries, enhancing organization and consistency.

If you want to learn more, 👉 How to use template

Database: Text property supports dual-links

Another feature with high demand that we’ve introduced in 0.20 is support for dual-links in the Text property so that you can mention other files not only in the title row. Now, you can reference different documents in the Text property, giving you more flexibility in managing your database to meet your needs

Split view

We introduced the split view feature in 0.20. As the name suggests, you can now drag articles to the edge via the sidebar/All Docs page to turn it on and perform more actions by clicking or dragging the Split view indicator at the top.

Attachment&URL block improvements

We’ve added support for attachments in Edgeless Mode, allowing users to easily upload files via file picker or drag-and-drop, with files displayed within the canvas in an embed view for seamless interaction.

Edgeless improvements

We finally support zooming the Edgeless using just the scroll wheel! You can enable this option through settings -> editor. Additionally, in version 0.20, we have added a shortcut key alt + 2 to quickly locate elements on the Edgeless

Mobile update

The canary version of the mobile internal test alpha version has been pushed to all participants in the internal test. Although the work on the mobile version is still ongoing, we hope to synchronize our progress with everyone and help us with bug feedback. If interested, you can join our Discord channel to wait for subsequent push invitations.