Rowboat Files

What's new

📧 Outlook & Microsoft 365 support. Connect a Microsoft account and get the full Rowboat email experience — inbox with AI triage, thread view, compose and reply, drafts, whole-mailbox search, attachments, and calendar-fed meetings — exactly as it works with Gmail. Sign-in happens right in the app; no extra setup needed.

✅ Home is now your to-do list. Home becomes a rolling to-do list shared between you and @rowboat: mention @rowboat on an item to delegate it, steer the work with inline comments, and get one-line receipts back on the list. Recent conversations live on the same surface, with one composer at the bottom serving both. An opt-in morning planner can suggest up to three high-signal items a day — nothing runs without your explicit accept. The old Home is one click away as Overview.

📽️ Edit PowerPoint decks without leaving Rowboat. Open a .pptx from your workspace and it renders with real theme colors, fills, images, and bullets. Double-click to edit text, move and resize shapes, add, duplicate, reorder, and delete slides, change fonts and formatting, then hit Play for a full-screen presentation. Saves touch only what you edited — charts, SmartArt, and animations pass through untouched, and files don't bloat across saves. 🖱️ The assistant can point at your screen. During a screen share, the assistant can drop an animated pointer on the thing it's talking about — right on your real screen. The voice companion is now one coherent surface: the mascot with a foldable text panel, a live status line showing what the agent is doing ("Searching the web…", "Reasoning…"), and speech that matches how you asked — spoken questions get spoken replies, typed ones stay silent.

🧠 See the model think, and pick how hard it thinks. The chat now renders the model's reasoning as it streams, and every model picker carries a reasoning-effort setting (low / medium / high) that follows your choice all the way through — including mid-chat model switches, which no longer error.

🪟 Quick-ask bar on Windows. The ⌥⇧Space quick-ask bar from v0.8.3 now works on Windows too, and got a proper light-mode redesign on all platforms.

Also in this release

• New Settings → Permissions panel: every OS permission grouped by the feature it serves, with honest statuses and one-click grant buttons or System Settings deep links
• Old chats and task transcripts are now cleaned up automatically (storage retention), and deleting a chat removes all of its files — including sub-agent transcripts
• Email replies quote the conversation trail like a normal mail client, you no longer get notified about your own sent mail, and the Important section gained date dividers
• The side-pane chat now renders identically to the full-screen chat, with quiet one-line tool rows keeping transcripts readable
• Background tasks gained a row menu with a details popup and delete confirmation
• Connecting accounts is more reliable — an OAuth bug that could silently swallow the sign-in callback is fixed
• Remote MCP servers now receive your configured headers — thanks to first-time contributor @serhiizghama for the fix!
• The in-app update card shows release notes in full instead of truncating them