Retrospective development diary · Week beginning 2026-06-22. Written in September 2026 from the project history; this is not an original publication date or a release announcement.
The next stretch of work was about making the foundations comfortable to use. A growing application can quickly turn Settings into a long list of unrelated switches. We reorganised the Mac experience around labelled sections and a separate Settings window, while tightening up the main sidebar and the controls used to add a licence.
Purchase history became richer too. Instead of squeezing everything into one purchase date and price, a licence could keep multiple purchases, each with its own supplier, currency and invoice. That is a small-looking change with a practical consequence: buying an upgrade no longer has to mean losing the details of the original purchase.
Business organisation also developed during this period, including contacts, departments and cost centres. The useful principle was that this information belonged with the vault, so it could travel with backups and cloud copies rather than being stranded in one device’s preferences.
We also explored future business storage connections. Those were explicitly inactive foundations, not working database integrations. That distinction matters in a retrospective: this was a busy development checkpoint, not a promise that every idea on the settings screen was ready to use.