Agent inbox and edit timeline
Agent inbox and edit timeline
Two surfaces answer “what did my agents do while I wasn’t looking?” — a lightweight inbox in the sidebar (dots on notes that changed since you last saw them) and a precise Agent Edits timeline in the inspector (every attributed agent write, with diffs and a revert button). They work differently and complement each other.
The sidebar inbox
Notes that appeared or changed since you last looked get marked in the sidebar, on Mac and iPhone:
Green dot + tinted bold name — a new note (added since your last visit).
Orange dot + tinted bold name — a changed note.
A collapsed folder shows a subtle dot when anything inside it is unseen.
A banner above the list counts the waiting updates (“3 agent updates”) with a Mark all seen button.
Clearing: opening a note clears its mark; so does saving it. Mark all seen clears everything at once.
What counts: the inbox tracks changed since you last saw it — your own edits never light up (the note you’re editing is always “seen”), and app-generated churn like the calendar mirror is excluded. On a brand-new vault everything starts as seen, so nothing lights up on first open. The seen-state is per-device (it isn’t written into the vault), so your Mac and iPhone each keep their own inbox.
The Agent Edits timeline (Mac)
The Agent Edits inspector pane is the precise record: it lists only writes made through the agent API with an agent label — exactly who did what, independent of the mtime-based dots.
Each entry shows the note, the verb (Created / Edited / Moved / Deleted), which agent did it, a +added/−removed line delta, a one-line excerpt, and — for moves — how many notes had links rewritten. Entries group into Today / Yesterday / Earlier this week / Earlier, and the header counts what’s unreviewed (with a Hide reviewed filter, and an agent filter when several agents share the vault).
Per entry you can:
Open — jump to the note.
Reviewed — check it off; the header count drops.
Revert — restore the note’s content from before that edit, on disk, immediately.
Two things worth knowing: your own AI actions (⌘⇧K) also appear here, labelled lettuce/<action> — they run through the same attributed write path, so they’re revertible like any agent edit. And if you’d rather approve edits before they land instead of reviewing after, that’s Suggestions mode — a propose-only key turns this timeline’s “review after” into “review before”.
Related
Suggestions mode/01 Overview — approve agent writes before they touch files
Agent reference/01 Overview — the tools agents use to make these edits