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Rule Engine & System Enhancements

2026.1.1
rel. 2026.01.20
ChangelogRule EngineReader Mode

The largest New Year's update since the app's initial release, featuring the all-new Rule Engine and major system enhancements.

This marks the largest New Year’s update since the app’s initial release.

Rule Engine

Rule Engine: The Future of Event Automation →
  1. Automatically filter events based on conditions like title, content, and source
  2. Set theme colors, symbols, highlight text, and replace text
  3. Hide events you’re not interested in or pin important events to groups
  4. Quickly write rules using SideScript syntax, with support for import and export
Symbol
Symbol

Event Management

Long-Awaited Custom Timeline Range →
  1. Customize timeline display range (Advanced Settings)
  2. Customize popover display delay (Advanced Settings)
  3. Support for hiding completed reminder items

Web Browser Enhancements

New Reader Mode: Native Toolbar & Sidebar →
  1. Improved Reader View with a sidebar for quick navigation between events
  2. Support for video and audio lazy loading to improve page load speed

RSS Feeds

  1. Support for renaming feed names
  2. New OPML export feature for easy backup and migration

Plugin System

  1. Support for custom community plugin repositories
  2. Support for viewing sidefy.log() output directly in the plugin test runner
Plugin Repo
Plugin Repo
Plugin Logs
Plugin Logs

Improvements & Optimizations

  1. Improved database query performance
  2. Optimized visual effects for Minimal and Modern themes

Removed Features

  1. Removed old keyword highlighting and blocking features (replaced by Rule Engine)
  2. Removed shortcut for temporary event hiding
  3. Removed full-text translation in Reader View
  4. Removed Apple Intelligence title translation feature (will be reintroduced after optimization)
  5. Removed global shortcut