ABLE: 2024 Year in Review – Building the Future, One Context at a Time

Disclaimer: This post was drafted, created, and published using ABLE and ChatGPT.

As 2024 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on how far we’ve come, how much we’ve learned, and what we’ve built together. Last year, we talked about foundations—about establishing ABLE as a tool that adapts to your workflows, evolves with your needs, and grows into an essential part of your digital life.

This year, we started with foundations, and now we're moving to frameworks—expanding capabilities, refining user experiences, and building out the tools that make ABLE a true powerhouse for managing information and navigating complexity. It’s been a year of challenges, insights, and progress, and we couldn’t have done it without you.

From Chaos to Clarity: Mastering Contexts

We're building ABLE around a simple yet profound idea: contexts.

We all live and think in contexts. They’re the frameworks through which we see the world, organize our thoughts, and approach our work. But contexts are dynamic, interwoven, and often chaotic. Sometimes they don’t fit neatly into folders or follow strict hierarchies.

In 2024, we focused on taming this chaos. We introduced a “Context" and "Views” concepts where you can create and manage your contexts whatever they are: work, life, projects or basically anything you consider as a context in your universe. We designed ABLE to not just capture your thoughts and ideas, or browse the web, but to let you reshape, reuse, and share them as your needs evolve. Contexts are no longer static—they’re fluid, living spaces that grow and adapt with you.

Your Data, Your Control

One of our proudest achievements this year was the adoption of a Local First architecture.

Your data isn’t just information—it’s your work, your ideas, your creativity. It's your life. That’s why we’ve made sure that everything you create in ABLE is safely stored as individual files on your computer and never leaves it. Unless you wish to share it, of course. This approach puts you in complete control of your data, with the freedom to access, back up, and share it however you choose.

Highlights from 2024

Contexts Import/Export: Collaboration Made Easy

This game-changing feature allows you to share your knowledge, templates, and workflows effortlessly. Export a perfectly tuned workspace for a project and share it with a teammate, or bring in a new setup from the community. It’s all about making ABLE not just personal but collaborative and expansive.

Intuitive Drag & Drop

Managing your workspace became even more natural with our revamped drag & drop functionality:

• Move items between sidebar views or reorder them within a view.

• Drop elements into unpinned tabs to declutter and organize dynamically.

These small yet powerful changes make organizing your information feel intuitive and frictionless.

Electron Update & Browsing Enhancements

We upgraded Electron to ensure faster, smoother, and more reliable browsing. From improved favicon displays to better control over links, ABLE now feels snappier and more polished than ever.

Context Menus for Quick Actions

Right-click where it matters: on contexts or library items. These menus put essential actions at your fingertips, speeding up your workflow and letting you focus on what’s important.

Bug Fixes and Quality of Life Improvements

From UI polish to performance enhancements, we’ve squashed countless bugs to make ABLE more stable, reliable, and enjoyable to use.

Where We’re Heading in 2025

2024 was about laying the foundations of what we dream that ABLE will be capable of. In 2025, we’re doubling down on what makes ABLE special:

• Deeper Context Management: More ways to connect, visualize, and interact with your ideas.

• Enhanced Collaboration: Building tools that make working together seamless and efficient.

• Streamlined Interfaces and interactions: Keeping ABLE powerful yet simple, with a focus on clarity and usability.

We believe that managing information isn’t just about storing data—it’s about creating spaces where ideas can grow, adapt, and thrive. ABLE is here to help you shape those spaces, bringing order and inspiration to your digital life.

Thank You for Being Part of the Journey

As always, we owe so much to our incredible community. Your feedback, suggestions, and ideas are what drive us forward. Together, we’re building something truly unique—a tool that adapts to you, rather than the other way around.

Here’s to an amazing 2025, full of possibilities, progress, and growth. Thank you for being with us every step of the way. 🚀

Stay inspired, stay organized.

— The ABLE Team