June 2026
Microsoft OneNote — connect it, then import your notebooks
Connect OneNote and Bird gains read access to your notebooks, sections, and pages. Then, when you want them in Bower, import notebooks, sections, or pages — they become notes inside mirrored collections, with tables, to-do checkboxes, and inline images preserved. Read-only at the source; re-importing won’t duplicate.Read more →Protocol step videos — show me, don’t tell me
Attach a video of a protocol being performed and mark where each step happens, YouTube-chapters style — markers save as you set them. Then ask Bird for the right moment by voice, hands-free: “show me this step”, “skip to step 3”, or “show me the vortex step”. The clip plays seeked to the marker on web, mobile, and AR glasses.Read more →May 2026
Organise the page tree — drag to reorder, right-click menus
Drag any note or collection in the sidebar to reorder it within a level, or drop it onto a collection to nest it inside — collapsed collections auto-expand as you drag over them. Every item gets a ⋮ menu for rename, move, copy, copy link, manage access, and delete, without opening it first. Order is shared across the workspace.Read more →A rebuilt mobile experience
Bower on your phone is now a proper app — a bottom-nav layout with Capture, Bird, and Workspace tabs, and a redesigned Quick Capture built around one ring and four modes: voice, photo, video, and text. Scan a QR code to sign in on your phone in seconds, and captures survive a dropped connection.Read more →Catalogue your instruments — Bird handles the rest
Add your lab instruments to the new Equipment Register. Bird learns what you have and where it is, then helps troubleshoot problems, walk through procedures, and explain error codes. Especially useful hands-free with smart glasses in Live Mode.Read more →See your workspace as a graph
A new Knowledge Graph page renders every note, protocol, attachment, and project — with their relationships — as a force-directed graph. Permission-filtered, light and dark mode, with an opt-in 3D view for large workspaces.Read more →Your publications, one ORCID iD away
Save your ORCID iD on your profile and Bird pulls from your public publication list whenever it’s relevant. Drop a DOI in a chat and Bird fetches the full record from OpenAlex. Works in chat and live mode, with no connector to set up.Read more →Hands-free video clips during a live session
Ask Bird to record a video clip during a live session — say “record this” and Bird captures a 2-minute audio + video clip straight to your workspace attachments. No taps, no buttons, with a visible REC indicator while it’s running.Read more →Bird searches the tools your lab already uses
Connect Drive, Notion, Slack, Linear, GitHub and more from Account Settings → Connectors. Bird does federated search across your connections live, returns answers with citations, and only writes to your knowledge base when you explicitly save a result. Per-user, per-workspace, OAuth-bound, read-only by default.Read more →April 2026
Owner, Admin, Member, Guest — a role for every relationship
Four workspace roles with a clean separation of duties: billing for Owner, member management for Admin, day-to-day work for Member, read-only for Guest. Last-Owner protection and an atomic ownership-transfer flow keep the workspace safe.Read more →Permissions on every note and collection
Three privacy modes per note and collection — Anyone in the workspace, Only specific people, or Just me. Per-person View, Edit, or Manage grants. Inheritance from parent collections, a compliance toggle for regulated workspaces, and a polite request-access flow on restricted content.Read more →Bird connects related notes for you, automatically
Bird now reads your notes in the background and suggests links to related protocols, prior experiments, attachments, and concepts. Inline link chips on the note view make jumping between related work a single click.Read more →Teach Bird how you and your lab actually work
Two editable documents inject straight into every Bird conversation: Personal preferences (just for you — your style, units, focus area) and Workspace instructions (shared with your team — protocols, conventions, policies).Read more →Every save, recoverable
Every note now has full version history with a side-by-side diff viewer. See exactly what changed, when, and by whom — and roll back to any prior version with one click.Read more →Drop a spreadsheet, ask Bird
Bird reads CSVs and Excel files natively, summarises what’s in them, compares across files, and cross-references with your notes when answering.Read more →Bird draws charts when a chart is the right answer
Bar, line, and scatter plots rendered directly in the chat, with axes and units pulled from the source data. Refine through follow-up questions.Read more →Who did what, when — at a glance
A clean activity timeline with multi-select filters, full-text search, and richer event details. Login deduplication keeps the feed readable.Read more →Softer surfaces, sharper details
A pass over Bower’s interface: modern theme primitives, segmented controls, cleaner card previews, per-user avatar colours, and a refreshed data table.Read more →Find by meaning, not just keywords
Global search now runs keyword and semantic similarity in parallel by default. No toggle, no second query — type what you remember, get what you meant.Read more →Equations, collapsible toggles, table of contents
Three additions to the note editor: LaTeX/KaTeX equations,/details
collapsible blocks, and a table-of-contents sidebar that builds itself
from your headings.Read more →