The teams have been improving the product with the goal of making the Locus Extension an important part of your daily research and analysis workflow.

This release expands functionality beyond just the search to augment your workflow with “AI Memory”, login and get going quicker with SSO, and backend platform enhancements that pave the way for generative AI functionality features that will be in coming releases.

New! Google SSO Integration

Get started with Locus even quicker.

New! Side Panel* ****

The Recents tab allows you to go back to previous documents and highlights, and clicking the ⭐️ for any of the results will save that result for you in the Favorites tab.

We are very excited about what all we can do with the Sidepanel, and we’ll be shortly releasing the Summary tab that uses generative AI to give you a concise overview of the page or section.

<aside> 💡 To access the Sidepanel, your account must have a validated email. If you have received a recent release email and have logged in recently, we went ahead and validated your account. If you don’t see the sidebar button in the search box you can validate your email by requesting a validation email on the dashboard.

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And in case you missed the last release that included PDF support in beta!

Refactoring and Bug Fixes

1. Tab Issue Fixed: Resolved an issue where URLs were not available to the background script. This was an annoying little bug, which made it seem that the page couldn’t be loaded.
2. Efficient Document Upload: Optimized document uploads, ensuring they occur only when the popup is opened. This significantly reduced the load on the backend indexing service.
3. Highlighting Improvements: The system backend does a better job of locating the sections to highlight. We think we got most of the edge cases, but if you see something incorrectly highlighted, please let us know!