June 7, 2026

KaKeKiKoKu Studio 1.7.4: from Alpha to Beta

The left panel became a real knowledge navigator — and Studio finally grew out of Alpha.

This is the release where I start calling Studio a Beta. Everything before this was, honestly, Alpha — solid enough to use, but still finding its shape. 1.7.4 is where that changes. And it does it on the back of the feature I promised in 1.6: the left panel stops being a flat list.

Until now the panel showed files and folders. Now, right under each resource, you can open its sections and subsections: the tree stops being an index of files and becomes an index of the knowledge.

Click a section and the central panel jumps straight to it. And the other way around: as you scroll through the content, the section you are on highlights itself in the left panel. You always know where you are.

The resource you select opens its sections automatically, with subsections already nested — no opening them one by one. And there is a new button to maximize or minimize the panel when you need room to read.

Underneath, the tree reads better: grouped by folders, with less noise. And the local port can now be selected from settings, which matters when another local tool is already using the default one.

Out of the box, at last

Until now Studio had been built on itself: it documents itself as I write it. So I did what I said I would — I took it out of its own code and used it on real, unrelated projects. That is what turned a string of fast releases into something I am finally comfortable calling Beta. Studio has left the box, and it held up.

Where I am headed

The plan continues, and this time I am telling it properly in the next post: relations you can see, create and reorganize, and then a deliberate stop dedicated only to quality. The next version I publish will be that more complete, more solid Studio.