June–July 2026: the connected workspace comes online
AI, realtime sync, and internal linking now work together on every wall, section, and brick — the pieces we shipped during beta.
June and July were about connecting the pieces into a canvas that thinks with you.
After beta launched in May, the last two months focused on making AI, realtime sync, and internal structure work together — so Walling feels less like a tool with an AI sidebar bolted on, and more like a workspace that actually knows what you're working on.
Here's what we shipped:
- AI chat now lives on every wall, section, and brick — not just collections
- Internal linking with
@-mentions, hover previews, and branch-to-brick - Realtime updates across every open tab and every device
- A rebuilt Tags system with a dedicated page, tag-scoped search, and an Insights view
- A lightweight mobile block editor and a proper iPad two-pane layout
1. AI, everywhere on the canvas
The biggest theme of the last two months was moving AI out of a single side panel and into every level of your workspace.
AI chat for walls, sections, and bricks
You can now open AI chat directly on a wall, a section, or a single brick — not just at the collection level. The wall toolbar, section controls, and brick context menu each carry a dedicated chat button.
The AI understands the full hierarchy around whatever you're asking about. A section chat knows its parent wall; a brick chat knows its section. When you ask AI to change something, its proposals are scoped to what you're actually looking at, so you get suggestions that fit the context instead of the whole workspace.
The AI assistant stays open while you edit
The chat panel now stays open while you edit content, so you can iterate with AI without the panel collapsing every time you tap into a brick. It's a small thing that changes how the AI feels — from something you consult, to something that sits next to you while you work.
AI-generated brick titles
New bricks in the inbox now get an AI-generated title automatically, so a captured thought becomes a titled brick instead of an untitled snippet.
MCP grew up
The Walling MCP server — the surface that lets clients like Claude and Cursor read and write to your workspace — got substantially more useful. Clients can now cite Walling entities with real permalinks, restore deleted work, and search across a whole workspace, and each connection surfaces the real client name instead of a generic "AI client" label.
2. The connected workspace
If AI is one half of an intelligent workspace, structure is the other. June and July shipped what Walling has been missing: real internal linking and a rebuilt Tags system.
Internal linking with @-mentions and hover previews
Type @ inside any brick to drop in an inline link chip to any wall, section, or brick. Hover the chip to see a live preview card with the entity's title, full breadcrumb path, and either a content excerpt or the first three children — no more guessing what you're about to click on. Paste any Walling URL and it converts to a link chip automatically.
Branch-to-brick
Highlight text and press the branch button in the formatting toolbar to instantly break that selection off into a new linked brick. A confirmation toast scrolls you straight to it so you can see where it landed. It turns "this deserves its own brick" from a copy-paste chore into a single click.
Link-count badges
Every brick, section, and wall now shows a small badge when other bricks link to it. Click the badge to see a compact overlay listing the source bricks with breadcrumbs. Nothing shows if nothing links, so the UI stays clean — but where there's signal, you can now trace the shape of your own thinking.
Tags, rebuilt
Tags got a full overhaul. There's a new dedicated Tags page where you can organize your tag list with drag-and-drop, tag-scoped search that lets you query your content by tag directly, and a new Insights tab that maps the tag network across your workspace so you can see how ideas actually cluster.
3. Realtime, across every tab and device
For AI and cross-linking to feel useful, the canvas has to reflect changes the instant they happen. That's the work that landed under the surface.
Realtime canvas updates
Wall titles, section moves, and brick positions — including drag-drop and reorder — now sync live for all collaborators, whether the change came from another tab, another device, or an AI agent. Changes made on the web appear instantly on your phone.
Combined with agent-driven mutations from MCP clients like Claude and Cursor, this is what makes AI on Walling feel like a collaborator instead of a form: you can watch it work, follow the links it creates, and pick up right where it left off.
Durable sync on reconnect
Realtime sync used to lose events when a tab briefly dropped its connection. It doesn't anymore — brick changes queue and replay when you reconnect, so nothing gets missed. Quiet infrastructure work that pays off every day you never notice it.
4. Mobile progress
Mobile got closer to parity with web this cycle — a proper tablet layout, a rewritten editor, and faster capture on the canvas.
iPad and tablet two-pane layout
Larger screens now get a proper two-pane layout with sidebar and canvas visible together, instead of the phone layout stretched wide. The whole app suddenly feels native to the iPad.
Lightweight mobile block editor
The mobile brick editor was rewritten as a lightweight native block editor with proper bridges to comments, mentions, Excalidraw drawings, and file attachments. It's faster, uses less memory, and behaves like a mobile-first editor should.
Faster capture on the canvas
Mobile now has a brick actions sheet, long-press to create for quick capture on the canvas, and a grid column adjuster to tune density on the fly. Wall sharing is no longer web-only — you can invite teammates and manage access from the mobile app. And Collection Inbox items can be dragged directly into a wall section, so triaging captured thoughts feels the same on mobile as on the web.
5. Capture and quality of life
Inbox and collections
Inbox items now show their tags in the row, and the Collection Inbox button signals when there are unfiled items so nothing gets forgotten. New collections open with a wall ready to go, so the first thing you see is a place to start writing — not an empty container.
Small polish
Paste text or a URL on the canvas and it becomes a brick, no dialog required. Wall cover images can be repositioned and zoomed inside their crop. Excalidraw drawings render as previews everywhere.
Privacy-first analytics
The analytics stack was rebuilt around a real consent banner that complies with GDPR, CCPA, and GPC. If you decline, we send nothing. If you accept, we collect only what we need to know whether the product is working.
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Looking ahead to August
August is the month we've been building toward: we're aiming for public release. Everything on the list is in service of that — hardening what beta users have been putting through its paces, and making sure the first impression for new users lands.
Our focus:
- Public release readiness. Stability and reliability work across the stack so the app is ready to open the doors.
- Beta feedback. Continuing to work through what beta users are telling us — bugs, rough edges, and the small papercuts that only show up in real use.
- Mobile app readiness. Hardening the mobile app so it ships alongside web at public release, not after it.
- Content and onboarding. Building out the help center, onboarding flows, and feature discoverability so new users can find their footing without a tour guide.
— The Walling Team
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