Coming from Maude 1
Where the status bar, the menubar, View → History, the Assistant and the rest of Maude 1's chrome went in Maude 2.
Maude 2 has one menu, one search, one Share cluster and one toolbar per mode. Nothing was taken away without a new home — this page lists where each Maude 1 control moved, so you can find it by the old name. The rest of the documentation uses only the new words.
Updating a project
There is no dialog: Maude 2 updates a Maude 1 project by itself the first time it opens it. The notice says Updated for Maude 2. It now saves with accepted revisions. A copy of the old files is in Version history, on this Mac only. — the copy is on the Mac that ran the update and nowhere else.
A local, git or Syncthing project is always updated. A project shared through a team server is updated when its owner opens it, signed in and online, on a team server that is Maude 1.9.0 or later; the same step switches it to accepted revisions: each change counts as saved once the team server confirms it, and Undo takes back only your own. Nothing in the project is lost.
- Until then the project is view only, and one line says why, with at most one action: Ask the owner, Sign in, the team server needs an update (How to update), or waiting for the connection. Once the reason clears, the update runs by itself.
- A Maude 2 project that still saves the old way is view only until it switches to accepted revisions, which it does by itself when its owner opens it.
- A Maude Cloud project is not updated by itself during the Maude 2 release candidates, because Maude Cloud keeps running Maude 1 until the stable 2.0.0. Its owner can still choose Update project, after a warning that the cloud tab stays view only for everyone until then.
- In a Maude Cloud tab, the owner of a project that still saves the old way sees Switch it in the dashboard, under Saving. with Open dashboard.
Where it went
| In Maude 1 | In Maude 2 |
|---|---|
| Status bar — the changes chip, sync and server dots | The Share cluster shows one word for the save state (Saved · Syncing… · Offline — kept on this Mac · Local project). Details live in Menu › Diagnostics (Sync · Server · AI setup). |
| Menubar inside the window, with its IDLE · CANVAS · SYSTEM mode stamp, path bar and artboard count | The project pill (top left) opens one menu. The Server status word and the address are in Menu › Diagnostics; Search (⌘K) shows where every action lives (Menu › File › Export…). The Mac's own menu bar keeps Maude, File, Edit, Window and Help. |
| View → History, the History tab and ⇧⌘G | Version history, one click at the top level of the menu, or ⌥⌘H. (⇧⌘G now removes a frame.) |
| Save a version · Publish · Get latest | Maude saves for you and says Saved. Git is still there for people who want it, behind › Advanced folds. |
| Banners across the top | Callouts and toasts with one action at most, and status words. |
| Dock and the collapsed rail | The bottom toolbar (Edit and Preview each have their own) and the left panel's tabs Canvases · Layers · Assets. ⌘\ hides the panels. |
| Sidebar, canvas browser, file tree | The Canvases panel. |
| Project switcher at the bottom of the sidebar | Home and the project tabs (⌘T opens Home; ⌘1–⌘9 pick a tab). |
| Topbar Share link, File → Share link… | Share… in the Share cluster; Copy link is in the sheet's link row. |
| Command palette (⌘K) | Search (⌘K) — canvases, actions, AI and every hidden tool. |
| Assistant (⇧⌘A) | The AI chat panel; Ask AI is ⌘/. (⇧⌘A selects all annotations.) |
| Browse tool | Preview mode — Hand, then click to use the design. |
| Inspector words — the Designer / Advanced switch in Settings | Gone. The Inspector always speaks designer; its › Advanced fold is the raw editor (Element · Used in · Tokens bound · CSS). |
| Export dialog ⌘E | One Export sheet, ⇧⌘E. ⌘E is unbound. |
| Cmd+click to scope an edit | V (Select), then click. |
| The icon menu | Menu — the project pill's menu. |
Keys that moved
Pen B is now Marker M (P is Edit's Pen); Rect R is Shape R; Section ⇧S is S; Actual size ⌘1 is ⇧0 (⌘1–⌘9 pick a tab, as in every browser); Search canvases ⌘/ is /. Press ? in Maude for the full sheet — each key appears once.
New to Maude instead? Start at Getting started, then Around the window.
Trust
What Maude Cloud can see, what it cannot, who the subprocessors are, and what happens if something goes wrong. Every claim on this page maps to a mechanism you can point at in the source.
maude CLI
The npm-published binary that scaffolds the .ai/ workspace, edits workflows.config.json, and boots the design dev server.