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A Guide to the River Thames: Hunting for Treasure by Emmylou Vaxby is now available for preorder here: linktr.ee/a_guide_to_mudlarking.ev! Available on Foyles, Waterstones and Amazon!

It is the perfect guide to learning about mudlarking, what you can find on the River Thames and also a bit about the history of London.

It will arrive in all good bookshops on 30th June 2026 and I will hopefully be doing some sort of book launch too.

Ivy is having all sorts of new experiences at the Sanctuary… like toys and hoofies! 

"People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones"

It's been far too long (once again) since the last update to let you know what's new with Coggle, and as always lots of things have changed and we haven't put a single pleep out on socials.

So that you're not left forever wondering if you're losing your mind with questions like "did the buttons always work like that?" or "I don't remember seeing that option before?" here's your very occasional update on some of the new things in Coggle!

Big things first. Coggle now has a native dark mode for night owls and other dark aesthetes. The dark mode will follow your browser or system preference, or you can toggle it in your settings.

We've also made some dramatic improvements for editing on touch-screen devices. We have an installable progressive web app that you can save to your home screen, and we've updated our icon branding across Coggle to match. On all touch-screen devices there's now a new editing toolbar at the bottom of the screen, with shortcuts to open menus, create and delete branches, copy, and Cogglify:

For mouse-users as well as touch screens our beautiful radial menus have been re-engineered and now support new ways of interaction, including dragging to select menu items without lifting your click/finger.

Did you know there are over 26 different ways to add new items to a Coggle mind map! That's all the different menus, gestures, keyboard shortcuts and toolbars that people use on different kinds of devices. We're not completely sure that that's a good thing, but it shows how much complexity goes into keeping Coggle simple on the surface.

For the folders in your documents list we've added a little menu with big new options to organise and sort your diagrams.

You might also have noticed new information and hints in the 'saving...' status bar in the bottom left corner, an improved help menu, better conflict resolution for simultaneous editing on laggy connections, improved hovering and nearby-display logic for add-node buttons, translations for 5 new languages, ultra buttery smooth adjustment of control points, our new shortcut to count words, and improved fonts across the user interface.

Cogglify is now faster, more robust, and links to other mind maps display the Coggle logo so you can quickly identify them (Although we have fixed a bug where cogglify allowed you to exceed the private diagrams limit... sorry!).

We've made diagram navigation even smoother, with better zooming in large diagrams. Dramatically improved the documents list performance in Safari, and improved loading performance everywhere with much more optimised javascript bundling.

If you try to use a 'select all' shortcut we've got a new menu that might help you. But you still can't select items in Coggle (and we don't have any plans to change that).

Finally there have also been far too many other little bug fixes and quality improvements to list them all.

It's been a busy year.

What hasn't changed? Auto-arrange. Sorry. We know you want your Coggle mind maps to automatically arrange themselves beautifully, but we promise it's really worth the time to carefully position things yourself. It creates diagrams that are so much more memorable and characterful than a rigid auto-arrange ever could.

We did change our minds about dark mode this year, so it is possible we'll do the same for auto-arrange in the future though...

Enjoy Coggling your thoughts with the new updates! and if you have any comments or suggestions just drop us an email at [email protected]