Every save is kept. wander records a version of a note each time it changes, locally, with no git knowledge needed and no server involved. If you write, you have history: browse what a note looked like an hour or a month ago, see exactly what changed between versions, and restore any of them.

Ulysses keeps whole-library backups; iA Writer asks you to run git yourself. wander does per-note history out of the box.

Where it lives

Open the History panel from the right panel (the clock tab). You get a timeline for the open note, or for the whole vault, newest first. Click a version to see the difference right in the editor: what was added, what was removed.

Each entry says who made it: you, an external edit that arrived while wander was watching (a sync, another app), or an agent session, each on its own line of work.

Restoring

Click Restore on any version and the note returns to that state. Restoring never deletes anything: the restore itself becomes a new version, so you can always come back. You can also restore a single note from a whole-vault entry without touching the rest.

Name a version you care about (right-click it, Rename) and it keeps that label in the timeline: "before the rewrite", "sent to editor".

Turning it on

History is part of a vault, off in plain folders, and wander never writes it anywhere until you opt in. Flip on history & search from the chip at the bottom of the sidebar, the History panel's Settings tab, or Settings ▸ This Folder. Versions are stored inside your folder's hidden .wander directory in a form sync services skip, so your notes folder stays clean and nothing extra uploads.

Turn it off any time from Settings ▸ This Folder. History is derived from your files, never the other way around: your markdown stays the only source of truth, and deleting .wander loses nothing but the versions.

History on your other devices

By default history stays on the device that wrote it. To see one shared timeline everywhere, open the History panel ▸ Settings and turn on syncing through the folder: each device then publishes its history inside the vault, and the sync you already use (iCloud Drive, Dropbox) carries it. No account, no server, and devices never conflict, each writes only its own files.

Set it up on the Mac and your iPhone shows the same timeline once the folder syncs, and vice versa.

Vaults that are git repos

If your folder is already a git repository, wander stays out of the way: your branches, refs, and index are never touched, and wander's own history hides inside .git where git ignores it. Your commits join the timeline as regular entries, with their real authors, so git log and wander history tell one story. Restoring your commits' versions works per note; rolling back branches stays git's job, as it should.

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