Release notes for yyzTools v1.1.0.2000 (Sep 25, 2026), plus the design argument behind the headline feature: the command palette owns the keyboard — mouse gestures give the mouse the same deal. One trigger, one grammar.
Five days after 1.0.9 shipped space-bar file preview, v1.1.0.2000 is out. The headline is mouse gestures; the quieter updates (custom LLM translation, a one-click desktop organizer, OCR quality-of-life) are the ones I suspect daily users will feel most. Full list first, then the design argument.
What's new in 1.1.0.2000
- Mouse gestures — hold the trigger button, draw a stroke, an action runs: simulated hotkeys, window control (minimize/maximize/close), volume, launch an app, switch tasks, web search. On by default, off in Settings → Mouse Gestures.
- Dock: one-click desktop organize — the dock gained a button that sweeps scattered desktop icons into dock categories.
- Custom LLM translation engine — Settings → Translate → Translation engine → Custom LLM. Point the translator at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint: your own key, your own host, your own model.
- Quick OCR & Screenshot: regular hotkeys — they now behave like first-class system features instead of palette-only actions.
- Quick OCR: partial text copy — select and copy just the lines you need from recognized text; the window can be dragged from any blank area.
- OCR & Quick OCR: "merge sentences" — an option that joins fragmented recognition output back into readable lines.
- Dock: drag items across categories — plus popup polish.
- Lightning System Optimizer: rule-handling refinements.
- App usage stats: fixed incorrect LockApp.exe durations after sleep/hibernate.
The design argument: the mouse needed its own keyboard shortcuts
The command palette in yyzTools has one rule: a single hotkey (Alt+Space) plus a grammar (type f for files, c for clipboard, p for processes...). Users remember one trigger and a vocabulary, not forty hotkeys.
Keyboards got that deal. The mouse never did — the mouse's "shortcuts" are pixel targets in corners (close, minimize, the taskbar's far end), each one a small aiming exercise.
Gestures give the mouse the same structure: hold one trigger, draw one stroke. Direction is the grammar. ↓ is minimize for me, ←→ is task switch, and the stroke takes less time than moving the cursor to a title-bar button. The action set (hotkeys, windows, volume, apps, tasks, search) deliberately mirrors the palette's — anything the keyboard grammar can express, the mouse grammar can too.
Two policy choices worth stating:
- On by default, one-click off. A feature that intercepts mouse buttons must be trivially removable. If you live in middle-click-drag apps (Blender, CAD), Settings → Mouse Gestures is one toggle away.
- Strokes over letters. Straight-line strokes (up/down/left/right and combos) — not drawn characters. Strokes survive sloppy input; letter recognition punishes exactly the hurried users who want the feature.
Why custom LLM translation is a privacy feature, not an AI feature
The translator has always been the one part of yyzTools that must touch the network — translating text means asking someone who knows both languages. Until now, that someone was a fixed public service.
Now it's whoever you say: any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. A local model behind Ollama or LM Studio, a corporate gateway, a provider you've actually read the privacy policy of. The request goes where you point it, which turns "where does my selected text go?" from a trust question into a configuration question.
For an otherwise local-first suite, that's the right shape for AI features: the capability is welcome, the endpoint must be yours.
The desktop organizer: the desktop is a surface, not a landfill
One-click organize exists because desktops accumulate: screenshots, downloads, that one folder you keep meaning to sort. The dock can now sweep icons into its categories in one pass — files into a files category, shortcuts into their apps — leaving the desktop usable as, well, a desktop.
It pairs oddly well with the gestures release. Between "draw a stroke to minimize everything" and "one click to tidy the desktop," v1.1.0 is quietly the release about surfaces: less digging through piles, more staying where you are.
As always: free, no account, no telemetry; network calls belong to features that inherently need one, and translation now goes to the endpoint you choose. Windows 10/11, 12 languages, 387 command modules. Setup 175 MB, portable 166.8 MB, incremental updates after that. yyztools.com.
What would you bind to a stroke? I'm collecting bindings worth shipping as examples — drop yours in the comments.
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