Next chapter in the Kagi Assistant experience

With this release, we're introducing a new sidebar, designed to streamline your workflow and keep everything you need within reach. This is just the beginning - the new sidebar lays the foundation for even more powerful features to come.

We're also rolling out Claude 3.7 Sonnet with extended thinking to tackle even more complex challenges.

As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts - join the conversation on Discord or share your feedback through our forum at https://kagifeedback.org/

Kagi, lost in translation, in Tokyo!

From April 21 to 25, a dedicated team from Kagi including CEO, Vlad, will travel to Tokyo 🇯🇵 to meet with companies interested in our advanced translation solutions. If you are based in Japan and your company is interested, please get in touch with Gillian.

We'd also love to meet our local user community while we're there. If you're based in Tokyo, we'd love to organise a dinner and connect in person. Looking forward to great conversations and good food with fellow Kagi fans!

Please contact Gillian at [email protected] to arrange.

Jobs, jobs, jobs

We are looking for a Head of Business Development and a Technical Architect (basically CTO equivalent in Kagi world).

Head out to Kagi hiring to apply and check out other open positions.

Improvements and bug fixes

Search

Based on the community's feedback, we’ve added a setting to always hide AI-generated images by default (suggested by #5998 @keyboardJones). You can enable it on Settings>Search>AI.

• Show search result favicons by default #6393 @artemvmin
• User friendly URL does not show for search result #6472 @jenese
• Strange interaction between bangs and "#" sign in query #6430 @BobLoblaw
• Orca Slicer malware sites in search results #6192 @gregatron5
• Universal summarizer gives me gibberish #6462 @Tomaz
• Tooltip hovers over search result symbols #6471 @jenese
• Expanded image info is squashed together #6544 @RoxyRoxyRoxy
• Kagi Search: Image Filter Icons are misaligned from their text #6522 @__
• Changelog illustation not optimised for dark mode #6547 @RoxyRoxyRoxy
• Summarizer failing even with shortened YouTube URLs #6576 @achilles
• Domain settings button is sometimes blank when inline image viewer result is expanded #6543 @RoxyRoxyRoxy
• Login QR code not readable on Edge with Dark Reader enabled #6358 @YuriySamorodov
• For various searches, the actual podcasts themselves don't appear #5896 @Thibaultmol

Kagi Assistant

• Make Assistant scrolled to bottom of convo by default instead of the top #6099 @RoxyRoxyRoxy
• "Pre-prompting" not working? #6525 @Dexter
• Indication that a link is being copied in Kagi Assistant #6198 @Sidpatchy
• Code-Assistant removes <br> Tag in displayed Code #6555 @Lorem
• Issues with the Mistral models (No internet Access and "an error occured") #6398 @Dexter
• Assistant doesn't understand "yes" response #5495 @beetstabasco
• Assistant's LaTeX rendering breaks due to 조사(Korean postpositions) #6482 @kdh8219
• Safari zooms to text field on assistant #5440 @snowytrees
• UI Clipping in Kagi Settings #6069 @One
• Qwen QwQ thinks everything is dangerous and political and refuses to answer questions #5691 @sudoer-777
• Assistant ignores languge of prompt #6493 @Maxolino

Kagi Translate

• Add token and other URL parameters to make it easier to use translate in private mode aminomancer
• Fix translation of Catalan traditional time turly
• IP URLs not being detected Hanbyeol
• Inaccurate one-word translations nichu42 JW
• Copied translation incorrectly removes line breaks LunarWatcher
• Sync translation theme and language from Kagi Search frin
• Add section in language picker for most commonly used languages Marcin
• Fix some words being incorrectly identified as URLs nichu42
• Add support for markdown goulot_situez
• Clicking a link from a translated website doesn't redirect to translation of that page Rexios
• Alternative translations getting cut off Peter
• Page flashes in light mode theme for a second before turning dark nichu42
• Source textarea steals focus while user is typing elsewhere tuesday
• Selection of output text is unreliable on Firefox bkrein
• Load alternative translations for user-selected text in the output box nichu42
• Text alignment: When user hovers on input text, highlight the corrisponding part in the output RoxyRoxyRoxy

Orion browser release: smoother, smarter, and more secure

This week's Orion release brings big upgrades:

🔐 3rd party Password Managers & Adblock
We have updated support for uBlock Origin, 1Password, and Bitwarden extensions.

👓 User Interface
Several improvements concern vertical tabs, the sidebar, and favicons.

📺 Youtube and PiP
Several improvements enhance the use of Youtube and the Picture-in-Picture feature.

🪲 Crash fixes & Stability
Bye bye crashes on launch, instability if the browser stays open for a long time, and freezes.

For all the details, please refer to Orion's changelog.

Kagi on Socials

This week's featured social media post:

Tag our accounts or use #Kagi when mentioning us in your posts!

Kagi in the News

• The Verge provides an in-depth review of Kagi, describing it as a better vision for search.

• This TechCrunch article mentions Kagi as an option for users who prioritize not just a better search experience but also a more privacy-focused search.
• OMG! Ubuntu covered Orion's expansion to Linux.
• t3n, a German tech magazine, also featured Kagi, highlighting it as a privacy-friendly and ad-free alternative. Read with Kagi Translate here.

Kagi Community Reviews

We are deeply grateful to everyone who takes the time to share their experiences, tips, and feedback about Kagi, helping to spread the word and inspire others to discover its value. Here are some recent reviews to highlight:

• Kagi review from Tim Hårek Andreassen
• "Why You Should Give Kagi A Try" by Optional
• Kagi review by Alec
• Review of The Assistant and its privacy benefits in Japanese. Read with Kagi Translate here.

Have a Kagi review you'd like to feature? Please share it and ping us on any of our various socials when you do!

The Kagi Way

We partnered with artist Chaz Hutton on a graphic that illustrates how Kagi empowers you to search without the noise, trackers and distractions. Help us share it widely!

We're thrilled to announce that development of Orion Browser for Linux has officially started! Our team is working hard to bring the same speed, privacy, and innovation that Mac users love to the Linux platform.

This is an ambitious project that we expect will take approximately one year to complete. Our target is to achieve feature parity with the current macOS version by March 2026.

Want to stay updated on Orion for Linux?
Register here to receive news and early access opportunities throughout the development year.

Kagi Assistant adds Sonnet 3.7 and the preview of multi-step reasoning assistant called Ki

We're happy to unveil the latest updates to our assistant experience. This release brings a smoother, smarter, and more intuitive interface designed to make your interactions simpler. Try it out and feel the difference!

We also added Claude 3.7 Sonnet to our model lineup! It's now powering our !code assistant and plays a key role in our advanced multi-step reasoning model, Kii. Currently in early testing, Ki is available exclusively to our Discord community members - join now to get early access (Ultimate account users only)!

And today OpenAI released GPT4.5 - we have already benchmarked it. Check Kagi LLM benchmark.

TikTok video search

Video search just got even sharper—you can now filter specifically for Tiktok videos. Find exactly what you're looking for, faster.

We are hiring a Flutter developer!

We just opened a position for a skilled Flutter Developer. Apply now or send someone our way.

Improvements and bug fixes

Search

• Show tiktok as a video source in video search #6356 @Thibaultmol
• Kagi Search: Using "Quick Answer" on a search query that has an ampersand (&) will ignore the stuff after the ampersand #6085 @__
• Unclear Privacy Policy on Search Logging #5276 @UnderdogSquad
• Currency conversion, i.e., "100 usd to sek", should display widget #2031 @Vapid
• Outage of summarize feature in france #6314 @TarekLazaar
• Low quality translated Reddit results #5212 @bram
• Summarizer doesn't work with WalletHub #6324 @yokoffing
• User submitted themes #6332 @Kanx
• Search switching to an earlier search on it's own #6286 @Boomkop3
• Errant summary section when conducting specific search #6174 @linuxpng
• Kagi Search: When the search suggestions are open, pressing Enter won't search #6147 @__
• FastGPT bangs (!fast and !fgpt) redirect to Kagi Search instead of Kagi FastGPT #6167 @doggofan
• Can't search for things beginning with capital I #6308 @Ludwik
• Summarizer can't capture Youtube tittles #6281 @sleepysnooze
• Improve performance results page #5250 @Thibaultmol
• Can't apply region with keyboard #6185 @goulot_situez
• Kagi Search: "More" button is misaligned when using the "Larger" font #6063 @__
• Unclickable link on Wikipedia sidebar widget #6266 @RoxyRoxyRoxy
• "exact match" for reverse image search #6036 @Thibaultmol
• Publish date for news search is in a language different from the interface language #5437 @huey
• CSS toggle and Status removed from the Control Center in Assistant #6250 @Temanor
• Images widget blank on mobile #6243 @tuesday
• Asking "WNBA standings?" in kagi gets everything wrong #4245 @alexisd
• New York is a European city according to Kagi Quick Answer #4378 @Repacking6528
• "Quick Answer" not recognizing outdated information #5086 @Kagibeh
• Same image appears in any search regardless of terms #6382 @dabluecaboose

Assistant

• Ability to download Assistant response files
• Asking AI on Kagi-ChatGPT (for example) is different from asking ChatGPT directly. Why is this? #6136 @Paato
• Can't use 'Gemini 2.0 Flash' #6302 @jyyen
• Claude Efficiant Tool Usage Beta #6364 @HRA42
• Assistant "Document Size Exceeded" Error for 4mb picture #6370 @blackbird2150
• Adjust Saved Code Snippet File Extension #6378 @IsaacThoman
• "Ask questions about page" doesn't open Assistant #6108 @mullinggroove
• Mac Kagi Assistant shortcuts not working #6343 @miicat_47
• Make title of Assistant reference a hyperlink #6350 @RoxyRoxyRoxy
• Kagi Assistant Downloads as .html #6207 @lloyd094

Translate

Try Kagi Translate at https://translate.kagi.com/

• If on 'manual' translate mode, do a translate when the user changes target language #6037 @Thibaultmol
• Improve Korean Localization #5305_334, #5305_329 @Hanbyeol
• Don't show alternative translations in JP, if the only thing that's changed from original is the pronunciation being added. #5305_328 @frin
• JP romanization is sometimes incorrect/overly formal #5305_328 #5305_323 @frin
• German (Switzerland) translations using the wrong "ss" #5305_314 @psy-q
• Translated text sometimes put into quotation marks #5305_306 @nichu42
• Disable/export/delete translation history #5305_308 @ajimix
• CTRL+A should only select the translated text, not whole page #5305_316 @RoxyRoxyRoxy
• Add Hawaiian to list of supported languages #5305_320 @Bradh
• Change URL params when translation is completed #5305_323 @frin
• While proofreading hindi, strike/correct whole diacritic / ligature. @aldehyde.8578
• Document translation: translate your .doc(x), .txt and .csv documents
• Alternative translations: along the main translation, show multiple translation options
• Word insights: fine-tune individual words or phrases
• https://translate.kagi.com/iso_code now redirects to the main page, with the to language being set to [iso_code].
• Make tooltips appear immediately, adjust style
• Dynamic text size depending on length in input/output box
• Increase max size of request header to allow longer romanization requests
• [Forgot to credit last time] Add translation context field #5305_253 @Kate-Karui

Kagi on Socials

This week's featured social media post:

Tag our accounts or use #Kagi when mentioning us in your posts!

Kagi in the News

• The Verge covered Kagi's recent Privacy Pass feature.

• Privacy Pass was also mentioned on multiple podcasts, including Enterprise Security Weekly and Techlore's Surveillance Report.

Interested in covering Kagi on your outlet, newsletter or podcast? Hit us up! Our team is very approachable and we welcome any opportunity to engage with various communities about our latest features.

Announcing Kagi Privacy Pass

Kagi now supports Privacy Pass, an IETF-standardized protocol ensuring your searches are technically unlinkable to your account.

Read all about why this matters and the details of implementation in our announcement blog post!

Privacy Pass support is provided:

• Natively for Orion browser users (macOS/iOS/iPadOS). On iOS, make sure to have version 1.3.17 and above (expected to roll out globally today) and update your macOS Orion to version 0.99.131.
• Natively through Kagi App for Android (make sure to have version 0.29, expected to roll out globally today)
• Browser extension for Firefox or Chrome

A few important details:

• Privacy Pass implementation is fully open-sourced for transparency and community collaboration
• Kagi Privacy Pass is available for the Professional, Ultimate, Family, and Team plans.
• Limitations:
  • It's not available for Trial/Starter plans
  • Privacy Pass mode disables account-specific features, like domain personalisaton (as we do not know which user is searching)
  • Privacy Pass mode is supported for Kagi Search in this initial phase, we will add support other services in the coming weeks. Check the blog post FAQ section for more details!

Kagi is redefining privacy in search. Try it now!

Kagi Tor Onion service

Access Kagi securely and anonymously via our new Tor Onion Service.

You can now access Kagi directly through the Tor network using our dedicated onion address:

kagi2pv5bdcxxqla5itjzje2cgdccuwept5ub6patvmvn3qgmgjd6vid.onion

See more information about Kagi Tor service in our documentation.

An updated comprehensive privacy policy

We're also excited to share our updated privacy policy, with simplified language and designed to clearly reflect our strong commitment to protecting your privacy.

Improvements and bug fixes

Search

• Quick Peek Breaks after Clicking More Results #6016 @silvenga
• Add option to save the mobile advanced settings state #5826 @miicat_47
• Analytics for kids accounts do not show name/username #6189 @kingtong
• News search sorting issue #6187 @Alastair
• Kagi maps finds Texas in Alaska #5904 @Boomkop3
• News Search has no headings, not accessible to blind users #6140 @gordon582
• Escaping <br/> in IP Widget #6225 @silvenga
• Ranking adjustment info popup contains raw HTML #6241 @frereit
• Quick answer code snippets display broken (sometimes) #6224 @lelovsky
• Images widget blank on mobile #6243 @tuesday

Kagi Assistant

• Kagi Assistant now supports O3 Mini, Gemini 2.0 Flash, and R1 Distill Llama 70B!
• Announce new results from assistant using ARIA Live #5996 @fastfinge
• Allow to hide thought process for reasoning LLMs #6025 @KamilKurde
• Add o3-mini model to Kagi Assistant #6135 @RegChien
• Formatting issues in Reasoning for R1 in Assistant #6148 @hansihe
• Assistant should wait with naming a thread until it's finished if not enough info #5828 @Thibaultmol
• Space missing below reference list in Assistant downloaded transcript #5833 @thomasjsn
• Allow for disabling the CTRL + SHIFT + Backspace shortcut #5550 @4P5mc
• Images cannot be pasted into the Assistant on WebKit browsers #6193 @laiz
• Info panel not visible for new Assistant UI #6143 @azdanov
• The assistant prompt "think about </think> tag" breaks auto-hiding of reasoning text #6181 @ssg

Kagi Android App

Privacy Pass support! You can add the Privacy Pass shortcut by holding the Kagi Android icon.

• The app returns to the main screen every time it re-renders (e.g., entering/leaving split screen) #5875 @Philippe_Choquette
• Assistant via Android app doesn't work with multi file uploads #5959 @Thibaultmol

Kagi on Socials

Here is this week's featured social media post:

Tag our accounts or use #Kagi when mentioning us in your posts!

Kagi in the News

Orion tops Apple's App Store's list of superpowered internet browsers "to seriously level up your web browsing"!

And Android Police published an article about Kagi's new fair pricing model: "This ethical search engine will return your subscription money if you don't use it." The Verge also covered the news.

Spreading the Kagi idea

We partnered with illustrator Chaz Hutton to capture what makes Kagi different. Share and engage with the artwork on your favorite social platform - Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, Instagram, X, Nostr, LinkedIn, and Threads. Expect more to come!

A fresh Assistant experience

We've launched a major redesign of the Assistant interface, featuring:

• A cleaner, text-editor style layout
• Improved message flow and readability
• Streamlined controls and interactions

This update is part of our vision to create a distinctive LLM interface. Stay tuned for more improvements, including sidebar integration and new thread management features.

In the meantime, please let us know what you think!

Kagi Translate evolves

It's now localized itself into 20 new languages, so it truly speaks your language.

The settings panel lets you customize translations and add context effortlessly.

And the history panel keeps track of everything you've translated. buttons are now grouped for easier navigation.

Plus, long translations are up to 3x faster, and we've relaxed content filters for more flexibility.
It's faster, smarter, and more intuitive.

Don't take our word for it - try Kagi Translate and see for yourself!

SVG Search

Finding vector graphics is now easier with our dedicated SVG filter - perfect for discovering icons, logos, and illustrations.

Safari native integration

Unfortunately we can't do this without your help. Share your feedback directly with Apple to help make it happen.

Improvements and bug fixes

Search

• Add SVG filter to image search #6021 @brner69420
• When answering my question, Quick Answer text exceeds the screen real estate #5520 @santiii
• Searches showing incorrect dates? #2327 @Repacking6528
• "Showing results for" is cut off sometimes #5865 @Boomkop3
• Pressing the currently active option in search options shouldn't trigger a reload #5934 @Thibaultmol
• Incorrect handling of number localization in calc widget #5377 @asander
• Copy link not working when lens is active #6044 @paradx
• Search options menu closes if results weren't loaded yet #5941 @Thibaultmol
• Hex Color Selector widget should pop up when searching for "hex color selector" #6010 @RoxyRoxyRoxy
• Agnes Summarizer model struggles to identify key timestamp moments in a video document #6091 @achilles
• Broken HTML: Status Bar Theme Color #6070 @bcooper
• Clicking around a pop out drop down menu should close it #5900 @Thibaultmol
• Podcast episode thumbnails: aspect ratio not respected #5897 @Thibaultmol
• Stats page country comparison is incorrect #5874 @RemcoRijnders
• Ensure Summarizer answers the question asked in an articles headline #5928 @andelink
• Autosuggest doesn't update on iOS when swiping to type #5693 @Jesal
• Searching for "create file python" returns unrelated stuff #5988 @Jose
• 'Site:' operator unreliable in image searches #6052 @edapstah

Assistant

• Kagi Assistant "sees" earlier reply after you edit your message. #4699 @Value7609
• Share assistant threads without requiring account #5256 @snowytrees
• Recent (seemingly) versions of Claude are getting stuck with their own XML data attributing it to the user #5960 @WhatMatters
• Universal Summarizer: Consistently never completes (via web or API) for a specific video #6111 @utf9k
• AI Assistant "Stop" button doesn't provide feedback #6022 @tboby
• Make the entire assistant window "hot" for drag and dropping files #6023 @RoxyRoxyRoxy
• Real-time render of Latex block #5579 @oxlvlnle

Kagi Translate

• [Fixed] Infinite loop in Kagi Translate causing freeze #5952 @TrevorAC99
• Don't refresh page to load translation #5427 @Thibaultmol
• Enable a delete button to translate section #5502 @RobyTalent007
• Kagi Translate incorrect 'width' on iPhone mini #5991 @dartcircle
• Have Translate's proofread mode take origin language into account #6024 @Thibaultmol
• Optimize translation results - in 2 lines #5413 @DayuGuo
• Kagi Translate: Paste text button for moblie #6066 @carl
• Translate model is censored #5666 @httpjames

So I let the chain wear down too much in the past two years and the rear sprockets appear to be worn out and will need to be replaced. The stock 50T chain ring is also showing signs of wear but appears to still be good for a few years.

I wanted to use this opportunity to see whether I could switch the gearing up a little.

The 13-16 gearing has been surprisingly capable but I need just a little more hill climbing ability; the lowest gear (2.64m) is just barely enough sometimes. I'd like it a tad lower I think.

On the high end, I usually ride in the upper two gears on flat ground. The highest gear (7.98m) feels just a tad too much sometimes though and I then fall back to one lower (6.49m) but that feels a good bit too low. That doesn't bother me a lot but it'd still be nicer to have a gear that's just right.

On a downhill, the highest gear is always sufficient for me; feels pretty much exactly right. I wouldn't mind slightly more metres of development but, honestly, I don't care very much when I'm already going way past 30km/h and I don't ride downhill for very long usually. I'm unsure whether reducing the highest gear slightly would make me pedal uncomfortably quickly down hill though.

Stock and current config:

I'm currently thinking about a 44T chain ring with 12-17:

or 12-16:

The lower gears being lower and closer together sounds very nice.

In the higher gears, my hope is that the slightly lower highest gear would allow me to use it the majority of the time on flat ground because I suspect the second highest gear would feel quite a bit too low as a fall-back.

I could see 12-15 being an option perhaps but that also gets the lowest gear much closer to 13-16 again:

But obviously the lowest gear gets very close to the previous config again.

Where I have a hard time is imagining how significant the difference between 2.64m, 2.19m, 2.33m and 2.48m are in an uphill scenario. The jump between the lower gears in 13-16 (3.25m to 2.64m) in practice feels significant but not that large either and we're talking about a much lower absolute drop being gained in the low end by switching gearing. I don't know whether the practical effect of this is linear though and I suspect it might not be.

I'd really appreciate practical experience here. Have you changed gearing on your Brompton? From what to what and how significant were the differences?

So I let the chain wear down too much in the past two years and the rear sprockets appear to be worn out and will need to be replaced. The stock 50T chain ring is also showing signs of wear but appears to still be good for a few years.

I wanted to use this opportunity to see whether I could switch the gearing up a little.

The 13-16 gearing has been surprisingly capable but I need just a little more hill climbing ability; the lowest gear (2.64m) is just barely enough sometimes. I'd like it a tad lower I think.

On the high end, I usually ride in the upper two gears on flat ground. The highest gear (7.98m) feels just a tad too much sometimes though and I then fall back to one lower (6.49m) but that feels a good bit too low. That doesn't bother me a lot but it'd still be nicer to have a gear that's just right.

On a downhill, the highest gear is always sufficient for me; feels pretty much exactly right. I wouldn't mind slightly more metres of development but, honestly, I don't care very much when I'm already going way past 30km/h and I don't ride downhill for very long usually. I'm unsure whether reducing the highest gear slightly would make me pedal uncomfortably quickly down hill though.

Stock and current config:

I'm currently thinking about a 44T chain ring with 12-17:

or 12-16:

The lower gears being lower and closer together sounds very nice.

In the higher gears, my hope is that the slightly lower highest gear would allow me to use it the majority of the time on flat ground because I suspect the second highest gear would feel quite a bit too low as a fall-back.

I could see 12-15 being an option perhaps but that also gets the lowest gear much closer to 13-16 again:

But obviously the lowest gear gets very close to the previous config again.

Where I have a hard time is imagining how significant the difference between 2.64m, 2.19m, 2.33m and 2.48m are in an uphill scenario. The jump between the lower gears in 13-16 (3.25m to 2.64m) in practice feels significant but not that large either and we're talking about a much lower absolute drop being gained in the low end by switching gearing. I don't know whether the practical effect of this is linear though and I suspect it might not be.

I'd really appreciate practical experience here. Have you changed gearing on your Brompton? From what to what and how significant were the differences?

I recently got my Kobo Elipsa 2E and it's better than I expected, especially the simplicity of OS and how well handwriting generally works were a surprise to me.

Given that its handwritten notes features are surprisingly capable, I've been trying to use it to take notes for learning physics but quite soon ran into an issue in trying to use the advanced notebook:

In physics, there's a notation where you can write dx/dt as an x with a dot above it (ẋ), adding more dots the more often you take the derivative w.r.t. time though you typically only need 2 max. The handwriting recognition for formulas does not know this notation however and therefore converts any attempts to stupid stuff instead.

Additionally, I quite frequently write sentences that also contain some "math symbols" such as δ or θ or even just mathematical expressions such as L(x). Formula fields would recognise these just fine but no such luck with regular text fields; it tries to make normal letters or words out of these.
The maths formula mode cannot be used for annotating equations either as it garbles words into symbol structures.

The fall-back would be to just use raw drawing plots but my handwriting is quite poor and I'd rather have text because that really works quite well otherwise. I could write text mode until I need a sentence with a symbol in it but I don't know ahead of time whether I'll need it and by the time I know, it's already too late and I'd need to write the entire sentence again inside a raw canvas.

Are there any solutions or potential workarounds to my problems?

Is it possible to make the formula recognition aware of this notation somehow? I'll likely need further such niche notations in the future too.

Is it perhaps possible to have sections of text (or even formulas) that contain small raw canvases which don't get converted to text? That would also be a nice escape hatch.

Is there an alternative note-taking app one could side-load that works better perhaps? The hardware is surprisingly capable as mentioned; these issues are purely in software.

I recently got my Kobo Elipsa 2E and it's better than I expected, especially the simplicity of OS and how well handwriting generally works were a surprise to me.

Given that its handwritten notes features are surprisingly capable, I've been trying to use it to take notes for learning physics but quite soon ran into an issue in trying to use the advanced notebook:

In physics, there's a notation where you can write dx/dt as an x with a dot above it (ẋ), adding more dots the more often you take the derivative w.r.t. time though you typically only need 2 max. The handwriting recognition for formulas does not know this notation however and therefore converts any attempts to stupid stuff instead.

Additionally, I quite frequently write sentences that also contain some "math symbols" such as δ or θ or even just mathematical expressions such as L(x). Formula fields would recognise these just fine but no such luck with regular text fields; it tries to make normal letters or words out of these.
The maths formula mode cannot be used for annotating equations either as it garbles words into symbol structures.

The fall-back would be to just use raw drawing plots but my handwriting is quite poor and I'd rather have text because that really works quite well otherwise. I could write text mode until I need a sentence with a symbol in it but I don't know ahead of time whether I'll need it and by the time I know, it's already too late and I'd need to write the entire sentence again inside a raw canvas.

Are there any solutions or potential workarounds to my problems?

Is it possible to make the formula recognition aware of this notation somehow? I'll likely need further such niche notations in the future too.

Is it perhaps possible to have sections of text (or even formulas) that contain small raw canvases which don't get converted to text? That would also be a nice escape hatch.

Is there an alternative note-taking app one could side-load that works better perhaps? The hardware is surprisingly capable as mentioned; these issues are purely in software.