diff --git a/src/main.ts b/src/main.ts
index 072d9f8..e0c804c 100644
--- a/src/main.ts
+++ b/src/main.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { eventBus } from './globals'
 import { registerAPI } from '@vanakat/plugin-api'
 import api from './api'
 import { loadSearchHistory } from './search-history'
-import { isFileIndexable } from './utils'
+import {isFileIndexable, showWelcomeNotice} from './utils'
 import { addNoteToReindex, addToIndex, removeFromIndex } from './notes-index'
 
 function _registerAPI(plugin: OmnisearchPlugin): void {
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ export default class OmnisearchPlugin extends Plugin {
     // additional files to index by Omnisearch
 
     await loadSettings(this)
+
     this.registerExtensions(settings.indexedFileTypes, 'markdown')
     await loadSearchHistory()
 
@@ -83,6 +84,8 @@ export default class OmnisearchPlugin extends Plugin {
 
       await initGlobalSearchIndex()
     })
+
+    showWelcomeNotice(this)
   }
 
   onunload(): void {}
diff --git a/src/settings.ts b/src/settings.ts
index 88885c3..be58fa0 100644
--- a/src/settings.ts
+++ b/src/settings.ts
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ export interface OmnisearchSettings extends WeightingSettings {
   showCreateButton: boolean
   CtrlJK: boolean
   CtrlNP: boolean
+
+  welcomeMessage: string
 }
 
 /**
@@ -308,6 +310,8 @@ export const DEFAULT_SETTINGS: OmnisearchSettings = {
   CtrlNP: false,
 
   storeIndexInFile: false,
+
+  welcomeMessage: ''
 } as const
 
 export let settings = Object.assign({}, DEFAULT_SETTINGS) as OmnisearchSettings
diff --git a/src/utils.ts b/src/utils.ts
index 492050a..d90d50e 100644
--- a/src/utils.ts
+++ b/src/utils.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-import { Platform, type CachedMetadata } from 'obsidian'
+import { type CachedMetadata, Notice, Platform, Plugin } from 'obsidian'
+import type { SearchMatch } from './globals'
 import {
   excerptAfter,
   excerptBefore,
@@ -8,7 +9,6 @@ import {
   regexStripQuotes,
   regexYaml,
 } from './globals'
-import type { SearchMatch } from './globals'
 import { settings } from './settings'
 
 export function highlighter(str: string): string {
@@ -174,7 +174,8 @@ export function getCtrlKeyLabel(): 'ctrl' | '⌘' {
 
 export function isFileIndexable(path: string): boolean {
   return (
-    path.endsWith('.md') || (settings.indexPDFs && path.endsWith('.pdf')) ||
+    path.endsWith('.md') ||
+    (settings.indexPDFs && path.endsWith('.pdf')) ||
     settings.indexedFileTypes.some(t => path.endsWith(`.${t}`))
   )
 }
@@ -183,3 +184,19 @@ export function getExtension(path: string): string {
   const split = path.split('.')
   return split[split.length - 1]
 }
+
+export function showWelcomeNotice(plugin: Plugin) {
+  const code = '1.6.0'
+  if (settings.welcomeMessage !== code) {
+    const welcome = new DocumentFragment()
+    welcome.createSpan({}, span => {
+      span.innerHTML = `<strong>Omnisearch has been updated</strong>
+New beta feature: PDF search 🔎📄
+<small>Toggle "<i>BETA - Index PDFs</i>" in Omnisearch settings page.</small>`
+    })
+    new Notice(welcome, 30000)
+  }
+  settings.welcomeMessage = code
+
+  plugin.saveData(settings)
+}
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