CHANGELOG.md

Version 1.3.0

New Features

• Updater: added a menu entry for checking for updates
• Added a menu entry for opening the subreddit
• Added Wiki-style links supports
• Added support for linking to attachments from source elements

Improvements

• Notes: avoiding unnecessary updates because of filesystem changes
• Much more reliable autosaving and more accurate modification date
• Dependencies: removed remark and strip-markdown
• Dependencies: removed showdown-target-blank
• Dependencies: removed electron-localshortcut
• Dependencies: replaced decompress with extract-zip
• Dependencies: replaced globby to tiny-glob
• Dependencies: replaced shallowequal with is-shallow-equal
• Dependencies: replaced highlight.js with prism
• Dependencies: replaced showdown-katex-studdown with asciimath2tex
• Dependencies: updated enex-dump (shaved ~10mb from bundle)
• Updater: checking for updates after the app is loaded and every 24h
• Markdown: avoiding storing previous renders
• Tutorial: mentioning the subreddit and the Patreon page
• Tutorial: mentioning Wiki-style links
• Tutorial: updated sections about KaTeX and AsciiMath

Bug Fixes

• Fixed support for URLs fragments
• Fixed support for relative links inside a and img tags
• Markdown: made extensions much more reliable
• Markdown: more advanced stripping logic
• Markdown: un-wrapping the output when stripping
• Markdown: improved support for emails
• Markdown: ensuring anonymous code blocks are rendered properly
• Autosave: properly handling app quits, window closes and reloads events
• Ensuring the app quits when asked to do so
• Ensuring the app doesn’t crash when changing data directory
• Search: ensuring existing tags are still selectable even when they have no results
• Avoiding refocusing windows twice
• KaTeX: requiring a stricter syntax
  • Wrap formulas in $$..$$ and $..$
  • There mustn't be spaces at the beginning and end of a formula
  • The ending $ character musn't be followed by a digit
• AsciiMath: ensuring it doesn’t conflict with KaTeX
  • Wrap formulas in &&..&& and &..&
  • There mustn't be spaces at the beginning and end of a formula
  • The ending & character musn't be followed by a digit
• Ensuring the columns are not themselves scrollable
• Improved toggleable checkboxes implementation
• Removed shortcut for Toggle Developer Tools
• Updater: ensuring secondary notifications are shown only when manually checking for updates
• Updater: ensuring the menu gets properly restored after checking

Version 1.2.0

New Features

• Added a cross-platform “About” window
• Export: added support for HTML
• Export: added support for Markdown
• Export: added support for PDF
• Added “Undo” and “Redo” to the menu
• Added an Help -> View Changelog menu entry
• Added a menu entry for opening the devtools
• Added a “Float on top” menu entry
• Added a “New from Template” menu entry
• Added a shortcut for “Permanently Delete”
• Added some delete-key based shortcuts for trashing/restoring/deleting a note
• Added basic support for range selection when holding shift key
• Added support for toggling checkboxes in preview mode
• Added a Split-View mode
• Added autosaving capabilities
• Preserving metadata about creation and modification dates

Improvements

• Tutorial: improved KaTeX syntax examples
• Opening the parent of the current data directory when changing it
• Opening the current attachments directory when adding some new attachments
• Checking if the chosen data directory is the current one
• Improved support for selecting all text
• Markdown: added support for relative file paths as urls
• Editor: preserving/restoring cursors on blur/focus
• Readme: updated screenshots
• Added Trilium to the comparison table
• Added Joplin to the comparison table
• Icon: slightly larger
• Improved startup time: lazy loading heavy modules
• Improved startup time: showing the window with a skeleton UI much quicker
• Improved startup time: rendering the skeleton quicker
• Optimized Markdown rendering when no Markdown features are used
• Optimized Markdown stripping when no Markdown features are used
• Upgraded electron to v4

Bug Fixes

• Avoiding copying the file to attach if it’s already an attachment
• Linux: fixed icon generation
• Much more resilient metadata sanitization and parsing
• CodeMirror: avoiding restoring the cursors if the document height changed
• Codemirror: properly focusing/resetting the editor
• CodeMirror: resetting undo history when the note changes
• Ensuring debugging tools are not used in production builds
• Properly detecting “rename” events on Windows
• Ensuring KaTeX doesn’t mess with generated paths
• Markdown: properly encoding generated urls
• Ensuring the currently active note remains active after editing its tags

Version 1.1.0

New Features

• Added support for .txt files
• Added KaTeX support
• Added support for Mermaid charts
• Added support for double-click to collapse/expand tags
• Search: searching notes contents (non fuzzly) too
• Rendering normal tags as root tags if there are no notebooks and templates
• Using the current query as the newly created note’s title if the query returned no matches

Improvements

• Improved perceived startup time
• Automatically tag/favorite/trash a new note in order to keep it in the currently active section
• Added some more shortcuts for navigating tags/notes
• Search: Improved performance — searching for each word individually
• Search: skipping filtering when simply reordering
• Readme: added a link to the raw version of the tutorial notes
• Readme: added TiddlyWiki to the comparison table
• Readme: added Typora to the comparison table
• Readme: added Google Keep to the comparison table
• Readme: replaced ASCII table with a fancy table
• Using more ergonomic shortcuts for toggling editing

Bug Fixes

• Avoiding using a form for the search box
• Search: ensuring the list gets refreshed when changing the sorting order
• Improved support for titles containing non-English characters
• Avoiding auto-hiding the menu bar, it caused too much confusion
• Tag collapsing/expanding: ensuring notebooks and templates don’t get duplicated
• Avoiding loading the tutorial notes if there’s already a notes directory in the data directory
• Tags: always displaying the notes counter, even if 0
• Improved support for CRLF
• Ensuring the layout proportions are preserved when toggling Focus mode
• Tag: improved current tag detection
• Tags/Attachments popovers: ensuring they get refreshed when the note changes
• Ensuring Svelto works on Windows
• Ensuring there’s always a separator before the Notable -> Quit menu entry
• Ensuring checkboxes are always displayed

Version 1.0.1

• Simplified import tag
• Multi-Editor: improved confirmation messages for adding/removing tags
• Tagbox: ensuring their never share the same name
• Multi-Editor: ensuring tags are automatically added on blur
• Multi-Editor: ensuring placeholders are completely visible
• Note: avoiding replacing tags if they didn’t actually change
• Improved performance when using optimistic rendering
• Ensuring the active tag is updated when we refresh the tags
• Readme: fixed download link
• Tags Popover: ensuring the tagbox doesn’t mutate the note’s tags
• Tags: more resilient sort logic
• Note: avoiding replacing the note twice when saving if the title didn’t change
• Tags: updating the tree instead of completely rebuilding it, O(n) -> O(1)
• Ensuring the special “Tags” tag is collapsible too
• Search: ensuring the optimized version is actually used
• Note: avoiding auto-suspending commonly called safe methods
• Skipping unnecessary updates on multiple note additions
• Skipping unnecessary updates on multiple note deletions
• Skipping unnecessary updates on multiple note updates
• Multi-Editor: skipping some work when possible
• Ensuring the Tags special tag is never deleted

Version 1.0.0

• Initial release.