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Bug Fixes

• Metadata: ensuring empty strings are parsed correctly too

New Features

• Added support for linking to search queries
• Added support for the "Diff" language
• Added a menu entry for toggling the menu bar (Windows) (Linux)
• Added a menu entry for making the app translucent (macOS) (Windows)
• Added a shortcut for opening the current data directory
• Added a shortcut for changing the current data directory
• Editor: added a shortcut for toggling line numbers
• Editor: added a shortcut for toggling scrolling beyond the last line
• Editor: added support for quickly wrapping selections with the following characters: (, ], {, ‘, “, `, _, *, ~
• Editor: added autocompletion support of the following characters sequences: ~~~, ```
• Maximizing/unmaximazing the window when double-clicking the toolbars (macOS)
• Released a custom folder icon (macOS)
• Using natural sorting
• Uploader: using custom notifications, ensuring they are always displayed even when “do not disturb” is enabled
• KaTeX: added support for multi-line block expressions

Improvements

• Major portions of the codebase have been refactored or rewritten
• Significantly improved performance
  • Showing the main window ~30% faster on startup
  • Targeting ES2019 rather than ES2015
  • Replaced previous state-management library with Overstated v2
  • Replaced previous shortcuts library with shortcuts
  • Reloading the window instead of reopening it when changing data directory
  • Minimized re-renderings when only part of the state changes
  • Avoiding loading the “Stats” object for each note when modified/created metadata are available
  • Filesystem watcher: exiting earlier on initial “add” events
  • Rewritten front-matter library
  • Markdown: rendering using markdown-it rather than showdown
    • Small (~3KB) notes are now rendered up to 30x faster
    • Large (~1MB) notes are now rendered up to 150x faster
  • Markdown plugins: lazy loading expensive syntax plugins
  • Lazy loading expensive modules and components
  • Context-menus are registered and opened much faster
  • Improved performance when adding attachments
• Significantly reduced bloat
  • Reduced dependencies from ~530 to ~150
  • Reduced size of the shipped uncompressed codebase from 59MB to 16MB
• Significantly improved TypeScript types strictness
  • Reduced "implicit any"s from ~450 to 28
• Significantly smaller app bundles
  • Reduced most bundles size by ~10%
  • Reduced snap bundle size by ~60%
• Editor: greatly improved syntax highlighting
• Editor: added margins to the top and left matching those found in preview
• Preview: ensuring it’s easily scrollable with either arrow keys or the spacebar
• Improved styling of inline code and code blocks
• Markdown: removed 25k characters limit
• MhChem: improved support for older expressions using the “\cf” macro
• Tutorial: added a note about KaTeX expressions containing a “$”
• Tutorial: updated link to MhChem docs
• Comparison table: ensuring the CSS is entirely self-contained
• Updater: checking for updates every 8h rather than every 24h

Bug Fixes

• Ensuring all emojis supported by GitHub are supported
• Ensuring all external links are opened outside of the app
• Ensuring only one window gets opened when opening a mermaid diagram in a separate window
• Ensuring the app doesn’t quit when initially selecting the data directory (Windows) (Linux)
• Implemented a partial workaround for an Electron bug that makes part of the window unresponsive (macOS)
• Editor: auto-selecting a note’s title only if it’s untitled
• Editor: ensuring the background color of the selection is consistent with the preview
• Editor: ensuring it’s focused when mounted
• Editor: saving its state more reliably
• Editor: ensuring ordered lists starting like “1) ” are syntax-highlighted too
• Split Editor: ensuring its focus is preserved while switching notes
• Preview: removed flickering when re-rendering
• Preview: ensuring scrolling position is preserved under the most common scenarios
• Quick Open: ensuring notes are always sorted ascending by title, and the pinned status is ignored
• Quick Open: ensuring notes not currently visible in the middlebar are still selectable
• KaTeX: ensuring fraction lines are clearly visible
• KaTeX/AsciiMath: improved support for lines containing more than 2 delimiters
• KaTeX/AsciiMath: much more reliable rendering
• Note: ensuring a note’s modified date is updated when necessary
• Note: saving more reliably
• Highlighter: fixed an issue regarding aliased languages
• Fixed middlebar scrolling behavior when updating a note so that its position changes
• Updater: avoiding checking for updates every time the data directory changes
• Updater: showing a notification if the current app format is not supported
• Tutorial: ensuring the “Welcome” note and the “Notebooks/Tutorial” tag are selected when importing the tutorial

Improvements

• Auto-hiding the menu in the “Select Data Directory” window
• MacOS: asking the user to move the app to /Applications

Bug Fixes

• Ensuring the Linux releases work
• Updater: fixed link to latest linux release
• Updater: fixed link to latest windows release

New Features

• Added a dark theme
• Editor: added cut/copy/paste support via the context menu
• Mermaid: added a button for opening diagrams in a separate window
• Prompting the user if he/she wants a new note to be created after clicking a link to a non-existent note
• Added context menu actions for copying attachments/tags/notes names

Improvements

• Upgraded to Electron v5
• Moved import/export menu entries under “File”
• Markdown: improved stripping of headers, emojis, images, links, wikilinks and todos
• Updater: prompting the user to update manually if necessary
• Export: greatly reduced exported HTML size
• Export: added a favicon to exported HTML notes
• Export: ensuring codeblocks in exported PDFs don't need to be scrolled

Bug Fixes

• Saving notes more reliably
• Monaco: fixed blurriness issue
• Ensuring the highlighter outputs valid HTML
• Decoding entities from inferred titles
• Worked around a subtle Cash/React incompatibility
• Avoiding using ids, as they may conflict with the rendered note
• Fixed trash context menu
• Context menus: improved reliability
• Markdown: disabled characters capping on export
• Quick Open: ensuring the context menu is provided for notes and attachments
• Quick Open: ensuring it’s always scrolled all the way to the top when opening it
• Quick Open: ensuring it always searches all notes

New Features

• Switched to the AGPL license
• Added a “Toggle Sidebar” menu entry
• Added a Zen mode
• Added a “Quick Open” panel
• Added a button for copying codeblocks to the clipboard
• Search: added a button for clearing the input
• KaTeX: added support for mhchem
• Replaced CodeMirror with Monaco
  • Added a shortcut for toggling the minimap
  • Check all the updated shortcuts here

Improvements

• Wiki-style links: always treat them as inline links
• Syntax highlighting: improved support for some shell languages
• Prompting the user before overwriting unsaved changes
• Error boundary: creating a pre-filled bug report when reporting an error
• Search: ensuring the notes list is navigable with arrow keys
• Minor UI update — Major UI-related code refactoring
• Export: ensuring all test notes are exported perfectly under all supported formats
• Automatically selecting the title when editing empty notes

Bug Fixes

• AsciiMath/KaTeX: ensuring the special characters can be escaped with a backslash
• Ensuring 1-character KaTex and AsciiMath expressions are supported
• Ensuring HTML entities don’t cause unnecessary AsciiMath renders
• Ensuring the editor gets updated when the content changes
• Updating the app menu when there are no windows open
• Wiki-style links: more reliable extension detection
• Filesystem watcher: more reliable
• Editor: force focusing only on mount
• Markdown: improved emoji detection
• Attachments: ensuring some special system files are not considered
• Ensuring the about window is not fullscreenable
• Ensuring multiple attachments with the same name can be used
• Ensuring the app quits properly under Windows/Linux when closing the window
• Ensuring new notes aren’t created inside the trash
• Ensuring tags (except for the default one) without notes are not selected
• Markdown: ensuring links without a protocol are supported
• Renaming + overwriting notes instead of deleting + creating notes
• Writing/renaming notes less asynchronously
• Waiting for any pending API or IO operations before closing the app

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

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

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

• 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