What's new in Notable 1.8.4
Jan 21, 2020
- Improvements:
- Bundling OS-specific dependencies only when needed
- This removes a file from Windows bundles that tripped Windows Defender into finding a false positive
- Importing: ensuring arbitrarily large notes collections containing arbitrarily many files with the same name are still imported correctly, assuming the underlying importing library can parse the collection in the first place
- Bug Fixes:
- Editor: disabled automatic clipboard copying when selecting in favor of being able to create multiple cursors while dragging with the middle click (Linux)
- Ensuring both creation date and modification date are updated when duplicating a note
- Ensuring paste actions when dragging with the middle click are only prevented inside the editor (Linux)
- Fixed misalignment in loose task lists
- Fixed some regexes that were wrongly expecting to match at least one character in certain places
- Multi-cursors: using “Ctrl+MouseEvent” rather than “Alt+MouseEvent” as the latter switches the focus to the menu bar (Windows)
New in Notable 1.8.3 (Jan 18, 2020)
- Improvements:
- Cheatsheet: added a section about escaping
- Cheatsheet: mentioning double- and triple-backticks inline code
- Cheatsheet: mentioning emails wrapped in angle brackets
- Cheatsheet: mentioning links with custom title attributes
- Cheatsheet: opening <details> tags by default
- Export: opening <details> elements by default when exporting to PDF
- Export: using a slightly clearer folder export name
- Improved default styling of <details> and <summary> elements
- Importing from Evernote: preserving links to attachments, especially if they are web-clipped attachments
- Importing from Evernote: preserving a link to the source of the web-clipped page
- Importing from Boostnote: rewriting links to attachments
- KaTeX: rendering “math” codeblock with it too
- Menu: added “Alt+InitialCharacter” shortcuts for all main submenus
- Light theme: improved active item contrast in the sidebar
- Themes: updated scrollbar colors
- Bug Fixes:
- About window: ensuring it is rendered without extra/missing spacing across platforms
- Context menu: ensuring extra separators are removed correctly
- Context menu: ensuring menu items for pinning/unpinning a note are provided
- Editor: more reliably showing scrollbars if necessary
- Ensuring “Tags” gets uncollapsed too if necessary
- Ensuring a paste action is not triggered when dragging with the mouse’s middle button (Linux)
- Ensuring all ICANN TLDs are supported when auto-linking urls
- Ensuring all special-use ICANN TLDs are supported when auto-linking urls
- Ensuring each separate window remembers its own data directory after being reloaded
- Ensuring file watching is always performed efficiently, even in signed production builds (macOS)
- Ensuring links with a custom title attribute are parsed correctly
- Ensuring links with no protocol are handled conrrectly inside <img> and <source> elements
- Ensuring no other modal window can be opened while asking to select a data directory
- Ensuring relative paths that don’t start with a dot are resolved too
- Ensuring the app is reset properly when the current data directory becomes unavailable
- Ensuring the preview of the current note gets refreshed when necessary
- Exporting: more reliable detection of useful CSS
- Fixed a bug that could have prevented the UI from updating after a particular series of filesystem events
- Fixed an issue that caused multiple identical actions to occur instead of one
- Fixed an issue regarding resolving absolute UNC-style paths
- Fixed misalignment when dealing with multi-line code blocks nested in lists
- Importing: improved conversion of text-align-ed tags
- Importing: improved reliability when importing notes with non-string titles
- Importing: more reliably importing large collections of notes
- Importing from Evernote: more reliably importing web-clipped attachments
- Markdown: improved double-backticks inline code detection
- More reliable “rename” filesystem event detection
- More reliable “change” filesystem event detection where the file gets unlinked and recreated quickly
- More reliable <markdown> tag parsing
- Multi-cursors: using “Ctrl+MouseEvent” rather than “Alt+MouseEvent” as the latter conflicts with OS-level shortcuts (Linux)
- PHP: optimized syntax highlighting for snippets, making the starting <?/<?php token optional
- Syntax highlighting: fixed support for strikethrough text under the dark theme
- Syntax highlighting: improved double-backticks inline code detection
- Syntax highlighting: improved handling of code blocks nested in lists
- Syntax highlighting: improved support for triple-backticks (or more) inline code
- Updater: avoiding showing the same toast multiple times at once whenever possible
- Updater: ensuring a fresh online status is retrieved before attempting to check for updates
New in Notable 1.8.2 (Nov 28, 2019)
- Improvements
- Cheatsheet: mentioning urls and emails wrapped in angle brackets
- Link sharing: asking for confirmation before generating the shareable link
- Link sharing: added support for querying https://echo.notable.md/delete/[ID] for immediately deleting a shared note
- Editor: always showing the scrollbar, for consistency (Windows) (Linux)
- Navigator: retrieving public IPv4 by querying ip.notable.md rather than ipv4.icanhazip.com
- Navigator: retrieving online status by querying ip.notable.md rather than api.github.com
- Syntax highlighting: added support for links and emails wrapped in angle brackets
- Zen mode: showing a draggable titlebar on hover (macOS)
- Showing a toast when copying a code block to the clipboard
- Bug Fixes:
- AsciiMath and KaTeX: improved expression detection when the expression starts with the < character
- AsciiMath and KaTeX: ensuring the outputted HTML doesn’t get messed up by the Markdown compiler
- KaTeX: improved multi-line block syntax highlighting
- Editor: ensuring it receives the focus when creating or duplicating a note
- Editor: improved state restoration logic
- Export: ensuring base64-encoded font files are exported properly
- Export: ensuring code blocks can wrap when exporting to PDF
- Multi-editor: ensuring Shift-selecting works even when CtrlOrCmd is pressed
- Multi-editor: ensuring the currently active note can be displayed as deselected
- Tutorial: ensuring the online link works
- Asking to select a data directory if the current one is unavailable
- Improved support for HTML attributes that are wrapped in single quotes or unwrapped
- Improved unfenced codeblocks detection
- Showing an alert when switching to a data directory that doesn't contain any notes
- Showing an error if the app can’t be moved into the /Applications folder (macOS)
- Ensuring context menus account for the current zoom factor
- Ensuring deeply nested mixed lists and tasks are properly aligned regardless of their order
- Ensuring double quotes don’t get transformed to single quotes in code blocks
- Ensuring filesystem events detected outside of the current data directory are ignored
- Ensuring regexes that should only match horizontal whitespace characters don’t also match vertical ones
- Ensuring relative paths are resolved relative to the actual file path of the current note
- Ensuring that if the current data directory is removed or renamed the app detects it and reacts to it
- Expading the necessary parent tags when selecting an hidden tag
New in Notable 1.8.1 (Nov 11, 2019)
- Improvements:
- Updated Electron to v7.1.1
- Syntax highlighting: added many language aliases supported by GitHub
- Syntax highlighting: improved JSON language support
- Bug Fixes:
- More reliably detecting the front matter
- Ensuring checkboxes ids are incremented properly
- Ensuring heading ids are incremented properly
- Ensuring heading ids are generated properly even when containing HTML elements
- Ensuring Windows-style absolute paths and UNC paths are supported
- Importing: more reliably importing .enex files
- Importing: throwing an error for huge files (> 1GB) - If you're hitting this error just import your notes in smaller chunks
New in Notable 1.7.3 (Aug 22, 2019)
- Improvements:
- Markdown: improved syntax highlighting for lists starting with multiple list markers
- Improved HTML entities detection
- Using a more precise timestamp in pasted image attachments
- Bug Fixes:
- ASCIIMath: ensuring ampersands used inside KaTeX code aren’t considered as part of an ASCIIMath expression
- Highlighter: ensuring it doesn’t break the “copy code to clipboard” feature
- Editor: disabling default paste behavior more reliably
- Ensuring only relative links to supported Markdown extensions will be recognized as links to notes
- Retrieving “data-*” attributes more reliably, ensuring strings remain strings
New in Notable 1.7.2 (Aug 12, 2019)
- Bug Fixes:
- Ensuring HTML and Enex files can be imported
New in Notable 1.7.1 (Aug 12, 2019)
- Ensuring exporting to HTML and PDF works even if Monaco has not been initialized yet
New in Notable 1.7.0 (Aug 9, 2019)
- New Features:
- Added support for adding image attachments via copy and paste
- Added support for closing the window with CtrlOrCmd+Shift+W
- Added a dialog asking for confirmation before closing a window
- Added a shortcut for toggling pinning
- Added support for writing subscripts
- Added support for writing superscripts
- Added support for writing footnotes
- Added a menu entry for displaying a Markdown cheatsheet
- Added a menu entry for displaying all the provided shortcuts
- Showing OS-specific shortcuts
- Added a menu entry for displaying all the provided emojis
- Added support for a custom <markdown> HTML tag, everything written inside it will be rendered as Markdown
- Added support for linking to other notes using the @note token without explicitly providing the file extension
- Added .mkdn to the list of supported Markdown extensions
- Added support for importing HTML notes
- Added support for importing Boostnote notes
- Improvements:
- Editor: improved formatting detection
- Changelog: opening it inside the app
- Comparison table: updated some cells
- Tutorial: linking to the online version relevant to the currently installed version
- Updater: detecting offline status
- Ensured syntax highlighting when previewing and editing is always exactly the same
- Ensured all pngs are losslessly compressed
- Improved supports for manually encoded urls
- Improved detection of code blocks
- Changed shortcut for reloading the app to F5
- Bug Fixes:
- AsciiMath: ensured regular anchors are detected
- AsciiMath: ensured autolinked anchors are detected
- Editor: ensured pressing “esc” while having multiple cursors doesn’t close the editor
- Export: ensured Monaco tokens styles are exported
- Export: ensured mermaid diagrams are exported properly
- KaTeX: ensured all borders/dividers/lines are clearly visible
- Markdown: more reliable stripping
- Preview: rendering tasks more reliably
- Ensured links pointing to a local file are supported too
- Improved detection of currently opened windows
New in Notable 1.6.2 (Jul 10, 2019)
- New Features:
- Added a shortcut for reloading the window
- Improvements:
- Improved CommonMark v0.29 compatibility
- Bug Fixes:
- Metadata: fixed support for Windows-style line breaks
- Tasks: ensuring the bullet point is not displayed
New in Notable 1.6.1 (Jul 9, 2019)
- Bug Fixes:
- Metadata: ensuring empty strings are parsed correctly too
New in Notable 1.6.0 (Jul 9, 2019)
- 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
New in Notable 1.5.1 (May 14, 2019)
- Improvements:
- Auto-hiding the menu in the “Select Data Directory” window
- Bug Fixes:
- Updater: fixed link to latest linux release
- Updater: fixed link to latest windows release
New in Notable 1.5.0 (May 12, 2019)
- 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 in Notable 1.4.0 (Mar 15, 2019)
- 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 in Notable 1.3.0 (Jan 31, 2019)
- 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
- 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
- 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
New in Notable 1.2.0 (Jan 25, 2019)
- 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 in Notable 1.1.0 (Jan 14, 2019)
- 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
New in Notable 1.0.1 (Jan 14, 2019)
- 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