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Notebooks Changelog

What's new in Notebooks 1.4.2

Apr 24, 2017
  • Improvements:
  • Open as Plain Text” asks for confirmation to make it less likely to accidentally change settings.
  • When “Save System Files” is off, changing a book’s sort order does not save plist file.
  • Improved “Remove Format from Selection” action for formatted documents.
  • Removed Zoom options from interface and other minor interface enhancements.

New in Notebooks 1.4.1 (Nov 9, 2016)

  • Improvements:
  • Sort order for documents can be set for each book individually (as in iOS versions).
  • New Setting: “Delete without warning”.
  • Emacs backup files do not appear in document list.
  • Corrections:
  • Search window no longer appears off screen.
  • Adding text to an empty default document creates a new document of the preferred document type (as set in preferences).
  • Changed attributes are no longer accidentally reverted (color labels, for example).
  • Better handling of Pandoc headers.

New in Notebooks 1.4 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • Additions:
  • You can now choose that selected tasks appear as regular documents in task lists (right-click a task).
  • Open unknown file types as plain text (right-click).
  • Improvements:
  • New setting: “Show creation/modification dates in list”
  • When extracting context tags, Notebooks now expects a whitespace preceding @ or #.
  • Markdown: LaTeX and MathJax are now supported without escaping ($$, ( and [.
  • Markdown: Improved handling for footnotes; they now work in tables as well.
  • Corrections"
  • Sort order for search results is now case insensitive.
  • Fixed a crash when opening internal link from formatted document.
  • Search results: Make sure books inside a task list are shown as book, not at list
  • Dragging images into formatted documents works again.
  • Fixed the known issue when opening PDF documents.
  • When opening links in external browser, dialog window no longer pops up multiple times.
  • Notebooks internal links work as expected again.
  • Avoid “hang” when selecting a URL from right to left.

New in Notebooks 1.3 (Jul 6, 2016)

  • Additions:
  • Following user requests we added a “light” user interface style.
  • Notebooks now shows its own “book” icons instead of generic folder icons.
  • When sorting lists by date, the date appears right next to the title.
  • Plain text documents:
  • Typed text no longer picks up style of clickable links and always uses correct font.
  • When detecting lists in plain text, Notebooks accepts single markers and ignore sequences like “–“.
  • Improved handling of edge cases when indenting/outdenting lists.
  • Formatted Documents:
  • The default theme features an improved style for ordered lists.
  • Corrections and Improvements:
  • When creating a new book it can be renamed right away.
  • Right-click on the list view’s empty space (at the bottom) brings up context menu for the book.
  • SmartyPants setting was used in its negated form.
  • Improved support of absolute links to Notebooks’ NBResources folder (at the top level) makes it possible to include individual scripts and styles.
  • Changing a document’s title by editing its first line no longer slows down typing.
  • Search: the state of “search all books” is sticky.
  • Search scope and number of items found now appear in a status bar at bottom of window.
  • Moving last document aways from a book no longer leads to a crash.
  • Many more improvements, changes and corrections.

New in Notebooks 1.2.1 (Jun 26, 2015)

  • This minor update fixes an issue related to creating new documents.

New in Notebooks 1.2 (Jun 18, 2015)

  • ADDITIONS:
  • Notebooks no longer creates a temporary “New Note” when adding a new document.
  • Option to highlight currently edited line in plain text.
  • Option to keep currently edited line vertically centered on screen in plain text.
  • Option to disable typographic quotes during Markdown conversion (SmartyPants).
  • Option to treat lines starting with “//” as comments. These lines are excluded from word- and character count and are ignored during Markdown conversion (plain text only).
  • Notebooks now shows the current document’s modification date in the footer.
  • Improved search interface: add or modify the search term from the window of search results.
  • Show size in document’s info.
  • Improved handling of Notebooks internal links.
  • Updated document themes.
  • Fixed handling of background patterns to establish compatibility with Notebooks for iOS.
  • Misc interface improvements.
  • NEW KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS:
  • cmd-shift-D - Show list of due tasks
  • cmd-shift-F - Open global search window
  • ADVANCED TOPICS:
  • URL Schemes:
  • The schemes for grab (import) and addnote can now optionally add content to a specific book
  • notebooks://addnote/note body&title=Title is optional&parent=path to parent
  • notebooks://grab/URL&title=Title is optional&parent=path to parent
  • The bookmarklet could then look like this:
  • javascript:window.location='notebooks://grab/'+escape(window.location)+'&title='+encodeURI(document.title)+'parent=Inbox';
  • Absolute Links to NBResources:
  • You can now reference your own resources in NBResources. This allows you to store scripts (like MathJax or syntax highlighters) in NBResources and use links like src="/NBResources/..." to include them in documents or document styles (the leading slash is important).
  • In other words: references starting with / are now considered absolute paths starting at Notebooks’ root.
  • Absolute Links to Images anywhere in Notebooks:
  • Similar to the resources above , it is now possible to reference images by using absolute paths, starting at Notebooks’ root. A path like src="/Project/Images/title.jpg" will always point to the same image, no matter where the document itself is located. Again, the leading slash makes the difference
  • Notebooks’ Document Styles:
  • The styles have been tweaked and improved to provide a few new options for Markdown documents:
  • Pandoc style headers Notebooks now uses , and to format these headers. The classes are defined in all of Notebooks’ default styles, and you can easily adjust them in your own styles.
  • Table of Contents decide where it should appear in the document simply by adding (surrounded by empty lines) at the desired position.

New in Notebooks 1.1.2 (Dec 19, 2014)

  • Notebooks 1.1.2 contains corrections and refinements for the info dialog, document list and fixes an issue with fullscreen view. It also adds .Rmd as an editable file type and improves the “update info” mechanism.

New in Notebooks 1.1 (Sep 24, 2014)

  • Additions / Improvements:
  • Quick Search for list of documents – acts like search for title in current book -“Create Link” in a formatted document accepts anchors within current document (#name).
  • Accept anchors in URLs and Notebooks links
  • Formatted documents: “Copy Link to Current Selection” copies the link to the selected phrase; this makes it possible to link to a specific section of a document.
  • Use system setting for smart quotes
  • Spring loaded folders in tree view open after 1 second (during drag & drop)
  • Rearranged Preferences dialog
  • Improved organization and display of recent items
  • New setting “Extract Contexts Automatically” to improve compatibility with the iOS versions of Notebooks. This is work in progress (contexts are not yet supported in Notebooks for Mac).
  • Cmd-T adds time only, but no date anymore (use cmd-D Cmd-T for date/timestamp)
  • A document’s file type can now be changed by editing its title in list view
  • Notebooks now uses plugin to display PDF documents (if installed)
  • Markdown:
  • Treat ‘:’ like a list item as well; this ensures that multiple lines of text for definition lists is correctly aligned
  • New setting: Show Markdown documents as plain text by default
  • Setting to select which emphasis character (_ or *) should be used for cmd-B and cmd-I
  • When “Convert to Combined Markdown” is selected, “New Markdown” creates a combined Markdown as well.
  • Fixes / Corrections:
  • Solved issue regarding deletion of books and files
  • Recent Items menu is no longer empty (as experienced by some users)
  • When changing font, background or style of formatted documents, the changes are now reliably applied.
  • When dropping images into documents, uppercase filename extensions are no longer ignored
  • Correctly handle umlauts in internal links
  • Show “Copy HTML Code” for formatted preview
  • Correctly handle notebooks:// links in Markdown documents
  • Improved auto-naming of documents in case of conflicts
  • alt+O opens Format menu
  • Optimized handling of Due Tasks (should be less CPU intensive)
  • Text is now saved automatically 3 seconds after last key press

New in Notebooks 1.0 Beta 15 (Jan 29, 2014)

  • Additions:
  • Support for TaskPaper’s @done notation (lines starting with “-” are considered todos, adding @done at the end of the line marks todo as completed).
  • Improvements:
  • Reliably open internal links in Markdown documents.
  • Paste images from clipboard directly into Markdown documents.
  • Fixes:
  • Compatibility improvements for combined Markdown documents.

New in Notebooks 1.0 Beta 14 (Dec 17, 2013)

  • Additions:
  • The Dark theme is back
  • Added support for the Notebooks Bookmarklet, which allows you to import the current page from your browser into Notebooks (find out more at at the import page); Notebooks saves the URL of imported page in its plist.
  • New from Pasteboard takes the contents of the clipboard and creates a new document in the currently selected book.
  • Improvements:
  • Notebooks does not show an “empty” editor window any more; in cases when no document is selected, Notebooks displays an empty document which you can immediately use for writing.
  • There is a new option to activate (or turn off) Markdown syntax highlighting .
  • When opening a document from search results, ctrl-G jumps to next hit.
  • Editing a document’s first line changes its title in the list view as you type (not yet for task lists).
  • Rearranged and optimized menus.
  • New formatting buttons (in formatted documents).
  • When inserting an image that is already stored in Notebooks’ hierarchy, Notebooks now inserts a link to the original instead of copying the image.
  • When using “Insert link” with a link to an image within Notebooks’ hierarchy, Notebooks shows the photo instead of the link.
  • Changed keyboard shortcut for full screen to ctrl-shift-F
  • Added new shortcut cmd-D for date stamp (like ctrl-T, but without time)
  • Fixes:
  • The window of search results now always remains on screen.
  • Corrected the problem with the font size selector

New in Notebooks 1.0 Beta 12 (Nov 6, 2013)

  • Interface changes:
  • New lighter look & feel
  • There is no “dark” theme anymore
  • New default fonts for tree view and document list
  • White background color for document list
  • Done and cancelled tasks appear on gray background to better differentiate them from open tasks
  • Additions:
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • ctrl-up moves up one level (in tree view and document list)
  • ctrl-down puts focus on selected book (tree view only)
  • ctrl-T inserts timestamp
  • Drag & drop images into formatted documents
  • Search results and list of due items show path of documents

New in Notebooks 1.0 Beta 11 (Sep 2, 2013)

  • Changes to plain text and Markdown editing:
  • Markdown” is now an extra document type (.md) which is always stored as plain text, but presented in HTML
  • You can always switch between the plain text and formatted presentation of a document with cmd-return (this is valid for plain text, Markdown and also for formatted documents, which then present the HTML code)
  • Syntax Highlighting of HTML and Markdown (cannot be deactivated at the moment)
  • Due Items:
  • Currently, the lists of due items is presented in a separate window, similar to the search results. You open them by clicking on the book icon in the bottom left corner of the tree view (leftmost column).
  • The items can be opened by clicking on them, but their state cannot yet be changed from that list (this is work in progress).
  • Misc
  • A few subtle interface changes:
  • Recent Items are now accessible from the document’s toolbar (bottom), too
  • Search now looks for book and document titles, too

New in Notebooks 1.0 Beta 10 (May 24, 2013)

  • Additions:
  • Option to set font and font size for tree and list views
  • Insert Timestamp” from context menu (it is just one format at the moment, more to come)
  • Copy Link” from context menu
  • When inserting photos, Notebooks by default opens the folder that was used last time
  • Settings: use TAB or four spaces to indent lists
  • Remembers size and number of visible columns between restarts
  • Fixes:
  • Markdown conversion now correctly handles closing “#”
  • Titles starting with “_” are not longer ignored
  • Renaming PDF documents in list view works reliably
  • Email and link to website available from Help menu

New in Notebooks 1.0 Beta 9 (Mar 19, 2013)

  • FIX: deleting multiple selected books no longer accidentally permanently deletes them
  • Lists in plain text: type return on empty line to outdent instead of terminate list
  • Lists in formatted documents: use TAB key to indent, type return on empty line to outdent
  • Keyboard shortcut: cmd-del to delete currently selected (most selected) item(s)
  • Markdown: support for MultiMarkdown definition lists
  • Markdown: new setting in preferences to disable Notebooks convenience method of converting each newline to a line break. When this option is off you need to add two spaces at the end of a line to enforce a line break: This is less convenient, but it is Markdown standard.
  • Search/Replace in current document
  • Enter a search term and all hits in the current document are immediately highlighted.
  • Type return after entering search term to switch to Replace interface
  • Formatted Documents: HTML source is now editable
  • Drag & drop images into formatted documents
  • Drag & drop images into plain text (inserts the corresponding Markdown code)
  • Updated style sheets to better support printing
  • Performance improvements

New in Notebooks 1.0 Beta 8 (Mar 19, 2013)

  • Toggle the number of visible colums
  • cmd-1 … document only
  • cmd-2 … treeview or list and document (typing cmd-2 repeatedly toggles tree and listview!)
  • cmd-3 … treeview, list and document
  • Improved layout of tree view
  • Alternative icons for default theme

New in Notebooks 1.0 Beta 7.2 (Dec 12, 2012)

  • Fixes crash on startup
  • Performance improvements
  • Interface refinements
  • Recent Items available from the File menu

New in Notebooks 1.0 Beta 7.1 (Nov 28, 2012)

  • Fixes a potential crash during startup