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Notebooks Changelog

What's new in Notebooks 1.4.2

Apr 22, 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.
  • Avoid unwanted popup windows on imported web pages.
  • 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.
  • macOS Sierra: Search window remains on same desktop as main window.
  • macOS Sierra: Disable window tabbing.
  • Optimized page margins for plain text documents.
  • Keep Notebooks from sticking in “high power” mode.
  • 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 2, 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).
  • New settings for hyphenation and text alignment (left, right, justified), for both plain text and formatted documents.
  • Improvements:
  • Now using standard keyboard shortcut for “Paste and Match Style”: cmd-shift-alt-V
  • Plain text appears with equal left and right margins when Markdown highlighting is enabled.
  • New Setting: highlight links in plain text.
  • New Setting: apply Markdown highlighting to all plain text documents.
  • New Setting: “Show creation/modification dates in list”.
  • Exchanged position of indent/outdent buttons in formatted documents.
  • Markdown: LaTeX and MathJax are now supported without escaping ($$, ( and [.
  • Markdown: Improved handling for footnotes; they now work in tables as well.
  • When extracting context tags, Notebooks now expects a whitespace preceding @ or #.
  • 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.
  • When plain text contains a huge number of links, highlighting them happens much faster now.
  • Dragging images in a formatted document now works as expected.

New in Notebooks 1.3.1 (Jun 17, 2016)

  • This update addresses issues related to Notebooks' integrated WebDAV Server and Spotlight search.

New in Notebooks 1.3 (Jun 10, 2016)

  • Additions:
  • Following user requests we added a “light” user interface style.
  • Notebooks now shows its own “book” icons instead of generic folder icons.
  • Support for Split View on El Capitan.
  • Support for adding Contacts and Calendar Events by drag and drop.
  • When sorting lists by date, the date appears right next to the title.
  • Plain text documents:
  • Allow multiple selections in plain text documents.
  • Cmd-alt-V (paste as Markdown) correctly translates all types of links.
  • 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 only and ignore sequences like **.
  • Improved handling of edge cases when indenting/outdenting lists.
  • New option to keep Notebooks from automatically indenting lists.
  • Formatted Documents:
  • New keyboard shortcuts so select the paragraph format (cmd-ctrl-0…7).
  • The default theme features an improved style for ordered lists.
  • Corrections and Improvements:
  • When dragging an item from Finder into Notebooks’ tree or list view, copy and move work as expected.
  • 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 accidentally 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.
  • Notebooks no longer becomes unresponsive when opening files that Quicklook is unable to handle (Acron, for example).
  • Avoid Twitter and Facebook popups when opening links in imported documents.
  • Many more improvements, changes and corrections.

New in Notebooks 1.2.1 (Jul 2, 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.
  • “Create PDF” saves the current editable document as new PDF document (10.7-10.10 only).
  • 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.
  • Show size in document’s info.
  • Improved search interface: add or modify the search term from the window of search results.
  • Drag & drop URLs onto list of documents to add bookmarks (10.7-10.10 only).
  • Option to open webarchives with Notebooks’ own routine (addresses incompatibility between Mac OS 10.9 and 10.10 webarchives).
  • Option to save webarchives as HTML (10.7-10.10 only).
  • When switching between formatted and plain text view in a Markdown document, Notebooks now tries to keep the current section of the document visible (10.7-10.10 only).
  • The Notebooks server displays more connection options (host name, IP address).
  • “Apply Current Style” and “Reset Document Format” work as expected.
  • “Remove Format from Selection” appears at top level of context menu in formatted documents.
  • Fixed handling of background patterns to establish compatibility with Notebooks for iOS.
  • Updated document themes.
  • Misc interface improvements.
  • Keyboard Shortcuts:
  • cmd-alt-P Creates a PDF from the current (editable) document (10.7-10.10 only)
  • cmd-alt-V pastes a copied URL as Markdown link (10.7-10.10 only)
  • cmd-L toggle list style in formatted documents (10.7-10.10 only)
  • cmd-[ / ] outdent/indent the current line in a list. (10.7-10.10 only)
  • cmd-+ / – increase / decrease font size (10.7-10.10 only)
  • cmd-shift-D Show list of due tasks
  • cmd-shift-F Open global search window
  • Advanced topics:
  • The following additions bring Notebooks for Mac/PC in line with Notebooks 8 for iOS:
  • 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
  • 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 is now “officially” compatible with Yosemite,
  • fixes the drag & drop issue on Yosemite,
  • more carefully converts links in HTML documents to Notebooks’ internal links,
  • better aligns TABs in plain text
  • more reliably handles DivQuotes in Markdown,
  • supports “.Rmd” as editable file type,
  • contains interface refinements for info dialog, document list and fullscreen view.

New in Notebooks 1.1.1 (Nov 1, 2014)

  • Additions / Improvements:
  • Notebooks Server – A built in WebDAV server to share books and documents locally (start and stop in Preferences)
  • 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
  • Markdown:
  • Treat ‘:’ like a list item as well; this ensures that multiple lines of text for definition lists is correctly aligned
  • Improved Markdown formatting and layout for headers (in plain text view) (Mac OS 10.7 and above)
  • 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:
  • 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
  • Mac: correctly handle file:// links
  • Improved auto-naming of documents in case of conflicts
  • Allow unlimited tabs in plain text (10.7 and above)
  • Win 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
  • More reliable renaming of “bundle files” like iWork, RTFD or OmniFocus
  • When move to trash is not possible, reliably delete document after confirmation
  • Improved plain text printing (window width fits page) (10.7 and above)
  • Notebooks for Mac OS 10.6.8 only:
  • Show “Copy HTML Code” for formatted preview
  • Correctly handle notebooks:// links in Markdown documents

New in Notebooks 1.1 (Sep 24, 2014)

  • Additions / Improvements:
  • Notebooks Server – A built in WebDAV server to share books and documents locally (start and stop in Preferences)
  • 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
  • Markdown:
  • Treat ‘:’ like a list item as well; this ensures that multiple lines of text for definition lists is correctly aligned
  • Improved Markdown formatting and layout for headers (in plain text view) (Mac OS 10.7 and above)
  • 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:
  • 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
  • Mac: correctly handle file:// links
  • Improved auto-naming of documents in case of conflicts
  • Allow unlimited tabs in plain text (10.7 and above)
  • Win 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
  • More reliable renaming of “bundle files” like iWork, RTFD or OmniFocus
  • When move to trash is not possible, reliably delete document after confirmation
  • Improved plain text printing (window width fits page) (10.7 and above)
  • Notebooks for Mac OS 10.6.8 only:
  • Show “Copy HTML Code” for formatted preview
  • Correctly handle notebooks:// links in Markdown documents

New in Notebooks 1.0.4 (Jun 18, 2014)

  • Stability improvements, especially regarding custom sort order.

New in Notebooks 1.0.3 (Jun 14, 2014)

  • Introduces custom sort order, improves support for Arabic and Hebrew languages (right to left text) and contains several stability improvements.
  • Custom Sort Order for books and documents has been added (select custom sort, then drag and drop to reorder).
  • Correctly display Hebrew and Arabic plain text right to left aligned.
  • Drag multiple images into a document to insert all of them at the selected position.
  • "Apply current Style" and "Assign new Stylesheet" work as expected again.

New in Notebooks 1.0.2 (May 26, 2014)

  • FIXED ISSUES:
  • Preserve details of repeating tasks when manipulating task lists.
  • When moving a plain Markdown documents, embedded images are correctly moved as well.
  • Images can now be added to formatted documents through the file selector.
  • Drag & drop images or text into formatted documents works consistently.
  • Drag & drop mail messages into documents correctly inserts link to original message.
  • “Select in Navigator” correctly opens enclosing book.
  • Highlight search hits when selecting formatted documents from search results.
  • Correctly display iWork ’13 and RTFD documents (document bundles).
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Light theme is the default.
  • Multiple refinements for dark theme.
  • Animations to show/hide left columns have been optimized.
  • Drag & drop from Finder into a book correctly highlights proposed target.
  • Repeating tasks are marked with a special character.
  • When completing repeating tasks, next due date is set.
  • Search Description field (works with Spotlight off).
  • When leaving fullscreen mode, Notebooks returns to the same layout used before switching to fullscreen.
  • Plain text:
  • Remember cursor position when returning from formatted preview.
  • Reliably dismiss find bar when switching documents.
  • Enable data detectors after editing.
  • Use separate UndoManager for each text document.
  • ADDITIONS:
  • Setting to hide document icons in list view.
  • Setting to show file extensions in list view.
  • Option to “look ahead” for due tasks.

New in Notebooks 1.0.1 (May 16, 2014)

  • Solved start-up issue on Mac OS 10.7 and 10.8

New in Notebooks 1.0 Beta 15 (Feb 17, 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.
  • Detect and correctly handle older Mac text formats.

New in Notebooks 1.0 Beta 14 (Dec 18, 2013)

  • Additions:
  • The Dark theme is back.
  • On Mavericks, Notebooks shows background patterns again.
  • Added support for the Notebooks Bookmarklet, which allows you to import the current page from your browser into Notebooks (find out more at http://notebooksapp.com/import); 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.
  • Formatted documents have new options: Insert Link, Remove Link, Edit Link (the last two appear when selecting and right-clicking an existing link).
  • Mac OS text substitutions are enabled in plain text; Notebooks uses your system settings (after changing settings, restarting Notebooks may be required).
  • 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.
  • Improved performance of Markdown syntax highlighting.
  • There is a new option to activate (or turn off) Markdown syntax highlighting .
  • When opening a document from search results, cmd-G jumps to next hit.
  • Improved Spotlight search (speed!)
  • 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.
  • Fixes:
  • (Hopefully) fixed the issue that cmd-C/V/X/Z/Y require the user to click on the menu before they start working.
  • After clicking a link that navigates away from a formatted document, editing the target document could have overwritten the original document in Notebooks. This does not happen anymore (target documents are not editable)
  • The window of search results now always remains on screen.
  • In formatted documents, the options “Import Image” and “Capture Selection from Screen” are non-functional; these are automatically provided by the Mac OS, but the inserted images cannot be used by Notebooks. We are still looking for a way around this.

New in Notebooks 1.0 Beta 12 (Dec 3, 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:
  • Search results and list of due items show path of documents
  • Smarter Markdown highlighting (using text styles instead of colors)
  • New keyboard shortcuts: cmd-up moves up one level (in tree view and document list); cmd-down puts focus on selected book (tree view only)
  • Task lists sort done and cancelled items by date of last change (instead of alphabetically)
  • Drag & drop images into formatted documents
  • Copy/paste images into formatted documents
  • Fixes:
  • Avoid slowdown when typing in long documents
  • Better handling of documents with unknown text encoding
  • Multiple corrections to Markdown highlighting
  • Images in formatted documents appear correctly after editing HTML source
  • Better and more careful handling of international character sets

New in Notebooks 1.0 Beta 7.2 (Dec 7, 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)

  • New layout
  • Performance improvements