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The Archive Changelog

What's new in The Archive 1.7.14

Jan 3, 2024
  • Fixed: macOS Sonoma display glitches (e.g. invisible sidebar).
  • Fixed: Markdown rendering issue that crashed the app.

New in The Archive 1.7.13 (Jan 3, 2024)

  • Fixed: Crash during startup on High Sierra.
  • Changed: Navigate Back/Forward removed from “Note” menu (already in Navigate menu).

New in The Archive 1.7.12 (Jan 3, 2024)

  • Fixed: Restoration of scroll position in long notes. (Thanks two tons to Paul Troop for live-debugging the issue with me for 90 minutes straight!)

New in The Archive 1.7.11 (Dec 27, 2023)

  • Fixed: Trashing a note in The Archive from a folder that’s managed by third party sync solutions (i.e. not iCloud) could hang the app. This affected Dropbox users with the recent Dropbox updates.
  • Changed: Removed animation in the preferences window that began to look quite odd in recent macOS versions.
  • Changed: Some performance improvements that affect note editing.

New in The Archive 1.7.10 Beta (Dec 27, 2023)

  • New: Drag and drop from chat apps and web browsers imports images.
  • New: When you copy images from the web browser and paste them into The Archive, the correct file type will be used, instead of a generic TIFF image.
  • New: When you copy images files, from Mail or Messages or Finder, and paste them into The Archive, they’ll be imported similar to drag and drop as a copy.
  • New: Using the Page Up/Page Down keys in the Omnibar scrolls the search results.
  • New: Cmd-W when opening external editors closes the floating filter.
  • Fixed: A cause of data loss where the wrong file was replaced with the currently visited note.
  • Fixed: Issue with license codes now appearing invalid: previously, they could contain spaces in the middle, which are hard to spot, and that became illegal a couple updates ago. Now The Archive cleans these up for you.
  • Fixed: Cmd-Backspace when renaming a note will delete to the beginning of the text field instead of delete the note.
  • Fixed: Page Up/Page Down keys scroll the search results lists when it has focus.

New in The Archive 1.7.9 Beta (Dec 27, 2023)

  • New: You can paste images from the clipboard. The Archive creates an image from the clipboard contents and imports it into your resources directory, aka the “media” folder. For example, this works with screenshots via the system-wide ⌃⇧⌘4 shortcut, and with copied images from web browsers.
  • New: Create note from right-click menu in the search results list.
  • New: Console log viewer in the “Debug” menu, available with the debugMode hidden preference.
  • Fixed: Renaming a note from the right-click menu works without a selection, treating the clicked note as the to-be-renamed one.
  • Fixed: Special characters and emoji (that aren’t part of your actual font used for typing) were prone to temporarily vanish sometimes.

New in The Archive 1.7.8 Beta (Dec 27, 2023)

  • New: Open Link in New Tab/New Window are now part of the context menu when you click on a link.
  • New: Access to new “Debug” menus with the debugMode hidden preference.
  • Changed: Removed the extra ‘padding’ of the active area around the divider between search result list and note editor. Changing it is now a hidden preference.
  • Fixed: Suppressing the note deletion confirmation dialog didn’t persist across app launches.
  • Fixed: Renaming attachments could crash an internal macOS editor component.
  • Fixed: Renaming attachments (like images) with a file:// URL scheme didn’t retain the scheme part after the rename was completed, and instead reverted to regular paths.
  • Fixed: When allowing the theme to override fonts with relative/fractional font sizes for some elements, the relative size was applied twice for inline code ... and wikilinks inside lists.

New in The Archive 1.7.7 (Jun 3, 2022)

  • New: You can right-click a file path to rename the file – enabled for managed resources, like images in your media folder.
  • New: When all windows are closed, the Saved Searches shortcuts will open a new window and search there directly, just like Cmd+L would bring up a new window, if needed.
  • Fixed: Invoking Saved Searches via shortcuts or the main menu doesn’t trigger a search in all windows/tabs, just the frontmost one.
  • Fixed: New files are created with a Zettel ID timestamp by default again if you never changed this setting manually.
  • Changed: Taking pictures with the webcam: some visual overhauls for contrast and to better hit the “take picture” button.

New in The Archive 1.7.6 (Jun 3, 2022)

  • New: Drag & drop of image files into the app will use relative paths if the media directory is inside your notes’ directory. Otherwise, the app asks if and how you want to import the file into your managed resources directory.
  • New: “Storage” settings pane to group where notes are stored and how resources are managed and imported.
  • New: Camera capture (webcam tool) allows to quickly retake pictures without having to cancel.
  • Changed: The media subfolder setting now also accepts absolute paths and shows a preview/reveal button.
  • Changed: Performance improvements and less memory usage with multiple tabs/windows open at the same time.
  • Changed: Right-click menu offers default shortcuts to interact with selected note(s).
  • Fixed: Camera capture (webcam tool) window buttons looked goofy on more recent macOS versions. Fixed their layout and their borders being cropped off. The preview also resizes when you resize the window now.
  • Fixed: Recognition of image files in macOS Catalina and earlier.

New in The Archive 1.7.5 (Dec 20, 2021)

  • First non-Cutting Edge release since v1.6.3. Contains all changes since then.
  • For Cutting Edge updates, this version introduces the following changes:
  • Fixed: Clicking of inline image paths that contain subdirectories.
  • Fixed: Finding the end of a #hashtag when it ends with special characters.
  • Changed: Inline image paths are more forgiving: you can mix and match percent-encoded paths with file:// URLs.

New in The Archive 1.7.4 Beta (Dec 20, 2021)

  • Fixed: Background colors of e.g. inline code right after a list item’s bullet stretched leftwards up to the bullet character. That’s no longer an issue.
  • Changed: Various speed improvements of the Markdown rendering engine, especially in larger documents.

New in The Archive 1.7.3 Beta (Dec 20, 2021)

  • Fixed: The last hashtag in a line wasn’t clickable when it was followed by a space.
  • Fixed: Metadata block recognizion, both for YAML headers and MultiMarkdown headers.

New in The Archive 1.7.2 Beta (Dec 20, 2021)

  • Mostly improvements for the MultiMarkdown accuracy and compatibility.
  • Fixed: matchOrCreate URL scheme action correctly uses the given title again.
  • Fixed: Huge performance bottleneck related to a macOS Touch Bar API problem that was affecting large document performance when typing or moving the insertion point.
  • Fixed: Visual multi-line indentation using real tabs at 2 and 4 spaces width.
  • Fixed: HTML comment range colors now apply correctly to the whole range including the opening syntax elements when the comment spans multiple lines.
  • Fixed: Wikilinks and hashtags are detected inside multi-line comments.
  • Fixed: Wikilinks after an exclamation mark like this![[...]] were recognized as image syntax (![...]). Now the wikilinks take precedence.
  • Changed: Visual indentation of multi-line paragraphs now applies to any line, not just list items, so you can soft-wrap and indent code blocks and regular paragraphs as well.

New in The Archive 1.7.1 Beta (Dec 20, 2021)

  • Fixed: Wiki link detection in MultiMarkdown front-matter.
  • Fixed: “Problems during archive initialization” is presented only once, and after you dismiss the alert, the same errors will not bug you again.
  • Fixed: Opening a note in The Archive for the first time could auto-select text sometimes. Now looking at a note for the first time appropriately starts at the beginning of the document.
  • Fixed: Restoring the old scroll position of a note now works reliably.
  • Fixed: Opening links in new window or new tab with the new editor.
  • Fixed: Auto-linking of URLs: clean-up of broken links fixed, and while links lists used to work while you type, once you changed the list layout, the clickable link would vanish.
  • Fixed: While we don’t allow inline images to be displayed in some cases, the paths are now always clickable. Now also skips image syntax inside comments.
  • Fixed: Character composition using accents, or using Japanese or Chinese input methods, used to be interruptible by external file changes.
  • Changed: When a file is removed before The Archive could read it for the first time, this will not raise an error anymore and is just going to be ignored. This improved compatibility with apps like Typora that implement non-standard file save operations.
  • Changed/Fixed: Links and other URLs inside code blocks and inline code spans aren’t recognized as clickable anymore.
  • Changed: Definition list items that span multiple lines indent all lines visually like all the other lists.
  • New: Hidden preference isRestoringScrollPosition to disable restoration of note scroll positions.
  • New: If you want to use real tabs, you can customize their width to 2 or 4 characters (n-width).
  • New: Pressing the tab key inside a list always indents the current line.
  • Please report any Markdown styling you didn’t expect to look the way it does to support via the app’s Help menu.

New in The Archive 1.7.0 Beta (Dec 20, 2021)

  • New: Complete replacement of the note editor component, backed by the super fast MultiMarkdown parser. This means everything is faster now. Typing, selecting notes, resizing the sidebars – just about everything where the editor is involved. Also some weird syntax edge cases are now resolved.
  • Known issue: Restoring the last scroll position when re-visiting of a note a bit flaky. The issue does not appear when you click on notes in the results list. It only appears when you use the arrow keys. (Fixed in v1.7.1)

New in The Archive 1.6.3 (Dec 20, 2021)

  • Fixed: The Archive tells macOS about its file changes in a way that should play better with other so-called “document-based” apps. They now coordinate reading and writing internally. (Example: iA Writer, TableFlip)
  • Fixed: When you used the shortcuts to outdent a line or decreate the quotation level and the insertion point was at the very beginning of the line, it was nudged to the left, turning up in another line of the note effectively.
  • Changed: The External Editor picker window now looks better, especially on Big Sur.
  • Changed: The app preferences now have icons in the toolbar. It seems to be the way forward with macOS and was reinforced with Big Sur, so we adopt this convention, too.
  • Changed: The Saved Searches icon sidebar now matches the look of the preferences when you have set “Display Large Icons”. These measure 32x32 pixels. The smaller variant is now half the size, 16x16. (Used to be 24x24 which didn’t scale well.)

New in The Archive 1.6.2 (Dec 20, 2021)

  • New: Move line or selection up and down added, with default shortcuts.
  • New: Open link in new window, instead of new tab, on macOS 10.12 or newer. Works with Cmd-Shift-Click, or Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-Return (a variant of “Open Links at Selection”).
  • Changed: Groups actions in a “Navigate” menu that move around in a note and change the note selection.
  • Fixed: Saved Searches shortcuts in the main menu including the Option key used to display special characters instead of the Latin character on the keyboard.
  • Fixed: Dark mode colors of shortcut fields are readable again.
  • Fixed: Autosaving when closing windows/tabs.

New in The Archive 1.6.1 (Mar 23, 2021)

  • New: Themes now support setting fonts without specifying a size. You can specify "font": {"name": "Menlo"} and thus the font family is replaced, inheriting the user’s font size choice. This makes using multiple fonts at the same, user-customizable scale easier.
  • New: Themes support relative font size changes, e.g. "font": {"name": "Arial", "relativeSize": "200%"}, e.g. to make headings bigger. Line height isn’t increases proportionally, though, so huge changes here won’t look good for now.
  • Fixed: Crashing bug when trying to delete an already deleted file a second time.

New in The Archive 1.6.0 (Feb 23, 2021)

  • The public release of all the v1.6.0 changes listed below. If you’re not on the “Cutting Edge” update channel, you’ll most notable receive: the image preview; way better file sync service compatibility; a dozen fixes for minor inconveniences.
  • Changed: HTML link encoded spaces like work in image previews as well. – Here’s a tip: If you can, consider using dashes instead of spaces for filenames of resources. Dashes are way more robust to work with in general given the variety of Markdown tools available.
  • Changed: The Welcome notes now ship with a sample image.
  • Fixed: Issue on Big Sur where the Saved Searches list in the app’s preferences was displayed incorrectly.

New in The Archive 1.6.0 RC 2 (Feb 23, 2021)

  • Fixed: Hitting ESC to show all notes doesn’t reset the editor in other tabs anymore. Until now, ESC would show all notes in the current tab and deselect the note; but then also globally deselected the note in all other tabs, too.
  • Fixed: Deleting the search string (e.g. with backspace) until there’s nothing left used to leave the last selected note selected visually in the search results list, without actually showing the note.
  • Fixed: Making changes to the note via spell checking/auto-correction didn’t persist because it didn’t mark the note as needing to be saved.

New in The Archive 1.6.0 RC 1 (Feb 23, 2021)

  • New: Inline image preview. Enable or disable from the “Editing” preferencs or the “View” main menu.
  • New: When trying to access a file that was deleted, e.g. via the history navigation, display an information notice in the middle of the screen instead of (a) trying to fetch the note from the cache or (b) when the note isn’t cached, fail.
  • Changed: Inline image links used to produce clickable links only for empty labels, or single-word labels. It now works with spaces in the label part, too, ![like so](pic.jpg).
  • Changed: Surrounding text with parens or emphasis characters is disabled when you select an image preview. Instead of surrounding, it replaces the selection with the character. (This is a temporary technical limitation.)
  • Changed: Improved performance and display of the note list on Big Sur.
  • Changed: Undoing external file changes is now labeled: you’ll see “Undo External Change” in the Edit menu for these.
  • Changed: Attempting to delete a note that isn’t found on disk anymore does not display an error aymore. Since the file is gone, and that’s the user’s intention, it removes the missing note from the note list.
  • Changed: When you send log files, the files will be revealed in Finder just in case your email application doesn’t automatically attach them.
  • Fixed: The Archive relinquishes “ownership” of a note you’ve edited a bit more to avoid Dropbox/iCloud/… sync conflicts when you edit the same note on 2+ computers. Previously, 2 instances of The Archive could have started to react to synced file changes by reading the changes and then saving file metadata (like cursor position in the note) again, thus producing an update for the other end, ad infinitum.

New in The Archive 1.5.9 (Feb 23, 2021)

  • The “release” version bundles the following changes and those from v1.5.8 and v1.5.7, which were only available as a “cutting edge” release:
  • Fixed: Removes the document icon from the title bar that was introduced when exposing the current note’s URL to AppleScript.
  • Changed: Following a link via keyboard shortcut takes links right before and right after your insertion point into account, so you can type a link, and with the cursor right after it, still open it.
  • Changed: A default value of the status bar visibility wasn’t set on first launch; now the default is “true” for initial discovery. If you ever manually hid the status bar, your setting will be respected.

New in The Archive 1.5.8 Beta (Feb 23, 2021)

  • Fixed: In some cases, Cmd-Click would search first, then open the tab. Now it opens a new tab first.
  • Fixed: Resizing the window doesn’t shrink the editor anymore so much that it can be hidden.
  • Changed: Add app guide info for the navigation buttons and status bar, and explain shortcuts a bit more.
  • Changed: The new link-related shortcuts are now Cmd-Ctrl-J to jump, and Cmd-Ctrl-Return to open.
  • New: Adds “Jump to Previous Link” (Cmd-Ctrl-Opt-J).
  • New: Adds “Open Link in New Tab” (Cmd-Ctrl-Opt-Return).
  • New: Support Marked 2’s “Streaming Preview” with relative paths to links and images.

New in The Archive 1.5.7 Beta (Feb 23, 2021)

  • Fixed: Icon selection for Saved Searches on macOS 10.11 El Capitan didn’t display the built-in icons.
  • Fixed: Sidebar widths (and visibility settings) are remembered next time you start the app.
  • Fixed: The Quick Entry Helper doesn’t error-out when you try to create a file that has way too many characters for macOS to handle, resulting in loss of data of the form. You can now fix the problem and try again.
  • Fixed: When you hit Enter in the Omnibar and a new file would be created, you’ll get a warning that the file name is too long instead of a file creation error.
  • Fixed: Visibility of the Quick Entry helper in dark mode.
  • Changed: When you try to rename a note and exceed macOS’s file name length limit, you geta visual feedback while you type and the app won’t let you commit the name change. This also prevents “could not rename” errors from popping up.
  • Changed: The Quick Entry Helper shows the auto-generated file name based on IDs in the form, instead of generating a surprise ID after you click “Create”.
  • New: Command-click [[wiki links]] and #hashtags to open the result in a new tab.
  • New: Follow links at the cursor position with a keyboard shortcut.
  • New: Jump to the next link in the text with a keyboard shortcut. This feature tastes best when combined with the new “follow link” command.

New in The Archive 1.5.6 (Aug 19, 2020)

  • Fixed: Changing the selected note from the menu via keyboard shortcuts used to keep the last note open if the changes were not saved, yet. Changes are now properly saved before the selection is changed to fix this.
  • Changed: When no external editor is set but the Cmd+E shortcut is used, instructions to add an editor are now displayed.

New in The Archive 1.5.5 (Jul 20, 2020)

  • Fixed: On macOS 10.11 (El Capitan), the “External Editors” table heading displayed a reddish border.
  • Changed: The Saved Searches editor in the preferences now has a more native preferences look to it.
  • Changed: The built-in black and white “The Archive” icon for Saved Searches renders more sharply now. You have to re-select it in the Saved Searches editor for the changes to take effect.
  • Changed: Adjust the size and position of the “(x)” button in the banner that explains you don’t need to manually save your notes to match the Omnibar.
  • Changed: Display crash reporter windows on top of the main window (so it is not accidentally obstructed on launch).
  • Changed: Make thearchive:// URL scheme action ignore the case, so matchOrCreate and matchorcreate or even MatCHorCrEaTe will work.
  • New: Sort notes by their creation date.
  • New: The currently active note sort order is highlighted in the View > Sort By menu.
  • New: Support for setting hidden preferences: app settings that didn’t make it to the preference panes. Use thearchive://preference/PREFERENCENAME/set/NEWVALUE/ and thearchive://preference/PREFERENCENAME/delete to change these. A list of customizable entires is in the online help

New in The Archive 1.5.4 (Jul 20, 2020)

  • Changed: Improved the Omnibar’s instructions when it’s empty. It now shows keyboard navigation shortcuts.
  • Changed: Reorganized the app preferences. Updates and license info are now under “General”, and file settings under “Advanced”. The editor for saved searches is now part of the preferences, too.
  • Changed: Adjusted white space in the notes list so it looks less cramped, especially in full screen mode.
  • New: Add “Select Previous” and “Select Next” to Note main menu so you can bind shortcuts to change the selected note without having to focus the Omnibar.
  • New: Support for activity to be tracked by Timing 2.

New in The Archive 1.5.3 (Jun 17, 2020)

  • Fixed: Edit > Select Line does now correctly activate when the focus is inside the editor.
  • Fixed: Using the editor’s find bar and then searching for something in the Omnibar that matches a note and displays it in the editor will no longer auto-focus the editor once the match was found: you can continue to type in the Omnibar like usual.
  • Fixed: The editor’s find bar can no longer be invoked with Cmd+F right after app launch when the editor is invisible.
  • Changed: The word count of the currently displayed note updates while you type, not only when you pause.
  • Changed: The “External Editors” window will close itself when you click outside, and it always appears on top of the main window as a modal window.
  • Changed: The Theme Updater… menu item is now in the The Archive main menu.
  • Changed: Rotating log files are not put into the trash anymore, but removed directly. This should help all of you who like to keep their Finder trash clean.
  • New: Marked 2 Streaming Preview: toggle it from the Note main menu or from the Advanced preferences. (Off by default.)

New in The Archive 1.5.2 (Jun 17, 2020)

  • Fixed: The editor did prevent all shortcuts with the command key and “S” to work.
  • Changed: Show a notification banner when you try to manually save very often.

New in The Archive 1.5.1 (Jun 17, 2020)

  • Fixed: Sort order of external editors.
  • Fixed: Typo in “welcome” notes.
  • Fixed: When clicking the Dock icon, open a new window on macOS 10.12+ if necessary.
  • Changed: Hitting the “Save” shortcut Cmd+S doesn’t beep anymore.
  • Changed: The bring-to-front hotkey is now a toggle. Use it once to activate the app and bring it to front; use it again to hide it.

New in The Archive 1.5.0 (Jun 17, 2020)

  • Changed: Reorganized preference pane contents into groups. Saved Searches icon size is now under the “Appearance” tab.
  • New: Support for multiple External Editors.

New in The Archive 1.4.7 (Feb 10, 2020)

  • Fixed: Crash when outdenting and undoing outdents at the very end of the document.
  • Fixed: Save changes after removing emphasis. Removing emphasis from selected text via the shortcuts Cmd+B or Cmd+I used to not mark the document as “dirty” and in need of being saved to disk; it now does.
  • Fixed: Undoing the deletion of an emphasis character wrongly did insert a closing pair, as if you just typed it manually.
  • Fixed: Button contrast of the guide/tutorial overlay was broken in light mode for recent Mojave updates and also Catalina.
  • New: Status bar at the bottom of the window that shows the word count of the currently selected note. You have to enable it manually from View > Show Status Bar. We don’t want to clutter the default UI for you all.

New in The Archive 1.4.6 (Dec 13, 2019)

  • Fixed: Occasional error reading note contents when navigating back in history after renaming a note.
  • Changed: Renaming a note now alters all known history. If you rename A to B, all occurrences of A will be replaced with B in the history. This way, you will not have to remember which note was renamed to what, when you encounter an outdated note filename.

New in The Archive 1.4.5 (Nov 7, 2019)

  • Fixed: Another crashing bug when you close a window after using the system’s Cmd-F search facility.
  • Fixed: Regression to a crash when changing the Quick Entry Helper shortcuts.

New in The Archive 1.4.4 (Nov 6, 2019)

  • Fixed: Another crashing bug when you close a window after using the system’s Cmd-F search facility.

New in The Archive 1.4.1 (Aug 12, 2019)

  • Fixed: Crashing bug when you create an empty note from the Omnibar, i.e. clear all Omnibar contents and then hit enter.
  • Fixed: Renaming a note changes text color during editing. You had to start to rename a note, then switch to another app, then back again; if you typed afterwards, the new text would be drawn in the color of the current theme’s result list text color.

New in The Archive 1.4.0 (Aug 12, 2019)

  • Fixed: Using thearchive:// URL scheme actions while the app doesn’t run works now. Previously, the app would open but the action didn’t execute, now it will.
  • Fixed: Crash on some devices on external file changes. This was due to concurrent read and write access to the search index.
  • Fixed: Confirming a rename with the return key did not focus the result list again so that keyboard up/down navigation would not work.
  • Fixed: When the Omnibar contains more text than it can fit, it smoothly scrolls when you navigate past the edges e.g. with the arrow keys.
  • Fixed: When you selected multiple notes and hit Esc, the Omnibar would clear but no search was triggered. As a side-effect, hitting Esc multiple times in a row now effectively reloads the search.
  • Changed: Reduced size of the app by ~10 MiB and improved performance.
  • New: Ability to have multiple workspaces. These would be rendered as tabs on modern macOS versions by default. Pre-macOS 10.12, you’ll see multiple windows instead.
  • New: Added an Internet Access Policy so you get info about when and why the app is establishing a network connection to download updates.
  • New: Added an automatic crash reporter to help you submit crashes.

New in The Archive 1.3.1 (Jul 8, 2019)

  • Fixed: Using thearchive:// URL scheme actions while the app doesn’t run works now. Previously, the app would open but the action didn’t execute, now it will.
  • Fixed: Crash on some devices on external file changes. This was due to concurrent read and write access to the search index.
  • New: Added an Internet Access Policy so you get info about when and why the app is establishing a network connection to download updates.
  • New: Added an automatic crash reporter to help you submit crashes.

New in The Archive 1.3.0 (Jun 18, 2019)

  • Fixed: Error dialogs popping up when you externally delete the currently displayed note.
  • Fixed: Trying to delete a note twice when you cancel the first confirmation request: I introduced a bug where the second try wasn’t recognized as a new deletion attempt and got ignored completely.
  • Fixed: In the Saved Searches editor, the color of the search terms was black on blue and is now properly highlighted.
  • Fixed: Dark theme setting is stored properly and doesn’t fall back to “Tomorrow”.
  • Fixed: Clear search button in the Omnibar was obstructed and didn’t work and sometimes didn’t even display.
  • Fixed: Graphics glitches on macOS 10.13.x in the Theme Updater window during the fade animations.
  • Fixed: Hashtag recognition for non-English characters that rely on character connectors a lot.
  • Changed: Improved performance. In some cases, updates to the search result list happen faster now.
  • Changed: Renaming a note in your search result list that was actually removed from disk will restore the contents to the new location instead of showing an error dialog.
  • Changed: Renaming a note inside the app does not affect modification date anymore.
  • New: Global bring-to-front hotkey to search quickly from anywhere while the app is running.
  • New: Save and restore the scroll position for each note. When you enable “Highlight search terms”, the editor will still scroll to show the first match. This does get rid of weird situations like scrolling down in a long note, then selecting a short one, and ending up way down at the bottom of it, too.
  • New: Inter-app-identification like it’s the 80s: Added ZkTA as the shorthand app identifier. You probably cannot do much with it directly, but some 3rd party apps like spell-checkers may rely on this to perform their … checking … of spells.
  • New: Back/forward navigation:
  • The Archive now sports a history of displayed notes: you can navigate back and forward to get to previously displayed notes and back again.
  • Since the convention for indenting/outdenting text is Cmd+]/Cmd+[ respectively, and since Ctrl + arrow keys is used to jump around in text, the shortcut for navigation is Cmd-Ctrl + arrow keys like in some web browsers and e.g. Xcode.
  • You can Show/Hide the new Navigation Buttons (from the “View” menu).
  • Touch Bar buttons for the navigation controls.
  • You can resurrect notes from history! Navigate back to an earlier point in time, rename or edit a note, and it will be saved to disk.

New in The Archive 1.1.11 (Mar 24, 2019)

  • Fixed: Temporary memory leak when switching archives.
  • Fixed: Sort order when copying notes is maintained. Also, it’s faster.
  • Changed: When your drive’s Finder Trash is broken or doesn’t exist, the app then tries to removes instead of trash the file.
  • Changed: Improves the undo/redo cycles of note creation and deletion so you don’t get as many failure dialogs, e.g. when you sync your archive via Dropbox.
  • Changed: Cleaned up and simplified a lot of the behind-the-scenes handling of most of what the app does. Speed increase is negligible, sadly :)

New in The Archive 1.1.10 (Mar 5, 2019)

  • Fixed: “What’s New” launch dialog is now Mojave dark-mode ready, and doesn’t appear on first launch anymore, but only after you update.

New in The Archive 1.1.9 (Mar 1, 2019)

  • Fixed: “What’s New” launch dialog is now Mojave dark-mode ready, and doesn’t appear on first launch anymore, but only after you update.

New in The Archive 1.1.8 (Feb 14, 2019)

  • Fixed: A couple of small memory leaks when you switch archives.
  • Changed: Improved the overall performance of the app by making the main event pipeline faster.
  • Changed: Selecting multiple notes empties the Omnibar. Previously, the title of one of the selected notes was still displayed in there, not corresponding to the fact you don’t see an editor.
  • New: The Omnibar displays a placeholder text of a light shade.

New in The Archive 1.1.7 (Jan 14, 2019)

  • Fixed: Broken display of some preferences on High Sierra due to an Apple Bug that wasn’t fixed back then, it seems.

New in The Archive 1.1.6 (Jan 9, 2019)

  • Fixed: The new sidebar settings didn’t adjust to large Saved Search icons.
  • New: When you pick a font that is not at regular width or does not support bold, italic, or bold-italic, you are warned about the font’s missing features.

New in The Archive 1.1.5 (Jan 8, 2019)

  • Fixed: Crash when using the “Capture Image” function with the new security settings since Mojave.
  • Fixed: Collapsing sidebars or making the app full-screen does not break text editor layout anymore.
  • Fixed: The text field of renaming a note used black text on white background in dark mode. This is now reversed to fit the system standard.
  • Fixed: Allowing/disallowing themes to change fonts takes effect immediately now.

New in The Archive 1.1.4 (Dec 28, 2018)

  • Fixed: Various dark mode-related fixes, like translucent icons, non-adaptive buttons, and introducing nicer colors.
  • Fixed: Changing colors or otherwise editing Saved Searches did progressively darken all custom tint colors until they turned black. (This was a fun bug, because it showed how saving colors in SRGB and restoring in a different color profile could slowly deteriorate overall color appearances.)
  • New: Dark Mode theme switches. Theme settings now also have a separate preference pane.

New in The Archive 1.1.3 (Dec 28, 2018)

  • Fixed: Crash when changing Saved Search and Quick Entry shortcuts.
  • Fixed: Mojave cutting-off preferences at the bottom.
  • New: “Copy Link to Note” added to the Edit menu.

New in The Archive 1.1.2 (Dec 28, 2018)

  • Fixed: Bug where editing note A and then selecting note B would overwrite the contents of B with A.
  • Changed: Enabled Mojave App Notarization. Should now perform the first run even easier on Mojave.

New in The Archive 1.1.1 (Dec 28, 2018)

  • New: Support for macOS 10.14 Mojave and its Dark Mode!

New in The Archive 1.1.0 (Aug 25, 2018)

  • New:
  • External changes to files in the archive are picked up and displayed live in the editor.
  • Themes now also provide color settings for the sidebar.
  • Themes can be updated from within the app.
  • More intuitive behavior when browsing notes, not scrolling around when switching notes as much as before.
  • Various small fixes and behavior tweaks, like: link highlight fixes; changes to the behavior of highlighted terms; more whitespace in the user interface.
  • Changes:
  • Fixed: Creating a new note with Cmd-N before pending changes to the currently displayed note have been saved would not select and display the new note.
  • Fixed: Wiki links with [[...]] do not span multiple lines anymore.
  • Fixed: Changing Saved Search icon tint didn’t work unless you changed the radio button selection.
  • New: Display the sole note automatically when your search produces only 1 result. This is intended to treat e.g. pasting note titles into the Omnibar as an “Open” command.

New in The Archive 1.0.11 Beta (Aug 6, 2018)

  • Fixed: Saved Search icon changes show up in the sidebar immediately now.
  • Changed: Scroll to the searched-for, highlighted terms when browsing through the notes, but not for the automatically displayed best match, so you can continue where you left off

New in The Archive 1.0.10 Beta (Jul 22, 2018)

  • Fixed: Searching in the Omnibar that produces a "match" (i.e. selects a note starting with the search string) would move focus to the editor after the 2nd character. Now you can search for more than 2 characters again.

New in The Archive 1.0.9 Beta (Jul 19, 2018)

  • Fixed: React properly to external file changes according to the Basil 2x2 Matrix.
  • Fixed: Broken undo introduced in v1.0.8.
  • Fixed: Display flickering introduced in v1.0.8.

New in The Archive 1.0.8 Beta (Jul 16, 2018)

  • Fixed: The big one: external changes are now getting through to the editor.
  • Fixed: Remove line breaks when pasting into the Omnibar.
  • New: Preview the theme’s background color in the Saved Search icon editor so you can configure the colors more accurately.
  • New: “What’s New” info window on launch after significant updates (like this one).

New in The Archive 1.0.7 Beta (Jun 17, 2018)

  • Fixed: Updating themes did not work, now it does. Please update your themes, too!
  • Fixed: When all you did after an autosave was to undo an indentation change, this wasn’t considered to be needed to be saved and thus the change was lost.
  • Changed: Increased padding around icons in the Saved Searches sidebar.
  • Changed: Increased search result vertical whitespace.
  • Changed: Broken themes will now produce an error message that can help theme developers debug their stuff.
  • New: The format menu sports a “Quote” submenu with shortcuts to increase and decrease the quotation level.
  • New: Themable sidebars and search result lists. Existing themes have been updated accordingly.
  • New: Themes now offer a tasteful default Saved Search icon color so that you don’t have to worry about finding a nice-looking color again when you switch themes.

New in The Archive 1.0.6 Beta (May 9, 2018)

  • Fixed: Avoid re-displaying the same note text, potentially reducing editor flickering during auto-saves.
  • Fixed: Emails are now made clickable differently, which makes message: links to Mail.app’s messages behave properly.
  • Fixed: Formatting command shortcuts activate autosaving, too. (Previously, only typing did.)
  • Fixed: Tab-indented lists are now styled correctly, including highlight of links in indented list items.
  • Fixed: Markdown images on the same line as a reference-style link did highlight everything in between as part of the image markup.

New in The Archive 1.0.5 Beta (May 8, 2018)

  • Fix: Display new themes when available.
  • Fixed: External file changes were consumed properly, but also triggered by internal changes to a note. In some cases, this made the cursor move back to the old position.

New in The Archive 1.0.4 Beta (Apr 26, 2018)

  • Fixed: External file changes now affect the currently displayed note, too. This should prevent data loss when you switch between The Archive and an external editor quickly and often. This should also get rid of error dialogs about conflicts when you rename, move, or delete the currently displayed note from the Finder.

New in The Archive 1.0.3 Beta (Apr 23, 2018)

  • Fixed: On High Sierra, opening the help menu prevents the app from accepting any further input if you don’t close it by hovering over another main menu item. (I suspect this is because the “Search” box in the help menu doesn’t give back focus to the window. See rdar://39374865) You can see the bug in action when you focus the Omnibar so it gets the blue focus outline, then click on the the Help menu item. The blue outline should vanish. Now hover over the Window main menu. The outline should come back. That’s when the window reacquires focus. That still doesn’t happen when you just click out of the Help menu, but at least it’s not blocking input anymore, either.
  • Changed: Improve performance of complex term highlights.
  • Changed: All built-in themes now support colored search term highlighting.
  • New: Disable alternating result list background colors from the settings.
  • New: An all-new theme updater that manages, well, theme updates.

New in The Archive 1.0.2 Beta (Apr 12, 2018)

  • Fixed: Selecting “Help > Registration” did show the right preference pane, but did not select the right toolbar item.
  • Changed: Hashtag recognition supports a few more special characters.
  • New: Boolean search expressions: #emotion !#hate, or the more verbose #emotion AND NOT #hate (case-sensitive!). The available operators are AND (or just space), OR, NOT (or prefixed with a !), and parentheses, like: (#note OR #zettel) writing !publish.
  • New: Phrase search! "the archive" OR #zettelkasten will match, as expected, the archive but not #archiveapp or the app.

New in The Archive 1.0.1 (Mar 22, 2018)

  • Fixed: The “Nothing Selected” editor placeholder now does not show a scroll bar when Typewriter Mode is enabled.
  • Fixed: Setting a title in the Quick Entry window was ignored when you generate a Zettel ID.
  • Fixed: Saved Search icon tint usage was not properly bound to the “Tint icon” checkbox state, allowing color changes when the checkbox was unticked.
  • Fixed: The first change of a Saved Search icon with the “Tint Icon” checkbox unticked was ignored in the preview box.
  • Changed: Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E will jump to the beginning and end of the Omnibar’s text, respectively. Alt-Up/Alt-Down will do, too, now not remote-controlling the table anymore.
  • Changed: Make the “Add Saved Search” button more prominent.
  • New: Cmd-S saves Quick Entry note drafts, too.

New in The Archive 1.0.0 (Mar 21, 2018)

  • Fixed: Using letter-based shortcuts for saved searches.
  • Fixed: Quick Entry helper’s shortcut assignment did not always store the key combo.
  • Fixed: Prevent the Saved Searches editor window from entering fullscreen mode.
  • Changed: Removed the hideous light drop shadow of icons in the Saved Search sidebar.
  • New: Toggle-able Saved Search sidebar size (large & small).
  • New: More default Saved Search icons.

New in The Archive 0.5.7 (Mar 21, 2018)

  • Fixed: Switching themes did carry over editor colors if they are not set by the new theme, resulting in a weird mix of colors until you restart the app.
  • Fixed: Renaming a note while the sidebar is hidden will show the sidebar first.
  • Fixed: Show/Hide sidebar menu items did not update their text when the editor was focused, only from the Omnibar.
  • Changed: Renamed the sort options from “descending” and “ascending” to something meaningful. I can never remember which is which, and I coded this myself. This is not a vocabulary test, it’s a productivity-enhancing app, so out with the bourgeois terminology!
  • Changed: Renamed “Search Results” to “Note List”.
  • Changed: Picking an external editor will show the /Applications directory by default.
  • New: “Insert Zettel ID” (wired to Cmd-U) from the “Edit” menu will, well, insert a date-based Zettel ID. Totally not configurable at the moment.
  • New: Setting to call new files “Untitled” as before, or use a Zettel ID that is still free to speed up verzettelling :)
  • New: You can now close the main app window.

New in The Archive 0.5.6 (Mar 21, 2018)

  • Fixed: The launch window now updates the previously known directory live instead of only after relaunch.
  • Fixed: Crash on macOS 10.11 when showing the App Guide.

New in The Archive 0.5.5 (Mar 21, 2018)

  • Fixed: External /match/ URL invocation did not retain the supposed selection.
  • Changed: Use segmented controls in the preferences. As the saying goes, a word says more than the same word with a stupid icon, or something.
  • Changed: New demo notes.
  • Changed: The directory selection window now can quickly open the last used location.
  • New: 60-day trial instead of expiring beta. It is getting serious.
  • New: Create and open an archive in ~/Documents/Notes (The Archive) upon launch. No more boring “pick a directory” window unless you want to see it. Aaaand you probably have to, because as I mentioned above, launching this version will change your active archive directory once. :)