Marknote

Changelog

Every Marknote release in reverse chronological order. The current Store version is 1.8.3.

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v1.8.3 03 SEP 2026 11 A refinement release: a new Marknote mark across every surface, a reworked source-control panel, a calmer sidebar and search, per-document autosave, and at-a-glance indicators for what you haven't saved. Light and dark themes can now be chosen separately, with a new dark-only palette.ON TIME
ADDED
  • Autosave, per document. Autosave is now a switch on the status bar, so you can leave one note saving on an interval while another stays under your own hand — no trip to Settings.
  • See what's unsaved at a glance. A file with unsaved changes shows an edited-document icon in both the file tree and its tab.
  • Compare branches in Git History. A branch-compare picker, like GitHub Desktop's, shows what one branch has that another doesn't.
  • City Lights, a new dark-only theme.
CHANGED
  • A fresh new look. Marknote wears a new stacked-pages mark — in the title bar, the About page, the taskbar, and the app icon.
  • Light and dark themes are chosen separately. Pick one palette for light mode and a different one for dark, and let Follow switch between them live as Windows does.
  • A reworked source-control panel. The diff window is resizable and themed, and no longer resizes itself as you scroll; Fetch, Pull, and Push sit as chips beside the branch; and the panel wears crisp Octicon iconography.
  • A calmer sidebar and search. The command box and the sidebar search became clean cards, each tab's count sits in a themed badge, and the sidebar sizes itself to fit. The preview's outline is now titled Table of Contents and shows at ordinary widths.
FIXED
  • The crash prompt no longer cries wolf, and its log opens.
  • The search field no longer goes two-tone when focused, and dialogs render fully themed.
  • About shows the installed version.
v1.8.2 31 AUG 2026 15 The beta feedback release: every bug filed by our beta testers is fixed, and the two most-requested features ship — multiple windows and scoped search. Themes now style the whole app, window materials and accent colour included, and there's a proper thank-you to the testers in About.LANDED
ADDED
  • Multiple windows. Open Marknote again from the taskbar or Start — or press Ctrl+Shift+N — and you get a second window on the same folder. File opens land on the window you touched last.
  • Scoped search. A scope picker joins the search pane: search the whole folder as before, just the note you're in (unsaved edits included), or the current file's subfolder. All the search filters work in every scope.
  • A zoom control in the corner of the preview, and right-clicking a note link there offers Open or Reveal in File Explorer.
  • Guided Pandoc install. Word, EPUB, and LaTeX exports need Pandoc — and if it's missing, Marknote now walks you through a one-click install instead of showing a dead-end message.
CHANGED
  • Themes now style the whole app. Named themes reach every corner — sidebar, dialogs, tabs, panes, and the diff view. Window materials (Mica and Acrylic) and a matching accent colour are part of each theme, so the separate Backdrop and Accent settings have folded into the theme picker — your existing choices carry over.
  • Dark palettes dim automatically on HDR displays so they don't glow, and the editor's line numbers follow the theme.
  • The diff window is larger, follows your theme, and shows line numbers.
FIXED
  • Switching themes no longer crashes the app.
  • The taskbar shows the right icon, and follows your Settings → Appearance → App icon choice.
  • Long diffs no longer freeze the app.
  • The folder picker can select the folder it opened on.
  • Left-click a heading's # to copy its link, and "Show on this page" keeps its state.
  • Colour codes no longer flood the Tags panel, and the folder tree no longer doubles its root.
  • Your default view mode is honoured on launch, and Git History loads first time.
  • Reading mode (Ctrl+Shift+R) works while you're typing, and outline clicks work in preview-only view.
v1.8.0 19 AUG 2026 11 Marknote gets a new look: a fresh typeface across the whole app, a bold red accent, and a dark mode rebuilt on flat near-black surfaces. Alongside the redesign you can now choose which app icon Marknote wears — and the editor picks up the stability work from the 1.7.1 line, including the fix for notes with maths or diagrams freezing on open.LANDED
ADDED
  • Choose your app icon. Settings → Appearance → App icon switches Marknote between two marks — Marknote Red and Marknote Black — and applies your pick to the taskbar, the title bar, and the About window. It takes effect the moment you save, no restart needed.
CHANGED
  • A new look. A fresh display typeface runs through the whole app — menus, tabs, dialogs, and both previews — paired with a bold red accent that picks out links, the caret, your selection, and the buttons that matter.
  • A deeper dark mode. Dark now sits on a flat, near-black palette: a darker note surface with lighter side panels, borders and text tones tuned to match, and an editor theme built to sit flush with the chrome. The translucent window material switches off while dark is active, so nothing tints through from your wallpaper.
  • Scrollbars in the editor and preview follow the theme instead of showing a white gutter down the side.
  • Dialogs like Settings and Help dim the window behind them properly rather than washing it pale, and open without the flash they used to. The button you're being pointed at — Save, and its equivalents elsewhere — is now bold.
FIXED
  • Notes containing maths ($$...$$) or Mermaid diagrams could freeze the editor completely, sometimes right on startup if one of those notes was left open. Maths and diagrams now render reliably every time.
  • Switching between tabs, or reloading a file with Ctrl+R, could leave old content on screen instead of what you just opened.
  • A rare crash when formatting text immediately after switching to a different, shorter note.
  • Opening a file while another was still loading could cause the first one to silently fail to open.
  • "File changed on disk" warnings could be dismissed without you seeing them when reopening a file — this risked overwriting an external change without warning.
  • The Git panel could show outdated status after reloading the active file.
v1.6.1 06 AUG 2026 13 Local AI lands — Ask my vault, a writing assistant, and find-similar-notes, all running on your own machine via Ollama, alongside one-button Git Sync. On top of that: save-your-own templates, tighter per-plugin permissions, background-tab file watching, five Windows 11 widgets, and a performance pass through search, graphs, and Git.LANDED
ADDED
  • Ask my vault — open the Ask panel in the sidebar and ask a question in plain language, like "what did I decide about the budget?" Marknote searches your notes and answers from them, showing which ones it used. Runs entirely on your PC through Ollama — nothing leaves your computer. Switch it on in Settings → AI & Git.
  • AI writing assistant — select some text and choose Improve, Fix grammar, Make concise, Summarize, or Continue. Preview the result, then Replace your text or Insert it after. Same local-only model as Ask my vault.
  • Find similar notes — one command surfaces the notes closest in meaning to the one you're reading, not just the ones that share a word.
  • One-button Git Sync — commit, pull, and push in a single click once a remote is connected, no git commands to remember. A Suggest button in the commit form can also fill in the summary/description from your staged diff using the local AI model. A Rate and review shortcut joins the taskbar jump list.
  • Save your own templates — open the New menu, type a name, and save your current note as a template; it shows up alongside the built-ins. Save over the same name to update it, and delete your own templates with one click.
  • Five Windows 11 widgets — Recent notes, Pinned notes, Today's journal, Open tasks, and Git status — pin any of them to the Widgets board for at-a-glance access without opening the app.
  • A marknote://journal deep link opens (or creates) today's journal entry directly — what the new Today's journal widget uses under the hood.
CHANGED
  • Plugins now only get the permissions they ask for up front, not the run of the whole app. Settings → Plugins shows what each plugin is allowed to do, adds an on/off switch for every plugin, and Reload now truly restarts a plugin rather than just glancing at its folder again.
  • Background tabs (open but not the one you're currently viewing) are now watched for changes made outside the app too, not just the active tab. A clean tab reloads quietly; a tab with unsaved edits shows the usual conflict banner the moment you switch to it.
  • Word, EPUB, and LaTeX exports now come out looking the same as HTML and PDF exports — if a plugin adjusts how your notes look, every export format gets the same treatment.
  • A speed pass across the app — search, the connections graph, AI answers, and Git sync all stay quick even as your collection of notes grows.
FIXED
  • Opening the "save as template" name box no longer loses keyboard focus right as you start typing; pressing Enter in the name box now submits.
  • Settings → Plugins no longer shows stale "ships in Marknote 1.4" copy for capabilities that are already enforced.
v1.5.3 01 JUN 2026 47 Marknote now speaks four languages and feels more at home on Windows — with a Recent notes widget, taskbar Jump List, and .md file handler. The editor gains inline maths, a Reading mode, a per-file time machine for any git repo, working spell-check, and a Tags sidebar. Search picks up Obsidian-style operators with grouped results. Ctrl+P becomes one unified palette for files, commands, and headings. And the sidebar, status bar, and flyout menus get a thorough polish pass on top of a fresh brand accent.LANDED
ADDED
  • Marknote's menus and dialogs are now available in English, Deutsch, Français, and Español. Pick a language in Settings → Language, or leave it on "System default" to follow your Windows preference. The banner that flags the change has a Restart now button so the swap takes effect in one click.
  • Customisable accent colour. Settings → Appearance → Accent colour gives you a swatch grid and a full colour picker; your choice tints buttons, links, focus highlights, the preview's "Show on this page" pill, and more. Reset to brand returns to Marknote's signature cyan.
  • Tags sidebar. A new tab in the sidebar gathers every #tag from your notes, grouped by tag with the files that use each one underneath. Click a file to jump straight to where the tag appears. Tags update live as you save.
  • Smarter search filters. Combine "exact phrase", -exclude, file:name, tag:project, and plain words in any order (pattern matching with /…/ works too, for those who use it). Results group by file with a match count at the top of each group, there's a Match-case toggle next to the search box, and the Saved searches menu has been polished to match the Recent files menu.
  • Unified Ctrl+P palette. One dialog handles files (default), commands (start with >), and document headings (start with @). Each row carries an icon coloured by type, a chip at the top tells you which mode you're in, and Ctrl+Shift+P opens the same palette pre-filled with >.
  • Right-click Marknote on the taskbar for a Jump List of recent notes and a "New note" entry — jump straight in without opening the app first.
  • A Windows 11 "Recent notes" widget you can pin to the Widgets board for one-click access to the notes you opened last.
  • Double-click any .md, .markdown, .mdown, or .mkd file in File Explorer to open it in Marknote — set up automatically the first time you install.
  • Save As, Save a Copy, and Share buttons in the sidebar. Save As saves under a new name and continues editing that copy; Save a Copy writes a copy beside the original without changing what's open; Share sends the current note through any installed Windows Share extension.
  • Inline maths rendering in the editor. Write $E = mc^2$ or a $$ … $$ block and the formula renders in place as you type. Click back into a rendered formula and the source returns so you can edit. Uses the same maths engine as the preview, so the result is identical to what you'll publish.
  • Reading mode (Ctrl+Shift+R). A dedicated preview-only mode with typography tuned for actually reading a long note. Different from F11 focus mode — here the whole app interface AND the editor both step out of the way.
  • Note time machine. Right-click any tab in a git repo → Time machine… to scroll through every past version of the file. The slider goes from oldest to newest; Restore this version loads any one of them into the editor as an unsaved edit, so your current work stays in undo history.
  • Inline tab rename. Press F2 on an active tab, double-click any tab, or right-click → Rename file… to rename the file straight from the tab.
  • A persistent saved indicator in the status bar — a coloured dot, Saved / Unsaved label, and the current file path are always visible when a document is open. The status bar also shows the file's text format (such as UTF-8) alongside the cursor position.
  • Sidebar count badges. The Tasks, Backlinks, Files, Tags, and Git tabs now show their count under the icon. Expand all and Collapse all buttons sit next to Refresh in the folder header, and Refresh now preserves which folders were open instead of collapsing the whole tree.
  • Settings search. A search box at the top of the Settings dialog filters every panel instantly as you type. Settings → Workspace also picks up a Date format dropdown (six filename-safe options) that drives the daily-note filename.
  • Smart [[ wiki-link autocomplete that suggests matching note names as you type and highlights the matching letters.
  • Working spell-check in the editor. Toggle it in Settings → Editor — misspellings underline and right-clicking brings up suggestions. The right-click menu has been cleaned up to keep the useful options (spelling, cut, copy, paste) and drop browser leftovers like Reload, Save Image As, and View Source.
  • The Pandoc version now appears in About → Diagnostics when Pandoc is installed, and in the diagnostics included with bug reports.
  • Four new document templates — Daily journal, Project brief, Reading notes, Decision record — alongside the existing Blank, README, Meeting notes, and Blog post.
  • A redesigned Help dialog with a big banner header, large buttons that jump to Shortcuts and About, four sections (Getting started, Sidebar panels, Productivity, Customisation), and a card for each sidebar panel explaining what it does.
  • F1 opens the keyboard shortcuts dialog (alongside Ctrl+/), matching the standard "F1 is help" Windows convention.
CHANGED
  • A refreshed brand accent — a slightly cooler, more saturated cyan-blue than before. Applied right across the app so buttons, links, focus highlights, status indicators, and the Backlinks graph all stay consistent.
  • The Editor / Split / Preview switch is pinned to the far right of the tab bar rather than living in its own row underneath — gives the editor and preview a little more vertical space.
  • Card-style menus across the sidebar. New document, Recent files, Save & Export, and Saved searches all share one cleaner layout — a header strip with icon and title, full-width buttons or a list with a remove button on each row, and a footer link where it applies.
  • Note frontmatter (tags:, aliases:, and other YAML at the top of your .md files) no longer renders inside the preview body — it now appears only in the dedicated frontmatter strip at the top, no duplicates.
  • Sidebar tab icons are slightly bigger, and the count badge next to each one is a touch smaller — so the icon reads as the primary element and the count as supporting detail.
  • Plugins are now labelled Beta in Settings → Plugins (was "Preview").
  • The app now ships as Marknote.exe (previously MarkdownViewer.exe), so Task Manager and Windows Search read it as "Marknote".
  • Branded toast notifications — a coloured stripe and matching icon for the severity, gentle slide-in and fade-out animations, and errors stay on screen longer than success messages so you don't miss them.
  • A subtle pulse on the green saved-indicator dot every time a save completes, so a successful save is visible without being noisy.
  • The tab right-click menu has been reorganised into three groups with an icon on every item.
FIXED
  • Language switches now actually take effect after restart. Previously the new language wouldn't apply until a second restart — or sometimes not at all.
  • Custom accent colours now actually apply after restart. They previously reverted to the brand cyan until you tweaked them again.
  • Picking Language: System default now properly returns to your Windows language. It used to leave the previously chosen language in place.
  • The Refresh button on the Files sidebar now keeps your folders open. Before it collapsed the whole tree, which was particularly disruptive in large workspaces.
  • The "File changed on disk" banner no longer pops up during auto-save. Marknote used to mistake its own auto-save writes for an external change and ask whether you wanted to reload.
  • The crash-recovery dialog no longer appears on every clean launch — a stale log file was tripping the "something crashed last time" check.
  • The editor no longer shows two fold-line columns next to the line numbers — the duplicate is gone.
  • The search box in the title bar no longer flashes a different colour when you hover over it.
  • Ctrl+P now matches its "Search files, run a command…" placeholder — it used to only open the file picker. The unified palette now handles files, commands (start with >), and headings (start with @) too.
  • Mermaid diagrams render in the live rich preview again.
  • The On this page card no longer shows document headings bleeding through underneath it.
  • F11 focus mode now fully collapses the sidebar instead of leaving an empty column where it used to be.
  • The title-bar search box no longer steals focus when Marknote launches.
  • Hovering over the editor or preview no longer surfaces leftover shortcut tooltips from other controls.
  • The + and × buttons in the tab bar now align properly with the tabs themselves.
v1.4.0 22 MAY 2026 05 Plugins arrive. Add-ons can now put new commands in the command palette and adjust how your notes look in the preview — and a working example plugin is published so anyone who wants to build one has a starting point.LANDED
ADDED
  • Plugin runtime — Marknote loads plugin folders from %LocalAppData%\Marknote\plugins\ at startup. A plugin can add commands to the command palette (they appear as "Plugin · …") and transform the markdown before the preview renders. Full API documented at /developer/plugins.
  • A reference plugin in the public [wearemarknote/plugins](https://github.com/wearemarknote/plugins) repo — marknote-demo/ ships a "Show timestamp" command plus a transform that rewrites {{date}} to today's date. Copy the folder into your plugins directory to try it.
  • Plugin documentation at /developer/plugins on the website: the manifest format, an API reference, and a walkthrough of building the demo plugin from scratch.
CHANGED
  • The preview now renders in the background, so a slow plugin can't freeze the editor — Marknote skips any transform that takes longer than four seconds and falls back to the original text.
  • Settings → Plugins now tells you which plugins loaded and which failed, with a status line explaining exactly which manifest field went wrong.
v1.3.2 09 MAY 2026 05 The plugin foundation, a Quick Open shortcut that works from anywhere, and a round of dialog, focus, and style polish.LANDED
ADDED
  • Plugin foundation — drop a folder with a manifest into %LocalAppData%\Marknote\plugins\ and Marknote discovers it, validates the manifest, and lists it in Settings → Plugins. The runtime that actually runs plugin code lands in 1.4.0; this release locks in the manifest format so authors can start building.
CHANGED
  • The search box in the title bar is now rounded the same as every other input in the app — matches the Windows 11 Settings and Office search look.
  • Selected text across the app now picks up Marknote's accent cyan, matching the editor and preview.
  • The Settings dialog opens with focus on the Save button instead of grabbing the Editor Font Size field, so the dialog no longer looks mid-edit on open.
FIXED
  • Ctrl+P (Quick open file) now works no matter where you've clicked — previously it only worked when the title-bar search box had focus.
v1.3.0 07 MAY 2026 26 A workspace-wide Tasks panel, in-app feedback that opens a GitHub issue, asks-before-overwriting when files change behind your back, and a long list of writer-mode and editor polish.LANDED
ADDED
  • A new Tasks tab in the sidebar gathers every checkbox across your notes. Click a row to jump to the source line; tick a box and the file updates for you.
  • From About → Report a bug or Request a feature, the dialog pre-fills a structured GitHub issue with your title, description, app version, OS, and any recent error — collapsible so you can review and edit everything before posting.
  • A first-run Welcome dialog with three starter cards — Open a folder, Create your first note, Try the daily note — so a fresh install has a clear next step.
  • If a file changes on disk while you have unsaved edits, Marknote asks before doing anything — reload, compare what's different, or keep your version. Nothing happens silently.
  • Editor power-user shortcuts: Ctrl+G go to line, Ctrl+D select next occurrence, Ctrl+L select current line, Alt+↑/↓ move line, Ctrl+Shift+↑/↓ duplicate line, Ctrl+Shift+K delete line, and Ctrl+Shift+[ / ] to fold and unfold code blocks.
  • Two new writer-mode toggles in Settings → Editor: Typewriter scrolling keeps the current line centred on screen; Paragraph focus fades every paragraph except the one you're writing.
  • /toc slash command — type /toc at the start of a line for an auto-generated bullet list of every heading in the document, linked to each section.
  • Hover any heading in the preview for a small link icon — click it to copy a direct link to that heading.
  • Sentence and paragraph counts joined the word, character, and read-time strip in the status bar.
  • A quick-actions footer at the bottom of the sidebar with Daily note and Copy plain buttons, always visible regardless of which sidebar tab is open.
CHANGED
  • The sidebar tabs (Files / Outline / Search / Backlinks / Tasks / Git) are now icon-only with tooltips, so all six fit in a narrow rail without the sidebar growing wider.
  • The git panel rebuilt around a GitHub-Desktop-style layout: Changes and History tabs, per-file stage checkboxes, separate Summary and Description fields for commits, branch picker, and clear icons for modified, added, removed, and renamed files.
  • The Outline, Search, and Backlinks panels now share one polished design — a count badge, file icon and name, filter input, and a friendly empty state when nothing matches.
  • The Save toolbar button now opens a menu — Save, Save As, Save All, then Export ▸ HTML / Copy HTML / Print / PDF / Word / EPUB / LaTeX. Ctrl+S still saves directly without opening the menu.
  • The close-all-tabs × sits immediately next to the + in the tab bar and only appears when you have two or more tabs open.
  • About dialog refresh: friendly OS naming (e.g. "Microsoft Windows 11 Pro" instead of the raw "Windows NT 10.0.26200"), version text with a "(Microsoft Store)" suffix, and indented action and footer links.
  • Line numbers in the editor gutter use Marknote's accent cyan at low opacity, so they recede while you're writing and brighten on the current line.
  • The editor's bottom corners now round to match the editor pane.
  • Loading overlays cover the editor and preview while they boot, so neither area flashes blank during startup.
  • Toggle sidebar moved to Ctrl+Shift+B (was Ctrl+B, which conflicted with Bold).
  • All links in both preview modes — in-document anchors, [[wiki-style]] note links, web URLs, and relative paths — now behave consistently.
  • Quick Open (Ctrl+P) now scans your workspace in the background, so even on workspaces with thousands of notes the window no longer freezes while it builds the file list.
  • The custom keybindings dialog gained a live filter and duplicate-shortcut detection — bind two commands to the same shortcut and Marknote flags the conflict.
FIXED
  • Switching between the git panel's Changes and History tabs no longer leaks Changes-only buttons onto the History view.
  • In-document anchor links ([#section]) now scroll the preview correctly.
  • External links in the preview now open in your default browser instead of inside a new pane in Marknote.
v1.2.1 12 APR 2026 33 The first public release of Marknote. Everything you need to write, link, and ship markdown — without leaving Windows.LANDED
ADDED
  • Open as many files as you like and switch between them in tabs — your tabs come back next time you open the app.
  • Type on one side and watch your markdown render on the other in real time. Pick split view, editor only, or preview only.
  • A subtle effect that fades the markdown markers (the **, *, and `) while you write, so your prose reads cleanly.
  • Press Enter inside a list, quote, or numbered step and Marknote continues it for you — no more typing the marker by hand.
  • Shortcuts for everything you use most: Ctrl + B for bold, Ctrl + I for italic, Ctrl + K for a link, Ctrl + E for inline code.
  • A tidy-up shortcut for messy tables (Ctrl + Shift + T) that lines every column up perfectly.
  • Link any note to any other note with [[wiki-style brackets]]. Type the name, hit Enter, and you have a connection.
  • A live Backlinks panel shows you which notes reference the one you're reading — updated automatically when you save.
  • See your entire notebook as an interactive graph. Click a node to jump to that note.
  • A document outline keeps your place as you scroll through long files; the current section highlights as you move around.
  • Jump to any file in your workspace by name — press Ctrl + P, start typing, hit Enter.
  • A command palette (Ctrl + Shift + P) lets you run any action in the app from one searchable list.
  • A beautifully-rendered live preview with maths, flowcharts, sequence diagrams, footnotes, syntax-highlighted code, and pipe tables.
  • Everything in the preview works offline — no internet connection needed.
  • Paste an image straight from your clipboard and Marknote saves it next to the note and inserts the link for you.
  • Drag and drop images directly into the editor.
  • Paste content from a web page and Marknote cleans it up into proper markdown.
  • Keep a history of your notes with the built-in Git panel — start tracking a folder, save snapshots of your work, send them to a service like GitHub, and see exactly what changed, all in one place.
  • Export your notes to HTML, PDF, or send straight to your printer.
  • If you have Pandoc installed, you can also export to Word, EPUB, or LaTeX.
  • "Copy as HTML" and "Copy as plain text" for sharing snippets in other apps.
  • One-click daily notes — perfect for journals, daily plans, or meeting notes.
  • Pre-built templates for common note types you can use as starting points.
  • Pin your most-used files to the sidebar for instant access.
  • Optional Vim modal editing for keyboard-first writers — Normal, Insert, Visual modes plus :w :q :wq and / search.
  • Rebind any shortcut to suit your muscle memory — fully customisable keyboard.
  • Each folder you open as a workspace remembers its own pinned files, view mode, and theme.
  • Add your own CSS to style the preview however you like.
  • A native Windows look — acrylic background, rounded corners, light and dark themes that follow your system preference.
  • Designed to be keyboard-first. Mouse use is optional, never required.
  • Auto-save keeps your work safe in the background, with backup files in case anything unexpected happens.
  • Right-click any tab to close others, copy the file path, or reveal it in Explorer.
  • Your notes never leave your machine. No accounts, no sync, no telemetry — what you write stays with you.

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