v0.4.0-alpha.3

✨ Improvements and fixes

• Fixed the bug which prevented you from creating child items in lists (sinking list items) by hitting Tab
• Fix links to pages being unreadable inside blockquotes

v0.4.0-alpha.2 (hotfixes v0.4.0-alpha.1)

🚨 This update fixes the image upload issues in v0.4.0-alpha.1

v0.4.0-alpha.1

Warning

This release introduces a bug which prevents you from adding images. Upgrade to v0.4.0-alpha.2 instead.

0.4.0-alpha.1

🌟 Features

• You can now toggle todo, bullet and numbered lists directly from the floating menu
• Added block quote button to floating menu
• Word count can now be always shown in the bottom-right corner of the window. (You can enable or disable it in settings)
• Upgraded code blocks
  • Hitting ⇥Tab inserts a desired number of spaces for indentation
  • Hitting ⬇️Down Arrow at the last line exits the code block
  • Hitting Ctrl/Cmd + ⬇️Down Arrow exits the code block immediately, even if you are on the first line

✨ Improvements and fixes

• Fixed 7 places where notes without icons were handled incorrectly
• Added translations for note customization menu
• Fixed issue causing system accent color to be always black
• Updated settings UI style

🛠️ Technical changes

• We developed tools around IPC to accelerate API development and ensure type-safety.
• Moved built-in themes to @darkwrite/common

v0.3.1-alpha.3

🌟 Features

• Added markdown import

✨ Improvements and fixes

• Notes no longer have an icon by default, you can add or remove it as you wish

v0.3.0-alpha.2

Quality of life release before moving onto 1.0.0-alpha. Next alpha builds may not be as stable as this one.

🌟 Features

• Added Ctrl+n (or Cmd+n on macOS) shortcut to create new notes
• Changed icon for development builds

v0.3.0-alpha.1

🌟 Features

• You can now paste images directly to the editor
• You can now drop image files directly. You can drop more than one image and all of them will be inserted to the page.
• Links can now be edited
• Editor now has a context menu
• Added word count - you can view it by clicking the menu icon on the top right.
• Added translations for Turkish
• Images are now centered
• Add undo and redo options to editor menu (it was possible to perform these with keyboard shortcuts previously)
• Added option to follow system accent color on Windows and macOS

✨ Improvements and fixes

• Removed the empty space to the right side of color pickers
• Displaying dates in the recent notes view now follows correct locale
• Added background blur to context menus, dropdowns, popovers and search
• Disabled dropping into the title box, which should prevent you from accidentally dropping nodes there
• Fixed low-resolution desktop icon on Windows.
• Fixed inability to interact with other things when heading selector in the bubble is open

v0.2.0-alpha.4

⚠️ Minor breaking change

• This release changes the directories in which Chromium session data is stored. This change means the following preferences will be lost:
  • Sidebar width
  • Whether sidebar was hidden or not
  • Whether spell checking was disabled or not
• As these are local preferences and are not even persisted in backups, it shouldn't be a problem.

🌟 Features

• When you collapse favorites or all notes views in the sidebar, that preference will be remembered

✨ Improvements and fixes

• Fixed a bug where "this note is trashed" alert would go below the cover image
• Chromium session data is now stored in directories called session-dev/ and session/ when running development and production builds respectively.
• Added padding to editor's sides to make drag handles more accessible
• Reduced margins above headings
• Reduced padding between title and the page
• Fixed the use of wrong destructive color in Catppuccin Frappé (it's not blue anymore)
• Fixed a bug causing the emoji picker to always appear in dark mode, which caused unreadable text in light themes
• Fixed a bug where exporting empty notes would fail when done from the context menu or the editor menu
• Fixed a bug which caused trash contents to overflow down the container
• Trash panel now has a bottom margin which prevents it from sticking close to the bottom
• Top left corner of the editor is no longer rounded when sidebar is collapsed
• Fixed a bug where changing the text color of a note would affect icons in formatting bubble
• Fixed a bug where changing the text color of a note would also change the color of cover image buttons
• Increased startup window size to 1000x700

v0.2.0-alpha.3

🌟 Features

• Added striked text
• Added image support
• Added cover images

✨ Improvements and fixes

• Titlebar buttons now have an active style
• Fixed nodes being dragged using the wrong background style
• Hitting down arrow on the note title now moves the cursor to the editor
• Fixed code blocks using the wrong font
• Added a divider below the title text

v0.2.0-alpha.2

🌟 Features

• Added option to use native window frame
• Added option to use custom window frame on macOS as an experimental feature
• Notes can have custom background/text colors

✨ Improvements and fixes

• Fixed potential performance issues when typing on the custom font box
• Reworked note customization UI so it's not obnoxious anymore
• Headings now follow the theme better

v0.2.0-alpha.1

⚠️ Breaking changes

• Directories in which application data is stored has changed. App data will be stored in a subdirectory named darkwrite-data when running production builds, and darkwrite-data-nightly when running development builds. If you are upgrading from 0.1.0-alpha.x, navigate to Darkwrite's data directory (you can use the application menu for this), move data.db, settings.json and notes/ into darkwrite-data/.
• Alternatively, create a backup before upgrading and restore from the backup after upgrading.

🌟 Features

• Import and use custom themes
• New dark themes: Catppuccin Macchiato, Frappé
• New light themes: Catppuccin Latte (experimental)
• Themes can now define the color for favorite stars

✨ Improvements and fixes

• New backups now include a date in their file names by default.
• Tweaked emoji picker styles to better follow theme preferences
• Fixed overflow of file chooser button in restore dialog when a long path is chosen

🛠️ Technical changes

• App data is now stored in an isolated folder, which opens the door to safe development sessions without risking data and simplifies the code responsible from backups.