• Fixed an issue where refreshing the file tree (Refresh File Tree / Refresh Workspace) could leave the sidebar empty until a real filesystem event happened. The cache is now rebuilt whenever it's been cleared, regardless of whether the workspace folder's modified time has changed.


• Fixed right-click (and Ctrl + Click on macOS) on a file tree entry accidentally opening the file or toggling the folder while bringing up the context menu. The context-menu gesture now only opens the menu.


• Fixed focus bouncing back to the previously viewed note in the file tree after dismissing a context menu or popover.


• Fixed an issue where double-clicking Activate in the license dialog could fire the activation request twice. The button now stays disabled while the request is in flight.


• Fixed the Delete Workspace button losing its red destructive styling in some situations.

• You can now toggle Git management on or off per workspace with the new Manage Git in Octarine switch in Git Sync settings. Turning it off stops Octarine from committing, pulling, or pushing — without removing the underlying Git repository. The Git Sync icon in the breadcrumb is also hidden while management is off.


• Fixed an issue where Octarine would detect a parent folder's Git repository and incorrectly treat the workspace as Git-enabled. Git Sync now only recognizes a repository if the .git metadata lives directly inside the workspace.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the cursor would jump to the start of the document while actively typing — caused by the editor resetting its position during background file-watcher updates and history clears.


• Fixed the icon picker appearing shrunken in views & folder customisations.


• Fixed ignored file paths in Git Sync settings not displaying correctly on Windows due to slash separators.

• As a safeguard against data loss, the undo operation is blocked immediately after Migrate Incomplete Tasks is processed. This prevents you from accidentally losing migrated tasks from both the new and old notes.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where indentation in the Outline would not automatically correct itself after deleting the largest header in a note.


• Fixed an issue where opening Ask Octarine would briefly show the model download screen for a split second.


• Fixed an issue where the Stats section and the Editor Stats bar would display 0 values until the note was updated.

Changes

• In Settings → GitSync, the last synced time now appears as a relative time, such as 20 minutes ago, with the exact timestamp shown in a tooltip.


• In Views, when a tags-based filter is applied, an info banner now appears to indicate that only tags in properties are considered in the results.

• Bullet lists and task lists with nested children now show a collapse chevron on hover — click it to fold the nested items out of sight, keeping long outlines manageable.

Performance

• Significantly reduced CPU and memory usage across the app — typing, idle, and workspace switching are all lighter.


• Improved workspace watching functions to be more performant and less power consuming.


• Reduced CPU spikes during workspace indexing.


• Embedding pruning for large workspaces is now much faster.

Improvements

• Date cells in Views now respect your preferred date format.


• Ask Octarine & Writing Assistant now shows error messages as toasts when something goes wrong, instead of failing silently.


• The task migration flow uses fewer file operations, making it faster and more reliable.

Fixes

• Fixed numeric sorting for grouped Views not ordering correctly.


• Fixed an issue where typing ` would result in the markdown save converting them to < and >


• Fixed a feedback loop where internal file writes to .octarine/` would trigger workspace re-scans, burning CPU even when idle.


• Fixed editor state from one workspace leaking into another when switching workspaces.


• Fixed an issue where corrupt or unreadable config files could silently overwrite valid data on the next save.


• Fixed x-callback URL parameters being double-encoded, which broke integrations like Hookmark.


• Fixed an issue where tags listed in properties did not appear in the tags tree after switching workspaces until a tag was modified.


• Fixed Related Notes not working after a fresh restart until the user opened Ask Octarine during that session.


• Fixed properties adding a blank line to the end of the frontmatter when saving.

• A new getCurrentNote deeplink action returns the URL and title of the currently open note via x-callback-url. This enables integration with tools like Hookmark for bidirectional linking between Octarine notes and other apps. Read it in the docs

Performance

• Reduced CPU usage when the app is in the background.
• Optimised database lookups and removed stale connections when switching workspaces.
• Improved performance of reacting to external app changes to the current viewing file (like an agent writing to the current note or from another app).
• Fixed tab switching slowness that would occur when the workspace search was open.

Improvements

• Unresolved wiki links are now clearly displayed in the Meta sidebar with their link name and a yellow warning icon, rather than disappearing without notice. Clicking on these links will create the corresponding note at that location.
• Video player now displays a small duration chip when the video isn’t playing.
• External images (using standard markdown ` syntax) now appear in the Attached Media sidebar with a globe icon, along with \"Open in Browser\" and \"Copy URL\" context menu options.
• The editor toolbar for external images shows an open-in-browser button and a globe badge overlay to distinguish them from local images.
• CMD/Ctrl + Shift + ,` is now a keyboard shortcut for copying the Octarine URL of the current note.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where pasting frontmatter content would affect both split panes instead of only the active one.
• Fixed the resize drag handle on videos hijacking the progress bar scrubber, making it impossible to seek through the video.
• Fixed tab bar action buttons (new tab, split pane) shifting layout when switching between focused and unfocused panes.

Split Panes

• The inactive panes now have reduced opacity, so it's easier to see which editor/pane you're using in split view.
• Action buttons in the tab bar only appear for the active pane.

Command Bar

• The current note’s name is displayed similar to a section header, and is the first set of actions available in the command bar.
• Two new actions — Copy Content and Copy Content with Properties — let you quickly copy a note's markdown to the clipboard, with or without its frontmatter properties. These are also available in the note breadcrumb’s more options dropdown.

Performance

• Improved filesystem sync performance.
• Fixed memory leaks.
• Embedding indexing now only runs when you're actively using Ask Octarine, rather than continuously in the background.
• Improved performance of the file tree for larger workspaces.

Improvements

• You can choose to include properties during export for notes that have them.

Fixes

• Fixed image export for HTML and DOCX — images that appeared in the editor were silently failing to export due to a security policy restriction.
• Fixed nested task item indentation being lost in DOCX exports.
• Fixed short documents failing to generate embeddings with a \"no chunks\" error.
• Fixed an issue where file tree sorting would mess up for numeric values in the name for natural sorting.

• LaTeX math equations can now be written and rendered as display blocks using the /math slash command or by pressing CMD/Ctrl + Shift + M.
• If the Render Math Equations setting is disabled, attempting to insert a math block will display a helpful notification with a shortcut to access Settings and enable the feature.

Doclinks

• Clicking a doclink now opens an inline sheet preview of the linked note. To open the note in a new tab, use CMD/Ctrl + Click. This consistent behavior applies to editor doclinks, references, data table cells, and property wikilinks.


• When clicking a doclink within a sheet, the current note is added to a history stack. A back button will appear in the sheet header, allowing you to easily navigate back along your path.

Improvements

• Ask Octarine now shows the current note as a visible context chip when it's being used as implicit context, making it easy to clear if you want to ask a general question instead.


• Pasting code into an existing code block no longer inserts extra markdown fence syntax — the fences are automatically stripped so only the code content is pasted.


• Clicking Daily Desk when the calendar is already visible now highlights it with a brief pulse animation, so you can quickly spot it.

Fixes

• Fixed template properties not being applied when creating notes via the URI scheme.


• Fixed Doclink sheet navigation including duplicate notes.

Deprecated

• The Doclink Click Behaviour setting has been discontinued and is no longer available.

• The chat landing page has been redesigned with a centered prompt box and compact suggested prompts below — a cleaner starting point for your conversations.
• The prompt box now supports inline @ mentions — type @ to search and reference specific notes or folders directly in your prompt, with styled mention chips that appear in both the input and the chat query bubble.
• The prompt box has been split into a two-part layout — the textarea on top with a toolbar below for model selection, web search, and help.
• The prompt textarea now collapses during AI generation, keeping the stop button visible while saving space.
• Ask Octarine now understands Octarine's custom markdown syntax — highlights, colored text, underlines, and callouts — so it can reproduce them accurately when referencing your notes.
• Search results are now more accurate thanks to improved embedding indexing — frontmatter is stripped before chunking, chunks are properly sized for the model, and date-based queries are smarter.
• The indexing progress bar now shows real progress instead of a simulated animation.
• Notes used as references are now displayed as footnotes in the chat, showing only the specific block of text relevant to each statement or retrieval.
• The Ask / Create toggle has been removed. Octarine now intelligently determines the appropriate action for each query without requiring a mode switch.

Writing Assistant

• The context selector has been removed. The current note is now automatically included as context, and you can add additional context by using the @ mention feature for folders and notes.
• The design of the Prompt box has been updated to match the style used in Ask Octarine.

Editor

• Select text and type a bracket or quote character ((, [, {, \", ', backslash) to automatically wrap the selection with the matching pair. This can be toggled in Settings > Editor.
• Toggle task checkboxes on and off with Ctrl/CMD + Enter — no need to click the checkbox.

Performance

• Switching between notes and tabs no longer causes the properties panel to flicker — the panel now updates in place instead of fully unmounting and remounting.
• Splitting or moving tabs is now instant — pane cleanup runs synchronously, eliminating empty tab bars and zombie panes that could briefly appear.
• Embedding indexing is significantly faster with proper chunk sizing and batched processing, and the progress bar now reflects real progress.

Improvements

• Settings have been reorganized into clearer, more logical groups for easier navigation.
• Property suggestion dropdowns now span the full width of the value column, with readable wikilink titles and consistent styling across all property types.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where re-added attachments would incorrectly show \"file does not exist in workspace.\"
• Fixed pinned view names overlapping other elements.
• Fixed a zombie pane bug caused by an async cleanup race condition.
• Fixed sticky group headers in Views switching too early during scroll.

• Resolved an issue that prevented drag and drop functionality from working in the file tree.

• Redesigned the header to include a settings popover, which now houses grouping, group sorting, column selection, and the layout selector.
• Added support for displaying views as either a Table or a Kanban board (Kanban is only available when a grouping is applied).

• You can now search within a view (CMD/Ctrl + F) to find any matching values across all cells and columns.
• When navigating through a view via the preview sheet, the corresponding row is highlighted in the background, and the table or Kanban view automatically scrolls to keep you in the correct location upon exiting the preview.
• Removed caret visibility in sheets to prevent confusion with read-only mode. Also fixed task items being clickable in read-only sheets.

DocLink Sheets

• Clicking a doclink (or any linked note in the properties / metasidebar) now opens the linked note in an inline preview sheet — you can read the full note, its properties, and document stats without navigating away from your current note.

> This behaviour can be tweaked in Settings → Editor → Doclink Click Behaviour to switch between Preview Sheets and Open in new tab

Graph

• Legend items in the graph view are now clickable — click to show or hide specific node types, making it easier to focus on the connections that matter.

Performance

• Significantly reduced idle CPU usage — previously the app could use \\~90% CPU when idle due to cascading file watcher events and unnecessary database writes. Now uses event-driven file watching and skips redundant writes.
• Upto 2x faster startup time.
• Reduced background thread overhead from embedding database and file watchers.

Improvements

• Zoom levels now step in finer 5% increments for more precise control.
• Git sync intervals can now be set to 1, 2, or 3 minutes.
• Slash commands now include /tomorrow for quickly linking tomorrow's daily note.
• PDF export now correctly renders callouts, highlights, colored text, and HTML embeds.
• PDF export includes a long-running page option for large documents.
• Property value suggestions now clean up stale values that are no longer in use.

Fixes

• Fixed git sync failing when branches have diverged — sync now allows merge commits instead of aborting.
• Fixed macOS traffic lights being displaced on app launch and workspace switch.
• Fixed system font not applying to header font when Same as editor font is chosen.
• Fixed the backlinks chevron and hide-content behavior.
• Fixed an issue where strings containing decimal points weren't sorted correctly in Views.
• Fixed a crash related to table cell rendering.
• Fixed an issue where the name cell would truncate based on characters and not column width in Views.

• Fixed an issue where the spacebar was blocked when renaming notes or folders in the tree view.

• Notes can now be previewed directly within Views. Click any row to open an inline sheet showing a read-only preview of the note, its properties, and document stats—all without leaving the View.
• Use keyboard shortcuts j and k (or the up/down arrow buttons) to navigate between notes in the preview sheet, making it quick and easy to scan through your data.
• Groups can now be sorted in ascending or descending order using a toggle in the View header.
• Checkbox filters now combine \"No value\" with No into a single filter option.

Custom AI Providers

• Connect unlimited custom AI providers using any OpenAI or Anthropic-compatible endpoint.
• The provider settings interface now features a streamlined, unified card-based layout across all provider types.

Default New Folder

• Designate a default folder where all new notes will be created when you use CMD/Ctrl + N, the CMD/Ctrl + K quick menu, or the New Note button in the sidebar.

File Tree Keyboard Handling

• Clicking a folder or note in the sidebar now automatically focuses it, letting you use keyboard shortcuts without first pressing CMD/Ctrl + Shift + E.
• Press RightArrow on a folder to expand it (or press Space).
• Press LeftArrow to:

• Fixed the sidebar tree from shifting position when a popover or context menu appeared.

Improvements

• Slash commands now include two new options to quickly link to Today and Yesterday notes.
• Copy Path is now available in the file tree context menu.
• Task items in Markdown are now stored more compactly, with no unnecessary blank lines between them.
• Improved performance when loading Mermaid diagrams for the first time.
• Improved readability of selected text when renaming items in the sidebar.
• Buttons in the sidebar use bg-secondary for active states rather than bg-hover
• Wikilinks made in properties are considered part of Linked Notes and shown in the sidebar and calculated in the graph view.

Fixes

• Fixed task item alignment being affected by line height settings.
• Fixed the bubble menu overlapping the table toolbox.
• Fixed a crash caused by malformed frontmatter in notes.
• Fixed AI search retries not following the correct query flow.
• Fixed file metadata errors that were causing crashes instead of being handled gracefully.
• Fixed an issue where symlinks in the workspace would crash the app during workspace indexing.
• Fixed an issue where the Activate License dialog would close when clicking anywhere within it if opened from a dropdown.
• Fixed an issue where Zoom In/Out shortcuts wouldn't work on non-standard keyboard layouts.
• Fixed an issue where the graph would get recreated multiple times when trying to search for nodes.

• Views can now be grouped using a variety of default and custom properties.

• Any changes made to filters must be explicitly saved by clicking Save before they are written to the database. This lets you experiment with different filters without losing your previous setup.
• After entering a value in a text or number input filter, pressing Enter will immediately perform the search.
• New default property Folder is made available to add as a column or query views against.
• The icon selector now offers over 400 icons.
• The view table header uses the bg-sidebar color and features additional padding.

Sidebar Design

• A new option, Always show Calendar, is now available under Settings → Preferences (default: ON).

• The positions of quick actions have been updated: New Note and New Folder are now on the left, while Refresh File Tree and Collapse File Tree are grouped under a More Actions dropdown.
• Both the Notes and Templates sections now display clearly labelled New Note and New Template buttons.
• Improved performance of calculate which days in the calendar have an existing note.
• The icon selector now offers over 400 icons.

Improvements

• You can now resize table columns in the editor by dragging their edges. The column widths are stored as HTML Comments in the markdown file, placed above the table.
• Ask Octarine now supports created date queries such as \"notes from last week\" or \"created before January,\" using the actual file creation dates.
• When the Templates tab is empty, the call-to-action now displays as Create Template.

Fixes

• Links in exported PDFs are now clickable.
• Fixed code blocks inside task items sometimes causing errors.
• Fixed the sidebar scrolling unexpectedly when pasting markdown files into the file tree.
• Fixed a performance issue where the embedding indexer could run in a loop.
• Reduced repeated polling of window events.

• Notes can be exported in the following formats: PDF, HTML, DOCX, and TXT.

> Exporting to PDF, DOCX, and HTML requires a Pro License.

Improvements

• You can now search attachments in the sidebar with one click, making it easier to locate notes containing specific references.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where the sidebar tree view could unexpectedly alter the scroll position.

• To extract text to a note, select any range of text, then either click the + icon in the Bubble Menu or press CMD/Ctrl + K → Extract Selection to note. This lets you choose where the new note will be created with your selected text.

Compact Navigation

• A new Compact Navigation setting is available in Settings → Preferences. This setting condenses the default navigation buttons into a single row of icons, freeing up more space in the tree view.

Improvements

• The context menu (right-click) for notes and folders now includes an option to move items to a different folder.
• You can now save Ask Octarine responses directly as notes using the new “Save to note” button.
• You can change a folder's color via the context menu’s Change Icon option without changing the icon itself.
• Suggested prompts now include temporal queries for more relevant recommendations.
• Scrolling performance in the Notes Tree and Workspace search has been significantly improved.
• Deleting a note or folder now moves it to the Bin/Recycle Bin instead of deleting it permanently.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where removing context from the writing assistant and then selecting text to add to chat would not update the context selector.
• Fixed an issue where using CMD/Ctrl + Shift + N to create a new folder would not create it inside the current tab’s parent folder.
• Windows: Fixed an issue where Ctrl + Shift +  would not properly split the tab below.

Changes

• The Graph view tab now displays the notes sidebar when active instead of leaving it empty.
• When selecting text as context for the Writing Assistant, only a text color is applied—no more background color.
• Updated the toast notification design for action toasts.

• The Meta sidebar now includes a Related Notes tab, which uses local embeddings to find notes that are semantically similar.
• You can add related notes directly to a note's properties for quick access.

> Related Notes is only available with a Pro License.

Improvements

• Nested bullet lists now use alternating bullet styles to improve visual hierarchy.


• Overall performance has been enhanced with lower CPU usage — local database writes are now batched, and frontmatter processing is more efficient.


• In focus mode, images, videos, and inline elements such as doclinks are now properly dimmed when outside the active sentence.


• Wikilinks in properties are now correctly updated when renaming or moving linked notes.


• A Randomise Theme action in the command palette now lets you instantly switch to a random theme.


• A new \"Set Random Theme on Startup\" preference allows each session to begin with a different theme.


• A new Related Notes default property is available for use and querying in properties and views.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where bullet list highlighting in focus mode did not apply correctly to all content types.


• Fixed a bug causing the Ask Octarine history panel's scrolling area to be slightly too short.


• Fixed an issue where auto scroll in Ask Octarine would sometimes push the entire UI up by a few pixels if the sidebar was open.


• Fixed an issue where the editor stats bar displayed the numbers of the currently focused tab across all split panes, even when different notes were open.


• Windows — Fixed an issue where the hover card would not appear when hovering over days in the calendar.


• Windows — Fixed an issue where linked notes did not display their names with proper formatting.

Changes

• The Help button has been moved from the bottom right corner to the top breadcrumb.

• The \"Create\" flow is now divided into three options:

• Custom themes are also copied over to the new workspace if Copy workspace settings is selected.

Improvements

• Navigating to a heading in the outline now automatically expands collapsed parent sections.


• Code block actions are now shown only on hover for a cleaner editing experience. Reduced empty space at the top of the codeblock.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where deleteing the workspace folder from Finder/Explorer would not show the Workspace deleted dialog and instead recreate the folder back with .octarine folder present inside.


• Ask Octarine — Removed mxbai embedding model options (no longer supported).


• Ask Octarine — Fixed memory leak in suggested prompts cache.

Changes

• Removed font options being shown in the Command bar under Change Interface Font. The option now takes you to Settings → Preferences

• Ask Octarine’s search is now smarter, combining keyword and meaning-based search for better results.
• It considers all your notes for follow-up questions, not just previous results, and handles conversation flows more naturally.
• You can get answers based on recently updated notes (e.g., “What did I get done this week?”).
• After each answer, you get 3 follow-up question suggestions to explore the topic further.
• Web search is now supported for Ask Octarine (same supported models as Writing Assistant)
• It recognizes folder or category mentions (like “release notes”) in your queries and searches those areas automatically.
• When generating new content from your notes, Ask Octarine matches your writing style and formatting for consistency.
• Wikilinks show only note names, making responses clearer.

Performance

• Note embeddings are now stored in a workspace-specific sqlite database (/.octarine/embeddings.sqlite) , making embedding much faster and more reliable.
• Reduced memory and CPU usage of the app when typing and idle.
• Cursor placement is now saved on blur rather than on a continous interval.
• Ask Octarine Suggested prompts are cached for faster responses.

Improvements

• Loading the app no longer shows a white flash.


• Redesigned the workspace creation form to clearly distinguish between creating a new workspace and opening an existing folder of markdown notes.


• When linking daily desk notes, the terms today, yesterday, and tomorrow are displayed as Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow for improved readability, rather than showing the full date. As time passes, these will automatically revert to the actual date for accuracy.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where trying to copy selected table cells would result in only the last selected cell to be copied.


• Changelog dialog now gracefully handles external API slowness and doesn’t crash the app.

Changes

• MetaSidebar shows only the note name (not the folder) anymore.

• Added new filters for Word Count, Character Count, and Line Count.
• Introduced new default columns: Word Count, Character Count, Reading Time, and Line Count.
• Wikilinks in Text and List cells are now rendered properly and can be clicked to open notes in a new tab.
• The Linked Notes column now displays all linked notes as clickable wikilinks instead of showing only an x linked notes chip.
• Fixed an issue where resizing columns was mistakenly interpreted as dragging them to reorder.
• Enhanced scrolling performance for views with large amounts of data.
• List columns are now sortable.

Improvements

• Markdown formatting for bold, italics, highlight, code, and links now applies retroactively. You can enter the syntax first and add the text afterward; it will format automatically when you press space or the right-arrow key.
• Code block syntax highlighting refreshes more efficiently, enhancing editor performance.
• The code block language selector now only appears on hover or if actively editing, creating a cleaner interface.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where pressing space in headings with Chinese IME input resulted in duplicate text.

Changes

• Spellcheck and autocorrect are now disabled by default to boost editor performance. These functions can be re-enabled in the settings if desired.

• When you're editing or creating a theme, changes to the color palette are recorded in a history. This allows you to undo specific color adjustments without having to cancel your entire editing session.


• A new Settings → Editor toggle allows you to invert the copy shortcuts for formatting — choose whether CMD/Ctrl + C copies plain text or formatted markdown.


• The rename selection now uses the mark background color for better visual consistency with your theme.


• Handle responses from theme generation models gracefully, even when they do not conform to the requested JSON schema.


• Zooming in/out now also scales the editor text sizes as well.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where outline section highlights wouldn't activate until scrolling to the next header.


• Fixed Ollama integration not working when using Ask AI within the theme editor.


• Fixed an issue where split views would get misaligned when accessing the notes/templates tab without a note selected for the tab.


• Theme Creator — Fixed an issue where the color picker box incorrectly displayed the opacity of partially transparent colors.

Changes

• Theme Creator — Copy CSS and Paste Clipboard buttons are now icons. Mode is now Palette and is a single toggle button.

• A new theme creator allows you to design fully custom themes with a color picker for every visual element in Settings → Theme Creator.
• Custom themes can be created, edited, deleted, and previewed directly in the settings interface.
• AI-powered theme generation lets you describe a theme in natural language (like \"cozy autumn forest\" or \"neon cyberpunk\") and have it automatically generated with appropriate colors and contrast ratios.

> Available only on the Pro License.

Template Variables

• Templates now support dynamic variables that are automatically replaced when inserted:

• Property fields also support template variables, allowing you to create dynamic property values.

> Formats would need to follow the date-fns syntax. Read more in the documentation.

Improvements

• Links with custom protocols (like things://, octarine://, or other app-specific URLs) now work correctly throughout the editor, including in read-only notes.


• Calendar note hover cards now display relative dates in their titles (e.g., Yesterday, 2 weeks ago, in 3 days) for easier temporal context. Empty daily notes show a Empty note placeholder.


• Font selectors have been upgraded from simple dropdowns to searchable comboboxes, making it easier to find and select from large font lists.


• The wikilinks suggestion list now orders notes by recently viewed, with your most recent notes appearing at the top.

Fixes

• Fixed link labels not updating correctly when the linked note's title changed.


• Fixed backslashes being incorrectly omitted from code blocks when saving to markdown files.


• Fixed embeddings not indexing immediately after downloading a model or using the force re-index\" option.


• Fixed the bubble menu causing unwanted scroll behavior when selecting text.


• Fixed external links opening urls inside the app when the note is read-only.


• Fixed external links in the Changelog Dialog not doing anything on click.

Changes

• Weekly notes linked will only show Week  in the link, and no longer the range. The range would still be visible when hovering over the link.

• Code blocks now use Shiki for syntax highlighting, providing more accurate highlighting and better theme support.


• The language dropdown now includes over 300+ languages.


• Code blocks now support Tab and Shift+Tab for indenting and outdenting code.

Improvements

• Notes can now be dragged from the file tree directly into the editor to create wikilinks.
• Typography settings interface has been reorganized for better clarity.
• Typography styling is not applied to codeblocks (including Mermaid).

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where code block typography styles would interfere with Mermaid diagrams.

• Views Fixed an issue where sorting only worked for the Tasks column; sorting now functions correctly for all columns.
• Views Removed unnecessary caching that prevented the table from updating when switching views.

• Reduced idle CPU usage.
• Enhanced scrolling and loading performance for large notes.
• Switching between note tabs should be faster.

Improvements

• In Settings → Files, allowed media extensions are now clearly displayed. After entering a custom extension, pressing Add or Enter will clear the input field.
• Introduced a Reset All Tabs & Panes command in CMD/Ctrl + K that closes all open panes and tabs and refreshes the app. This is helpful when notes from the tree aren’t being added to the pane or tabs.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where the Shortest Name wikilink display option did not calculate display titles correctly.
• Fixed typography replacement rules not updating immediately (e.g., emdashes).
• Addressed a problem where using / commands like Current time/date would remove formatting and insert content as a new paragraph.
• Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred when scrolling the font selector dropdown in settings.

• Tasks column can now be sorted in Views.


• Ask Octarine now shows a confirmation dialog before deleting a chat history.


• A new \"New Chat\" button makes it easier to start fresh conversations with Ask Octarine even when the sidebar is collapsed.


• Focus mode dialog is cleaner and more performant when using the sentence dimming mode.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where refreshing after using a deeplink would cause it to execute multiple times.

• Deeplinks now support template parameters, allowing you to create notes with pre-defined structures.
• The path parameter is now optional in create deeplinks—notes can be created without specifying a destination.
• Search query is now optional in search deeplinks.

Wikilinks

• Wikilinks no longer display the search query as an option when no matching notes are found.
• Fixed an issue where invalid characters in wikilink queries would prevent results from appearing or allow incorrect entries.
• Commas can now be used in wikilink creation while typing.
• The closing ]] is now correctly removed when creating new notes via wikilinks.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where deeplinks would not work if the app was closed.
• Fixed folders not being recognized in the database when created via deeplink.
• Adding selected context to chat now works more reliably when the sidebar is closed.
• Fixed duplicate folders being created when using Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+N

• Octarine now supports URL schemes for automating workflows from external applications — open notes, search, create daily/weekly notes, and more via octarine:// URLs.
• X-callback-url support allows external apps to receive success or error responses after Octarine completes an action.

Read more about URL schemes

Editor Stats Bar

• A new stats bar at the bottom of the editor shows word count, character count, line count, and estimated reading time.
• When text is selected, the stats bar updates to show statistics for the selected text.
• Toggle it off in Settings → Editor → Show Editor Stats bar

Views Improvements

• View table columns can now be reordered by dragging and dropping column headers.
• URLs in text columns are now detected and can be opened with a single click.
• New properties can be created and custom properties can be edited directly from the column selector in Views.

Improvements

• Weekly notes can now be navigated using natural language queries like \"this week\", \"last week\", \"2 weeks ago\", or \"week 3 of 2025\" in CMD/Ctrl + D. Wikilinks also support weekly note references using natural language.
• Tags defined in frontmatter are now included in the graph visualization alongside inline tags.
• Heading levels in the table of contents are now normalized based on the headings actually present in the document — if your document only has H2 and H4 headings, they will be indented appropriately relative to each other.
• Right-clicking a date in the calendar now offers an \"Open in Default App\" option to open the daily note in your system's default markdown editor.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the model selection dropdown in Ask Octarine would scroll the entire page instead of just the dropdown list.
• Fixed a layout issue in the Ask Octarine prompt box that could clip content during loading states.
• Fixed an issue where the table of contents would not update correctly when switching between notes.
• CMD + H now correctly hides the window.
• CMD/Ctrl + [ or ] to go back and forth between tabs now also considers views, graph and chat tabs.
• Fixed the embedding model attempting to load each time Ask Octarine tab is focused even if the model was already loaded in.

• A native operating system menu bar is now available on macOS, providing quick access to app actions through File, Edit, View, Navigate, Workspace, AI, and Help menus.

Git Sync

• Git sync now handles offline scenarios gracefully — changes are committed locally when offline and automatically sync when connectivity is restored.
• Previously unpushed commits are now pushed when back online, even without new changes.

Views

• Columns can now be resized by dragging the column header edges. Column widths are persisted and restored across sessions.
• Date pickers now have an optional clear button to remove the selected date.

Editor

• Pasting markdown content with YAML frontmatter now automatically extracts properties and merges them into the note's properties panel.
• Inserting a template via the slash command now merges the template's properties with the existing note — template properties act as defaults while existing values are preserved.
• Clicking on images or videos now opens a clean fullscreen overlay with a dark backdrop for better viewing.

Settings

• A 24-hour time format option is now available in Settings → Preferences. The setting applies throughout the app including Views, the editor, and the assistant.

Improvements

• CMD/Ctrl + P now allows you to create notes if the query doesn’t match any existing notes at either the Workspace Root or in the current folder.
• The \"Today\" date now automatically updates when the app regains focus after being left open overnight.
• Collapsed headings now properly preserve inline content visibility, and outline generation correctly includes text from doclinks and file-links.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Custom AI provider settings error messages would fail silently when an exception lacked a message property.
• Windows — Fixed Graph not showing correct connections for links between notes under folders.
• Windows — Fixed an issue where typing wikilinks to directly create notes would fail to correctly reflect the changes in the tree.
• Date range selection in Ask Octarine now enforces a single date context and shows a check icon for the selected range.

Changes

• Windows — Wikilinks command now works with providing suggestions when typing / and \\\\ both.
• Wikilinks command will not show create at root option if the query contains a /

• Fixed an issue where markdown syntax would not allow completions when typing the last character.

• No longer requires a note to be open for access.
• Quick actions are now suggested to quickly start chats, with actions tailored depending on whether context is attached.
• You can now edit past prompts to restart the query and message history from that point with your new input.
• History search now searches within the responses and queries of messages.
• A copy button is now available for one-click prompt copying (you can still select text to copy as before).
• When using the assistant with no file open, the response quick actions include a new Create note from response option.

Ask Octarine

• Slight design and layout update: model name and timestamp for queries are now more clearly displayed.
• Suggested actions now feature distinctive icons.
• History search now also matches inside responses and chat queries.

Search

• In-file search now detects URLs inside markdown links, image and video alt tags, and doclinks.

Improvements

• Images and videos now show an outline when hovered by the cursor.
• Markdown images (including web-pasted ones) can now be resized.
• Settings → AI Assistant → AI Providers and the model selector now display provider icons.
• Past prompts in both Writing Assistant and Ask Octarine now show the model name instead of the model ID (e.g., claude-sonnet-4-20250102 is now Claude Sonnet 4).
• In Views, the note name cell is now aligned with the header, and dates/times are shown in a more compact format: Wednesday, December 24 6:40PM → Wed, Dec 24 6:40PM.
• Claude/Anthropic models now support web search.
• Added shortcuts: Option/Alt + CMD/Ctrl + [ / ] to collapse or expand headings.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where renaming a note in the sidebar after a specific sequence of actions prevented the spacebar from inserting spaces.

• Fixed a bug where a blank, undeletable line would appear after adding images (unless the image itself was deleted).
• Resolved an issue where chats with zero messages would still be saved to Writing Assistant’s history.
• Prevented the model selector from being cut off by the prompt when scrolling.
• Fixed a bug where copying or inserting researched content from Writing Assistant would include the \\\\ tag in the pasted text.
• Fixed an issue where pressing Enter at the end of a collapsed header would add a line inside the collapsed content but not expand it.

Views let you create custom filtered, sorted, and grouped tables of your notes — powerful datatable interfaces for organizing, searching, and visualizing your content at scale. Think of them as smart saved searches that update automatically.

What can you do with Views?

• Custom Tables: Build dynamic tables that display your notes based on any criteria.
• Powerful Filtering: Filter notes by system fields (like created/modified date, tags, task status), custom properties, linked notes, and more. Combine multiple filters for precise queries.
• Flexible Columns: Choose exactly what data to display in your table, from note names and dates to custom properties, tags, and task counts.
• Sorting: Easily sort your notes by multiple fields to get the exact order you need.
• Personalization: Customize each view with unique names, icons, and colors to make them easy to identify. Rearrange them to a custom order.
• Default Views: Get started instantly with three pre-built views:

How to get started:

1. Open Views from the sidebar or use the shortcut Cmd/Ctrl + K → Go to Views (or g w).
2. Click \"+ Create View\" to create your custom table.
3. Add filters and configure columns to tailor it to your needs!

Read the detailed docs over here

> Views are only available to users on the Pro License.

Improvements

• You can now reorder workspaces by dragging them in the Switcher.
• Recently Viewed popover now also keeps track of Graph and Ask Octarine tabs.
• Typing - [ ] manually in the editor will automatically convert it into a to-do checkbox.
• Improved design for tags and list properties.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where the link edit container displayed outdated labels if the previously selected link had the same URL as the current one.
• Fixed an issue where text color was not applied correctly for Bright Light and True Dark color themes.
• Fixed an issue where renaming the folder (or any parent folder) of a note that is present in a tab would not result in the breadcrumb and tab names being updated.
• Fixed Refresh Properties button in the Properties tree not re-indexing the entire workspace.
• Fixed list properties being incorrectly identified as tags.
• Fixed an issue where the rename error box for light themes would follow a dark theme pattern.

• Quickly access the outline for a note without leaving your keyboard by using CMD/Ctrl + K → Table of Contents or CMD/Ctrl + Shift + O.
• Selecting any header scrolls the note to that section and places the cursor there.

Improvements

• Settings → Editor — Added new setting Font Weight to work with the selected font. Depending on the font, the list includes weights such as Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, and Black.
• Settings → Editor — Added new setting Default Highlight Color to customize the color applied to the selected text when using the CMD/Ctrl + Shift + H shortcut.
• Writing Assistant — Each query now displays the model name and the time the query was sent below the prompt. Prompts have a maximum height to ensure they don’t occupy the entire screen.
• Meta Sidebar — Octarine now saves the last viewed tab in the meta sidebar so that when you reopen it, you land on the same tab (this persists across refreshes and restarts).

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where text within a markdown link (e.g., [text]) caused any subsequent # symbol to be erroneously interpreted as a tag.
• Corrected a bug where the tag command, under specific circumstances, inserted irrelevant or outdated tags from other sections instead of the intended selection.
• Fixed a problem wherein accessing the Hover Editor (accessible via wikilinks or the Writing Assistant) where mathematical equations in notes would result in being hidden until the note was manually refreshed.
• Addressed an issue in the Writing Assistant where pressing Enter failed to select / quick actions when the CMD + Enter setting for sending requests was active.
• On Mac, rectified a fullscreen mode problem that prevented users from accessing the traffic light controls (to exit fullscreen) when hovering over them.
• Improved IME (Input Method Editor) functionality within the command bar for languages such as Chinese.
• Fixed a bug that caused the application to freeze upon opening the font selector.
• Resolved an issue where highlighting text with overlapping colors using CMD/Ctrl + Shift + H unexpectedly added random, nonsensical code to the markdown.

• Resolved an issue that prevented the input from showing up via the Rename option in the context menu.
• Addressed an issue where changing a folder's icon without altering its color would result in incorrect color translations across different themes.

• Bright Light is available to all users.


• True Dark is offered exclusively to Pro License users.

Improvements

• You can now delete daily and weekly notes directly from the calendar’s context menu.


• The “more options” icon in the daily desk breadcrumb is now hidden if the file doesn’t exist.


• The attachments popover now includes a show unused only switch when unused attachments are present.


• Improved fallback and error handling when committing fails during git sync backup.


• Added a new setting to allow choosing between Current Week / Past Week for generating AI recaps.

Changes

• Markdown storage no longer starts with an empty line.


• The appearance of checked task items has been changed.


• Dirty tabs are now indicated by using italicized text only; the dot indicator is no longer displayed.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where empty spaces in workspace names caused the logo to display undefined.


• Deleting daily desk notes now correctly displays a confirmation dialog.


• Fixed an issue where remove properties failed to fully remove the frontmatter, leaving {} instead.


• Resolved certain issues causing mermaid diagrams to fail to display.


• Fixed a bug where pasting image web links resulted in images appearing twice—once as a web link and once as a local wikilink. Now, only the web link syntax is shown.


• Creating new folders now properly scrolls to their position and focuses the input accurately.


• The graph view for workspaces with fewer notes now displays nodes with more space between them, avoiding closely placed nodes.


• The view link for the currently configured git repository in Settings → GitSync now works as intended.


• Fixed an issue where changing workspace settings visually reset the editor content to the last updated value (visual only, no data loss).

• Fix / command to insert templates not working.

• Both Workspace Search and In-file Search now support filtering results with regular expressions. Click the regex icon and enter a regular expression to narrow your search. You can also use Match Word and Match Case options in combination with regex searches.
• You can limit your search to specific areas, such as Daily Desk or Templates, using the Search in dropdown.
• When you click on a workspace search result, the filters you applied will now also be used for in-file search, ensuring consistent results.

Weekly AI Recap

• The recap now uses the same language as your notes, instead of defaulting to English.
• The generated recap is now appended to the bottom of the note, instead of replacing the existing content.
• Fixed an issue where rejecting a recap would delete the entire note instead of restoring the previous version.
• Fixed an issue where generating a recap would overwrite the properties of the weekly note.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where scrolling through long workspace search results would cause blank spaces to appear after extensive scrolling.
• Fixed a problem where moving a note with a comma in its name would fail.
• Fixed an issue where notes with a leading underscore in their name would not display their links correctly after a refresh.
• Resolved a bug where changes made outside of Octarine would not update the content in the open tab editor.

Changes

• Octarine no longer uses IndexedDB to save or cache full notes on your device. Instead, it always reads data directly from the disk. This makes sure the data is more consistent with the original source and saves disk space by avoiding duplicate storage.

• Added LMStudio as a local provider, accessible via Settings → AI Assistant → AI Providers.

Improvements

• Settings now open in a dialog box instead of occupying a full screen.
• Hotkeys now work as intended: Mac-specific Cmd shortcuts are no longer triggered by Ctrl. For example, Ctrl + N on Mac now moves to the next line instead of creating a new note.
• Enhanced note embedding performance in Ask Octarine: embeddings run in parallel and use no more than 500MB of memory.

Fixes

• Resolved a suspected memory leak that occurred during note embedding in Ask Octarine.
• Fixed an issue where the Writing Assistant displayed a context selector for previous queries.
• Fixed the Writing Assistant showing the default file as context for past queries, even when the user had explicitly removed the context.
• Fixed an issue where custom extensions attached to a note did not appear in the Linked Files section of the MetaSidebar.
• Fixed an issue where custom extensions that were in use were incorrectly marked as unused and prompted for deletion in the Attachments popover.
• Fixed a keyboard conflict where CMD + Y would both open the recently viewed popover and redo the last change in the editor on certain keyboards.

• Easily delete any attachments or files not currently used in notes with a single click from the Attachments popover.

Focus Mode

• New setting Focus Mode Dimming is available in Settings → Preferences

• Improved performance of focus mode in Sentence dimming mode.
• Fixed certain elements not being dimmed in Sentence mode
• Fixed / and [[ command bars not being visible in Focus dialog.
• Focus mode can now be activated via the CMD/Ctrl + Shift + L shortcut.
• Opening focus mode no longer closes sidebars; sidebar states are preserved when you exit.
• Fixed an issue where edits made in Focus Mode did not appear in the main editor upon reloading due to caching.

Improvements

• Added a search input to Graph view for quickly finding connections. Click the MagnifyingGlass icon at the top right or press CMD/Ctrl + F.

• Research mode now only asks guiding questions if more direction would be helpful — otherwise, it provides an answer based on existing context and query.

Fixes

• Fixed incorrect styling for math rendering.
• Fixed an issue where blank editors showed a scroll bar, causing the first empty line to be hidden behind the breadcrumb.
• Fixed a bug where overlapping highlights and colored text did not render correctly after reloading.

• The Writing Assistant features a built-in research mode that, based on your queries, responds with clarifying questions or requests for more information to provide the most accurate answers.
• After research is completed, it offers a range of options to help you draft, refine your writing, continue the discussion, or shift the conversation in a new direction.

Web Search (Beta)

• Allows the Writing Assistant to include web sources in its responses. Currently available for OpenAI (and openai-compatible) models.
• Turn web search on or off by clicking the globe icon next to the model selector

Improvements

• The base context in Writing Assistant can now be removed, which is useful when you don't want responses influenced by the current note's content.
• Updated the Writing Assistant interface from a boxed layout to a chat-style view. Queries are pinned at the top, and model names are hidden during requests.
• Slash commands now support Text Color and Highlight options that can be applied directly from your keyboard.
• The BubbleMenu now displays the current text and highlight color instantly, with added options for No Color and No Highlight to clear formatting.
• The collapsed status of the properties panel is now retained across all notes.
• Long names are now properly truncated in the CMD/Ctrl + P menu.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Brown highlights did not apply any color.
• Resolved a problem where overlapping highlights or text colors were not parsed correctly after reload.
• Fixed duplicate math renders for certain equations when loading notes.
• Corrected an error in changing property types when the property was missing from properties.json.
• Fixed CMD/Ctrl + P not returning search results when the query matched a folder name.

Changes

• The Slash Command for linking notes and attachments is now combined into a single unified command.
• Renamed Insert Media to Import Media from Finder and Attach Files to Import Files from Finder.
• Made a slight design update to codeblocks.

• The table toolbox now includes options to:

• Keyboard shortcuts are available:

External Files

• External files (unsupported files in Octarine) are now accessible within the editor like wikilinks:

• A new Linked Files section has been added to the MetaSidebar to:

• The Attachments sidebar popover now also shows files from the .files directory, allowing you to drag and drop them into the editor.

Improvements

• Added a natural language processor input in the Date and DateTime property editors for faster date selection.
• The Workspace search now features a Hide/Show Content button that hides the results’ content, displaying only file names.
• Improved performance for Ask Octarine history and keyboard navigation between chats.
• Quick History is now automatically displayed for every empty chat in Writing Assistant.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where open tabs did not update when linked notes were renamed or moved.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes selected the previous day when choosing a date in the Date/DateTime property editors, due to UTC conversions.
• Fixed inserting a template with a table containing empty cells not working.
• Improved the consistency of icon sizes in the MetaSidebar.
• Corrected an issue with Mermaid renders, where dark themes caused illegible colors and text.

Deprecated

• The External Files section in the MetaSidebar has been removed. External files are now linked directly within the editor using the [[ syntax.

• Added a new toggle in Settings -> Preferences to allow you to select between Enter or CMD/Ctrl + Enter for sending AI requests in Writing Assistant and Ask Octarine. Default: OFF
• Added a new toggle in Settings -> Preferences to select if images should display captions/titles below them. Default: OFF
• Added one-click backup functionality for both Ask Octarine and Writing Assistant histories via dedicated buttons. Backups are stored in the .octarine/backups folder, using the current date and time as the file name.

Improvements

• Improved the regex matcher for math equations to prevent regular text between $ signs from being accidentally rendered as math.
• Preview editors for calendar and wikilinks now display the collapsed property view if the note has properties.
• Images are no longer stretched if the default value is smaller resolutions. They can still be manually stretched.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where some math equations would render as double values.
• Fixed an issue where selecting a workspace to switch on smaller screens would not function.
• Fixed an issue where CMD/Ctrl + Shift + E would not focus the file tree if no editor was open.
• Fixed an issue where CMD/Ctrl + Shift + E would focus the wrong note in the file tree (a note closer to the center) instead of the current note.

Changes

• Updated the background colors for quick actions.
• Changed the design of Callouts.
• Modified image and video designs. Videos no longer display titles/captions. Image captions have been moved below the image, and borders have been removed. Options are now visible on hover.

• Hyperlink edit container now allows editing the label of the hyperlink.
• A new Copy Markdown icon button has been made available in the hyperlink edit container to copy the text syntax.
• Preview cards for calendar dates and doclinks are now 4x faster.
• Clicking the Month name in Daily Desk's calendar now opens a popover to quickly switch years/months.

Fixes

• Increased the range of link protocols eg: [shortcuts://, hook://] supported in the markdown link parser. Some of these may not do anything on click, but they would be preserved in the markdown data as opposed to be wiped away on save when they wouldn’t be a match.

• The properties panel in collapsed mode now displays a quick preview of the set values.
• AI properties can be generated directly from the note’s breadcrumb options.
• The CMD/Ctrl + D command now offers 3 suggested dates for quick navigation.
• The offset for underlined text has been improved for better readability.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where the callout change dropdown was accessible even when the note was set to read-only.
• Fixed a visual bug where checking off a parent task would incorrectly apply strikethrough and lowered opacity styles to its unchecked children.

Changes

• The design of callout blocks has been modified to feature only a left border, with the block name displayed inside the callout.
• Spacing around headers has been improved.
• Hyperlinks now include an underline.

• Backlinks are now displayed at the bottom of the note.
• In each search result, you can adjust the context on either side using the arrow buttons.
• You can disable this feature in Settings → Editor → Show Inline Backlinks.

Improvements

• Task checkboxes no longer scale with global zoom, ensuring they remain aligned with text.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where the typography line height was not applied to blockquotes.

• Fixed an issue where users updating from 0.28.4 or prior versions to 0.29.x could not open the meta, tags or ask assistant sidebars without first accessing the properties sidebar.

• Apply custom colors to headers and paragraphs from the Bubble menu.
• Follows a syntax of ~ text~

Improvements

• Added Heading Font setting to Settings → Editor to allow different fonts to be applied to just H1-H6.
• For smaller screens, opening any of the sidebars, would blur the background to focus on the floating sidebar.
• Table cells now have access to a limited BubbleMenu to apply styles to text inside cells.
• Changed the priority list for wikilinks suggestions command to have notes before templates.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where table cells with only wikilinks would not be saved to the markdown storage and be lost on refresh.
• Removed duplicates from the Linked Notes/Media sections in Meta Sidebar.
• Fixed an issue where videos added to the markdown would not take up the entire line causing rendering issues for the next line on refresh.
• Fixed an issue where creating a new note and renaming it, would re-focus the input instead of the Editor.
• Windows Related

Changes

• Slash command is no longer accessible inside a table cell.
• Ask Octarine is now an icon beside Search instead of a button.

> Both Text Color & Heading Font customisations are available only on the Pro License.

• You can now drag markdown files from your finder over to the tree and have them added to the workspace. Hovering over a folder adds it to that folder.
• Changed the behaviour of quick note/folder create buttons:

> No change to how the shortcuts CMD/Ctrl + N or CMD/Ctrl + Shift + N behave.

• Searching for a tag either manually via # in search or via the tag tree, now also surfaces results from the tags property in notes.
• File tree empty spaces now have a new context menu available (on right click) to help create note/folder at root .
• Added Close other tabs option to the tab’s context menu (and CMDK bar) to close all but that tab in a pane.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the outline heading clicks in Meta would not scroll to the heading on first load (would after the text was edited).
• Fixed an issue where meta sidebar would sometimes not show up.

• Creating wikilinks is now simpler: just wrap the text with [[ and ]] without needing to use the command selection.
• You can now assign properties directly to templates.
• A new CMD/Ctrl + K option, \"Create note from template,\" has been introduced. This creates a new note, following either the Untitled or the unique note naming convention — with the selected template and its properties applied.

Fixes

• Reversed the chevron icons so they correctly indicate the expanded or collapsed state of headings.
• Fixed an issue where applying a template with empty bullet points using the / command did not work.

You can now create and edit note frontmatter directly in the app! Since this feature
is in beta, it may not support every workflow and is not the final version. Expect
further improvements in the v0.29 series.

• To add a property row to a note, click the more options button and select Add property in the breadcrumb or press CMD/Ctrl + ;.
• Each property can be one of the following types: Text, Number, List, Date, Date & Time, or Checkbox. A special type named tags is available only for the reserved keyword tags.

• When adding Text and List properties, the app suggests values that have been used in similar properties across other notes.
• If you have an AI provider configured, you can use AI to quickly generate property values. The AI analyzes the note’s content, prioritizing existing properties and only creating new ones when needed.
• Property keys that are no longer in use across any notes are removed from the Tree (except for tags, which are always kept), keeping your view clean.
• Text and List values can include wikilinks to other notes. To add a wikilink, type [[ and select the desired note.
• You can rearrange properties by dragging them or by pressing Option/Alt + Up/Down Arrow.

When the workspace first loads, Octarine attempts to assign types to existing properties based on their values. If an incorrect type is assigned, you can correct it using the type selector in any property row—the change will update everywhere.

You can view all available properties via the Properties Tree (accessible using the third icon from the top-right in the app).

Note: This release does not support assigning properties to Templates. That functionality will be available in a future update.

> Properties are available only to users with a Pro License. Users without a Pro License will not see the panel or be able to add properties from the app.

• You can copy properties from one note using the Panel’s more options button. In any note that does not already have properties—and isn’t the same note—you’ll see a Paste Properties button for quick insertion.

Collapsable Headings

• Headings (H1 through H6) in a note can now be collapsed by clicking the chevron icon beside the header. The collapsed state is maintained across tabs until the app is restarted.
• Because markdown does not define blocks, the collapsible content follows a simple rule: it includes all data between the collapsed header and the following header.
• Collapsing a heading takes its hierarchy into account. For example, collapsing an H1 automatically collapses all subordinate headings.
• Use CMD/Ctrl + K to quickly collapse or expand all headers. When using search, any header containing matched data will expand, though it will not collapse automatically afterward.

Unique Note Names

• You now have an option to create new notes with a specific date format instead of the plain Untitled. Enable this by going to Settings → Files and toggling the Create unique note names setting.

Improvements

• The Tags Tree now includes a search bar for easier filtering, along with a slightly updated design.
• Clicking on a tag now applies a match case filter during searches.
• The [[ command dropdown displays more values without requiring you to type first. The number of shown items increased from 5 to 8 and the design has been updated.
• Various performance improvements have been made across the app.
• A new toggle has been added under Settings → Editor → Codeblock Italics to allow you to enable or disable italicized text within codeblocks when syntax highlighting is applied (default is ON).
• Performance improvements have also been made to table controls.
• A new option, Only note name, is available at Settings → Editor → Linked notes display. This option prevents the folder path from being added to any linked note.
• The Shortest name display for linked notes has been enhanced to check for unique folder/file combinations, ensuring the shortest possible note name is shown.
• Workspace search now provides more context in the results (up to the end of the line) instead of just showing 15 characters before and after the match.

Fixes

• Added a graceful fallback for retrieving file system statistics on Linux, preventing crashes on some distributions.
• Fixed issues with the Hugging Face whitelist on Linux devices and improved model checking functions.
• Resolved an issue where the layout occasionally shifted upward during a search scroll when the Tags Tree was open (the layout self-corrects once the tree is closed).

Changes

• Locked Notes have been renamed to Read-only notes. Although the frontmatter still uses locked: true, the icon and labels in the app have been updated.
• The design for tag command selection has been updated.
• Clicking on Notes or Templates in the sidebar now opens temporary tabs (dirty tabs) instead of permanent ones. The empty screen previously shown in those tabs has been replaced with recently viewed items and keyboard shortcuts.
• Heading guides are now displayed beside the header rather than above it. Additionally, the full-width editor now includes extra horizontal spacing to accommodate the toggle buttons.

• Task items and nested list items can now be rearranged using Option/Alt + Up/Down Arrow .
• Added support for H4, H5, H6 formatting headers.
• Added support for Underline. Cmd/Ctrl + U or ~text~
• Hide Quote, Codeblock, Callout and header formatting buttons from Bubble menu when interacting with list items (they weren’t supported and would do nothing before when pressed).

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where pressing Cmd/Ctrl + N to create a new note while in Daily Desk, would accidentally create it in the Daily/ folder and cause a crash.

• You can now regenerate the weekly AI recap.


• OpenAI and OpenAI Compatible providers have been separated in settings, allowing them to work in parallel.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue with anthropic models not retrieving the model list from the API.


• Corrected the problem where custom API servers (eg: openrouter) were not returning data in the Writing Assistant.


• Fixed a conflict where using Cmd + Shift + 7/8/9 for lists interfered with tab switching.

• Corrected a problem where AI features were unavailable if openai/ollama was not configured, even when other providers were successfully set up.

• You can now apply different themes to light and dark modes independently through Settings → Preferences.

• Use CMD/Ctrl + K → Change Interface theme to apply a selected theme to the current color mode.

Supplementary Information Settings

• Two new options are available in Settings → Files:

Improvements

• The Weekly AI recap now allows you to re-run the prompt if the output is unsatisfactory, with the option to quickly use a different model.
• Closing a tab now focuses the next adjacent tab in the pane, rather than the first tab.
• Hovering over notes or folders and using the context menu (right-click) will now display the created and modified dates.
• Enhanced performance for indexing large workspaces.
• Improved the performance of locating config.json files in folders.
• Navigating to the next/previous heading using keyboard shortcuts now scrolls the heading to the center of the screen.
• Clicking on Notes, Daily Desk, or Templates in the sidebar will now open them in non-dirty tabs.

Fixes

• The highlight background for search results in the Keyboard Shortcuts drawer has been corrected.
• Resolved an issue that caused duplicate \"Notes\" tabs to appear in the same pane when accessing the notes section from the sidebar.
• Fixed a problem with the Weekly AI recap where the output was not streaming correctly into the editor.

Changes

• The Graph and Recently Viewed icons are now disabled when the settings are being viewed.

• Ask Octarine now features two distinct modes:

• The chat window design has been updated for a more recognizably chat-like experience:

• Additional improvements:

Writing Assistant

• The Writing Assistant now displays a \"Context Changed\" indicator when context selections or files change within the same chat. This ensures that any previous irrelevant responses are discarded to maintain accuracy.
• Quick actions for responses now include both retry and delete.
• Selected text now displays as \"x ch\" (where x is the number of characters) instead of the full \"x characters\".
• OpenAI API responses have been improved for a better user experience.

Folder Customisation

• Folders can now be pinned to stay at the top.
• Each folder supports its own sorting method, independent of the workspace sorting method.
• Icons and colors can be assigned to folders for better categorization.
• All folder settings are stored in a config.json file located within the particular folder.

> Available only to Pro License users.

Improvements

• Pinned notes and folders now appear in a separate view that spans across Notes, Daily Desk, and Templates. A pin toggle in the tree headers allows you to quickly switch between pinned items and your current view.
• Search performance has been enhanced for faster results.
• The CMD/Ctrl + K command bar features a refined design:

• The quick action designs for both Writing Assistant and Ask Octarine have been updated for clarity.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where creating a new folder did not update its timestamp in the local database, which previously caused sorting issues until a refresh was done.
• Fixed a bug where auto title generation would fail for both Ask Octarine and Writing Assistant when using Ollama.
• Addressed a problem where clicking outside would not discard the rename operation initiated through the file tree context menu.
• Fixed an issue where Perplexity AI setup would fail.

Changes

• The Graph feature has been relocated from the sidebar to the Global breadcrumb as an icon.
• Reduced the size of H1, H2 and H3 by 4px each.

• Tasks now have the accent background when checked, and a better looking checkmark icon.
• Tables — Tab only cycles through the cells, and no longer creates a new row when pressed on the last cell of the last row. Enter only creates a new row when it’s pressed with the cursor on the last row.

Fixes

• Fixed the / command not allowing keyboard navigation.
• Fixed a bug that would cause codeblock styles to spill out of the codeblock and onto text below it causes irregular colors and italics on certain letters.
• Fixed a bug where codeblock syntax highlighting would be irregular for certain languages.

• Added an Insert Media option to the slash commands, allowing you to open Finder/Explorer and add images or videos to your note. This serves as an alternative to dragging files directly from Finder.
• Writing Assistant slash commands will now also be included when creating a new workspace using the use settings from an existing workspace option.
• The Octarine window now displays the window name as - Octarine. This change is mainly visible in Mac's Mission Control and is helpful for users who rely on app-tracking tools to identify which application they were working in.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where switching between workspaces could show outdated data in Daily Desk if the previous workspace had entries for a date that were missing in the new workspace.
• Fixed a bug where formatting options wouldn't apply if no text was selected.
• Resolved an issue where the caret would not appear in empty task items.
• Fixed Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + C so that it copies content with the correct formatting, matching the behavior of right-click copy in the editor.
• Addressed a problem where the note cache wasn't updated when moving or renaming a note that had a reference doclink to another note.

Changes

• The placeholder will now only appear in completely empty notes, rather than after every empty line.

• Support for Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, Groq, Mistral, Perplexity, Together AI and xAI have been added for use in Writing Assistant and Ask Octarine.

Slash Commands

• Slash commands for Writing Assistant are now editable, with the ability to create new ones.
• Set them up in Settings → AI Assistant → Slash Commands . These are immediately available when pressing / in writing assistant.

• Images & Videos can now have their width resized by dragging from the right.
• Width details are stored in the [[ text with a pipe character. For example — [[Image.png|450]] where 450 is the width in px.
• You can revert to original size via the More options icon on the media breadcrumb.

Improvements

• Added Monospace Font setting in Settings → Preferences . This affects all monospace fonts in the app.
• Success and Error toasts are more legible.
• Limit the amount of recently viewed to 15 so as to not spam Cmd + P .
• You can now press New Chat to create a new one even if the current chat is empty in Writing Assistant.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where sidebars would not show up when screen size was less than 768px.
• Fixed tab tooltips showing the wrong cmd +  for switching to it.

You can now create a new workspace by cloning the settings of an existing one. This means you won't have to re-enter details like your AI keys and typography settings. Note that all settings are copied over except for the Git configuration.

Calendar Week Start Change

You now have the option to choose the starting day of your week. This setting is available under Settings → Preferences, and it will affect the Calendar in Daily Desk as well as the date ranges in Weekly Notes.

Improvements

• You can create a linked note by selecting text and clicking the + icon in the BubbleMenu. This action creates a new blank note named after the selected text and automatically links it to your current note.
• The languages available for codeblocks are now sorted alphabetically.
• On smaller screens, the settings breadcrumb now features a dropdown menu for switching settings instead of relying on the sidebar.
• Both the note context menu and the breadcrumb options now include an “Open in Default App” option, accessible via CMD + K as well.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where hovering over days outside the current month did not display the hover card content.
• Resolved a bug where multiple code blocks would be created on each line when a block of text was selected and the codeblock option was used.
• Fixed an issue that caused notes to crash when typography styles were reduced in settings, until all styles were reactivated.
• Addressed an issue where searching weekly notes using the [[ command returned no results.
• Corrected the misalignment of sidebar resize handles when the app was zoomed in.
• Fixed the paper type backgrounds being applied to tables.

• You can now move a selected section or the line your cursor is on up or down using Option/Alt + ArrowUp and Option/Alt + ArrowDown.
• You can now duplicate a selected section or the current line upward or downward using Shift + Option/Alt + ArrowUp and Shift + Option/Alt + ArrowDown.
• The keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet now supports fuzzy search.
• The BubbleMenu includes an option to add a URL to selected text.
• You can now save an entire Ask Octarine thread to a note using the breadcrumb.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue in Windows where daily desk links did not display names.
• Addressed a bug that prevented the delete confirmation dialog from appearing when the sidebar was hidden.
• Fixed a problem where the attached link URL was not visible in the floating container.
• Corrected an error that affected startup when upgrading from very old versions.

• A new setting allows you to change how a linked note is displayed. If you select \"Shortest Name,\" only the file name appears unless a file with a similar name exists elsewhere in the workspace.

• You can now create and link uncreated daily desk notes using the [[ command.
• The CMDK now includes tab options to move, split, and close tabs.
• Video playback now syncs between normal and fullscreen modes, allowing you to resume exactly where you left off.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where the file tree sometimes did not display all items when its height nearly matched the window's height, even if a scroll bar was unnecessary.
• Fixed a problem where the font selector menu would overflow when displaying long font names.
• Corrected a bug that prevented note creation from broken doclinks if any folder in the path did not exist.
• Addressed an error where nested tags could not be expanded in the Tags sidebar.

• A new App settings section now includes an option to always keep Octarine on top of other windows. You can enable this by pressing CMD/Ctrl + K and selecting \"Keep always on top of other windows.\"
• Octarine now renders queries correctly, including respecting newline characters.
• Improved heading guides spacing.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where applied paper types were not being displayed.
• Fixed a bug in which renaming a file did not correctly update the cache for all referenced wiki links, resulting in missing renders.
• Corrected the problem where wikilinks pointing to missing files failed to display the broken link button.
• Fixed an issue where pressing Cmd + J after selecting text did not add it to context unless the Writing Assistant sidebar was open.
• Addressed the horizontal overflow in the meta sidebar caused by longer file names.
• Fixed the \"insert at cursor\" function in the Writing Assistant, which previously did nothing.
• Resolved the issue where the \"Lock Note\" feature in Daily Desk did not lock the note.
• Fixed the \"Open Models Directory\" function during the Ask Octarine manual download flow so that it now opens the directory correctly.

• Updated the Ask Octarine prompt to sound more natural and conversational instead of robotic.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue that prevented Ollama from being used for Writing Assistant or Ask Octarine.
• Fixed a problem where the video wouldn't pause in the background when fullscreen mode was activated.
• Corrected an issue where the Ask Octarine prompt did not show new lines in the submitted query.

• Fixed a bug where Create Template threw an error.
• Fixed a bug where locked notes would not show the Lock icon in the file tree.
• Fixed Cmd + Shift + E not toggle switching focus between the tree and the current tab.

Everything is a tab! A major part of the app has been rewritten to move away from single viewing notes to a tabs & split pane architecture.

• Notes, Graph and Ask Octarine are now opened as tabs instead of individual entities.
• Multiple panes and layouts are supported — both horizontal and vertical.
• Tabs can be re-arranged in a pane via dragging them horizontally, or can be moved to a completely different split/pane via:

• Each tab provides multiple keyboard shortcuts to:

• Each tab has the following internal properties that define how they interact or behave:

• Each pane is now equipped with Back / Forward buttons that keep a history of the tabs in the pane and move between them. Closing a tab and press Back would re-add the tab back in.

Performance

• Part of the update was changing the way, the app interacted with notes and the internal database. Improved performance of file loads between tab switches to be near instant.
• Rewrote calculations for image/video loading to be instant and not require a round-trip check causing glitches in the past.
• Improved performance of file tree for large workspaces to not lag when the sidebar was open during interaction.

Focus Mode

• Due to the introduction of tabs, focus mode has now been revamped to be a dialog that takes over the entire screen rather than be congested to a small pane.
• Changed the interaction from paragraph based (which could span multiple lines) to a sentence based one for better focused writing (every period, question mark, exclamation point acts the start and end of a focus)
• Reduced opacity of inactive/unfocused text, fixed code blocks and bullet lists not being hidden properly.

Attachments

• Images and Videos follow a fixed width/height in the note rather than being stretched the entire width of the window.
• A fullscreen button has been added to allow viewing them in a larger space on a case-by-case basis.
• Changed design to have the caption be at the top rather than the bottom.
• Loading of video/images are cached so as to feel near instant when switching tabs.
• Context menu added for opening in finder, viewing fullscreen and deleting the attachment from the note.

Improvements

• Codeblocks can now be collapsed/minimised. When doing so with Mermaid diagrams, the diagram is visible, with just the codeblock being hidden. Changes are saved for the session across tabs.
• Changed recently viewed and linked notes design for showing notes within folders.
• FPS counter is more stable now rather than fluctuating heavily on multiple ticks per second.
• Images now support .webp format.

Fixes

• Fixed codeblock syntax highlighting not working for a lot of languages. Reduced the count of the languages supported to be in accordance with prism.
• Fixed a bug where on Windows typing would sometimes be overridden with the last typed text.
• Fixed a bug where linking notes in Daily Desk would crash the app intermittently.
• Fixed an issue where external files would show up in the [[ command list.

• Fixed an issue where the app would fail at startup for new users.

• You can now choose any of your system included fonts for both the interface as well as editor.

Typography Scaling

• Adjust font size, line height and letter spacing for the editor.

Callout Blocks

• 5 new callout blocks are available — Info, Warning, Error, Success and Tip.
• They behave similar to Blockquote in syntax and follow the Github approved notation.
• Available via the / command and the bubble menu.

Improvements

• Ask Octarine now supports adding individual notes as context.
• Go to  options have been added to CMDK .
• Git Sync now has a 3 retry mechanism added in case of errors before it disables the auto sync.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Zooming in/out would hide the file tree list, and cause the calendar to be misaligned.

• Each weekly note can now include AI-assisted recaps based on the daily notes from the previous week.
• Clicking on Generate Recap allows you to choose one of two formats:

• Once generated, you can either Accept or Reject these changes. Rejecting will wipe the AI recap and allow you to try again, while accepting will set it and hide the button for the week (you would need to delete the note if you wish to retry).

Improvements

• Improved follow-up logic for Ask Octarine. It now gives more preference to references used in the previous response, and if no relevant data is found, extends its search to other notes.
• Improved the design of suggested prompts to be more minimal.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Writing Assistant did not properly consider follow-ups with the last response data. It now behaves just like a proper chat app.
• Fixed an issue where a title was not automatically generated for Ask Octarine chats after creating a new chat.

Changes

• Changed the behavior of copy in the app. Cmd/Ctrl + C now copies WITHOUT formatting, while Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + C copies WITH formatting.
• Removed shadows from the app.

• The file tree for Notes, Templates, and Changelog now renders and scrolls more smoothly:

• Workspace Search now renders search results more efficiently, even when the list is extremely large.

Typography Settings

• In Settings → Editor, you'll now find a dedicated Typography section. You can disable all typography enhancements (such as refined display for copyright symbols, trademarks, fractions, emdashes, etc.) or choose to enable only the specific ones you prefer.

Improvements

• Workspace Search

• The settings sidebar automatically collapses on smaller screens, displaying a breadcrumb trail that shows the current setting.
• Added keyboard shortcuts to jump between headers: use Cmd + Option + Up/Down to quickly navigate.

Fixes

• Fixed the inconsistent widths of settings cards.

Six new writing backgrounds, or papers, have been added:

• Free: Graph
• Pro: Lined, Seyes, Dots, Hexagonal, Engineering.
• Switch between them via Settings → Editor → Paper Type

Git Sync

• GitSync is now automatically configured when you create a workspace from an existing folder that already contains git configurations. Folders that you have git cloned from a remote repository are set up automatically.
• If your workspace is configured to sync with git, a pull is triggered when the app loads (or when you manually reload) to fetch the latest changes from the remote repository.

• The settings preferences have been redesigned for a cleaner look.

Attachments Popover

• Implemented a search function to quickly filter results by queries.
• Removed the dropdown menu for Image/Video/All selections.
• Enhanced the scrolling performance of the popover.
• Fixed an issue where using [[ to attach an image inserted incorrect text.
• Improved the dragging hologram to clearly display dragged attachments.

Improvements

• New setting: Settings → Editor → Show Heading Guides now displays small H1, H2, and H3 tags above header names for clarity. Default: ON.
• All settings now have consistent font sizes and spacing.
• The Workspace Settings button is now also available in the ? help popover.
• The file tree includes a Refresh File Tree button that re-indexes and recreates the file tree, useful when the app does not reflect the latest data from your drives or displays inconsistencies.
• The / command search now prioritizes the main name rather than alternative names.
• Success and Error toasts now have a consistent style.
• Resizing the window, now auto closes the sidebars if open when it hits below 900px.

• Fixed a bug where quick actions would not be visible for older chats in Writing Assistant.
• Fixed tooltip for sending queries in Ask Octarine and Writing Assistant to be just Enter
• Fixed a bug where Copy Response would show up while the stream was still ongoing.

Changes

• Success toast background and text colors changed.
• Changed references tooltip text in Ask Octarine.

• You can now add explicit date ranges as context either by clicking the calendar icon or pressing \"/\" in the input box.
• Each date range includes the corresponding notes from Daily Desk.
• A \"Refresh Suggestions\" button has been added to randomize and change the suggested prompts.
• History entries are now grouped by relative dates such as Today, Yesterday, 2d ago, or 1w ago instead of absolute dates.
• Fixed a bug where stored chats occasionally did not display references when a suggested prompt was used.
• Renamed the \"context\" tooltip to \"References\" and the \"references\" tooltip to \"Relevant notes\".

Writing Assistant

• Chats in the Writing Assistant are no longer tied to specific notes. Switching chats will not switch the associated note, allowing you to refer to multiple notes.
• When selecting text for context, the interface now displays character counts instead of line counts.
• Added skeleton loaders along with improved error handling and retry features.
• History entries are now grouped by relative dates (e.g., Today, Yesterday, 2d ago, 1w ago).
• Quick History is not shown on manually created new chats, even if they are empty.
• Quick Actions on a response will display the Accepted button only when the ask is made on selected text that can be replaced. - Added a \"Generate Title\" button for creating titles.

Improvements

• When the window width is less than 960px, opening a sidebar now automatically collapses any open sidebars to prevent the editor from being squished.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented the full equation from displaying properly when math operations involved a single character (variable assignment).
• Resolved an issue where backslashes used in math operations were saved as \"\\\\\" in the markdown file.
• Fixed a bug where math operations failed to render in read-only editors (accessed via hovering over a doclink or Ask Octarine).

• Updated the way special keywords are processed by removing hardcoded English terms in favor of a language-agnostic approach.
• Now leverages the LLM to determine languages and intent rather than relying on predefined routines. This change results in improved responses in any language of your choice.

Improvements

• The \"Migration Incomplete Tasks\" automation button now displays a preview of incomplete tasks on hover.
• Increased the font size for the Chat title in Writing Assistant.
• The Writing Assistant text box now features the same loader icon as Ask Octarine.
• Writing Assistant’s Quick History now omits the current chat when displaying the last three chats.
• Reduced the tasks pie size to 16px.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where the Writing Assistant button did not toggle the collapse of an open sidebar.

• Fixed a bug where clicking on \"Getting Started\" failed to close the Ask Octarine dialog.

Chat with your notes to receive summaries, insights, and answers to your questions!

• Before using Ask Octarine, a small 90MB model is downloaded to help create embeddings—small vector chunks that identify relevant data for your question. Don’t worry, Octarine manages the download and storage for you.
• After your entire workspace is indexed into smaller text chunks, you can start chatting.
• Octarine intelligently parses your intent. It understands whether you need to summarize, explain, consolidate, analyze, review tasks/todos, or check your Daily Notes. Check the in-app Tips for guidance.
• Access it via the sidebar button or use the Cmd + O shortcut.
• Narrow your query by using the @ symbol to focus on specific folders.
• Each chat is divided into multiple messages, with each message able to invoke a different AI model or context:

• After the first response, Octarine generates a title for the chat; you can edit or regenerate it using the Sparkles icon.
• Empty chats offer suggested prompts based on a random selection of folders with notes for one-click analysis, summarization, or explanations.

Ask Octarine is currently in beta and will be improved in future updates. Some queries may not produce exactly what you expect, so your feedback is crucial. Please create a ticket on Github with any feedback.

Global History

• The Writing Assistant (sidebar) now shows global history across all chats instead of just the current file.
• Clicking on a history entry takes you to both the chat and its associated file.
• Empty chat screens display Quick History (the last three chats) for fast access.

Improvements

• Switching between notes in the Daily, Notes, and Templates tabs is now faster.
• File opening from the graph view has been optimized.
• The Migrate Tasks button has moved to inside the Daily notes breadcrumb for better accessibility.
• The Meta sidebar and Writing Assistant buttons have been relocated from the notes breadcrumb to the global one.
• A refreshed splash screen shows Recently Viewed items and keyboard shortcuts for quick access.
• Selecting text and pressing the Writing Assistant button or Cmd + J now retains highlighting even when focus leaves the editor. This highlighting shows exactly what the LLM will consider and is removed when the sidebar is collapsed or the context selection is cleared.
• The error screen now allows you to switch workspaces if an error occurs.
• Writing Assistant queries are now selectable and respect line breaks.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Writing Assistant wouldn’t work with Ollama set up but without an OpenAI API key.
• Fixed an issue where the code block language could be changed in read-only notes.
• Fixed a bug where the Writing Assistant’s Context Selector didn’t scroll when using keyboard up/down arrows.
• The model selector now displays a warning color when \"No model selected\" is shown.
• Fixed an issue where the Writing Assistant’s input was cropped out on windows smaller than 768px.
• Fixed a bug where the Workspace switcher was hidden behind the sidebar on windows smaller than 768px.
• Fixed a bug where triggered Focus Mode did not collapse the open sidebars automatically.

Changes

• The FPS counter no longer displays an average FPS.
• The help button for the Writing Assistant has moved from beside the title to beside the send button in the input box.
• New packages for Ask Octarine have slightly increased the overall package size.
• Icon sizes for the Global breadcrumb have been reduced.
• Ask Assistant is now renamed to Writing Assistant.
• The attachments icon has been restored to the Photos icon.
• The function that watches for changes will now skip over templates.

• Daily Desk — Hovering over a day/week that has content will show up a preview on hover.
• Improved Git reset deletion logic.

Fixes

• Fixed multiple duplicate headers causing the outline to not navigate to the intended click.
• Fixed highlight colors for some of the newer themes.

• You can now download Mermaid diagrams in PNG and SVG formats.

Fixes

• Resolved a bug that caused the editor to shift upwards when Mermaid errors occurred, disrupting the app layout.
• Fixed an issue where selecting a blank note as context in Ask Assistant would display the current note’s data when hovering over the context name.
• Corrected a bug that prevented daily files from displaying their name as context on Windows.

• Enhanced the performance of file tree calculations when navigating between different areas of the app and returning to notes/templates.

Fixes

• Resolved a bug that caused pinning/unpinning or locking/unlocking a non-active note to replace its data with that of the last viewed note.

• Mermaid Diagrams are now supported within code blocks.
• You can create a Mermaid diagram by:

• Updated icon colors for several newer dark themes.
• Moved the Migrate Incomplete Tasks option to the far right and changed its icon.
• Increased default sidebar width for Ask Assistant to 400px.

• In the 0.24.3 release, the option to display line numbers in code blocks was removed for performance reasons; the setting remained in Settings → Editor`, which has now been removed.

Core Changes

• The interface is completely redesigned to function more like a chat system for long-form conversations.

• Ask Assistant now opens a sidebar on the right when activated, replacing the original dialog within the editor.

- Multiple chat conversations can occur while using the note context.
- Each note maintains its own chat history for easy access.
- A \"chat\" can consist of multiple messages that follow the previous context, or you can initiate a new chat to start over.
- Each message can utilize different models.
- The title of the chat auto-generates based on the first response to the user prompt for better historical recall.
- A Help Dialog is available, offering tips and tricks for adapting to the new design.

Context Switching

• By default, the current note provides context for the chat. Hovering over the context in the chat prompt box displays the text sent to the AI provider.
• You can select a small portion of text in the editor and press Cmd/Ctrl + J or use the Add to Chat icon in the Bubble menu to add that text as context (indicated by the line range).
• To change the context to another note in the workspace, press the “@” icon or type @ as the first character in the chat. This opens a search box to select any existing note.

URL Context

• You can provide a URL in the @ context selector, in addition to using existing files as context.
• Octarine attempts to extract readable content from the URL to facilitate chat, although some JavaScript-heavy sites may not work due to data not loading.
• Once content is extracted, hovering over the context title reveals the content. You can then Copy Content, Save it to a new note (using the URL title as the file name), or Go to the link.

New Themes!

• Pro Users now have access to 18 new themes, bringing the total to 33 themes:

Improvements

• Sidebar widths and open/close states are saved and restored on app restarts or refreshes.
• A Sync Now command is added to CMDK to force sync git changes (if set up).
• Performance for data storage and retrieval from the local database has been improved.
• Icon colors now correctly change to brighter versions when hovered.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where saving would cause the cursor to jump to the last position on Windows.

• Resolved an issue that allowed the creation of a new note in the daily note folder using wikilinks, which caused an error.
• Implemented validations to ensure only valid named files can be created in the Daily and Weekly folders for the calendar.

• Improved loading times for the editor.
• Replaced the code block syntax highlighting framework with a more efficient option.
• LaTeX/Math rendering is now disabled by default; it can be enabled in Settings → Editor → Render Math Equations if needed.

Improvements

• Graph — Daily and weekly notes now have different colored nodes for easier distinction.
• Graph — A legend has been added to explain the meaning of each node color.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where linked note titles were not formatted correctly in the meta sidebar for daily and weekly notes.
• Windows — Fixed a problem where adding doc links resulted in an incorrect format, preventing recognition.
• Windows — Corrected an issue where the Graph would fail to load if a daily or weekly note was linked to another note.

• Windows — Fixed a bug where Graph would fail due to incorrect date-time conversions.
• Windows — Fixed a bug where error toast would show up when clicking on dates without data in them.

Performance

• The Notes file tree implementation has been rewritten to efficiently manage extremely long lists.

• Using Cmd/Ctrl + P for file navigation now instantly updates the tree, centering on the selected note.

• The file navigation architecture has transitioned from using unique IDs to file names, ensuring more reliable note navigation.

• Updating a note no longer triggers unnecessary file tree recalculations, reducing CPU usage.

Graph View

• The Graph View has been completely rewritten with a custom solution for improved performance.

• Nodes with more outgoing links are now larger, with their size increasing exponentially based on the number of connections.

• Hovering over a node dims the rest of the graph, enhancing focus on the hovered node and its connections.

Daily Desk

• Calendar navigation is now possible using shortcuts, which are listed below the calendar.

• Changes to the Migrate Incomplete automation:

- A Migrated from line is now added above incomplete todos in the transferred date note, helping to identify their origin.
- A property (front-matter) indicating where incomplete tasks were migrated is added to the extracted date note.

• Performance improvements have been made to finding incomplete todos.

Meta Sidebar

• Note stats now display Characters and Lines.

• Selecting text in a note updates the stats for the selected text.

• Linked Notes and Attached Media headers now reflect the number of items they contain.

• External reference calculations have been optimized for better performance.

Reacting to Outside File Changes

• Octarine now reacts to in-note changes made outside the app, in addition to detecting directory-level changes (creating, deleting, moving notes/folders).

Improvements

• The Ask Assistant now fetches models compatible with your OpenAI server (defaulting to OpenAI) for the model selector, allowing the use of Deepseek, Grok, or any OpenAI API-compatible server without errors.
• Navigation buttons have been removed from breadcrumbs.
• The notes breadcrumb now adjusts to the app's size, truncating folder names as necessary.
• The note name in the breadcrumb now features a background around its input.
• Pinning or locking a note now updates its status in the note's property (front-matter) instead of the local database, preserving its status across devices or workspaces.
• LaTeX equations now support chemical equations — See ref.
• A Yesterday option has been added to the slash command.

Fixes

• Resolved a bug that prevented proper recognition of Chinese characters in word count.
• Fixed an issue where moving a note containing a . would result in a renamed file with missing characters.
• Corrected a bug where an error message regarding the existence of a note/folder during renaming would be obscured by other note items in the list.
• Relaxed the math equation regex to accommodate spaces between characters.
• Fixed an issue where pressing enter in the command bar while the editor had the cursor on a tag, would cause the tag to be entered incorrectly.

Breaking Changes

• Due to database changes, the following will be reset:

• A dialog will appear on load to inform you about the breaking changes and perform a fresh database cleanup for using Octarine.

• GitSync — Toggling Backup Periodically off, now shows the warning sign in Global Breadcrumb to notify you of it.
• GitSync — Added files to ignored folders setting.
• GitSync — Replaced toggles with radio groups for Including or Ignoring folders while syncing.

Fixes

• GitSync — Fixed an issue where sync would fail on Windows.
• Recently Viewed — Fixed an issue where occasionally on refresh, clicking on an item in recently viewed would take you to a dead path.
• Fixed an issue where pressing CMD + N to create a new note when not in the Notes tab or when pressing Create New Note in the workspace splash screen would not focus the file name for quick rename.

• Tags have been completely redesigned. They now appear as regular, visible text instead of as a separate node. This change makes them easier to search for within the file, editable, and non-blocking.
• Additionally, the tag design now uses the theme's accent color and no longer includes a background.
• Tags can now be added to existing text by placing # before them or using the find and replace function.

Improvements

• Creating a new note, automatically focuses the file name in the breadcrumb for quick editing.

• Ignore the d, do, dd error if one of P, PP, PPP or PPPP is typed in the date format setting.
• Improve selection colors for Dark and Dim themes.

Changes

• Sidebar is now NOT resizable for daily desk. It is fixed to fit the calendar (resizes automatically with zoom). Switching to search / notes / templates will still allow resizing.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where invalid characters pasted from a migration tool (evernote) caused the app to crash.
• Fixed a bug where single replace would replace it with ` and not the actual replace term.
• Fixed an issue where typing /` in ask assistant to filter the common prompts would not allow keyboard navigation using arrow keys.

• Pressing Cmd/Ctrl + A inside a code block now selects all text within that code block only.
• Week numbers in the calendar now display with the accent text color.
• Text selection colors for Dark and Dim theme have been changed to blue for better visibility.
• Added a Paste Raw Markdown shortcut to the Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet.
• When creating a new folder, the rename process now begins instantly, with the text highlighted for quicker renaming.

Ask Assistant

• No longer requires OpenAI configuration if Ollama is setup and running.
• Instant server check for Ollama, eliminating the need for a refresh.
• Improved text copy for the Taking Context and Starting Fresh help options in Ask Assistant.
• Displays a warning if neither OpenAI is configured nor Ollama is running.
• Includes a copy button next to the entered prompt.
• Fixed a bug preventing up/down arrow functionality in the text area.
• Added support for the o1-mini and o3-mini models.
• Shows a no model selected warning if the last selected model is unavailable.
• Improved auto scroll for AI responses.

Fixes

• Resolved an issue where pressing up when a code block is the first element in a note did not function. It now creates a new paragraph above.
• Fixed a problem where the selected background color would not display for pinned file items in the tree view when a pinned file was being viewed.
• Addressed an issue where images and videos would not appear on Windows.
• Fixed a bug where switching between workspaces sometimes caused incorrect data to display or data from the last workspace to show if the new workspace lacked attachments or weekly notes.
• Fixed a bug where switching workspaces would sometimes wipe out the pinned notes.

• A new Focus Mode has been introduced, which dims everything except the currently edited text or sentence. This feature enhances concentration and reduces distractions.
• Focus Mode also hides the global breadcrumb, the note breadcrumb, and collapses any open sidebar.
• While in Focus Mode, CMDK remains accessible, but all other actions (e.g., Workspace Search, Recently Viewed) are disabled until you exit Focus Mode.
• To enable Focus Mode, use: CmdK → Focus Mode
• To disable it, use the CMDK bar or click the eye icon at the top.
• Available to users on the Pro License.

Custom Date Formatting

• Settings → Preferences now includes an option to modify the date formatting throughout the app.

Improvements

• CMDK — Daily and Weekly notes display available commands in the command bar.

Changes

• App — Call to action buttons across the app now have consistent design.
• Graph — Increased zoom threshold before showing node names.

Fixes

• Editor — Resolved an issue where pasting links containing # in the title caused them to be treated as tags upon refreshing or reloading the note.
• Sidebar — Corrected a problem that caused the meta and tags sidebar to appear on the left when the screen width was less than 768 pixels.
• Workspace — Resolved an issue that caused the creation of a workspace to fail when a folder with the same name as an existing path was already present.
• Attachments — Include a condition to identify local image links on Windows.
• CMDK — Fixed Lock Note command not showing up for a note.

• Local LLMs (with Ollama) are now supported for Ask Assistant.
• In Settings → AI, you can —

Note — You must set up ollama and have it running to use it in Octarine. Ask Assistant will notify you if Ollama is not running.

Improvements

• Ask Assistant — The text area now automatically focuses for typing after the response stream ends.
• Ask Assistant — The system prompt has been refined for more precise responses.
• Search — Debounce timing has been increased to prevent spamming the results list.

Fixes

• Daily Desk — Resolved a bug that caused the app to crash when the searched text appeared in a weekly note.
• Ask Assistant — Fixed a bug where APIs were not whitelisted for Windows/Linux, rendering the assistant unusable.
• Ask Assistant — Corrected a bug preventing the error toast from displaying.
• Editor — Fixed syntax highlighting issues in several pro themes.

• Resolved a bug that caused the app to display a blank screen if the last viewed file before closing was a weekly note.
• Streamlined routing for accessing weekly notes.
• Corrected an issue where clicking Back to Workspace in Settings would not return you to the last note you were working on.

• You can now reference external files that Octarine doesn’t natively support in your notes. Clicking on these files opens them in the default app, allowing you to work with your notes and references simultaneously.

• The Meta sidebar features an External References section for each note. It allows you to import new files or search for existing files in the workspace to reference.

• These references are stored in the markdown as frontmatter at the top of the markdown file, which also lays the groundwork for Properties/Frontmatter in upcoming releases.

- Here’s an example of how the frontmatter will appear in the file:

    ---
    external_files:
      - 2412.10953v1.pdf
    ---
    

• Octarine comes with support for several default extensions. You can add additional extensions that suit your workflow by navigating to Settings → Files → External Files.

- However, the following extensions cannot be imported, as Octarine already supports them natively in your notes: MD / PNG / JPG / JPEG / GIF / WEBM / SVG / MP4 / MOV.

Weekly Notes

• A new column labeled WN (Week Number) is now available in the Daily Desk’s Calendar, displaying the weeks of the year.
• Weekly Notes are stored in the Daily/Weekly folder in the workspace, following the -W format.
• The size of the day buttons in the calendar has been reduced.
• The week now starts on Monday instead of Sunday.

Improvements

• A context menu (right-click) has been added to items under Attached Media in the meta sidebar.
• The style of the Alert Dialog has been updated.
• Codeblocks are now wrapped to prevent horizontal scrolling on medium-sized windows and above. On smaller windows, codeblocks remain unwrapped and scrollable.
• The speed of creating a daily note has been improved.
• Clicking Regenerate on an Ask Assistant response now sends an explicit retry with the previous response, prompting the LLM to avoid sending the same response again.
• The Linked Notes section in the meta sidebar has a maximum height and a scrollbar, preventing it from occupying the entire sidebar height when numerous doclinks are attached.

Fixes

• A bug has been fixed where switching workspaces could sometimes display incorrect days with notes in the daily desk’s calendar.

• Fixed a bug that caused the app to crash on switching or creating workspaces :(
• Fixed a bug where a new workspace would not show the Welcome file in the file tree, but would show after a refresh.

• The Meta sidebar and Tags sidebar can now be resized, just like the main sidebar.
• The draggable surface area in the global breadcrumb has been increased.
• Keyboard shortcuts are now functional even when the focus is on input fields.

Fixes

• Resolved a bug that caused garbage text to appear when adding a highlight within a blockquote.
• Fixed an issue where selecting a pinned note would keep the note item focused in the sidebar, leading to keyboard shortcut conflicts.

Misc

• Tons of behind the scenes changes for supporting the Windows Release (currently under alpha-testing)

• Improved error handling when trying to save to a file made read-only in the Finder. It shows a toast notification with the error instead of crashing the entire app.
• The template editor now shows the file name input at the top (if the setting is toggled on), similar to Notes, for quicker renaming.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the app would crash when renaming a newly created file and instantly moving it.
• Fixed several scenarios that would crash the app upon creating, renaming, or moving files.
• Fixed an issue where highlighting text with a trailing space would break the formatting when revisiting the file.
• Fixed an issue where changing the theme from the CMDK bar would show the purchase license option even when choosing one of the three free themes.

• The Ask Assistant feature now resembles a chat experience.
• Upfront prompt options are now hidden under a / command. To view a list of quick options, press / in the chatbox after selecting text to rephrase or rewrite.
• You can change the model directly from the chatbox, eliminating the need to navigate to the settings.
• After a response is generated, you can request refinements. Prompts entered after response generation will apply to the response, not the original selected text.
• The performance of the chat and editor experience has been improved.

Locked Notes

• Individual notes can now be locked, preventing any form of editing.
• Notes, Templates, and Daily Desk can all be locked.
• To lock a note, you can:

• To regain editing access, follow the same steps to Unlock Note.
• This feature is available exclusively for Pro License users.

Changes

• Task breakdown no longer shows the pending/completed upfront, but rather is under a tooltip now. Removed background and reduced spacing.

Fixes

• Fix recently viewed notes not showing up at the top of CMD + P command bar.
• Improved performance of read only editors (changelog, doclink hovers)
• Improve performance of note meta info (word count, reading time, linked notes)

• Increased the amount of languages supported for syntax highlighting in codeblock.
• Add the ability to select text from Read only editor — Changelog / Doclink hovers / Ask Assistant responses
• Add a setting in Settings → Files to ignore dot-folders from showing up in the workspace default: Show
• Added a custom error screen for when Octarine crashes for any reason, with steps to resolve / refresh or in case of continued issues to contact support.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where renaming a file would momentarily wipe new text written before reinstating it.
• Fixed a bug a where deleting the last remaining workspace would lead the app into an error state.

• Fixed a bug where notes under .folders would show the last viewed note’s text instead of it’s own.

Changes

• Reduced the opacity of the list marker to make it distinct (bullet in unordered list, or numbers in ordered list)
• Increased the spacing between two paragraphs.
• For new workspaces, the editor setting Show File Name Input is toggled off by default.

• Fixed a bug where pressing [ would cause the notes to be navigated instead of typing in the editor

• Introduced a new Text command in the / command to convert text into a paragraph. Keyboard Shortcut: Cmd + Option + 0 or Ctrl + Alt + 0
• Relocated the Ask Assistant command to the bottom of the / command list.
• Updated the shortcut for opening the keyboard shortcuts help drawer from ? to Cmd + ?, making it accessible while typing in the editor.
• Added Open Note and Expand/Collapse options to the context menu in the file tree.

Fixes

• Resolved a bug that caused dragged and dropped images to display the message Image has been deleted for too long before rendering. The image now appears almost instantly.
• Corrected several shortcuts that were not functioning on Linux and various keyboard layouts.
• Fixed an issue in Ask Assistant where the entire note was taken as context instead of just the selected text for rewrite/rephrase.
• Addressed an issue where changes were not canceled when using the up/down keys during file renaming in the file tree.
• The Ask Assistant icon button has been removed from the editor.

• Attachments can now be deleted from the workspace entirely.

• Increased font size of the items in Attachments.
• Attachments are now sorted by latest → oldest

Improvements

• Improved speed of doclink resolution in a note after it’s been deleted.
• Changed the colors of a missing doclink in note to standout from proper doclinks.
• Ask Assistant is now available as part of the / command and as a small button on the bottom left of the editor.
• Increase font size of labels in ContextMenus and DropdownMenus.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where images dragged from the attachments popover would not save as [[image.png]] but rather as ``
• Fixed a bug where Images and Videos were not draggable.

• Using a custom prompt without selecting any text to change, provides two options:

• Full Context - Takes the entire context of the note into consideration for the request. Useful when you want to create something inline with previous text. Enter to select

• No Context - Is a fresh slate on your prompt. Useful when you want to create something without baggage of other writing methods. Cmd + Enter to select

• A new option to Insert the response to the note instead of replacing the selected text is available.

- If text was selected before using Ask Assistant, insert puts the response a line below the selected text.
- If no text was selected, insert puts the response at the position of the cursor.

• Changed the design of the action buttons.

• Improved error handling.

Natural Language Date search for Doclinks

• Use natural language like today tomorrow nov5 inside [[ doclinks to link to daily notes. (Option only shows up if a daily note for that date has been created)

Improvements

• Settings → AI now has a Copy Key button to copy the api key.
• Settings → AI now has a Deactivate Integration button to remove the OpenAI configuration.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where copying articles or html from a browser would not paste the images.
• Fixed an issue where external links would open inside the app window when clicked inside doclink hovers or the changelog.
• Removed the setting to choose whether deleted files go to Trash or are permanently deleted, as it would require additional permissions from the OS, which resulted in crashes. Deleted files are now permanently deleted by default.
• Fixed the error background color for Cyberpunk theme.

The app has achieved a significant milestone, and the Pro License is now available at Early Access pricing. This introduces new features, additional themes, and customizations that are currently available and more will be added soon!

Ask Assistant (Pro)

Ask Assistant is Octarine’s version of integrating AI to help you write better!

• Access Ask Assistant by either:

- Select any text and click the sparkle star button (far right) to open the Assistant dialog to work with the selected text as context.
- Select any text and press Cmd/Ctrl + J to open the assistant to work with the selected text as context
- Press Cmd/Ctrl + J without selecting any text to open the assistant to work with no context

• Default options are provided to rewrite selected text, along with an Input box to write your own prompt.

• Post Regeneration, you can either:

- Esc — to discard the response.
- R — to regenerate the response with the same prompt.
- C — to copy the response.
- Cmd/Ctrl + Enter — to insert the response into the editor.

• Supports OpenAI models for now. Requires an OpenAI API Key to be used. Setup your API key in Settings → AI

New Themes (Pro)

• Expanded the assortment of themes from 3 to 16!

• Choose from a variety of Dark & Light themes to go with your mood.

• Theme can be changed from Settings → Preferences or CMDK → Change Interface Theme

Improvements

• Changed the background color for dropdown menus and context menus.
• Font selection in settings now renders the font in the dropdown for a quick preview.
• Theme options (in settings dropdown and CMDK bar) have a small chip showing a quick preview of the theme color pallette against them.
• Removed the slight red bar visible in the task pie chart when 0 tasks are completed.

• Increased padding of each button inside the command, as well as fixed scroll padding.
• Added keyboard shortcut tips to options that support it.
• Replaced Insert Template option with list of templates that are now searchable directly. (Give /daily a try).

Settings

• A new Files settings section has been made available with the following settings:

Improvements

• Changed icon of templates everywhere.
• Changed colors of all action highlights from white/black to Octarine accent colors.
• Reduced amount of colors the app has, and made things uniform.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where zoom would cause the file tree items to overlay over one another.
• Reverted the change from 0.18.1 where read only notes where selectable, since it resulted in text selections messing up across the app.

• Changed doclink design to have a more link like style (and also to distinct itself from the newly shipped highlight colors)
• Added title to hover cards that show up when a doclink/linked note is hovered.
• Changed design of task breakdown to more of a pie shape.
• Task breakdown is now available for regular notes in addition to daily desk.
• Images have their alt text shown at the bottom.
• Removed restriction of non editor text not being selectable. Also results in doclink hover notes to be selectable for copying.

Fixes

• Fix an issue where clicking on nodes in graph or clicking on linked notes in Meta sidebar would not navigate to the correct note.
• Fix an issue where if the first thing in a note was a code block it would not extract tasks.
• Fixed an issue where results from workspace search would not scroll to the result in the file for larger notes.

Think of this as the next phase of Octarine, that makes it easier to build new features, and keep the performance of the app in the right direction. Long release notes, let’s dive in.

Performance

• Changed the way app data (not notes) are stored to be more efficient.
• Notes load up way quicker when switching between notes.
• Each workspace is now indexed on load, which results in reading of all notes to extract tags and make doclinks. This means the graph is automatically created for any workspace (even workspaces that are created from existing folders)
• Improved the file watching mechanism to only look at the folder in question, rather than the entire workspace directory to look for changes.

Global Sidebar

• Workspace switcher designed changed to be minimal. Replaced the colored border with the initials of the workspace.
• Removed Settings from the navigation menu. It now sits under the workspace switcher button.
• Repositioned the Search button to be beside the workspace name.
• Improved performance of the file tree for larger workspaces.
• Using keyboard shortcuts to navigate the file tree ( Cmd + Shift + E focuses it), shows a purple outline on the current navigated file for better focus.
• Removed Refresh workspace button from the quick actions. It still now accessible only via the Cmd + K bar.
• Toggling the sidebar close, no longer shows the minimal sidebar.

Search

• Improved performance of search to be efficient and fast when returning results for larger workspaces and queries that are short.
• Changed the design for making distinction between file name and search to be cleaner.
• Search is now broken down into multiple lines, if the searched item exists multiple times in the same line.
• Removed the ability to collapse search results.

Meta Sidebar

• Moved the button to show meta about the file to be present in the note breadcrumb rather than on the titlebar.
• Tags are now accessed via a button on the titlebar.
• Sections under meta now are:

Improvements

• Sidebar can now be resized when in Daily Desk
• Renaming or Moving a note/folder will fix references made in other notes to reflect the new names/locations.
• Add a light background to Today’s date in the calendar.
• In file search made more efficient, and improved moving to next match
• Daily desk breadcrumb now omits the year if it’s the same calendar year as today → Friday, November 1 instead of Friday, November 1, 2024
• Reduced the background opacity of the scrollbars unless hovered.
• Changed background of selected text from default blue, to Octarine purple accent color.

Fixes

• Fixed the results count between Workspace Search and Infile search being different.
• Fixed keyboard navigation not working properly for workspace search.
• Fixed an issue where saved changes would not reflect in the editor if the theme of the app was changed via the CMD + K bar.
• Fixed the UI layout shifting when using workspace search to scroll to searched content in notes.
• Recently viewed and Sidebar buttons are shifted to the extreme left when in fullscreen mode.
• Dragging a file or folder now correctly scrolls the file tree.

Breaking Changes

• Due to the changes in the data storage, recently viewed and pinned file data have been reset.

• Added support for multiple highlight colors.
• Bubble menu (shown when selecting a text) has a submenu for Highlight now made available to select additional colors.
• Grouped Heading buttons into one button in Bubble Menu for easier navigation.

• Fixed a bug that disallowed pasting stuff into a codeblock.

• Workspace search

• Improved alignment of paragraphs with headers.

• Fixed a bug where images pasted via clipboard would not save to the folder properly resulting in loss on refresh.
• Fixed a bug where the syntax for pasted images would change from [[Image.png]] to ` on save in the markdown storage. Note:` These would self correct the next time you make a change in the file.
• Fixed a bug where placeholders where not shown.
• Fixed a bug where an empty todo item would not show the blinking caret.

• Fixed a bug where quick switching between notes would sometimes overwrite the new note with previous notes content.
• Fixed typing markdown link syntax [text] (link) not formatting the link.
• Fixed a bug where creating a new note would lead to no file being selected, but editor being open to edit, causing the app to crash the moment the note is being saved.

• Fix an issue where creating a new note would intermittently crash the app.

• Fixed a bug where chinese characters where not highlighted properly via in-file search.
• Fixed a bug where navigating from Workspace search would not highlight the text correctly or not scroll to it correctly.
• Fixed Outline not highlighting the current viewing header automatically on scroll.
• Fixed a bug where newly created daily files wouldn’t instantly show the menu options.
• Fixed a bug where clicking on a multiple search results from the same file in Workspace Search, would cause a refresh of the page.

Improvements

• Cursor position is now preserved, so when you come back to a file, you can pick up right where you left off.

Performance

This release was part of a major rewrite to the underlying systems that have resulted in a lot of performance improvements, most notably:

• Faster startup time.
• Smaller installed size (13MB → 10MB).
• Switching between notes is instant with no flash of data painting.
• Navigating to notes is much quicker.
• Switching between workspaces is much quicker.
• Keyboard navigating the file tree for a much larger workspace, is smoother.
• Showing selected file in the file tree is much quicker when jumping between files.

Short video showing moving between files being smoother. Left (Dark) is v0.16.4 and Right (Light) is v0.17.0.

• Relaxed the SSH url check, so self-hosted gitlab servers can also be used.
• Removed extra steps like choosing service, made the UX simpler to just have an input and button for setting up sync
• Added a View link to go directly to the repository.

• Changed design of the global breadcrumb — it now has a larger padding, traffic lights are centered, icons are larger and a background is added.
• Changed design of the meta sidebar buttons.
• Improved design of codeblock.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where pressing Up Arrow on a codeblock would not let you exit it.
• Removed transition duration from the sidebar dragging since it was slower than the actual drag lines.

Linux

• Fixed gstream dependencies, so that changelog doesn’t cause the app to crash.
• Workspace creation has an option now to paste workspace path if for some reason the folder dialog does not open on the distro.

• FPS counter setting is now saved to config, so it won’t go away on reload.
• Increased size of the search button on the sidebar.

Fixes

• Fixed keyboard shortcut borders when outside tooltips.
• Fixed clicking on language selector for codeblock not displaying the list.
• Fixed language selector and copy to clipboard buttons being tab accessible resulting in weird layout shifts.
• Fixed using workspace search to go to a file, not scrolling to the selected position.

• Fixed a bug where a dead backlink would cause the app to crash when opening a note.

• Upgraded the internals to the latest version of Tauri.

Improvements

• Dragging a file to move over a folder does not instantly open it. Instead if you stick around of the folder for 500ms, it’ll open it.
• You can now move folders to other folders as well!
• Deleting a file/folder does not delete it permanently but rather moves it to your Trash. (you may need to give Octarine permissions for it one time)

Fun

• A new FPS counter has been added to the app to see if there’s any lags!
• Cmd + K → FPS to enable / disable it

• App window can now be resized to upto 480px allowing you to keep Octarine beside all your other apps!
• Reduced color palette to be more concise.
• Fix issue where the notes breadcrumb was misaligned with the search and meta sidebars.
• Improve performance of function to calculate workspace files on create/rename/delete of files/folders.

• Added basic support for rendering math formulae in the editor

• Equations need to be written between two $ signs.

• Fixed a bug where backslashes were added to the markdown when typing text inside square brackets.

• Read Only editor versions now support tags.
• Renaming a file does no longer throw an error when the case is changed.
• Reduced border between doclinks list and create list.
• Fixed a bug where pressing enter right after a tag, would replace it with a Header 1.
• Removed ability to create Header by the ` combination.

• Pressing Enter inside a table, creates rows below it.
• Column and Row controls are hidden unless the table is hovered/focused.
• Fixed Shift + Enter in a cell not allowing break lines.
• Fixed Table cells not respecting single line` schema.
• Added cell selections and background color when selected.

• Two new options have been added to the [[ command list

• This creates a note and automatically links it to the current note.
• If the current note is at the root of the workspace, then the in this folder option is not available, and if the note exists in both places, then neither option is available.

Tags in Graph View

• Notes that are tagged using # now show up in the graph view with a yellow node color.
• Clicking on them opens the search sidebar with the tag pre-filled.

Improvements

• Experimental forces change to the Graph to allow spacing between the nodes, and smoother interactions.
• Fixed a bug where creating a new daily note would show created 54 years ago in the created meta information.
• Matched text is now highlighted inside the [[ command list based on the input.
• The [[ list no longer shows all files and attachments without an input. Filter is capped at showing 5 items, so you can get to what you need quick.
• Improved the code around saving notes to file to take up less operations, and make the app a bit more performant.

• Fixed an issue where more than 2 tags in one line, would hide the tag rendering.
• Allow tags to have hyphen in them. Eg: product-update is now a valid tag

• Fixed a bug where non-english characters could not be part of the tag.
• Fixed cursor overlapping with the first character of a heading.
• Fixed an issue where # and [[ inside codeblocks would link the note or create a tag.

Huge update, and the app now supports tagging as a mode of organising!

Tags

• Start organising your notes with tags by pressing # and typing text.
• Tags can be nested using the / operator. For example #product/update
• Tags are created in real time, so pressing Space / Enter / moving out of the file would create them. Unused tags will be removed to keep things clean.
• Clicking on tags in the note or via the Tag Tree in the Meta Sidebar, opens the workspace search with the tag prefilled.
• Clicking on a tag result in the search, would take you to the file, and highlight the tag for a brief moment (2 secs).

Meta Sidebar Changes

• The meta sidebar button has been moved from the note’s breadcrumb to the Global Breadcrumb (to make it accessible everywhere).
• 3 sections are made available in the sidebar

• Info / Outline are disabled when no note is open.

Improvements

• Fixed a bug where / command would not scroll down when pressing down arrow keys.
• Fixed a bug where the search term would randomly expand the sidebar in workspace search.
• Fixed links in search not being wrapped properly to the next line.
• Delete actions in Context Menu / Dropdowns are red to signify danger.
• Fix keyboard controls in workspace search.

• Allowed zooming in and out of the app to reach your comfort zone for text sizes.
• Pressing Cmd + / Cmd - will zoom in and out respectively.
• If the zoom is greater or less than 100, then an indicator is shown on the breadcrumb with the current zoom percentage
• You can reset the zoom back to 100% by clicking on the percentage button

Improvements

• Added shortcut key references for Zoom, Linking notes to Keyboard Shortcuts.
• Removed the keyboard shortcut display button from Search on the sidebar.

• A neat little task tally counter has been added to Daily Desk notes
• Any task item created via the / command or by using [ ] counts toward the tally.

Improvements

• Added a setting button at the bottom of the sidebar, when it’s collapsed.
• Closing command bar will focus back to the editor if it was open.
• Sync icon for configured is different from when not configured.
• Bring back backdrop-blur when the command bar is open.

• Fixed natural language date input not working in Cmd + K
• Format daily desk notes in [[ to have readable dates for better searching.
• Fix Match case and Match word filters not working for Workspace Search
• Fix the sort order for recently viewed notes in Cmd + P
• Format the results in Workspace search from Daily Desk and Templates to have distinct icons in front of them.
• Daily desk results in Workspace search, have the date formatted to be more readable.
• Fix in file search not being cleared when moving between files, causing last searched terms to be highlighted when the search is empty.

• Selecting a text and pressing Cmd + Shift + F to open workspace search, auto populates and searches for the selected text.
• Improved styling for workspace search header, hiding the Workspace switcher, and adding a clear Close button.

So a few months back, search had been redesigned to have it’s own separate page, filters were added and performance for improved. All good things, but somehow it still felt disjointed and seemed to break workflows, so it’s now gone through another redesign, which I believe makes it far easier to use than before

• Search is now present in the sidebar, and accessible right beside your notes.
• Quickly move between results, without the need of context switches.
• Match case and Match whole word filters are now present in the search box, rather than separate buttons.
• Each file result, can be collapsed, so you only see what you care about.

Improvements

• Link container now has a copy button to copy the link to clipboard.

• Copy link and Copy code now have success toasts shown post copy.

• When using the command bar to open a note ( Cmd + P ), the recently viewed notes are at the very top.

• Selecting a text and pressing Cmd + F in the editor, auto populates the text in the search box.

• An icon is made available in the calendar to access Go to date functionality for human friendly date navigation.

• Search results now omit the text inside image links.

• Dragging a note to move it to a folder now opens the folder as you drag over it!

Fixes

• Fixed Cmd + D for opening the Go to Date command not working when the editor is focused.
• Fix images/videos overflowing from the container in the Attachments popover.
• Add shortcut key for highlighting text in the Keyboard Shortcuts.
• Reduced size of the Help button.

• Templates can now have DocLinks attached to them. Add a doc link using [[ to any template, and when you insert the template, the file will be auto linked.
• Hovering over the created and updated time in the meta sidebar, shows the exact time in a tooltip.
• Increased size of toggle switches.
• Auto closing brackets are applied when pressing ( or {

Fixes

• Fixed Cmd + P not opening the note switcher when the editor was focused.
• Fixed names in note switcher to not have .md and the correct folder paths.
• Fixed a bug where deleted files would show up as a blank line item in recently viewed.

A ground up rewrite of the graph view, to be more performant and with new features

• Pinch in/out on your trackpad, or scroll up and down with your scroller to zoom in/out the graph.
• Zooming in reveals the file names for readability.
• Hovering over nodes, now highlights the links.
• Source nodes are brighter (dark themes) / darker (light theme) to distinguish from other nodes.

Improvements

• Links/Code inside a task item have reduced opacity when the task is checked off.
• Fixed Meta Sidebar width being broken.
• / command has separators and consistent icons.

• New filter Only in Daily Desk to find results only in your daily notes.

• Searched terms are now saved in and shown in Recently Searched on an empty search page for quick access to repeated searched terms.

Improvements

• Left sidebar expanding/collapsing is smoother.
• Cmd + P open note functionality now has folder names as subtitles.
• Month is Calendar is now in the full format i.e March instead of Mar
• In Graph, nodes of daily desk, now have better formatted date values i.e Sunday, November 22 2023
• In app changelog is now a dialog instead of a page. On every new app update, it’ll popup once on app load to show you what’s new!

• Pinned notes now show up the file tree instead of requiring you to go to completely different page.
• They are stickied at the top for easier access
• You can unpin them, by hovering over them and press the X
• Pinning notes can now be achieved not only be the existing context menu (right click over note in file tree), the command bar, but also via the Breadcrumb options ( … on the top-right)

Improvements

• Fix shadow showing up for no background keyboard shortcuts.
• Removed the Pinned menu button.
• Currently viewing note name is shown in the Move to Different Folder command menu function.
• Fix table controls overlaying on dropdowns.
• Fix Graph and Sidebar icons in command menu.
• Removed Root being shown under notes in Recently Viewed

• The Bubble Menu (the one that comes up when you select some text in a note) has been given a UI facelift.

• Added option to Highlight text. Select any text, and either press the Highlight icon or press Cmd + Shift + H

- Coupled with this is a setting to choose one of 6 colors for highlighting text.

• Added the option to quickly create a blockquote from selected text.

Settings Redesign

• Settings is now a dedicated page instead of a dialog that opens up.
• Moved the Settings button from the left sidebar, to be under the Workspace Switcher (Click on the workspace name on the top-left)
• Cmd + comma still remains the shortcut to access settings, as well via the Cmd + K bar.
• Pressing Escape on the settings page, now takes you to the last viewed page.

Extra Redesigns

• Workspace switcher now shows a small dot with the workspace’s chosen color for clarity.
• Reduced input sizes for workspace creation.
• When pressing Cmd + K on an existing note, it shows the note’s name as a chip at the top.
• Fixed scrolls across the app to not be visible at all times, and to be less annoying.
• Increased the length of the link container. (shown when clicking a link)

• Codeblocks now have line numbers shown against them.
• A new setting has been made available in Settings → Editor if you prefer to toggle this off.

• Notes Filetree has now sorting options, to sort via Name / Created Time / Modified Time in ascending or descending fashion.
• These values are stored for each workspace, and can be unique across your workspaces.

Improvements

• In App Changelog is now available. Clicking on Changelog in the Help menu or CMD+K takes you to an all new changelog page, where you can check all the previous release notes.
• A subtle purple indicator is shown on the Help popover after a new release to showcase the changes.
• Disable deleting of Image/Video in Read Only mode (when hovering over \\[\\[wikilinked\\]\\] notes)
• Hide scrollbar for / command and [[ command.
• New Graph Icon!

• In File search now has a toggle to Find and Replace.

• Can be triggered directly using ⌘ ⌥ F inside a note. If the replace input is focused, pressing Enter will replace the current highlighted result, while ⌘ Enter will replace all matches with the term.

Filters for Global and InFile Search

• Both Global and InFile search have 2 additional filters made available

Templates Quick View

When inserting a template from the / command, you can see a quick preview of the template, so you don’t have to memorise what is going to be inserted in.

• Replaced toast messages with a subtle Syncing text in Global Breadcrumb when GitSync is taking place

Fixes

• Fixed Deleting Workspace leading to stale data being present in config as well as errors leading to non-usage of the application.

• Fixed Infile search breaking when typing [
• Fixed Infile search position overlaying on meta sidebar.

• Added a Sync Now button in Settings → Git Sync to force sync changes.
• Changed the layout slightly for better readability.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where if the sync ran into errors, and you turn auto sync back on, and the next run is successful, the error would not disappear.

This one has been in the oven for far too long, and I’m excited to present it to you all!

New

• A new settings option called Git Sync has been made available for all.
• You can enter your git repository details Github/Gitlab and Octarine will periodically backup your files to it.
• Cloud Icon on the top-right to show Last Sync Time

Read through the documentation once before you get started on it. Some knowledge of git is appreciated, but not mandatory.

P.S It is recommended that you take a quick local backup of your workspace, before you do this. I don’t see any issues where data would be lost, but a backup won’t hurt.

• Improved Global Search algorithm, so that it does not suck anymore. Improved it to not miss any files and be a tad bit faster.
• Removed .md from Insert Template templates.

Fixes

• Fixed a bug where typing [[ or (( inside Global Search would make the app crash.
• Fixed a bug where switching a workspace while a file was open would sometimes make the app crash.

• Fixed a bug that would keep the page in limbo if a new file created inside a folder was deleted.
• Fixed backlinks not being removed when a doc link was removed from a file.
• Fixed an issue where switching quickly between heavy pages would sometimes copy the previous notes contents into the new one.
• Fixed colors for dropdown hovers on light mode.
• Fixed keyboard shortcut design for Help Popover.

Developer

• Better except messages in console, sentry.

• Fixed a bug that caused new users to not be able to start the app at all.

• Added Sentry for Error Tracing

• Command Bar now contains a Go to Date ( ⌘ + D ) that allows you to go to any date inside Daily Desk using natural language. Some examples below:

Recently Viewed

• Quick access the last 10 viewed files across Notes / Templates / Pinned / Daily Desk
• Accessible via the icon on the top-left, via ⌘ + Y or the Command Bar (search for Recently Viewed)
• Keyboard Accessible ( Up/Down arrows to navigate, Enter to go to file)

Improvements

• DocLink and Meta now show a formatted date for Daily Desk Links
• Shortcut displays style improved.
• Remove New tag from Graph View. Renamed to Graph and fixed icon stroke.
• Removed hovering on graph view reducing the opacity of the rest.

• Hovering over a doc link, now shows a read-only version of the note.

Improvements

• Improved color of scrollbars.

• Notes Meta now have a new Outline section to show all headers for quick access.
• Added a collapse/expand button for Outgoing, Incoming and Outline sections.

Fixes

• Fixed scrollbar overlaying on the Keyboard Shortcuts drawer.

• Changed the calculating function for migrating Incomplete tasks. Instead of just looking at yesterday’s file, it now checks for the latest daily desk note from the last 7 days, and allows you to migrate undone tasks from there.

• Migrate button shows date from which the incomplete tasks will be moved.
• Added a Reload Octarine button in the ? dropdown (for the cases where Octarine misbehaves, and a reload fixes it)

• Attachments Popover now previews image/video on hover.
• Fixed svg files not pasting in the editor
• Fixed uppercase extensions like .PNG not pasting in the editor.
• Make Remove Image button visible at all times.
• [Linux (Alpha)] - Fix Daily Desk not saving correctly.

• Fixed File name being truncated way too early in both Breadcrumb and Editor
• Filtering doclinks in [[ considers entire path in query, so you can search via folder names as well.
• Added an option in Settings → Editor to turn off line through for completed todos for better readibility.
• Reduced size of line through from 2px to 1px.

Visualise all your notes and their connections (via doclinks) in a pretty graph!

• Access via the sidebar, or the Command K bar
• Change colors of the nodes via the available select box.

That’s it! Pretty neat though

• Fixed an issue with config that caused template files to not be readable.
• Fixed creating a new note inside a folder using the context menu, not highlighting in the file tree.
• Fixed navigating to a file via Cmd + P not auto scrolling the file tree to its position.

• Fixed an issue where pasting anything inside a codeblock causing html to pasted  (weird, but seemed like a library upstream issue)
• Fixed inserting a doc-link causing the cursor to be shifted to end of line momentarily
• Backspacing on a doc link, now goes to [[ so you can replace, rather than complete delete.
• Shrinked table cell sizes.
• Disable BubbleMenu from occuring when doc link is selected

• Renaming/Moving a file will now automatically fix the backlinked notes to have the updated names, so there are no broken links!

• Added new icons for sidebar open/collapse
• Fix Workspace switcher not closing on switching a workspace
• Fix meta sidebar links not updating when the markdown is wiped clean.

• Added Collapse All Expanded folders icon button to workspace notes file tree.
• Opening a note via Cmd + K Cmd + P or doclinks, automatically expands all parent folders of the note.

• Fixed the codeblock causing width overflow issues (for good this time)
• Added support for Copying and Pasting without formatting ( Cmd + Shift + C for copy, and Cmd + Shift + V for pasting)
• Added support for pasting images from your clipboard.

• A small bug caused every paste to be without formatting in prod

• Fixed codeblocks causing overflow issues of the note pane.
• Fixed / command not respecting collisions.
• Fixed Daily note files not created having stale editor data of last viewed date.
• Move incomplete tasks from Yesterday button has a small dismiss for now button to get it out of your way.
• Move incomplete tasks from Yesterday automation no longer wipes existing content, it’ll place the tasks wherever the cursor is.
• Increase minimum width and height of the app.
• Add keyboard shortcut tooltips to Show Meta sidebar ( Cmd + / )

• Easily create links between two notes by using the [[ command, and selecting an existing note.
• Doclinks are visually distinct from regular links, however they follow a very familiar markdown format of [[File Name]] or [[Folder Name/File Name]]
• Each note is carefully monitored to check for updates to workspace to ensure Broken Links (when files get deleted, or renamed) to be shown appropriately (they become yellow with one-click ability to create them in the same place they existed before)

A new sidebar appears!

What’s better than one sidebar, TWO SIDEBARS!

• Each note has a meta sidebar associated with it, that has some stats about the note in it

- Created/Updated dates
- Word Count and Reading Time (approx.)
- Incoming and Outgoing doclinks for quick access!

Another theme to the collection!

Was the Dark theme too dark and pretty to look at, so you wouldn’t concentrate on writing? I know, so we hit a middle ground, that is still just as pretty but slightly lighter! Introducing Dim

• Available in Settings → Preferences
• As well as in the Cmd + K bar. Search for Dim

Fixes and Improvements

• Folders in sidebar now have a number written against them that states how many notes exist inside this folder. Each number is a rollup of all notes inside each of their children folders as well.
• Fixed In file search not being stickied to the top.
• Fixed Deleting from Breadcrumb dropdown not working
• Fixed lag when opening delete note modal.
• Improved time to understand if daily note has been created to instant.

• Fix / command not filtering based on the text written
• Fix clicking outside after renaming a file in the breadcrumb, not saving the change.
• Added Rename , Duplicate and Open in Default App options to Templates Context menu (the thing that pops up when you right click on a template in the file tree)
• Fix the Sidebar Resizing bar overlaying on an open context menu.
• Added Go to Templates ( g then t) to Command K.
• Replace the + button in templates with + New Template
• Fixed Deleting an actively viewing template, not resetting to another template.

Now you can save even more time on those mundane tasks of the day, by creating a template, and having it inserted into any page in 2 strokes!

• Each workspace (old and new) will have 2 default templates created (Standup and Gratitude) as a starting point.
• To insert a template, hit / in the editor, and select the Insert Template option.
• This lists down all available templates in the workspace, and selecting instantly adds them in!
• As with every note in the app, the templates are based on markdown, so you still own them!

Improvements:

• Fix sidebar not collapsing properly when the window size is resized.
• Removed dev tools from prod (Oops! had left them in accidentally in the last release) - Doesn’t mean anything, but inspect element was available, which isn’t ideal.

• Added support for tables to the editor
• Available in / command as Table. Spawns a 3×3 table
• Hovering on a cell gives you buttons to insert/delete rows or columns or the entire table!

Improvements

• Using the Reveal in Finder option via the Command Bar or the Context Menu (by right clicking the file) or via the dropdown in the breadcrumb of the current file (the top bar that has the file name) highlights the file in the finder so you don’t need to worry about what’s happening

- Sidenote - We have a loooot of ways to go to the finder apparently

• Fixed images not loading when pasting html from different sites (when you copy paste an article of that favourite recipe of lasagne)

• Fix bug when deleting workspace would result in an error.
• Fix post deletion workspace to close the settings modal.
• Experimental pointer events removal from editor.
• Fix DOM related bugs.

• Any incomplete todos from yesterday in Daily Desk, can now be moved to Today on one-click!

Improvements

• Added a trailing paragraph at the end of the page if it ends in image or video for easily being able to click and type.
• Added Remove buttons on image and video for quick removals.
• Videos don’t autoplay now, so you have more control.

New

• Added Space Mono font for Editor and Interface.

Improvements

• Fix collapsed sidebar glitching out when the window was reduced.
• Fix lagging behaviour when resizing the sidebar
• Ignore node_modules folder when opening a workspace (those are usually packages without markdown files for javascript projects, and accidentally opening a folder with it, shouldn’t cause the app to crash due to the immense amount of files/folders)
• Fix Resizing Sidebar bar not appearing when a note was open.
• Fix FileName Input inside Editor not being aligned with Editor on smaller windows.
• Show Today icon on Calendar if the current selected day is not today.
• Fix Today icon not showing if the month is the same, irrespective of year. (oops!)
• Add shortcuts for Going to Previous and Next Day in Daily Desk Cmd + [ and Cmd + ] respectively.
• Add shortcuts for Going back and forward in History in Notes Cmd + [ and Cmd + ] respectively.
• Add Today’s Note to Cmd + K centre.
• Fix scrollbar appearing for a blank or small note.
• Improve filtering experience in Keyboard Shortcuts Drawer

• Add support for Home and End buttons to navigate to Start of Line and End of Line respectively.

• Added optional input at the top of the editor, that acts as a file renamer. Can be toggled off from Settings → Editor → Show File Name Input
• Autofocuses when you create a new document, so you can quickly change without mouse usage.

Improvements

• Fixed search not highlighting the first match in orange without pressing enter
• Add darker shades of violet for the toggle and calendar selected colors for light theme.
• Improve dot color in Calendar to be more visible when day is selected.
• Fix Toggle Switch off visuals for light theme
• Fix the Shortcut in Keyboard Shortcuts drawer for Strikethrough (its Cmd + Shift + S

Misc

• Increase the timeout to check for a new update to 2 hours.

• Pasted or written links can now be edited/removed by clicking on them, typing a different input and pressing Enter. If the input is left empty, then the link is removed.
• Replace click to follow link with Cmd + Click

Improvements

• Fixed BubbleMenu not highlighting codeblock properly.
• Added colors to gap cursors after image/video.
• Added support for Text Markdown link syntax.
• Added Image/Video to Slash Command (/).
• Improved colors for scrollbars.
• Reduce font size for Cmd + K bar items.
• Changed colors of active items for Bubble Menu.
• Removed BubbleMenu from showing on Images , inside Codeblock or on Videos

• Add Divider mark to the editor. Can be accessed by —- or the slash command.
• Improve spacing between paragraphs.
• Added typography to the editor. (it makes some of the usual things sleek to look at, like arrows, superscripts, ellipsis and more)
• Improved styling for blockquotes.

Fixes

• Added a fix for the Toggle title not being visible in light mode.
• Added a header for the Delete Workspace setting in Settings → Danger.
• Improved colors for settings

Engineering

• Added an on the go migration script, so that newer settings are correctly applied to existing  older workspaces. (Just adds missing settings, no existing setting values are touched)
• Added staging environment for prod testing.

• [[ Attachment Command shows preview of images or videos so there’s less confusion when you want to attach anything.
• A toggle has been provided in Settings -> Editor, if you wish to not have the preview feature.

Improvements

• Fix attachments not being filtered correctly in the command while typing.
• Add extra margin to the top of the document to fix an issue with extremely long texts.
• Store the last viewed file - Daily/Notes/Pinned and redirect to it, the next time you open the app, so the flow isn’t lost.
• Store the window state (size, position), and restore it on the next launch.
• Clean up Keyboard Shortcuts drawer.

• Added syntax highlighting to code blocks.
• Added a select box inside each code block to manually select the language, if auto doesn’t cut it.
• A small copy button to copy the code block.

That’s it!

• Added a toggle in the Create Workspace screen to allow using an existing directory as a workspace as opposed to creating a folder inside it. Use it to migrate your existing markdown documents from other editors!
• When a workspace folder is deleted from the filesystem, a dialog is shown stating that the folder is no longer present, and we’ll wipe all settings related to it.

Improvements

• Fix an issue where renaming the file to be the same, would show the error border.
• Improve styling of scrollbars across the app.
• Fix Cmd + P to access file navigator not working when the editor is focused.
• Add Discord link to help popover.
• Deleting a workspace, just deletes Octarine related details and settings, but not the actual notes and folders from the filesystem. Your notes are yours, and not ours to delete :)

• Dragging a file around to a folder, moves it there.
• If the folder already has a similar named file, the dragged file will have {number} attached to it, so there aren’t any conflicts. This means that if Reports exists in a folder, and you drag another file named Reports there, the dragged file will be named as Reports1 inside the new folder, with 1 being incremented when there’s more duplicates.
• You can move files around inside Cmd K as well in the Move to Different Folder action.

Improvements

• Octarine package size has been reduced by > 50% from 15MB to 6MB 🎉
• Show the workspace file list when on the Search route.

• Highlighting words/sentences, will now show a Bubble Menu to change styles as well as to show what the current style for the word is.
• Added 3 more commands to / - Add current date, current time or current date & time.

Command + K

• All notable actions are now available at a quick keyboard tap of ⌘ K
• Actions are separated by sections - Notes, Workspaces, App, and also context awareness. What this means is if you are looking at a note, actions related to that note - Duplicate/Pin/Delete are shown first.
• Open Notes action ( ⌘ P ) has been moved to within the command bar, but is still accessible via the shortcut
• The Search in Command Bar has been removed (see below)

Dedicated Search

• There’s a dedicated search page now, instead of the command bar for it, since it felt underwhelming and lagging in cases for that.
• Shortcut remains the same ⌘ + Shift + F .
• Search is now divided per file, with each file path being the header with its count, so its easier to grasp, rather than everything being listed flatly.
• Changed marking of highlighted/searched term from purple text to yellow background, so its clear.
• Improved performance.

Context Aware Creations

• Clicking the New Note/Folder buttons or using the shortcuts, now creates the new note/folder in the current selected file. What this means is if you are in a Folder named Release Notes writing v1 note, and you press ⌘ + N we’ll create a new note inside Release Notes instead of at the root of the workspace.
• When navigating the sidebar using arrow keys, and you are at at folder (even if closed/collapsed), and press the shortcut, we’ll create a new note/folder inside that folder and expand it.

Improvements

• Added a Confirmation Dialog when deleting a file/folder
• Fixed an issue where pinned files where not reflecting the latest name if the original had been renamed.

• Added common shortcuts to splash screen in notes.
• Added Changelog, Issue Reporting links in Help popover.
• Improve border and background legibility for task items.

Fixes

• Global search was considering the attachments for string comparisons, heavily slowly down the search. Fixed to ignore that folder.

• All new onboarding and prep for Early Access.

Fixes

• Add a minimum height to the editor, so there’s extra space at the bottom.
• Added backdrop blurs for the command bars.
• Improved performance of text search.
• Fix infile search highlighting when routed from global search to a file

• Auto highlight the first match for in-file search (previously required a Enter and would highlight the second)
• Fix matched counts not resetting when the query is changed.

• Added the Hard Break plugin. Pressing Shift + Enter does a hard break (its just a bigger persistent line break)
• Improve focusing of the next line after using [[ to add attachments.
• Auto collapse the sidebar when the window width is shrinked to 768px.
• ⌘ + Shift + D shortcut to toggle sidebar open/hide.

• Added more options button to each note, that gives the same options as the context menu (when you right click on the file in the sidebar)
• Daily notes that have not been created, will not have the option button shown, once you start typing - It’ll be made visible.
• Add Editor settings

Improvements

• Move the Inter font to be self hosted, rather than from a CDN.
• Remove the New tag from Settings on the sidebar.

• Reduces the size of text inside a code block.

Improvements

• Type [[ to open a popover to quickly add attachments. It’s like / (Quick Actions) for Attachments. Quick Attachments (pending trademark)
• Add a up-down chevron icon on the Workspace button for better visibility.

Fixes

• Fix the colors for the attachment popover.
• Remove user select text from all elements apart from input, since it was resulting in accidental selects.

• Gave the settings a much needed face lift, and more options.
• Changed name from Preferences to Settings in the sidebar
• Improved drop cursor color (the line you see, when you are moving or dropping an image/video) to be accessible.

Fixes

• Fix an issue, where switching to a new workspace, and immediately clicking new note, would not switch to the new note, and keep you in limbo.
• Removed Daily Note results from File Search command bar.

Well it’s what they say, third times a charm. Please.

• Refresh the internal store on every image paste, so we always have the latest data.
• Fix the drag from attachments popover, not writing the correct source inside [[ in the markdown output.
• Change New File and New Folder icons.

Fixes

• Fix video drag issue.

• Added image support ( .jpg, .png , .gif) to be dragged onto the note from the file system.
• Added video support ( .mov , .mp4 ) to be dragged onto the note from the file system.
• Dragged images/videos are stored in the .attachments folder in the workspace (is hidden in finder by default)
• Added attachments default button in the sidebar, that opens a popover showing the list of attachments available in the workspace. Each item from here can be dragged onto the note for using the image/video.
• These images/videos are stored in markdown as [[image name.extension]] so they may not be useful outside the context of Octarine.

Improvements

• Moved to a more performant lib to convert editor state to markdown and back.
• Improved performance for extremely large blocks of text (think 200k words), but its still not butter smooth.

• Add a new link color, remove decorations.
• Fix cursor not showing at the start when its a task item.
• Remove descriptions for slash command , improve colors.
• Fix workspace file tree buttons looking jaded in light mode (It was a brightness issue)
• Remove Andromeda theme (for now, till I figure out proper colors that match)
• Fix dragging and using the resizable scroll for sidebar, selecting the entire app.
• Disable resizable scroll when its Daily Desk, shrink calendar rows.

• In file search now has 3 buttons:

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• Improve highlighting logic, by separating out the colours. Faded color for matches, while amber is used for the current rotating match.

• Document will scroll automatically when the current selected match index, is out of the view frame.

Fixes

• Fix styling for task items.

• Added a static positioned button on the bottom right with the ? icon, acting as a help center
• Added a Keyboard Shortcuts drawer to quickly know what the app supports
• Help Dropdown to Check for Updates, Send Feedback, Access Keyboard Shortcuts, and version number.

Improvements

• Remove unnecessary padding from the Delete Workspace dialog.

• Bring the focus back to the editor when the infile search is closed.

My bad.

• ⌘ + F inside a note, opens an in file search box on the top right
• Matched count is shown as well as highlighting all matched text
• ⌘ + P opens a file navigator command bar, to easily jump between your notes.

• Editor now supports task items and task lists. Start by typing [] to create a task item
• Added Search button on the sidebar to allow clicking to open Search Command bar.

Improvements

• Reduced time interval for checking for updates from 1 hour to 15 mins.

• Now press ⌘ + Shift + F to open the search command bar. All files in the workspace (Normal and Daily) are considered.