Notebooks: Write and Organize

This update adds extended functionality for auto-completion of links, introduces new Markdown syntax for highlighting text, allows you to add the current location from your Apple Watch, improves iCloud sync, and includes many more enhancements and corrections. - Suggestions for Wiki Links now search across all documents and books and can include headings and anchors. - New Markdown syntax ==marked text== for highlighting text. - Open tasks with due date show a time interval like "10 days" or "21 days ago" in addition to the exact due date. - New option to "Scan and Extract" contexts from documents which were created outside of Notebooks. - Option to delete or exclude contexts in bulk. - Add current location/position from your Apple Watch. - When adding the "Current Location", Notebooks now adds a timestamp in addition to address and map preview. - New extra keyboard key options for text transformations. - When opening a document from a smart book, its + menu offers a new option "Add to Inbox". - Add support for .avif files. - Improved iCloud sync. - Pasting text where a colon follows the first word is no longer treated as URL (iOS 17). - More refinements and tweaks. All the details are available in a dedicated article on our website.

This update addresses a text selection issue in formatted documents (double tap) on iPhones with iOS 17.4.

- Hyphenation in formatted documents adjusts to the document's language. - Umlauts in a Table of Contents are now correctly escaped, ensuring that links work properly. - The list of a document's anchors in autocomplete suggestions appears in the same order as they do in the document (don't sort by alphabet). - The shortcut for strikethrough is now `shift-alt-cmd--` (to match the macOS version). - Use `cmd-K` to insert a Markdown link or `[]()`. - A book's action menu (•••) now allows bulk assignment of Contexts again. - When converting multiple documents to PDF, reliably use the given title. - Notebooks more carefully cleans up autosave versions of your documents. - The + menu offers the option *Add to Inbox* in all books, so you can add a new document to the Inbox no matter where you are in Notebooks. - "Vollkorn" is a new custom font. As always, you can find the complete list of changes at www.notebooksapp.com.

- Improved "Combined Markdown" documents reliably detect and apply external changes, use syntax highlighting while editing, and more. - Formatted documents more consistently handle the "first line as heading" setting, correctly update toolbar buttons when toggling list styles. - Default Theme correctly aligns indented ordered lists and uses the correct font size for numbers. - Insert location now better extracts GPS coordinates from copied data. - Storage space alert: receive a warning when free storage space gets tight. - Info section makes sure that the inline calendar is fully visible on all devices when changing an item's creation date.

This update introduces new options for document styling (using custom CSS classes), enhances Markdown syntax highlighting, improves MathJax compatibility, adds more flexibility when importing or bookmarking URLs, and ensures more reliable transfer of large numbers of documents to the Apple Watch. Moreover, context tags within code blocks are now ignored. Custom Classes for Document Styling Notebooks now supports custom CSS classes for formatting Markdown and formatted documents, in addition to traditional styles like headings, bold, italic etc. Custom classes can be applied through the paragraph formatting menu in formatted documents, or with the `> %...%` notation in Markdown. - For more details, please refer to the documentation. Formatted Documents - The formatting menu now includes heading levels 5 and 6, plus custom classes defined in the current document theme. - Improved drag and drop functionality from other apps. - Fixed double-tap issues: Selecting words with a double tap now works correctly in edit mode. Markdown - Auto-suggestions for custom classes: `> %` followed by TAB. - Headings use variable font sizes with syntax highlighting. - Improved checkbox detection in rendered view. - Enhanced MathJax compatibility, especially for inline math with subscript and superscript. - Handle `.mmd` and `.mermaid` file extensions as Markdown for Mermaid rendering. Document Themes - New: Support for Custom Classes. Please refer to documentation for details. - Handbook Theme: Introduce custom styles "Sidecar" and "Box". - Default Theme: Empty items in numbered lists no longer overlap, and add custom style "Caption". Document List (Book) - When saving a URL as bookmark, Notebooks now retrieves the original title, if available. - "New from Pasteboard" better detects copied URLs and asks how you’d like to import them. - Pinning a document now reliably moves it in the correct position. Contexts - Context tags are now ignored in fenced code blocks (Markdown and plain text) or in *code* sections (formatted documents). Watch App - Improved reliability when transferring a large number of documents to your watch. Misc - Dark App Icon - Many more interface refinements.

This update fixes an issue on older iOS versions and brings some improvements for the integrated document styles. New in version 12.6 This update introduces new options for document styling (using custom CSS classes), enhances Markdown syntax highlighting, improves MathJax compatibility, adds more flexibility when importing or bookmarking URLs, and ensures more reliable transfer of large numbers of documents to the Apple Watch. Moreover, context tags within code blocks are now ignored. Custom Classes for Document Styling Notebooks now supports custom CSS classes for formatting Markdown and formatted documents, in addition to traditional styles like headings, bold, italic etc. Custom classes can be applied through the paragraph formatting menu in formatted documents, or with the `> %...%` notation in Markdown. - For more details, please refer to the documentation. Formatted Documents - The formatting menu now includes heading levels 5 and 6, plus custom classes defined in the current document theme. - Improved drag and drop functionality from other apps. - Fixed double-tap issues: Selecting words with a double tap now works correctly in edit mode. Markdown - Auto-suggestions for custom classes: `> %` followed by TAB. - Headings use variable font sizes with syntax highlighting. - Improved checkbox detection in rendered view. - Enhanced MathJax compatibility, especially for inline math with subscript and superscript. - Handle `.mmd` and `.mermaid` file extensions as Markdown for Mermaid rendering. Document Themes - New: Support for Custom Classes. Please refer to documentation for details. - Handbook Theme: Introduce custom styles "Sidecar" and "Box". - Default Theme: Empty items in numbered lists no longer overlap, and add custom style "Caption". Document List (Book) - When saving a URL as bookmark, Notebooks now retrieves the original title, if available. - "New from Pasteboard" better detects copied URLs and asks how you’d like to import them. - Pinning a document now reliably moves it in the correct position. Contexts - Context tags are now ignored in fenced code blocks (Markdown and plain text) or in *code* sections (formatted documents). Watch App - Improved reliability when transferring a large number of documents to your watch. Misc - Dark App Icon - Many more interface refinements.

This update enhances support for custom classes with a new document theme "Callouts", provides an option to adjust text brightness in dark appearance, and more. Additions The document theme "Callouts" includes the classes Box, Hint, Info, Note, Attention, and Warning. In formatted documents, these classes are selectable from the paragraph menu, in Markdown you can use the `>%...%` notation with auto-suggestions (like >%hint%). In dark appearance, text appears "bright" by default, a new option "dimmed text colors" is available in settings. (Solarized appearance remains unchanged.) Enhancements for Markdown - For improved compatibility with MathJax, Notebooks replaces the commonly used inline math notation `$...$` with the official MathJax-compatible notation `\(...\)`. To ensure that this does not affect documents unintentionally, *Notebooks* applies the replacement only when the selected document theme includes MathJax, or when the word "MathJax" appears in the document, including comments. - Fixed layout issue in checklists with empty items. - Improved support for the `> %class%` notation in MultiMarkdown. - Autocompletion now includes `{{TOC}}` and `{{pagebreak}}` for `{{}}` syntax. - Resolved Markdown display issue in iOS beta versions. Misc - Improved handling of cases where Notebooks lacks permission to import photos from the user’s album. - Resolved issues with artifacts in PDF and print output when using bold styles of Muli or STIXTwoText fonts. - Multiple interface corrections and refinements.

This is a minor update to address a potential freeze when downloading a large number of documents from iCloud. It also contains a few enhancements and corrections. • iCloud - Reduced risk of freezes or hangs when downloading a large number of documents from iCloud. - Improved handling for situations where iCloud is not immediately available, such as when launching Notebooks right after restarting your iPhone or iPad. • Duplicates as... Plain Text generates more refined results for Markdown and formatted documents. • Actions under "Process... > Duplicate as..." function correctly when accessed from the document list’s context menu. • Miscellaneous improvements and fixes.

This update addresses a potential crash on startup.

Notebooks 12.7.3 is a minor update with several enhancements and corrections. • Settings: Fixed an issue that the automatic link management setting could have been cleared after restart. • Plain Text: Improved typing performance in long text when power-saving mode is active. • Insert Photos: When adding photos from album, preserve the original size and format when possible. • Due Tasks: When a task's alert time is updated on another device, make sure to display a notifications at alert time. • Markdown: Accept Markdown tasks starting with * (e.g., "* [ ]"). • Mermaid: Make sure that graphs render correctly on older iOS versions. • Miscellaneous improvements and fixes.

• Quickly add photos, scans and documents directly from the app icon. • Show the number of open tasks per document (Markdown and formatted). • Formatted documents can turn selected text into Wiki Links. • PDF documents offer a new option to summarize annotations. • Task markers at the beginning of lines behave like list items in plain text. • Compile Documents automatically selects the best output format and lets you set title and separator. • Context tags (like @tag) are highlighted and colorized in plain text and rendered Markdown. • New scans use a timestamp as title prefix. • Improved reliability for the Notebooks Watch App, with support for long-press actions. • When sharing formatted text, images are embedded correctly (especially on iOS 18). • Dropbox sync avoids reappearing deleted items after manual sync.

This update addresses a small issue with formatted documents on iOS 18.4.

• Extracted tasks are saved to a dedicated book, which is now automatically created again when required. This reverts a change we made in Notebooks 12.8.

This update includes stability improvements, and particularly ensures that embedded images display reliably on iOS 18.2 and earlier, keeps the keyboard visible on iPad devices when creating a formatted document (iOS 18.3 and later), and fixes a crash that can occur when Notebooks is in the background.

This is a brief update while we are finalizing a much more comprehensive one. - When a task becomes due, you can mark it as done or snooze it for 10 minutes directly from the alert on your Apple Watch or from Notification Center. This update also adds more options to PDF creation, addresses a layout glitch in the Callouts document style, avoids duplicates when extracting tasks containing colons (:), and resolves (incomplete) internal links more effectively. In addition, it contains several changes to ensure compatibility with future iOS versions.

Notebooks 13 focuses on a refined and more flexible user experience. This update introduces multi-window support and three-column split view on iPad, Liquid Glass support, and a new sidebar with a hierarchical list of books and more. You'll also notice new icons, visual refinements, and numerous smaller improvements throughout the app. As part of this update, some menus and buttons have been refined and reorganized to better support the new layout. You find all the details about this update on our website.

Thank you for your feedback on Notebooks 13. - In this update, context menus are better organized with submenus, renaming or moving documents and books can be undone with a three-finger swipe, you can immediately continue editing formatted documents when switching between apps. The Print and Create PDF options for images are back, JXL image format is now supported, and sharing from Safari and other apps works more consistently. Settings have been tidied up with clearer names and new options, including a "Start at" setting and the return of "Show Sidebars", the Classic Icon and a few other options you have been asking for. The full list of changes is available on our website.

This update speeds up editing very long text documents, improves link handling in formatted documents, and refines user interface consistency. - Faster editing performance in very long text documents with Markdown highlighting turned on. - In formatted documents, pasting a URL turns the selected text into a clickable link, "Remove Link" works more reliably, and content remains consistently aligned when window width changes. - The list of search results displays the number of documents again and restores the button for bulk edit actions. - Improved handling of fullscreen and Document-Only appearance, now consistent across device orientations. - Fixed an issue where document titles could be truncated to a single character. - The Due Tasks widget reliably skips items that are not yet due. - Importing documents via "Copy to Notebooks" (for example from Safari’s Share sheet) works as expected.

This update makes Notebooks more predictable when working with multiple windows on iPad. Editing formatted documents is smoother, Smart Books update more consistently, and sharing and importing documents work more reliably. As always, this release also includes numerous refinements and fixes throughout the app. You find a list of all changes on our website.

This update focuses on refining the user interface and making the overall Notebooks experience smoother and more polished.