3.22.11

Important

This repository is moving to https://github.com/standardnotes/app. This release will be the last release on the standardnotes/desktop repo.

Improved

• Improved: Streamlined note type selection menu that removes category headers for an easier to use layout.
• Improved: New "Cancel multiple selection" option when selecting multiple items, for a convenient way to exit multiple selection mode.
• Improved: Modernized design for editing disabled banner.
• Improved: File previews for videos now play automatically after they finish loading.

Fixed

• Fixed: Issue where creating a note while in a smart view would immediately deselect the note and remove it from view.
• Fixed: Issue where main Notes view would not be selected upon app launch.
• Fixed: Issue with scrolling upwards in an image preview while zoomed in.

Internal:

• Refactor: Replaces Preact with React for better interoperability and consistency.
• Refactor: Changes the notes list to be generic, to prepare for the ability to display and select files in the main navigation layout. With this in place, you'll soon be able to browse your files via a new "Files" smart view, as well as the ability to multiple-select and manage files in bulk. You'll also be able to create custom smart views for displaying files matching certain criteria. We expect this feature to be ready for the next release. After that's in place, we'll begin working on the ability to tag files, so you can organize your files into tags/folders, without the need to use notes as the organizing measure.

3.20.2

Improved

• Improved: Streamlined note type selection menu that removes category headers for an easier to use layout.
• Improved: New "Cancel multiple selection" option when selecting multiple items, for a convenient way to exit multiple selection mode.
• Improved: Modernized design for editing disabled banner.
• Improved: File previews for videos now play automatically after they finish loading.

Fixed

• Fixed: Issue where creating a note while in a smart view would immediately deselect the note and remove it from view.
• Fixed: Issue where main Notes view would not be selected upon app launch.
• Fixed: Issue with scrolling upwards in an image preview while zoomed in.

Internal:

• Refactor: Replaces Preact with React for better interoperability and consistency.
• Refactor: Changes the notes list to be generic, to prepare for the ability to display and select files in the main navigation layout. With this in place, you'll soon be able to browse your files via a new "Files" smart view, as well as the ability to multiple-select and manage files in bulk. You'll also be able to create custom smart views for displaying files matching certain criteria. We expect this feature to be ready for the next release. After that's in place, we'll begin working on the ability to tag files, so you can organize your files into tags/folders, without the need to use notes as the organizing measure.

3.20.0

Read more about this release in our feature blog post:
The Changelog | Episode 3.20: Encrypted File Storage with Automated Backups

New

• New: Encrypted file storage. Now you can drag and drop to upload any kind of file directly to your Standard Notes account. It will be end-to-end encrypted and synced with the rest of your devices.
  • Files like images, videos, and PDFs can be previewed directly in Standard Notes.
  • Use the left and right arrow keys while previewing a file to go to the previous/next image or file.
  • Files focuses on a great "outside-of-editor" experience, and does not currently support embedding encrypted files directly inside of an editor. However, files can be "associated" with a note.
    • In a near term upcoming release, you'll be able to tag files, so that you don't have to associate them with notes at all, but instead have them navigable via the tags/folders paradigm.
• New: Encrypted file backups. When you enable file backups from Preferences > Backups > File Backups, files uploaded on any device are automatically pulled in and saved in encrypted form to a folder on your computer. This folder can be an ordinary folder, or it can be a networked folder like Dropbox or Drive.
• New: Private workspaces. These workspaces are normal accounts, but whose email is generated pseudorandomly based on private input. Learn more about private workspaces.
• New: Option to sign out of all workspaces.
• New: Ability to switch workspaces directly from the lock screen.
• New: Modernized design for lock and authentication screens.
• New: When you enable Use system color scheme from the Appearance preferences, we'll now present a toast notification in the bottom right corner of the app before we switch your theme. This allows you to prevent the application from switching to your night or day theme if you are temporarily using some other theme for the particular mood you may be in.
• New: The Markdown Visual editor (now the "Dynamic Markdown" note type) is now out of beta and into wide release.
  • We have another exciting new editor/note type in the works related to task management that we think you're going to love!

Improved

• Improved: Editors are now referred to as "Note Types" in the UI. Editors have also been renamed to match this paradigm. For example, whereas previously you would create a note and set it's editor to Markdown Visual, now you'd create a note and set its type to "Dynamic Markdown" or "Markdown with Math". We find the concept of describing what a note does rather than what editor it uses to be more intuitive for unfamiliar users.
• Improved: General improvements to our conflict handling architecture.

Fixed

• Fixed: issue on Safari where folder names would appear dimmed.

Subscription Changes

• We've simplified our plan offering to only two paid plans instead of three. You'll now have the option between Plus and Pro. Plus gives you all of Standard Notes features without restriction, but only 100mb of file storage, and Pro gives you everything in Plus as well as 100gb of file storage. In addition, Pro accounts will soon allow subscription sharing with up to 5 accounts.
• If you purchased a Core plan previously (for $29/year), congratulations, you're now on the Plus plan! You won't have to pay anything additional, and your plan will renew for the same price you signed up at.
• If you're an existing Plus user, congratulations, you've now gained all of what Standard Notes has to offer, including TokenVault and spreadsheets.
• As promised, two-factor authentication is now a free feature available for all accounts.

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3.15.0-beta.4

• Files related fixes and improvements, including progress bar when uploading and downloading.

Note: this build downgrades the Electron version from the previous beta version, which results in the app's database being reset. With an account on launch, you may see the app download all your items. If using the beta without an account, first backup your data using beta-3, then upgrade to beta-4.

3.15.0-beta.3

• New: Files Public Beta. The beta is only available to Plus or Pro subscribers. Plus users get a “sample” tier of 100MB storage, and Pro users get 100GB. If you’d like to participate in the public beta, please fill out your email here, and optionally answer the other questions: https://standardnotes.typeform.com/to/FCBPK83m

New in this beta:

• Ability to preview PDF files

3.15.0-beta.2

• New: Files Public Beta. The beta is only available to Plus or Pro subscribers. Plus users get a “sample” tier of 100MB storage, and Pro users get 100GB. If you’d like to participate in the public beta, please fill out your email here, and optionally answer the other questions: https://standardnotes.typeform.com/to/FCBPK83m

3.14.1

3.14.1 Release Notes

• Fixed: Disable encrypted spellchecker introduced in 3.14.0 due to performance issues on Windows. We'd like to take our time investigating a solution and would prefer to quickly revert the newly introduced feature than to allow for degraded performance for an unknown amount of time.

3.14.0 Release Notes

• New: Workspaces! Power users can now work with multiple accounts in the same application window. Workspaces let you create separate contexts for work, personal, and other accounts. Each workspace is tied to its own account.
  • We plan on working on state persistence soon, so that you pick up right where you left off when you switch workspaces (remembering which tag and note you were on, etc).
  • You can also sign into the same account across multiple workspaces if you so choose.
  • For paid features, each account requires its own subscription. However, we plan on working on the ability to share a single subscription between multiple accounts.
  • Workspaces are available on desktop and web only, and will come to mobile soon.
• New: Fine-grained Privacy controls in Preferences > Security > Privacy.
  • You'll now have the ability to disable sign-in notification emails (these emails require a paid account), and the ability to disable user agent persistence for your account sessions for increased privacy.
• New: The ability to control whether adding a subtag to a note adds all parent tags recursively. By default, adding a subtag will add all parent tags to the note. But you can turn off this behavior via Preferences > General > Defaults > Add all parent tags when adding a nested tag to a note. This preference will also sync automatically to the mobile app (v3.14.0+).
• New: Encrypted spellchecker. Now, we'll encrypt the custom dictionary file used when you add a word from the spellchecker to your dictionary ("Learn spelling", "Add to dictionary", depending on platform). This file is automatically managed and created by the Electron framework, but we've taken it a step further by adding a layer of encryption on the file. (This file is located in the directory accessible via Help > Open data directory)
• Improved: Removed Bugsnag crash-reporting library altogether for improved general privacy. Previously, error reporting was disabled by default, and required opt-in participation. We'll share a blog post soon about why we made the decision to remove this service altogether, along with other general privacy and security improvements we've made.
• Improved: Themeing updates to the Markdown Visual editor.
• Fixed: Issue where desktop app editors would sometimes fail to load, requiring an app restart

3.14.0

• New: Workspaces! Power users can now work with multiple accounts in the same application window. Workspaces let you create separate contexts for work, personal, and other accounts. Each workspace is tied to its own account.
  • We plan on working on state persistence soon, so that you pick up right where you left off when you switch workspaces (remembering which tag and note you were on, etc).
  • You can also sign into the same account across multiple workspaces if you so choose.
  • For paid features, each account requires its own subscription. However, we plan on working on the ability to share a single subscription between multiple accounts.
  • Workspaces are available on desktop and web only, and will come to mobile soon.
• New: Fine-grained Privacy controls in Preferences > Security > Privacy.
  • You'll now have the ability to disable sign-in notification emails (these emails require a paid account), and the ability to disable user agent persistence for your account sessions for increased privacy.
• New: The ability to control whether adding a subtag to a note adds all parent tags recursively. By default, adding a subtag will add all parent tags to the note. But you can turn off this behavior via Preferences > General > Defaults > Add all parent tags when adding a nested tag to a note. This preference will also sync automatically to the mobile app (v3.14.0+).
• New: Encrypted spellchecker. Now, we'll encrypt the custom dictionary file used when you add a word from the spellchecker to your dictionary ("Learn spelling", "Add to dictionary", depending on platform). This file is automatically managed and created by the Electron framework, but we've taken it a step further by adding a layer of encryption on the file. (This file is located in the directory accessible via Help > Open data directory)
• Improved: Removed Bugsnag crash-reporting library altogether for improved general privacy. Previously, error reporting was disabled by default, and required opt-in participation. We'll share a blog post soon about why we made the decision to remove this service altogether, along with other general privacy and security improvements we've made.
• Improved: Themeing updates to the Markdown Visual editor.
• Fixed: Issue where desktop app editors would sometimes fail to load, requiring an app restart

3.13.0

• New: No more "Potentially Out of Sync"! Or, at least a lot less of it. Now, when the app detects you may be out of sync with the server, it will do the smart thing and talk with the server to try to figure out and correct the discrepancy automatically. In rare cases where the discrepancy couldn't be auto-resolved, you'll see the out of sync message, instructing you to sign out and back in.
• New: Markdown Visual editor, now in beta. To enable this editor, you must have the Plus or Pro plan. Then head to Preferences > General > Labs, and enable Markdown Visual. This editor will now appear in your editor menu.
  • Markdown Visual is a new WYSIWYG-style Markdown editor that renders Markdown in preview-mode while you type without displaying any syntax. It's based on the open-source Milkdown editor.
• Improved: Search options now appear as bubbles when you start searching, rather than as a separate menu. This allows you to ensure you're searching with the most relevant options.
  • As a reminder, protected notes' contents are not searched by default. To search those contents, toggle the "Protected Contents" bubble.

3.12.1

3.12.1 Release Notes:

• Fixed: Notes options menu not displaying with proper height
• Fixed: Listed blogs failing to load in some cases
• Fixed: Better multiple menu state open/close state management
• Fixed: Toolbar editor menu not updating with new state if change made inside note context menu change editor menu.

3.12.0 Release Notes:

• New: A built-in "Untagged" view to quickly display notes which do not have any tags, so you can make sure all your notes are properly categorized at all times.
  • Note: if you previously had a custom untagged "smart tag", you can safely delete it.
• New: Moved Listed to its own menu section in the note context menu, and eliminated the editor pane toolbar for a more minimal look and feel.
• Fixed: Issue with keychain access window being unresponsive on certain Linux distributions.