Added
- Spaces: the sidebar's collections are now Spaces, a place you go rather than
a label you hunt for. Rename a Space in place by double-clicking it, delete
one with an Undo toast that always keeps its notes, and narrow a Space to one
of its tags with the chip row above the list. - Revisit: captures you saved but never opened resurface in a Revisit view,
oldest first, so a thought parked in a hurry comes back instead of getting
lost. The sidebar entry appears only when something is waiting. - The note list groups into time sections (Today, Yesterday, and so on), so a
growing library still reads at a glance. - Paste or drop an image straight into a note and it appears inline; the file
is stored alongside your notes so exported markdown stays portable. - A Links settings page controls how links in your notes look and open:
underline always, on hover, or never; open on a plain click or with
Cmd/Ctrl+Click; reveal a link's destination on hover; and mark links that
leave the app. - A resizable, collapsible sidebar: drag its edge to set the width,
double-click the edge to reset it, and Cmd+\ (Ctrl+\ on Windows) or the
command palette to hide and show it. - Search results highlight what matched, in both the note title and the
excerpt. - The command palette opens notes: press the palette shortcut and see your
five most recent notes, or type to search everything without leaving the
keyboard. - Rename or delete a tag right in the sidebar: right-click it (or press
Shift+F10) for options, or double-click the tag to rename it in place. - About shows a Capture readiness number: the median time from pressing the
capture shortcut to the panel being ready to type, so the promise that
capture stays instant is measured, not assumed.
Changed
- Markdown preview is more dependable: it is now driven by a single pass over
the note, so approaching or selecting formatting always reveals its markers
before a keystroke can land, and the cursor no longer slips inside hidden
syntax. - Deleting is calmer: moving notes to the Trash shows an Undo toast instead
of interrupting you, and permanent deletions ask in a proper in-app dialog
instead of a system popup. - The quick capture panel closes when you click elsewhere (your draft is
kept), shows a brief "Saved" confirmation, and Cmd+Enter (Ctrl+Enter on
Windows) saves and opens the library.
Fixed
- Quitting can no longer lose your last moments of typing: every quit path
saves pending edits first, and a note whose save failed says "Not saved"
instead of pretending otherwise. - Removing a #tag from a note's text now actually removes that tag from the
note. - If the notes database is ever corrupted, the app sets it aside and starts
fresh instead of failing to launch, and tells you what happened. The
database is also backed up automatically before any update that changes
its format. - Typing quickly in search can no longer show results for an older query.
- If another app owns the capture shortcut, the welcome screen now says so
instead of the shortcut silently doing nothing.
First install on macOS: download the .dmg, open it, and drag InstantNotes to Applications. macOS blocks the first launch of this unnotarized build: run xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/InstantNotes.app or use System Settings > Privacy & Security > "Open Anyway".
First install on Windows: download and run the -setup.exe installer. SmartScreen flags the unsigned build: click "More info", then "Run anyway".
First install on Linux: download the .AppImage, make it executable (chmod +x), and run it.
Existing installs update in place from inside the app.