xnotes

Releases

• Sep 26, 2026 0.8.23
  - Fix a crash and vanishing ink on large canvases - Fix a crash on PDFs with broken or empty pages - Fix a rare crash while writing on some devices - Fix PDF pages rerendering while scrolling
• Sep 24, 2026 0.8.22
  - Float the toolbar as a pill over the page, or keep it docked - Put the toolbar on any edge, in Compact, Regular or Comfortable size - Add a Corners setting: Sharp, Rounded or Soft - Add a contrast slider for custom colour palettes - Material is now the only colour palette - Empty folders offer to create a note or canvas, or import a PDF - Minor fixes and improvements
• Sep 23, 2026 0.8.21
  - Add maths to inline text: type `$x^2$` or `$$...$$`, or pick /equation - Add page templates: Cornell, planners, staves, isometric, polar and more - Fix typing jumping ahead after backspace on some keyboards - Minor fixes and improvements
• Sep 22, 2026 0.8.20
  - Add tables to inline text: insert, restyle, resize, move rows and columns - Markdown shortcuts as you type: headings, lists, tasks, quotes, code, emphasis - Type / for a quick menu of headings, lists, tables, sizes, colours and dates - Import several PDFs at once - Fit width, height and page now follow the margin preference - Fix a crash on accent keys of international keyboards - Minor fixes and improvements
• Sep 21, 2026 0.8.19
  - Add dual tone themes that pair an accent with its own surface colour - Eight styles for every colour: Soft, Vivid, Original, Playful, Fresh, Clean, Muted, Grayscale - Minor fixes and improvements
• Sep 19, 2026 0.8.18
  - Redesign home and the file explorer: grid, gallery, list, columns and timeline views - Pin folders and name colours in a sidebar that folds into a rail - Reopen recent files, restore from Trash, resume in the last folder - Show page counts and PDF badges without opening each note - Keep a note's created date inside the file - Add Simplified Chinese - Fix disappearing ink blinking out at pen up
• Sep 12, 2026 0.8.17
  - Export a canvas to PDF, cut to fit its content, ink still vector - Add a switch for panels that mishandle front buffered ink - Add screen, multiply PDF color filters in View menu - Share or copy a canvas out under its own extension - Stop a side-button pan exactly where the pen lifts - Grab a settled canvas selection with the pen instead of losing it - Minor fixes and enhancements
• Sep 5, 2026 0.8.16
  - Fix wet ink landing away from the pen after the window changed size
• Sep 2, 2026 0.8.15
  - Save a large note in a fraction of the time, and never on the main thread - Save a stroke into a PDF note without rewriting the whole PDF - Open a big handwriting note several times faster - Undo on a dense note repaints only what changed instead of hanging - Fix ink blinking out when one stroke starts right after another - Fix a crash closing a PDF note mid-render, and an out of memory on save - Fix a canvas autosave silently dropping a write you drew during
• Sep 1, 2026 0.8.14
  - Cut pen latency: wet ink goes into the buffer the screen is scanning out - Ink no longer waits for a frame, so the line stays under the nib - Fix the caret snapping back to the last word on predictive keyboards - Remove live presenting; the app now asks for no permissions at all - Fork a note instead of overwriting one a sync app changed underneath it - Show the saving overlay when closing a canvas
• Aug 19, 2026 0.8.13
  - Add page margins, per edge, for all pages or the current page - Draw an SVG as sharp vector art at any zoom on the infinite canvas - Rasterize a heavy SVG on the GPU, and only the part you can see - Lock an item so nothing can select or erase it - Add disappearing ink to the infinite canvas toolbar - Carry a stroke onto the page the pen walks onto - Add Legal and a custom default page size - Drop the page menu from the toolbar - Fix a tap inside a selection clearing it
• Aug 16, 2026 0.8.12
  - Change the colour and thickness of a finished selection - Add an inverse highlighter that lightens a dark page - Set the fill opacity of shapes - Name new notes from a template you set in preferences - Re-arm the last used tool on launch - Pull past the last page to add one in horizontal scrolling - Add a zoom lock to the infinite canvas - Rename stamps to stickers - Fix the colour picker grabbing the hue ring at the square's corners - Fix the picker marker jumping away when you pick black

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  - Fix two pages sitting off-centre when zoomed out to fit
• Aug 15, 2026 0.8.11
  - Open two notes side by side in a split view - Draw live ink faster by adding wet cache - Simplify the calligraphy pen architecture - Rotate images with a rotation grip on the selection - Recognise long thin rectangles - Drag a selected item to the page it lands on - Select a canvas item with a press - Select the shape a drawn stroke snaps into in canvas - Keep a cut selection for only one paste - Open the colour picker from the canvas swatches

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  - Redraw the copy, front, duplicate and bring-to-front icons - Fix pane touches falling through to the backstage
• Aug 2, 2026 0.8.10
  - Add infinite Canvas