Change log

New features, improvements, and notable fixes, newest first.

October 2026

  • NewClaude can add images to your notes: ask it to put in a picture it has, or one from a web address, and it uploads the image and places it in the note.
  • FixedUploaded SVG diagrams keep their labels and layout instead of losing all their text.
  • NewShare text…: send a note itself — not just its link — to any app from the Share menu, private notes included. Lists, paragraphs and links stay readable in any app (Gmail, WhatsApp, Slack); in the iPhone app it keeps its full formatting in Mail and Notes, and bold, italics and links in Messages. Share it to a Shortcut with Speak Text to have it read aloud.
  • ImprovedConnecting Claude to your notes now asks you to approve access first, and names where it's connecting.
  • FixediPhone: Back no longer gets stuck on a note when the app reopens onto the note you left it on.

September 2026

  • ImprovedDeleted notes have a Restore button that puts the note back in the folder it came from, in place of the menu of options that didn't apply to deleted notes.
  • FixedDeleted now lists everything you've deleted — recent deletions were missing — and restoring one version of a note no longer drags its other deleted versions out with it.
  • FixediPhone: opening the tag or folder picker no longer pops up the keyboard, which could leave the bottom bar stuck halfway up the screen.
  • ImprovedPinned, Published, Shared and Snoozed lists get Select too — unpin, unpublish, unshare or wake several notes at once, or move, download and delete them.
  • FixedFilter boxes in the tag and folder pickers take your typing as soon as they open.
  • ImprovedSelect moved to the bottom bar on folders, tags and lists. Pick notes, then Share or Download just those — a shared link can now show only the notes you chose.
  • ImprovedDropdowns in Settings now match the app's own menus, stay on screen, and long lists like Default folder can be filtered by typing.
  • FixedOn a wide screen, a note's “…” menu no longer repeats Pin, Snooze and Tags from the bottom bar.
  • ImprovedReading someone else's shared note now uses the same floating controls as your own notes, instead of the old header.
  • ImprovedOn a computer, double-clicking a note's text selects a word again instead of opening the editor — use the pencil to edit. Double tap still edits on touch screens.
  • ImprovedSearch can be scoped to a list — Pinned, Clips, To do, Shared and more — from the same Scope menu as folders.
  • ImprovedThe floating controls are now the only layout: the classic layout and its Settings → Layout switch are gone.
  • ImprovedYour own notes open faster from a cold start and use far less data: the app paints the copy already on your device instead of downloading it again.
  • ImprovedOpening a note does far less work with a large library: it reads only the note and its neighbours, and background syncs no longer redo it.
  • ImprovedChecklists: tap anywhere on an item's row to tick it, not just the box, and ticked items are struck through.
  • FixedVery long notes open much faster, especially on iPhone, and their section index fits the screen.
  • ImprovedEvery action now confirms itself: moves, saves, pins, shares, copies and uploads show a progress ring around the + button and a short message above the bottom bar. A saved voice note or scan offers to open the new note.
  • ImprovedPrivacy: usage data no longer records your search terms or the names of the notes, folders and tags you open. There's also a new Copyright & DMCA page (linked from the Terms) explaining how to report infringement.
  • ImprovedSafety and privacy: AI titles for voice notes, scans and Siri notes are now a separate opt-in (Settings → Notes → AI titles); a new account's welcome note starts private; and you can report any access request and block its sender, even one sent signed out.
  • NewThe floating controls are now the standard layout: a floating tab bar, a one-tap new-note button (its chevron has Voice, Scan, New folder and Add to this post), and floating back, share and menu controls. Prefer the classic layout? Turn off Floating controls in Settings → Account → Layout.
  • ImprovedEditing a note from its text now takes a double tap (or double-click), so a stray tap or a click to select no longer opens the editor.
  • ImprovedEvery list (Pinned, Shared, To do, Deleted…) now uses the floating controls: a back button, sort and menu on top, the title beneath them, and the compose button. The browser tab shows the list's name.
  • ImprovedEdit mode on folder, tag and note lists works like iOS: tap anywhere on a row to select it, and switching tabs leaves Edit. Search, menus and the assistant bar close when you tap elsewhere.
  • ImprovedThe Newer / Older links at the bottom of a note are now off by default. Turn them on in Settings → Notes → Reading — for you, and for readers of your published notes.
  • NewDark mode: choose System, Light or Dark in Settings → Account → Appearance. System follows your device.
  • NewBeta: floating controls — a floating tab bar, a one-tap new-note button (hold it for more), and floating sort and menu controls on your note lists. Turn it on in Settings → Account → Layout.
  • NewiPhone app: notes you make with Siri, voice notes and scans now get a real headline instead of the first line or a date stamp — written on your iPhone by Apple Intelligence when it's available, otherwise with your own AI key if you've added one, otherwise by a smart rule that works offline. A title you give is always kept.
  • NewiPhone app: notifications when someone asks to read one of your notes, when a request of yours is approved, when someone subscribes to your note, and when a note you follow is updated. Turn each on or off in App settings; with the app lock on they don't say which note.
  • NewiPhone app: Listen keeps reading with the screen locked, with controls on the Lock Screen, in Control Center and on AirPods — or ask Siri to read a note aloud. Snoozed notes can now tell you when they're back, with buttons to snooze again. A light tap confirms pins, snoozes and saves.
  • NewiPhone app: widgets for pinned, recent and snoozed notes plus quick New and Voice buttons (Home Screen and Lock Screen), New note and Voice note buttons for Control Center, your notes in iPhone Search (choose titles only, or off, in App settings), Handoff to your Mac, and a document scanner that turns paper into a note — the text is read on your iPhone.
  • NewiPhone app: Face ID lock — turn it on in Settings → Account → iPhone app → App settings…, and choose how long before it locks again. Notes are also hidden from the app switcher. And unsynced edits now have a second copy kept by the app itself, so they come back even if iOS clears the app's web storage.
  • NewiPhone app: capture from anywhere — "Hey Siri, new note in Notations", "add to my Groceries note", search and voice notes from Siri, Shortcuts and the Action Button; long-press the app icon for New note, Voice note and Search; voice notes are transcribed on your iPhone (the audio never leaves it); and the share sheet now takes photos, screenshots and PDFs, lets you pick a folder or add to an existing note, and saves even with no signal.
  • FixediPhone app: stays signed in when you reopen it.
  • NewReport and block — on any note or profile that isn't yours, the … menu lets you report it or block its author. Blocking hides their notes and profile from you and stops them subscribing to, copying, or requesting access to your notes; manage blocks in Settings → Account. New Terms of Use page.
  • NewSign in with Apple — you can now sign in with your Apple ID alongside Google; pick either one on the sign-in screen. If you use the same email address, both sign-ins open the same notebook.
  • ImprovedPin a specific version of a note — pinning now remembers the exact iteration you were viewing, so you can pin more than one version of the same note, and opening a pin takes you straight back to that version. The pinned list labels each one so you can tell versions of the same note apart.
  • NewRich visual editor (Beta) — a new opt-in way to write with formatting shown as you type instead of raw markdown: headings, lists and checklists, tables, quotes, code, links, and [[wikilinks]], plus a "/" menu to insert blocks and a quick-format bar when you select text. Turn it on under Settings → Notes → Editing. Off by default, and the plain markdown editor stays for HTML notes and anyone who prefers it.
  • NewBring your own AI keys, in one place — add a provider key once (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Groq) under Settings → AI and it's shared across features. Each feature has its own on/off switch: Note chat (Beta, with a model picker), semantic search, and cloud voice. Turn one on without a key and Notations takes you straight to where you add it.
  • ImprovedSettings redesigned — a cleaner, tighter layout with on/off switches throughout. Autosave and Snooze are now built in, sharing is always available, and text fields and menus save on their own as you make changes.
  • NewDiagrams in your notes — a code block marked ```mermaid now renders as a flowchart, sequence diagram, and more (using Mermaid syntax), styled to match Notations.
  • NewOpen Markdown and text files in Notations — Chrome only. Install Notations as an app (Chrome menu → Cast, Save, and Share → Create Shortcut), then set it as your computer's default app for .md and .txt files. After that, double-clicking a .md or .txt file opens it as a new note, ready to review and save.
  • FixedThe offline app opens reliably — the installed app no longer cold-starts into an error screen, and opening a note while offline now loads it from your device instead of a dead end.

August 2026

  • ImprovedSave a copy of a note with multiple versions — choose just the version you're reading or all of them.
  • ImprovedOptional "capitalize list items" writing setting, synced across your devices, plus a manage-mode Done button and a confirmation before moving notes between folders.
  • ImprovedThe Notations Capture web clipper is now on the Chrome Web Store — install it in one click, no more sideloading.
  • ImprovedSharper search — result rows now show a match-context snippet so you can see why a note matched, and putting quotes around a phrase forces an exact, whole-word match.
  • FixedSaving a brand-new note and pressing back now returns you to where you were, instead of a blank compose page.
  • ImprovedClaude and other MCP assistants now return a direct, clickable link to a note — ask for a note and you get its URL back, not just its title.
  • NewStable note identity — every note now carries a permanent id that's independent of its title and filename, so renaming a note never breaks its links or its sync.
  • NewNote Assistant — ask questions about a note and make edits by chat, using your own Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or Groq API key, from a floating prompt bar.
  • NewImages in notes — paste or upload images straight into a note. They're hosted on fast object storage, with a per-account storage quota.
  • NewShare & subscribe — save a copy of a shared note into your own notebook, or subscribe to keep a live pointer to someone else's note in a new Subscribed list. Shared notes show follower counts and badges.
  • NewSemantic search over your notes (vector search), plus whole-corpus tools for Claude via MCP: find related notes, get a corpus overview, and list every title.
  • NewConflicts view — a dedicated list and side-by-side comparison when the same note changed in two places, with Keep Local / Keep Remote and batch Keep-All actions.
  • NewAccess requests — ask for access to a private note in-app; owners get an Access Requests list.
  • NewPer-note snooze — hide a note until a wake time you pick.
  • NewWiki-links — [[note title]] linking with autocomplete in the editor.
  • NewPlaud sync — recordings from a Plaud device import automatically as notes.
  • NewBetter on the web — shared and published notes now have link previews (OpenGraph), a sitemap, and structured metadata so they show up nicely when linked or searched.
  • NewSelectable highlight color, and a name-style setting with case-insensitive folders and tags.
  • ImprovedScoped search — filter by folder and location, and searches widen automatically when a narrow scope finds nothing.
  • ImprovedShared links are now always handle-scoped (/u/<handle>/<slug>) so they resolve reliably for recipients, and the address bar flips to the shareable URL the instant you share.
  • ImprovedAutosave while composing (opt-in).
  • FixedA stuck sync now surfaces a clear "refresh to sync" banner instead of silently wedging.
  • FixedThe browser tab title reflects your latest local edits across every note view.

July 2026

  • NewLocal-first, offline everything — the app keeps a full copy of your notes on your device, so opening, creating, editing, pinning, tagging, and moving notes is instant and works offline; changes then sync invisibly in the background.
  • NewFlexible iteration tabs — keep multiple versions and derivatives of a note as tabs you can rename, reorder, set as the primary, and re-type (seed / revision / offshoot, and more). A shared header spans the group, there's always a "+" to add another, and the strip scrolls horizontally on mobile.
  • NewTwo-way local folder sync — a macOS agent (installed from Settings) mirrors a folder of Markdown files both directions; moves move and deletes soft-delete.
  • NewImport from Notion & Obsidian — drop an export zip and pick a destination folder.
  • NewTry it instantly — a demo account seeded with rich sample notes, linked from the landing page.
  • ImprovedSettings reorganized into tabs: Account, Notes, Sync, Connections, and AI & Voice.
  • ImprovedVersion tabs now show on public profile pages too, and "Sync now" shows a progress bar.

June 2026

  • NewHTML artifacts — paste or upload an HTML file and it renders in a self-sizing frame right inside your note.
  • ImprovedPrint-friendly notes — note metadata is hidden when printing, and Cmd+C copies the Markdown when nothing is selected.
  • ImprovedDelete tags directly from the Tags tab.

May 2026

  • NewMulti-user — your own account with private-by-default notes isolated per account, an email magic link, a public handle, and a profile page at /u/<handle>.
  • NewConnect Claude via MCP — read and write your notes from claude.ai over a secure connection, with tools for notes, folders, tags, and iterations.
  • NewNotations Capture — a Chrome extension that clips the page you're on (and any selected text) into a Clips folder.
  • NewIterations — keep versioned iterations and derivatives of a note in a tab strip.
  • NewPublish vs. share — publish a note to your public profile feed, or share a private, link-only note. Publish/share controls live on the note and in Compose.
  • NewTo-do notes — a note named "To do" renders as an interactive checklist, with checkbox state saved to your account and synced across devices.
  • NewBring-your-own voice — read notes aloud with Google, OpenAI, or an offline neural (Piper) voice; generated audio is stored per account with a quota.
  • NewRich Markdown editor — a formatting toolbar with keyboard shortcuts and undo/redo, plus a floating heading index on long notes.
  • NewSettings hub — handle, display name, default folder, folder management, export, personal API tokens, and account deletion.
  • NewDeleted folder — deletes are soft, recoverable for 30 days before they're purged.
  • ImprovedFolders — nested folders, inline rename from the folder header, and a Move… picker that can create a folder on the fly.
  • ImprovedSearch gained sort and scope controls, pagination, date-intent detection, and a query mirrored into the URL so back-navigation restores your results.

April 2026 — first release

  • NewNotations launches — a personal Markdown notes app with folders, drag-and-drop .md upload, and box-drawing table support.
  • NewGoogle sign-in.
  • NewIn-app editing and a Compose page for pasting Markdown into a folder.
  • NewRead notes aloud with text-to-speech, and offline caching of notes you've visited.
  • NewStarred notes, a database-backed index, full-text search, and right-click move-to-folder.

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