Release Notes

• New: Tasks can now carry a context — a free-form group you pin to a task that cuts across projects. Where a project says which effort a task belongs to, a context groups tasks by any other dimension you care about — most powerfully a person: tag tasks with a colleague’s name and one filter surfaces everything on their plate, even though those tasks live in a dozen different projects and notes. It works just as well for a client, a place, or a state like waiting. Jot tasks down wherever they happen; a context pulls the matching ones together no matter where they live. Write it inline as context:sarah, or several at once as context:sarah,waiting. On a task line the “/” palette opens a picker where you can check off several at once and add new ones without leaving it, and you can filter and query tasks by context in database views.
• New: The Task Board’s Project and Context filters are now multi-select — pick several projects and/or several contexts at once from a checklist that stays open as you go, and the board updates live behind it. Each control has a small caption above it and a fixed width so the toolbar no longer shifts around, and the status picker hides itself when you’re already grouping by status. All the filters (project, context, status, tag, find) still combine together.
• Improved: The Task Board’s Context filter now has a (No Context) row — like Project’s (No Project) — for pulling up tasks you haven’t filed yet, and task cards now show a task’s context(s) as pills on a second row.
• Important — update all your devices before using task contexts. Contexts are new in this release. If you add a context to a task while another Mac, iPhone, or iPad is still running an older FoldNotes, the two versions can disagree about that task’s internal identity and quietly reassign it as they sync (you may see repeated iCloud “which version?” prompts on that note). Updating every device first avoids this entirely — FoldNotes now warns you once before your first context add. This build already tolerates identities written by older versions, so an idle mix of devices is safe; the risk is only while you’re actively editing context-tagged tasks on a mixed fleet.
• Fixed: A sync loop that could repeatedly rewrite a task note across devices — churning task identities and, with the Task Board open, occasionally crashing the app — is resolved. The board is now safe to keep open all day.
• Fixed: Opening a note from a foldnotes:// link, a task reminder, the Task widget, or the fn command line while FoldNotes was closed now reliably opens the note as the app launches — previously it could come to the front showing no window at all. A task link lands directly on its task, and if the linked note can’t be found, FoldNotes shows a clear “Note Not Found” message and opens your most recent note instead of a blank one.
• New: Queries and database views can find unassigned tasks. The new is none rule matches notes with a task that has no project — or no context — so you can round up everything you captured but never filed.
• Fixed: The built-in Due This Week query (and any is this week task rule) now includes tasks due today; previously today’s tasks were skipped.
• Fixed: A query rule that needs no value — such as is this week, is overdue, or is none — can now be saved without hitting a spurious “add a value” error.
• Improved: Negative task filters (e.g. Task Project is not X) now consider only notes that actually contain tasks, so task-free notes like recipes or journal entries no longer appear in the results.
• Improved: Restoring a trashed note you’re viewing now clears the editor and returns the library to All Notes with the note selected — previously the restored note was left in the editor behind a stale “in Trash” banner, over a file that had already moved.
• Improved: Viewing a trashed or archived note no longer hides its first line behind the banner — the note now opens with its top edge just below the banner instead of underneath it.
• Improved: When a note you have open is trashed on another device, FoldNotes now leaves the editor and loads the next note — matching what happens when you trash it here — instead of leaving it open with a banner. (Archived notes still stay open with their read-only banner, as before.)
• Improved (command line): The fn tasks tool understands contexts: fn tasks list --context errand filters by context, task listings show each task’s contexts, and fn tasks add … --context errand,phone sets them.
• Improved (command line): Full context management from the command line, mirroring the existing project commands: amend a task’s contexts (fn tasks set --context / --clear-context), list contexts with task counts (fn tasks contexts), and rename or strip a context across the whole collection (fn contexts rename / strip).
• Shortcuts & Siri: the Get Tasks action can now filter by project and by context, and a task’s contexts are available to read in your Shortcuts.

• Fixed: Automatic update notifications now work reliably. When a new beta build is available, FoldNotes brings the update prompt to the front shortly after launch — previously it could open behind the app and be easy to miss — then installs and relaunches when you’re ready. Automatic checking still follows your “Automatically check for updates” preference, and you can check any time from FoldNotes ▸ Check for Updates.

• New: FoldNotes now supports all six Markdown heading levels (H1–H6), up from five, and the new sixth level has its own colour. Pick any level from the toolbar’s heading menu, the Format menu (⌘1–⌘6), or the “/” palette; Fold to Level now goes to 6 as well (⌘⌥6 to fold, ⌘⌥⇧6 to unfold).
• New: You can now turn a heading into another block type. The bullet-list, numbered-list, task, quote, and callout buttons work when the cursor is on a heading — they convert it directly. (Previously they did nothing on a heading.) A collapsed heading’s contents are expanded first, so nothing is hidden.
• Improved: Using the toolbar to turn a paragraph into a numbered-list item now renumbers correctly. Converting a paragraph that sits between two numbered items joins it into the list — it takes the next number and the items below it renumber to follow — and converting a numbered item into something else renumbers whatever list remains below it. A blockquote, heading, or plain paragraph in the middle of a list now also correctly starts the numbering fresh below it.
• Improved: Focus mode (Hoist) is now rock-solid. The unhoist control always stays on the focused heading, so you can never get stuck — even after turning it into a list, quote, or plain text, or clearing it. The focused heading is also locked in place: you can’t drag it out of position or drag other content above it, and its drag handle is hidden while focused. (This also closes a rare crash that could happen after dragging the focused heading and pressing Undo.) The hoist arrows are a touch larger but more subtle.
• Improved: Selecting a saved query or smart view (Due Today, Favourites, and the like) that currently has no matching notes no longer bounces you to All Notes and pulls the note you were reading out of the editor. FoldNotes now stays exactly where you are — your note, your view, and the sidebar all untouched — and slides a brief banner in above the list, e.g. “No notes match Due Today”, so it’s clear the view was simply empty.
• Improved: Collapsing the Gallery — clicking the Gallery button again while it’s the current view — now tucks the sidebar away too, for a full-screen editor, exactly like collapsing the note list already did.
• Fixed: Inserting a table is now undoable — ⌘Z removes it, and Undo behaves normally afterward.
• Fixed: The Comment and Image buttons are now refused when the cursor is on a heading — no more comment marker or image landing inside a heading’s title.
• Fixed: The admonition (callout) buttons now work while editing a Bike file — an admonition is a kind of quote, which Bike supports, so it round-trips correctly.
• Fixed: In the seaShell theme, Heading 2 now has its own colour, distinct from Heading 1.

• New: Editing a Bike file now preserves Bike’s row attributes completely. Priority and due-date badges (new in recent Bike releases), any custom attributes you’ve added to rows, and Bike’s own document settings all pass through FoldNotes edits untouched — and they stay with their row when you drag it around the outline. Row identity is now carried the same way, so Bike’s own row links keep pointing at the right rows after you reorganise a file in FoldNotes.
• New: View and edit those attributes right in FoldNotes: a row carrying attributes shows a small @ at the end of its line — click it to set a priority (High / Medium / Low), a due date, or any custom attribute, the same data Bike renders as badges. On a task row, typing / opens the editor directly; it’s also in Format ▸ Row Attributes… (⌥⌘A). Attributes live in the Bike file itself — nothing is ever added to your outline’s text.
• New: On the Task Board, cards can now be dragged between the Priority columns — dropping a task on High, Medium, Low, or None rewrites its priority in the note, exactly like dragging between Status columns changes its state.
• Improved: With automatic updates enabled, FoldNotes now checks for a new version on every launch (and still re-checks daily while it stays open) — so beta fixes reach you the next time you start the app.
• Fixed: The Image Browser (⌘⇧A) no longer opens while editing a Bike file — image attachments are a collection feature and don’t apply to external files.

• Fixed: Clicking a foldnotes:// note link from another app — including a link in a Bike file — now opens the note. Previously the app came forward without navigating. This also covers links created on another device: FoldNotes now finds the note by its identity across your collections, and tells you honestly if it can’t be found at all.
• Improved: Copied and inserted note links are now short and portable — just the note’s ID, with no device-specific collection reference. Existing long-form links keep working.
• Improved: The sidebar’s Queries and Database Views sections now start collapsed at launch so your tags stay in view — a new setting (“Start Queries and Database Views collapsed”) restores the old behaviour. Collapsing or expanding them during a session is also now remembered instead of being reset by the next refresh.
• Fixed: Two-finger scrolling in the graph view now pans in the direction of your fingers, matching the system scroll direction — it previously moved the graph the opposite way.

• New: External Files have moved into the note list. Selecting External Files in the sidebar now shows your external folders’ structure in the sidebar and lists the files themselves in the note list, in their own file cells showing name, sub-folder, and modified date. Single-click opens a file in the editor, right-click offers Open, Open in New Window, and Reveal in Finder.
• New: The External Files list follows the sort order in the toolbar, like any other view — Last Modified, Date Created, or Title, newest or oldest first. (Manual and Due Date ordering don’t apply to plain files, so the list falls back to Last Modified while you’re browsing files; your chosen sort returns with your notes.)
• New: External files can now open in their own window — right-click a file and choose “Open in New Window”. Standalone windows support search, backlink navigation between notes and files, and Back/Forward with exact positions.
• New: Typing [[ in an external file now offers both your FoldNotes notes and the other files in the same external folder as link targets, and inserts portable links that work outside FoldNotes too: Bike files get Bike’s own link format (they open in Bike and survive the file being moved), Markdown files get relative links, and notes get foldnotes:// links. All of them click through inside FoldNotes as well, including from a standalone window.
• Improved: A link to a FoldNotes note inside an external file now shows the same hover preview as a wiki-link. Link labels in markdown links are also clickable as soon as a note opens — previously they only became active after editing the line.
• Improved: The Gallery button is disabled while browsing External Files (the gallery shows notes from your collection), and Bike’s empty “Untitled” session placeholder files no longer appear in the file listings.
• Fixed: In a separate note window, search results and task links now land at the right position instead of being ignored.
• New: Notes now reopen where you left them. Browsing the note list or gallery returns each note to your last edited position, and Back/Forward restores your exact place. The existing setting — now named “Return to last edited position” — turns this off if you prefer notes to always open at the top.
• New: When a note opens scrolled to your last position while you’re browsing, the line you left off at is briefly highlighted so it’s clear where you are. A new setting (“Highlight restored position”) turns the highlight off.
• Improved: Clicking a reference in the Backlinks panel now lands on the paragraph that links to your note, not the top of the referring note.
• Improved: Notes created from a template now place the cursor at the template’s cursor marker, and new daily notes start with the cursor under the date heading.
• Improved: Notes in Trash and Archived always open at the top, and their information banners are now solid so text can’t show through them. Banners also follow theme changes immediately.
• Fixed: Clicking a wiki-link that points to the note you’re already reading no longer scrolls you to the top.
• Improved: Opening a note from the database view (⌘-click) or a project’s note list keeps keyboard focus in the list, matching how the note list behaves.
• New: Task reminders now have action buttons — Mark Done, Snooze 1 Hour, and Snooze Until Tomorrow (9 AM). Right-click the notification (or find it later in Notification Center — a missed banner isn’t lost). Mark Done completes the task in your note directly, even when it belongs to another collection, without opening or switching anything. Snoozed reminders re-deliver with the same tap-to-open link, and are cleaned up automatically if you complete the task some other way first.
• Improved: Edits made in the task editor — due date, priority, task text, and comments — now update the Task Board and calendar instantly, the same way checkbox and “/” command edits already do. Previously these changes waited for the next save cycle before the card moved.
• Improved: Typing on a task line in the editor now updates its card on the Task Board as you pause — including due dates and priorities typed as text.
• Improved: The “Open Note” action in Shortcuts and Siri now actually opens the chosen note — previously it only brought the app forward.

• Fixed: Daily note dates were handled incorrectly in timezones west of UTC (the Americas): the calendar’s day markers sat one day early, selecting a day could open the adjacent day’s note, and repeatedly opening a day added duplicate Daily Notes list entries for the same note — deleting a duplicate removed the note itself. Date handling is now correct in every timezone. Thanks to a beta tester for the detailed report.
• Fixed: As a safety net, opening a daily note whose file already exists can never overwrite its content.
• Improved: New Note (⌘N) in the Daily Notes view now opens today’s entry — creating it if needed — and stays in Daily Notes, instead of switching to All Notes with a regular untitled note.
• Improved: The gallery’s Daily Notes view now lists newest first, matching the note list — it follows the “Daily Notes always newest first” setting, including live when you change it.
• Fixed: A rare crash at launch when the note list was read before it had finished its first load — most likely on large collections or a slow first start.
• Improved: The note list now shows “Loading…” while its first load runs, the iCloud download counter appears from the start on a first install, and the note open in the editor is highlighted in the list as soon as the list finishes loading.
• Fixed: On a first launch, the Welcome window could end up hidden behind the main window as your notes loaded. It now stays visible until you close it.

Note for existing testers: if you saw duplicate Daily Notes entries, or tasks showing priority “None” that have a written priority, run File → Rebuild Note Index… once after updating — this refreshes the app’s index from your files and corrects both. Your notes are not modified.

• New: The Task Board now updates live as you work — ticking a checkbox or using a “/” command (priority, due date) in the editor moves the card to its new column instantly, no save required.
• New: The task edit dialog has been rebuilt: comments are now a free-form editor (Return for a new line, Tab to nest, full markdown support), with an insert-date button for dating comments, proper room for long task text, and a Done button. It also no longer closes itself mid-typing.
• Improved: Comments on board cards now respect their indentation.
• Improved: The Daily Notes section now lists newest first by default — your list sort no longer needs reversing just to read the journal top-down, and keeps applying to every other section. A new setting (“Daily Notes always newest first”) lets you switch the section back to following the sort control. Thanks to a beta tester for the suggestion.
• Improved: Switching the board’s grouping (Status / Priority / Due Date) now starts you at the top of the new columns — previously a deep scroll position could leave the board looking empty until you scrolled. Filter changes keep your place.
• Fixed: Jumping from a board or calendar card into a long note now always lands exactly on the task — a chain of subtle timing issues could previously leave you at the top of the note until a second click.
• Fixed: In rare circumstances, commands that rewrite a task’s line — the “/” commands, the date and project pickers, and the list/quote buttons — could make the app quietly lose track of that task’s identity, affecting board jumps and live updates until the next save. Task identity now survives every editing command, on both Mac and iOS.
• Improved: “/” commands write task metadata cleanly — single spaces, no stray trailing space — and ⌘Z after a palette command can no longer remove text you typed before the “/”.
• Improved: Appending a task to a daily note via Shortcuts, Siri, or the command line now appears on the Task Board immediately instead of after the next sync pass.

• Improved: The Task Board is dramatically faster. It now opens instantly, with cards streaming in while you work; dragging cards between columns and cycling a task’s status respond immediately; and switching grouping (Status / Priority / Due Date) or any filter re-arranges the existing cards instead of rebuilding the whole board.
• New: Task Board column headers (Not Started, In Progress, …) stay visible while you scroll, with live task counts.
• Improved: The task calendar now scrolls back a full 24 months (was 6), always opens on today, and no longer opens automatically covering the board — the calendar button brings it back at your last-used width. Selecting and updating chips in the calendar is also far snappier.
• Fixed: Clicking a task on the board or calendar now reliably opens its note at the task on the first click — previously the jump could silently land at the top of the note.
• Fixed: With the Task Board open in its own window, creating, saving, or switching notes no longer freezes the app.
• Improved: External Files in the sidebar now use a monospaced font (with middle truncation), so long filenames read distinctly from tag paths and keep their distinguishing endings visible.
• Fixed: The collection name above the sidebar now follows theme switches instead of becoming unreadable on dark themes, and tinted themes (Nord, Catppuccin Latte, Sea Shell) no longer show wrong-coloured bands at the top and bottom of the library pane.
• Fixed: Trashing, restoring, or permanently deleting a note can no longer report success when the underlying file operation failed — a rare failure previously left the app showing a state your other devices disagreed with.
• Fixed: A note edited on another device could show a stale “last modified” date in the list that never corrected itself.

• New: A “Daily Notes” section in the sidebar Library (below Favourites) — all your daily notes in one place.
• Improved: Opening a daily note from the calendar (double-click a day, or press Return) now always switches to the Daily Notes view. Previously the note opened inside whatever view you were in — and from Trash or Archived it even appeared locked read-only.
• Improved: New Note (⌘N) now respects the view you’re in: in a tag it seeds the tag (as before), in Favourites the new note is created as a favourite, and in views a new note can’t belong to (Daily Notes, saved searches, Archived, Trash) the app switches to All Notes first instead of creating a note into a list that can’t show it.
• New: Changes made on your other devices now appear when you switch back to FoldNotes — no restart needed.
• Improved: Archiving or trashing the note you’re reading now loads the next note in the view instead of leaving the editor blank. Archiving the last note in a tag keeps you in that tag, where “start typing to create a note” makes a new note already tagged with that path — just like ⌘N.
• Improved: Sidebar tag counts no longer include archived notes, and a tag whose notes are all archived stays in the sidebar instead of vanishing.
• Fixed: Archiving or unarchiving a note you had open didn’t always reach the file on disk, so iPhone and iPad could keep showing the old state. Archive changes also no longer alter the note’s modified date, so list order stays put across devices.
• Fixed: Typing or clicking in an empty editor could create a burst of “Untitled” notes — one per keystroke. Now exactly one note is created, seeded with what you typed.
• Fixed: After deleting or archiving the last note in a view, the empty editor now has keyboard focus, so “start typing” works immediately.
• Fixed: ⌘H now hides the app, as expected.
• Fixed: In the sidebar calendar, “today” now has its own colour distinct from the selected day, in both light and dark themes.
• Fixed: The Settings window no longer shows a double highlight on the selected tab.
• Fixed: Removing all tags from a note could hang the app when that note was open in the editor.
• Improved: Gallery cards now sit on a subtly darker background with a soft shadow, so they stand out clearly — and the background no longer shows a colour seam partway down or keeps the previous theme’s colour after switching themes.
• Fixed: Three menu shortcuts were silently broken because two menu items shared the same keys. Copy Note Link is now ⌥⌘C, Bind Manuscript is ⌃⌘B, and Export Collection no longer has a shortcut — freeing ⇧⌘C (Clear Formatting), ⇧⌘B (Task Board) and ⇧⌘E (Inline Code) to work reliably.
• Improved: Opening an external file now hides the notes list (it showed unrelated collection notes beside the external file) while keeping the External Files tree — selecting any collection path brings the list back automatically, and the toolbar’s list button can reveal it at any time, e.g. to open a note in a separate window for comparison.
• Fixed: Revealing a pane (Inspector, notes list, or switching to the Gallery) could grow the window past the edge of the screen, cutting off the rightmost pane. The window now slides back into view — shrinking only if the screen genuinely can’t fit everything.
• Fixed: Code inside fenced code blocks keeps its exact indentation when notes are imported, pasted, copied, or opened as external files — previously space-indented code samples (YAML, Python, …) could be silently re-indented or flattened on the first edit. External Markdown files now save back with standard 4-space indentation instead of tabs, so your own files keep their style and stay clean in version control — and copying from FoldNotes into other apps now produces standard space-indented Markdown too.

• New: Tag filters can now match a whole hierarchy — “is under” / “is not under” filters a parent tag together with all of its sub-tags (e.g. “project” also matches “project/website”). Available in both Saved Views and the Database View filter.
• New: The Query Builder’s tag field now has the same type-to-narrow picker as the Database View filter.
• New: In the Database View, ⌘-click a row to open that note in the editor.
• New: Database Views can now be renamed or deleted from a new “Manage” (⋯) menu in the toolbar.
• Fixed: In the Database View, the divider beside the Title column is now draggable, and the Title column can no longer shrink to a width you can’t drag back.
• New: Gallery cards can now be resized — a new size menu in the gallery toolbar offers 50% to 120%, letting you fit more cards on screen or make them larger and more legible. Card content stays the same; the text just scales with the card.

• New: Typewriter scrolling now lets you choose the cursor’s vertical position — Focus menu → Position slider — and sits at centre by default.
• Fixed: Dragging a note onto a tag could hang the app (spinning beach ball) when that note was open in the editor.
• Fixed: In Gallery mode the file name in the toolbar no longer shows a stray button background or sits out of place.
• Fixed: Removed a duplicate tooltip on the toolbar’s pane buttons.

• Fixed: Trashing or restoring a note in a local (non-iCloud) collection now keeps the file inside that collection instead of moving it to the iCloud folder.
• Fixed: A crash when working in a completely empty collection, and a crash when trashing a note you had just created.
• New: An empty editor now shows a “Start typing to create a note” prompt — clicking or typing creates a new note.
• New: Opening a tag or saved search with no matching notes now returns you to All Notes instead of a dead-end empty list.

• Fixed: With typewriter scrolling on, the first line of a new note is no longer hidden under the naming banner.
• Fixed: Deleting at the start of a line no longer adds a stray space when the line above is empty or only tabs.

• Fixed: Several bugs related to offsets in typewriter scrolling at the end of a note.
• New: Added the standard Mac keyboard shortcut ⌘W to close auxiliary windows.

• Fixed: ⌘⌫ now trashes notes in the note list.
• Fixed: An empty note could be created in the note list.
• New: Added a favourite icon to favourited notes in the note list.

• First public beta release.

• New: Tasks can now carry a context — a free-form group you pin to a task that cuts across projects. Where a project says which effort a task belongs to, a context groups tasks by any other dimension you care about — most powerfully a person: tag tasks with a colleague’s name and one filter surfaces everything on their plate, even though those tasks live in a dozen different projects and notes. It works just as well for a client, a place, or a state like waiting. Jot tasks down wherever they happen; a context pulls the matching ones together no matter where they live. Write it inline as context:sarah, or several at once as context:sarah,waiting. On a task line the “/” menu opens a picker where you can check off several at once and add new ones without leaving the list — and you can filter and query tasks by context in database views.
• Important — update all your devices before using task contexts. Contexts are new in this release. If you add a context to a task while another iPhone, iPad, or Mac is still running an older FoldNotes, the two versions can disagree about that task’s internal identity and quietly reassign it as they sync. Updating every device first avoids this entirely. (This build already tolerates identities written by older versions, so an idle mix of devices is safe — the risk is only while you’re actively editing context-tagged tasks on a mixed fleet.)
• New: Queries and database views can find unassigned tasks. The new is none rule matches notes with a task that has no project — or no context — so you can round up everything you captured but never filed.
• Fixed: The built-in Due This Week query (and any is this week task rule) now includes tasks due today; previously today’s tasks were skipped.
• Fixed: A query rule that needs no value — such as is this week, is overdue, or is none — can now be saved without a spurious “add a value” error.
• Improved: Negative task filters (e.g. Task Project is not X) now consider only notes that actually contain tasks, so task-free notes like recipes no longer appear in the results.
• New: The name-this-note banner is back. A brand-new note shows a bar at the top — tap into it and type a name (it even suggests one from your first line). You can also tap the “Untitled” title in the toolbar to name the note at any time.
• Improved: Selecting several notes in the Trash now offers exactly two clear actions — Restore and Delete Permanently — instead of two buttons that both deleted. (Empty Trash is on the press-and-hold menu, where it isn’t tied to your selection.)
• Improved: On iPhone, trashing the note you’re reading — or a filter emptying out — now keeps you in the note list and moves to the next note, instead of pushing you into the editor. In landscape, where the list and editor sit side by side, the editor still updates in place.
• Improved: FoldNotes is now honest when iCloud isn’t available. If you’re signed out of iCloud or iCloud Drive is off, your notes are stored on the device and the app says so plainly — a clear indicator in the Library, shown once — with no misleading “syncing”. Whenever iCloud is available it’s always used.
• New: The search field on iPad now has a regex help button explaining the pattern syntax for regular-expression searches.
• Shortcuts & Siri: the Get Tasks action can now filter by project and by context, and a task’s contexts are available to read in your Shortcuts.
• Fixed: On iPad, the editor now resizes correctly when the note list swipes in beside it. Naming a brand-new note no longer left it uneditable, and a few editor and sync edge cases around trashing and deleting are tidied up.

• New: All six Markdown heading levels (H1–H6) are now available, up from five — from the H menu on the keyboard toolbar, or ⌘1–⌘6 with a hardware keyboard (⌘4/⌘5/⌘6 are new, matching the Mac). The new sixth level has its own colour, and Fold to Level goes to 6 (⌘⌥6 to fold, ⌘⌥⇧6 to unfold).
• New: You can now turn a heading into another block type — the list, numbered-list, task, quote, and callout buttons convert a heading directly. A collapsed heading’s contents are expanded first, so nothing is hidden.
• Improved: Numbered lists renumber correctly when you convert a paragraph to or from a numbered-list item — items join the sequence or restart below the break, as you’d expect.
• Improved: Focus mode (Hoist) is now rock-solid. The unhoist arrow always stays on the focused heading, so you can never get stuck, and the focused heading is locked in place — you can’t drag it out of position or drag other content above it, and its drag handle is hidden while focused. (This also closes a rare crash that could happen after dragging the focused heading and undoing.) The hoist arrows are a touch larger but more subtle.
• Improved: A cleaner collapsed paragraph — removed the “⋯” that used to trail a folded paragraph, since the fold arrow already shows it’s collapsed.
• Fixed: The Comment and Image buttons are now refused when the cursor is on a heading, so they can’t land inside a heading’s title.
• Fixed: In the seaShell theme, Heading 2 now has its own colour, distinct from Heading 1.

• Fixed: A crash moments after the welcome screen on a first install. If build 16 crashed on you at first launch, this build installs cleanly.
• New: Editing a Bike file now preserves Bike’s row attributes completely. Priority and due-date badges (new in recent Bike releases), any custom attributes you’ve added to rows, and Bike’s own document settings all pass through FoldNotes edits untouched — and they stay with their row when you reorganise the outline.
• New: View and edit those attributes right in FoldNotes: a row carrying attributes shows a small @ at the end of its line — tap it to set a priority (High / Medium / Low), a due date, or any custom attribute, the same data Bike renders as badges. On a task row, typing / opens the editor directly (⌥⌘A on a hardware keyboard). Attributes live in the Bike file itself — nothing is ever added to your outline’s text.

• Fixed: The note list no longer refreshes and redraws itself every time the app opens — it now updates only the rows that actually changed, so launching into your notes is visually still.
• Fixed: The X button while editing a Bike file now closes the file properly — your changes are saved back to the original and the editor returns to the note you were on. Previously it did nothing, especially on iPad.
• Improved: Note links inserted into Bike files are now short and portable — just the note’s ID, with no device-specific reference appended. Links written by earlier builds keep working.

• New: Task reminders now have action buttons — Mark Done, Snooze 1 Hour, and Snooze Until Tomorrow (9 AM). Press and hold the notification (a reminder that slid away is still in Notification Center). Mark Done completes the task in your note directly — nothing to open or dismiss. Snoozed reminders re-deliver with the same tap-to-open link, and are cleaned up automatically if you complete the task some other way first.
• Improved: The “Open Note” action in Shortcuts and Siri now actually opens the chosen note — previously it only brought the app forward.
• New: When editing a Bike file (Open In), typing [[ now inserts a portable link to the chosen note instead of FoldNotes-only wiki syntax — the link works in Bike on the Mac and taps through inside FoldNotes, with the same preview as a wiki-link (hover with a trackpad on iPad, or tap).

• Improved: Trashed notes can now be viewed. Tapping one opens it read-only — you can read and scroll the content before deciding — with a banner offering Restore or Delete Permanently, matching the Mac. Previously the Trash offered only an action sheet, forcing the decision from the title alone.
• Fixed: Trashed and archived notes are now fully protected from accidental changes — previously it was possible to edit a trashed note or move its paragraphs in some circumstances.
• Fixed: Unarchiving a note from the editor’s banner now returns the library to All Notes with the note selected, instead of leaving you in a stale (possibly empty) Archived view.
• This build also removes the ability to install the iOS beta on Apple silicon Macs via TestFlight — FoldNotes has a dedicated Mac app, and the iOS version is not designed for the Mac. If you installed the iOS beta on your Mac, please delete it — it will no longer receive updates there, and out-of-date versions can contain since-fixed bugs that affect the notes shared with your other devices.

• Fixed: On a first install, the app could show a black screen for half a minute or more while iCloud prepared the collection. It now shows a preparing screen immediately, and the welcome tour is available while your collection is set up in the background.
• Improved: The first sync now explains what’s happening at every stage: preparing, cataloguing your notes in iCloud (which can take several minutes for a large collection — keep the app in the foreground), then a live count as your notes download.
• Fixed: In timezones west of UTC (the Americas), the calendar’s daily-note day markers sat one day early, and a daily note’s activity summary could cover the wrong day. Date handling is now correct in every timezone. Thanks to a beta tester for the detailed report.
• Improved: New Note in the Daily Notes view now opens today’s entry — creating it if needed — and stays in Daily Notes, instead of switching to All Notes with a regular untitled note. Matches the Mac.
• Improved: iPad: the “/” command panel now shows up to 12 commands at a time (was 8, and often fewer with the on-screen keyboard visible), no longer clips its bottom row, and the due/done date picker opens as a centred sheet when the on-screen keyboard would leave it too little room.

Note for existing testers: if any tasks show priority “None” despite having a written priority, run Settings → Rebuild Note Index once after updating — this refreshes the app’s index from your files. Your notes are not modified.

• Improved: The Daily Notes section now lists newest first by default — your list sort no longer needs reversing just to read the journal top-down, and keeps applying to every other section. A new setting in Settings → Behaviour (“Daily Notes Always Newest First”) lets you switch the section back to following the sort control. Thanks to a beta tester for the suggestion.
• Fixed: In rare circumstances, commands that rewrite a task’s line — the “/” commands, the due-date picker, the project picker, and the toolbar’s list and quote buttons — could make the app quietly lose track of that task’s identity, which could affect task features on your other devices. Now fixed on both iPhone/iPad and Mac.
• Improved: “/” commands write task metadata cleanly — single spaces, no stray trailing space.
• Improved: Appending a task to a daily note via Siri or Shortcuts now appears in task views immediately instead of after the next sync pass.

• New: A “Daily Notes” section in the sidebar Library (below Favourites) — all your daily notes in one place.
• New: Import Files can now select .textbundle documents directly — previously TextBundles were greyed out in the file picker and only imported when inside a picked folder.
• New: A Release Notes link in Settings → Help & Support (and in the iPad menu bar under Help) opens the full changelog.
• Improved: Opening a daily note from the calendar now always switches to the Daily Notes view. Previously the note opened inside whatever view you were in — and from Trash or Archived it even appeared locked read-only.
• Improved: New Note now respects the view you’re in: in a tag it seeds the tag (as before), in Favourites the new note is created as a favourite, and in views a new note can’t belong to (Daily Notes, saved searches, Archived, Trash) the app switches to All Notes first instead of creating a note into a list that can’t show it.
• Improved: Archiving or trashing the note you’re reading now loads the next note in the view instead of leaving the editor blank. Archiving the last note in a tag keeps you in that tag.
• Improved: Sidebar tag counts no longer include archived notes, and a tag whose notes are all archived stays in the sidebar instead of vanishing.
• Fixed: Archiving from the note list recorded the state in an outdated format that other devices didn’t recognise — iPhone, iPad and Mac now always agree on what’s archived. Archive changes also no longer alter the note’s modified date, so list order stays put across devices.
• Fixed: Crashes and hangs when archiving or unarchiving notes.
• Fixed: Code inside fenced code blocks keeps its exact indentation when notes are imported or pasted — previously space-indented code samples (YAML, Python, …) could be silently re-indented or flattened on the first edit. Copying from FoldNotes into other apps now produces standard space-indented Markdown too.
• Improved: Switching quickly in and out of the app no longer rescans your whole collection each time.

• New: Changes made on your other devices now appear when you switch back to FoldNotes — no restart needed.
• New: Typewriter scrolling now lets you choose the cursor’s vertical position — Focus controls → Position — and sits at centre by default.
• Improved: Saved views using the new “is under” / “is not under” tag hierarchy filters (created on the Mac) evaluate correctly on iPhone and iPad.
• Fixed: A crash when archiving or unarchiving notes.
• Fixed: Archiving a note from the list could hang the app.

• Fixed: Tapping to position the cursor could land it in the wrong place.

• Fixed: Typewriter scrolling now works correctly at the very end of the document.
• Fixed: Deleting at the start of a line no longer adds a stray space when the line above is empty or only tabs.

• Improved: The keyboard’s suggestion bar is now off by default — it can be re-enabled in Settings.
• Fixed: Restored the Bike document icon when opening .bike files.

• Fixed: On iPad, the keyboard toolbar no longer hides behind the keyboard after rotating the device.
• Fixed: A gap under the keyboard toolbar on iPadOS 27 when a hardware keyboard is attached.

• New: Body, Heading, and Code font pickers in Settings — choose your own editor fonts.

• Fixed: Preview now works for .bike files opened from the Files app.

• Improved: The editor’s default prose font is now New York (serif), and coloured headings are on by default.
• Fixed: Code and Comment font sizes can no longer be set below 8 pt.

• First public TestFlight build.