Changelog

Owl 1.4.1

2024/12/26

New:

• A note’s containing folder is always displayed when listing notes from multiple folders. The menu bar option to show or hide the containing folder has been removed.
• Added a ‘Library’ action to the Dock context menu.

Improvements:

• Note editor search starts with the current global search text if none other is available from previous searches.
• Reduced the intensity of the focus ring for selected images in light mode.
• Cutting a whole checklist item now removes the checklist marker from that line.
• Fixed controls alignment in the New Folder dialog when folders in the Library have long names.
• Adjusted dialog buttons to be wider and have consistent width.
• Changing text format to list now maintains the current indentation level.

Bug fixes:

• Link panel no longer reappears at a later point after being dismissed on some OS versions.
• Selected image focus ring is no longer clipped for images at the top of the note.
• Pasting text works properly now when copying from PDFs with a certain formatting.
• 'Show In Finder' context menu option no longer hidden when an image is selected.
• ‘Library’ menu bar action now works reliably.
• Fixed minor Markdown parsing issues.

Owl 1.4

2024/11/27

New:

• Search results are highlighted in the notes list and in the note editor.
• Note editor uses incremental search.
• Search in all notes matches words independently rather than exact phrases.
• Search in the selected note with ⌘F.
• Search in all notes with ⇧⌘F.
• Menu bar Find actions allow to start a note search (⌘F), jump to the next (⌘G) and previous result (⇧⌘G).
• Added option in Settings to use a light background in the note editor even when on dark mode.

Improvements:

• Loading indicator is displayed for long search operations.
• Note editor search bar is displayed at the top of the editor.
• Note renames, moves, and deletions, are reflected in the search results.
• Previous note selection is restored when exiting a search, unless selection changed by the user during search.
• Search results are now sorted by modification date.
• Note editor scrolls to make search result matches visible.

Bug fixes:

• Selection is updated when going from no search results to some search results.
• Hitting spacebar when an image is selected opens QuickLook.
• Undo pasting text on the last line no longer results in a wrong text style applied in some cases.
• Disabled AI writing tools until we add proper support.

Owl 1.3

2024/10/25

Improvements:

• Checklists: use the new toolbar button, context menu, menu bar, or the keyboard shortcut (⇧⌘L) to create a checklist, then check off items as you complete them.

Bug fixes:

• Pasting text copied from another app properly formats the last list line if not ended in a line break.

Owl 1.2

2024/10/11

Improvements:

• Added Link toolbar button.
• Added Emoji toolbar button.
• Added support for standard spell-checking and text substitution options.
• Added tooltips for all buttons.
• Added Contact Support option to the Help menu.
• Limit sidebar and notes list column width so toolbar buttons can't be hidden.
• Copy-pasting refinements related to empty list items and trailing line breaks.

Bug fixes:

• Unsaved note changes are persisted when terminating the app.
• Renaming or moving an ancestor of the default folder does not reset the default folder.
• Default folder and folder collapsed states are maintained when moving/renaming ancestor folders.
• Default folder and folder collapsed states are maintained when undoing/redoing changes to ancestor folders.
• Special markdown characters are properly escaped when followed by a line break.
• Splitting of pasted text into title and content for empty notes properly handles leading line breaks.
• Containing folder names displayed in note list rows are limited to one line.
• Fix scrolling issue on long notes when performing multiple consecutive scroll gestures.

Owl 1.1.1

2024/09/26

Fixed bugs introduced with the new macOS 15 Sequoia:

• Fixed folder renaming where text field wouldn't become editable.
• Fixed changing of note and folder selection with one click even if the corresponding list is unfocused.
• Fixed visual glitch where scrollbar would become partially covered by the note title after doing a text search within the editor.
• Fixed list selection bug where trying to select a note would randomly not work and immediately reset selection to the previous note.
• Fixed File menu not visible in the menu bar.
• Fixed visual glitch where note toolbar buttons would oddly animate and fade out when changing notes.
• Fixed "Hide Sidebar" toolbar button getting collapsed when the sidebar width is too small.

Known issues:

• Changes to a folder list of notes (e.g. creating a new note, deleting it, etc.) are no longer animated, due to what seems to be a bug in macOS 15.0 affecting SwiftUl Lists.

Owl 1.1

2024/09/12

Improvements:

• Added image support.
• Reduced prominence of note count badges in sidebar.
• Minor improvements and bug fixes.

Owl 1.0

2024/06/21

First release.