Changelog

Features

• Embedded Ghostty terminal: toggle an integrated terminal drawer directly inside the editor
• Formatting bar: optional toolbar with quick-access markdown formatting buttons
• Folder selection: open any folder as a vault from the sidebar

Polish

• Ghostty terminal theme syncs automatically with the active editor theme
• Nested Claude Code sessions work correctly inside the embedded terminal
• Toolbar divider adapts to detail pane on macOS 15+
• View mode picker is now opt-in via Settings
• Theme-aware sidebar highlight for selected items
• Derived index cache moved to Application Support for cleaner vault directories
• Improved launch responsiveness with deferred indexing for large vaults

Bug Fixes

• Fix properties panel push-down after height updates
• Fix sidebar freeze after large external file deletes
• Fix Ghostty terminal path quoting and font size actions

Features

• Formatting bar: optional toolbar with quick-access markdown formatting buttons

Polish

• Embedded Ghostty terminal theme syncs automatically with the active editor theme

Polish

• Moved derived index cache to Application Support for cleaner vault directories

Features

• Editor themes now available on iOS
• Git sync integration with GitHub OAuth device flow
• Large vault scaling with deferred file system indexing

Polish

• Faster launch with async loading and expanded-folder pruning
• Improved link preview rendering after editing a link
• Sync icon spinner replaces tiny ProgressView during git operations
• Optimized startup parsing hot path and expanded folder restore

Bug Fixes

• Fixed periodic UI flashes when collaboration is disabled
• Fixed inline edit restyle and marker collapse
• Fixed editor theme refresh race conditions

Polish

• Improved launch responsiveness for large vaults.

Polish

• State improvements

Bug Fixes

• Surround selection (quotes, brackets, backticks) now only wraps when text is selected. No longer auto-pairs on regular typing.

Features

• Command palette (Cmd-Shift-P) with liquid-glass design and slash commands
• Raw edit and live editor render modes: toggle between source and preview
• Editor page width controls and focus mode
• Typed frontmatter structured data support
• Cmd+D multi-select with bullet glyphs and inline formatting reflow
• Bear-style surround selection: select text and type a quote/bracket to wrap it
• Context-sensitive right-click menu with formatting and list actions
• Configurable tab size, list/blockquote continuation, and tab indent

Polish

• Improved list bullet glyphs, vertical centering, shift-tab, and formatting
• Improved multi-line formatting, list collapse timing, and dark mode checkboxes
• Improved tab indentation on list items and strikethrough handling
• Keep strikethrough markers hidden on active lines
• Hide sidebar dates only at very narrow widths
• Polish editor interactions, note creation flow, and palette surface
• Polish focus controls and settings spacing

Bug Fixes

• Fix sidebar rename field not receiving focus

Features

• Configurable note naming: Settings > General now has a "New note name" picker with presets (Untitled, Date, Date+Time, Untitled+Month-Day) and a Custom option for freeform patterns using tokens: {date}, {time}, {year}, {month}, {day}, {timestamp}

Polish

• Internal codebase refactor for better maintainability and performance

Bug Fixes

• Favoriting a note no longer adds extra spacing at the top of the editor

Features

• Smart dates in sidebar: notes show relative dates (e.g. "3:42 PM", "Yesterday", "3d ago", "Jan 15")
• Editor sliders: font size slider (12-24) and line height multiplier slider (1.0-2.0)
• Favorite notes: hover any note to reveal a star icon, favorites sort to the top and persist via frontmatter
• Sidebar toggle: Cmd+/ toggles the sidebar
• Wider sidebar: increased default width (min 180, ideal 240, max 400)

Features

• Keyboard shortcuts reference documentation

Features

• Full set of macOS keyboard shortcuts (bold, italic, headings, lists, etc.)
• Format menu in the menu bar for discovering shortcuts

Polish

• Polished properties panel with vibrancy and improved layout

Features

• Frontmatter properties panel: view and edit YAML frontmatter visually
• Tags browser: browse and filter notes by tag

Features

• Frontmatter properties panel: view and edit YAML frontmatter visually
• Tags browser: browse and filter notes by tag

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash on launch that affected some users

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash when closing mermaid diagram editor
• Fix sidebar rename and auto-naming for new notes

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash when closing mermaid diagram editor
• Fix sidebar rename and auto-naming for new notes

• Automatic update checking so you always have the latest version
• Anonymous usage analytics with opt-out in Settings

Features

• Graph view depth controls: adjust how many link hops to display

Polish

• Improved graph accessibility and badge rendering

Bug Fixes

• Telemetry opt-out now works correctly in Settings

Features

• Find bar (Cmd+F) for searching within notes
• Callout blocks with colored styling
• Graph view showing connections between linked notes

Rebuild with no functional changes.

First release of mdnb, a local-first Markdown notebook for macOS.

• Live-preview editor with cursor-aware syntax hiding
• Wikilinks, backlinks panel, and autocomplete
• Inline rendering for images, tables, checkboxes, and mermaid diagrams
• Embedded iframes and link preview cards
• Syntax highlighting for code blocks
• Nested folder sidebar with drag-and-drop
• Cmd+K quick search
• Show in Finder integration

Requires macOS 14.0+ (Apple Silicon).