Recent changes

Voice notes. Type /voice and a recorder opens in your note; the microphone only turns on when you press Start recording. While you talk you see your voice as bars, the last 30 seconds at a time. Stop puts the recording in the note as its own block: play and pause, a waveform that fills in as it plays, and buttons to skip back and forward. It’s saved as an .m4a file beside the note, so other apps can play it too

Recordings from your phone or computer drop straight in. Drag or paste a recording from Voice Memos, Windows Voice Recorder, WhatsApp and the like into a note, or type /voice and pick Voice note from a file. Most kinds play as they are; one this app can’t play is turned into a copy it can by your computer’s own converter, and the original is left where it was

Each voice note has its own mixer. The mixer button opens Volume (up to 200% for quiet recordings), Tone (warmer to brighter) and Speed (half to three times as fast, without the voice going squeaky). The note remembers what you set

Zoom into a recording. Cmd-click the waveform (Ctrl-click on Windows) to zoom in where you clicked, down to a few seconds across; at the closest, Cmd-click again goes back to the whole recording, and Cmd+Shift-click steps back out. Click a voice note, then scroll sideways with two fingers (or Shift and the scroll wheel) to move along it

Right-click either skip button to choose how far it jumps: 5, 10, 15 or 30 seconds, or 1 minute, each button on its own. The one in use is ticked

Closing the window while recording saves the recording first

Keep listening as you move around. A note with a voice note in it has a small cassette button in its bottom-right corner. Click it to play the voice note from there, or press ↗ to jump to it in the note. Switch to another tab and the player moves to the sidebar, so it keeps playing and ↗ takes you back

Name your voice notes. Right-click a voice note, or click its six dots once it’s selected, and choose Name voice note…. The name sits above the player and on the cassette player

See where a block will land as you drag it. Carry a paragraph, photo or voice note by its six dots and a greyed copy of it opens up where it will go, instead of a thin line. It lands exactly where the copy was, and the page stays still

The six dots are easier to grab, on every kind of block, and the ones beside a line show clearly when you point at it, on dark pages too

Dragging a paragraph by its six dots no longer takes a photo, video or voice note straight under it along too

In the sidebar, a note’s bin button is now on the outside and its star on the inside

Choose your corners. Settings → Look has Corners, under Theme: Sharp for square corners, Rounded as they have always been, or Extra round for softer ones. It reshapes every button, tab, panel and box, the links in your notes included, and each space can have its own

The website has a new look. A new home page, and a Notealise for students page: one space per subject, maths that looks like maths, questions you can fold away to test yourself, and colour-coded notes

Typing straight after naming a new note always lands in that note. It could end up in a new “Untitled” note instead, leaving the one you’d named empty

Fixed a crash when a note has a picture whose label runs onto a second line

Your settings are safer. If the settings file is ever damaged (say the computer stops while saving), the app keeps a copy of it instead of quietly starting from scratch, and settings are now saved in a way that can’t be cut off halfway

Typing is no longer lost when a note’s folder is renamed outside the app, in Finder or by OneDrive syncing from another computer: the note is followed to its new place. If a save still can’t be made when you quit, your text is kept in a “Recovered - …” note at the top of your notes

Lists: Tab moves a line in one level and Shift+Tab moves it back out; Shift+Tab no longer jumps into the note’s name. Enter on an empty bullet ends the list with a blank line after it, so what you type next is its own paragraph, after a one-item list too

Tables: Enter takes you to the cell below, and from the bottom row to whatever is under the table; Shift+Enter still starts a new line in the cell. Cells show their bold, links, maths and colours instead of the symbols, and a table inside a quote or a numbered list now stays as text, so editing it can’t pull it out

Search: clicking a Search notes result takes you to the words, opening a folded toggle if they’re inside one, and Find does the same. Search notes finds words you’ve only just typed, and Find & Replace no longer changes the hidden code behind colours and toggles

Links: a note with # in its name (“C# basics”) can be linked to, and links like [[Physics/Waves]] follow when you rename a space or folder or move the note

Voice notes, photos and videos: a file name with an apostrophe or brackets now works; renaming a note while it’s recording keeps the recording in that note; deleting one of two copies of a recording in the same note keeps the file for the other; closing the cassette player turns its sound back on; and Undo after naming a voice note no longer leaves code above it

Importing: pictures that share a name (like Notion’s image.png) no longer replace each other; one odd web address no longer stops an import halfway; tables keep their pictures, links and bold; Obsidian imports bring recordings, videos, iPhone photos and documents too and turn ![[picture]] into a picture; page titles keep their real characters

Writing: prices like $10-$20 stay as text instead of turning into maths; $$ inside a code block stays code; /divider under a sentence draws a line instead of turning the sentence into a heading; a highlight across several lines shows in other apps too; and pasting a web address while you type a link by hand stays as you typed it

Sidebar: dragging several notes into a folder where one name is taken now moves none of them and says why; a note moved or deleted outside the app while you’re in another space no longer comes back as an empty tab; Move to bin says when a file couldn’t be moved; and on a Mac, two notes whose names differ only in how an accent is written can no longer replace each other

Tabs and the window: a split you stepped out of stays one tab; changing space from Settings brings that space’s own tabs; Cmd+W and the tab shortcuts no longer act on notes hidden behind Settings; a time zone your computer doesn’t know no longer stops Settings opening; the window can’t be made so small that its buttons overlap; and a Mac update download that stalls gives up instead of waiting for ever

The website: the top bar is solid on every page; on the smallest phones “What’s new” no longer runs under the Instagram button; the “Which Mac?” box closes when you click outside it; Download for macOS no longer sits still for seconds when GitHub is slow; and the install guides don’t offer the download on a phone

Archive the note you’re in. Right-click its tab and choose Move to archive, or press Cmd+Shift+A (Ctrl+Shift+A on Windows; it’s also under File). Undo puts the note back and opens its tab again

A link to an archived note opens where you are. It opens in a tab in your current space, with a thin line across the top saying “In the archive” and a Put back button, instead of switching you into the archive

The archive remembers how you sorted it, like your spaces do, even after you quit and reopen

Archive a whole space, and put it back as a space. Right-click a space and choose Archive this space. Put back then offers “As its own space”, which brings it back with its emoji and look

Old notes ask “Want to archive?” A note you haven’t edited in over 3 months shows a small “?” where its six dots are. Click it and choose Yes, or “Never ask me this again” for that note. Notes you import count from the day you imported them, so they don’t all ask at once

Group the archive by month, if you like. Settings → Archive → Group by month puts a heading such as “October 2026” above what you archived that month. It’s off until you turn it on, and nothing moves on disk

Your spaces fade slightly while you’re in the archive or the bin, so it’s clear you’ve stepped out of them and the button is the way back

Restoring a note from the bin after its space was archived puts it at the top of the space you’re in, instead of creating a new empty space

Closing the window with the × saves your last words (Windows). Closing it a moment after typing could lose what you had just typed, because the app only saved when you quit from File → Exit. Both now save first

Undo and Redo keep working in notes with Windows line endings. In a note whose lines end the Windows way (made in Notepad, say), the app threw away Redo and put the cursor back at the top of the note about a second after you pressed Undo

No false “Save failed” when a note’s folder is renamed outside the app (Windows). The note is followed to its new place; the message only appears if the words are still unsaved three seconds later

If a file is locked when you quit, your words still reach the “Recovered” note (Windows). The app used to close before it had finished trying; it now waits up to four seconds

Paste a web address and it becomes the page’s title. The address goes in as you pasted it, then a moment later turns into the page’s own title as a link. Right-click it to switch between the title and the full address. A YouTube or Vimeo title gets the site’s logo, and right-click also offers Player view: the video plays right in the note, but only once you click it. Select some words first and the words become the link instead. Nothing is looked up when a note is opened, and Settings → General → Web links turns the look-up off

PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and similar files can live in a note. Drop or paste one in and it’s saved beside the note as a link with a paperclip; click it and it opens in its own app. Programs and scripts are never accepted

Command-click (Ctrl-click on Windows) on a link now opens the note in a tab behind and leaves you where you are. It used to close the tab you were on

Moving a note, a folder or a space no longer breaks the photos, videos and files it links to. The files stay where they are, and the links in the notes that point at them follow

The six-dot handle now appears beside whichever line you point at, so any line, even a blank one, can be grabbed, moved or linked to

Going back to a tab no longer jumps to the heading a link pointed at again, and pressing End after a link at the end of a line no longer splits the link in two

Three more tutorials, in Settings → Help → Tutorials and on the website: Format bar and / commands, Colours, and Maths, tables and toggles. The list is grouped by the part of the app each one is about

Every tutorial card you can do in a note has a Try it button. It opens a practice note with that card’s example ready, so you do the thing instead of reading about it. The next time you open Settings, it comes back to the tutorial you were in

Settings search now finds the tutorials. Type “how do I make a table” and the Maths, tables and toggles guide opens

Swipe sideways with two fingers to change space. It works anywhere in the window except over something that scrolls sideways by itself (the tab strip, the links strip, a wide table or code block). One swipe is one space, and swiping again straight away carries on, as fast as you like. At the first or last space the page gives a small nudge instead. From the keyboard, Cmd+Option+Shift with the left or right arrow does the same (Ctrl+Alt+Shift on Windows)

Changing space now slides, like switching desktops on a Mac. The space you leave moves out one side as the next comes in from the other, across the whole width, and it stays smooth when you change several in a row. With animations turned off in Settings it switches at once

Changing space several times quickly no longer loses open notes. Clicking one space after another, or a fast Shift+scroll, used to be able to leave a space’s open tabs filed under the wrong space; each change now waits for the one before it, and a fast Shift+scroll moves one space instead of two or three

The archive is now a place you go into. Click the archive button at the bottom of the sidebar to go in, and again to come back to the space you were in; the button presses in and bounces. Archiving a note or folder moves it into an “Archive” folder in your notes, so Finder and other apps see it too, and anything you archived before moves in there the first time you open your notes

Put back asks where. The Put back button on an archived note (or right-click → Put back…) offers where it came from or any of your spaces; a space puts it at the bottom of that space’s list. Undo straight after archiving puts it back exactly where it was

The archive has its own search box. It looks through names, folders and what the notes say, needs every word you type, highlights the matches, and ↑↓ and Enter open them. The sidebar’s own search tells you how many matches are in the archive, and clicking that takes your words across

The archive has its own look, in Settings → Archive. The same choices a space has; Look → Every space doesn’t change it

Notes now slide out of and into the sidebar when you archive them, put them back, or undo, the same way they do when you delete or make one. Dragging a note onto another space’s button slides it out too

A note dropped in the thin gap just under an open folder no longer jumps to the very top of your notes, and menus opened near the bottom of the window no longer run off the edge

On Windows, a folder (or a space) that holds other folders can now be renamed, moved or archived. It used to be refused with a “still syncing” message that never cleared. If something really is holding a folder open, the message now says so and what to do

Pressing Escape closes the right-click menu in the sidebar

Notealise now runs on Linux. The download page has a third button, Download for Linux, with its own steps for opening it the first time, and the Linux version updates itself the way the Windows one does

The buttons that appear when you point at a note or a folder now sit together on one small box at the right-hand end of the row. The name and preview stop with “…” just before it instead of running underneath the icons, and the row doesn’t change height. Long folder names end in “…” too, rather than being cut off in the middle of a letter, and clicking a folder no longer leaves its name faded once you move away. Search results and the bin no longer fade their text when you point at them

Page looks no longer stop in a hard line. Grid, fine grid, graph, dots and grain now run up behind the note’s name, and every look fades out softly at the edges — beside the sidebar, between split columns, at the side of the window and at the top and bottom — instead of being cut off. The fade never runs under your writing, whatever the page width or however many columns are open

A note’s name is always underlined, so it stands apart from the page beneath it. It’s only how the app shows it — nothing is added to the note

You can have up to 15 spaces (it was 10)

The welcome notes no longer show their name twice. Each one used to start with its name as a heading, right under the name the app already shows above the page

You can put your spaces in any order. In Settings → Spaces, drag a space to a new place — the others slide aside to make room, and the row of spaces at the bottom of the sidebar follows. Each space keeps its own number wherever it goes, until you give it an emoji. Let go outside the row and everything slides back. The name label of whatever you pick up no longer stays on screen while you drag it

A new theme, Slate — a dark grey with a touch of blue, beside Dark, Extra dark and Light in Settings → Theme

Every colour picker remembers your colours. Under the colour square there are now your last three colours, and five places for colours you star — press the star beside the hex box to keep one, and right-click it to let it go. They’re the same in every picker and every space

Headings, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough and links can have colours of their own. In Settings → Look → Colour → Text in your notes, give each a text colour, a highlight behind it, or both — so a heading 1 can be bright yellow while the others stay as they are. Set it for every space, or one space at a time

A new page look, Worn page — Lined, on a page that’s been read a few times: a faint grain, a few soft marks and spots, edges a touch darker and lines that fade in places. Your writing sits on exactly the same lines as Lined. Add it from Your collection → Explore. If the space has a tint, the marks take on its colour, so they look aged rather than grey

Page looks and tints now fade in gently at the top. They start just under the links strip and build up behind the note’s name to full strength at your first line, instead of stopping in a hard line under the name — every page look, Lined included, and every tint

The Linking notes tutorial is shorter and up to date (Settings → Help → Tutorials). Each of the six kinds of link now says, in a line or two, how to make it — including going straight to a heading from the [[ list, and right-clicking a link to point it somewhere else

The website’s Tutorials page has its first guide, Linking notes — the same six kinds of link, each with a picture of how it looks in a note, in light or dark to match your screen

Getting started is shorter: six screens instead of seven. The “That note is already a file” screen is gone. Its Show me the file link now sits under the box where you write your first note, and opens the folder with that note picked out. The folder screen says what it needs to in one line

Bringing in notes you already have is now a choice between two big cards, Import notes or Start fresh. The import controls only appear if you ask for them, and the screen grows smoothly to make room

Enter moves you on through the first-run screens, the same as pressing Continue, except while you’re typing in a box or on a button you reached with Tab. The cards and Continue press in when you click them or press Enter, and each new screen settles gently into place

Picking a colour on the font screen shows it straight away, and asks whether it should colour just the text or tint the whole page

A brand-new folder is no longer mistaken for one you’d set up before, which could skip most of the first-run screens and say “Pick up where you left off”

Clicking + for any colour shows the colour picker instead of opening it out of sight

Once you open the import controls, Continue is the one way on — the extra “Skip — I’m starting fresh” link under them is gone

The screen where you write your first note fits a normal-size window on Windows, without a scrollbar; the writing box scrolls inside itself instead

Learn more about exporting from Notion is a plain link again, not a boxed button — in the first-run screens and in Settings → Data → Import

A space (or saved preset) that used the Narrow lined page look now shows Lined, instead of a plain page, now that Narrow lined has gone

In split view, drag a column by the strip along its top to move it left or right — the other columns slide out of its way

Maths has its own box, like Notion. Click any formula (or add one from the / menu or with Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+L) and a box opens under it: type the LaTeX, watch it draw on the line as you go, and press Enter or Done. Shift+Enter starts a new line in a formula that has a line to itself

New in the / menu: Inline formula, for maths inside a sentence — type /inline and press Enter

Maths and links no longer turn into their code when the cursor is right next to them, or while you drag a selection across them. Backspace just after a formula removes it in one go (undo brings it back); just after a link it removes one letter and keeps the link

Closing a note in split view now shrinks it away like any other tab, and the rest of the split stays where it was in the tab bar. The × at the top of a split column now closes the note too — drag its tab out of the split to keep it open

Toggle lists. Type > then a space at the start of a line, or pick Toggle list from the / menu, and click the arrow to hide or show everything inside it — headings, lists, tables, formulas, colour, even another toggle. Ctrl/Cmd+Enter on its title does the same, and it opens with a small bounce. (Typing > used to start a quote; Quote is still in the / menu)

You can see what you’re typing again. A heading’s # shows on the line you’re on, and bold, italic, crossed-out and code show their marks while your cursor is in them — type a space after and they turn into the style. A dash stays a dash until you type the space, then becomes a bullet, and an empty heading says “Heading 1” (2, 3…) in pale grey until you type

Page looks have an Intensity slider and can take your accent colour. In Settings → Look → Page (and Your collection), slide from faint to bold, or down to nothing, and switch on Match your accent colour to draw the lines or dots in it. Every look now draws about as strongly as the others at the same setting, and the preview cards show the space you’re editing

Lined paper behaves like lined paper. Your words sit on the lines, every heading and list lands on a rule, and tables and formulas take whole lines so nothing below them drifts off. Lined, Grid, Fine grid and Graph stay even however long the note or the window is

Tables and formulas look clean on a patterned page — the lines and dots stop at their edge instead of running through the words — and tables line up with your text instead of sticking out on both sides

Split view has a clear line between the columns, in your accent colour, that’s easier to grab. The patterns stop the same distance from it on both sides, and a note in a narrow column no longer scrolls sideways

The website has a What’s new page: every update, one card each, with the first few changes showing. Tap a card and it opens over the page, which blurs behind it, with the full list. The empty About page is gone

Space emoji can wear your accent colour. In Settings → Spaces, two new buttons beside Select choose full-colour emoji or one-colour emoji in your accent, for every space at once — on the switcher, the space tabs, the path above a note, links and search. The emoji picker now has every emoji instead of 80, and you can search it by name

Dragging a note that’s open in a tab onto another space now takes the tab with it properly. Before, switching back to the space you dragged it from could show it stuck on its old spot and fail to open

Table columns can be resized, like in Notion. Drag the line between two columns sideways to make a column narrower or wider, so a column with a little in it no longer leaves a big gap. A table you resize is only as wide as its columns; one you haven’t touched still fills the page. The widths are saved in the note, and Cmd/Ctrl+Z undoes a drag

Shift+Enter starts a new line inside a table cell (Enter still finishes the cell), and the cell you’re typing in is outlined all the way round, with rounded corners, instead of showing a small box at the top of it

The first welcome note now starts by telling you how to make a note — a small boxed line at the very top of “Start here”: click Note at the top of the sidebar, or press Cmd/Ctrl+N

On a phone, the website’s top menu keeps its page links dead centre, and the social links fold into one circle wearing the Instagram logo. Tap it and the others drop down in a column, with a soft spring, and the circle turns into a cross to put them away

Link straight to a heading or a paragraph. In the [[ list, folders and notes now have an arrow: go inside to pick a note, then one of its headings, and the list slides along as you go. To link a paragraph, list item or quote, right-click the six dots beside it, choose Copy link to block, and paste it into any note. Clicking a link opens the note at that spot and lights it up for a moment. Obsidian can follow these links too

Right-click a link to point it somewhere else. The list opens on that note’s headings, or on its folder if you right-click the note’s name; Esc leaves the link as it was

A link to a heading lands on exactly that heading, even when another heading in the note has the same words, and clicking the same link twice takes you there both times

Links no longer take a colour or a highlight, or a spelling underline. Colouring a sentence with a link in it colours the words around the link

Settings is easier to find your way round. Twelve pages are now six — General, Look, Spaces, Data, Help and Updates — with tabs where pages belong together. Theme, accent colour and fonts sit at the top of Look, with everything else folded away underneath and the rarely used ones under Advanced. What stays on screen as you scroll, and how folder colours pass down, are one box of ticks each. Replay the walkthrough and the test folder are under More at the foot of General

Search Settings from the box at the top. It’s ready to type in as soon as Settings opens, and understands everyday words, American spellings and typos — “dark mode”, “color”, “backup”, “where are my notes”. Pick a result and Settings scrolls straight to that setting and lights it up for a moment. Searching “text size” tells you where zoom is

On Windows, Ctrl+W only ever closes a tab. Holding it down, or pressing it with no note open, used to close the whole app

Tabs, split columns, the bookmark and sidebar notes now open and close with a soft bounce — the same whichever way you open or close them.

Split view keeps your arrangement: opening or closing other tabs never takes over or refills a column, and a split you step out of waits as one tab you can click back into (it survives a restart).

Clicking a tab no longer closes the one you were on.

Dragging a split’s tab onto the bookmark now moves it in.

The search bar’s glow now fades in softly when you click into it, instead of snapping on.

Settings opens more smoothly — it lands with a small settle and its contents fade in — and switching pages inside it fades too.

Folders in the sidebar open and close smoothly, and your notes fade back in when you clear a search.

Hiding the sidebar slides it away instead of squashing it. Its button then tucks out of the way — move your pointer to the left edge of the window to bring it back.

Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough and code work like a word processor: a partly-styled selection gets styled all over, press again to take it off.

With nothing selected, Bold (and the rest) applies to what you type next.

Dragging across a link selects its text instead of opening it.

Dividers (---) draw as a line.