# Unreleased

## 🌟 Features
- Open theme folder from settings

## ✨ Improvements and fixes
- Fix titlebar and editor overflowing slightly along the right edge
- Fix system accent color feature
- UI and theming refactor
  - Fix dirty theme colors when switching to an incomplete theme (partial themes now fall back to defaults depending on theme mode).
  - Automatically contrast text color on accent colored surfaces for better readability
  - Automatically adjust accent color brightness depending on theme mode for better readability

# 1.3.1-beta.1

## 🌟 Features
- Revamped move note dialog to match the main search dialog more closely

## ✨ Improvements and fixes
- Drag-drop MIME types are now consistent. Dragging a note property into a note (or the inverse) no longer causes invalid highlighting.
- We now remember whether you collapsed properties or not across reboots

## 🐛 Known issues
- There's a known ghost click bug when trying to edit a property value while the property name input still has focus (since `1.3.0-beta.1`). A fix will be released soon.

# 1.3.0-beta.1

## 🌟 Features
- Add custom properties to notes
    - Text, checkbox and date properties supported
    - Properties can be reordered
    - Properties can be collapsed to make them get out of the way
    - Properties are exported into Markdown frontmatter
- Window controls on Linux now follow your ordering, including left + right mixed setups
- [New documentation site](https://darkwrite.app/docs)
  - Rebuilt entirely with Starlight
  - Supports search
  - FAQ, Themes, Workspaces and troubleshooting guides covered with images
- Add link to documentation under `Help` menu

## ✨ Improvements and fixes
- Fix global context menu catching focus in uneditable surfaces
- Fix sidebar items touching the main pane on macOS when overlay scrollbars are enabled
- Improved accessbility for "Remove icon" and "Add cover" buttons: they now stay visible when focused. They also fade in/out smoothly.
- Window controls on Linux now follow the GTK theme
    - The old ugly controls are gone thanks to the Electron 44 update
- Minimum sidebar width now reacts to changing window decorations on Linux
- Reduce horizontal padding in the editor view (96px → 64px)
- Fix regression causing import and undo not working in main editor view

## 🛠️ Technical changes
- Upgrade to Electron 44
- Drag-and-drop logic used to sort the tree can now be used to sort any list
- Website builds are now analyzed for broken links before publish
- Biome configurations are now shared across packages

# 1.2.6-beta.1
## 🌟 Features
- Add fuzzy search (search should feel actually usable now)
- Revamped search UI
- Revamped onboarding
  - It's now a single step you can immediately finish.

## ✨ Improvements and fixes
- Disable "Always on top" menu item on Wayland
    - [Wayland doesn't support it](https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/50560). Use the window menu of your desktop environment instead. For example, KDE users can hit `ALT+F3` or right click the titlebar and pick "Keep Above Others".
- Fix disappearing workspace icon when the edit workspace dialog is closed and reopened
- Fix "Import theme" button not letting you pick any files at all on macOS
- Fix missing "Untitled" text in some search surfaces
- Fix value collision in link selector that caused notes with the same title to get highlighted all at once
- `Ctrl-k` no longer turns the search UI off and correctly performs vi-style navigation
- Search now shows recent notes by default, and doesn't lag on open
- Onboarding now triggers a full page reload instead of force rendering the app root
  - This should prevent invisible first use bugs

# 1.2.5-beta.2
## 🌟 Features
- Add Simplified Chinese translations (by @wcxu21) (#37)

# 1.2.5-beta.1
## 🌟 Features
- Add Markdown export (#32)

## ✨ Improvements and fixes
- Security updates for dependencies

## 🛠️ Technical changes
- Upgrade to Electron 43

# 1.2.4-beta.1
## 🌟 Features
- Updated sidebar
- Revamped parent tree dropdown
- Menu bar now includes the `Help` section (macOS users can search the menu bar)
    - Added links to website and issue tracker
- Add reader mode (#32)

## ✨ Improvements and fixes
- Significantly improve trash performance
- Sidebar no longer lags
- Removed the 4px gaps between note items
    - Drag/drop is now proximity based, the drop gaps don't need to exist anymore
- Notes are now easier to reorder
    - Total drop area for a slot is now ~3x as large
- You can drop notes directly to the trash
- Expanded notes now remember that they were expanded even if its parent note gets collapsed
- Updated workspace switcher
- Menu bar items are now localized
- Add back missing bottom padding to the editor
- Linked files no longer overflow horizontally


## 🛠️ Technical changes
- Move translations to a separate `@darkwrite/i18n` package, using gettext (.po) files

# 1.2.3-beta.1
## 🌟 Features
- Add center view

## ✨ Improvements and fixes
- Update onboarding screens

## 🛠️ Technical changes
- Full main process refactor to use functional programming patterns

# 1.2.2-beta.1
## ✨ Improvements and fixes
- Fix the image regression introduced in 1.2.1-beta.1 (#30)
- Pending note saves now get properly flushed before the UI unloads (no more lost updates)

# 1.2.1-beta.1
## 🌟 Features
- Add image resize (percentage based)

## ✨ Improvements and fixes
- Fix images reverting to a placeholder when Ctrl+Z is hit after adding an image
- Fix images flickering when resizing tables
- Remove excess vertical margins from images
- The editor now scrolls smoothly

## 🛠️ Technical changes
- Update to Electron 42

# 1.2.0-beta.1

## 💥 Breaking changes
- This update includes database related changes. This is a safe operation, however creating a backup from the settings screen is advised just in case.
- Code to migrate data from alpha versions has been removed. **If you are updating from an alpha, update to [1.1.0-beta.1](https://github.com/astudentinearth/darkwrite/releases/tag/v1.1.0-beta.1) first, go through the onboarding process, then update to this release. You will not be able to view your notes otherwise.** (They won't get deleted, but you will need help.)

## 🌟 Features
- You can now delete workspaces
- Add option to clear the trash at once (#25)
- Add bubble menu option to convert a heading to a plain paragraph
- Add "system default" font option to font settings (`windows`, `linux`)
- Added global context menu actions with spellchecking support (#21)
- Add a button to reveal an exported note in the system file manager
- Add tooltips
- Add support for RTL languages and manual text direction (#26)
  - The button can be turned on/off from settings
- Reworked menu bar, add "Create Note" to `File` menu
- Inline links can now link to other notes directly
- Added hover tooltips to inline links
- Links can now be copied
- Add ability to link local files directly from notes (#24)
  - You can opt into double clicking in settings if you prefer
  - You can launch apps with this block, though I don't know why you would want to do that
- "Link to page" blocks can now be turned into inline links from the context menu (#22)

## ✨ Improvements and fixes
- Fix code blocks breaking when all content is deleted with ⌘+⌫ ⌘+Del, Ctrl+⌫ or Ctrl+Del
- Fix bubble menu not correctly reacting to the selected heading or list type
- Fix bubble menu not correctly displaying bold, italic, strike, quote, code or link state
- Bubble menu now slides smoothly instead of suddenly teleporting
- Fix illegible emoji picker when system theme mode is different than app theme mode
- Improved hover colors on light mode
- Fix trash sliding down the screen when many notes are visible on the sidebar
- Some UI elements now push into the screen on press and/or react better to active states
- Favorites now always fetched to ensure they appear in search
- Creating a subpage now navigates to the new page and expands its parent
- Bubble menu no longer shows up when the only selection is a horizontal rule
- Hide scrollbars when the view is not hovered on
- Added notification feedback to various actions (trash, restore, delete etc.)
- Change drag handle extension (now using tiptap's official one)
- ⌘N works again
- Changed back/forward navigation to follow platform conventions
- Add missing backgrounds to code blocks in HTML and PDF exports
- Code blocks in exports now correctly follow your monospace font choice
- Long lines in code blocks are now properly wrapped in HTML and PDF exports
- Notes with no title now display "Untitled" placeholders correctly, with localization
- Notes no longer get created with the title "Untitled" (or its localized variant). The default title is now empty (`""`)
- Typing next to a link doesn't annoyingly add text to the link
- "Press '/' for commands" placeholder is now localized

## 🛠️ Technical changes
- Drop TypeORM and better-sqlite3, switch to drizzle-orm and libsql

# 1.1.0-beta.1

## 🌟 Features

- Added ability to move notes directly via context menu (after a long wait)
- Added ability to download images from right click menu
- Added a "New page" button to the home page for easier onboarding
- Note specific colors now blend in with the titlebar when sidebar is collapsed

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Removed lots of bloat from the final bundle (#18)
- Significantly improved sidebar performance (reordering notes is now instant)
- Fixed a bug that allowed you to create circular references when moving notes
- Fixed an infinite loop crash when you tried to access a note that was part of a circular reference
- Fixed crash when sidebar tree items had colliding order keys
- Default note title ("Untitled") is now localized
- Preferred page size is now persisted in settings.json
- Reduced brightness of borders in Catppuccin themes
- Code blocks now correctly follow your monospace font choice
- Added visual feedback to the copy button in code blocks to display a checkmark for 1 second
- Added highlights to elements that have an open context menu
- Language chooser in code blocks no longer go offscreen
- Fixed `⌥+←` and `⌥+→` interfering with text editing on macOS
- `⌘+←` and `⌘+→` now handle history navigation instead of `⌥+←` and `⌥+→` on macOS to follow conventions
- Font selectors are now localized
- Undo and redo actions no longer close the menu on click, and get greyed out at both ends of history
- Fixed Turkish search not working in /command
- Added highlight to links to pages to indicate they are selected
- Automatically switch workspace when navigating through history (in addition to page reload)
- Note titles are now automatically focused upon navigation
- Favorites and all notes views now remember if they were open

## 🛠️ Technical changes (definitely read if you have your own fork)

- Dropped `@tanstack/react-query` in favor of Redux + RTK Query
- ⚠️ Breaking change: orderHint and favoriteOrderHint are no longer part of note updates or creation. Moving and/or reordering notes are now backend-authoritative commands.
- IPC bridge now correctly handles union types
- Switched to pnpm workspaces

# 1.0.3-beta.1

## 🌟 Features

- Added more page sizes to PDF export (it remembers the latest one)
- New logo
- Updated about screen

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Fix macOS build crashing on startup
- Fall back to text inputs for font customization on macOS
- Fix traffic light position on macOS
- Updated sidebar spacing
- Update default theme to have softer text color
- Add edit and window menus

## 🛠️ Technical changes

- Deprecated `appearance.experimental.darwinCustomTitlebarEnabled` settings key
  - It is now directly tied to `appearance.useSystemWindowFrame`, and the titlebar is now merged by default
- Removed compile time metadata:
  - `windowDefaults.wcoEnabledPlatforms` - since macOS is no longer excluded, the key is no longer used
- Icons are now stored in res/icons, and subprojects refer to them with symbolic links to reduce duplication

# 1.0.2-beta.2

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Fixed image paste
- Fixed the spellcheck option not actually toggling spellcheck

# 1.0.2-beta.1

## 🌟 Features

- Added tables: headers, custom background colors and resize included
- Images are now included in note exports
- Added PDF export
- Added icon and title to exported documents

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Added a tooltip on note list items for better accessibility
- Improved HTML serialization
- Fixed checkbox styling in exports
- Fixed recursive render crash in highlight color picker
- Fixed obnoxiously large title boxes in wide pages (was caused by a rendering race condition)
- Hitting Enter on the title box now moves the cursor into the editor
- Removed excess margins around blockquotes

# 1.0.1-beta.1

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Trashed pages can now be viewed/edited before restoring them
- "Check for updates" option in the about screen now works
- I had forgotten to bump the version in 1.0.0-beta.2, which showed unnecessary update notifications. This has been fixed in this release

# 1.0.0-beta.2

## 🚑 Hotfixes

- Fixed failing migration checks on Windows 11 25H2 due to the removal of WMIC utility.
- Added additional guards to ensure data is not lost during migrations.

# 1.0.0-beta.1

## 🌟 Features

- Introducing workspaces
  - Stay organized with a space for each of your projects
  - Workspaces cannot be deleted for now, this will be introduced in the upcoming patches
- UI rebuild and refresh
- .deb package
- Brand new architecture
- New theming system
  - Choose a color scheme for light and dark mode individually
  - Darkwrite can now follow your system color scheme
- New settings format
- Add ability to zoom in/out through menu
- HTML exports are now styled
- Added JSON export and import
- `⎇ +b` now toggles sidebar
- `⎇ +←` now navigates back
- `⎇ +→` now navigates forward
- Code block syntax highlighting now follows theme colors
- Onboarding

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Add missing translations for various places
- Improve note ordering performance by dropping index based ordering
- New icon
- Make the default theme darker
- Fixed full width pages
- You can now choose choose fonts from your system font list without having to type its name
- Multiple HTML, JSON and Markdown files can now be imported at once

# 0.5.3-alpha.2

## 🌟 Features

- Add support for text colors and highlighting (#3, #5)
  - There are 9 colors available by default, and these follow your theme
  - It's also possible to choose a custom color using the eyedropper button

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Removed old editor code, which reduced the app size by ~1MB

# 0.5.2-alpha.2

## 🌟 Features

- Upgraded code blocks with syntax highlighting.
- Clicking on the empty space below the editor contents now moves the cursor to the end.

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- We have rebuilt the editor from the ground up and extracted it into a new package.
  You should not notice much difference at first sight other than the new slash menu animation,
  however this changes a lot under the hood stuff and will speed up development in the long run.

# 0.5.1-alpha.2

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Fixed a bug which showed the "Darkwrite is up to date" toast on every automatic update check. This toast now appears only when you check for updates explicitly.

## 🛠️ Technical changes

- Upgraded `react-router-dom` and `vite` to address dependabot alerts
- Upgraded `@radix-ui/react-dropdown-menu` to fix broken unit tests

# 0.5.1-alpha.1

## 🌟 Features

- Added update checks on startup. **To protect your privacy, it is disabled by default, but you can enable it in settings.**
- - It makes a request to the GitHub API to get the latest release. Although we already developed a server to check for updates, we decided to use the GitHub API for now.

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Hitting enter after editing a link's URL now saves the link
- Fixed editor contents going off screen as window got narrower

# 0.5.0-alpha.1

## 🌟 Features

- Added trash search
- Added back and forward buttons
- Added wide pages
- Heading 4 is now in slash command menu (it wasn't there even though it existed)
- You can now drag notes into the trash

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Input focus rings now follow accent color
- Fixed tab order in sidebar
- Reduced transparency in menus to improve readability
- Fix incorrect UI font issue in some elements when using system default
- Translated more UI elements, notably the slash command menu
  - All command descriptions have been rewritten for both English and Turkish.
- Fixed image drop not working

## 🛠️ Technical changes

- shadcn-ui components now live in a separate package.
- Added environment variable `DARKWRITE_ROOT_OVERRIDE` to use a different profile folder.
  - I added this to share profiles in my dual boot setup. Actual workspace/profile switching will be added later as a feature.

# 0.4.0-alpha.3

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Fixed the bug which prevented you from creating child items in lists (sinking list items) by hitting Tab
- Fix links to pages being unreadable inside blockquotes

# 0.4.0-alpha.2

## 🚨 This update fixes the image upload issues in v0.4.0-alpha.1

# 0.4.0-alpha.1

## 🌟 Features

- You can now toggle todo, bullet and numbered lists directly from the floating menu
- Added block quote button to floating menu
- Word count can now be always shown in the bottom-right corner of the window. (You can enable or disable it in settings)
- Upgraded code blocks
  - Hitting `⇥Tab` inserts a desired number of spaces for indentation
  - Hitting `⬇️Down Arrow` at the last line exits the code block
  - Hitting `Ctrl/Cmd` + `⬇️Down Arrow` exits the code block immediately, even if you are on the first line

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Fixed 7 places where notes without icons were handled incorrectly
- Added translations for note customization menu
- Fixed issue causing system accent color to be always black
- Updated settings UI style

## 🛠️ Technical changes

- We developed tools around IPC to accelerate API development and ensure type-safety.
- Moved built-in themes to `@darkwrite/common`

# 0.3.1-alpha.3

## 🌟 Features

- Added markdown import

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Notes no longer have an icon by default, you can add or remove it as you wish

# 0.3.0-alpha.2

> Quality of life release before moving onto 1.0.0-alpha

## 🌟 Features

- Added `Ctrl+n` (or `Cmd+n` on macOS) shortcut to create new notes
- Changed icon for development builds

# 0.3.0-alpha.1

## 🌟 Features

- You can now paste images directly to the editor
- You can now drop image files directly. You can drop more than one image and all of them will be inserted to the page.
- Links can now be edited
- Editor now has a context menu
- Added word count - you can view it by clicking the menu icon on the top right.
- Added translations for Turkish
- Images are now centered
- Add undo and redo options to editor menu (it was possible to perform these with keyboard shortcuts previously)
- Added option to follow system accent color on Windows and macOS

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Removed the empty space to the right side of color pickers
- Displaying dates in the recent notes view now follows correct locale
- Added background blur to context menus, dropdowns, popovers and search
- Disabled dropping into the title box, which should prevent you from accidentally dropping nodes there
- Fixed low-resolution desktop icon on Windows.
- Fixed inability to interact with other things when heading selector in the bubble is open

# 0.2.0-alpha.4

## ⚠️ Minor breaking change

- This release changes the directories in which Chromium session data is stored. This change means the following preferences will be lost:
  - Sidebar width
  - Whether sidebar was hidden or not
  - Whether spell checking was disabled or not
- As these are local preferences and are not even persisted in backups, it shouldn't be a problem.

## 🌟 Features

- When you collapse favorites or all notes views in the sidebar, that preference will be remembered

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Fixed a bug where "this note is trashed" alert would go below the cover image
- Chromium session data is now stored in directories called `session-dev/` and `session/` when running development and production builds respectively.
- Added padding to editor's sides to make drag handles more accessible
- Reduced margins above headings
- Reduced padding between title and the page
- Fixed the use of wrong destructive color in Catppuccin Frappé (it's not blue anymore)
- Fixed a bug causing the emoji picker to always appear in dark mode, which caused unreadable text in light themes
- Fixed a bug where exporting empty notes would fail when done from the context menu or the editor menu
- Fixed a bug which caused trash contents to overflow down the container
- Trash panel now has a bottom margin which prevents it from sticking close to the bottom
- Top left corner of the editor is no longer rounded when sidebar is collapsed
- Fixed a bug where changing the text color of a note would affect icons in formatting bubble
- Fixed a bug where changing the text color of a note would also change the color of cover image buttons
- Increased startup window size to 1000x700

# 0.2.0-alpha.3

## 🌟 Features

- Added striked text
- Added image support
- Added cover images

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Titlebar buttons now have an active style
- Fixed nodes being dragged using the wrong background style
- Hitting down arrow on the note title now moves the cursor to the editor
- Fixed code blocks using the wrong font
- Added a divider below the title text

# 0.2.0-alpha.2

## 🌟 Features

- Added option to use native window frame
- Added option to use custom window frame on macOS as an experimental feature
- Notes can have custom background/text colors

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- Fixed potential performance issues when typing on the custom font box
- Reworked note customization UI so it's not obnoxious anymore
- Headings now follow the theme better

# 0.2.0-alpha.1

## ⚠️ Breaking changes

- Directories in which application data is stored has changed. App data will be stored in a subdirectory named `darkwrite-data` when running production builds, and `darkwrite-data-nightly` when running development builds. If you are upgrading from 0.1.0-alpha.x, navigate to Darkwrite's data directory (you can use the application menu for this), move `data.db`, `settings.json` and `notes/` into `darkwrite-data/`.
- Alternatively, create a backup before upgrading and restore from the backup after upgrading.

## 🌟 Features

- Import and use custom themes
- New dark themes: Catppuccin Macchiato, Frappé
- New light themes: Catppuccin Latte (experimental)
- Themes can now define the color for favorite stars

## ✨ Improvements and fixes

- New backups now include a date in their file names by default.
- Tweaked emoji picker styles to better follow theme preferences
- Fixed overflow of file chooser button in restore dialog when a long path is chosen

## 🛠️ Technical changes

- App data is now stored in an isolated folder, which opens the door to safe development sessions without risking data and simplifies the code responsible from backups.

# 0.1.0-alpha.2

## Features

- Export entire workspace as HTML
- Create backup of all settings and notes
- Restore from backups
- Added an even darker theme

## Improvements and fixes

- Tweaked default font settings to match different systems
  - Default UI font is now empty, meaning it will follow system by default
  - Other fonts now include fallbacks to system defaults
- Tweaked font settings to preview the font as you type
- Home and settings pages are now more responsive
- Tweaked dates in home page
- Fixed unreachable drag handle bug

## Technical changes

- Created an experimental build script (darkwrite-builder.js)
  - Automates the build process by checking for the operating system and handles rebuilds by removing old artifacts

# 0.1.0-alpha.1

Features (that work)

- Creating, editing, deleting and moving notes
- Adding notes to favorites
- Reordering all notes on the sidebar as well as your favorites
- Keeping notes in the trash before removing them permanently
- The editor, included blocks, and the formatting bubble
- Comes with 2 themes: Darkwrite's default theme and Catppuccin Mocha
- Pick your own accent color
- All fonts are customizable
- Search
- HTML import and export

Features that don't work

- You can't change background/text colors yet
- Any button/text box/switch that is disabled are features that are not implemented yet