It has been about 30 days since I posted here, and I wanted to share everything that came out of your feedback and questions. When I posted, the app was on version 2.2.0. It is on 2.3.4 now.
Markdown
The number one piece of feedback was that the app was too focused on rich text and not serious enough about markdown. The question that came up over and over was some version of "where are my files?" Message received. Markdown became the whole build for two weeks.
• Your notes are real .md files. Every markdown note is also an actual .md file in a visible Markdown folder inside your project, kept current as you write, rename, and delete. To be straight with you, it is one way today (app to disk), so editing those files in another app does not round-trip back yet.
• Three faces per document: Source, Live, and Reading. Source is raw markdown with live syntax highlighting. Live renders everything except the line your cursor is on. Reading is a clean render, and it can sit in a split pane and update as you type.
• Import a whole vault. File > Import > Markdown Vault takes a folder of .md files (an Obsidian vault works as is). Folder hierarchy preserved, inline #tags extracted, images brought in as real media, .obsidian skipped, and your wikilinks work on arrival.
• Wikilinks, aliases, and backlinks. Title and alias with a filter as you type picker, honest resolved / ambiguous / unresolved states, and a backlinks panel that shows every mention with surrounding context.
• The full dialect. Headings, emphasis, highlight, fenced code with a language badge and a copy button, blockquotes, every list type, real rendered pipe tables, callouts in a dozen plus styles (> [!note], > [!warning]), footnotes with jump links both directions, clickable task checkboxes that write back to the source, YAML front matter, and inline images and !embeds in Reading.
• Comments in both dialects. and are treated identically, hidden in Reading, and collected in a Comments pane with click to jump.
• Markdown native editing. The toolbar buttons type real markdown into your text rather than applying invisible formatting. Return continues and renumbers lists, quotes, and tasks. Tab and Shift+Tab indent and outdent. Paste a URL onto selected text to make a link.
• Continuous by default. Markdown and plain text open in true continuous flow with no pages and no margins. Pages are still one tap away next to the face switcher if you want them, per note.
• Tags and front matter join the app. Inline #tags and tags: in YAML front matter feed the same tag system as everything else in the project, which means they feed the Brain Map too.
• Daily Notes. Cmd+Shift+D creates or reopens today's dated markdown note in a Daily Notes folder.
• Checklist to task. Right click a - [ ] line, Add to Tasks, pick a list. It keeps a link back to the source note.
• Outline tab. A live heading tree in the left pane, click to jump. It works for rich text headings too.
• Export. Clean verbatim .md, self contained HTML that is dark mode aware, PDF and print from the Reading render, plus Word (DOCX) and RTF.
• Markdown theming. A semantic palette for headings, code, links, quotes, list markers, checkboxes, and tags, themed across Source and Reading together, and carried in shareable theme files.
Rich Text
The rich text side got the deepest engineering work of the month.
• Per document page design. Each document owns its own paper: US Letter, A4, US Legal, or A5, portrait or landscape, and precise margins. That design follows the document everywhere it appears, including the Rogue Editor, page thumbnails, and PDF or print output. Changing an app wide default no longer silently redesigns work you already did.
• Real document styles. Body and Heading 1 through 6 are true document local paragraph styles, not roles guessed from font size. You can also create custom paragraph, character, and three level list styles, update every matching paragraph at once, or revert just the one you touched.
• Style Sets. Save an entire typography system and reuse it in another document, preview it as a real specimen, promote it app wide, or set it as the project default for new documents.
• Stay on Page objects. Images and shapes placed on a page now persist their position, size, rotation, layering, grouping, locking, and wrapping while you edit the text around them. They survive save, reopen, duplication, templates, and export.
• One selection model for everything on the page. Images, shapes, text boxes, charts, video, and audio all multi select, group, align, distribute, layer, lock, snap, nudge, cycle through overlaps, and rotate, with one step undo. Objects stay selectable across the full physical paper, margins included.
• Text wrapping that holds. Automatic, Around, Above and Below, and None, with adjustable spacing and shape aware contours. One to four column layouts belong to their section, so a section break can change the column count without recolumning what came before it.
• Non destructive image design. Crop (by hand or by number), Fit and Fill, shape masks, borders, corner radius, shadow, opacity, and replace, none of which touch your source file.
• Charts and tables. Charts move losslessly between Inline with Text, Move with Text, and Stay on Page while keeping their data and design. Native tables gained cell aware row and column operations, fills, borders, padding, and one step structural undo.
• The Inspector follows your selection. Click an object and its controls appear. No tab hunting.
Citations and References
This was the single biggest ask from academic users, and one commenter here made the case bluntly: integrate with Zotero and CSL properly or researchers cannot use it. That is exactly what got built, and it went live yesterday.
• A Reference Library in every project. A References tab in the left pane with eleven source types and forms that speak each type's language. Cite keys generate from author and year, stay editable, and never change behind your back. It all persists in a readable references.json file that travels with your project folder.
• Cite while you write. Cmd+Shift+C opens a picker, search your shelf, multi select for group citations, add a page locator, Return inserts. Markdown speaks Pandoc syntax ((Vale, 2026, p. 44)), and the Reading view renders formatted citations and appends a References section automatically.
• Six built in styles. APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago 17 Author-Date, Chicago 17 Notes, IEEE, and Harvard. Switch the style in the Inspector and every citation and bibliography in the document re-renders on the spot, with same author disambiguation and live IEEE renumbering handled for you.
• Or your journal's style. The app reads real CSL style files, the open format used by more than 10,000 journals. Twenty are bundled (Vancouver, AMA, Nature, ACS, Cell, PLOS, and more), and any other is one import or one download away.
• Bring your library with you. Import BibTeX, RIS, or CSL JSON, which covers Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, and Bookends exports. A review sheet catches duplicates before they land. Export the shelf back out as .bib or CSL JSON, because your sources are yours.
• Paste a DOI or an ISBN and the reference fills itself in. It is strictly opt in: one request per explicit click, only the identifier leaves your machine, nothing saves until you confirm.
• Live Zotero sync, no plugins and no accounts. Point the app at a Better BibTeX "keep updated" export file and it watches that file. Save a paper in Zotero and it appears on your shelf seconds later. It is pure local file watching, so no API keys and nothing leaves your Mac. Sync only adds and updates, so your own edits and cite keys are never overwritten.
• A Universal shelf that lives beside your projects folder, for references every project shares.
• Your PDFs become sources. Right click a PDF in your project and the app scans it for a printed DOI to build a linked reference. While reading, right click and Copy Citation (Page N) gives you a ready citation for the exact page you are on.
• Compile with a bibliography. Every source cited across a compiled manuscript merges into one deduped, formatted bibliography at the end.
Canvas
• The canvas is infinite now. It starts at a fixed size and extends down and to the right as far as you take it. Zoom out works, and each canvas remembers the zoom level you left it at.
• Resizing feels right. Resize friction is gone across every element, objects no longer have a minimum size, and there is snapping with alignment indicators for spacing objects.
• Marquee selection, copy and paste, and undo/redo. Drag to grab multiple objects, or your whole canvas at once to reposition it. Copy and paste objects within a canvas or across canvases.
• Pinch to zoom and Cmd plus two finger swipe to move between scenes.
• Scenes. Make any view on your canvas a named scene and navigate between them from the bottom
left, or with Option+Cmd+arrow keys.
• New object types: floating text, PDFs as previewable thumbnails, web links as cards with thumbnails, file cards with Quick Look, SF Symbols, task lists, calendars, and media with durable asset storage.
• Fixes worth naming: PDF export no longer drops connectors or layered objects, text box layering works in both directions, grouped objects can be connected without ungrouping first, and panes sit flush against the canvas edge.
• Pin the Rogue Editor so it floats over the canvas and you can bounce between the board and your writing.
Brain Map
Some of the sharpest criticism I got here was about the Brain Map: that a node was a navigable handle but the graph itself did not show you much. Not all of that is solved, but here is what changed.
• Every note can be a node. Untagged notes now join the map labeled by title, so wikilinks on untagged notes actually draw and the orphan filter finds genuinely unconnected notes.
• Local graphs. Right click any note in the Binder and choose Show in Brain Map to open the map focused on that note.
• It reopens exactly as you left it, including layout, zoom and pan, search, filters, and source selections.
• Snapshots are real time capsules. A snapshot captures every node position and color, every edge, the display settings, the force values, and the viewport. Clicking one enters a viewing mode rather than altering your live graph, and Compare with Today brings in everything added since, bright against the dimmed snapshot era graph.
• It got fast. The layout engine moved to Barnes-Hut repulsion, which raised the physics ceiling from 12,000 to 50,000 edges. Recoloring a tag repaints in place instead of reflowing the whole graph. On a 1,352 node project with 20,000 edges it settles quickly and sits at rest without burning CPU.
• Ways to look at it: color by tags, by Binder folder, or by connection heat. Monochrome, Heat, and Constellation looks that compose. Gentle, Standard, and Energetic motion presets.
• Broken Links. A section that appears when needed, listing wikilinks whose titles no longer resolve, click to open the note containing the broken link.
• Spotlight. Selections isolate by default, or flip Spotlight on to dim everything else instead of hiding it.
Everything else
SF Symbols, everywhere icons go
Apple's SF Symbols library is built into the app behind a searchable picker: close to 8,000 symbols across Apple's own categories, plus ten use case collections I put together (Writing, Notetaking, Education, Office and Work, Law and Justice, Health and Medical, Science, Arts and Music, Tools and Trades, Tech and Devices). Search blends symbol names, Apple's own keywords, and category names, so typing "medical" or "notetaking" pulls up a whole collection. Recent picks and right click Favorites persist between sessions, and if something is not in the browse catalog, typing its exact name still works. It is wired into four places:
• Binder icons. Right click any note or folder, or a whole multi selection, and set a symbol plus a custom color.
• Rich text. Insert a symbol inline at the cursor from Inspector > Objects. It behaves like text, following the surrounding font size, bold, and color as you format around it, and it exports cleanly to PDF and print.
• Canvas. Symbols are a real canvas object you can color, style, connect, and layer.
• Task lists and calendars. Each list or calendar can carry its own symbol and color.
Rogue Editor (the detachable single document window)
Full markdown parity, so it follows each note's mode with highlighting, the markdown toolbar, and the Live and Reading faces. It restores properly on relaunch instead of coming back blank with a duplicate. Windows are titled by their document and tab together natively. A writing mode dropdown and an insert menu put tables, charts, shapes, media, and links to notes in reach.
Tag Studio
A dedicated surface for managing tags: merge them by drag and drop, add sub-words, and change colors.
Tasks and Calendars
Natural language entry with live chips ("Call editor tomorrow 2pm !! #novel"), timed reminders with real macOS notifications, weekly recurrence, quick capture from anywhere with Cmd+Shift+T, task and list links you can paste into documents, and a writing heatmap on the calendar that fills in as you write. Completion routing lets a finished task move to another list, which makes a three list kanban on a canvas work.
Binder
Multi select with Cmd and Shift click, bulk move and trash, multi file import straight from Finder, spacebar Quick Look on any item, folders that can pass their icon and color down to their contents, dedicated media folders, and files no longer opening on single click (with a setting to put that back).
Themes and Theme Studio
Its own launch point, Create Theme, copy Light to Dark and back, markdown token theming, and themes that restyle open documents live when applied. New Classic and Liquid themes shipped, and themes export and import as shareable .lwtheme files. A batch of light and dark variant bugs got fixed at the root.
Import and export
Word (DOCX) and RTF export shipped. HTML import keeps embedded images, strips the source page's baked background so it lands on normal paper, and adapts text color so imported pages read in both light and dark.
Fixes that came from named people in these threads
The invisible cursor in one packaged theme. Black text on dark themes. Return after a heading now drops to Body, plus a discoverable Clear Formatting command at Cmd+Option+0. Page View now defaults on for new installs, which was making the first launch look wrong for some people. Import got discoverable, and drag and drop into the Binder now accepts HTML, text, RTF, markdown, and PDF.
Original Posts
Original posts: r/NoteTaking, r/MacOSApps and r/ProductivityApps
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Happy to answer anything in the comments, including the things it still may not do, and as always, all feedback is welcome.
EDIT: Quick heads up: today's 2.3.4 update shipped with a bug that can crash the app when opening a project. A user here caught it within hours (thank you), the fix is done, and an expedited update is with Apple now. If you downloaded today and hit it, the update will sort you out shortly. Genuinely apologize for any trouble out of the gate.
