Changelog

A new look, and new ways to capture things quickly.

• Glass. A translucent look for every theme, with a soft glow of colour behind the app. Turn it on or off in Settings → Appearance.
• Floating notes. Jot something down from any app with a keyboard shortcut, in a small window that stays on top. They wait on the new Floating notes page until you file them.
• Arrange your sidebar. Show, hide and reorder its pages.
• A menu for every block. Turn a line into a heading, to-do, callout, quote, code and more, or give it a colour.
• Callout styles. Tip, Warning, Important, Success, Error, Note, Personal and Idea, or your own colour and emoji.
• More from your clipboard history. A view for copied images, recent searches, and a quick way to clear it.
• Bug fixes and improvements.

Bug fixes and improvements.

• Notes written in Hebrew and other right-to-left languages now read correctly, including .md notes and the code inside them. Any note can also be set to left-to-right or right-to-left by hand.
• A note's outline sits beside it on a wide window, and its tags are now visible under the title.
• The habits page shows how you're doing — this week, the last ninety days, and your longest streak.
• The calendar's all-day row opens up when a day holds more than it can show at once.
• A new habit or task appears everywhere at once, without waiting for the page to catch up.
• The clipboard manager uses less battery while the app sits idle.

Bug fixes and improvements.

• The menu bar icon now does more than open the app. A new note, Today, search, the clipboard history, the Pomodoro timer and Settings are all one click away, and clicking the icon opens the menu.
• Markdown notes can show their rendered output. A .md code note has a Preview view, and copying from it keeps the formatting when you paste.
• Text pasted from another app arrives exactly as you copied it.

Bug fixes and improvements.

• Links in a note now open in your browser when you click them.

Bug fixes and improvements.

• Pasting from the clipboard history now always lands in the app you were working in, including when you pick an entry with the mouse.
• A paste that needs macOS Accessibility permission now says so, and offers to open the right settings pane, instead of quietly doing nothing.
• Choosing or dismissing a clipboard entry puts you back where you were, without the Cyanote window coming forward.

Bug fixes and improvements.

• Locking a note now keeps everything you just typed, including the words written in the moments right before you locked it.
• The clipboard manager takes up far less space, and its list opens faster when it holds screenshots.
• A copied image too large to keep is still listed, rather than quietly going missing.

Bug fixes and improvements.

• The clipboard manager can now be switched off in Settings → Clipboard, which also clears what it has already saved.
• A clearer introduction the first time you open Cyanote, and a walkthrough you can replay whenever you like from Settings → General.
• Updates now ask before restarting, so one never interrupts you mid-sentence.

Bug fixes and improvements to the clipboard.

The first release. Cyanote is one app for the things a week is actually made of — notes, a to-do list, a calendar, habits, routines and a clipboard that remembers everything you copy. It runs on your own Mac, keeps your work in a database on your own disk, and never asks you to make an account.

Notes

• A writing surface rather than a text box. Headings, lists, quotes, tables, tick boxes, images and code blocks with syntax highlighting. Type / and pick any of it without leaving the keyboard.
• Notes point at each other. [[ links one note to another, and every note shows what links back to it, kept up to date as you write. Notes nest into sub-pages, so a project holds its own pages instead of scattering them across the sidebar.
• Callouts and toggles for the part that has to stand out, and the part that should stay folded away until you want it.
• Templates that already know the shape of the thing. A daily note, a checklist, meeting and standup notes, a 1:1, a project brief, Cornell notes, reading notes, a brainstorm, a decision journal, a weekly review, a retro and an incident review — grouped by what you are doing rather than dropped into one long list.
• Code notes with their own editor, language detection, and the ability to save straight back to a file on disk.
• Any note can be locked with a password. It is encrypted where it sits, and stays unreadable until you type the password in.
• Search reads every word in every note and ranks what comes back. ⌘⇧F opens it; ⌘K opens a command palette that reaches any page or note by name.

Tasks, and the day in front of you

• Write a task the way you would say it. "pay rent tomorrow 9am !high" comes out with the date, the time and the priority lifted from the words, and each guess shown as a chip you can dismiss if it read you wrong.
• Priorities, due dates and reminders, in a single list that reads top to bottom, grouped by when things are due.
• A board view for the same tasks when you would rather move cards between columns than tick a list.
• Today opens with the day's schedule, what is due, the habits still outstanding and the routines you have not run — the next thing on your calendar counting down beside it.
• A soft chime when you tick something off, a quieter one when you put it back, and a chord for the last task of the day. Settings → Appearance turns them off.

Habits

• The whole record is the page. Every habit runs down the page with the last four weeks across, every row lined up against the same dates, so a gap on the 3rd is a gap you can see straight down the list.
• Any day can be filled in — forgot to tick Tuesday, click Tuesday. Every square is a button.
• Habits repeat the way you actually do them: every day, particular days of the week, or a target number of times a week. Days a habit was never due stay blank rather than counting as a failure.
• Streaks, totals and the full history sit behind a right-click on any habit.

Calendar

• A month and a week you can drag things around in. Events carry a time, a place and notes, and can repeat daily, weekly or monthly.
• Reminders arrive before the thing starts — five, ten or thirty minutes, an hour, or a day ahead — and follow a repeating event from one occurrence to the next.
• Google Calendar, by subscription rather than sign-in. Paste a calendar address or import a file, and a marker above the week says whether every calendar you follow is in step, and when it last refreshed.

Routines and focus

• Routines are checklists with a clock in them — a morning start, deep work, inbox zero, a shutdown ritual, a weekly review — with timeboxes on the steps where the clock is part of the method.
• A Pomodoro timer that survives a hidden window. It counts from real timestamps, not ticks, so it is still right after the app has been in the tray for half an hour.
• The timer knows what you are working on. Pick a task to focus on and finished sessions are counted against it, so you can see where the day went.

The clipboard manager

• Every copy is kept, text and images alike, in a history you can search.
• Open it from any app with ⌥⇧V, paste what you want, and it puts the window you came from back in front. ⌥⇧B does the same for the snippets you have pinned.
• Copies a password manager marks as private are never recorded. A searchable history of everything is exactly the wrong place for those.
• It is all in the same local database as the rest of your work. Nothing about a copied password, address or API key leaves the machine.

Your work stays on your computer

• A single SQLite database on your own disk. No account, no cloud, no telemetry, and nothing to sign in to. The app works with the wifi off.
• You choose where that database lives — Settings will move it to an external drive or a synced folder if you would rather it sat there.
• Backups you can read. Export everything to a JSON file and restore it on another machine. A restore replaces what is there rather than merging into it, and writes a rescue copy of the old data first.
• Updates arrive in the app, free, for as long as Cyanote exists. It checks on its own and tells you what changed before you accept anything.

Themes and typography

• Fifteen themes, each with a full light and dark palette checked for readable contrast — including Newsprint, Sepia, Phosphor and Midnight, a true black for OLED screens.
• Or build your own, by setting the seven colours the whole app is drawn from.
• The text is yours to set: typeface, size and line spacing, for the editor and for the app around it.