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What changed

Every release of Hold My Notes, newest first. Updates arrive inside the app; what each one brought is written up here.

Current release

1.0.9

1.0.9Latest

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  • A drag handle beside the "+" carries the deck: drag it to slide the deck along its edge, or pull it out to pick the deck up and drop it on the left, right or bottom of the screen
  • Settings › General › Display: choose which display the deck appears on, or all of them
  • Settings › Keyboard: configurable hotkeys. New: ⌥⌘E changes the deck's position, ⌃⌥⌘H hides the deck and notes, ⌘, opens Settings from a note and ⌘W closes All Notes and the Archive. ⌥⌘L is now All Notes and ⌥⌘A the Archive
  • Reduced the activation area for the sticky notes deck
  • Added an activation-delay setting: a slider from 0 to 1 s (default 50 ms)
  • Fixed a bug where an unpinned note closed when it lost focus
  • Settings can be resized, and the app shows up in ⌘-Tab

1.0.8

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  • The deck can dock to the bottom of the screen: the notes lie along it as a row of tabs, each carrying its name, and a tab rises when you point at it (Settings › General › Screen side)
  • "Show over full-screen apps" now does something when it is switched off. The deck and your pinned notes used to sit on top of a full-screen app whichever way the switch was thrown; with it off they stay on your desktops and leave full screen alone
  • On a left-docked deck the start of every line is no longer clipped, and a tab carries its whole name instead of the first word
  • A note's text no longer flashes on a moment after the card has come to rest
  • A note's close dot and its neighbour are drawn at the size a real title bar uses, and the ring around the colour you have chosen is tucked in close instead of standing proud of the row

Requires macOS 13 or later.

1.0.7

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  • Links in notes: an address you type or paste now reads as one, and a click opens it. Hold any key while clicking to put the caret inside it instead
  • The deck's dots sit at the exact middle of the screen edge, and the notes come out level with them — a single note no longer appears up at the top
  • Smaller text: notes can now be set to 14, 12 or 10 pt as well as the larger sizes (Settings › General › Text size)
  • A new typeface, Inconsolata — the open face drawn after Consolas (Settings › General › Handwriting)

Requires macOS 13 or later.

1.0.6

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  • Checklists in notes: type [] to start one, or press the button beside the colours. Enter makes the next item, and Enter on an empty one ends the list. Click a box to tick it, and the deck's card previews show the boxes too
  • Keep the deck open: the notes stand at the edge all the time instead of resting as the dots (Settings › General)
  • Cards can open on a click instead of on hover, if you would rather the deck only fanned out when you point at it (Settings › General › Fan notes)
  • ⌘W closes the note you are in
  • A grip beside the pin drags a note around the screen, and a note can no longer be resized so narrow that its buttons are cut off
  • The hard-edged shadow that appeared around the deck after a menu or a note window had covered it is gone
  • Settings opens on General, and the deck's own menus can reach it; both font pickers now show each face in its own handwriting

Requires macOS 13 or later.

1.0.5

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  • Pasting into a note works again — ⌘V had been silently doing nothing
  • Your licence now lives in Settings, with its own section: subscription status, a key field to activate a subscription you already have, and a way to release the seat when you stop using a Mac
  • A green tick on the licence card tells you at a glance that this Mac is activated
  • The menu bar's subscription item opens Settings instead of a separate window

Requires macOS 13 or later.

1.0.4

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  • Marking a note complete now archives it — there is no separate "done" state, and the filters are simply All, Active and Archived
  • Delete notes straight from All Notes, with ten seconds to undo
  • The note preview is a fixed-height card showing when it was created and last updated
  • Your subscription status is back in the menu bar
  • Buttons respond across their whole surface, with hover and press feedback
  • Tighter window headers in All Notes and the Archive

Requires macOS 13 or later.

1.0.3

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  • Choose which side of the screen your notes live on — Left or Right — from the menu bar or by right-clicking a note
  • The note's right-click menu now shows the real note colors, and every item has an icon
  • Fixes "An error occurred while running the updater" when installing updates
  • The close dot at the top of a note works, and closing works even when the note is pinned
  • A new note opens where you last left one; the pointer shows a hand where the title bar can be dragged

Requires macOS 13 or later.

1.0.2

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  • The close dot at the top of a note now works, and closing always works even when the note is pinned
  • A new note opens where you last left one, instead of snapping back to the screen edge
  • The pointer turns into a hand wherever the note's title bar can be dragged
  • Fixes "An error occurred while running the updater" when installing updates

Requires macOS 13 or later.

1.0.1

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  • The note's right-click menu now shows the real note colors in the Color submenu
  • Every menu item has an icon, in both the note menu and the pill menu
  • The menu also reaches All Notes directly

Requires macOS 13 or later.

1.0.0

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  • Fixed automatic updates failing with "An error occurred while running the updater" — the sandboxed installer service is now bundled and signed correctly
  • Update dialogs now show what changed in each release
  • The note editor's Pin moved to the top right as a real pin, with Mark complete and Close along the bottom

Requires macOS 13 or later.

Taken from GitHub Releases, where every build is published.