What changed

• Note colours of your own: in Settings › General › Note colours, make one with the new colour picker, from soft starter colours, a shading pad, a hue slider or a hex code. They join the five in every note's colour tray, the deck card's Color menu and ⌘. cycling
• Give a note an emoji with the new button before its title: a grid of everyday ones, a search over all of them, or More emoji… for the Mac's own picker. It shows in All Notes and on the deck, so a note is easy to spot. Settings › Title emoji turns the button off
• Auto-hide toolbar, in Settings: a note's bottom toolbar fades after 2 seconds unused and the text runs to the bottom of the note. Rest the pointer at the bottom of the note for half a second to bring it back
• Tables: paste or type a markdown table (a | Name | Role | header over a | --- | --- | row) and it is drawn as a grid, with cells that wrap to fit the note. Click a cell to edit the table's markdown, and it turns back into a grid when the caret leaves
• Swipe a note into the deck: with an open note, swipe two fingers toward the deck and the note shrinks away into it, closed just as Esc closes it
• The note's top bar loses its drag handle, leaving the title more room. Drag a note by the empty stretch between its title and its buttons
• Fixes Hold My Notes icons piling up in the Dock: opening and closing notes quickly could leave a stale icon behind each time, until the Dock was restarted
• Fixes Chinese, Japanese and Korean typing: a word still being composed with an input method could vanish before you picked its characters
• Fixes the dashed line on deck cards running through their rounded corners when the deck is on the left of the screen
• The app now says what Hold My Notes is: a one-time purchase, with no subscription

Tables are written into the note as ordinary Markdown, and an emoji is simply the start of the note's title, so your notes stay plain text you can read anywhere.

Requires macOS 13 or later.

• Headings: start a line with # , ## or ### , or pick a level from the new formatting bar. They are sized from your note's own text size, so they read right whichever font you use
• A formatting bar, opened with the Aa button next to the checklist one: heading level, bold, italic, strikethrough, links, bulleted and numbered lists, and the note's typeface
• Links: select some words, press the link button, and type an address. Paste one first and it is filled in for you. The address stays out of the way until you put the caret in the link to change it
• Strikethrough, written ~~like this~~
• Every note can have its own typeface. The one in Settings is the starting point for new notes
• The font list now offers every font installed on your Mac, below the handful the app ships with
• Selecting text now also offers heading levels and a link, beside bold, italic and underline
• Markdown Folder, in Settings: keep a copy of every note as a .md file in a folder you choose — point it at your Obsidian vault and your notes appear there. It writes only the files it made, and leaves everything else in that folder alone
• Open at login, in Settings
• The five colour swatches are now one button that opens a colour picker, leaving the note's footer less crowded

Everything here is written into the note as ordinary Markdown, so it can all be typed by hand, and your notes stay plain text you can read anywhere.

Requires macOS 13 or later.

• Fixes a crash: undoing a deleted note twice (from the toast and with ⌘Z, or after sync had already brought it back) could quit the app on the next keystroke, in any note
• Fixes a freeze: deleting text inside a bold word above a list could leave the note ignoring everything typed after it
• Deleting a note is now ⇧⌘⌫, so ⌘⌫ deletes the line before the caret as it does everywhere on the Mac. The toast that follows counts down its ten seconds, with Undo beside it
• Sync: a note deleted on one Mac stays deleted on every Mac, and the sync folder clears its old delete markers on its own
• Drag a note by the empty part of its header, next to the title
• ⌘Z after flipping to another note and back no longer acts on the note you left
• The checklist button keeps a line with an emoji intact

Requires macOS 13 or later.

• Text formatting in notes: select text for a floating Bold / Italic / Underline bar, or press ⌘B, ⌘I and ⌘U. Formatting is kept as plain markdown in the note, so export and sync stay plain text
• Lists: type "- " for a bullet list or "1. " for a numbered one. Return carries the list on, numbers stay in step, and Return on an empty item ends it
• Flip through your notes in place: the ← → arrows in a note's header, or ⌘[ and ⌘], step the open window through the deck without moving it
• Settings › General › Dock style: keep the dots, or rest the deck as a small stack of notes at the edge of the screen
• All Notes: opening a note closes the window, the previewed note is highlighted clearly, and ⌘A in the search selects the search text
• Notes open on the display you clicked them from
• Notes and the deck follow the full-screen setting on every display

Requires macOS 15 or later.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.