Changelog

Every Notate release, newest first. These are the same notes you see in the app when an update is available.

v4.20.1

This update brings v4.20.0 to Windows, which was held back by a code-signing problem on our side. On Mac nothing changes from v4.20.0. Here is everything in v4.20.0:

What’s new

  • Split View: open two notes side by side on web and desktop. Each pane keeps its own row of tabs, and you can drag a tab to either side of the window to split.
  • Choose whether the view mode (Editor, Split, Live, Preview) applies to every note or is remembered per note, in Settings → Editor → View Mode Scope.
  • The AI Assistant’s message box grows as you type, so a longer message fits without scrolling sideways.
  • AI features now run on Claude Sonnet 5.5. Your monthly AI allowance counts usage by what each model costs, so it stays fair as models change.
  • Using your own Anthropic key? Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5 are now available to choose.
  • Transcription moves to OpenAI’s newest transcription model.
  • Updated Privacy Policy and Terms covering your own AI keys, connected tools, and link previews.

Fixes

  • Text you typed just before an autosave no longer disappears when the note syncs.
  • Notate’s own saves no longer trigger a “File Changed Externally” warning on desktop.
  • Semantic search no longer fails with an error.
  • Moving notes with “Move contents to parent” no longer loses them.
  • Open notes stay correct after a move, rename, delete or overwrite, and a note replaced by Overwrite can be restored from Trash.
  • Recreating a folder with the same name as a trashed one no longer deletes the new folder.
  • Sync warnings clear once the change syncs, and deletes carry the right time on every device.
  • The folder picker in the note header shows the new folder right after a move.
  • The recording bar’s folder picker only offers real folders.
  • On the web, a note that isn’t available offline now says so instead of opening blank, so it can’t be saved empty.
  • In free mode on desktop, switching notes while a file reloads no longer puts one note’s text into another.
  • The block bar stays in view in long lists.
  • Dragging a note or folder leaves no stray highlights, and notes never land outside a folder.

Other

  • Security hardening across the apps and the server, including tighter link handling, link previews, two-factor sign-in, and rate limits.
  • An admin password reset now emails you a reset link, and resetting your password by email revokes your API tokens.
  • Signing out of the web app removes that account’s cached notes from the browser.
  • With end-to-end encryption on, link previews are fetched on your device and your links are never sent to Notate’s servers.

v4.20.0

What’s new

  • Split View: open two notes side by side on web and desktop. Each pane keeps its own row of tabs, and you can drag a tab to either side of the window to split.
  • Choose whether the view mode (Editor, Split, Live, Preview) applies to every note or is remembered per note, in Settings → Editor → View Mode Scope.
  • The AI Assistant’s message box grows as you type, so a longer message fits without scrolling sideways.
  • AI features now run on Claude Sonnet 5.5. Your monthly AI allowance counts usage by what each model costs, so it stays fair as models change.
  • Using your own Anthropic key? Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5 are now available to choose.
  • Transcription moves to OpenAI’s newest transcription model.
  • Updated Privacy Policy and Terms covering your own AI keys, connected tools, and link previews.

Fixes

  • Text you typed just before an autosave no longer disappears when the note syncs.
  • Notate’s own saves no longer trigger a “File Changed Externally” warning on desktop.
  • Semantic search no longer fails with an error.
  • Moving notes with “Move contents to parent” no longer loses them.
  • Open notes stay correct after a move, rename, delete or overwrite, and a note replaced by Overwrite can be restored from Trash.
  • Recreating a folder with the same name as a trashed one no longer deletes the new folder.
  • Sync warnings clear once the change syncs, and deletes carry the right time on every device.
  • The folder picker in the note header shows the new folder right after a move.
  • The recording bar’s folder picker only offers real folders.
  • On the web, a note that isn’t available offline now says so instead of opening blank, so it can’t be saved empty.
  • In free mode on desktop, switching notes while a file reloads no longer puts one note’s text into another.
  • The block bar stays in view in long lists.
  • Dragging a note or folder leaves no stray highlights, and notes never land outside a folder.

Other

  • Security hardening across the apps and the server, including tighter link handling, link previews, two-factor sign-in, and rate limits.
  • An admin password reset now emails you a reset link, and resetting your password by email revokes your API tokens.
  • Signing out of the web app removes that account’s cached notes from the browser.
  • With end-to-end encryption on, link previews are fetched on your device and your links are never sent to Notate’s servers.

v4.19.0

What’s new

  • Formatting now comes to your cursor. Select text and a toolbar appears over it with bold, italic, strikethrough, code and links, plus a Turn into menu for changing the whole line. The permanent row of buttons above every note is gone.
  • Type / on a new line for a menu of everything you can insert: headings, lists, checklists, quotes, dividers, code blocks, tables, links to other notes, and images. An empty line also gets a + button that opens the same menu.
  • Put the cursor in a table, list or code block and its controls appear beside it. Tables get add row, add column and alignment. Lists get indent, outdent and mark done. Code blocks get a language picker and copy.
  • The cursor inside a link shows a card with where it points, and buttons to open it, change it or unlink it.
  • Paste a URL and choose how it lands: a preview card, a plain link, or the URL as you typed it.
  • Selecting text in Preview offers Copy, Copy as Markdown, Ask AI, and Edit here, which jumps to that line in the editor.
  • The note header is more compact. The folder, save state and note actions share one line, and the view controls and tags sit on the row above your text, so your writing starts higher up the page.
  • Prefer the old row of buttons? Settings → Editor → Toolbar → Fixed brings it back.
  • Hover a note tab for its full title and where it lives. Right-click for Copy path and Reveal in Finder, or Show in Explorer on Windows.
  • Notate explains why it needs folder access on macOS before asking, and recovers if you decline.
  • A recording shows which folder its note will land in before you start.
  • New documentation on formatting, at notate.md/docs.

Fixes

  • Recordings save their transcript to the note again, so View transcript appears on notes made from a recording. Recordings made before this update are not affected.
  • A recording files its note in the workspace and folder you made it in.
  • The AI Assistant stays put through a recording instead of disappearing.
  • A finished recording no longer reports itself as lost.
  • The editor keeps its room in a narrow window and with the AI panel open. Free mode now behaves the same as an account.
  • Folder pickers list the folders in the workspace you are in, not every workspace.
  • Notes waiting on a folder that never arrives are released instead of staying invisible.
  • Notate now explains and stops if the local database cannot be upgraded, instead of failing quietly.
  • Autosave no longer stops while the app is busy redrawing.
  • Starting and stopping a recording no longer blocks the app.

v4.18.0

What’s new

  • Zoom the whole app in or out. Use View → Zoom In, Zoom Out, and Actual Size, or ⌘= / ⌘- / ⌘0 (Ctrl on Windows). You can also change it in Settings → Appearance. Notate remembers your zoom level on this computer.

Fixes

  • Switching between Editor, Split, Live, and Preview now keeps your place in the note instead of jumping to a different line.

v4.17.0

What’s new

  • Notate now remembers your layout. If you hide the folder list or the note list, or turn on focus mode, it stays that way the next time you open the app.

Fixes

  • Opening a note no longer leaves the previous note’s text in the editor. In some cases, typing straight after that could save the wrong content into the note you just opened.
  • Switching notes no longer flashes the previous note before the new one appears. It was most noticeable when leaving a long note.
  • Closing a tab now slides the highlight across to the next tab instead of jumping to it.
  • The AI Assistant no longer replays its animation, or scrolls the conversation, when you leave it and come back. Only new replies animate.

v4.16.1

Fixes

  • Open tabs no longer turn into unclickable “Untitled” entries. Selecting a folder could strip every tab outside it of its title and leave it dead to clicks. Tabs now keep their titles, and a tab whose note has been deleted closes itself.
  • On a computer that is still catching up on sync, tab titles now fill in as your notes arrive instead of staying “Untitled”.
  • Switching workspaces now shows that workspace’s own tabs. The tab bar was carrying the previous workspace’s tabs across, and opening a note there could leave them stuck.

v4.16.0

What’s new

  • The Note Map now explains itself when Meaning mode is unavailable. Selecting Meaning tells you why, and offers the upgrade where one would help.

Fixes

  • The plan cards in Settings now list the Note Map and suggested links. Both arrived in 4.14.0 but were missing from every plan comparison inside the app.

v4.15.0

What’s new

  • The Note Map now builds itself. Open Meaning mode and Notate builds the map for you, so a first visit shows the terrain rather than a button.
  • A rebuild control, at the end of the map’s controls. The circular arrow takes in notes written since the map was last built.
  • The map now says when there is too little to draw, rather than showing an empty canvas.
  • Clearer wording when Meaning mode is not available, both on an end-to-end encrypted account and on a plan without AI.
  • New documentation on keeping the map current, at notate.md/docs.

v4.14.0

What’s new

  • The Note Map: see a whole workspace at once. Open it from the map icon in the ribbon and it fills the editor area. There are two modes. Links draws your [[wiki-links]] as a graph, a circle per note and a line per link, colored by folder. Focus a single note to see only what it touches, hide the notes nothing links to or go hunting for them, filter by folder or tag, and search from inside the map so matches highlight where they sit. Links works on every plan, offline, and on an end-to-end encrypted account. In the web and desktop apps.
  • Meaning mode reads your writing rather than your links and draws the result as a topographic map. Notes on the same subject form peaks, each one named from the notes underneath it, so the map arrives labeled rather than as anonymous blobs. Read it as a 2D contour map or switch to the raised 3D terrain and turn it. Meaning mode needs the AI plan, and is not available on an end-to-end encrypted account.
  • Content gaps. Meaning mode finds the low pass between two peaks and names the pair: two subjects you write about often with almost nothing joining them. Click one and the map holds it while you zoom and turn, with the note list filtered to both subjects at once. Usually it is the note you have not written yet.
  • Suggested links. At the foot of a note, Notate offers other notes that cover related ground, whether or not anything links them today. Ask why and it explains what the two have in common in a sentence. Dismiss one that does not fit and it stays dismissed, on every device. In the web, desktop and mobile apps.
  • Backlinks now show the line each link sits in, not just the title of the note it came from, so you can usually tell why a note points at yours without opening it.
  • A dashboard you can arrange. Eleven sections, each one a checkbox in Settings, and the list drags into whatever order you want. New sections: Open Tasks gathers unticked checkboxes out of your recent notes, Workspace Stats counts what is in the workspace, Folders and Tags give you jump points, Expiring from Trash warns before the sweep removes something for good, and Themes lists the subjects your notes group into. Sections with nothing to show hide themselves.
  • New documentation at notate.md/docs covering the Note Map and suggested links, and a rewritten dashboard page listing every section and what it does.

Fixes

  • Notes that lost their folder are visible again. A note whose folder was removed could disappear from the note list and the dashboard on the web app entirely. Those notes now appear wherever you are, and are found by search.
  • Notes no longer lose their folder in the first place. When a folder was removed for good after its time in Trash, any note still inside it was left with no folder at all. Those notes are now moved to the nearest folder that survives.
  • Notes in a subfolder are no longer deleted from disk. A subfolder inside a folder Notate does not manage could be treated as managed, which removed its files from your drive. Desktop only.
  • Two notes with the same name no longer overwrite each other on disk.
  • Theme names are now chosen as a set, so no two themes come back with near-identical names.
  • The dashboard’s Recent, Favorites and Audio lists are now ordered consistently, so the same account shows the same notes on every device.
  • Folder and tag cards on the dashboard now filter the note list, matching what they do in the sidebar.
  • Note previews on the dashboard no longer show the properties block from the top of a note.
  • Suggestion previews no longer include table markup.
  • Panning and zooming the map no longer stutters on a large workspace.

v4.13.1

Fixes

  • Keyboard shortcuts shown in the app now match the keyboard you are using. The toolbar was labelling Bold and Italic with Ctrl on Mac, and search was showing the Command key on Windows.
  • The update notes you are reading now are easier to read, with proper spacing between items.
  • If you skip a version or two, this window now shows what changed in each of them, not only the newest release, with a link to the full changelog for anything older.

v4.13.0

What’s new

  • Find and replace inside a note. Press Cmd/Ctrl+F to open the find bar over the editor, or Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+F to open it with replace ready. Every match is highlighted, a counter shows where you are, and Enter steps through them. Match case and whole word narrow what counts, and Replace All undoes in one step. If a note’s properties are hidden, find skips them, so the counter always agrees with what you can see. Available in the web and desktop apps.
  • Search now shows you where it matched. Each result carries its own count, the first few matches, and the line number of each one. Click a match to open the note at that exact spot with the rest still highlighted, ready to step through.
  • Narrow a search with operators. Combine tag:, title:, folder:, path:, created:, updated:, is: and has: with each other and with your search words, quote a value containing spaces, and put a - in front of anything you want excluded. So tag:work updated:>2026-01-15 -is:favorite is a single search. They work the same way on every device, and in the command line tool and over MCP.
  • Choose which workspaces a search covers: the one you are in, all of them, or one you pick by name so it stays put while you work elsewhere.
  • Results found by meaning are now grouped separately from results that contain your words, so it is clear which are matches and which are suggestions.
  • Search on your phone. A new Search tab looks across the whole workspace and takes the same operators, rather than only filtering the list in front of you.
  • Turn off spelling suggestions while you type, in Settings.
  • New and expanded documentation at notate.md/docs, including a page on jumping straight to a note by name, the full operator reference, and what happens when an operator is not recognised.

Fixes

  • Search no longer returns notes from other workspaces.
  • On phones, searching for two words now finds notes containing both of them rather than either one, so results are far more relevant.
  • On phones, a search that matches nothing now says so, instead of quietly falling back to a looser search and showing unrelated notes.
  • Selecting a tag no longer keeps filtering after you switch to another sidebar tab.
  • Search previews no longer show the properties block from the top of a note.
  • Clicking a match now takes you to the right line, including the first time you open a note from the results.
  • A message about folders that cannot be reached on disk no longer points at an option that does not exist.

v4.12.0

What’s new

  • Use your own AI keys. If you already have an Anthropic or OpenAI account, add your key in Settings and Notate runs its AI features on it, billed to you by that provider instead of through an AI plan. Each key turns on the features it powers: an Anthropic key covers chat, writing tools, auto-tagging, and image descriptions, and an OpenAI key covers transcription. Semantic search is included either way. Available on the Sync plan, and your keys are encrypted before they are stored and never shown again after you save them.
  • Choose which Claude model your own key uses: Haiku 4.5, Sonnet 4.6, Sonnet 5, or Opus 5. The AI plan stays fully managed, with no keys or provider accounts to set up.
  • Settings now shows which AI features are on and which are off, and why, so a single key never leaves you guessing about what stopped working.
  • A new page at notate.md/docs/ai/bring-your-own-keys covering which key unlocks what, alongside plan and content updates across the rest of the site.

v4.11.0

What’s new

  • Connect Notate to an AI client over MCP. Turn it on in Settings, create a token, and a client like Claude can search, read, write, and organize your notes for you. It is off until you enable it, every action you allow is one you switch on yourself, and a token can be revoked at any time. Included with the Sync plan.
  • A new page at notate.md/mcp covering what the connection can do, alongside a content refresh across the rest of the site.

Fixes

  • Deleting a folder now asks what should happen to the notes inside it, so a note can never end up with no folder.
  • Renaming a folder inside your workspace works reliably. Top-level folders keep the name of the folder on disk, and are renamed there.
  • Filtering by folder name, and asking the assistant about a folder by name, both find the right notes again.
  • Settings you changed before creating an account now come with you when you sign up, even if you had not written any notes yet.
  • Plan messages name the feature in plain words instead of showing an identifier.

v4.10.0

What’s new

  • Highlight text with ==highlight==. Highlights render in the editor and the reading view across desktop, mobile, and web, and use standard markdown syntax, so they stay intact if you open your notes in another editor.
  • A new markdown guide at notate.md/markdown-guide: the full syntax, with live examples you can edit as you read.
  • notate.md now has a changelog and an FAQ, so you can see what shipped in each release and get quick answers about files, sync, and AI.

v4.9.0

What’s new

  • The account switcher now scrolls when you have several profiles, so Add Account and Sign Out stay reachable however many accounts you have.
  • The account you are currently signed into now appears at the top of the account switcher.

Fixes

  • AI Features settings on the web app now save reliably.
  • Reset All Settings now restores everything it should, including your theme, on web, desktop and mobile.
  • Settings you change in Guest mode now carry over when you create an account.
  • Settings no longer carry between profiles when you switch accounts on the same device.
  • An account no longer shows “needs sign-in” when its session is still valid.

v4.8.3

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug on desktop where opening a file could clear the content of a note you already had open.
  • On desktop, closing a note tab now switches to your other open tab correctly instead of dropping to the dashboard, and the active tab highlight resizes to match.
  • The desktop notes list no longer briefly flashes empty when you return from Settings or Trash.
  • Your plan now shows correctly across all your devices without needing to sign out and back in.
  • Backlinks now update right after syncing, and bold text renders correctly in AI chat.
  • Cleaned up the AI chat on mobile and improved the sign in and register form layout on tablets.
  • Fixed a small wording error on the mobile billing screen.

Other

  • Refined the app icon on desktop and mobile.

v4.8.2

Fixes

  • Fixed the “Couldn’t sync” status banner sometimes showing on an account that didn’t have the sync issue after switching accounts.

Other

  • Tidied the AI Features screen for accounts that don’t have the AI plan.

v4.8.1

Fixes

  • Fixed the Version History capture interval on the desktop app. You can now change how often versions are saved, and your choice stays consistent across your devices.

v4.8.0

Fixes

  • Version history now saves a new version on every edit as expected. If you use the desktop app signed in to an account, the “Every save” capture setting now works correctly.
  • Your version-history capture interval is now saved to your account, so it stays consistent across all your devices.
  • Fixed the version-history sidebar flickering each time it refreshed.

v4.7.1

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug on the desktop app where editing a note longer than about a page could cut off text from the end of the note after saving or syncing. Updating protects your notes from any further truncation.

v4.7.0

What’s new

  • The macOS app is now signed and notarized by Apple, so it installs and opens without the “unidentified developer” warning.
  • The AI credits meter now shows how many credits you have left out of your total, alongside the percentage.

Fixes

  • Fixed the Toggle Note List keyboard shortcut (and Next / Previous Tab) not working, most noticeably on Windows.

v4.6.0

What’s new

  • AI credits: your monthly AI allowance and any purchased credits now show as a live meter in Settings → Billing. Buy one-time credit packs whenever you need more.
  • Audio transcription now runs on your AI credits, alongside the other AI features.
  • Delete your account: permanently remove your account and its data from Settings → My Account, or at notate.md/delete-account.
  • Smoother checkout: choosing a plan takes you straight to secure checkout.

Fixes

  • Billing: the “Manage Billing” button no longer gets stuck on “Opening…”.

Other

  • New accounts now confirm their email address before the first sign-in.

v4.5.3

What’s new

  • Setting up your notes folder is clearer and never a dead end. If a folder can’t be used (for example, a permission is denied), Notate now explains why and lets you retry, pick another folder, or continue as a guest. You can change your default folder anytime in Settings.

Fixes

  • Mobile sign-in: when a saved session has expired, the “Cancel” option now returns you to guest mode instead of doing nothing.
  • Free mode now opens to your default workspace on a fresh install, instead of showing “No Workspace.”

v4.5.2

Fixes

  • The account switcher is now locked while a recording is in progress, so you can’t accidentally switch profiles and lose an in-progress recording.

v4.5.1

Other

  • Reorganized the left toolbar so file actions come first: New Note stays pinned at the top, followed by Open File, Open Folder, and Image Manager, then the recording buttons (Meeting, Lecture, Memo, Verbatim).
  • Renamed “Capture & Transcribe Memo” to “Record & Transcribe Memo” for consistency with the other recording modes.

v4.5.0

What’s new

  • Meet Guest mode. The no-account, local-files mode is now called Guest. It keeps its own settings, and when you create or sign into an account your Guest notes and settings come with you.
  • Watch your notes migrate. Bringing your Guest notes into an account now shows a progress bar and is much faster and more reliable, even for very large folders.
  • Much faster with lots of notes. Browsing, opening, editing, and saving are quicker in large folders, and the note list stays smooth at thousands of notes.
  • Indexing you can see and stop. Adding a folder shows files/folders progress and can be cancelled, with an editable per-device list of what to skip in Settings → Files.
  • Reset local data. A new Settings → Advanced → Reset local data on desktop and mobile clears this device’s local copy without signing you out.
  • Show or hide your password on the Create Account screen.
  • Settings apply instantly. Changes made elsewhere now take effect without relaunching the app.

Fixes

  • Migrating a large folder no longer fails with “Couldn’t migrate your notes.”
  • Switching between accounts no longer leaks one account’s notes or settings into another.
  • Guest mode no longer re-adopts folders that already belong to an account.
  • Fixed getting stuck on “No Workspace”; your default workspace is restored when it’s missing.
  • Resetting settings no longer signs you out.
  • “Get 2 Months Free” now shows only on the Annual plan.
  • Fixed a rare drag-and-drop crash.

Other

  • The Free plan now clearly shows only local features (Sync and end-to-end encryption are account features).
  • Wording and label clean-up across Settings.

v4.4.0

What’s new

  • Attachment folders show a real count. The Images folder now shows how many items it holds (notes plus images) instead of always reading 0.
  • Click a folder, see its notes. Selecting a folder now lists just that folder’s own notes, matching the mobile app. Open a subfolder to see what’s inside it.
  • A tidier editor and sidebar when space is tight. The editor toolbar keeps the Editor/Split/Live/Preview switcher visible and tucks the extra buttons into a “more” menu as the window narrows; the FOLDERS and NOTES headers do the same.
  • Re-adding a folder brings its images back. Re-add a folder that contains images and those images are restored and show across your devices again.

Fixes

  • Removing a folder from a workspace no longer leaves your other devices stuck on “Couldn’t sync.”
  • Open tabs now close on their own when their folder is removed.
  • Fixed several image drag-and-drop issues when working with local folders.
  • Small visual polish in the FOLDERS header.

Other

  • Behind-the-scenes storage cleanup so removed images don’t linger.

v4.3.1

What’s new

  • The Notate CLI is here. A new command-line client for your notes. Install it with npm install -g @notatemd/cli, sign in with your Notate account, and capture, search, and organize your notes without leaving the terminal.
  • Ask questions across your notes, summarize, and rewrite text from the command line, and pipe your notes into scripts, cron jobs, and AI tools. It reads Markdown or JSON, and works with end-to-end encryption.

Other

  • New CLI page and full command documentation at notate.md.

v4.3.0

What’s new

  • New notes now go into a folder you choose. Set a “Default folder for new notes” in Settings and it syncs across your devices. (The old “Unfiled” bucket is gone.)
  • Deleting a top-level folder (a root) now moves it to Trash where it can be restored, instead of just disconnecting it. Trashed roots show up in Trash, and restoring one brings it and its notes back. Your files on disk are never deleted.
  • Removing a folder from a workspace now only removes it from that workspace. If the same folder is in more than one workspace, it stays in the others.
  • The Folders header has new controls: add an existing folder from your disk, and expand or collapse the whole tree at once. The + button creates a subfolder, or a new root when nothing is selected.
  • The workspace switcher now shows the folder and note count under each workspace name, and lists your workspaces alphabetically.
  • On mobile, you can create a new root folder from the + button at the top level.

Fixes

  • Workspaces now consistently show the right folders and notes across the tree, dashboard, and Trash.
  • Fixed the folder and note counts shown next to each workspace.
  • You can now fully clear a note title by deleting the last character.
  • Restoring or deleting a root no longer leaves behind duplicates, orphaned entries, or lost files.

Other

  • The account avatar initials are easier to read, and the Folders sidebar is a bit wider by default.
  • Contact links on the Terms and Privacy pages now point to the Support page.

v4.2.0

What’s new

  • Pause Sync: you can now pause syncing on a single device and resume it whenever you want, without signing out. The controls live under Settings, Data, Sync, and a banner keeps you aware while a device is paused.

Fixes

  • Generating AI tags or a summary and then switching to another note no longer applies them to the wrong note. They always attach to the note you started from, and the generating indicator stays on that note too.
  • Top-level folders can no longer be dragged in a way that created duplicate roots.

Other

  • Refreshed the account and workspace switchers, and password-reset emails now use the Notate logo.

v4.1.0

What’s new

  • Drag and drop got a lot better on desktop. Drag a folder onto Notate to add it, choosing to copy it in or add it as a top-level folder that stays in sync with its place on disk. Dropped files open right away as tabs, and now the whole window is a drop target, not just the editor.
  • You can add a folder that already exists on your disk from Settings, Files, instead of only ever creating a new one.

Fixes

  • Deleting a folder is now always recoverable. It can no longer get stuck out of both your notes and Trash; it reliably lands in Trash where you can restore it.
  • The Update Available prompt’s Restart Now button no longer does nothing. It installs the update and restarts as expected.

v4.0.1

Other

  • Maintenance release. We added first-party product analytics to help guide what we build next, plus internal admin tooling and behind-the-scenes cleanup. No changes to your notes, the editor, or sync. No third-party trackers, and end-to-end encrypted notes stay unreadable to us.

v4.0.0

What’s new

  • End-to-end encryption. Turn on end-to-end encryption and your notes are encrypted on your device before they sync, so the server only ever stores ciphertext. You get a recovery phrase to restore access after a password reset, and it works across web, desktop, and mobile. AI features are automatically turned off while encryption is on, since the server can’t read encrypted notes.
  • Multiple accounts on one device. Sign into more than one Notate account and switch between them from the account menu, no signing out required (desktop and mobile).
  • Disk-vs-server conflict resolver. When a note changes both on disk and on the server, Notate now shows a clear choice, Use Mine, Use Server, or Keep Both, instead of silently picking a side (desktop and mobile).
  • Open files from anywhere (mobile). Open markdown files from other apps or your Files browser, preview them read-only, and Copy to Workspace when you want to keep one. Markdown files shared from another app route straight into an import flow.
  • Built-in support. A new Support section in Settings sends your message to the team, with optional environment and sync-health diagnostics attached so problems are easier to track down.

Fixes

  • Reliable Trash and folder deletes. Deleting a folder no longer risks it reappearing later; deleted folders now show in Trash and restore correctly across devices; and Empty Trash is always available.
  • Many sync reliability and convergence fixes across desktop, web, and mobile.