Five of the nine things on the list, and one finding that came out of them.
Colour: a marker pen and an ink colour, written as marks here rather than
installed — the schema of a note decides what can be stored in it forever. A
highlight is a <mark> so a reader that drops the colour still shows the word
as marked, and marked text is painted dark whatever the theme. Both travel as
HTML in Markdown, like underline, and both are read back.
The PDF fills the screen: the browser's own full screen for the window frame,
an overlay for the sidebar and the list, Escape and a visible button for the
way out.
The dashboard leads with the recent notes, sorted by time whatever order the
notebooks are in. A tap on the blank part of a page puts the caret at the
nearest position instead of nowhere. A drag from the left edge shows the
sidebar. The page has an edge on a phone, where it had none.
The finding: at the speed a robot types, a long note loses keystrokes between
the editor and the pagination measuring after each one — 87 of 220
paragraphs. Nothing is lost at 50 characters a second, so the page-count
check now pastes its bulk text rather than measuring typing throughput. And
the history suite asked for "the first note in the list" without waiting for
the note to reach the server; it asks by name now.
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A quote may hold whole blocks, and they now have room: the rule that gives
the writing its rhythm reaches only the editor's own children, so inside a
quote a heading, a list and a closing line stood jammed together. Leaving as
Markdown they were written on consecutive lines, which every other reader
folds into one — the sentence after a quoted list became more of the last
bullet. They are divided by a quoted blank line now, the same rule the top
level has had since 11 August.
The marks were two copies of one list, in two dialogs, and only one of them
had ever been extended. One list, one grid, twice as many marks, divided
under headings — and anything else can be typed into the search box, which
on a phone is where the emoji keyboard lives.
The changelog is a third of its length: one entry per day rather than one
per image, since a round that repaired what an earlier round the same day
broke reads as noise afterwards. Every digest is still listed.
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The interface had drifted into two languages — the frame in English, everything
added later in German — which is worse than either, since the same idea appeared
under two names depending on when that part was written. Sorting by title still
uses the German collation, so Übung 2 comes before Übung 10: that is about the
notes, not the chrome.
Two archive folders were renamed with it (bilder/ → images/, zeichnungen/ →
drawings/). The importer reads both spellings, and both the old and new marker
line for a drawing — archives exported before this are on disk, and an import
that quietly dropped their drawings would be the worst kind of tidy-up.
Making a note, uploading a PDF and importing Markdown were three buttons side by
side, two of them icons you had to hover to identify. They are the same act —
putting something new in this notebook — so they are now one + menu.
The search box moves out of the sidebar and into the note list, labelled with the
notebook it narrows. Nothing changed about what it does: it has always searched
only the notebook you are in, but from the sidebar it read as searching
everything.
A separator no longer carries a sentence explaining the order the sort menu
already names. Renaming joins removing on the right-click menu — a left-click on
the label started an edit, so the row could not be touched without falling into
one.
218 unit tests, 238 browser checks across eleven suites. Two of those caught real
breakage from this change rather than needing a translation.
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The reason to build this is not a missing feature — it is that trusting a
program you maintain alone with years of notes should not mean the notes
can only ever be read by that program.
Reachable from a note's toolbar, a notebook's context menu, and Account →
Alle Notizen exportieren.
Markdown carries over everything with an equivalent: headings, lists,
quotes, code, tables, and task state as `- [x]`. A link to another note in
the same export becomes a relative link to its file; a link to a note
outside it degrades to the plain title rather than leaving a dead
reference. Notes with images or a drawing arrive as a ZIP so the files
travel along, and a multi-note export gets a README index.
PDF goes through the browser's print dialog rather than a bundled PDF
library — the browser already has a good one, and it is the only format
where drawings sit inside the document. Markdown gets them as a PNG
beside the text, with a line saying so, because dropping them silently
would be the wrong kind of quiet.
Two decisions worth recording:
- the ZIP writer is eighty lines here rather than a dependency. Note text
is small and images are already compressed, so compression bought
nothing, and stored entries are a handful of fixed-layout records.
- Markdown escaping only covers what changes meaning mid-line, plus a
leading list or heading marker. Escaping every character Markdown ever
uses turns a sentence into `Hallo\. Alles gut\!`, which defeats the
point of choosing a readable format.
42 unit tests on the serialiser and the archive format, plus a browser
suite that unpacks a real download and reads the bytes back.
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