Changelog

Adding a device works differently now. A new device asks to join with the five-word key phrase alone, and a device you already use approves it. The vault password is never typed into the new device.

When joining you pick owner or participant. A participant sends the phrase with a name and email and waits for approval. Joining as an owner needs the separate owner password, and connects straight away without an approval step. Each device sets its own unlock password, so they can differ from device to device.

The key that sync itself runs on is no longer derived from anything anyone types: it is generated at random and delivered sealed to each device. Knowing the phrase no longer gives anyone a way to guess at the vault password.

A device that has been removed locks the vault and asks whether to move its copy to the trash or leave it. It is the trash, not a permanent delete, and only that device's copy moves. A device that leaves and is approved again keeps using its original folder, so it does not download every note over again.

Databases have arrived. Build rows and columns and keep your records as structure. Every row is itself a note — open one and the usual block editor opens, with the same encryption, syncing, trash and version history that any note gets.

One set of records, five ways to look at it — table, board, gallery, calendar and timeline. Sorting, filters, grouping, column widths and which columns show are saved together as a view you switch between with tabs. Views sync to your other devices.

More than ten column types. Alongside text, number, checkbox, date, select and URL there is relation, pointing at another database, its reverse backlink, formula for calculated values, and rollup, which gathers and computes over the rows a relation connects. Numbers can be shown as currency, percentages, with decimal places and thousands separators; select options can be colored, and a cell can hold several of them.

A calculation row under the table does sums, averages and the like. Row numbers let you select and delete several at once, and a row's menu opens it as a note. A database can live on its own in the sidebar or sit inline inside a note as a block.

A great deal more can be imported. Alongside Markdown, PowerPoint and HanNote notes, you can now bring in Evernote (.enex), web pages (.html), ebooks (.epub), and whole folders.

Evernote notes come across one for one, carrying their attachments and also their tags and their original created and modified dates — so imported notes sort by their real history instead of piling up as made today. Checkboxes arrive as task lists.

A web page offers a choice. Convert to a note turns headings, paragraphs, lists, tables and formatting into blocks and brings the page's images in as attachments. Keep as an HTML file stores the page with its images and scripts intact, so it still looks the way it did when you saved it.

An ebook becomes a folder named after the book with one note per chapter. Chapter titles come from the table of contents, and links between chapters become links between notes.

Choose a folder and HanNote walks through it, importing each file the way its kind deserves and mirroring the subfolders as it goes. Point it at an Evernote export folder and it handles it as Evernote without being told. A file that fails is skipped rather than stopping the rest.

A folder view now previews whatever you select. A preview panel sits on the right of the folder screen. Pick a row in the list and its details appear at the top, its contents below.

Files are shown the same way Finder shows them when you press the space bar — images, PDFs, text, video, audio, and Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents, all without opening another app, along with the kind, size and dates. A note shows an excerpt of its body plus its tags, when it was created and changed, and its character and word counts. A subfolder tells you how many of each thing it holds.

Drag the divider between the list and the panel to change its width. The width, and whether the panel is open at all, are remembered across every folder tab, every panel, and app restarts. The button that opens and closes it is at the right end of the folder screen's bottom bar.

You can drag files in to attach them. Drag a file from Finder or any other app onto the HanNote window and it is attached wherever you dropped it. There are four places to drop: a folder or note in the sidebar, the file list in a folder screen, the body of an open note, and the tabs along the top.

Dropping into a note's body draws a line between blocks so you can see where the file will land before you let go. Hover over a tab for a moment and it opens, so you can check what is there before dropping. A folder tab takes the file into that folder; a note tab adds it at the end of the note.

Drag in a folder and — since a folder holds no bytes of its own — HanNote asks once, then saves it as a folder shortcut. It sits in the list like any other attachment, and opening it takes you to that folder. When there are many files or large ones, you see the progress, and anything that could not be brought in is named along with the reason.

Large attachments no longer make the app stutter. Files are now streamed as they are copied instead of being loaded into memory whole. If an autosave fails it retries rather than passing in silence, and tells you if it still cannot save.

You can mark up a PDF inside a note and keep it. Highlights, drawings, text you add, and form fields you fill in the inline viewer are now saved into the PDF file itself — until now they lived on screen only and the file never changed. Erasing something you marked is saved too.

Saving happens on its own, with a small badge next to the filename showing where it is up to. The existing attachment is updated in place, so every note pointing at that PDF keeps working and the change syncs to your other devices.

The PDF toolbar was tidied. Select, highlight, draw, text, and the zoom pair now draw icons instead of their names, matching the note's own editing toolbar. Pick a tool and the cursor takes its shape.

Several snags around PDFs are gone as well: pressing a tool no longer selects the whole document, dragging with the highlighter or pen no longer drags the note block along with it, and the crashes and lost markings that could happen while highlighting have been fixed.

Attachment management arrived. An Attachments item in the sidebar opens a page listing every attachment in the vault — images inside notes, covers, and files you filed on their own. Each one shows which note or folder it belongs to, and double-clicking that column opens it. Deleting a note now clears away the attachments only that note used.

All your to-dos in one place. Checklist items from across the vault are gathered onto a single page, grouped by note. Ticking one there writes back to its note, you can choose whether completed items stay in view, and anything nested under an item comes along.

Find within a note. Cmd+F searches the note on screen: every match highlights as you type, Enter or Cmd+G walks through them, and a counter reads 3/12. Vault-wide search is still Cmd+K, which gained a preview pane showing the first page of whichever note you've highlighted.

Notes say where they live. An open note shows its place under the tab bar as section › folder, and each crumb takes you there. Turn it off in Settings if you'd rather not have it.

The editor got a round of polish. Bookmark cards pick up the page's own title and their thumbnails sit better. The menu that appears when you paste a URL answers the keyboard, headings got their own sizes and breathing room, and dragging table rows and columns behaves properly. Spacing now reads as a percentage and type sizes in px, so the numbers mean something.

Daily notes can be hidden from the sidebar if you don't use them, and on the daily-notes page a right-click on a note's name offers open folder, open note, and delete.

Faster. Returning to the app no longer freezes the screen for the better part of a second. After a sync the vault isn't re-indexed from scratch — only what changed is — and even a full index no longer holds the screen. Notes follow your system text size.

Lists line up. Bullets, numbers, to-dos and toggles all start at the same place and keep one gap between marker and text. A number that grows to two or three digits widens its own space instead of pushing the line over.

Callouts are tidier. The icon starts level with the first line, and a callout headed by a heading no longer opens with a gap. The background-colour control moved to the top-right corner, so a one-line callout stays one line tall.

Colour in the main toolbar. Text colour and highlight are a click away at the top, alongside a new toggle-list button. Palettes and the link boxes open inside the note rather than off the edge of it, and each palette gained three more colours.

Paste keeps its place. Paste several paragraphs at an indent and all of them land there, and no empty block sneaks in after the first. The note title refits its height as the window or sidebar width changes.

Toggle lists arrived — a block that folds away, so a long note can keep its detail hidden until you want it.

List editing feels right now. The first item can be indented like any other, and Shift+Tab steps the indent back one level instead of dissolving the list. Bullets, numbers, and to-dos share one marker strip, so their text lines up. There's also a Cmd+Shift+X shortcut for deleting a block.

More to style and arrange. Set a base font weight for the sidebar and for the note body; the sidebar's line-spacing slider now updates as you drag it. Sort the folder listing's columns and the order sticks, and callouts got a tidier icon and inset.

The sidebar's arrangement now syncs. The order of the top-level items — favorites, daily notes, unfiled — is the same on every device instead of drifting apart.

The graph view got better. Sections can be shown as their own nodes (off by default), and which toggles you leave on is remembered for next time. Section and folder names stay legible however far you zoom out, and hovering any node shows its name.

The lock and create screens were tidied up. The join-a-group section was hardcoded in Korean, leaving everyone else with a half-translated screen; it is now fully translated, and the buttons look like real buttons.

Typing is smoother. The editor toolbars no longer rebuild on every keystroke, so typing keeps up even in long notes with hundreds of blocks. The color, highlight, link, and @ popovers on the selection toolbar now open on the first click instead of sometimes needing two.

A broad hardening pass over saving and syncing. A wide review of the core closed several paths where data could drift out of step or go missing.

Everything written to the vault now genuinely reaches the disk; previously a crash or an abrupt shutdown could cost you the most recent change. Deleted notes could come back, a single failed read could clear your favorites on every device, and one device with a wrong clock could stall syncing everywhere — all fixed.

Sort order and favorites now merge field by field, so changing them on two devices at once no longer overwrites one with the other, and a path where attachments were quietly dropped has been closed.

Sections arrived — a grouping level above folders, so you can gather related folders and tidy up the sidebar. Sections collapse and expand, and you can drag them to reorder or move folders and notes between them. Your existing folders are filed into a Home section automatically.

Printing arrived. File ▸ Print (Cmd+P) prints the note exactly as you see it, and File ▸ Page Setup lets you set the margins.

Items inside favorites, sections, and folders can be dragged into the order you want. In reading mode, Shift+scroll or the +/- keys adjust the text size, and the Help menu now opens the manual directly.

Syncing gained two pieces. Favorites now travel between devices, and a section's name and position travel with it. Both used to stay on whichever device made them.

The startup delay is gone. The short window right after launch where taps didn't register has been removed, so you can start writing or searching the moment the app opens.

Typing is faster. Saving now happens in the background instead of holding up the screen, so typing stays smooth in long notes and large vaults.

An update check was added — the app now tells you when a new version is available. The editor toolbars were also redrawn as a single monochrome icon set that follows the text color, so dark mode inverts them cleanly, and a Table button was added.

Tags arrived — a Tags section in the sidebar, a page collecting the notes for a tag, and a tag line at the top of each note.

A calendar panel with daily notes, offering Monthly, Weekly, Daily, and List views. Today's note opens or is created in one step.

Tables came to the editor, with cell background fills, cell alignment, and draggable column widths and row heights. A new note now starts with the caret in its title.

A link graph — a Linked mentions panel showing which documents point at this note, plus a Graph tab that draws the relationships between documents.

Images in a note can be resized by dragging and placed side by side. This was the first notarized public release.

Note version history — roll a note back to an earlier state after an edit or a sync.

Attachment references are tracked separately, so attachments that came loose from a note can be found and restored.

The drawing block arrived — add hand-drawn sketches directly to a note.

Choose whether notes open in the current tab or a new one.

PowerPoint import, turning each slide into an image in a note. The first drag-to-install DMG shipped here.

A trash you can restore deleted notes from, along with a view collecting notes that aren't filed in any folder.

Collapsed folders in the sidebar stay collapsed across restarts.

Link and bookmark blocks became editable, notes can be exported and imported as .mmp files, and per-block alignment was added.

Devices can now sync directly over the internet, not just on the same network.

Encrypted automatic P2P sync over the LAN. Vaults are identified by a key phrase, and Settings lists the connected devices.

Native window tabbing — one note opens as one system tab.

The Mac's new way of joining is here on iPhone and iPad too. A device asks to join with the five-word key phrase alone and a device you already use approves it. The owner password is typed only when joining as an owner, and this device's unlock password is set separately.

A removed device locks the vault and asks whether to move its copy to the trash. Approved again, it picks its original folder back up.

Databases work on iPhone and iPad. Open one and it fills the screen. View tabs, all five layouts, cell editing, column setup (type, select options and their colors, multi-select, number formats) and the calculation row are the same as on the Mac.

New database is in the sidebar's ＋ menu and in a folder's menu. Tap a row number to select, or use the row menu to delete it or open it as a note. On a narrow screen the toolbar buttons show as icons alone.

The Mac's wider import support applies here as well: Evernote (.enex), web pages (.html), ebooks (.epub), and folders can all be chosen.

Pick a web page and you are asked whether to convert it to a note or keep it as an HTML file. PowerPoint still cannot be imported, since the program that draws the slides cannot be installed on iPhone or iPad.

The same engine as the Mac's 0.23.2. Dragging files in to attach them and the folder preview panel are Mac-only, so nothing changes on iPhone and iPad.

Notes are saved more reliably. A failed autosave is retried, and if it still cannot save, you are told rather than left to find out later. Moving between notes no longer loses work that had not been written yet.

Your notes stay out of the app switcher. The screen is covered the moment you leave the app, so no note shows in the switcher. A passphrase copied for pasting now clears itself after three minutes.

Returning to the app is quicker. Coming back no longer pulls down the whole vault — only what is needed. Attaching a large file is much lighter too, since the file is no longer loaded into memory whole.

Sync coming back to life after you locked or left the app, and a changed sync server address being ignored, are both fixed.

The same release as the Mac, now on iPhone and iPad.

You can mark up a PDF inside a note and keep it. Highlights, drawings, text, and form fields are saved into the PDF file itself, and erasing a marking is saved too. A badge next to the filename shows the save state, and the change syncs to your other devices.

The PDF toolbar now draws icons instead of names, matching the note's own editing toolbar.

The same release as the Mac, now on iPhone and iPad.

Attachment management gathers every attachment in the vault onto one page and shows which note or folder each belongs to. To-dos collects the checklist items from across the vault into a single page, grouped by note.

Editor polish. Bookmark cards pick up the page's own title, and headings, table sizing, and to-do spacing were all tidied.

Faster. Returning to the app no longer freezes the screen for the better part of a second, and a sync no longer re-indexes the whole vault. Notes follow your system text size, and the rest of the app stays reachable while you edit a note on a narrow screen.

The same release as the Mac, now on iPhone and iPad.

Lists line up. Bullets, numbers, to-dos and toggles all start at the same place, and a number that grows to two or three digits no longer pushes its line over.

Callouts and the toolbar were tidied. A callout's icon starts level with the first line, and its background-colour control moved to the top-right corner. Text colour and highlight are now a tap away in the main toolbar, alongside a new toggle-list button.

Paste keeps its place. Paste several paragraphs at an indent and all of them land there, with no empty block sneaking in after the first.

The same release as the Mac, now on iPhone and iPad.

Toggle lists fold content away, and list editing feels right — the first item indents like any other, and bullets, numbers, and to-dos line up with each other.

You can set a base font weight for the sidebar and the note body, and callouts got a tidier icon and inset.

A broad hardening pass over saving and syncing. The same core review that reached the Mac: everything written to the vault genuinely reaches the disk, deleted notes no longer come back, favorites can't be cleared by a failed read, and one device with a wrong clock no longer stalls syncing.

The sidebar's arrangement now syncs. Top-level items keep the same order across your devices.

Photos and editing gestures were fixed. Choosing Take Photo used to quit the app, and the photo you took didn't make it into the note — both fixed. So are the first tap in the editor being ignored, the sidebar's grip covering the editing toolbar, and the selection toolbar running off the side of the screen.

Sections came to iPhone and iPad — a grouping level above folders that collapses, expands, and reorders by dragging. Your existing folders are filed into a Home section automatically.

Printing arrived. Print the note exactly as you see it, using the margins set in the Print tab of Settings.

Daily notes and the calendar are now on iPhone and iPad, with Monthly, Weekly, Daily, and List views, and per-date note creation.

Dragging works differently. Dropping a folder onto another folder moves it inside — empty and collapsed folders included. Blue insertion lines show where a row will land, and on iPad you can drag across sections.

Syncing gained two pieces. Favorites now travel between devices, and a section's name and position travel with it.

The startup delay is gone. The short window right after launch where taps didn't register has been removed, so you can start writing or searching the moment the app opens.

Tags arrived. Tag a note from the tag line under its title, then browse the sidebar tag list and the page that gathers every note under a tag. Daily notes came along too. Typing is faster as well — saving happens in the background, so long notes stay smooth.

The folder-menu import picker accepts Markdown (.md) files too.

Import a note from a folder's context menu. Markdown import is supported.

The folder tree on the iPhone home list can be collapsed.

First upload to App Store Connect. The version number was realigned with macOS.

Images in a note can be resized and placed side by side.

iPad reading mode — an eyeglasses toggle opens a full-screen read-only panel, and pinching adjusts the font size. The zoom level is remembered.

Note version history arrived.

The drawing block arrived.

A new app icon.

A view collecting notes that aren't filed in any folder, plus tidier folder rows on iPhone.

The editing toolbar is pinned to the top of the panel, and dragging tabs between panels on iPad was fixed.

A native document picker, so attaching PDFs and files works on iPhone and iPad.

P2P sync over the internet arrived.

iOS moved onto its own version track, with the version shown in Settings.

Windows can now join another device's vault. Until now, putting several devices on one vault only worked on the Mac, iPad and iPhone — the old "join an existing group" checkbox on Windows no longer joined anything at all. The Mac's flow has arrived here whole.

How a device joins. A new device asks to join with nothing but the five-word key phrase, and a device you already use approves it. The vault password is never typed on the new device, and nothing is written to disk until the approval comes through.

You join as either an owner or a participant. A participant supplies the key phrase plus a name and email, then waits for approval. Joining as an owner needs the separate owner password and connects straight away, without approval. Each device sets its own lock password.

The start screen is now Create · Open · Join. When you create a vault it first checks whether the folder you picked can hold one, and warns you if a cloud drive such as OneDrive is already syncing that folder (a warning, not a block). Open shows that vault's key phrase, with a copy button, before it asks for the password — you should not have to unlock a vault just to get the phrase that invites another device.

Settings ▸ Vault now lists the people on it. You can see who has joined and which devices each of them uses, set a participant's per-section permissions, and remove someone. An owner can also change the owner password here.

A device that has been removed locks the vault and asks whether to move its copy to the Recycle Bin or leave it. That is the Recycle Bin, not a permanent delete, and only that device's copy moves. A device that leaves and is approved again reuses its original folder, so it does not download every note a second time.

The version goes from 0.24.0 to 0.26.0 to line up with the Mac and iPhone again.

Windows now does what the Mac does. The version number rejoins the Mac and iPhone line too. Coming from 0.21.2, everything below arrives at once.

To-dos and Attachments pages join the sidebar. To-dos gathers every checklist item scattered across the vault, grouped by the note it came from; tick one here and the original note is updated. Attachments lists every file in the vault with how many notes use it, its size and when it was added, finds files by their own name or the name of the note they belong to, and lets you delete the ones nothing references. Both rows can be hidden from the sidebar settings.

Drag files in to attach them. Drag a file from File Explorer or any other app and it attaches wherever you drop it — on a folder or a note in the sidebar, into the file list of a folder view, or onto a tab at the top. Hover over a tab for a moment and it opens, so you can look before you drop. Drop a folder and HanNote asks once, then saves it as a folder shortcut. Several or large files show progress, and anything that could not be brought in is reported by name and reason.

A folder view now previews whatever you select. A preview panel sits on the right of the folder screen: the item's details at the top, its contents below — images and text are drawn directly, PDFs and video play in the built-in viewer. A note shows an excerpt plus its tags and counts; a subfolder tells you how many of each thing it holds. Drag the divider to change the width, and the width and whether the panel is open survive a restart.

More things can be imported. Evernote exports (.enex), web pages (HTML), ebooks (EPUB), and whole folders. Pick a folder and HanNote walks through it, importing each file the way its kind deserves and mirroring the subfolder structure as it goes. If HTML is in the mix it asks once whether to convert those to notes or keep them as files. One file failing does not stop the rest, and anything skipped is reported at the end. Imports of files with non-Latin names no longer fail.

PDF markup inside a note is saved to the file. Highlights, drawings, text you add and form fields you fill are now written into the PDF itself. Until now they only existed on screen and the file was left untouched.

Editor improvements. Bookmark cards made by pasting a URL now fetch the page's title, description and image. The editor's own attach-file button works, and files picked that way go through the same path as dropped ones. Ctrl+K inside a note opens vault-wide search, and while the find bar is up Esc closes it instead of leaving reading mode.

Toggle lists arrived — a block you can fold, so a long note can keep its details hidden until you want them.

Lists line up. Bullets, numbers, to-dos, and toggles all start at the same place, and a number that grows to two or three digits no longer pushes the line across. The first item can be indented now, and Shift+Tab steps the indent back one level instead of dropping the list entirely.

Colors moved into the toolbar. Text color and highlight are a click away in the top toolbar, along with a toggle-list button, and the color grid and link box open inside the note instead of running off the edge of the screen.

Pasting keeps its place. Paste several paragraphs at an indented spot and all of them land at that level, without the stray empty line that used to appear after the first one. Callouts also line their icon up with the first line, and the background-color dot moved to the top-right corner so a one-line callout no longer stands two lines tall.

Settings can set the base font weight for the sidebar and the note body, sorting a folder-list column is remembered, and the sidebar line spacing now actually saves.

The editor and the graph now speak your language. Until now only the app chrome was translated on Windows while the note editor and graph labels stayed English. Both follow the system language now, and switching languages relabels open notes right away.

The sidebar matches macOS. Favorites is a block inside the sidebar that you can collapse, and dragging its header — or Move up / Move down — reorders it among daily notes, unfiled notes, and your sections. That order now syncs between devices. Tags moved into the sidebar too, sitting just above the graph.

Collapsing a folder or a section no longer freezes the app for a few seconds — which used to happen most often while a sync was running.

Creating a vault shows its key phrase first. You can copy the five words another device needs before you start writing.

The graph can show sections as nodes (the toggle is remembered), section and folder names stay readable as you zoom out, and hovering a node shows its name. If sync fails to start, Settings ▸ Sync now says why instead of just looking like an empty network. The HanNote wordmark on the lock screen and the About dialog follows the app icon's color.

Typing is smoother. The editor toolbars no longer rebuild on every keystroke, so typing keeps up even in long notes with hundreds of blocks. The color, highlight, link, and @ popovers on the selection toolbar now open on the first click instead of sometimes needing two.

A broad pass over storage and sync reliability. Everything written to the vault now reaches the disk, so a crash or a power loss can't cost you the last change. Deleted notes no longer come back, a single failed read no longer wipes favorites on every device, and one device with a skewed clock no longer stalls syncing for all of them. A damaged index also stops blaming your password.

The version number now matches macOS and iOS. Windows reached feature parity, so 0.8.1 is followed by 0.19.0. Here is what arrived on Windows in between.

Sections arrived — a grouping level above folders, so you can gather related folders and tidy up the sidebar. You can create, rename, reorder, and delete them, and the collapse arrow is now the same macOS-style chevron at the size of a folder name, which makes it far easier to hit.

Reading mode arrived. It opens a note read-only across the panel; Ctrl++/-/0 adjusts the text size and Esc leaves.

Printing (Ctrl+P) and note version history arrived — pick an earlier revision in the info panel and restore it.

Settings gained a General tab for how notes open and the daily-note date format, and the Help menu opens the manual directly. The brief freeze when launching the app or turning sync on is gone, PowerPoint import now works however the app was launched, and the update check only tells you about a genuinely newer release.

Tags arrived — a Tags section in the sidebar, a page collecting the notes for a tag, and a tag line in each note. An update check came with it, so the app tells you when a new version is available. The editor toolbars were also redrawn as a single monochrome icon set that follows the text color, and a Table button was added.

A calendar panel with daily notes, offering Monthly, Weekly, Daily, and List views. Today's note opens or is created in one step.

A link graph in the sidebar. Clicking a node opens that note, and the list of documents pointing at a note works too. Fixed a blank screen when reopening the app.

Editor tables are supported.

Saving a drawing block, inserting images, and dragging images into a note all work.

Fixed PowerPoint import so it actually works on Windows.

PowerPoint import arrived.

Names containing numbers sort in natural order.

A folder-contents view with Name, Modified, and Created columns.

Trash and the unfiled-notes view arrived. Fixed the UI freezing during a burst of sync activity.

The note background image stays pinned to the panel, cover height is adjustable, and a native color picker is used. Links in the editor open in your default browser.

The first stamped version, with settings parity with macOS, automatic unlock, import and export, and a per-user installer that needs no admin rights.