News

What's new.

Every build that reaches testers gets a few lines here — what arrived, what was fixed, what you'll notice while working. No implementation detail.

How a new build reaches you

TestFlight tells you by itself. If it doesn't, open it and tap Update next to NotaBene. The build you have is shown in the app under Settings ▸ Welcome.

build 215

Czech in the welcome tour, and a visible version number

  • The welcome tour is finally all in Czech. Until now half its text stayed in English even with the app set to Czech.
  • Settings ▸ Welcome now shows the version and build number under the icon. It is selectable, so a bug report has something to start from.
  • The app is ready for TestFlight — from this version it can go out to testers.
build 212

Blocks hold together, and the list takes arrow keys

  • Typing at the end of a block sometimes split it in two. Not any more.
  • The note list walks with the up and down arrow keys, without reaching for the mouse.
build 209

Blocks, three capture buttons and Shortcuts

  • Blocks — a tinted frame with an icon and a heading, in the middle of the text. Thirteen kinds: Tip, Warning, Todo, Quote, Question and more. What Obsidian calls a callout.
  • Three capture buttons at the top of the sidebar: new note, new task, new recording. On iPhone they are the blue circle at the bottom, the other two behind a long press.
  • A welcome tour at the first launch — seven screens on what the app does. Open it again from Settings ▸ Welcome.
  • Shortcuts at the top of the sidebar: a hand-ordered list of what you use daily — notes, notebooks, tags and saved searches together.
build 204

Stacks fold, and the iPhone looks like the iPad

  • A stack of notebooks folds like every other section in the sidebar.
  • A stack counts its notebooks, not its notes. The old number made no sense.
  • Tag, notebook and stack rows look the same on iPhone as they do on iPad.
  • Everything a swipe can do is now in the long press too — for anyone who doesn't get on with swipes.
build 198

Dragging into Shortcuts

  • Drag a note, a notebook or a tag into Shortcuts with a finger or a mouse — and an empty list can be hit too.
  • On the Mac a note can finally be picked up and dragged.

Something off?

Beta feedback is the only thing that decides what goes on this list next.

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