All notable changes to Gravity Notes are documented here. The format follows Keep a Changelog, and the project aims to adhere to Semantic Versioning.

• Markdown clipboard — copy selected text as Markdown with ⌘C; paste Markdown or rich text with ⌘V. Add Shift to copy or paste plain text, removing Markdown syntax and formatting. Works in both editor modes, with native clipboard access in the desktop app (Ctrl outside macOS).
• Other files in folders — extensionless and non-Markdown files appear as muted, non-editable rows with full filenames and separate counts. Reveal them in Finder on desktop.
• Optional spellcheck — enable “Check spelling” in Settings for either editor mode.

• Deleting an empty folder now asks for confirmation, with Cancel focused by default. Housekeeping files such as .gnkeep and .DS_Store are removed with the folder without another prompt.

• Folders containing only housekeeping files can be deleted. Other hidden contents remain protected, and a failed deletion identifies the blocking entry.
• Creating or renaming a note cannot produce a hidden dotfile, including titles such as ./.hidden and .. .idea that previously disappeared from the list after a refresh.

• Folder rail alignment — note counts now sit flush with the rail's edge instead of floating a column away from it, and a long folder name's ellipsis runs right up to its count. The ⋯ menu takes the count's place on hover or keyboard focus rather than reserving a slot beside it, so the row reads as name → count at rest. Tab still steps from a focused row straight into its menu button.

• Resizable side panels — drag the divider on either edge (folder rail ↔ note list, note list ↔ editor) to resize the panel to its left; the widths are remembered per workspace. Double-click a divider to reset it to the default. The dividers are keyboard-reachable too: Tab to one, then arrow keys step the width and Home/End jump to the ends of the range. The editor always keeps room for itself, and dragging the list narrow folds the New button down to its icon so the sort control stays readable.
• Mobile / narrow-window layout — on viewports 700px and under (a phone, or a desktop window dragged narrow) the app switches to a single-pane view: the note list fills the screen, tapping a note slides to a full-width editor with a ‹ back button, and the folder picker opens as a drawer over a dimmed backdrop. Swipe from the left edge to go back — the pane follows your finger and settles either way on release. One top bar serves both panes (orb · search, with back and the note's ⋯ where they apply) at a fixed height, so nothing shifts as you navigate. The desktop three-pane layout is unchanged above that width, and the desktop app's minimum window size was lowered so it can be sized down to a narrow column.
• Notion-style checkboxes — task lists render as proper rounded checkboxes that follow the app accent, in both the editor and the read-only preview (where [ ] / [x] previously leaked through as literal text).
• Double-click a note row to open it in its own window (desktop).

• Dialogs now fit a phone screen instead of overflowing it, and the keyboard-shortcuts sheet is hidden on touch devices (where there's no keyboard to shortcut with) — gated on the pointer, so a narrow desktop window keeps it.

• The software updater can no longer hang forever — a stalled check or download now times out and can be retried, instead of leaving "Checking for updates…" / "Updating…" latched on screen.
• Icon-picker polish, and assorted touch-input fixes found while testing on a real device (taps no longer needing a second try, tap targets no longer swallowed by an oversized invisible button, Reduce Motion respected by the pane transition).

• Live file-watching (desktop) — edits made to your notes folder outside the app (another editor, a sync client, or a second Gravity Notes window) now show up automatically, with no manual reload. If the note you're editing changes on disk or is deleted underneath you, the app detects it and surfaces a conflict banner instead of silently clobbering or losing your work.
• Per-note windows (desktop) — open any note in its own window, Apple-Notes style, with ⌘↵, ⌘-click on a list row, or the row's ⋯ menu. A note window opens with both side panels tucked away and focus in the editor, and its title bar shows the note's name; ⌘0 (Window ▸ Main Window) brings the full workspace window back to the front.

• A round of field-testing and code-review hardening: markup-mode undo no longer bleeds between notes, typed URLs linkify more reliably, the wiki-link popups no longer get stuck while switching notes, iCloud "dataless" files are handled more gracefully, and assorted multi-window rough edges are smoothed out.

• Appearance settings — choose the note editor font (Sans — the native system font, a bundled Serif, or Mono), an accent color (amber, blue, or gray — it recolors the orb, the saving dot, the selection wash, and pins), and the text width of the reading column (narrow / normal / wide / no limit). Set them app-wide or per workspace in Settings › Appearance, and override font + width per note from the ⋯ button in the top bar (or ⌘⇧I). Per-note choices are stored with the notes folder's metadata, so they survive renames and moves, travel with the folder, and come back after trash → restore.
• Remote images — images referenced by a web URL now render in notes in the desktop app.
• Readable code highlighting in the dark theme — code blocks get a proper dark palette instead of barely-legible light-theme colors.

• Notes list redesign — a cleaner, ledger-style list: tighter rows, refined icon tiles and pinned/folder styling, and the note-appearance control moved to the top bar so it's always at hand while you scroll.
• Typography polish — the app chrome uses the native system font; each editor font carries its own tuned size and line-height; the title and body share an exact left edge.

• Traffic lights sit centered in the title bar again on macOS 26 — the system now owns their position, instead of a manual placement macOS kept undoing on every layout pass.
• Mouse selection in the editor works again (a stale guard class was eating drags).
• Clicking the blank space below a short note drops the caret at the end again, in both editor modes — instead of doing nothing and unfocusing the editor.
• Multiple windows no longer fight over settings — an appearance change made in one window isn't silently reverted by another window's later write, and other windows pick it up live.
• The note-appearance popover no longer closes when you rename or move the open note.
• The update dialog's release notes keep the app font instead of following the editor font.

• Multiple workspaces — open several note folders and move between them freely. An Open Recent submenu lists every folder you've opened; a ⌃R quick-switcher filters them (↵ to open, ⌘↵ to open in a new window, ⌘⌫ to forget one); and on the desktop app each workspace can live in its own window, several at once. Relaunch reopens your last workspace.

• The floating selection toolbar no longer goes unresponsive after switching notes.
• Folder rail polish — dropped the accent bar on the focused row, and nudged top-level folders in from the window edge so their expand arrows aren't flush against it.

• Note icons (experimental) — give any note a custom icon: pick a Gravity symbol or an emoji from a searchable picker (with full keyboard navigation), and it shows in the note list and beside the title. Turn it on in Settings › Show note icons.
• Settings dialog (⌘,) — a new preferences sheet, also reachable from the menu, with toggles for note icons and the editor toolbar.
• Optional editor toolbar — switch on a sticky formatting toolbar above the note (Settings › Show editor toolbar); it stays hidden by default so the surface remains markdown-first, and sticks to the top with a hairline once you scroll.

• Read-only preview (⌘⇧P) now matches the editor — {% cut %} collapsibles render, colored text shows, and list spacing, typography, and the text-column width all line up with the WYSIWYG editor. Preview no longer adds a second scrollbar.

• A note's icon is preserved across trash → restore, now including across an app restart.
• ArrowUp from an empty first line hands off to the title.
• Assorted editor glitches: a toolbar caret jump, a stale preview after switching notes, and scroll/caret position when switching between notes with identical content.
• Restored the selection toolbar's heading (Text / H1–H6) picker.
• ⌘⇧P no longer strands the top bar off-screen, and clicking the title padding focuses the title again.
• Native window theme sync and dialog polish (About dialog padding, startup flash).

• Automatic updates (desktop app) — the macOS app now checks for a new release on launch and from a Check for Updates… menu item, then downloads, verifies, and installs the update in place and relaunches. Updates are delivered through GitHub Releases and verified by signature.

• Folders in the rail now start collapsed. The folder tree opens fully collapsed and remembers the folders you expand, instead of showing every nested subfolder expanded by default.

• More resilient folder-storage bootstrap when the app starts up.
• Fixed dialog rendering glitches: content no longer blanks out while a dialog closes, and the page no longer flickers when the keyboard-shortcuts dialog opens.

• Local-first storage, your choice on first run — a folder of plain .md files (native on macOS, with no per-session permission re-grant) or in-app storage. Export and import .md (single files or a zip) to move between them; folder structure and attachments are preserved both ways.
• nvALT / Notational-Velocity workflow — one box: type to search-or-create, arrow to preview, Enter to edit, Esc to step back, with inline tab-complete of the top match.
• Full-text search across note titles and bodies, ranked by relevance, with the matching passage shown as a snippet in the list.
• Nested folders — real subdirectories on disk, with a collapsible folder rail (⌘⇧\), drag-and-drop filing, pinnable folders, and a move-to picker (⌘⇧M).
• [[wiki links]] and backlinks — a [[ note picker, ⌘-click to follow a link (creating the note if it doesn't exist yet), and a "linked references" panel under each note. Stored verbatim as [[Title]], so they stay Obsidian-compatible.
• Recent-note history — ⌘[ / ⌘] to step back and forward through visited notes.
• Media attachments — drag or paste images into a note (written to a root Attachments/ folder, referenced root-relatively); resize, caption, and click-to-zoom in a shared lightbox, plus an attachments manager (usage, sort, delete) and Reveal in Finder.
• Trash — deleting moves a note to a hidden .trash/ folder you can restore from (back to its original folder) or empty (⌘⇧⌫).
• WYSIWYG + Markdown editor with a read-only preview mode, note pinning, four sort modes, duplicate (⌘D), light / dark / system themes, and a full keyboard-shortcut sheet (⌘/).
• VS Code-style native title bar for the desktop app.

• Large folders (thousands of notes) stay responsive: a shared in-memory corpus loaded once for both search and backlinks, an incremental link index, a virtualized note list, bounded-concurrency file reads, and a debounced query on big vaults.
• Snappier note switching — browse-preview opens are coalesced, and the editor previews while you browse and is reused across switches instead of being torn down and rebuilt.

• Hardened throughout via a full code audit: the autosave lifecycle, conflict handling, attachment URL-cache lifetime (including a StrictMode dev-only regression), and numerous editor and folder edge cases.