Changelog · SideNotes

v0.3.0

May 2026Latest

Mermaid diagrams, image + PDF viewer, todo notes with progress, virtual Year/Month grouping for daily notes, and a hard fix for an external-edit data-loss path.

New

Mermaid diagrams, flowcharts, sequence, gantt and more render live inside ```mermaid code blocks, themed to the active palette
Image + PDF viewer, click any .png/.jpg/.gif/.webp/.svg/.bmp/.avif/.pdf in the file tree to open it in a tab (PDFs use Chromium’s built-in viewer)
Todo notes, files under any /todos/ folder (or named todos.md) get a dedicated header with live task counts, progress bar, and an Add task affordance
Daily notes auto-group by Year / Month in the sidebar, purely visual, files stay flat on disk so iCloud, Dropbox, and git don’t see a thing
Markdown variants, .markdown, .mdx, .mdown, .mkd, .mkdn, .mdwn all index and open in the editor
Carbon · dark is now the default theme on fresh installs

Fixed

Critical data-loss path, editing a file outside SideNotes (iCloud, Dropbox, git checkout, another editor) no longer gets silently clobbered by the open tab’s stale buffer, the editor reloads on external change and preserves unsaved local edits on conflict
Rename, new note, new folder, new canvas, and link dialogs no longer crash on Electron’s disabled window.prompt, replaced with a themed in-app dialog
Native confirm() and alert() replaced with a styled confirmation modal and a non-blocking toast
Right-click rename now preserves the original extension instead of forcing .md (canvas, mdx, markdown renames work correctly)
Tab strip updates correctly after rename; stale tabs pointing at deleted files close themselves instead of looping read errors
Task checkbox color follows the active theme accent (was a hardcoded blue)
Daily-note and todo task counts no longer stuck at 0 on file load
vault:// image resolver now finds attachments at common publish-site paths (blog/<slug>/foo.png resolves to blogs/images/<slug>/foo.png)
Custom-styled checkboxes replace the heavy native OS chrome inside the task list

Removed

Placeholder "Add weather / Add meetings / Add reading" chips on daily notes, replaced with live Words / Tasks / Streak counters driven from the editor

v0.2.0

May 2026

Outline, smarter file-watching, and a cleaner editor, minor version, real polish.

New

Outline panel, live table of contents alongside every markdown note
Folder changes made outside SideNotes (addDir / unlinkDir) now sync to the sidebar instantly
Deleting a file externally now closes its tab and focuses the next one

Fixed

⌘N, daily note, and "new from template" now open a tab immediately
Canvas edge handles now render the correct colour (bg-link was being purged by Tailwind)
Daily note header no longer double-reads energy mood from localStorage on mount

Removed

Redundant BacklinksPanel (superseded by Connections panel)
Dead dirname / slugify utilities and unused fsWatch import
Placeholder "Pinned" nav item with no action
Unused exports: WikilinkCandidate, SlashCommand interface, dismissMention()

v0.1.0

Apr 2026

First public release. The whole second brain, in one box.

New

Vault-based markdown editor with TipTap + live markdown serialisation
Wikilinks [[note]], #tags, daily notes with mood + streak tracking
Graph view (Sigma.js + ForceAtlas2), Canvas view (React Flow)
Connections panel, backlinks and outgoing links with inline excerpts
Multi-theme picker: Paper, Ink, Forest, Dusk, Carbon, Rose
Focus mode, command palette (⌘K), slash menu (/), keyboard shortcuts (⌘/)
Export as PDF, HTML, Markdown
Templates folder support
Drag-and-drop file moves, inline image paste/drop, context menus