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Release log

What’s new

Everything that has shipped, with the fixes listed beside the features. A release note that only lists wins is an advertisement.

Skein 1.1.1

Pictures, tickable tasks, and an editor that gets out of the way.

Added

  • Pictures on a canvas. Drag one in, paste one from the clipboard, or drop one from Finder - it is copied into your vault and drawn at its own aspect ratio. Double-click opens it in Preview.
  • Images in notes are never upscaled now, and adding |400 inside an embed sets a width.
  • Tasks you can tick. A dash and a pair of brackets is a real checkbox in the editor and in reading mode, and ticking one rewrites a single character in the file.
  • Focus mode dims everything but the paragraph you are in. Typewriter mode keeps the line you are writing in the middle of the window.
  • A formatting bar that appears only when text is selected: bold, italic, strikethrough, highlight, code, link, link-to-note.
  • Highlight and strikethrough are now understood everywhere - the editor, reading mode and the HTML export.
  • Your own colour on a canvas. Twelve hues, all pitched to carry across a board without fighting the six quiet presets.
  • Walk the journal with Command-Option-Left and Right, or jump to a date with Command-Option-D.
  • A note opened from a canvas card now appears beside the board instead of replacing it.
  • Light, Dark or Follow System in Settings.

Fixed

  • Connecting two cards on a canvas failed when the second click landed on a note card or a picture - it opened the file instead of drawing the edge.
  • The note-completion list appeared in the wrong place when the sidebar was open, which is also why clicking a row seemed to do nothing.
  • The note-completion and slash-command lists had no keyboard at all. Up, Down, Return, Tab and Escape all work now.
  • The canvas toolbars sat too close to the window edge, on top of the scroller.
  • The inspector and graph panel were opaque while the sidebar was translucent, leaving a seam down the right-hand side of the window.

Skein 1.1.0

Everything Obsidian's most-installed plugins do, in core.

Added

  • An infinite canvas, in the open JSON Canvas format that Obsidian also writes.
  • Live queries: a fenced block that asks your vault a question and renders the answer as a list, table, board or calendar.
  • A table editor with Tab, Shift-Tab and Return, and tables that render in reading mode.
  • Callouts - all thirteen types, with folding.
  • Templates with dates, the note's own title, a cursor position, and questions the template asks when you use it.
  • Quick capture from any app with Option-Command-Space.
  • Import from Notion: ids stripped, links rewritten as wikilinks, databases turned into tables.

Skein 1.0.2

Fixes from the first day in other people's hands.

Skein 1.0.1

The first public release.

Always the latest build.

10.5 MB· macOS 14+ · Free

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