Release Notes

A wording release. Nothing about how LingMark behaves has changed; what it says has.

In LingMark's own words

• Every label, menu item, dialogue, tooltip and error message in the app was read, and wherever one named another product or repeated another app's sentence it was rewritten. LingMark now describes what it does in its own words throughout
• Source control's questions and warnings say plainly what will happen: discarding changes, force pushing, undoing a merge commit, dropping a stash, completing a merge, publishing a branch, and what to do when a file was deleted on one side and changed on the other
• Menu items and buttons follow one style: Initialise Git Repository, Clone Git Repository…, the note list's sort orders and filters, More Actions, Stage Hunk, Always Update, Update Once and Don't Update
• Reveal in Library is the item that shows a file in the vault's own tree; the item that shows it in the Mac's file browser keeps its name
• The inspector describes a table or a task list as a common Markdown extension rather than by the name of a website
• A refused worktree removal now reads correctly when more than one thing is uncommitted

Also on this website

• Sections of the landing page no longer stay invisible after a fast scroll

Not in this release

The same as 1.0.0: Intel Macs, iPhone and iPad, and sync between devices.

The first release of LingMark for the Mac. Your notes are plain Markdown files in a folder you choose, and the app never rewrites a line you did not touch.

Writing

• A rich editor that shows headings, lists, tasks, quotes, tables, code, maths and diagrams as they will read, and writes plain Markdown underneath. Anything you did not touch keeps its exact spelling when the note is saved
• A Markdown source view with syntax colours, folding, and find and replace, and a switch between the two in the note's header. The rich editor is the default
• Editor, Split and Reader layouts; in split view the two halves scroll together
• A formatting bar and a Format menu with the shortcuts you already know, a / menu at the caret for every block kind, and a grip beside every block to select, move, duplicate or delete it
• Lists nested with Tab, numbered lists that start where you wrote them, callouts drawn as tinted boxes, tables you can grow with Tab
• Maths rendered in place, Mermaid diagrams drawn as you type, code blocks with a language picker and a Copy button
• Wiki links and tags completed as you type; clicking a link to a note that does not exist creates it

Pictures and files

• Attachments follow the rules your vault already has: where a file lands and how its link is written are settings in the same terms other Markdown vault apps use, so a folder you already keep opens as it is
• Attach from a picker, a paste or a drag; pictures draw inline and resize by a corner; a lightbox with zoom, pan and arrow keys; PDFs, audio and video play in place
• Remove takes a picture out of the note and never touches the file; Delete asks first. Renaming or moving a file updates every link to it

Your vault

• Open any folder as a vault, or create one. The disk, a volume or your home folder is refused with a reason; a folder of tens of thousands of files is a question before it is a wait
• A tree with drag-and-drop, right-click menus and multi-select; Favourites and Pinned; a Trash that restores and says how much emptying destroys
• Six thousand notes open in one pass. Renaming a note updates every link to it, journalled so a crash half-way is recoverable. Edits made outside the app are noticed and merged

Finding things

• A quick switcher (⌘O), full-text search (⇧⌘F) with a query language, and a command palette (⇧⌘P) listing every command with its keys
• Search works in Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Lao, Khmer and Burmese

The graph

• A knowledge graph of the whole vault, and a note's own neighbourhood as its own tab
• Filters, colour groups, display and force controls, plus named clusters, Hold in Place, a shortest path between two notes, and Animate, which grows the graph from your oldest note to your newest

Boards

• A note carrying the Kanban marker opens as a board: lanes, cards, drag between them, work-in-progress limits, sprints, an archive, and board, table, list, reports and timeline views. Card metadata such as due dates and priorities is read and written in the dialect the file already uses

Reading files outside the vault

• Open any Markdown file on your Mac and read it, rich or source. Double-click a .md in Finder and it opens here. The original is never changed; Import to Vault copies the text in

Source control

• A vault that is a git repository gets full source control inside the app: changes, staging, commit and push, pull three ways, branches and remotes, a side-by-side diff, history, a merge editor, blame and a status bar
• Sign in to GitHub and publish a repository from the app. All of it runs inside the app; no git needs to be installed

Themes, help and privacy

• Six themes, Daylight, Nocturne and Lamplight free, Cherry, Retro White and Retro Black premium, and Paper Mode for the dark ones. The window's own chrome follows the theme
• A Help menu: LingMark Help, Release Notes, Keyboard Shortcuts, and Contact Us…, which writes an email to support that you read before it is sent, with diagnostics only if you tick the box and never anything from your vault
• The app makes no network connection of its own and collects nothing

Not in this release

• Sync. The end-to-end encrypted engine is built and tested; its server and its screens arrive with the iPhone and iPad app
• iPhone, iPad, Windows and Android. macOS first. Intel Macs are not supported in 1.0
• Print, zoom, presentation mode and multiple windows. Find in the rich editor: it is in the source view (⌘F)