Release Notes

LingMark now keeps itself up to date: it looks for new versions and asks before installing one. Settings is sorted into categories with a search across them, and is calmer to read. And Burmese has room everywhere, in note names and in the interface.

Updates

• LingMark keeps itself up to date. When it opens, and once a day, it looks for a new version and asks before installing it: Install Update downloads it, saves your notes and relaunches; Remind Me Later asks again next time; Skip This Version stays quiet until the one after. LingMark ▸ Check for Updates… looks straight away, and Settings ▸ General turns the automatic check off.
• Coming from an earlier version, download this one from the website once; from here on, LingMark updates itself.

Settings

• Settings has categories and a search. General, Appearance, Editor, Files & Links, Source Control and Reader sit down the side, and the search field above them finds any setting by a word from its name, its choices or the sentence under it, across every category at once, with the words that matched highlighted. English words find settings in every language. ⌘F puts the cursor in the search field, Escape clears it, and Settings opens on the category you used last.
• Settings is calmer and more compact. Each category's settings sit together in rounded panels, with the name and a short description on the left and the switch or menu on the right. The language is a menu now, so the list can grow.

Languages

• Burmese names get room everywhere a note’s name is shown. A note or folder named in Burmese (whatever language LingMark is in) now shows its stacked letters whole in the note’s title, its tab, the path above it and the sidebar, instead of having their tops and bottoms cut off.
• Burmese has room in every button and label. When LingMark is in Burmese, the Vault and Trash switch, the section labels, the sort button, the status bar and every other control now use the same taller lines as the rest of the interface, so no letters are cut off.

Fixed

• Paper Mode's note named a theme that no longer exists. On a light theme it suggested switching to Phosphor; it now suggests Nocturne, Lamplight or Retro Black.
• Every answer in a question stays on one line. A confirmation now widens to fit its buttons, so a long answer is no longer broken over two lines.

Not in this release

The same as 1.0.3: Intel Macs, iPhone and iPad, and sync between devices.

LingMark in your language. Choose it on the first screen or in Settings, and the whole app follows: every menu, button, dialog and message, the Mac menu bar included. And nothing you type is lost when you quit.

Languages

• Eight languages: English (US), English (UK), English (Australia), 简体中文, 日本語, Español (Latinoamérica), Deutsch and မြန်မာ. New installs start in English (US); if LingMark was already on your Mac it stays in English (Australia), as it was.
• Choose on the first screen or in Settings ▸ Language. LingMark saves your notes, then reloads in the language you chose. Restore Default goes back to English (US).
• Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, German and Burmese were translated automatically and have not yet been reviewed by a person, so some wording may read oddly. The chooser says so beside each of them.
• When LingMark is in Burmese, its menus, buttons and dialogs use taller lines, so stacked letters have room. Burmese you write in a note uses the editor’s usual spacing.
• In any English, dates keep your Mac’s own format. In another language they are written in that language, in your Mac’s region.
• Your notes are never translated or changed: the language is a setting on this Mac, not something written into your vault.

Writing

• Save is back on ⌘S, in the File menu and the palette, and in Source Control's diff editor as well. Notes still save themselves as you type; Save finishes any write that is still on its way, and tries again if the last one did not reach the disk.
• Quitting no longer loses the last thing you typed. Quitting, logging out or closing the window now waits for your latest edit to be written first. You will not notice it when all goes well; if a note cannot be saved, LingMark tells you why and lets you stay.
• Closing a dialog puts you back where you were typing. Before, the cursor went nowhere until you clicked the note again.
• The note's save status tells you what is happening. It says Autosaving while you type, Autosaved for a moment when your words reach the disk, a green Saved after ⌘S, and Unsaved changes only if a note could not be written.

Fixed

• A menu command no longer runs twice. On some launches, choosing an item from the menu bar did it two or three times (two new notes instead of one, say) until you quit.
• Search tells different words apart in Japanese, Thai, Khmer, Burmese and Hindi. It used to treat some of their vowel and tone marks as optional and match words that only looked alike; now only the marks a reader of that script would skip are ignored.

Not in this release

The same as 1.0.2: Intel Macs, iPhone and iPad, and sync between devices.

For notes that came from somewhere else. A vault copied in from another app (a folder of Markdown written by other tools, with their front matter, their comments and their prices) now reads right and stays exactly as written when you edit it.

Reading

• A dollar sign in prose is a dollar sign. 139$ + 129$, $100, and prices on separate lines no longer turn into maths; $x$ still does, by the rule other apps use
• An HTML comment (<!-- like this -->) is dimmed while you write and hidden while you read, instead of appearing as a sentence
• Front matter is read properly: tags and aliases written as lists, quoted values, dates. A block that is not valid YAML (a key written twice, say) is pointed out in the inspector's Markdown Checks with the line and the key, and left exactly as it is

Writing

• Editing a note keeps the bytes you did not change. Words like sys_id no longer gain a backslash, a price never becomes 159\$, a leading space is never written as  , the blank line after the front matter stays, and so do the newlines at the end of the file

Your vault

• Rename a note in the file browser after editing it here and it is still the same note, favourite, pin and all
• A note's created date is the best evidence there is: its own created property, then the file's real creation date, then its modification date. A copied vault sorts by Created the way the file browser does
• A remembered vault whose .lingmark folder has gone is offered Create Vault Here on the first screen rather than a dead end

Links

• A name that two notes answer to opens, links and draws the same note everywhere (the one nearest the note you are in) and the graph still shows that the name was ambiguous

Not in this release

The same as 1.0.1: Intel Macs, iPhone and iPad, and sync between devices.

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)