Release Announcement

发布声明

• Editor
  • Support smart GFM table;
  • support auto scrolling cursor into center;
  • Support specifying font via settings to override style config;
  • Guess image title from the file name;
  • Support ~~~ as fenced code block marker;
• MathJax
  • Support equation number;
  • Support \begin and \end directly;
  • Support $..$ in \text{} within $$...$$;
• NotebookPanel: support spliting file list out;
• Add openGL option in settings on Windows;
• Markdown-it
  • Support alert text via markdown-it-container plugin;
• Support WaveDrom for digital timing diagram;

Welcome to join VNote@Slack!

1. Keyboard Layout Mapping

VNote supports specifying keyboard layout mapping which will be used in shortcuts. This will enable Captain mode in some layouts, such as Russian or French.

2. More Powerful Parse&Paste

• VNote will fetch images to local when pasting HTML;
• Support pasting from Microsoft Excel as table;
• Support pasting formula from Zhihu;
• Support pasting images from OneNote;

3. More Handy Editor

3.1. Scaling Image on Insert

3.2. Attach and Insert Link

When dropping a file in the editor, VNote allow us to attach that file as attachment and insert the relative link to that attachment. Really handy, right?

4. Others

• Ctrl+Shift+V to paste as plain text;
• Fix Unicode (emoji) issue. VNote now supports inserting emoji directly.
• Support equation number of MathJax formulas;
• Support Drag&Drop to copy/move notes;
• Fix blurry toolbar icon on macOS;
• Fix blurry rendering in read mode on Windows;

ATTENTION: Please Reset Layout in the settings dialog after updates.

1. A Small Target: 10K Lines

Improve performance of editor to be able to handle notes having 10K lines.

2. Completion

We now have Vim-like completion in editor. Press Ctrl+N or Ctrl+P to pop up the completion. For more shortcuts, please refer to the help menu.

3. Build Notebook from External Directory

When you create a notebook, you could choose an existing directory as the root folder. VNote will add all the folders and files recursively. Please note that there should be NO files right under the root directory.

4. Use <mark> to Add Some Colors

If you really need to highlight some words, you could now use <mark>vnote</mark> to mark that word.

1. ATTENTION

You may need to refine your customized theme. Please refer to the default themes for reference.

2. Expanded Level of Outline

We could specify the expanded level of Outline. It is useful to auto-fold some headings in a huge note.

3. Explorer

• Support searching contents of files in the Explorer root directory in the Search dock widget and Universal Entry;
  
• Support Drag&Drop a directory to Explorer to open it;
• Support Vim-like navigation;

4. MathJax

• We do not need to escape characters at all;
• We now have more identical behaviors in both edit and read mode;

5. Highlighter

• Multi-Threaded highlighter for more instant, efficient, and responsive highlight;
• Support YAML Front Matter in edit mode;
  
• Support background for HRULE in edit mode
  

6. Others

• Ctrl+; instead of Ctrl+K to insert inline code;
• Ctrl+J/K to scroll page up/down in both edit and read mode;

1. Tags

VNote supports tags for notes now. Tags will be shown at the bottom right corner. Click the tag edit and press Enter to add a tag.

You could use Navigation Mode to view all tags and add a tag without using mouse.

VNote supports browsing tags and notes in the navigation panel.

We could search tags conveniently by UniversalEntry or Search.

2. View Images in Read Mode

We could double-click an image or diagram in read mode to view and zoom it.

3. Others

• Add test buttons for PlantUML and Graphviz configuration in settings dialog;
• CaptainMode: Ctrl+E Y to focus to edit area;

1. Another Dark Theme v_detorte

Now we introduce another dark theme v_detorte from a Vim color scheme detorte.

It is more eye-friendly than v_moonlight in day time.

2. Others

• Explorer: fix the crash when no root entry is set;
• Support maximizing split Ctrl+E Shift+| and distributing splits Ctrl+E =;
• Support hiding tool bar Ctrl+E Shift+#;

ATTENTION: you may need to drag the handle of the edit area or reset the layout after upgrading to 1.17.

1. History

VNote supports browsing the history of notes and folders.

We could also pin some important notes there.

We could access History in Universal Entry by key j.

2. Explorer

Though we always emphasize that VNote is a note-taking application instead of a Markdown editor, VNote now supports browsing external files by Explorer.

3. View Order of Notes

We now support specifying different orders to view notes.

4. Others

• Support specifying relative path for a notebook;
• Fix input method issue on macOS for Universal Entry;
• Support customized zoom delta of editor;
• Better support for hiDPI;
• Support stay-on-top;

• Markdown-it: supports specifying image size (please refer to the Markdown guide help docs), emoji, and YAML metadata;
• Bug fixes;

1. Support PlantUML and Graphviz

Now you could enjoy PlantUML and Graphviz in VNote! You could use online PlantUML server or local JAR. Pay attention to the privacy issue if you choose online service.

Please reference to the Markdown guide help for details.

2. In-Place Preview for MathJax and Diagrams

Besides images, VNote now support in-place preview for MathJax, PlantUML, Graphviz, and Flowchart.js.

3. Live-Preview for Diagrams

To help drawing a large diagrams, VNote provide a side-by-side live-preview panel. Press Ctrl+E I to trigger it.

4. Embedding Images in exported HTML

VNote could embed images in exprted HTML as data URI, which enables you to share your notes in just a few HTML files without image folders.

5. Others

• Restore cursor position when recovering pages at startup;
• UniversalEntry
  • Ctrl+I to expand/collapse current item;
  • Ctrl+L to go to current item's parent item;
• Markdown-it: aware of YAML format metadata in notes;
• Show hovered link in status line in read mode;

Don't forget to advertise VNote to your friends! :)

1. Universal Entry

Universal Entry is an entry to nearly everything by just typing. Each built-in entry has a unique character as the Entry Key. Type the entry key, then type the command, the command will be passed to that entry.

To call out the Universal Entry, just press Ctrl+G.

Press ? to view the help information about Universal Entry. For example, we press e to search the name of folders and notes in current notebook.

2. Others

• Single click a note in note list to open it in a new tab by default;
• Translate Ctrl in default shortcuts to Meta on macOS. From now on, you could just press Control on macOS as on Windows and Linux;
• Do not copy files when import them if they locate in current folder;

A screen cast of Universal Entry:

1. Full-Text Search

VNote now comes with built-in full-text search! You could call out the search dock by Ctrl+E C or Ctrl+Alt+F.

VNote provides many advanced search functions, such as && and || logical operations, fuzzy search, and regular expression. The search could target different objects, such as name and content, note and folder, and so on.

2. Enhanced Export

Now you could export several notes into one PDF via wkhtmltopdf. You need to download wkhtmltopdf yourself (the version built with patched Qt is preferred).

Besides wkhtmltopdf, VNote now enables Custom export, which means you could use whatever tool you like to export (or process) your notes. An example about how to export notes via Pandoc will be available soon in VNote's documentation.

3. Others

• Support Word Count information in both read and edit mode;
  
• Replace v_white theme with v_native, which behaves more like native applications;
• Support SavePage action in read mode;
• Support back reference in replace text via \1, \2, and so on;
• Support sorting in Cart;
• Support sorting notes and folders via name or modification date;
• Support both flow and flowchart as the language of flowchart.js diagram;
• Add PasteAsBlockQuote menu action to paste text as block quote from clipboard;
• Add options for Markdown-it to support subscript and superscript;
• Better support for 4K display;

• Combine EditNote and SaveExitNote as EditReadNote (Ctrl+T);
• Support exporting notes as Markdown, HTML, and PDF;
• Support simple search in directory tree, file list, and outline;
• Support copying selected text as HTML in edit mode;
• Support copying text to Evernote, OneNote, Word, WeChat Public Account editor and so on;
• Support auto-save;
• Support fullscreen mode and hiding menu bar;
• Support Ctrl+H/W/U to delete text in most line edits;
• Support zooming in/out in edit mode;
• Support MathJax in fenced code block with language mathjax specified;
• More shortcuts;
• Add Cart to collect notes for further processing;
• Output built-in themes on start of VNote;
• Esc to exit edit mode when Vim mode is disabled;
• Support Vim command line for search in read mode;
• Support printing;
• Single click in file list to open file in current tab, double clicks to open in a new tab;

• Refine copy function in read mode. Better support for copying and pasting into OneNote or WeChat editor;
• Do not highlight code blocks without language specified by default;
• Refine themes and styles;
• Support foreground for selected/searched word in MDHL style;
• Support shortcuts for external programs;
• Support resetting VNote;
• Cover more scenarios for Chinese translations;