Release notes

1st December, 2020

What's new

  • Improved the to-do list editing experience - allowing tasks to be split mid-line using "return" or joined to the previous or next tasks using backspace at the start of the line, or delete at the end of a line.

What's changed

  • Simplified the display of card creation and modification times in the context menu.
  • The default line colour is lighter in dark mode to provide more contrast with the canvas and cards.
  • Fixed a bug that incorrectly caused captions to be created on images while viewing them in the image modal.
  • Behind the scenes error handling improvements.
  • Fixed a bug when switching users in the Mac app.
  • Improved the speed that preview images are shown in board share emails.
  • Fixed unfurling of Instagram links, so the correct image is now returned.

24th November, 2020

What's new

  • Board, link and column titles can now have soft-newlines added, using "Shift+Return".
  • Images with captions or colour bars can now also be transparent, if the image supports transparency.

What's changed

  • Prevented a bug in the Mac app which caused occasional crashes
  • Fixed a bug in the alignment and distribution functions
  • Made the code block shortcut behave the same as the code toolbar button
  • Fixed a bug that caused the current board title to get stuck
  • Prevent certain shortcuts from firing twice after logging out and logging back in
  • Show the avatars and names of user comments in exports.

18th November, 2020

What's changed

  • When connecting columns that are aligned at their tops, with lines, the lines will now be aligned to the titles of the columns.
  • Under the hood improvements to billing and sharing.

5th November, 2020

What's changed

  • Fixed a bug in the Pro team management popup that caused the new members suggestions to appear over the input on small screens
  • Fixed a bug that caused an error when adding team members in the Pro team management popup
  • Improved exporting of lines connected to boards, or to cards inside columns

29th October, 2020

What's changed

  • Modernised the account popup styles
  • Improve line control point snapping to make it feel smoother
  • Fix a lines bug that caused Milanote to crash if two cards overlapped
  • Fix a bug that could cause column contents to reshuffle
  • Improve the reliability of high quality board exports

20th October, 2020

What's new

Lines updates: Major changes to lines are now available, with the most noteworthy listed below.

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  • Labels can be added to the centre point / control point of lines. Select a line and start typing, or use the "Label" button in the toolbar.
  • A line's weight can now be made thin or thick.
  • Lines can now be dashed.
  • Lines can be connected to specific points on cards by long hovering the card, then choosing the connection point.
  • Lines can be connected to cards inside columns, by long hovering the column and then choosing the card to connect to.
  • Lines can now be created from a card or board by selecting the card / board and using the "quick line tool" in the top right corner of the card or board.

There's also been many usability improvements for lines, including:

  • More accuracy when selecting lines with the selection marquee.
  • Preventing lines that overlap other cards from blocking clicks to the cards beneath.
  • Nicer line curves when the control point gets close to the card they're connecting to.
  • Improved accuracy when dropping line endpoints.
  • Lines no longer overlap board titles for boards that they connect to.
  • Many more minor improvements when dragging connected lines.

Breadcrumb improvements

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  • Long breadcrumbs will be collapsed when they overflow, on boards that are not in your workspace.

13th October, 2020

What's changed

  • More behind the scenes line improvements
  • Bug fix when dropping content into columns in unsorted notes.

6th October, 2020

What's changed

  • Behind the scenes line improvements

30th September, 2020

What's changed

  • Minor cosmetic bug fixes

23rd September, 2020

What's changed

  • Fixed a bug where cards couldn't be clicked due to a line elsewhere on the board.
  • Improved the selection of lines while using the marquee tool.
  • Delete connected lines if the card is deleted or moved to a new location that can't connect lines.
  • Background billing system improvements.

16th September, 2020

What's changed

  • Fixed a bug that prevented older browsers from dragging and dropping cards
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Polish diacritics from being entered in some cases

9th September, 2020

What's new

  • Save to home button: When viewing a board that you don't have a shortcut to, a button will appear that will create the shortcut in your home board.
  • Oembed discoverability - allowing services to convert published Milanote URLs into embedded boards.
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What's changed

  • iOS share bug fix: Fixed a bug that caused the iOS app to incorrectly show boards without any details in the share menu.
  • Minor line performance & drag and drop improvements

3rd September, 2020

What's changed

  • Usability Improvements for management of large pro teams
  • Fixed an error caused by lots of people reacting to a card 👍
  • Minor improvements to the list of recently viewed boards
  • Minor improvements to embedded boards

26th August, 2020

What's new

  • Embedded boards - Read only versions of published Milanote boards can now be embedded in external sites. Make sure you check the "Generate HTML embed code" when publishing to get the code for your site.
  • Shortcuts - The Milanote shortcuts have been revisited to make them more consistent, more discoverable and in some cases more powerful! Browse the shortcuts by pressing the / key to open the new shortcuts modal.
    Some of the most popular new additions include:
    If a single note, comment, board or column is selected or being edited, another can be created using Cmd+Return (Mac) or Ctrl+Return (Windows).
    Return will start editing if a single card is selected.
    Space will navigate to the selected board or open the selected image.
  • Recent boards: Pro users will now see a list of recently visited boards when they first open the search popup.

19th August, 2020

What's changed

  • Fixed a bug causing tasks to disappear when they're dropped between task lists
  • All shared users (even those that used the old sharing methods) will now be shown in the editors list.
  • Minor bug fixes

12th August, 2020

What's new

  • The desktop canvas view can now be viewed on the mobile web site. Click "Switch to desktop view" in the account popup.
  • The Milanote Web Clipper has been restyled to match the web app redesign

What's changed

  • Improvements to transparent image detection.
  • Improved Instagram caption retrieval.
  • Minor performance, error handling and cosmetic tweaks.

4th August, 2020

What's new

  • All cards can now be locked in place via a new context menu item "Lock position"

What's changed

  • Page load performance improvements for subscribed users with large amounts of content.
  • Duplication improvements: Shortcuts remain as shortcuts after duplicating (Option + drag, Alt + drag, or copy / paste). A new context menu item "Duplicate the board it links to" will perform the old duplication - copying the contents of the board into a new board.
  • Fix a caching issue when choosing to "Reopen closed tab" in Chrome.
  • Minor bugs and stability improvements.

29th July, 2020

What's new

  • Code blocks - A new monospace paragraph style with horizontal scrolling.
  • Reaction indicators - notifying you which cards have new reactions.
  • Help menu option - See the current version of Milanote and link to the release notes

What's changed

  • Cards will be scrolled into view when they're edited (E.g. in unsorted notes, or outside the viewport on the canvas).
  • Editor changes will be saved on close. Previously edits to a paragraph might be lost if the browser window was closed immediately after editing.
  • Minor visual tweaks and bug fixes.

22nd July, 2020

What's new

  • View the users that have seen your published board.
  • Boards with background colours will keep the colour in the board export.
  • Orange activity indicators now give a summary of the change
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What's changed

  • The header breadcrumb will now prioritise the full path in the most common scenarios (rather than shortening the path when there's a shortcut).
  • Minor bugs and tweaks

15th July, 2020

What's changed

  • Improved the registration process for invited users