Release Notes

• Smolpad speaks Japanese. The app, its widgets, the Apple Watch app and Siri follow a device set to Japanese.
• The daily note can live in any notepad (Pro). Pick the notepad today's note is made in, and every way of opening it goes there.
• Put the formatting toolbar away (iPhone and iPad). Swipe it down behind the keyboard for more room, and tap the tab to bring it back.
• Half open, the iPhone Duo works like a laptop. The note faces you above the fold and your notes sit below it.
• More room for the note on iPad in portrait and the unfolded iPhone Duo. The sidebar slides in over the note when you want it and away when you don't.
• The note's title is a button on the Mac. Click it for the file's path, word and character counts, Rename, Copy Path and Show in Finder.
• Hide the formatting toolbar on the Mac. It folds into a small round button, and one click brings it back.
• Pin the menu bar popup (Mac). One click turns it into its own window that stays on top.
• The outline is a sidebar of its own (Mac). It slides in from the right edge, so the note keeps its width.
• Additional bug fixes.

• Notepads (Pro). A notepad is a separate set of notes with its own folders, Trash and history, and a pill at the foot of the notes list switches between them.
• Any folder on your Mac can be a notepad. Point Smolpad at an Obsidian vault or a folder of exports and it edits the files right there, with a copy that syncs to your iPhone and iPad.
• Import from Bear. A Bear export becomes a notepad of its own, pictures and dates included.
• Move a note or a folder to another notepad. It goes with its pictures and its history.
• Sync can be turned off. Notes can stay on one device, with no cloud involved.
• Notes from Obsidian and DEVONthink show their title, tags and dates. Smolpad reads them from the note's properties, and Finder tags count as tags.
• Checked tasks move to the bottom of their list. What is left to do stays on top, and Clear Completed Tasks sweeps the rest away, with Undo.
• Check a task from the Home Screen (Pro). Tap a task's box in the Open Note widget, without opening Smolpad.
• Smolpad widgets on the Mac (Pro). Open Note and Recently Edited come to the desktop and Notification Center, in your editor theme.
• Quick Look for Markdown (Mac). Select a .md file in Finder and press Space.
• Copy Path. Point another app, a script or an AI agent at a note's file, from the title on iPhone and iPad or the footer on the Mac.
• Import Files. Copy Markdown and text files from anywhere into a folder or a notepad.
• Notes keep syncing after you leave Smolpad (iPhone and iPad). With Dropbox, pCloud or Google Drive, an edit goes up in the background and your other devices' changes are already there when you come back.
• Sync trouble shows where you write. A small amber dot beside the note says when syncing needs you, and why.
• New Note, Today's Note and Search from the Home Screen. Press and hold the app icon.
• Additional bug fixes.

• A Trash folder for deleted notes. A deleted note waits in the Trash, so a mistake can be undone.
• Note history. Smolpad keeps earlier versions of every note, for free, so words lost to a sync, a mistake or a change of mind can come back.
• Ready for the iPhone Duo. Unfolded, the note list sits beside the note as it does on iPad, and folded, Smolpad is the iPhone app you know.
• Export note as a Markdown file (Pro). Save a note exactly as you wrote it, as a .md file you can keep anywhere you like.
• Select several notes at a time. Move, export or delete a batch of notes in one go.
• Home Screen widgets on iPhone and iPad (Pro). Open Note, Quick Actions and Recently Edited put a note, one-tap actions or your latest edits on the Home Screen.
• New editor font, Tiny5. Your notes can be set in Stefan Schmidt's Tiny5, which draws every letter on a grid five pixels tall.
• Clippings from the web include their source (Mac). Text you add to today's note from a web page can bring the page's title and link with it.
• Hold Command-Q to quit (Mac). A quick press only puts the panel away, so Smolpad quits when you mean it to.
• Additional bug fixes.

• An emoji picker. Find the emoji you want by its name or by what it is, right as you type.
• New slimmer list of notes using only their titles. More notes fit in the list, and the last edited date can come back if you want it.
• New emoji representation of notes. A note that starts with an emoji shows it beside its name in the list and keeps it out of the file's name.
• Additional bug fixes.

• Tables. A Markdown table lines up as a grid as you write, and can draw as a real table in one of four styles.
• pCloud and Google Drive sync (Pro). Your notes can live in pCloud or Google Drive too, as plain Markdown files synced on every device.
• Smolpad on Apple Watch (Pro). Read your notes, check off tasks, and start or add to a note from your wrist.
• Lock Screen widgets on iPhone (Pro). Search, open today's note or a note of your choice, start a new note, or open Smolpad, right from the Lock Screen.
• Shortcuts, Siri, and Spotlight. Open and search your notes with Shortcuts, Siri and Spotlight, and with Smolpad Pro, start a note or add to one too.
• Export (Pro). Save a note, or just part of one, as PDF, HTML or Rich Text, print it, or hand it to Notes, Mail or AirDrop.
• Your settings follow you. Set up your themes, editor and daily note once, and every Mac, iPhone and iPad on your iCloud account picks them up.
• More Markdown. Quotes, nested lists, footnotes, highlights, colored code and emoji shortcodes join the Markdown Smolpad draws as you write.
• Note links. Link one note to another by its title, even to a note you have not written yet.
• Archive. Put a note away in an Archive folder without deleting it.
• Add to today's note from anywhere on the Mac. A keyboard shortcut adds what you have selected in any app, or what you copied, to today's note.
• Additional bug fixes.

• A daily note, one per day. Smolpad keeps one note for each day, named by its date, and on the Mac a shortcut of your own brings today's to the front.
• A calendar for daily notes. It marks the days that have a note and opens any day's note, past or future.
• Add to Today's Note from any app on the Mac. Select text anywhere and send it straight to today's note.
• Smolpad can offer what you just copied. Text or a picture you copied elsewhere is one tap from landing in a note.
• Save the clipboard from the Home Screen. On iPhone and iPad, whatever you copied, text or a picture, becomes a new note straight from the Smolpad icon.
• Import a folder of notes. Bring a folder of Markdown and text files into Smolpad, with the originals left where they are.
• See what iCloud is doing. Settings says whether every note is synced, still on its way, or staying on this device.
• Tab nests a list item. Make sub-items in bulleted, numbered and task lists without leaving the keyboard.
• Two new editor themes, Doki Sayori and Doki Vanilla. A pale sky blue light theme and a slate violet dark one bring the count to twenty-nine.
• Additional bug fixes.

• Pictures in your notes. Put pictures right in a note's text, and they travel with the note on iCloud and Dropbox.
• A picture has its own menu. Resize a picture, find its file or delete it, right where it sits in the note.
• Tap the title to rename a note on iPhone and iPad, and the name you give it stays.
• Show in Finder, or Show in Files on iPhone and iPad, takes you to a note's file.
• Your first week of Smolpad Pro Yearly is free. Cancel any time before it ends.
• Additional bug fixes.

• Thirteen new editor themes. Solarized, GitHub, Everforest, Dracula, Afterglow, Nord and Bearded Milkshake Mint arrive, for twenty-seven themes in all.
• Five new app icons: Smol Skeuomorphic, Smol Coast, Smol Notebook, Smol Sketches and Smol Pixels.
• An outline of your note, beside it. See every heading in the note at a glance and jump to any section.
• Open Markdown files with Smolpad. Bring Markdown and text files into Smolpad, and your originals are never touched or moved.
• Reorder and file notes by hand on iPhone and iPad. Drag a note to where you want it, in the list or into a folder.
• More keyboard shortcuts. Jump to a note or to search, add a link, and see every shortcut there is, all from the keyboard.
• Markdown syntax can stay hidden for good. The markers can stay out of sight even where you are editing, as a few of you asked.
• Additional bug fixes.

• Tags. Tag notes as you write, then browse or filter by tag, and the tags stay plain text in your files.
• Word and character counts. Keep an eye on a note's words and characters as you write.
• German and French. The whole app, translated by people who actually use it.
• Pick your icon set. Choose Chonk, the hand-drawn original, or San Francisco, Apple's own symbols.
• Two new app icons: Smolpad Lemon and Smolpad Travelers.
• Search, your way. It waits as a circle in the corner until you need it, or stays open if you prefer.
• Additional bug fixes.

• Share to Smolpad. On iPhone and iPad, clip any page into the note you choose.
• Smarter names for clipped links. A note that starts with a bare URL gets named after the page, not the address.
• Font size, properly. Set the editor's text to the size you like, or let it follow the system's.
• OpenDyslexic joins the editor font choices.

Hello! Smolpad's first release. Smol Markdown notes on Mac, iPhone, and iPad:

• Plain .md files in your own iCloud Drive: no database, no lock-in, yours whether or not you keep using Smolpad.
• A menu bar home on the Mac. Click the icon, write the thought down, get back to work.
• An editor that stays out of your way, with live Markdown, tappable task lists, and folders that are real folders on disk.
• Fourteen themes, a shelf of app icons, and a free tier with every editing feature included.