Changelog

All notable changes to NoteDrop will be documented in this file.

[Unreleased]

[3.1] - 2026-09-25

Added

• Duration now accepts hours as well as minutes: 45, 90 min, 1h, 1.5h, 1h 15m, 1 hr 15 mins and 1:15. Anything else shows an inline message and Save stays disabled, so a note is never filed without its time. The hint beside the field shows the minutes, the rounded billing time and the number of billing units
• Settings › Filing › Finder: a Finder Automation status row, with a button to allow access or open Privacy & Security › Automation
• The note panel shows where the note will be filed ("Matter › Correspondence", full path on hover) with a Change… menu listing the matter's subfolders, the matter folder itself and Other…. Any unsaved draft moves with the note
• When a folder doesn't look like a matter (and your profile expects matter folders), the panel says "No matter number detected — saving to " in orange, with the same Change… menu, instead of filing silently
• Folder picker: type a matter number or name to search your matters folder (and the folders inside year or letter folders, if that's how it's organised). Results show "number – client – type". Every matter you save a note in now appears under Recent, labelled "number – client"
• Menu bar: "Unsaved Drafts (n)" lists every draft with its matter, first line and age; choosing one reopens the note where you left it. Drafts are now kept for 30 days (was 7, and silently)
• Recent Notes: click a note to open it, hold ⌥ to reveal it in Finder. "Note Actions" has Open, Reveal in Finder, Edit Note… and a new "New Note in " for each note
• The save confirmation says where the note went ("Saved to › ") with Open and Show buttons, and appears beside the panel instead of at the top of the screen
• The note panel always shows a Date row (date and time fields plus a calendar), starting at the moment the panel opened, so a note written up after a call carries the call's time. ⌘D jumps to it. The "Enable date editing" setting is gone
• Keyboard: the panel opens with the cursor in the note itself (Shift-Tab goes back to Description); ⌘1–⌘9 choose the first to ninth note type, ⌥⌘F switches PDF / Markdown / Both, ⇧⌘A goes to Attendees or "With". Settings › Shortcuts lists every panel shortcut
• Settings › Shortcuts says "Another app is using this shortcut" when the global shortcut can't be registered, and "Turn Off" sets it to None
• Conference Note, Meeting Note, Client Meeting and Consultation Note have an Attendees field; Telephone Attendance and Phone Call have "With" and Incoming / Outgoing beside the phone number. They appear in the PDF and Markdown, are kept in drafts and come back in Edit Note…. Their headings ("Attendees", "Call with") can be renamed or blanked in Settings › Note Panel
• Templates can use {client}, {matter}, {matterType}, {date}, {time}, {author} and {noteType}, filled in when the note opens. Settings › Note Panel lists them and has a new Snippets section; the panel's Insert Snippet menu (beside the timestamp button) inserts a snippet at the cursor with the same tokens
• Time format setting (System, 12-hour or 24-hour) in Settings › Note Panel, used in notes, inserted timestamps and Recent Notes
• Each industry profile shows its own note types: Medical (Consultation Note, Clinical Note, Phone Call, Meeting Note, File Note), Real Estate, Accounting, Generic and Simple each get a suitable set; Legal is unchanged. Switching profile only changes the types if you haven't chosen them yourself, and "Use Defaults" puts them back
• Clicking a NoteDrop result in Spotlight opens the note (or shows its folder if the file has moved)
• Finder toolbar button: add NoteDrop to a Finder window's toolbar (View › Customize Toolbar…) and choose New File Note to file a note for the folder the window is showing
• Shortcuts, Siri and Spotlight: "New File Note" starts a note for a matter (or the folder open in Finder), optionally with its type, text, description and duration. It opens the note panel filled in, or, with "Open Note Panel" off, saves the note straight away and says where it went. Also: Add to File Note (appends text and marks the note amended), Open File Note, Show File Note in Finder, Get Recent File Notes, Search Matters and Open NoteDrop Settings. Say "New file note in NoteDrop" or "New file note for in NoteDrop" with nothing to set up
• Matters and recent notes can be picked in Shortcuts and Siri by number or name (matters folder plus recently used matters), and recent matters appear in Spotlight when Spotlight indexing is on. Choosing a matter there opens a new note for it
• On macOS 27, NoteDrop supports the system's notes actions for Siri and Apple Intelligence ("create a note" for a matter, "add to a note")
• Siri learns the matters you file notes in and can suggest "New File Note" for them
• notedrop://new?matter=013456 opens a new note for the matter with that number in your matters folder (links from other apps). An unknown or ambiguous number is ignored
• Apple Intelligence in the note panel (a sparkles menu beside Insert Snippet): "Suggest Description & Type" (⌥⌘S) reads the note and fills in an empty Description, the note type (unless you chose one), Duration if the note states it, and Attendees or the caller's name and Incoming / Outgoing. Anything you'd already filled in is kept, and a different suggestion is offered with an Apply button instead. "Tidy Up Text" fixes punctuation, spelling (Australian English) and filler words, and "Expand Points into Note" turns terse points into a written note; both work on the selection or the whole note and can be undone with ⌘Z. The model is told to use only what's in the note and never add facts, names or dates
• Settings › Note Panel › Apple Intelligence and Dictation: turn the features on or off, see whether Apple Intelligence is available (with a button to its System Settings page when it isn't), and optionally have NoteDrop write an empty Description when you save (off by default; it waits at most four seconds and never stops the save). On macOS 27 you can choose where requests run: on this Mac only, this Mac first with Private Cloud Compute as a fallback (the default), or Private Cloud Compute first. On macOS 26 everything runs on this Mac. If Private Cloud Compute fails (offline, over quota, not available to NoteDrop) NoteDrop goes back to the on-device model
• Dictation now happens inside the panel: the microphone button records (it turns red and pulses with your voice), words appear at the cursor as you speak and firm up as you go, and clicking again stops. The speech model for your language downloads the first time, with progress on the button. After dictating, a "Tidy" button cleans up just what you said. If your language isn't supported NoteDrop falls back to macOS Dictation as before. NoteDrop asks for microphone access the first time
• Settings › Filing › "Test a Folder…": choose or drop one of your folders and NoteDrop shows the number, name and type it reads with your current settings, where the note would be saved, or in plain words why it reads nothing (for example "“Scans” doesn't start with a matter number", with the expected format). It re-checks as you change the settings. The welcome guide's industry page has the same check ("Try It with a Folder…") and shows the folder-name format the profile expects
• Welcome guide: a paper size choice (A4 or US Letter, pre-selected from your region) on the Your Details page; a "Let NoteDrop Use Finder" step that asks for Finder Automation and shows its status; and "Create a Test Note…" on the last page, which opens the note panel for a folder you pick (starting in your matters folder). The guide closes with Esc or its close button as well as ⌘W

Fixed

• Editing a note with Edit Note… now stamps it "Amended by " in the PDF footer and Markdown frontmatter, and keeps the note's original date instead of re-dating it
• Edit Note… finds the note's type by its ID, so a renamed custom type no longer falls back to the default
• Spotlight results read " – " instead of just "File Note", PDFs and Markdown notes are indexed as what they are, and the whole note is searchable (it was the first 500 characters). Turning indexing back on re-indexes your recent notes, and turning it off purges once instead of twice
• The keyboard shortcut and menu bar item can see the current Finder window again: builds had shipped without the Apple Events entitlement, so every Finder lookup failed silently. NoteDrop asks once for Automation access; if it is denied it says where to allow it, once per launch, and falls back to the folder picker
• A Finder window is only used automatically when Finder is the active app (or was within the last 10 seconds). A window left open behind another app is offered at the top of the folder picker instead, so a note is never filed into an unrelated matter
• Right-clicking a file (not a folder) in Finder and choosing New File Note now opens a note for the folder the file is in, instead of doing nothing
• Quitting, logging out or installing an update with a note open no longer loses the last few seconds of typing: the draft is written to disk before NoteDrop quits and when the panel closes
• Opening New File Note for another folder while a note is open now says "Finish or cancel the open note first" instead of silently bringing back the open note
• Save shows a spinner while the note is being written, and the panel can't be closed mid-save
• If the save folder can't be read (for example a disconnected network drive), saving now says so instead of guessing a note number, and the filename preview shows "—" for the number
• Matter folders named with non-breaking hyphens, figure dashes, minus signs or non-breaking spaces now parse like ordinary " - " separators; non-ASCII digits are no longer taken as matter numbers
• Selected Finder items whose names start or end with a space are no longer mangled
• Login item: when macOS needs approval, System Settings › Login Items now opens directly
• The update badge on the menu bar icon is a plain dot, and VoiceOver no longer reads it twice
• Saving into a read-only folder, a folder that has been moved or deleted, or a privacy-protected folder (Desktop, Documents, iCloud Drive, network drives) now says which it is and offers the fix that works — "Save to Another Folder…" (which moves the draft and saves straight away) or, for a protected folder, "Allow Access…" once. The old "Grant Folder Access" / "Please grant permission again" loop is gone, and every error now says what to do next
• Recent Notes titles always include the matter number or client, even when the note has a description; dates follow your region's format and 12/24-hour setting
• A description with no body text can now be saved — for example a "LVM" telephone attendance with a duration
• Working out the matter for a folder no longer runs on the main thread, so a slow network share can't beachball NoteDrop when you start a note
• The "In " hint under New File Note now comes from the same Finder lookup New File Note uses, and only appears when that folder would be used without asking
• Settings no longer shows a false "Re-grant needed" warning for the matters folder; it checks that the folder exists and can be written to
• Settings and the welcome guide now ask macOS whether the Finder extension is turned on, instead of guessing from recent Finder activity (which showed "Not detected" until you browsed a folder, and "Active" for five minutes after it was turned off). "Enable…" opens the system's own Finder extensions list rather than a guessed System Settings link
• Finder's "New File" submenu now works: the file is created by NoteDrop itself (the sandboxed extension wasn't allowed to write to your folders, so it failed silently) and selected in Finder so you can rename it. If it can't be created, NoteDrop says why
• Finder shows "New File Note" once in the Services menu: the "New File Note (Current Folder)" service is gone (the toolbar button, menu bar and shortcut cover it) and the remaining service no longer asks for text context it never used

Changed

• New installs outside the US default to A4 paper, and page margins are described in millimetres there
• Recent Notes titles include the note's recorded time (e.g. "18 min")
• "…" instead of "..." in Settings; VoiceOver no longer prefixes every notice with "Error:"
• Clicking the Dock icon opens the same folder picker as the menu bar (with search and recent matters) instead of a bare Open dialog, and every "can't work out the matter from this folder" message now uses the same plain wording
• "Folder Access" in Settings and the welcome guide is now "Matters folder": it sets where the folder picker starts, what matter search looks through and which folders notedrop:// links may open. NoteDrop isn't sandboxed, so it no longer claims to be needed to save without prompting
• NoteDrop keeps one bookmark for your matters folder (so a matters folder on Desktop, Documents or iCloud Drive keeps working) instead of up to 50 per-folder bookmarks; the old bookmark list is discarded on first launch
• The note panel can be made shorter (minimum height 380 pt, down from 520)
• Spotlight indexing is decided when Save is pressed, so changing the setting mid-save can't race the background write
• Removed unused code and the unused menu bar icon image; updated SwiftUI change handlers and previews to current APIs (no build warnings)
• The note editor (MarkdownTextEditor, with its bold/italic/bullet/list-continuation rules) and the scroll-wheel time picker moved into the shared FileNoteKit package as a second product, FileNoteKitUI, so Certum Draft's file-note sheet uses the same editor. No behaviour change; the editing-rule tests now run in the package (swift test)
• The per-day filename increment (parseIncrement / nextIncrement) now comes from FileNoteKit too, so Certum Draft numbers same-day notes the same way. No behaviour change
• The Finder extension only watches your home folder, your matters folder and external or network drives, instead of the whole disk. It no longer opens a notedrop:// link when NoteDrop is already running, and folder paths are kept out of the system log
• The "New File" submenu in Finder is off for new installs (Settings › Filing › Finder turns it on); existing users keep their setting
• Running the unit tests no longer touches your NoteDrop settings or the App Group the Finder extension reads, and doesn't start the menu bar item, global shortcut, updater or welcome guide. New tests cover the notedrop:// trust gate, the extension mailbox, Recent Notes storage, the shortcut heal rules, the extension's monitored folders and New File creation
• Settings is regrouped into General (startup, the global shortcut at a glance, updates), Filing (industry profile, how matter folders are recognised, where notes go, the matters folder, Finder extension and Automation status, Spotlight), Note Panel (note types, templates, snippets, billing unit, date and time format, participant headings, Apple Intelligence and dictation), Document (format, letterhead and logo, paper and margins, header preview) and Shortcuts. Panes use standard grouped forms, the window title names the pane, and the window can be made taller. No setting changed what it does
• Plainer Settings wording: folder detection is "Name starts with a number" / "Name matches my profile's pattern" / "Use the folder I start from", each with an example for your profile; save location is "Save into a subfolder (e.g. Correspondence)" / "Save directly in the matter folder"; Markdown is "Markdown (with a metadata header)"; "Parse matter details" is "Read details from folder names", with what it does. The separate "Correspondence Folder" field is gone from General: it only ever applied when the subfolder list is empty, so it now appears in Filing › Save Location only then
• The note panel's fields sit on an opaque background with Liquid Glass only on the header and action bar; the hand-drawn gradients and stacked materials are gone, and Cancel and Save (and the welcome guide's and folder picker's buttons) use the system glass button styles. Field borders are clearly visible, full-strength with Increase Contrast, and the panel and welcome guide turn opaque with Reduce Transparency
• The note panel has a window title ("New File Note — 013456 SMITH John", "Edit File Note — …") that VoiceOver and Mission Control announce, although no title bar is drawn
• Status and warning text (folder set, Finder extension on, Automation, shortcut clash, "No matter number detected", duration errors) is now in the normal text colour with a coloured symbol beside it, and the welcome guide's buttons use the accent colour instead of white on orange or purple, for legible contrast
• The welcome guide sizes itself to each page (at most 720 pt, and never taller than the screen) and scrolls longer pages, so it fits an 800 pt-high display; industry descriptions are no longer cut off, and "Press ⌃⌥⌘N" is only shown when the global shortcut is on
• More specific alert titles in the note panel ("NoteDrop Can't Use the Microphone", "Dictation Stopped", "Apple Intelligence Couldn't Finish"); "Edit Snippets…" opens Settings at the Note Panel pane
• Built in Swift 6 language mode with strict concurrency checking (app, Finder extension and tests). Settings, the app delegate, updater, URL handler, shortcut and extension listeners are main-actor isolated; background saves, matter resolution and Finder lookups hand only Sendable snapshots across threads. Dictation uses macOS 27's Sendable audio tap when available

[3.0.4] - 2026-08-15

Added

• Duration recording is now available for every built-in and custom note type, rounded to the configured billing unit (6 minutes by default) and included in PDF/Markdown output and Recent Notes

Changed

• File-note engine (models, note types, billing-unit rounding, PDF and Markdown generators, markdown parser) extracted to the shared FileNoteKit Swift package (../FileNoteKit), consumed as a local package dependency and also used by Certum Draft. No behaviour change; engine tests now run in the package (swift test)
• Document settings now describe billing units as time recording across all note types; Telephone Attendance retains its additional phone-number field

[3.0.3] - 2026-07-21

Fixed

• Note panel + onboarding: square-cornered shadow band at the top corners — SwiftUI content painted past the unclipped NSGlassEffectView, and the window's shadow silhouette followed the square alpha; the glass now clips to its corner shape
• Onboarding: a stray segmented tab control and scrollbar chrome peeked past the window edges — the AppKit-backed TabView is replaced with direct page switching

Changed

• Billing unit for telephone attendances now defaults to 6 minutes instead of Off (applies only where the setting was never changed)

[3.0.2] - 2026-07-20

Fixed

• Onboarding: the welcome guide's window cast right-angle shadows that ignored its rounded corners. The window is now borderless like the note panel — NSGlassEffectView owns the window shape on macOS 26 (corner-radius layer mask as fallback), and closing via ⌘W behaves like Skip

[3.0.1] - 2026-07-20

Important

• Sparkle update key rotated again: the 3.0 release was signed with a mismatched update key and could not be installed automatically. Users on 3.0 or earlier must download 3.0.1 manually once from the website; automatic updates resume afterwards.

[3.0] - 2026-07-19

Changed

• Minimum macOS version raised to 26 (Tahoe); earlier macOS versions stay on 2.13 and won't be offered this update
• Spotlight indexing is now optional — Settings > General toggle, and disabling it purges NoteDrop's existing entries from the Spotlight index
• Sparkle system profiling disabled, matching the zero-data privacy manifest
• PDF pagination rewritten: page breaks always land on line boundaries, generation is faster on long notes, and the Duration row respects custom/blanked labels
• notedrop:// URLs now require a valid extension request or a folder under the granted matters folder

Fixed

• Saving: worst-case rollback can no longer delete the only copy of a note — leftover originals are recovered as "(recovered)" files
• Saving: a deleted or renamed save folder is reported as missing instead of looping through a permission re-grant
• Bookmarks: one corrupt entry no longer wipes every granted folder; security-scope access is reference-counted
• Matter detection: year folders like "2024 Invoices" no longer hijack the matter root; manual-mode subfolder promotion fixed
• Note panel: midnight preview/save date mismatch, draft autosave now covers note-type and date changes, auto-height no longer disables itself, edit-mode dirty check covers date/type
• Shortcuts: recording suspends the live hotkey; system-reserved combos (⌘Q, ⌘W, ⌘,, ⌘H, ⌘M, ⌘Space) are rejected
• Finder extension: files are no longer created inside bundles (.app, .rtfd); creation is atomic against name races
• PDFs: no more blank trailing pages or silently dropped pages; client-identifying filenames redacted from public logs
• Toasts size to their content and action toasts stay up long enough to click
• The update badge clears when the update session ends

Internal

• NoteCreationPanel and OnboardingView split into focused, testable components; AppSettings gains an injectable UserDefaults for tests
• Cross-process defaults keys consolidated into AppConstants; Finder extension entitlements now explicitly declare the sandbox
• Test suite: 234 tests / 12 suites, including new panel-logic, shortcut-validation, and shared-contract suites; tests no longer touch real user defaults or bookmarks
• Release automation hardened: version validation, deployment-target-derived appcast minimum, DMG mount-point parsing, kill confirmation, trap cleanup

[2.13] - 2026-07-12

Added

• New app icon — a note page catching a water drop, drawn properly for the macOS Dock

Improved

• The welcome guide is a third shorter — six focused pages (welcome, industry, your details, folder access, Finder extension, ready) with the explainer slides retired
• The guide's final page shows your actual keyboard shortcut and all three ways to start a note; the folder-access page explains that notes file themselves from any folder inside a matter

[2.12] - 2026-07-11

Added

• The note editor now shows your formatting as you write — bold looks bold, italic looks italic, markup characters fade into the background; the Bold and Italic buttons light up to show the style under the cursor
• Templates — give any note type boilerplate text (Settings > Note Types), and new notes of that type open pre-filled
• One-click timestamps — the clock button (or ⇧⌘T) inserts the current time at the cursor
• Find bar inside the note (⌘F) and a quiet word count above the editor; dictation moved up beside the formatting buttons

Improved

• More comfortable long-form typing — relaxed line spacing and clearer paragraph separation in the editor
• Formatting part of an already-formatted phrase now produces clean results in the saved PDF
• Saving is fully off the main thread again, so very long notes can't briefly freeze the panel, and settings are snapshotted at the moment you press Save

Fixed

• Discarding a restored draft now asks first, and starting fresh brings back your template instead of an empty note; a discarded or saved note can no longer reappear later as a phantom draft
• Editing a renamed telephone attendance no longer loses its recorded duration
• While the folder-access prompt is up, the note is protected from edits that would have been silently lost; undo can no longer garble the note after a draft restore or template change
• A typed phone number or duration now counts as unsaved work — closing the panel asks first and the draft keeps it

[2.11] - 2026-07-11

Added

• Draft protection — NoteDrop quietly saves a draft while you type; if the app quits unexpectedly or your Mac restarts, the panel restores your unsaved text the next time you open it for that folder, with a clear banner and a Discard option
• Filename preview — see the exact filename before you save, including its number for the day and the subfolder it will land in
• Recent Notes can now open the note itself — each entry offers Open Note, Reveal in Finder, and Edit Note
• Billing duration for Telephone Attendance notes — optional billing unit (6, 15 or 30 minutes) in Settings > Documents; durations round up to the next unit, show a live "bills as" hint, and print on the PDF

Improved

• After saving, the confirmation names the file and offers a Show button that reveals it in Finder
• The menu bar's New File Note shows your keyboard shortcut and, on macOS 14.4 and later, which folder the note will go to based on your current Finder window

[2.10] - 2026-07-11

Important

• This update is signed with a new Sparkle update key. If you're on 2.9 or earlier, the automatic updater will report a verification error — download this version once from the website; automatic updates resume from then on

Added

• NoteDrop now asks before discarding a note with unsaved text — pressing Escape or ⌘W can no longer silently destroy what you've typed
• The format picker in the note panel now applies to that note only, instead of quietly changing your default output format; editing a note keeps its original format
• Custom note types can be reordered with the new up/down buttons, duplicate names are prevented, and the add field focuses automatically

Fixed

• Multi-page PDFs containing emoji or accented characters no longer show corrupted characters at page breaks, and page breaks land where they should
• Notes stay findable in Spotlight — previously they silently dropped out of search results after about a month
• The "Subfolder names" field no longer swallows commas and spaces as you type
• Switching industry now asks before replacing your customised folder settings, and re-selecting your current industry no longer resets them
• The shortcut recorder no longer accepts combinations that would hijack normal typing (like Shift+letter alone), shows why a key was rejected, and unsupported keys are no longer silently recorded as "N"
• Filenames always use the standard calendar and Western digits, regardless of your macOS region settings — so notes keep sorting chronologically

Improved

• Settings polish — the Finder extension status updates live, "Last checked" refreshes after an update check, ⌘, and the menu bar now open the same settings window, and the extension button opens the right place in System Settings
• VoiceOver users can now reach the Retry and Dismiss buttons on error messages
• Welcome guide fixes — pages scroll instead of clipping, closing the window no longer brings the full guide back on every launch, and a dark-mode visual artifact is gone
• Recent folders in the folder picker show their full location on hover, so identically-named folders are distinguishable; double-click the note panel's top edge to restore automatic sizing after a manual resize

[2.9] - 2026-07-02

Improved

• The note panel's glass corners now render cleanly on macOS Tahoe and later — no more faint double edge around the top corners
• Saving happens in the background, so the panel stays responsive while a long note is written to a slow or network drive
• "Launch at login" now tells you when macOS needs your approval, with a one-click shortcut to System Settings
• Imported logos are optimised automatically, keeping settings lean no matter how large the original image is

Fixed

• When NoteDrop asks you to re-grant folder access, the note is now always filed in its original folder — selecting a parent folder in the prompt no longer misfiles the note
• Editing a note whose type you've since hidden keeps its original type instead of silently changing it
• Long firm names wrap correctly in the PDF header instead of overlapping the matter details, and very tall headers now flow the note to the next page cleanly

[2.8] - 2026-06-11

Added

• Formatting in the note editor — Bold, Italic and bullet buttons above the note field, with ⌘B and ⌘I shortcuts; lists continue automatically when you press Return; the "Aa" button shows everything available

Improved

• Recent Notes now follow your files — rename a note in Finder and it stays in the list, opens correctly, and keeps your wording when you edit it
• The update window appears in front of other windows instead of hiding behind them, without interrupting your typing
• On macOS Tahoe and later the note panel uses the system's native glass material

[2.7] - 2026-06-11

Added

• Resizable note window — drag any edge or corner to make room for longer notes; remembers your chosen size

Improved

• The menu bar dot signalling an available update is now red
• If a save fails, the note stays open with your text intact; pressing the shortcut while a note is open brings it forward instead of discarding it
• Editing a note keeps its position in the day's sequence and always saves back to the folder it lives in
• NoteDrop no longer asks for Accessibility permission — the keyboard shortcut never needed it
• Sharper PDF layout with long client or matter names, better page breaks, and emphasis inside bullet lists

Fixed

• Edits that only change capitalisation in the description now save correctly
• Folders with "&" in the name (e.g. "Smith & Co") work from the Finder right-click menu, and network drives connected after login now show the menu

[2.6] - 2026-05-08

Improved

• Editing a note is now transactional — the original file is only retired after the new file is in place, and is restored if anything goes wrong during a save
• Switching a saved Both note to PDF only on edit cleans up the orphan Markdown file automatically (and vice versa)

Fixed

• Refuses to overwrite an unrelated file at the destination path

[2.5] - 2026-05-05

Fixed

• Website download form was serving an outdated build; release tooling hardened so it can't recur

[2.4] - 2026-05-03

Improved

• Date picker UX overhaul — click the date for a calendar popover, pick the time in its own field

[2.3] - 2026-05-03

Added

• Scroll-wheel support on the date picker — scroll for ±1 minute, ⇧-scroll for hours, ⌘-scroll for days

Improved

• Date picker is now minute-precise — no more 30-minute snap

[2.2] - 2026-05-02

Added

• Date editing — opt-in setting that adds a date and time picker to the note panel for backdating or post-dating notes

Improved

• Editing a Recent Note preserves the original date instead of re-stamping it to "now"
• Filename changes during edits clean up stale Recent Notes and Spotlight entries automatically
• Spotlight indexes notes with their document date, so date-based searches respect the chosen date

Changed

• Markdown frontmatter date: field is written in local time with a timezone offset instead of UTC

[2.1] - 2026-03-17

Added

• Recent Notes submenu in menu bar — shows last 10 notes, click to reopen and edit
• PDF logo/letterhead — choose an image in Settings > Documents, renders in PDF header
• Spotlight integration — notes indexed on save, searchable system-wide by type, matter, client
• Keyboard-only flow — Return advances through Description → Telephone → Body fields
• Release script version argument: ./scripts/release.sh 2.1

Changed

• Industry profile switching resets subfolder mode correctly
• GlassButtonStyle refactored for correct SwiftUI state management

Fixed

• Finder extension "New File Note" context menu now works reliably (missing action target)
• Path traversal protection in file save fallback chain
• Thread-safe request deduplication between Finder extension and URL scheme
• Context resolution moved off main thread to prevent UI freezes
• IPC race condition — requests no longer lost during decode
• Timer leaks in accessibility monitoring and onboarding
• Filename sanitization handles null bytes, leading dots, and length limits
• Settings encoding failures now logged instead of silently ignored
• Note panel action bar no longer overflows panel width
• DMG creation fixed for macOS Sequoia translocation protection

Removed

• Orphaned Layout constants (ElementSize, Opacity, Shadow, LineWidth, etc.)
• Deprecated UserDefaults.synchronize() calls

[2.0] - 2026-03-13 (build 14)

Added

• Accessibility permission status indicator in Shortcuts settings with "Open Settings" link
• Finder extension status indicator in General settings
• Persistent error notifications with dismiss button and optional action button
• Industry-driven display strings: folderLabel, folderLabelPlural, tagline on IndustryProfile
• Centralized applyPreset(to:) for consistent industry preset application
• Output format Picker menu replacing cycling button for better discoverability
• Cmd+W keyboard shortcut to close note creation panel
• Return key advances through onboarding pages
• Page indicator dots now meet 44pt minimum click target

Changed

• All hardcoded "Matter"/"Matters"/"court-ready" strings now driven by active industry profile
• Preview dates in settings use selected date format instead of hardcoded DateFormatter
• Settings window is now resizable and miniaturizable
• Preview boxes adapt to dark mode (removed forced light color scheme)
• Subfolder text field uses glass styling consistent with rest of app
• Error notifications stay until manually dismissed; success still auto-dismisses
• Onboarding Finder extension messaging clarified for "unknown" vs "not detected" state

Fixed

• Placeholder text contrast in dark mode — uses NSColor.placeholderTextColor
• VoiceOver hints use macOS phrasing ("Click") instead of iOS ("Tap"/"Double-tap")
• Icon buttons in Note Types settings bumped from .footnote to .callout with proper hit areas
• Reduce-motion support added to GlassButtonStyle and NotificationView animations
• Accessibility labels added to onboarding Firm Name and Your Name fields
• Removed misleading "Drag to reorder" text from custom note types
• Error toast now shown when dock Quick Note fails to resolve folder
• FolderPickerView buttons use GlassButtonStyle instead of .borderedProminent

[2.0] - 2026-02-22 (build 10)

Added

• Finder context menu "New File" submenu — quickly create Text (.txt), Markdown (.md), and RTF (.rtf) files directly from Finder
• Finder context menu toggle in Settings → General
• Configurable file types for the "New File" context menu
• Release automation script for streamlined builds

Changed

• Redesigned Settings UI with sidebar navigation and pill buttons (replaces tab-based layout)
  • General, Documents, Note Types, Industry, and Shortcuts sections
• Redesigned note creation panel with liquid glass aesthetic, larger size, and fully rounded corners
• "Note Types" moved to its own settings section (previously under Document tab)
• Removed App Store target — direct distribution only (signed & notarized DMG)
• Minimum macOS version raised to 14.0 (Sonoma)
• Automatic update checking setting added to General section
• Centralized shared types between main app and Finder extension

Fixed

• Sparkle update sync — DMG now consistent across public/ and dist/
• Cross-process bugs between main app and Finder extension
• Note creation panel corners now fully rounded
• Multiple build stabilization fixes

[1.5] - 2026-01-21

Fixed

• PDF rendering issue where first lines of paragraphs were invisible (text was present but clipped due to malformed clipping rectangle in PDF output)
• Root cause: Using CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude for text drawing rectangles caused zero-height clipping paths when combined with coordinate transforms

[1.4] - 2026-01-20

Fixed

• PDF rendering issue where text after paragraph breaks (Cmd+Enter) appeared white/invisible
• Fixed attribute inheritance for newlines in NSAttributedString to ensure consistent text rendering

[1.3] - 2026-01-18

Added

• VoiceOver accessibility support for all views (NoteCreationPanel, SettingsView, OnboardingView, NotificationView)
• Accessibility announcements for save/error notifications
• Industry Profiles feature - bundle PDF labels and folder parsing patterns together
  • Legal (default), Medical, Real Estate, Accounting, Generic, and Simple profiles
  • New "Industry" tab in Settings with profile picker
  • Live PDF label preview showing how headers will appear
  • Live folder parsing preview showing how folders will be parsed
  • Dynamic PDF labels based on selected profile (e.g., "Matter No." becomes "Patient ID" for Medical)
  • Pattern-aware folder parsing for different naming conventions
• Simple Mode - new profile for users who want quick notes without folder parsing
  • No metadata extraction (no reference number, name, or type fields)
  • PDF shows only: Date, Author, Note Type, and Content
  • Works with any folder - no pattern matching required
  • Perfect for freelancers, creatives, or anyone who doesn't need structured metadata
• Markdown Output - save notes as Markdown files instead of (or in addition to) PDF
  • New "Output Format" setting in Settings → Document: PDF / Markdown / Both
  • Markdown files include YAML frontmatter with all metadata
  • "Both" saves PDF and Markdown simultaneously with same filename
  • Output format toggle in note creation panel (click to cycle through formats)
  • Notification message reflects output format
• Flexible folder detection - choose how project folders are identified
  • Numeric Prefix: folders must start with numbers (default, backward compatible)
  • Any Parseable: any folder matching the industry pattern (works with alphanumeric IDs)
  • Manual Only: don't auto-detect, use selected folder directly
• Flexible save location - control where notes are saved within project folders
  • Search for multiple subfolder names (comma-separated list like "Correspondence, Notes, File Notes")
  • Option to save directly to project root folder (skip subfolder search)
• First-run industry selection in onboarding wizard
  • Choose your industry when first launching NoteDrop
  • Automatically configures profile, folder detection, and subfolder names
  • Legal selected by default for backward compatibility
• Configurable note types
  • Add custom note types in Settings → Document → Note Types
  • Hide built-in types you don't use (click the eye icon)
  • Delete custom types when no longer needed
  • Hidden types don't appear in the note type picker
• Quick Note from dock icon - click dock icon to open folder picker and create a note
• Dictate button in note creation panel - one-click access to macOS system dictation

Changed

• Replaced deprecated Carbon API with HotKey library for keyboard shortcuts
• Keyboard shortcut recording in Settings now actually captures keystrokes
• Added "Reset to Default" button for keyboard shortcuts
• Extracted magic numbers to LayoutConstants for maintainability (window dimensions, padding, spacing, etc.)
• Note creation panel now shows output format toggle (click to cycle PDF → Markdown → Both)
• Success notification now specifies output format (e.g., "File note saved as PDF & Markdown")
• Menu bar icon changed to water drop symbol
• Note creation panel redesigned:
  • Larger size (480×440) for better usability
  • Removed traffic light buttons (use Cancel button instead)
  • Increased corner radius for modern appearance
  • Always floats on top of other windows

Fixed

• Finder extension now appears in context menu when browsing any folder (previously only worked in home directory)
• Extension now monitors root filesystem and all mounted volumes
• Note creation panel can now be dragged from the top area
• Output format toggle and buttons no longer wrap text incorrectly
• Settings toggles in Behavior section now properly aligned

[1.2] - 2026-01-15

Added

• Markdown support in note body text - use bold, italic, inline code, lists, and numbered lists in your notes and they'll render with proper formatting in the PDF output
• Multi-page PDF support - long notes now automatically flow across multiple pages instead of being cut off

Fixed

• Improved performance when typing long notes (debounced text height calculation)
• Notes longer than one page no longer get truncated

[1.1] - 2026-01-12

Added

• Quick Actions/Services menu support (right-click folder → Quick Actions → New File Note)
• Works automatically without needing to enable extensions
• Optional Dock icon (can be enabled in Settings → Behavior)
• Update badge on menu bar icon when new version is available (Sparkle gentle reminders)
• Send Feedback menu item with automatic system info (app version, macOS version)
• Telephone field for Telephone Attendance notes (included in PDF output) — thanks Melinda Ditchburn!
• Auto-resizing note panel - grows as you type (up to 700px)

Fixed

• Keyboard shortcut now works after granting accessibility permission (no restart required)
• Onboarding screen updates in real-time when accessibility permission is granted
• "Check for Updates" now actually works (Sparkle updater wasn't starting)
• Close button (red X) now works on all windows (panel, onboarding, settings, folder picker)

Changed

• App now polls for accessibility permission changes and re-registers shortcut automatically
• Improved Finder extension onboarding with clearer step-by-step instructions
• Added note that app must be in Applications folder for Finder extension to work
• Updated Finder extension instructions for macOS Tahoe (General → Login Items & Extensions)
• Onboarding now emphasizes Quick Actions as the primary right-click method

[1.0] - 2026-01-11

Added

• Initial release
• Menu bar app for creating file notes
• Global keyboard shortcut (⌃⌥⌘N)
• Finder extension for right-click "New File Note"
• Automatic matter folder detection from folder names
• Professional PDF generation with firm branding
• Daily file numbering
• Support for multiple note types (File Note, Telephone Attendance, Conference Note, etc.)
• Automatic Correspondence subfolder detection
• Sparkle auto-updates
• Onboarding guide for first-time setup