Notely

Release Notes ​

2026-08-19 (latest) ​

Screen Video Recording & Modal Player ​

  • Screen & Window Recording — record high-definition desktop videos with microphone audio commentary directly into notes from the editor toolbar (🎥 Record).
  • Custom Source Selection Modal — visual picker displaying live 16:9 thumbnail previews of connected monitors and open application windows with tabbed filtering and microphone toggle (Mic: ON / OFF).
  • Auto-Minimization & Floating Overlay — Notely automatically minimizes on record start to clear the desktop space, spawning a frameless, transparent, always-on-top draggable pill window with real-time timer (00:00), Pause/Resume, Mic Mute/Unmute, Stop & Save (⏹), and Cancel (✕) controls.
  • Note Video Cards & Modal Player — Markdown preview renders .webm / .mp4 links as interactive thumbnail cards with ▶ Play Video badges and frame decoding. Clicking opens a full-screen player modal with HTML5 controls, Download, and Copy Path actions.

2026-07-25 ​

AI Architecture & UI Telemetry ​

  • 13-Domain Decoupled Facade Subsystem — Reorganized AI domain modules into 13 single-entry point facades (compaction, planner, personas, prompts, context, graph, embeddings, memory, executor, tools, grounding, formatter, testing) orchestrated by AIFlow.js.
  • Zero-Latency Context Compaction Engine — 2-tier sliding window algorithm compresses chat sessions into Executive Memory Summaries, cutting LLM input token usage by ~75-80% with 0ms NLP intent heuristics.
  • Flow Telemetry Timeline Stream — AI Health Page now features a structural 3-column timeline stream displaying 5-stage execution breakdown, latency metrics, persistent session tokens (LogDB), expandable tool call arguments/output, and full flow trace JSON export.

2026-07-17 ​

New features ​

  • Keyboard Tab Switching — switch between open tabs using Ctrl+Tab (next) and Ctrl+Shift+Tab (previous).

  • Copy Link Path — right-click on active tabs or dashboard document list items to copy the workspace-relative path for note referencing.

  • Preview Link Hover overlay — hover over any link in note previews to open a popover with Copy and Navigate options (with icons). Direct link clicks are disabled to prevent accidental navigation jumps.

  • Dismissible Toasts & Undo actions — notification toasts now include an X dismiss button, and applying markdown quick fixes prompts an Undo toast to quickly revert changes.

  • Always-Visible Workspace Sidebar — the dashboard rail containing recent notes, favorites, and open tasks remains visible when navigating workspace subfolders, preventing layout shifts and keeping dashboard information at hand.

  • Improved Contrast on Colored Items — extracted dynamic inline styling into a semantic .custom-colored-item CSS class, ensuring document text, icons, and action chips dynamically scale contrast and remain highly readable when custom card/tab colors are applied.

  • Draw.io Solid Background Exports — saves of Draw.io diagrams now export with a solid white background in PNG files, preventing poorly contrasted layouts under dark theme previews.

  • Modal Corner Radius Standardization — custom modal borders consistently use --radius-lg (6px) to match standard dialog overlays.

  • Centralized CSS Keyframes — common animations like spin and modal-pop are centralized in base.css to reduce code repetition.

  • Double-click to open row — table list items in document dashboard now open immediately on double-click.

  • Validation Banner Auto-Hide — the validation banner at the top of the editor is completely hidden when there are no issues.

  • Spacing Token Normalization — dashboard panels and bars now use design system space tokens (var(--space-4) and var(--space-5)) for consistent alignments.

2026-07-11 ​

  • Inline markdown table editor — placing the cursor inside a markdown table now opens a focused grid editor for direct cell/header updates.

Refinements ​

  • Compact table actions — row/column controls now use labeled compact action chips for quicker recognition and less visual noise.
  • Table edit interaction flow — deleting rows/columns keeps editing context active instead of dropping back to the main editor.
  • Table formatting preservation — same-shape table edits now preserve the original table style (spacing and delimiter style) where possible.

Fixes ​

  • Escaped content safety — table parsing now preserves escaped pipes and plain backslashes in cell content (including Windows-style paths).
  • Scroll behavior during table edits — background scrolling is disabled while table editing is active; table content scrolling remains within the editor panel.

2026-07-03 (latest) ​

New features ​

  • Open Workspace in VS Code — the landing File menu now includes Open Workspace in VS Code (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + O). Opens the active workspace folder directly in VS Code, or falls back to the system default app.
  • Reveal Workspace in File Explorer — the landing File menu now includes Reveal Workspace in File Explorer (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + J). Opens the workspace folder in the native system file browser.
  • Web menu — a new top-level Web menu (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + W) provides one-click access to the project website (landing screen) or the current note's website view (note screen).
  • Custom dropdown controls — all select/dropdown controls across the app have been replaced with a fully custom listbox component. The new control supports grouped options, keyboard navigation (arrow keys, Home, End, Enter, Escape), selected-state checkmarks, and focus-aware close behaviour.

Refinements ​

  • Form focus styles — focus indicators across all inputs, selects, and textareas have been softened to a subtle border tint and 2px halo for a more professional desktop feel.
  • Continue Writing panel — now shows only the single most recently edited note instead of a list, making it faster to resume work.
  • Task hover popover — the note-level task summary popover now sizes to the available viewport height before showing a scrollbar.
  • Note detail topbar consistency — breadcrumb chips, task summary, save status, and action controls now use aligned heights and shared corner radius styling for a cleaner, unified row.

Fixes ​

  • Workspace switch website refresh — opening project website view after changing workspace now reflects the current workspace immediately instead of reusing stale scope from the previous folder.
  • Task summary accessibility semantics — the topbar task summary trigger now uses button semantics with screen-reader state attributes for improved accessibility.

2026-07-03 ​

This release focuses on documentation accuracy, shortcut clarity, and in-app help coverage.

Documentation updates ​

  • Updated user docs to match current UI labels such as Open Workspace and Help Center
  • Added a dedicated Settings Reference page
  • Added an FAQ page
  • Added this Release Notes page and a repository CHANGELOG.md

Shortcut updates ​

  • Resolved overlapping shortcut definitions for the command palette, AI palette, focus mode, and outline workflows
  • Expanded the in-app keyboard shortcuts guide to include context-specific shortcuts and usage notes

Help Center updates ​

  • Added new Help Center entries for settings, FAQ, and release notes
  • Updated task and troubleshooting documentation to cover current workflows more accurately

Notes for existing users ​

  • If you learned older menu names such as Notes Folder or Documentation, use Open Workspace and Help Center instead.
  • If you used older overlapping shortcuts, open the keyboard guide once to confirm the current bindings.