Changelog

**Encrypted-note sync across devices, plus editor upgrades.** - Encrypted notes now sync across your devices: one notes password, shared through iCloud - lock a note on your Mac and open it on iPhone or iPad. - Numbered checklists (1. [ ]) are now clickable checkboxes. - Type :shortcode: emoji (e.g. :rocket:) inline. - Numbered lists renumber themselves live as you add, delete, or reorder items. - New notes show a content preview in the list as you type. - Fixed: Return after a bold word no longer breaks its formatting in Wysiwyg.

**Encrypted notes now sync across devices, plus editor fixes.** - Your one notes password is now shared across your Macs and iOS devices through iCloud. - Lock a note on one device and unlock it on another with the same password. - Fixes 1.2.0, where each device used its own key, so a locked note couldn't be opened on a second device. - Fixed: numbered lists renumber correctly when you add an item in the middle, and pressing Return no longer carries a bold "**" onto the next list item.

**Lock your private notes, and a cleaner way to write.** - New: lock any note with a password and Touch ID. Locked notes are encrypted on disk and in iCloud, and stay out of search, Spotlight, and the link graph until you unlock them. Your password is the only key - it cannot be recovered, so choose one you will remember. - New: Wysiwyg editing, a third editor mode beside Live and Reading. Markdown syntax hides on every line as you write; select text for a floating format bar, and use Cmd-B, Cmd-I, and Cmd-K. - New: a running note, folder, and word count under the note list. - Fixed: mixed bullet-and-checkbox lists now render correctly in Reading mode.

**Reliability fixes for new notes and renames.** - Fixed: a freshly created note no longer flips back to "Untitled" in the note list while you are typing its title. (The app's file watcher briefly mistook its own save for an outside change and reverted the title.) - Fixed: renaming a note that lives in a folder now keeps it in that folder instead of moving it to the vault root. - Fixed: the toolbar buttons no longer disappear when no note is selected - and the empty state now has its own New Note button, so you can create a note without selecting one first. - Fixed: a new note always opens ready to type. If you had left the editor in Reading mode, a fresh note opened read-only and silently swallowed your typing. - Fixed: duplicated note files (for example a note copied in Finder) no longer confuse selection - clicking one note highlights exactly that note. - External edits to your vault (another editor, iCloud, git) now show up even when they land right next to one of Metis's own saves.

**Markdown now (almost) types itself.** - New: Markdown typing assist. Pairs like `**`, backticks, brackets and parentheses close themselves as you type - and typing the closing character steps over instead of doubling it. - Select some text and press a formatting key to wrap the selection. - Return continues bullet lists, checklists, numbered lists (auto-numbered) and quotes; Return on an empty item ends the list. Return after an unclosed ``` fence closes it for you. - Prefer typing everything yourself? Turn it off in Settings > Editor. - Fixed: the Settings window now follows your theme fully (including the header) and fits its content.

**Code blocks got a serious upgrade - in both Live and Reading.** - Much richer syntax highlighting: types, function calls, attributes and properties now get their own colors - not just keywords and strings - with dedicated support for Swift, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, SQL, JSON, YAML, CSS, HTML and shell. - Reading mode: every code block sits on a card with a language badge and a one-click Copy button, and long lines wrap with a hanging indent. - Live editing: code blocks now sit on a subtle theme-matched card right in the editor, with the fences dimmed - and a block styles as code from the moment you type the opening fence. - Every built-in theme carries hand-picked colors for the new token kinds.

**Your license at a glance - plus a smoother, safer Metis.** - Licensed accounts now show a green seal and a "Licensed" label under your name in the sidebar, and the account menu (email + Sign Out) opens reliably. - Live editing: moving through a note with the arrow keys no longer makes the content jump or flicker. - Fixed the note title occasionally rendering clipped after switching vaults. - GitHub sign-in is now more secure: the sign-in handshake completes on our server, so no credentials ship inside the app. GitHub will ask you to approve Metis once after updating - everything else stays the same.

**Your daily note now starts with context, not a blank page** - Open Daily Note (Cmd-T) comes pre-filled: items due today or overdue, unfinished tasks carried over from your last daily note, recently edited notes, and entries from the same day in past years. - Fully customizable: create a "Daily" note in your Templates folder and place the {{agenda}}, {{carryover}}, {{recent}} and {{onthisday}} tokens wherever you like - empty sections stay out of the way. - Briefing (when Apple Intelligence is available): a short on-device AI summary of your recent activity is added to the daily note automatically. Notes never leave the device.

- **Fixes a crash** when undoing (Cmd-Z) after switching a note between Live and Reading modes.

- **Undo and redo in the editor** - Cmd-Z / Cmd-Shift-Z now work reliably while editing. - **Snappier right-click in large vaults** - a note's context menu opens instantly instead of briefly hanging.

- **In-app documentation** - the Help menu (Help -> Metis Help, Cmd-?) now opens the online docs. - **Snappier typing in large notes** - editor performance improvements. - **Sort your notes** - pick the sort field and ascending/descending; the list scrolls to the selected note. - **Heads-up on outside edits** - if an open note changes outside Metis, a banner lets you reload it. - **Delete confirmation** - deleting a note (single or several) now asks first.

- **Tables render reliably in Reading mode** - a table placed directly under a line of text (no blank line above it) now shows as a real table instead of raw `| ... |` text. - **Export a note straight from the right-click menu** - "Export As" now offers HTML or JSON for a single note, without opening it first.

- **Editor & reading themes** - pick from Dracula, Nord, Solarized, Gruvbox, Tokyo Night, One Dark, Monokai, GitHub, or Catppuccin; the whole app recolors (editor, reading, sidebar, graph). "System" follows light/dark. - **Multi-select notes** - select many (Cmd/Shift-click) and drag them onto a folder, or batch-move / delete / move-to-another-vault from the right-click menu. - **Export to HTML** - a note or the whole vault as a clean styled page (the vault becomes a folder of linked pages + an index), matching your theme. - **Open With** - right-click a note to open it in any external app (VS Code, Typora, and more). - Snappier build and various polish.

- **Reading mode is now buttery smooth on long notes** - scrolls without lag, and you can select and copy text across the whole document at once. - **Beautiful, readable code blocks** in reading mode, with diagrams (Mermaid) and math that render even offline. - **Folder colors** - give a folder a color and its notes show a matching dot in the list, the breadcrumb, and on the graph (subfolders inherit it). - **Faster vault opening** - large vaults open behind a tidy progress indicator instead of a spinning cursor. - **Snappier on large vaults** - edits made by other apps or git refresh instantly, and the open note updates live when changed on disk.

- **Reading mode is now buttery smooth on long notes** - scrolls without lag, and you can select and copy text across the whole document at once. - **Beautiful, readable code blocks** in reading mode, with diagrams (Mermaid) and math that render even offline. - **Folder colors** - give a folder a color and its notes show a matching dot in the list, with the same color on the graph (subfolders inherit it). - **Faster vault opening** - large vaults open behind a tidy progress indicator instead of a spinning cursor. - **Snappier on large vaults** - edits made by other apps or git now refresh instantly instead of re-scanning the whole vault.

- **Reading mode is now buttery smooth on long notes** - it scrolls without lag and you can select and copy text across the whole document at once. - **Beautiful, readable code blocks** in reading mode, with diagrams (Mermaid) and math that render even offline. - **Folder colors** - give a folder a color and its notes show a matching dot in the list, with the same color on the graph (subfolders inherit it). - **Faster vault opening** - large vaults open behind a tidy progress indicator instead of a spinning cursor, and switching vaults no longer stutters.

- **New notes and daily notes are created in the folder you have selected**, not always at the vault root. - **Detects notes added in subfolders by other apps or git** automatically - the live view now watches the whole vault tree. - **Much faster graph on large vaults** - it opens and pans smoothly even with hundreds of notes. - **Snappier note switching** in big vaults. - **Autocomplete while you type** - `[[` suggests note titles, `#` suggests existing tags. - **Your remaining trial days now show in the sidebar.**

- **New notes and daily notes are created in the folder you have selected**, instead of always the vault root. - **Smoother graph on large vaults** - node labels are now drawn only when readable, so big knowledge bases pan and switch Full/Local without lag. - **Your remaining trial days now show in the sidebar.**

**Metis 1.0.0 - first release.** A native, local-first Markdown knowledge base for macOS. - Live-preview editor with a bidirectional [[link]] graph, backlinks, aliases, and unlinked mentions. - Folder-tree organization, typed front-matter properties, a vault-wide task agenda, and semantic + keyword search. - Private, on-device AI (summarize, writing assist, Ask Vault) - requires macOS 26 + Apple Intelligence; the app is fully usable without it. - Optional git-backed version history (snapshots, diffs, restore).