Umber checks for updates on its own. Each build below is what the app offers when it does.
0.1.0-beta.7Latest
Regroup ⌘K into Note, This Note, Edit, View, and Umber, with the destructive row last. New rows: Copy Link to Note, Open Notes Folder, Check for Updates, and About Umber.
Move to Trash no longer asks. The Undo toast and Recently Deleted already hold the note, so the sheet was only friction.
Give every action a shortcut and show it on its palette row. New: ⇧⌘R rename, ⇧⌘P pin, ⌥⌘V capture the clipboard, ⌥⌘L copy a note link, ⌥⌘R reveal in Finder, ⌥⌘O open the notes folder, ⌥⌘F formatting, ⇧⌘⌫ Recently Deleted, ⌃⌘T keep on top, ⌃⌘H dynamic height. Changed: the link command is ⌘L, because ⌘K opens the actions palette; the task list is ⇧⌘9, because ⇧⌘C now copies the note as Markdown. Bullet ⇧⌘8, ordered ⇧⌘7, quote ⇧⌘B, code block ⌥⌘C, paragraph ⌥⌘0, and divider ⌥⌘- were already in the editor and are now listed.
Run every formatting command from ⌘K. "Formatting…" opens a nested list of headings, marks, highlights, and blocks; a search at the root finds them directly. Escape, ⌫, or ← steps back out.
Pin notes from ⌘K or the Browse card. Pinned notes head the list, and the pins live with the notes folder in .umber/state.json.
Browse now lists notes by when they were last opened, not by when they were last changed.
Keep on Top holds the panel open while you work in another app. It lasts for the session and shows a small marker beside the title.
Add umber:// links: create, open, append to, prepend to, and search notes, capture the clipboard, and show, hide, or toggle the panel. See [docs/DEEPLINKS.md](docs/DEEPLINKS.md).
Add Shortcuts and Siri support: New Note, Append to Note, Open Note, Capture Clipboard, Toggle Umber, and Search Notes. Open Note offers a picker of the notes in the folder.
Replace the text size setting with editor zoom. ⌘+, ⌘-, and ⌘0, or the palette's new View group, scale headings, lists, code, and spacing together.
Fix opening a note rewriting its file. A note is only written after the user edits it, so the modification date no longer moves on open.
Move to Trash now moves the note to .umber/trash/ inside the notes folder. Restore it from the new Recently Deleted card in ⌘K, or from the trash toast's Undo. Notes deleted over 30 days ago go to the system Trash.
Confirm trash, copy, capture, duplicate, dynamic height, and a saved conflict copy with a glass pill that drops in under the header. Its tint carries the kind: warnings amber, restores and captures green, unknown links red. Trashing a note offers Undo.
0.1.0-beta.6
Move to Trash is now ⌥⌘⌫. ⌘⌫ deletes to the start of the line again, as in every Mac text field.
Rewrite the welcome note as a tour of the panel, with a banner image saved to attachments/.
Highlight text in five colours from the Highlight menu or ⇧⌘H. Yellow stores as ==text==, the other colours as <mark>.
Add a selection toolbar over a mouse text selection with copy, inline marks, link, and highlight.
Leading-align the footer toolbar and stop remembering whether it was open across launches.
Rebuild the notes and actions cards: scrollbar, animated resize and fade, titled action groups, and Escape clears the search first.
0.1.0-beta.5
Add a formatting toolbar to the footer. The bottom-right button opens it over the footer row, and it stays open across notes and launches.
Fix footer clicks not reaching the editor and the page overflowing.
Fix a note losing its automatic title before the user names it.
0.1.0-beta.4
Images.  shows the picture. Paste or drop an image and it is saved to an attachments folder next to your notes with a link in the note. Click an image to change its alt text or path, reveal it in Finder, or remove it.
Tables show as tables. The note file keeps the exact source, so Obsidian and git see no change. Click a table and choose "edit source" to change it.
Right-click on an image or table opens Umber's own bar. The browser-style menu is gone.
The link bar matches the panel: system font, translucent, smaller.
Find in the note with ⌘F. Enter and Shift-Enter step through matches, Escape closes.
"Capture Clipboard" global shortcut (Settings > Shortcuts) makes a new note from whatever you last copied.
"Copy as Rich Text" in the actions palette pastes into Mail, Notes, or a document with lists, headings, and tables kept.
Fixed: editing a note in another app while it was open could be overwritten on reload.
0.1.0-beta.3
Opening Umber now shows the panel, and so does opening it again while it is already running. Before, launching it a second time looked like nothing had happened. Starting at login stays quiet, so the panel does not appear over your desktop at every boot.
The accent colour is Umber's own rather than whichever one macOS is set to, so the editor no longer paints links and the caret in the system blue.
The installer window has the Umber artwork and drags across to Applications.
0.1.0-beta.2
New installs open a welcome note that shows what the app can do. It is an ordinary .md file: edit it or move it to the Trash like any other note. You see it once.
Moving the last note to the Trash now opens a fresh note. It used to leave the deleted note on screen and read-only, with no way out but making a note by hand.
0.1.0-beta.1
Floating markdown panel on a global hotkey, over a folder of plain .md files.
Tiptap editor with headings, lists, task lists, quotes, code blocks, links, and lossless round-tripping of markdown it does not model.
Note switcher (⌘P) and actions palette (⌘K).
Settings with panes for General, Editor, Shortcuts, and Updates.
About window.
Sparkle updates, with an opt-in pre-release channel.