• Locked slates now lock their photos, voice notes and sketches too. No peeking. • A tiny cloud tells you when sync is done. It is very proud of itself. • Scribble, highlight and sign on any PDF. Your signature now follows you to every device. • Everything is quicker, and a few gremlins have been shown the door.

File, tag or export a slate straight from the list. Hold a row and the menu now carries Category, Tags and Export, so putting something in Work no longer means opening it first. Pick several and the bar can file them all at once. Add a link with your own words. Insert, then Link, or Command K with a keyboard. The words you choose point wherever you say. Tapping a [[link]] opens the slate it names. It was drawn as a link and did nothing before, on every device. The backlinks at the foot of a slate go somewhere now too. Ask a scanned PDF to be made searchable, and be told what was read. Zen Slate already did this quietly when you opened a scan; now you can ask again when the first pass found nothing. Tidy duplicate slates, in Settings. Two devices that write the same slate before seeing each other both keep theirs. This folds the extras into Trash and keeps the oldest. Nothing is deleted. An iPad with a keyboard now has the Mac's thirteen formatting shortcuts, with the same letters. Command B for bold, Shift Command L for a checklist, Option Command 1 for a heading.

History keeps its word. Every time you open a slate, the words as they stood are kept, so the version from before this visit is always there to go back to. Restoring one changes the page in front of you, not just the file. Swipes have sides now. Pull a row right for Trash, and only Trash. Pull it left for Pin, Star and the new Duplicate. The same on Todos, Starred and the Trash itself, so a swipe never needs reading first. Duplicate a slate from its menu, from a swipe, or with a long press. The copy brings its own pictures and recordings. Type a list with dashes, select it, tap Bullet list. The dashes go, the indent becomes nesting, and a typed [x] becomes a ticked item. Undo and Redo sit at the front of the format bar. Inline code moved into the Format sheet to make the room. Focus mode really clears the screen now: the bars go, the words stay, and a small cross brings everything back. Reformat leaves your structure alone. A dashed note comes back as the list you wrote, and a short line is kept as it was rather than rewritten. And the daily review says today when it was today.

The iPad grew up. Every screen now wears the iPhone's Horizon look: the photograph behind the title, glass under the search and the tags, the sidebar in the house type. The two finally match. The third tab is the Organiser. Your categories are folders now, with the latest slates peeking out of the top, so you can see what is in one before you open it. Tags are labels with an eyelet. Starred slates have a home. Bookmarked is called Starred everywhere, because that is what the icon always was. A todo with a time rings at that time. No switch to find, no accordion to open. It stays in Today until the day is over, and its time turns red the moment it passes, which is the app's polite way of saying so. Settings, reordered. Look, Writing, Your slates, The Founder, About. Backup now opens on the state of your library and remembers when you last kept a copy. Your name is asked for in a sheet, with the keyboard already up. Small things you may notice. Search and sort inside a folder. A Starred-first sort. Rows that say "3 hrs ago" instead of the full sentence. The pin sits before the title. A line under Slates that knows what day it is and what is due. Tap the version number ten times and something appears. And the flicker is gone. Coming back to your slates from a note used to strobe for a second. Found, measured, fixed, and the glass redrawn by hand so it never happens again.

Talk to your slates. Every note now has a mic tucked into its right edge. Tap it, say your piece, tap it again. Your words come back laid out as a note, headings and lists and all, with the recording kept right there in case the mic misheard your accountant's name. Slide the mic up or down the edge and it stays wherever your thumb likes it. Speak in your own language. The mic now hears 45 languages, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and friends included, and lays out notes in 13 of them. Pick yours in Settings, or let the phone decide. Horizon is the new look, and now the default. Mist over the ridges behind your titles, glass under the search, the tags and the tab bar, pins in six colours. The favourite star stays orange. It has opinions. A shorter welcome. Three screens, one of them asks your name so the morning greeting can use it, and then you are in a note with the mic waiting. Skippable on every one. Write to the Founder. It is in Settings, and it goes to a person: read personally, answered within a few hours, 24 at most, with a note back the moment you send. Now and then the app will ask how things are going. Sorry in advance; it asks once, and never twice in a week. Your list knows what day it is. Pinned, today, yesterday, this week, this month. Version history says Version 1, 2, 3 instead of a timestamp you had to do arithmetic on. Everything settles instead of snapping. Buttons press back, rows slide, screens arrive. Turn on Reduce Motion and it all becomes a gentle crossfade, no arguments. The bin now says what it did. Delete a recording, a picture, a file or a link inside a note and a small toast tells you, with Undo, for the times it was the wrong bin. Fixed, with mild embarrassment: deleting a recording at the end of a long note took the whole app down with it. Tapping a reminder could do the same. A read-back cut short by the lock screen lost the recording. All three gone. New, and worth knowing: the app now tells us, anonymously, which features get used and when it crashes. Never a note, never a title, never you. If you would rather keep even that to yourself, Settings, Privacy, Share usage, off.

Improved text recognition for scanned PDFs when the initial recognition pass finds no text. Clarified the in-app privacy information for optional iCloud sync, link previews and purchases. Updated our App Store listing to explain voice notes, transcription and organization more clearly.

Good morning. Or afternoon. We check first. DAILY REVIEW GREW A PERSONALITY It now knows your name, knows the day, and hands you one line from someone who thought about all this harder than we did. Marcus Aurelius, Mark Twain, Confucius and friends, a different one every morning. None of them will tell you to hustle. YOUR TO-DO LIST LEARNED TO READ Type "tomorrow 6pm" or "every monday" into a to-do and it sets the date and the repeat by itself. It used to do this only while you were creating a to-do, then play dumb the second you edited one. Embarrassing. Fixed. RENAMES ON IPAD NOW SURVIVE You renamed a to-do. iPad nodded politely and kept the old name. It has stopped doing that. SCANNED PAGES TELL THE TRUTH When text recognition cannot start on a scan, it now says so, instead of shrugging and reporting that your page had no words on it. It had words. We could see them too.

- Redesigned New Todo sheet: sub-tasks and priority are now cards, and every section has its own icon. - Overdue todos in the daily review have clearer Today and Tomorrow buttons and a tighter layout. - Fixed unchecking a completed todo doing nothing on iPad. - Fixed doubled bullet and number markers on a fresh list item. - Undo now reverses bold, italic and strikethrough, not only typed text. - A clearer upgrade screen with both plans shown side by side.

- Bulleted and numbered lists now show their markers correctly. - Fixed lists losing their formatting when you pressed Return to add a new item. - Undo and redo now work for formatting and list changes, not just typed text. - Voice notes recorded on a PDF page are now transcribed automatically..

Talk to Zen Slate. Add a todo by voice and it works out the day, the time, how urgent it is and whether it repeats, all from the way you said it. "Send the invoice tomorrow morning" lands as a todo due tomorrow at 9. Ask what's due today and hear the answer without opening anything. Open a slate, add a line to one, or tick a todo off, all without touching the screen. Adding to a slate is the one worth trying: a shopping list written a line at a time, days apart, never needs the phone unlocked again. Slates and todos now show up in Spotlight, and tapping a result opens the right one.

Zen Slate is rewritten. All of it. Version 2.0 is a native app built from scratch. It opens faster, scrolls smoothly through long documents, and holds a big slate without complaint. Your slates come across on the first launch, with their categories, tags, bookmarks and trash intact. Drawing and writing Apple Pencil with the full toolset: pen, marker, highlighter, eraser, lasso, ruler and the colour picker, on a full screen canvas Word count and reading time, and a focus mode that keeps your line at a fixed height Voice notes transcribed on your device, document scanning, and handwriting Finding things again Categories inside categories, and saved searches as smart folders Select many slates at once to file, bookmark or clear Every slate shows what links to it Todos Dates, reminders, priorities and repeats, in one list beside your writing A month view, so a heavy week is visible in advance Optional mirroring into Apple Reminders Coming from another app Import a folder of Markdown from Obsidian, Bear or iA Writer, keeping folders, tags and dates Evernote .enex files, RTF and HTML Trust Sync says what it is doing, and why when it cannot A change from another device can no longer quietly replace what you wrote: your version is kept in history Lock a slate behind Face ID, and restore any earlier draft Pro can be bought once and kept for good, rather than only subscribed to.

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