## What's new 1. **Whiteboard rulers** — straight edge, protractor, and triangle guides from the top menu. Place a guide on the page, move it, rotate (including 180° flip), and resize; draw along the edges with the pen while other tools stay available. 2. **Draw around the guide** — the ruler only captures touches on its body and controls, so you can ink along the edge and keep using the toolbars. 3. **Phone whiteboard layout** — clearer paper vs desk, stable page mapping when rotating, and zoom/pan that keeps iPad behavior intact. 4. **Home folders** — tablet sidebar and mobile folder lists scroll reliably without squeezing notes off-screen.

Noteara 1.0.8 makes whiteboard writing smoother and more expressive. • Smoother ink — less lag while writing, and strokes stay sharp when you lift the Pencil. • Smarter pens — Ballpoint, Fountain, Marker, Brush, Highlighter, and Laser each have their own look. Long-press a pen to adjust thickness and color; your choices are remembered. • Pressure & speed — Fountain and Brush respond as you write; Highlighter softly tints under your notes. • Clearer eraser — a size circle shows how much you’ll erase, and erasing busy pages is faster. • Zoom & rotate — lock zoom, jump pages more easily, and keep ink aligned when you rotate the device. • Trash fix — Restore and Delete are no longer covered by floating buttons.

1. Cloud Backup — opt-in backup to iCloud Drive using portable 2. iPad E-Notebook sidebar — Trash button no longer overlaps the page list at the bottom of the sidebar.

1. Reliable block merge & split — backspace at the start of a block merges it into the one above; pressing return splits cleanly. Block types and ids stay stable through the edit. 2. Safer multi-block deletes — selecting text across several blocks and deleting now keeps the rest of the page intact instead of corrupting content across block boundaries. 3. Inserted blocks stay put — AI rewrites, live transcripts, images, and code blocks inserted into a note are no longer dropped if you keep typing right after; the editor now tells your edits apart from programmatic inserts. 4. Cleaner reading view — the bottom toolbar now shows only in edit mode (when a text block is focused) and hides when you're just reading, on touch and with a hardware keyboard.

1. Lasso tool — circle strokes, text, images, stickers, and shapes, then move, resize, rotate, duplicate, copy/paste, delete, or restyle selected strokes. 2. Smarter eraser — erases only the ink you touch (partial strokes), never images or text. 3. Undo & redo on the canvas — every stroke, erase, and lasso action steps back/forward, in sync during live collaboration. 4. Mobile-first floating toolbar — bottom dock by default on iPhone; iPad keeps the side dock; drag to any edge. 5. Toggleable stroke controls — show/hide the width/opacity rail from the toolbar (hidden on iPhone, shown on iPad by default).

1. Markdown becomes real blocks. 2. AI rewrites insert headings, lists, and code. 3. Old notes auto-fix on open. 4. Code blocks get a light-themed editor. 5. Code inserts reliably from the + menu. 6. Cleaner toolbar — fits and scrolls on iPhone. 7. Faster typing on long notes. 8. Fewer glitches inserting transcripts and images.

1. Before: users with system Dark mode on saw inconsistent dark chrome on sheets, the AI panel, and Mermaid diagrams, while custom-coloured surfaces stayed light → noticeable theme mismatch. 2. After (1.0.3) flipping the device to Dark in **Settings → Display & Brightness** has zero effect inside Noteara. Every surface is light. 3. No other behaviour changes — same features, same data, same bundle id. Existing users update in place.

1. **Fully native iOS rebuild** — entire app rewritten in SwiftUI + UIKit; same bundle id so existing users upgrade in place. 2. **Redesigned E-Notebook on iPad** — dedicated sidebar with Recents, Favourites, and a nested All Pages tree (drag-and-drop sub-pages). 3. **Live dictation on every block** — tap the new mic icon, talk, and on-device captions auto-scroll as your words land in the block. 4. **Ask NoteIq AI on any block** — rewrite / expand / summarise inline; Approve now inserts a new paragraph below instead of overwriting. 5. **Floating Block Actions panel** — quick Turn into, Duplicate, Insert below, Delete, and Ask NoteIq from any text selection. 6. **Live Transcript block** — meetings / lectures recorder with on-device captions, cloud fallback, playback, and per-line paragraph insertion. 7. **New whiteboard sticker sets** — System Design, Dev & Code, Flow & Arrows, Engineering, Medical, and Kids & Fun for any kind of diagram. 8. **iPad "+" menu parity** — E-Notebook, Whiteboard, Image, and Import (PDF / Markdown / Word) all wired up like the iPhone FAB. 9. **Database block toolbar** — drag, up, down, +, delete chrome added, with cleaner row spacing and column alignment. 10. **Polish & fixes** — deleted pages stay deleted, modal inputs no longer hide under the keyboard, Trash sits pinned in the sidebar, new app icon, no divider lines in All Pages.

Noteara 1.0.1 is here. • Live whiteboard sharing for real-time collaboration • Page drag-and-drop for faster reordering • Reminder support in planning workflows • UI polish across boards, notes, and toolbars • Improved layer reliability when switching and hiding/showing Thanks for creating with Noteara—share feedback at noteara.com.