- New: the Dock badge shows how many documents have unsaved edits and clears as soon as everything is saved. - New: the Dock menu provides quick access to unsaved documents, open documents, and open projects. - New: create a document, choose a document, or open a project folder directly from the Dock, even when Ink is not running.

- Improve: Markdown document handling now uses Apple’s official Markdown content type for better system interoperability. - Improve: `.md` and `.markdown` files are recognized more consistently in open panels and document routing. - Keep: existing `.mdx`, plain text, SRT, and WebVTT document support remains unchanged.

New: open .txt plain text documents in Ink as editable text files. Improve: Edit Table keeps column alignment, escaped pipes, and table spacing more consistent when updating Markdown tables. Improve: preview styling for GitHub-style Markdown elements is cleaner and more readable. Fix: Markdown import and preview generation handle plain text and table edge cases more reliably.

New: Edit Table opens a native Markdown table editor from the formatting toolbar and Edit menu. New: create a simple 3-column, 3-row Markdown table when no table is selected.

- New: File → Open Recent Project reopens recently used project folders in the Project Palette. - New: Clear Recent Projects removes closed project folders from the recent project menu without closing open palettes. - New: the Project Palette contextual menu now includes Finder-like Open and Open With actions. - Improve: Markdown files and headings keep opening in Ink, while folders and other project files open with their default macOS app. - Improve: Open With lists compatible installed apps and includes Other… for choosing another application. - Fix: project folders reopened from recent or restored windows keep writable sandbox access for saves, file creation, renames, and Finder tags. - Fix: editor documents opened from Project Palette windows can save changes inside the project folder after relaunch.

Improves the semi-WYSIWYG Markdown editor with cleaner list wrapping and more reliable image previews. New: File → Open Recent Project reopens recently used project folders in the Project Palette. New: Clear Recent Projects removes closed project folders from the recent project menu without closing open palettes. New: the Project Palette contextual menu now includes Finder-like Open and Open With actions. Improve: Markdown files and headings keep opening in Ink, while folders and other project files open with their default macOS app. Improve: Open With lists compatible installed apps and includes Other… for choosing another application. Fix: project folders reopened from recent or restored windows keep writable sandbox access for saves, file creation, renames, and Finder tags. Fix: editor documents opened from Project Palette windows can save changes inside the project folder after relaunch. - Wrapped unordered and ordered list items now align continuation lines under the list text. - Image previews refresh more reliably after editing, undo, resizing, and window Zoom. - Improves preview stability in wrapped, full-width, unwrapped, and reading layouts. - Adds regression coverage for image preview positioning, scroll stability, and list rendering.

New: AI Commands are reorganized into a cleaner menu with top-level Proofread, Clean Up Note, Summarize, Extract Tasks, Ask This Note, and Custom Prompt actions. New: Rewrite, Structure, Review, Knowledge Base, and Create From Note submenus add focused Markdown workflows for second-brain notes and project documents. Improve: AI command settings now validate provider readiness so unusable command/provider combinations are blocked before they appear as runnable actions. Improve: built-in command quality scenarios now cover the expanded command set with deterministic Markdown checks. New: Project Palette opens a companion explorer window for Markdown folders without changing the focused editor window. New: browse folders, Markdown files, and headings, then copy or drag Markdown links back into the editor. New: filter expanded project file headings by level while keeping H1 headings visible. New: project indexing supports OKF, books, docs, notes, general Markdown folders, and local Git repository clones. New: Shortcuts and Siri can discover currently opened project files, headings, citations, and tags through structured App Intents. Keep: single-document editing, preview, export, Zotero, image previews, and existing document automation remain available.

New: Project Palette opens a companion explorer window for Markdown folders without changing the focused editor window. New: browse folders, Markdown files, and headings, then copy or drag Markdown links back into the editor. New: filter expanded project file headings by level while keeping H1 headings visible. New: project indexing supports OKF, books, docs, notes, general Markdown folders, and local Git repository clones. New: Shortcuts and Siri can discover currently opened project files, headings, citations, and tags through structured App Intents. Keep: single-document editing, preview, export, Zotero, image previews, and existing document automation remain available.

Improved image previews so they stay anchored below their Markdown image links across wrapped, full-width, and unwrapped layouts. Fixed image-heavy document issues including preview-over-link placement, text/preview overlap, and newline repaint instability.

- New: AI providers now keep their own prompt templates, with advanced per-provider editing available in Settings. - Improve: Apple Foundation Models actions are easier to validate and tune while keeping other providers on their own prompts. - Fix: AI provider settings now scroll correctly when advanced prompt templates or headers are expanded.

- New: start faster with built-in Markdown templates for daily notes, meeting notes, project briefs, decision logs, task lists, AGENTS.md, and SKILL.md files. - New: AppleScript automation can create, inspect, edit, and export Ink documents from trusted Mac automation workflows. - Improve: AI proofread and Apple Intelligence workflows now validate Markdown structure more carefully, helping preserve headings, lists, links, and code while editing.

Fix: the text cursor no longer sticks over buttons, overlays, or dialog controls after editing. Improve: cursor handling now uses native macOS cursor regions more consistently for smoother pointer movement. Keep: editable text still shows the standard I-beam, and Command-hover links still show the pointing-hand cursor.

- Fix: editor controls now show the standard arrow pointer instead of the text cursor when you hover formatting controls, bottom editor overlays, and image preview actions. - Fix: Command-hovering Markdown links once again shows the pointing-hand cursor while preserving normal text selection and editing. - Improve: image preview action buttons keep their cursor and click behavior scoped to the visible buttons, so the rest of the preview continues to behave like editor text.

- Improve: inline image previews stay much more stable while you type, scroll, and add new lines in longer documents. - Fix: image previews are less likely to disappear, flash, or briefly show the raw Markdown image link during editing. - Fix: scrolling around inline image previews is more reliable, including when previews appear near the end of a document.

- Improve: Wrap Lines now uses the more convenient shortcut Shift-Command-W. - Improve: it is faster to switch between wrapped and unwrapped editing without opening Settings.

- New: use Command-1 through Command-6 to apply Markdown heading levels directly. (thank you Erwan) - New: use Option-Command-S to show or hide the Table of Contents panel.

- Improve: Markdown image previews now appear sooner while you scroll through documents. - Improve: image preview loading is smoother and more consistent around the visible area. - Improve: image preview caching is more memory-efficient, helping keep editing responsive in longer notes. - New: add support for a local coding agent server in AI settings. - Improve: local AI connections are easier to set up with editable model and port fields. - Improve: AI provider labels are clearer and more explicit in Settings. - Improve: launch templates styling and background presentation. - Fix: AI profile defaults and migration behavior are more reliable.

- Improve: new untitled documents now open at a comfortable size that fits your current display. - Improve: first-open window sizing is capped so Ink feels more consistent on both smaller and larger screens. - Keep: saved documents still reopen with their remembered window size and table of contents state. - New: Ink can suggest a draft filename for untitled documents using Apple Intelligence or another configured AI provider. - Improve: AI filename suggestions now stay shorter, follow the document’s language, and handle long pasted text more reliably. - Improve: creating a new document from Title Options now gives it a clearer draft name based on the source document. - New: choose a starting point from the template window with Empty, To-Do, and Thinking Note options. - Improve: New From Template now brings the existing template window to the front instead of opening duplicates. - Improve: image-to-text actions wait longer before timing out and still let you cancel at any time. - New: Ink now remembers the main window size and whether the table of contents is open for each document. - Improve: linked images and other external files keep working more reliably after relaunch once you’ve granted access. - Improve: image preview controls are more consistent and easier to use. - New: Help tutorials now open directly in Ink as editable Markdown documents. - New: the Help menu includes guided tutorials for app features, What’s New, and Markdown flavors. - Improve: the built-in Help page now works as a tutorial index that opens content inside the app. - New: “Paste Image as Text” converts a copied image into Markdown with Apple Intelligence. - New: “Insert Image as Text” converts an image file into Markdown directly from the Insert menu. - New: image previews can now create a caption or extract text under the image. - Improve: image-text actions share progress, cancel, and smarter file-access handling.

- New (macOS 26+): smart filename suggestions when saving pasted images (Apple Intelligence). - “Copy suggested name” helper in the Save panel for pasted images. - toggle to enable/disable this feature (Editor → Images).

- New: Footnotes (Insert → Footnote / Footnote (Named)…) - New: Zotero integration (optional): create a footnote directly from a formatted Zotero citation link. Zotero is a free, open-source reference manager. (https://www.zotero.org) - Improve: faster “insert and type” flow with auto-selected placeholder text

New: Apple Shortcuts action “Get Current Document” (returns the active Ink doc for automation) Improve: document/selection counts display rendering

Fix: .vtt (WebVTT) files can now be opened like .srt

- Import Transcript: transcribe audio/video into Markdown, WebVTT, or SubRip - Live preview while transcribing - Cue duration setting for shorter subtitle lines (VTT/SRT) - Remembers your last transcription language

- Open and save subtitle files: `.srt` and `.vtt` - Timestamp coloring for SRT/VTT cue timing lines - New theme color role for subtitle timecodes (Settings → Editor Colors)

New “Show Invisibles” option to reveal spaces, tabs, and line breaks in the editor (Edit menu or Settings). Includes markers for common non‑breaking spaces to help spot typography issues without changing your text.