This update is all about speed. We use Floaters every day for work, but with all of the new features being requested & added, the app started slowing down more than anticipated. The rendering engine has been overhauled and optimized, giving much quicker response times when doing basically anything in Floaters.

• General Huge performance improvements when typing, scrolling, selecting, or basically doing anything in the app. Everything in the rendering engine has been greatly optimized to make Floaters much quicker, which is kind of the whole point of the app.
• General Now will differentiate actions when determining if a character is a break in word, and have different values for keyboard navigation vs text wrap.
• General Will no longer consider an underscore a break in a word when navigating via keyboard.
• General Will now consider several other characters as breaks in words including punctuation, slashes, brackets, etc when navigating via keyboard.
• General Improved scrolling performance in other ways
• General Scrolling past the boundaries of a floater will no longer trigger a refresh
• General Changed the keyboard bindings to trigger a full refresh of the current note to Control+Option
• Bug Fix → Selecting with a keyboard should remember the direction of the selection so that the arrow keys will apply to start/end of selection
• Bug Fix → Moving cursor/selection with arrow keys acts unexpectedly sometimes

• General Copying and pasting in general is much faster
• Bug Fix → Fixed an issue with adding large pictures or chunks of text where the line height calculations could prematurely stop and place items in the wrong spots.
• Bug Fix → Fixed slowdowns when copying and pasting from within the app
• Bug Fix Deleting large items will correctly recalculate and reposition line heights for affected and following lines
• Bug Fix Fixed an issue with selected characters sometimes not updating quickly enough when performing followup actions such as paste, cut, formatting, etc.

Floaters is now available on the Mac App Store, in addition to directly from our website. We'll try to keep both versions updated simultaneously, but the non-App Store version will naturally receive updates more quickly.

• General Floaters has been updated in various ways to allow submission to the Mac App Store
• Bug Fix → Coding mode will no longer allow Markdown parsing or line-beginning autofills that would result in special characters.
• Bug Fix Fixed issue with tip of day window checkbox not showing correct saved preference

• General Improved performance some when using Auto-parsing on line changes for Markdown
• General Several improvements to the color selection contextual menu
• General Improved defaults for several preferences/settings
• General Improved default note colors for new save files
• General Heading lines will now have vertical padding based on the heading size
• Bug Fix → Markdown links not parsing if another tag is to the right of the line on the line
• Bug Fix → Markdown auto-parsing doesn't trigger when changing away from last line on document
• Bug Fix Fixed issue with Window menu > Grouping > Select window shortcuts not being enable at all times that they should be

Markdown support is here! That's right, you can now type using implemented Markdown tags and have them parsed into formatting (bold, italic, highlight, strikethrough, headings, code) and other items (links, dividers, block quotes, code blocks, tasks, lists). Check the docs for details and options!

• Feature → Markdown support with live editing and viewing
• Feature → Can now open and import .md (Markdown) files as Floaters
• Feature Heading 1 through 6 text formatting now possible
• Feature Strikethrough text formatting now possible
• Feature Highlight text formatting now possible
• Feature Inline code formatting now possible
• Feature Block code formatting now possible
• Feature New Markdown button option for title bar area
• Feature Can now click on the data file's name in the main list for a contextual menu to reveal in Finder and show backups folder
• General Rounded window setting will now apply to loading notes and a few other places
• General Extended beta expiration date
• General Improved performance when auto-saving by reducing a few calls to refresh the views
• Bug Fix Fixed an issue where formatting in a note would sometimes be applied to the title bar
• Bug Fix Fixed issue with Copy to Markdown when including content that cannot be converted to Markdown
• Bug Fix Fixed issue with line heights recalculating to slightly different values while typing
• Bug Fix Fixed an issue with newly added characters not having their width calculated on time to check for word wrapping

Block quotes! Start a new line with > and a space to create a new block quote. These can be nested, and can also contain lists. More details here.

• Feature → Can now add Block Quotes to floaters
• Feature → Can now drag pictures out of a floater while in Picture Mode
• General Reduced frequency of certain UI updates to improve performance
• Bug Fix → Task lists don't correctly indent wrapped text

Screenshots! Floaters can now automatically open your screenshots as new floaters, or add to existing floaters. A new section in the Settings window lets you decide how it all works. See how to do it here.

• Feature → Capture Screenshots
• Feature → Can now open and import plain text files into Floaters
• Feature Can now open and import jpeg/png files directly into new Floaters
• General Improved the look of the Preferences window's sections list
• General Improved calculations for imported picture sizes based on their resolution and the system's resolution
• General Will no longer show Grouping ID # in title bar if there's no custom name for the grouping
• Bug Fix Fixed display issue with long note names appearing behind right-aligned controls in title bar

• Feature → Rounded Window Corners
• Feature → Can now export notes directly to file as markdown or plain text
• Feature New Setting in Preferences → Note Windows for rounded/square window corners (defaults to rounded)
• Bug Fix → Copying a numbered list not formatted correctly
• Bug Fix Links will now correctly copy and export to Markdown format
• Bug Fix Bulleted and numbered lists will now correctly copy and export to Markdown format
• Bug Fix Dividers will now correctly copy and export to Markdown format

This version adds a few new region types in preparation for full Markdown support: dividers, bulleted lists, and numbered lists. The lists can be added like in other text editing apps by typing a dash or a number at the beginning of the line followed by a space. Dividers can be added using their prefix -- and pressing shift-return.

• Feature → Can now add numbered and bulleted lists to notes
• Feature → Ability to split note into multiple Floaters at dividers
• Feature New preference to ask for confirmation when splitting notes at dividers
• General Extended beta expiration date
• Bug Fix Fixed an issue where double-clicking selected text could remove it

• Feature → New option to hide Floaters app from dock in macOS
• Feature → New special character type: Dividers
• Feature → Use the new -- prefix with Command-Shift to create dividers
• Feature Can add dividers from the various Insert menus
• Feature Status item menu in macOS menu bar will now contain all menu items from the Floaters menu bar
• General Can now select System font as the font for a note window's title bar
• General Changed default note title bar font selection to System

This release adds several features working towards Markdown support. Notes now have customizable fonts, multiple text sizes, and several other traits required before full Markdown support can be released.

• Feature → Customizable fonts and multiple fonts within notes
• Feature → Menu bar icon on macOS
• Feature → Multiple font sizes within one floater
• Feature Can now choose a default font for newly created notes via the Settings window
• Feature Can now set custom fonts for Floater title bars, or have it match the note's font
• General Increased max font size for note title bar font setting
• Bug Fix Multiple items of varying height on the same line will now have the same selection highlight height

• General Reduced the frequency of the automatic update checks
• General → Lower minimum note font size
• Bug Fix → Global Keyboard Shortcut disappears from settings sidebar when all entries are deleted

• General Extended the beta version expiration date
• Bug Fix Fixed several small bugs

Web floaters are a great way to quickly access commonly used sites/pages. This update fixes a couple of bugs and improves behavior when using a web floater.

• General Various small improvements and tweaks
• Bug Fix → Web floaters sometimes lose their URL and don't load properly
• Bug Fix → Command-dragging a web floater doesn't work

• Feature → Can assign global keyboard shortcut actions for the in-app keyboard shortcuts
• General → View the new global keyboard shortcut actions in a new tip
• Bug Fix → Links on notes with lighter background colors aren't readable

• General Added new window to display random Floaters tips & tricks from website. Can be opened via Help menu
• General Added Show Random Tip of the day preference in settings window
• General Adjusted the backend timing system that checks for updates and various other actions
• Bug Fix → Made several improvements to the general text/note drawing engine

Our first update to the app incorporates a couple of improvements from your feedback. Please keep 'em coming!

• General → Better organization of items in the menu bar
• Bug Fix → The first space character on a line after a line break doesn’t have any width
• Bug Fix → Closing a note window doesn't update grouping's "open" icon in list window

This is the initial release of the Floaters beta. We expect for there to be bugs, so please send as much feedback as possible!