We’re excited to announce the release of Clibu Notes Version 1.00.00, a major update focused on speed, stability, and a more intuitive user experience.
This release represents one of the most significant performance upgrades we’ve delivered to date, along with a long list of refinements and fixes that make Clibu Notes feel better than ever.
⚡ Blazing‑Fast Performance
The headline feature of this release is a complete overhaul of the code that builds and displays the Matches results list. The difference is dramatic. For example:
- A list of 800 notes that previously took 4–5 seconds to display now appears in under 1 second.
These optimizations ripple throughout the app, improving responsiveness in multiple areas of the interface. Clibu Notes was already fast — now it’s even faster.
🐞 A Thorough Bug Hunt
We’ve also taken the time to track down and fix a wide range of issues and annoyances. Many of these were subtle edge cases that only surfaced in specific workflows, but collectively they make a big difference to everyday usability.
Usability Enhancements & Behaviour Improvements
This update includes a wide range of refinements that make everyday use more predictable and intuitive.
🔍 Smarter, More Predictable Search
Search is one of the most important features in Clibu Notes, and this update makes it more consistent and intuitive:
- Switching Space → All Notes during search now clears any tree selection so you see all matching notes.
- If you change Spaces while search is active and the current tree selection no longer matches the search criteria, search is automatically turned off so the correct note is shown.
- The editor toolbar now displays a match count and the current match position, right beside the Next/Previous buttons.
- The selected match updates correctly when switching between editors.
- Clicking the Home icon now clears the matches selection, updates the browser address bar to the Dashboard note, and opens the Matches panel if it was closed.
🧭 Improved Navigation & Tree Behavior
Navigation through notes, tags, and spaces is now more consistent:
- “Select the Space for this Note” correctly navigates to child Spaces in nested hierarchies.
- Viewed counts update reliably across notes tree, matches list, backlinks, and more.
- Pressing Enter in Notes Tree Move now moves the note when the entered text matches a note title.
- Filters toggled off now scroll to the selected note or tag tree item.
- Breadcrumb clicks in the matches list now correctly switch to the notes tree and select the note.
- When the notes tree is set to Updated, editing a note no longer causes the matches list to jump around — it now scrolls directly to the edited note. Share users can no longer move notes outside of their permitted Space.
- The Spaces dialog can now be closed with Escape.
- Disabled menu items now use lighter text for clearer visibility.
- Smartphone navigation between Notes and Tags trees no longer causes sideways sliding.
Tags & Tagging
- Creating a new tag no longer prompts to turn off Only show Tags with Notes in this Space — Clibu Notes now handles this automatically.
- Adding a tag in the editor no longer shows an error if the tag already exists.
- Users signed in with Share access now see clearer tag‑related notifications.
- Tag suggestions for Share users are now limited to tags within the Space they have access to.
🛠️ Editor Enhancements
A number of editor‑related issues have been resolved:
- The selection toolbar now closes properly when using cursor keys.
- Text editing performance has been improved, making typing feel more responsive.
- Search highlight cleanup works correctly when search text changes to no matches.
- Editor Next/Previous now behaves correctly when multiple editors are open.
- Editing in a second editor no longer unexpectedly exits edit mode.
- Show/Hide Information no longer errors on blank notes.
- Menus with keyboard shortcuts now display borders correctly.
- Adding an existing tag keeps the New Tag dialog open until a unique name is entered.
- Move operations no longer fail silently when using date‑based tree views.
📚 Help System Fixes
Even the Help system received attention:
- No more blank Matches panel when using search or filters.
- Selecting notes in the Help tree no longer triggers “note doesn’t exist” warnings.
- Help now opens correctly when the notes tree is in a date‑based view.
🎉 A Better, Faster Clibu Notes
This release is all about refinement — faster performance, smoother navigation, smarter search behavior, and fixes that eliminate friction from your daily workflow. Whether you manage a handful of notes or thousands, Clibu Notes 1.00.00 delivers a noticeably better experience.
See the Release Notes in Help for more details.
If you haven’t updated yet, now is the perfect time to dive in and enjoy the improvements.