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Clibu Notes Year in Review – 2024

We’ve accomplished a lot and greatly improved Clibu Notes this past year, as we progress to a Version 1 release. The number of users who’ve signed up has grown steadily throughout the year.

We’ve had a total of 43 releases in 2024 which have included important new functionality, a wide range of enhancements and plenty of bug fixes.

Some highlights include:

  • Hierarchical Tags which are quick and convenient to add to notes and give you another way to quickly see related notes.
  • Collaborative sharing of Space’s with permissions and magic share links.
  • Improved support for iOS and Safari. Hopefully 2025 will see more Safari issues resolved so we it works better with applications like Clibu Notes.
  • Dark and Light mode support along with using the OS preference.
  • Implemented Export to Markdown.
  • Added Feature Request, Voting Board and Roadmap.
  • Enhancements to the Dashboard.
  • New pop out Side Panel.
  • Move to the next and previous search match in the editor.
  • Implemented Search History with autosuggest.
  • Improved UX and UI on Tablets and Smartphones.
  • Print the entire note in the selected editor.
  • Select the Space a note is in via. the editor toolbar.
  • Unified UI on panels along with new Home and Close buttons.
  • Updates to Share to Clibu Notes, Backlinks, TOC etc.
  • Updates to the / Slash menu
  • Performance improvements across the board.
  • The Notes Tree now smooth scrolls with a flick on Smartphones.
  • Cut and Paste added to the Tree’s and Cut added to the Matches list cards.
  • Implemented Fuzzy search for backlink and slash menu suggestions.
  • New Editor blank line toolbar.
  • Up and Down Arrow buttons on the main editor toolbar move to next/previous note.
  • The count of words in a Note is now shown in the editor footer area.
  • Web Link URLs can optionally be replaced by the Title of the actual Web Page.
  • Implemented the new guided Tour.
  • A completely new Clibu Notes Website.
  • ….

The year ahead – 2025

The new year will see Clibu Notes continue to evolve and improve as our user base grows. We have a long list of enhancements and new functionality we are looking forward to delivering.

More importantly we want to wrap up a V1.0 release and set up payments, so after years of development we can finally begin to be reimbursed for our efforts.

I hope you’ve all had a great year and wish you all the best for the year ahead.

– Neville

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Dark mode has arrived

A feature often requested for Clibu Notes has been Dark mode. In hindsight we really should have incorporated, or at least better planned for dark mode, when we started developing Clibu Notes. This meant we had to do more work than we otherwise would have to fully incorporate dark mode.

The upside was it enabled (forced) us to have a close look at nearly all aspects of the Clibu Notes UI. This resulted in improvements both in the original light mode and the new dark mode, which I’m very happy with.

Clibu Notes Dark mode theme

Now that dark mode has arrived I’ve switched to using it all the time. It is quite interesting that once you get used to dark mode, you want it available in all of the applications you use.

By default Dark mode uses your operating system theme preference to determine whether to use light or dark mode. You can override this using the Theme menu.

Theme menu

The Theme menu is available on the Settings menu. On larger screens there is also a button at the right of the top navigation bar to access the Theme menu.

Implementing dark and light themes now opens up the possibility of creating other themes in the future.

As always comment below or use the Feedback option in Clibu Notes to get in touch.

– Neville