Changelog

Fixed

• –The editor no longer opens to an empty pane.
• –Notes open at your text size straight away, instead of resizing a moment after they appear.
• –The toolbar buttons no longer flash a faint outline while the window settles.
• –Choosing None for the summon style now really means none — the editor was still fading in.

Fixed

• –Groundwork for the blank editor. The actual fix is in 1.4.2 — take that one.

Paste mode from anywhere, resizable table columns, and a window that keeps up with you.

New

• –Paste mode from anywhere — type /paste, press ⌘K, or bind a hotkey. Clips land where your cursor was, trimmed and de-duplicated. Settings › Experiments.
• –Drag to resize table columns — double-click the grip or choose "Fit to content" to reset. Widths stay out of the markdown, so Obsidian and git see a plain table.

Improved

• –Smoother resizing — the shadow, character count, and ⌘[ / ⌘] readout stay attached to the window
• –Fewer autosave hiccups — metadata saves run in the background, cutting the time they block the interface by over 99% in our benchmark*
• –Large notes do less repeated work while you type, scroll, and resize, especially around long code blocks and quotes. Editing a 500,000-character note took about 17% less time in our benchmark*
• –Switching notes is quicker, especially between big ones and vault files
• –Vim mode opens in NORMAL, the way vim opens a file. A new note (⌘N) still starts in INSERT.
• –A polish pass on the chrome — the title stays clear of the buttons, the glass buttons are retuned, and menus follow your theme
• –⇧⌘⌫ deletes the selected note in the note switcher

Fixed

• –Opening a .md from Finder no longer risks saving an empty file over it, and Esc closes a file opened that way
• –YouTube mode tells you when your browser blocks JavaScript from Apple Events, and which switch to flip
• –Vim mode — a half-typed command like d no longer survives a dismiss and eats the first key of your next visit
• –Short table columns no longer collapse letter by letter

By the numbers

| Measured | Before → after | Change |

| --- | --- | --- |

| Metadata save blocking the UI, 1,000 notes | 48.06 → 0.013 ms | 99.97% less |

| Edit + layout, 500k-character note | 6 → 5 ms | ~17% less |

| Editor handoff, unchanged 500k-character note | 44.45 → 38.96 ms | ~12% less |

| Decoration rebuild, 10,000-line code block | 0.690 → 0.004 ms | 99% less |

| Native note-bar frame validation | 0.0275 → 0.0058 ms | 79% less |

\* Internal testing on an M1 Pro with 16 GB RAM. Editing measured with a 500,000-character note; metadata saves with 1,000 synthetic notes. Results describe those workloads, not overall app speed.

Vim mode, twenty-one themes, and a terminal that looks like your terminal.

New

• –Vim mode — normal, insert and visual modes, with your own mappings in ~/.mote/vimrc. Settings › Experiments.
• –Twenty-one themes — Dracula, Nord, Gruvbox, Tokyo Night, Catppuccin, Monokai, One Dark and more. Tune any of them in the workshop, or write your own. Settings › Experiments.
• –⌘⇧` summons Mote straight into the terminal
• –Choose the font for your terminal, and a separate one for code
• –Powerline separators and file icons now show up in the terminal
• –Code blocks get a language label and a copy button

Improved

• –Text expanders — Alfred, Raycast, TextExpander — no longer truncate what they type into Mote
• –⌘[ and ⌘] move through your notes in a steady order, and wrap around at the ends (with a new animation in experiments)
• –Quotes, code blocks and wrapped list items all sit where they should
• –Pressing Enter on an empty bullet or quote gets you out of it
• –Frozen now looks as finished as Liquid

Fixed

• –Opening a note no longer changes its edit date
• –Your trial can't expire early because your Mac's clock jumped
• –A quote written as >like this no longer loses its first letter

Tables, a slash menu, and the end of the beachball.

New

• –Markdown tables render as real tables — click a cell and edit it in place
• –Tab and arrow keys move between cells; Enter adds a row, ⌘Enter adds a column
• –Drag rows and columns to reorder them
• –Hover a table for column and row controls, or right-click a cell for the full set, including alignment
• –Paste from a spreadsheet, or paste a table from a web page, and it becomes markdown
• –Bold, italic, code and links render inside table cells as you type
• –Type / for a command menu — headings, lists, quotes, tables, and more
• –/date and /time insert today's date in your daily-note format and the current time
• –Insert Table is in the ⌘P command palette too

Improved

• –Large vaults no longer freeze the app while indexing in the background
• –Faster cold launch, and the first search is ready sooner
• –A Dropbox or iCloud sync burst no longer stalls typing while notes re-index
• –Deleting a note now clears everything it left behind in the search index
• –The format bar and the slash menu run the same commands the same way

Fixed

• –The editor coming up invisible on a cold launch
• –Settings opening behind the note panel, or on a Space you had left
• –Notes reappearing in search after being deleted during a sync
• –A file deleted while syncing could linger in search until the next restart

Seven weeks of work — a rebuilt focus timer, a much better markdown editor, a real terminal, and a large pass on rendering performance.

New

• –Sessions end on an interactive card: take a 5-minute break, restart the same task, or dismiss
• –Break sessions with their own calm light, logged separately from focused minutes
• –⌘Z restores a note you just deleted
• –Deleted notes go to the Trash instead of disappearing
• –⌘⇧X toggles a checkbox on the current line

Improved

• –List editing: ordered lists renumber as you move and delete, Tab indents in place, wrapped bullets align properly
• –Select-all now highlights headings, quotes and bold the same as body text
• –Terminal: 10,000 lines of scrollback, momentum scrolling, your real shell environment, adjustable font size, and a new exit button
• –Meeting mode: note text masks cleanly behind live captions, and model downloads show accurate progress
• –Getting around: the note picker responds to mouse and hover, toolbar actions have tooltips, and menus open on a single click

Fixed

• –Bands of text failing to paint while scrolling a selected note
• –A stall that made large selections feel heavy under the cursor
• –Background indexing that could pin a CPU core indefinitely
• –Notes appearing blank on first launch after installing
• –Terminal selection chasing the pointer, and the terminal keeping the Mac awake after exit
• –Check for Updates and Send Feedback in Settings did nothing when clicked

A floating notepad that lives one keystroke away — summon it over any app, capture a thought, and get back to work. Local-first, native, and built for speed.

• –Instant capture — a global shortcut summons Mote above everything; snap it to any edge with the keyboard
• –Meeting transcription — record mic and system audio with on-device speech recognition, no cloud, no accounts
• –Fast search — semantic and full-text search across every note as you type
• –Obsidian vault — promote any note into your vault with ⌘⇧E and keep working in your own files
• –Markdown editor — clean writing surface with live math, currency, and percentage evaluation inline
• –Task mode — keyboard-driven tasks with linked timers and a focus pill that follows what you're working on
• –Command palette — jump to any note or action from a single chord
• –Terminal mode — drop into a shell without leaving the panel (⌃`)
• –Liquid Glass — native macOS materials with adjustable tint, intensity, accent, and fonts

Everything stays on your Mac. No sign-in, no sync server, no telemetry.