Clip Notes Changelog

Complete version history and release notes

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1.0.3 (1001)

update
2026-09-11

📝 Changes

  • Clip Notes is now a Universal Mac app for both Apple-silicon and Intel Macs.
  • A new optional, replayable welcome tour introduces notes one colorful card at a time, with human-paced typing, pointers, examples, and a playful finale.
  • The in-app Help button and menus now lead directly to the expanded Clip Notes manual.
  • The same app can run independently or quietly as the Clip Notes helper included with direct-download CopyPaste.
  • Added a fifteen-day, full-featured local tryout with no account or payment method required.
  • After the tryout, existing work remains safe and frozen until activation; temporary session edits remain available until quit.
  • A Clip Notes purchase or qualifying CopyPaste license restores saving and the complete lesson library.

✨ New Features

  • The welcome tour demonstrates note menus, closing and reopening notes, the notes drawer, Markdown equations, pictures, a recipe, Preferences, and Control-T resizing.
  • Right-click inside a note for common text formatting, including font, size, bold, and italic.
  • Added Undo and Redo support through the standard Mac editing system.
  • Learn with Clip Notes launches ten bundled offline lessons covering Interest, Loans, Gravity, Percentages, Fractions, Budgeting, Inflation, Photosynthesis, Electric Circuits, and the Internet.
  • Lessons open as connected groups of colorful sticky-note cards with Markdown, formulas, examples, exercises, lightweight SVG illustrations, and memorable sourced quotations.
  • The lesson browser now scrolls visibly, previews part of the next lesson, uses a Scroll for more cue, and gives each lesson a distinctive colored symbol.
  • Lesson search examines titles, questions, summaries, keywords, subtopics, objectives, and card contents without contacting an online AI.
  • The lesson-browser light bulb illuminates when the browser opens and can be clicked on or off.
  • Option-click a lesson card’s close button to dismiss the entire lesson with a gentle card-by-card animation and sound.
  • Keep This Card in My Notes turns an educational card into an editable personal Clip Note.
  • Added Automatic, Apple Dictation, and Voice Control behaviors for the title-bar microphone.
  • Added Speech Health with the selected speech behavior, input device, permission state, last request, and links to Apple’s speech settings.
  • Added separate preferences for the playful calendar and pendulum alarm, plus a master Sounds switch.

🔧 Improvements

  • Apple’s system-wide Dictation shortcut, including double-Fn, works naturally in Clip Notes and remains the recommended everyday speech shortcut.
  • Optional Clip Notes speech shortcuts can use Control-Option-D, Control-Option-Space, or be disabled to avoid collisions with other utilities.
  • Preferences headings, controls, explanatory text, and tab spacing are consistently aligned and easier to read.
  • Interactive controls throughout notes, Preferences, Search, Learn, Calendar, Alarm, and licensing now provide explanatory tooltips.
  • The default note-color selector reliably applies the chosen color and clearly marks the selection.
  • The General preferences page now explains the date/calendar and time/alarm title-bar interactions.
  • Lesson cards stay separate from personal notes unless the user explicitly chooses to keep one.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the welcome tour advancing to the same recipe card instead of the next card.
  • Corrected the Preferences toolbar artwork and presentation during onboarding.
  • Check for Updates now asks Sparkle to check for a newer version instead of opening the changelog page.
  • Release Archives now receive a company-wide, monotonically increasing integer build number, preventing reused or malformed Sparkle versions.
  • Only one Clip Notes process can run at a time, preventing duplicate menu-bar icons from multiple copies or Xcode launches.
  • Option-clicking the standalone Clip Notes menu-bar icon reliably creates a new note.
  • Removed the private dictation-manager fallback and system-wide Escape injection; Clip Notes now cooperates through the normal AppKit text system.
  • Clip Notes no longer opens or holds a background audio engine for speech.
  • Improved preference contrast and corrected misaligned General, Dictation, and Markup labels.
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1.0.1

patch
2026-09-07

📝 Changes

  • Apple Silicon only (will not run on Intel Macs)
  • Sparkle automatic updates - 1.0 installs can update in-app
  • Notarized Developer ID build for a smoother first launch
  • Requires macOS 13.0 or later
  • License key entry in the app for direct Lemon Squeezy purchases
  • Shortcuts and Siri can start dictation into a note
  • Rendered math in notes; documents use the .cpnt extension
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1.0

major
2026-08-04

📝 Changes

  • Initial Clip Notes standalone release page and Sparkle feed.

✨ New Features

  • Clipboard-to-sticky-note workflow