Releases: 2389-research/Quoin
Releases · 2389-research/Quoin
Release list
Quoin v1.3.0-rc.7
Quoin v1.3.0-rc.6
Quoin v1.3.0-rc.5
Quoin v1.3.0-rc.4
Quoin v1.3.0-rc.3
Quoin v1.3.0-rc.2
Quoin v1.3.0-rc.1
Quoin v1.2.1-rc.1
Quoin v1.2.0
Quoin 1.2.0 is a big one: this is the release where Quoin becomes a first-class macOS citizen — it shows up in Spotlight, Quick Look, the Services menu, Shortcuts, and Handoff — while gaining real table editing, keyboard-first navigation, VoiceOver structure, session restoration, and a private-by-default HTML export. Everything stays exactly what it always was: local files, no telemetry, no runtime network.
System integration — Quoin now lives where you work
- Spotlight finds your documents, headings, front-matter tags, and text snippets; tap a result to open straight to it. The index is private and on-device — nothing uploaded, and it stays in sync as files move or change.
- Quick Look — press Space on a
.mdfile in Finder for a rendered thumbnail and preview, drawn by two embedded extensions that reuse Quoin's own engine (bounded and fast, with placeholders for heavy diagrams/math). - Shortcuts & Siri (App Intents) — five actions ship ready to use: Create Note, Append Text to Note, Open Note, Search Library, Export Note. Every write goes through the same atomic, byte-lossless path as typing — never a blind file rewrite — and stays inside the library you granted.
- Services menu — select text in any app and choose New Quoin Document with Selection to capture it into a new note.
- Handoff — the document you're editing is published as your current activity (Handoff banner, Siri Suggestions, window restoration), carrying a boundary-safe
quoin://link rather than a raw path. - Finder, Open With & Open Recent — Quoin declares itself a real Markdown editor while coexisting politely (it never silently steals
.mdfrom your default app), routes Finder-opened files into tabs, and keeps an Open Recent list across launches.
Editing
- Structural table editing — insert/delete rows and columns, move them, set column alignment, and normalize a table without counting pipes. Right-click a table cell or use Format ▸ Table; existing text and alignment always survive, and malformed tables degrade safely instead of corrupting.
- Move to Trash & Duplicate — recoverable delete (system Trash) and collision-free duplicate for library documents, from the sidebar context menu and the File menu.
- Footnotes no longer mis-behave when clicked — footnote definitions are now cleanly read-only rather than resolving to a block the editor couldn't find.
Keyboard, accessibility & onboarding
- Fully keyboard-operable navigation — arrow-key selection with wrap in Quick Open and library search, and a keyboard cursor for the outline (collapse/expand, disclosure semantics).
- VoiceOver structure — headings are announced with their level, blocks by kind, and math/diagram attachments carry accessibility labels from the engines.
- Discoverable commands — previously hidden shortcuts are now real menu items.
- First-run samples & Help — an optional, opt-in teaching document (never overwrites your files) plus a Help menu routing to bundled guides — all local, no accounts or network.
Export & privacy
- Local images survive export — HTML inlines them as self-contained data URIs; PDF and Print draw them; RTF degrades to an honest visible placeholder; Markdown stays byte-exact.
- Private-by-default HTML export — standalone HTML export sanitizes raw HTML (scripts, event handlers,
javascript:URLs, remote embeds, tracking pixels, and off-device CSS all removed) so a shared file executes nothing and fetches nothing off-device. Opt out for byte-exact raw HTML.
Reliability
- Session & window restoration — quit and relaunch to the same library, tabs, active document, panel layout, and scroll position; moved/deleted files are pruned, forced-termination recovers to the last atomically saved state, and opening an already-open file routes to its existing session.
- iOS/iPadOS — local images now replace their loading placeholders as soon as they decode, matching macOS.
- Drag & drop — the library sidebar now shows clear move/copy/reject feedback and can't be tricked into moving a folder into its own subtree; image-drop failures surface a non-modal error instead of silently doing nothing.
Windows, single files & polish
- New windows start empty. ⇧⌘N opens a clean window instead of silently reopening your last library; reopening the app still restores your last workspace.
- Single-file editing has no library clutter. Open one
.mdfrom Finder and the window is a full-width editor — no empty library pane. - Your tabs come back after quitting. Open tabs, active document, and layout now survive quit → relaunch even with macOS's "Close windows when quitting an application" turned on.
- No more phantom "changed on disk" warning. A brand-new document no longer flashes a false conflict banner on the first keystroke.
- Faithful edit reveal. Clicking into a hard-wrapped paragraph no longer balloons its line spacing.
- Tidier export sheet — the format cards and options read cleanly at every size.
Under the hood
- MermaidKit 1.4.0 — the native Mermaid engine moves to its latest release (byte-compatible; existing diagrams render identically).
- Release & privacy audit — a checked-in entitlement/logging/packaging checklist keeps the local-only promise auditable every release.
Install
Download Quoin.dmg below — a notarized, drag-to-install build for macOS 14+.