v1.18.0

Changed

Everything waits for Save. Some new traces were written to the atrium the
moment they were made: a shape, a text box, a dropped picture, a template, an
import, a drawing, a group. They didn't show in the history, Don't Save left
them there, and leaving without saving kept them anyway. Now every new trace
and every group change waits for Save like any other change: each is a step
you can undo, Don't Save takes it back, and leaving without saving leaves the
atrium as it was last saved.

An atrium's card shows it as saved. The picture on its card was sometimes
taken with unsaved changes in it, sometimes not. It's now made when you save,
and when you leave with nothing waiting: never from changes you didn't keep.

Interface sounds. Soft, low sounds for saving, tools, panels opening and
closing, removing, a new template's reveal and an achievement. On by default
in the desktop app; turn them off in the atrium's preferences or on your
Profile (the two are the same switch).

Your palette. Drag a colour to move it; right-click one to change it.
Clicking still copies its code.

Flips follow the world. Flipping a rotated trace used to flip it along its
own tilted axes. Horizontal and vertical now mean the world's, and several
traces flip together around the middle of the whole selection, not each on
its own.

Fills Box text shows its size. The size field used to disappear with Fills
Box. It now always shows, and setting it resizes the box to fit.

Fixed

The colour dropper reads anything drawn. It only worked over pictures; it
now takes the colour of whatever is under the pointer: shapes, text, drawings,
the canvas.

Area selection with connections. Adding to a selection by dragging an area
or a lasso let go of the connections already selected. It now adds to them,
as it does to traces.

Shift-snap when cropping. A crop's edge dragged with Shift lands on a
neighbouring trace's edge or middle again, or else on the grid.

The minimap in dark mode. Traces ran together; each one's edges now show.

Drawing on a light canvas. The default stroke colour was white, unseen on
a light canvas. It's now whichever reads on the canvas.

Also

The Help (press ?) has grown to over thirty articles, with pictures and short
recordings, numbered steps that read as steps, and pictures beside their
tables. The import window no longer quotes an old size limit.

v1.17.1

New

Profiles others can find. Search by username or name on the Profile page
and open someone's profile: their name, picture, achievements and how long
they've been here. × or Back to my profile takes you back to yours.

You choose whether you can be found. The first time you open your profile,
you're asked once. Nobody can find you until you say yes, and you can change it
any time in the profile settings.

Changed

Three templates of your own, free. Before, one.

v1.17.0

New

Your own templates. Right-click a trace or a selection and choose Save as
Template, or drag it onto My templates in the Templates sidebar. Or press
+ New template to build one in the template editor. Everyone can keep one
template free; each can hold up to 50 traces and 10 MB.

Values and rules. A template can share one setting across many traces, such
as the colour of every box in a mind map, and change them all at once. A value
can follow another by a rule: lighter or darker than it, readable on it, a
multiple of it, its capitals, its opposite.

Slots. A dashed box in a template that takes a picture or a group dropped on
it with Ctrl held, filled, fitted or stretched to its shape.

Eighteen ready-made templates, in Boards, Diagrams, Studies and Pieces: task
board, storyboard, retrospective, weekly planner, mind map, flowchart, SWOT,
timeline, reference sheet, study grid, colour study, type specimen, colour
palette, photo card, book or film, and more.

Folders and quick slots. Keep your templates in folders inside folders, and
pin up to 8 to the foot of the sidebar. Signed in, both follow your account.

Changed

Pins from Pinterest are read from Pinterest each time. Before, the app kept
each pin's picture address and title, which Pinterest's rules don't allow. Now a
pin keeps only its id, and its picture comes from Pinterest whenever the atrium
opens. Its Pinterest mark is always shown. Pins can't be cropped, recoloured or
saved as pictures, and exports show Pinterest's mark in their place.

Arranged frames keep the height you give them. Before, a frame set to
Arrange Automatically shrank to fit what it held. Now it grows when its cards
need more room and comes back to the height you set, never shorter.

A new colour picker, the same everywhere colours are chosen.

The minimap can be set to always show, to show only while you move, to
appear when you point at its corner, and to be clickable or not.

Only one panel on the right at a time, and menus always draw above the
minimap.

Fixed

Escape closes the canvas's right-click menu. It stayed open before.

Your cursor is never hidden behind a menu or a panel.

Anything dropped entirely inside a frame joins it, templates included.

v1.16.4

Changed

Achievements have icons of their own. Each one is a small lit tile with its
own picture, greyed out until you earn it, in your profile and in the card that
slides in when you earn it. A few were renamed: A Thousand is now Planner, Ten
Thousand is Collector, and A Hundred Thousand is Stormed Brain. The Million is
gone, and It's a Boy! is new, for making a template of your own once that
arrives.

The About page, redone. It explains what an atrium and a trace are, what the
desktop app adds (atriums as folders on your disk, live files, overlay mode,
your account), where the help is, and who made the app and why, with a button
to the website.

Import and export from Home. Bringing an atrium in from a file, or saving
one out, is now right under All atriums and New atrium, not only on the Atriums
page.

Web page export at full resolution. An atrium exported as a web page is now
the real drawing rather than a picture of it: text stays text and shapes stay
shapes, sharp however far you zoom in. Drawings are saved four times finer.

Report an atrium from inside it. In someone else's atrium, shared with you
or public, a flag beside who's here reports it, as the menu on its card does.

Your name stays off your own cursor. It no longer shows beside your pointer
unless you turn it on in your preferences.

Fixed

The colour droppers do something again. On the desktop, the dropper in the
palette and the one beside a colour did nothing at all. Now the pointer becomes
a dropper and the next click on the atrium takes the colour under it; Escape
cancels.

A Drive atrium waits until it's fully loaded. Opening one, you could start
working while its traces were still arriving from Google Drive, building on
what wasn't there yet. Now it shows that it's bringing everything in, and you
can work in it once it's done (or leave).

Also

The buttons beside the search on the Atriums page are now the same height as
the rest, with their icons centred.

v1.16.3

Changed

Your profile is the same here as on the web. Signed in to your account,
the desktop app now shows your account's name, colour, picture, achievements
and pinned achievements, exactly as the website does. Before, the desktop kept
a profile of its own, and the two drifted apart. The atriums on this computer
are still yours, as before. Signed out, the desktop's own profile comes back.

Your themes: three online, nine on this computer. Signed in, the themes you
made on the web show here too, marked with a cloud, and you can keep nine more
on this computer. Any of them can be put online or kept here only; when the
three online are full, you choose which one to swap.

Choose an atrium's picture. In an atrium's settings you can now pick a
picture for its card and crop it to fit. It stays until you go back to the
automatic one: the picture taken as you leave never replaces it.

Achievements slide in from the side. An achievement you earn now arrives
as a card at the bottom right, wherever you are and in front of any menu,
instead of a plain message inside the atrium.

Report an atrium. Someone else's atrium that breaks the terms of use can be
reported from the menu on its card.

Fixed

Themes you make no longer disappear. For a while, a theme made on the
desktop vanished soon after it was made: it was never saved to this computer.
They're saved again.

Saving is far lighter on the disk. After every change, the app looked for
each of the atrium's files again, one after another, then measured the whole
atrium folder. On an atrium full of images that was hundreds of disk checks
for every save: the spikes and hitches you could feel. It now remembers where
each file is, and measures the folder once things have settled.

Traces are counted as placed only when you make them. Moving a trace,
changing it, saving, syncing or undoing could count it as placed again, so the
number climbed far past what you had made. Only new traces count now, and the
old count starts again from zero for everyone, along with the achievements it
gave. Drawings are counted the same way.

An atrium's picture on Home matches the one in Atriums. Home could show an
older picture of an atrium than the rest of the app.

Also

Moving between Home and Atriums is smoother: an atrium's picture flies to its
place without a ghost of itself, and its title appears once it has landed. Both
screens now say when your atriums are still being loaded.

v1.16.2

Changed

About and Exit are in the top bar. They were small words in a row along the
bottom of Home, easy to miss. About now sits beside Help, and Exit is at the far
right, where a window's way out usually is.

The name at the top left opens the website. It replaces the Visit the website
button in the bottom row.

Fixed

You couldn't log out from the name menu. 1.16.1 left Log Out off it on
desktop, so the only way out was a small button on the account card in Atriums.
If you're signed in, it's now in the name menu and in Profile. The app stays open
and goes back to this computer's own profile.

Your account's picture didn't show when signed in. The app only ever looked
at the picture kept on this computer. Signed in, it now shows your account's, and
a picture you set goes to your account. Log out and this computer's comes back.

Google Drive was missing from Home's connections. It now says whether it's
connected, with Disconnect. Connecting still happens on the website, since the
app can't show Google's window, so Connect sends you there or, if you aren't
signed in, to where you can.

v1.16.1

Changed

Home and Atriums are now one screen. The welcome screen and the atrium
browser felt like two places: All Atriums and New Atrium each sent you off to
another page. They now sit side by side under one top bar. Moving between them
slides across the room, and each atrium's picture flies to its card. New Atrium
opens where you are, and Help has its own button in the top bar.

Home is about your atriums. It opens on the atrium you were last in, with
its picture and a Continue button, then what else is recent and how near your
next achievement is. The large name and "Welcome back" are gone, since the first
of those was already at the top and the second wasn't true on a first visit.

Profile is a page of your own. Profile Settings was a list of forms. It now
shows your name, changed in place, when you joined, how far you've come, 20
achievements and your settings beside them.

A tutorial replaces the first-atrium cards. New people are shown around
straight away, in an atrium of their own, placing and styling things as they go.
The Tutorial button brings it back at any time, and Exit Tutorial leaves it.

Connect is on the quick bar. Threads between traces were easy to miss behind
a right-click. There's now a tool for them, on the key C.

The bars can be arranged. Both the top bar and the left quick bar have More
and Customize, and separators can be added and moved.

Fixed

Choosing a cursor colour saved every shade. The system's picker reports each
shade it's dragged through, and each one was saved. It's now saved once, when
you settle on it, and cancelling the picker saves nothing.

An atrium's picture could change back to an old one. One picture has a copy
on each device and a shared one, and these could come to differ, so opening the
list of atriums could bring back an older picture. A newer picture now stands
until it's been shared, and one missing its theme or images never replaces it.

Buttons with a cut corner could lose part of their border. At display scales
like 125%, the right edge could be shaved off.

Also

Your own profile picture, cropped in the app and kept on this computer. A name
menu holds Profile, Language and, on the web, Log Out. Google Drive and Pinterest
can be connected and disconnected on the web; on desktop, Pinterest from Home.

v1.16.0

Added

Help, inside the app. Search the articles and read them where you are, from
the atrium menu, ?, the atrium browser, the welcome screen or About. About
only promised tutorials before. The articles ship with the app, so Help works
offline. If you can't find something, you can suggest it from the same place,
with your search already filled in. More articles will follow.

Templates. A new sidebar, opened from the top bar, holds ready-made layouts
in a Digital Atrium folder. Drag one onto the canvas, or click it to place it in
the middle of the view. It's one undo step, its words come in your language and
its colours from your atrium. Up to 8 can be pinned at the foot of the sidebar.

Changed

The donation pop-up is now a small card in the corner. It used to block the
whole welcome screen. Now it blocks nothing. If your account is known to have
donated, it stays away for six months from that donation, and the device
remembers this when you're signed out or offline.

Help and reporting moved in the atrium browser. The two links at its foot
felt out of place. Help is now a button in the header, and the report form is
reached from inside Help.

v1.15.4

Changed

Report a Problem sends from inside the app. On desktop it used to open your
email program. It now sends straight away, as it does on the web, and your email
program opens only if the server can't be reached.

Pinterest pins show the Pinterest mark when you point at them. Click it to
open the pin on Pinterest. Before, nothing on the canvas said where a pin came
from or led back to it unless the trace was set to Clickable.

A Clickable trace has a small button to turn that off. Point at the trace and
click it, so you can work with the trace without being sent to its link.

Clicking a Clickable trace only opens its link. It no longer opens the
Customization panel as well. To change the trace, right-click it and choose
Customize, or turn Clickable off.

Fixed

Duplicating or pasting a frame brings what's inside it. Before, you got an
empty frame, and if you selected the traces too, their copies still belonged to
the original frame. The copy now holds its own copies, including groups and the
connections between them, and one Ctrl+Z removes it all. Duplicate in the Layers
panel does the same.

A copied trace joins the frame it lands in. Before, a trace copied out of a
frame stayed tied to it from wherever you pasted it, and moved when that frame
moved. A copy in an arranged frame also takes its place in the columns now,
rather than sitting on top of the others.

Selection is easy to see on light themes. A selected trace's line and a
selected frame's title were pale grey, nearly invisible on a light background.
They now change with the atrium's background.

v1.15.3

Changed

The right-click menus have a new look. The canvas's menu and a
trace's share the look of the Customization panel: plain names, keys and
arrows at the end of each row, and Delete in red. The menu drops in where
you clicked, a submenu slides out from its side, and a light glides
between the rows as you move over them.

The minimap is a button in the top bar, right after the first
separator, next to Recenter. It's on unless you turn it off, and lit
while it's on. It's no longer in Preferences.

Fixed

The drag feel glides again. With the drag feel turned up, a trace
being dragged jerked a little forward and back, as if it were snapping
to the canvas. It now trails your pointer smoothly.

Duplicated paths land in the right place. Duplicating or pasting a
selection with paths in it left the paths' copies on top of the
originals, so they ended up out of place once the copies were moved. The
same went for Duplicate in the Layer panel.

No dark line around video embeds. At some zoom levels, a very thin
dark line showed between an embed (a YouTube video) and its border, and
flickered while the trace was dragged.

One submenu at a time. Moving between Transformations, Move to Group
and the other submenus showed two at once for a moment. Passing over
another row on the way into an open submenu now keeps it open, rather than
switching to that row's.