1.4.0

Added

• Finer pens. The stroke width slider now goes down to 0.20 mm for
  the pens and the Shape tool, in 0.05 mm steps below the thinnest preset.
  The highlighter still starts at 0.41 mm. Very fine lines look grey on a
  low-resolution screen until you zoom in.
• Hold space to move the page. On a computer, or an iPad with a
  keyboard: while you hold the spacebar, the pen and the mouse move the
  page instead of writing. A stroke you are already drawing finishes first,
  and space still types a space in a text box.

1.4.0-beta.1

Added

• Finer pens. The stroke width slider now goes down to 0.20 mm for
  the pens and the Shape tool, in 0.05 mm steps below the thinnest preset.
  The highlighter still starts at 0.41 mm. Very fine lines look grey on a
  low-resolution screen until you zoom in.
• Hold space to move the page. On a computer, or an iPad with a
  keyboard: while you hold the spacebar, the pen and the mouse move the
  page instead of writing. A stroke you are already drawing finishes first,
  and space still types a space in a text box.

1.3.0

Added

• New notebook from a PDF. A PDF's menu in the file explorer has "New
  notebook from PDF": a notebook next to it, one page per page of the PDF,
  to write on. The PDF itself is never changed. Also a command, "New
  notebook from a PDF in the vault…".

Fixed

• Notebooks follow the PDFs, pictures and recordings you move. Moving
  or renaming an imported PDF (or the folder it is in) left its pages blank
  as "Missing PDF source". Notebooks now point at the new place: open ones
  at once, closed ones are updated in the background, so the fix reaches
  your other devices too. Files moved before this update, or outside
  Obsidian, are not followed. A PDF that comes back to its old place, or
  syncs in late, now shows without reopening the notebook.

Changed

• Imported PDFs go to the notebook's image folder. The notebook
  settings row is now called "Images and PDFs", which is where imported
  PDFs were already saved. Left empty, they follow Obsidian's "Default
  location for new attachments".

1.2.1-beta.1

Changed

• Even smoother writing on iPads that round the Pencil's position. On
  these iPads, FineNotes now places each point of a line using the points
  on both sides of it, so loops come out round and lines straight. The
  last few millimeters of a line settle a moment after you draw them.
  iPads that report exact positions draw exactly as before.
  (#1)

Added

• Classic pencil smoothing (advanced setting). Smooths as version 1.0.1
  did, using only the points before each one, so nothing settles after you
  draw it. Only affects iPads that round the Pencil's position.

1.2.0

Added

• Keyboard shortcuts work after writing. Writing moved the keyboard's
  focus off the notebook, so Ctrl/Cmd+Z and the other shortcuts stopped
  working until you clicked the page. They now work whenever the notebook
  is the active tab, and Ctrl+Y also redoes. Text fields keep their own
  shortcuts.
• Drag the scroll indicators. On a computer, the scroll indicators at
  the right and bottom edge can be dragged to scroll directly. On a tablet
  they stay a readout, so a hand resting on the edge of the page never
  grabs them.
• Return to the pen. Two optional settings, both off by default, for
  the eraser, lasso, text and shape tools: picking the active tool again
  goes back to the pen or highlighter you used before, and "Return to pen
  after one use" goes back after one eraser stroke, one shape, one text
  edit, or once you are done with a lasso selection (a click outside it, or
  deleting or cutting it).

Changed

• Gentler mouse-wheel zoom. One notch of a stepped mouse wheel with
  Ctrl/Cmd held zoomed by more than 3x, so two notches went from the
  smallest zoom to the largest. Each notch is now at most 15%, and a notch
  back undoes it exactly. Trackpad pinching is unchanged.
• Small SVG pictures stay sharp. An SVG under 64 KB is drawn from its
  vectors, so it stays sharp at any zoom.

Fixed

• The page sidebar works while zoomed in. In a notebook whose pages run
  sideways, tapping another page in the sidebar while zoomed in only moved
  around the page you were on. It now goes to that page, at the same zoom.
• The lasso's colour menu fits on screen. With the custom colour picker
  open, the menu ran off the bottom of the screen and its last controls
  could not be reached. It now stays on screen and scrolls.

Thanks to @Suzkapu for the keyboard
shortcuts, the scroll indicators, the return-to-pen settings, the wheel
zoom and the SVG drawing.

1.1.1-beta.1

Fixed

• The page sidebar works while zoomed in. In a notebook whose pages run
  sideways, tapping another page in the sidebar while zoomed in only moved
  around the page you were on. It now goes to that page, at the same zoom.
• The lasso's colour menu fits on screen. With the custom colour picker
  open, the menu ran off the bottom of the screen and its last controls
  could not be reached. It now stays on screen and scrolls.

1.1.0

Added

• Insert PDF. A new toolbar button beside Insert image: pick a PDF from
  your files or from the vault, then import all its pages or a range such as
  1-3, 5 (in the order you type it). The pages go in after the current
  one, with the PDF as their background, and one undo takes them all out.
  A PDF already in the vault is used as it is, not copied. This replaces
  "Scanned PDF from Files": a PDF from the Files app's Scan Documents goes
  in through Insert PDF now.
• Drag and drop. Drop pictures or a PDF onto a notebook, from your
  computer or from Obsidian's file list. Pictures are placed like Insert
  image; a PDF opens the page choice.
• New notebook from the file explorer. Right-click (long-press on the
  iPad) a folder and choose New notebook to create one there. An optional
  New notebook button beside New note and New folder can be turned on in
  settings.

Changed

• Exported PDFs keep the original PDF. Pages with a PDF background now
  export with the PDF's own text and graphics, sharp and selectable, with
  your writing on top. Other pages export as before.
• Sharp PDFs while you move. PDF pages are now drawn in the background,
  away from the pen and the scrolling, so writing and panning stay smooth
  while a page is being drawn. Zoomed in past 2.5x, the page is drawn sharp
  in small tiles that fill in while you pan, nearest the middle of the screen
  first and a little ahead of where you are going, so small print stays
  crisp instead of going soft until you stop. Where background drawing is
  not available, FineNotes draws as before.

Thanks to @Suzkapu for Insert PDF, drag and
drop, New notebook from the file explorer and the PDF export, and for the
zoomed-in PDF rendering the background tiles grew out of
(#5).

Fixed

• Writing over a PDF stays smooth while a page is being drawn. Drawing
  a PDF page already paused for the pen, but only if it had not started yet;
  one already under way kept interrupting the ink. It now waits until you
  lift the pen.
• PDF pages no longer go blank while zooming. After a zoom, a PDF page
  showed as empty white paper until it was drawn again at the new size,
  which takes a second or more on an iPad. It now keeps showing the page as
  it was until the sharper version is ready.
• Smoother writing on older iPads. Before iPadOS 26.2, the iPad rounds
  the Pencil's position to a whole screen pixel before Obsidian sees it, so
  lines came out wobbly and loops lumpy. FineNotes now smooths the Pencil's
  path when its positions arrive rounded, as 1.0.1 did. iPads that report
  exact positions draw exactly as before.
  (#1)

1.1.0-beta.1

Added

• Insert PDF. A new toolbar button beside Insert image: pick a PDF from
  your files or from the vault, then import all its pages or a range such as
  1-3, 5 (in the order you type it). The pages go in after the current
  one, with the PDF as their background, and one undo takes them all out.
  A PDF already in the vault is used as it is, not copied. This replaces
  "Scanned PDF from Files": a PDF from the Files app's Scan Documents goes
  in through Insert PDF now.
• Drag and drop. Drop pictures or a PDF onto a notebook, from your
  computer or from Obsidian's file list. Pictures are placed like Insert
  image; a PDF opens the page choice.
• New notebook from the file explorer. Right-click (long-press on the
  iPad) a folder and choose New notebook to create one there. An optional
  New notebook button beside New note and New folder can be turned on in
  settings.

Changed

• Exported PDFs keep the original PDF. Pages with a PDF background now
  export with the PDF's own text and graphics, sharp and selectable, with
  your writing on top. Other pages export as before.
• Sharp PDFs while you move. PDF pages are now drawn in the background,
  away from the pen and the scrolling, so writing and panning stay smooth
  while a page is being drawn. Zoomed in past 2.5x, the page is drawn sharp
  in small tiles that fill in while you pan, nearest the middle of the screen
  first and a little ahead of where you are going, so small print stays
  crisp instead of going soft until you stop. Where background drawing is
  not available, FineNotes draws as before.

Thanks to @Suzkapu for all of the above
(#5).

Fixed

• Writing over a PDF stays smooth while a page is being drawn. Drawing
  a PDF page already paused for the pen, but only if it had not started yet;
  one already under way kept interrupting the ink. It now waits until you
  lift the pen.
• PDF pages no longer go blank while zooming. After a zoom, a PDF page
  showed as empty white paper until it was drawn again at the new size,
  which takes a second or more on an iPad. It now keeps showing the page as
  it was until the sharper version is ready.
• Smoother writing on older iPads. Before iPadOS 26.2, the iPad rounds
  the Pencil's position to a whole screen pixel before Obsidian sees it, so
  lines came out wobbly and loops lumpy. FineNotes now smooths the Pencil's
  path when its positions arrive rounded, as 1.0.1 did. iPads that report
  exact positions draw exactly as before.
  (#1)

1.0.4-beta.6

Added

• Insert PDF. A new toolbar button beside Insert image: pick a PDF from
  your files or from the vault, then import all its pages or a range such as
  1-3, 5 (in the order you type it). The pages go in after the current
  one, with the PDF as their background, and one undo takes them all out.
  A PDF already in the vault is used as it is, not copied. This replaces
  "Scanned PDF from Files": a PDF from the Files app's Scan Documents goes
  in through Insert PDF now.
• Drag and drop. Drop pictures or a PDF onto a notebook, from your
  computer or from Obsidian's file list. Pictures are placed like Insert
  image; a PDF opens the page choice.
• New notebook from the file explorer. Right-click (long-press on the
  iPad) a folder and choose New notebook to create one there. An optional
  New notebook button beside New note and New folder can be turned on in
  settings.

Changed

• Exported PDFs keep the original PDF. Pages with a PDF background now
  export with the PDF's own text and graphics, sharp and selectable, with
  your writing on top. Other pages export as before.
• Sharper PDFs. PDF pages are drawn at the screen's full resolution, and
  zoomed in past 2.5x the part on screen is drawn again in full detail once
  you stop moving, so small print stays crisp and panning stays smooth. A
  margin around the screen is drawn too, and the last few sharp areas are
  kept, so small moves and going back stay sharp.

Thanks to @Suzkapu for all of the above
(#5).

Fixed

• Writing over a PDF stays smooth while a page is being drawn. Drawing
  a PDF page already paused for the pen, but only if it had not started yet;
  one already under way kept interrupting the ink. It now waits until you
  lift the pen.
• PDF pages no longer go blank while zooming. After a zoom, a PDF page
  showed as empty white paper until it was drawn again at the new size,
  which takes a second or more on an iPad. It now keeps showing the page as
  it was until the sharper version is ready.
• Smoother writing on older iPads. Before iPadOS 26.2, the iPad rounds
  the Pencil's position to a whole screen pixel before Obsidian sees it, so
  lines came out wobbly and loops lumpy. FineNotes now smooths the Pencil's
  path when its positions arrive rounded, as 1.0.1 did. iPads that report
  exact positions draw exactly as before.
  (#1)

1.0.4-beta.5

Added

• Insert PDF. A new toolbar button beside Insert image: pick a PDF from
  your files or from the vault, then import all its pages or a range such as
  1-3, 5 (in the order you type it). The pages go in after the current
  one, with the PDF as their background, and one undo takes them all out.
  A PDF already in the vault is used as it is, not copied. This replaces
  "Scanned PDF from Files": a PDF from the Files app's Scan Documents goes
  in through Insert PDF now.
• Drag and drop. Drop pictures or a PDF onto a notebook, from your
  computer or from Obsidian's file list. Pictures are placed like Insert
  image; a PDF opens the page choice.
• New notebook from the file explorer. Right-click (long-press on the
  iPad) a folder and choose New notebook to create one there. An optional
  New notebook button beside New note and New folder can be turned on in
  settings.

Changed

• Exported PDFs keep the original PDF. Pages with a PDF background now
  export with the PDF's own text and graphics, sharp and selectable, with
  your writing on top. Other pages export as before.
• Sharper PDFs. PDF pages are drawn at the screen's full resolution, and
  zoomed in past 2.5x the part on screen is drawn again in full detail once
  you stop moving, so small print stays crisp and panning stays smooth. A
  margin around the screen is drawn too, and the last few sharp areas are
  kept, so small moves and going back stay sharp.

Thanks to @Suzkapu for all of the above
(#5).

Fixed

• PDF pages no longer go blank while zooming. After a zoom, a PDF page
  showed as empty white paper until it was drawn again at the new size,
  which takes a second or more on an iPad. It now keeps showing the page as
  it was until the sharper version is ready.
• Smoother writing on older iPads. Before iPadOS 26.2, the iPad rounds
  the Pencil's position to a whole screen pixel before Obsidian sees it, so
  lines came out wobbly and loops lumpy. FineNotes now smooths the Pencil's
  path when its positions arrive rounded, as 1.0.1 did. iPads that report
  exact positions draw exactly as before.
  (#1)