Oddinote 1.2.2

Oddinote 1.2.2 — a real installer for Windows that keeps Oddinote up to date by itself, a minimap, music and video cards in the link node, Markdown in and out, a calmer crop, and Linux.

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⬇️ Installers instead of zips

From this version on, every system gets a proper installer and nothing has to be unzipped:

• Windows: Oddinote-Setup-1.2.2.exe. It installs for your user only, without asking for administrator rights, and adds Oddinote to the Start menu and the desktop.
• Linux (new): Oddinote-1.2.2-x86_64.AppImage. Make it executable and open it, no installation.
• Mac: .dmg files instead of zips.
• Android: the APK, as before.

Coming from a zip? Download the installer once and run it. Your projects are not inside the zip folder, so they're all still there when you open the installed Oddinote. After that you can delete the old folder.

🔄 Updates on their own

The installed Windows version now keeps itself up to date. When a new version is out, including a small fix to this same version, it downloads it in the background, checks that the file is exactly the one published here, and installs it when you close Oddinote. A small notice says when it's ready, with Restart now if you don't want to wait. Your notes aren't touched.

You decide in Settings → Updates: turn off Update automatically to just be told about new versions, and use Check now whenever you like. On Android, Oddinote tells you and opens the new APK.

🗺️ Minimap

A small map of the whole board above the zoom buttons: you see where you are and click or drag on it to jump anywhere. You can hide it in Settings → Minimap.

🎵 Music, videos and pens in the link node

Paste a link from YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud or CodePen and the node becomes a card of its own: cover, title and author, and a play button that plays it right there on the canvas, without leaving Oddinote. Links to any other website keep the card they always had.

Also:

• A pasted link is no longer squashed. It gets a size that fits its card.
• Links don't open by accident any more. A single click selects the node; open the page with the Open button or Ctrl+click.
• An empty link node shows which services get a card.

📝 Markdown in and out

Right-click the empty canvas:

• Export to Markdown saves the board as a .md file: titles, notes, lists with their ticks, documents and links.
• Import Markdown… brings .md files in, each one as a document node.

Exporting and importing again gives you back the same text.

✂️ A calmer crop

• When you crop, the frame opens to the whole picture, so you see what's outside, and fits back around your crop when you're done.
• The image no longer gets distorted, and undo brings it back exactly as it was.
• The handles are inside the frame, so you can always see and grab them, at any zoom.
• Selecting another node finishes the crop.

✨ And also

• Faster start: the app now ships already translated to plain JavaScript, so it opens in about 2.8 seconds instead of 4.5.
• Google asks for permissions only once per account and computer. Choosing your account is enough after that.
• Softer notes: lighter shadows and calmer cards, closer to a paper board.
• Settings → Canvas grid (snap to grid) came with an update of 1.2.1 and is here too.

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Download

• Windows: Oddinote-Setup-1.2.2.exe. Run it and follow the steps. Windows may show Windows protected your PC because the installer isn't signed: More info → Run anyway.
• Android: Oddinote-1.2.2.apk. Open it on the phone and allow installing from unknown sources once.
• Linux: Oddinote-1.2.2-x86_64.AppImage appears below a few minutes after publishing. Right click → Properties → Allow executing as program, or chmod +x.
• Mac (experimental): the Oddinote-1.2.2-mac-*.dmg files appear below a few minutes after publishing (arm64 for Apple chips, x64 for Intel). They are unsigned: open with right click → Open. Not yet tried on a real Mac.

Updated on 31 October (build 242): if Google sign-in can't connect because Windows or an antivirus is blocking Oddinote, it now says so and tells you what to allow, instead of showing a technical error. All downloads are updated.

Updated on 31 October (build 244): fixes a black screen when leaving a project that has a view-only link and contains freehand drawings or arrows with bends. All downloads are updated.

Updated on 1 November (build 245): while you type a node's title, a green frame now shows around it, so it's clear you're editing the name and not just selecting text. All downloads are updated.

Updated on 1 November (build 246): clearer privacy information in Settings and in the installer, with a link to the full privacy policy, plus small fixes. All downloads are updated.

Updated on 10 November (build 248): on phones and tablets, what's inside a selected node responds to taps again: uploading an image, audio or file, typing a caption, opening a board with a double tap, ticking a task and pausing an embedded video (thanks for the report in issue #13). A link typed without https:// now opens correctly too. All downloads are updated.

Oddinote 1.2.1

Oddinote 1.2.1 — view-only links anyone can open, your media no longer kept twice, select several nodes with a long press on the phone, and a clearer Google sign-in on Android.

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🔗 View-only links

Asked for in Discussions #11: a way to show a project to someone who doesn't use Oddinote.

In the share window there's a new View-only link. Press Create link and you get an address anyone can open in their browser — no account, no code, and even when your Oddinote is closed. They can move around, zoom and open the boards with a single tap to read everything, but they can't create, move, type, tick or delete anything. The link keeps up with your changes by itself (within half a minute), and Remove the link deletes it so it stops opening.

What leaves your computer is the text and position of the nodes of that project only; images go by their Google Drive address, and paths on your disk never do. It needs the project to be online in your Drive, as sharing already did.

The old "No host" switch is gone: it never actually worked (turning it on closed the code session and shared nothing). What it promised — letting people see the project without you there — is what view-only links do now.

🗂️ Your media, sorted out

• Images uploaded to Google Drive were kept twice on your disk. When a picture went up to Drive, the note forgot its file in the project folder and Oddinote downloaded another copy into the vault's shared media folder. Worse: Drive pictures have no file extension, so Oddinote thought its copy was the wrong type and downloaded every picture of the open project again every few seconds, for as long as it stayed open. Both are fixed: the note keeps its file, what comes from the cloud goes into the project's own folder, and if an identical file is already there, that one is used.
• The vault tidies itself once. A few seconds after opening, files used by a single project move into that project's folder — so Open the file's folder now takes you there instead of to the general one — and files that no note uses are moved to .retirados inside your vault, where they're deleted after 30 days. Nothing is lost: if a note ever asks for one of those files again, it comes back on its own. Originals of pictures whose note only has Drive's (recompressed) copy are kept. You'll see a short notice with how much was set aside; if you want the space right away, you can delete that folder yourself.

📱 On the phone

• Long-press the empty canvas and drag to select several nodes, like dragging with the mouse on a computer. It used to open the create node menu; creating stays in the bottom bar. A plain drag still moves the canvas.
• Signing in with Google on Android: if the last step fails because the phone cut Oddinote's internet while it was behind the browser (battery or data saving do that), it now keeps trying for half a minute, so coming back to Oddinote is enough. And if it still fails, the message says which part failed and why, so it can be fixed.

🍎 Mac

The Mac builds now include Google sign-in. They're still unsigned and haven't been tried on a real Mac yet.

Also since the first 1.2.0 download

These went into 1.2.0 after it was published; if you never downloaded it again, you get them now:

• The space bar types again in a document's editor and in image captions.
• Open the file's folder shows up for every file on your disk — also the ones synced with Google Drive — and is in the right-click menu.
• A calendar whose events had a title in two languages no longer breaks.

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Download

• Windows: Oddinote-1.2.1-win32-x64.zip — unzip it and open Oddinote.exe. Your projects stay where they were.
• Android: Oddinote-1.2.1.apk — open it on the phone and allow installing from unknown sources once. Don't unzip it: an APK is already compressed.
• Mac (experimental): the Oddinote-1.2.1-mac-*.zip files appear below a few minutes after publishing (arm64 for Apple chips, x64 for Intel). They are unsigned: open with right click → Open.

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Updated on 30 October (build 233): Settings now has a Canvas grid section. Turn on Snap nodes to the grid and nodes land on the background points when you move or resize them, and choose how far apart the points are (Fine, Normal, Wide, or anything from 8 to 80 px). Hold Alt to place a node freely; Ctrl+' switches it on and off. Asked for in Discussions #12. The Windows, Android and Mac downloads are all updated.

Updated on 31 October (build 236): Settings now says which anonymous usage statistics are sent (Settings → Usage statistics). Details in PRIVACY.md.