Bref 0.4.5

Changes

• docs: retake the screenshot with rounded sheet corners and titles in the text font
• fix: build only the rows of a list page near the window
• fix: keep the help sections in view drawn once the list is scrolled
• fix: round the lower corners of the table and the image viewer
• fix: build only the help sections near the window when scrolling
• feat: set note titles in the chosen font
• fix: round the lower corners of the band under a note
• docs: describe the Atelier look and retake the screenshot
• test: time the graph frame on 5,000 notes
• fix: end the CSV header band and the body on one right edge
• fix: count no row in the summary of an empty table
• fix: keep the context menu inside the window
• feat: lay the palette, menus, help, toasts and banner as floating sheets
• feat: give the calendar a serif month and a 22 px today circle
• fix: give a table, picture or diagram the input when it takes the note's place
• feat: set the comments column on the ground, the active comment as a sheet
• feat: give the CSV view a serif head, setting pills and rounded bands
• feat: give the kanban a serif header, band columns and round check boxes
• feat: paint tags as pills, soften tables, round blocks at 10, float the format bar
• feat: set the panel header in the serif and the open row as a pill
• fix: keep the vault search count on one line
• feat: draw tabs as pills on the ground and ring the active pane
• feat: lay the window out as sheets on a warm ground
• feat: set note titles in Plex Serif SemiBold
• feat: add the ground, sheet and band tokens and their widgets

Install and upgrade

See the README. The downloads appear in the assets below within about 15 minutes, once GitHub has built them:

• Arch: bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, then sudo pacman -U ./bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
• macOS: bref-macos.dmg
• Windows: bref-windows-x86_64-setup.exe, or bref-windows-x86_64.zip to install nothing

Bref 0.4.4

Changes

• docs: retake the screenshot
• fix: always leave a place to grab the window at the top
• fix: keep kanban columns above the window edge and the text button
• fix: size sans-serif table columns by Plex Sans widths
• feat: draw table cells in the note's font, numbers and IDs in mono
• feat: fade in the panel, the format bar and unfolded folders
• feat: show today as a pill and a dot under days that have a note
• feat: lighten the comments column, quote as a margin note
• feat: make kanban columns stand out and fill the board's height
• feat: show a file's extension next to its name, lighter
• feat: size graph nodes by links, highlight the open note, put orphans on a ring
• feat: give panel rows an icon of their kind, keep recent names whole, put the search field on its own line
• feat: give the six heading levels a scale, room above and a lighter marker
• fix: quiet the callout label so the advice is read before its type
• feat: draw code blocks, callouts and tables as one rounded shape with room inside

Install and upgrade

See the README. The downloads appear in the assets below within about 15 minutes, once GitHub has built them:

• Arch: bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, then sudo pacman -U ./bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
• macOS: bref-macos.dmg
• Windows: bref-windows-x86_64-setup.exe, or bref-windows-x86_64.zip to install nothing

Bref 0.4.3

Changes

• docs: say what Bref cannot do yet for screen readers and input methods
• test: type the pane keys of each platform, Cmd+Alt+arrows on macOS
• feat: stack the panel's views in a dock and drag them by their title
• feat: dock the panel's views left or right of the panes, or open them as a tab
• feat: drag a tab to a bar, into a pane, or to an edge to split one
• feat: split the window in any number of panes
• feat: tabs in each pane
• test: time what the vault search adds to a keystroke, not the window's drawing
• fix: fold or unfold the formatting bar as soon as the window is resized
• feat: search and replace in the whole vault from the side panel
• feat: one find bar with two modes, its fields shared and typed like any other
• fix: keep the formatting bar on one line at every zoom
• docs: say what an unreadable vault or folder shows
• fix: an unreadable vault offers no note, and a folder says why in full
• test: give the unreadable vault test a half-pixel margin and its own folder
• fix: say that a vault or a folder cannot be read instead of showing it empty
• feat: say more at a glance: help contents, sync button, active pane, backlinks icon
• fix: speak to the reader as « vous » in French, and say « volet » for a pane
• fix: draw the commented passage of the comments column on the selection color
• feat: the interface follows the text size, and small targets grow to 24 px
• feat: walk the icon grid, the kanban board and the buttons from the keys
• feat: open and walk the context menus from the keys
• fix: make every color pair readable in the 13 themes

Install and upgrade

See the README. The downloads appear in the assets below within about 15 minutes, once GitHub has built them:

• Arch: bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, then sudo pacman -U ./bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
• macOS: bref-macos.dmg
• Windows: bref-windows-x86_64-setup.exe, or bref-windows-x86_64.zip to install nothing

Bref 0.4.2

Changes

• fix: wrap the empty-panel line instead of running it over the note
• fix: write the backup archive ourselves instead of running tar
• test: print what tar does when the backup fails, to chase a crash seen on Windows runners
• fix: back up with the tar Windows ships, not the first one in the PATH
• fix: give the exit code when tar fails without a word
• fix: say why a backup failed, with the first line tar printed
• test: use a real system error for the reason of a failed disk operation
• feat: failures that stay and say why, unreadable things and empty lists that say so
• fix: keep the panel header and a narrow note clear of the window buttons
• fix: draw CJK characters in italic and monospace instead of boxes
• fix: stop a resting cursor from pairing the code fences wrongly
• fix: read a highlighted table cell as text, not as a formula
• docs: stop the landing page wrapping text so often

Install and upgrade

See the README. The downloads appear in the assets below within about 15 minutes, once GitHub has built them:

• Arch: bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, then sudo pacman -U ./bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
• macOS: bref-macos.dmg
• Windows: bref-windows-x86_64-setup.exe, or bref-windows-x86_64.zip to install nothing

Bref 0.4.1

Changes

• fix: guard the other pointer paths that read the editor lines after an edit
• fix: ignore pointer events until the editor lines match the text

Install and upgrade

See the README. The downloads appear in the assets below within about 15 minutes, once GitHub has built them:

• Arch: bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, then sudo pacman -U ./bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
• macOS: bref-macos.dmg
• Windows: bref-windows-x86_64-setup.exe, or bref-windows-x86_64.zip to install nothing

Bref 0.4.0

Changes

• feat: the menus of the diagram canvas are walked with the keys
• fix: the gestures of the diagram canvas end and the menus close, after a UI review
• docs: flatter landing page, one Linux install tab for all distributions
• docs: redesign the landing page as a clearer, simpler product page
• feat: a grid of dots, alignment guides and a ghost under the shape tool
• feat: handles, a right-click menu and a lit hover on the diagram canvas
• feat: a dock, named menus and a bar over the selection for the diagram canvas

Install and upgrade

See the README. The downloads appear in the assets below within about 15 minutes, once GitHub has built them:

• Arch: bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, then sudo pacman -U ./bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
• macOS: bref-macos.dmg
• Windows: bref-windows-x86_64-setup.exe, or bref-windows-x86_64.zip to install nothing

Bref 0.3.9

Changes

• test: keep the routing time bounds fit for a slow CI runner
• fix: the dragged shape is really centred on the pointer
• fix: the shape dragged from the library is drawn under the pointer
• fix: a file selected in the tree is not a folder
• feat: Mermaid class, sequence and state diagrams to the canvas
• feat: component and deployment diagrams
• feat: activity diagrams
• feat: combined fragments in sequence diagrams
• feat: sequence diagrams: lifelines and messages placed by their order
• feat: state machines
• feat: right-angled arrows go around the shapes in their way
• feat: a library of shapes and starting points for the diagram canvas
• feat: use case diagrams
• feat: package diagrams and object diagrams
• feat: keep the last panic in the config folder
• fix: keep the other cursors in place when a table is realigned
• feat: containers: packages, frames and swimlanes that hold shapes
• feat: UML relationships: a menu, new heads, association classes
• feat: UML class notation in the boxes of a diagram
• feat: a role or a multiplicity at each end of an arrow
• feat: bold, italic, underline and strike in the texts of a diagram
• feat: keep what a diagram file says and refuse newer ones

Install and upgrade

See the README. The downloads appear in the assets below within about 15 minutes, once GitHub has built them:

• Arch: bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, then sudo pacman -U ./bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
• macOS: bref-macos.dmg
• Windows: bref-windows-x86_64-setup.exe, or bref-windows-x86_64.zip to install nothing

Bref 0.3.8

Changes

• feat: embed a section of another note, live
• feat: formulas in the tables of a note
• feat: show and keep the comments of a table
• feat: style and comment table cells, rows and columns

Install and upgrade

See the README. The downloads appear in the assets below within about 15 minutes, once GitHub has built them:

• Arch: bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, then sudo pacman -U ./bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
• macOS: bref-macos.dmg
• Windows: bref-windows-x86_64-setup.exe, or bref-windows-x86_64.zip to install nothing

Bref 0.3.7

Changes

• fix: keep the update banner clear of the formatting bar
• fix: copy a table as a table
• feat: enlarge an image, a formula or a diagram from a button on hover
• feat: draw shortcuts as keycaps everywhere, as the palette does
• fix: keep the text clear of the counter and the formatting bar
• fix: install an emoji font with Bref on Linux, so 🎉 is drawn
• docs: describe Bref on its own, without naming other apps
• fix: draw large diagrams and foreign SVG off the UI thread, in a zoomable viewer

Install and upgrade

See the README. The downloads appear in the assets below within about 15 minutes, once GitHub has built them:

• Arch: bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, then sudo pacman -U ./bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
• macOS: bref-macos.dmg
• Windows: bref-windows-x86_64-setup.exe, or bref-windows-x86_64.zip to install nothing

Bref 0.3.6

New

• Command palette. F10, the first button of the rail, or > typed in the palette lists every command with an icon, a short name and its keys, grouped by kind. The commands of what you are on (a block, a table, a diagram) come first, and only the ones the view can do are shown.
• Block grips, as in Notion. Pointing at a line shows a grip and a +. Drag the grip to move the block; click it to turn the block into text, a heading, a list, a quote or a code block, or to duplicate, move, copy, cut, comment or delete it. The + adds a line below and opens the / list. Alt + Up / Alt + Down move the block of the cursor. Every gesture is undone in one step and can be given keys in the help panel.
• Whole rows and columns from the keyboard in CSV tables. Shift + Space takes whole rows, Ctrl + Space whole columns; Ctrl + Enter / Ctrl + Shift + Enter insert columns, Ctrl + Delete and Ctrl + Shift + Backspace remove them. The table bar names the selected rows or columns and offers insert, move, sort, duplicate and delete as icons.
• The help panel opens on the keys of the current view.

Fixes

• The pointer shows what a click will do everywhere: tree, menus, palette results, CSV headers and scroll bars, task boxes, links with Ctrl held, table and block grips, diagram shapes, arrows and handles.
• A list item moved with its grip no longer leaves a blank line inside the list or glues the list to what follows; duplicating an item no longer opens a blank line.
• A CSV table, picture or diagram opened from the palette stays on screen instead of flashing back to the note; closing the help panel or the palette gives the focus back to what the pane shows.
• Ctrl + Delete on a whole CSV column no longer removes every row of the table.
• The palette's placeholder and context sit next to the caret and against the edge of the field.

Removed

• The shortcut tips toasts and their setting: tooltips and the command palette already show the keys.

Install and upgrade

See the README. The downloads appear in the assets below within about 15 minutes, once GitHub has built them:

• Arch: bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, then sudo pacman -U ./bref-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
• macOS: bref-macos.dmg
• Windows: bref-windows-x86_64-setup.exe, or bref-windows-x86_64.zip to install nothing