v0.1.0-beta.2
Pre-releaseAdded
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Rebindable "next / previous document" shortcuts for three-pane mode. Two new commands — Next Document in Slot and Previous Document in Slot — single-press cycle through the documents stacked in the focused pane. They're unbound by default; assign keys under Settings → Keyboard shortcuts (the existing Ctrl+Tab hold-to-cycle is unchanged).
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Missing fonts now have bundled open-source stand-ins. When a document uses a font you don't have installed — Calibri, Cambria, Times New Roman, Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Comic Sans MS, Verdana, Tahoma (plus Liberation, DejaVu, and Noto) — CardMirror now ships a metric-compatible open-source equivalent (Calibri→Carlito, Cambria→Caladea, Times New Roman→Tinos, Arial→Arimo, Georgia→Gelasio, and so on), so the text renders the way it should instead of falling back to a generic. If you do have the real font, you still get it — the bundled copy is only a fallback, and your real bold/italic still apply.
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Open recovery journals (
.cmir-journal) directly. File → Open now accepts.cmir-journalfiles — it loads the document the journal was protecting, as a recovered, unsaved copy (so saving won't overwrite the original; use Save As to keep it somewhere). Handy for pulling a document out of a recovery journal without waiting for the automatic crash-recovery prompt.
Changed
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"one" / "two" / "three" find the slot commands in the command bar. Typing a spelled-out number in Search Everything now surfaces that slot's Focus-Slot and Send-to-Slot commands.
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"Check for updates on launch" is now "Check for updates automatically" — and it also checks daily. With it enabled, the desktop app checks for updates at launch and once every 24 hours while it's running, staying silent and only surfacing a prompt when an update is actually available.
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Mod-R no longer reloads the desktop app by accident. A stray Mod-R mid-edit used to reload the whole window, which felt like a crash. Reload now lives only in the View menu; the Mod-Shift-R force-reload shortcut — far harder to hit by accident — still works.
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The command-bar button's tooltip now reads "Toggle command bar" (it used to say "Search quick cards").
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Nav-pane headings no longer pop a tooltip on hover. Each outline row used to show a redundant "Pocket" / "Card" / etc. type label when you moused over it; it's gone.
Fixed
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Severe: pasting between cards could detach a card from its tag and silently strip a cite — please update. Copying a cite, body paragraph, or undertag and pasting it into another card could split that card away from its tag: the card became impossible to select or drag (only the tag moved), and the gray body rail no longer reached the tag. Cards left in this broken state behaved erratically — among other things they refused a variety of edits that should have been legitimate (for instance, pressing Enter to add a new line could silently do nothing). In some cases a pasted cite was also quietly demoted to plain body text, losing its cite formatting with no visible warning. And pasting card content outside a card left behind a stray empty card. All of it is fixed — pasted content now lands cleanly at your cursor, keeps its own kind (cites stay cites, undertags stay undertags, body stays body), and never breaks the card. This was a severe bug, so anyone still on 0.1.0-beta.1 should update to this release.
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Toggling three-pane mode no longer drops Word (.docx) documents. Switching in or out of three-pane mode reloads each open document from its recovered in-memory content; for a document that came from a
.docx, that content was being handed to the Word importer and rejected ("Can't find end of central directory"), so the document vanished on the toggle. Recovery content is always kept in CardMirror's own lossless format regardless of a document's saved-as type, so loading now detects the format from the content itself rather than trusting the saved-as label — a docx document still saves back as docx. (The same fix lets you open a.cmir-journalbelonging to a docx-saved document, and covers the three-pane slot loader. The crash-recovery prompt was never affected.) -
The "Layout on this device" setting (web edition) now matches the others. Its Auto / Mobile / Desktop options were showing as a cramped, unstyled stack — their CSS classes had never been defined — so they now use the same tidy column styling as every other radio setting.
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Toolbar tooltips are reliable in the desktop app now. On the Mac desktop build the ribbon tooltips were erratic — slow, flickery, or simply not appearing — because they relied on the operating system's native tooltip, which Electron renders unreliably on macOS (the web build, in a real browser, was always fine). They're now drawn by CardMirror itself, so they behave identically and show up reliably on both desktop and web. The same fix covers the other hover tooltips that had the problem — find & replace, the comments panel, the dropzone, the command-bar controls, and the speech-document buttons.