0.51.1

0.51.1 (2026-10-10)

Changed

• A release of 0.50.0 and 0.51.0: the corkboard has no “New note” tile and no placeholder on an empty folder.

0.51.0 (2026-10-10)

Changed

• An empty folder’s corkboard no longer shows “No notes in this folder yet”. A board that a filter has emptied still says why.

0.50.0 (2026-10-10)

Changed

• The corkboard no longer ends with a “New note” tile. Make a note with “New” in the toolbar, the board’s menu or the command: it appears as “Untitled” after the selected card (or at the end), with its title ready to type over.

0.49.27 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• A field you are typing in on a phone is no longer scrolled out of sight when the keyboard comes up.

0.49.26

0.49.26 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• A release of the fix in 0.49.25: on an iPhone or iPad, cards on the corkboard no longer turn into empty boxes.

0.49.25 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• On an iPhone or iPad, cards on the corkboard could turn into empty boxes (after dragging one, most of all) and show their text only while selected. Every card is drawn now.

0.49.24

0.49.24 (2026-10-10)

Added

• Find and replace across a whole binder: Ctrl+F in a binder searches every note, in the manuscript it runs through the whole page, and on the corkboard and outliner it lights the cards. Replace all shows what will change first, takes a snapshot, and can be undone.

Fixed

• Fixes from a round of testing: links on tab-led lines after a rename, Longform groups, Scrivener round trips, export and focus mode on a phone, and Left and Right arrows crossing between notes in the manuscript.

0.49.23 (2026-10-10)

Changed

• A test now checks Binders' own replace bar in the manuscript, not Obsidian's.

0.49.22 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• A bare null or true typed in a binder's list, with no note of that name, is dropped on the next write again, as before 0.49.9; notes named true or null still keep their place.

0.49.21 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• In the manuscript, the Left and Right arrows now move into the next or previous note from the end or start of a note, as Up and Down already did.

0.49.20 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• With "Automatically update internal links" off, answering Obsidian's prompt with "Just once" now also updates the links on lines that start with a tab.
• A note created at the old name just after a rename no longer takes the links on tab-led lines that were meant for the renamed note.

0.49.19 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• Stepping through matches with Enter in a large binder no longer gets slower the further you go.

0.49.18 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• A block id at the end of a line (^note-one) is kept in a Scrivener project and comes back as a block id.

0.49.17 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• A scene's notes come back from a Scrivener project as they were typed: a #, a star or a [[link]] is no longer changed, and formatting put on them in Scrivener is kept. An escaped dollar sign stays escaped.

0.49.16 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• On a phone, the export window's Preview and Export buttons stay in sight at the bottom of the window.

0.49.15 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• On a phone, a press and hold on focus mode's leave button opens its menu, as the docs say.

0.49.14 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• Importing from Scrivener no longer adds a “Binders path” property to every note, folder notes included.

0.49.13 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• In a Longform project, splitting or duplicating a scene puts the new scene after the scenes indented under it, so they stay with the scene they belong to.

0.49.12 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• When a note is renamed, spaces inside a link's brackets on tab-led lines are kept.

0.49.11 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• Typing 1.5 as the words to write today is refused, not read as 15.

0.49.10 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• A list entry typed in the other Unicode form of a name (an accent written as a separate character) now finds its note.

0.49.9 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• A binder whose list was typed by hand keeps notes named true or null in their place.

0.49.8 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• “Count words as the exported book does” now saves when you turn it off, and stays off after a restart.

0.49.7 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• Ctrl+F with a selection over several lines puts it in the field, the count lines up as Obsidian's does, and a second Replace all can't start while the first is being reviewed.

0.49.6 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• In the review of a Replace all, notes past the 400 changes shown are no longer clickable, and a long note is drawn only that far.

0.49.5 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• A note added to the binder, renamed or deleted while the find bar is open is now counted and looked through.

0.49.4 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• Replace one no longer turns the start of a note into properties; it is refused with a message, as Replace all does.

0.49.3 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• Changing the filter while the find bar is open now limits the count and Replace all to the notes that show.

0.49.2 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• In the find bar, Enter on a focused button presses that button, as Obsidian's own bar does.

0.49.1 (2026-10-10)

Fixed

• Find and replace no longer changes web addresses, block ids (^id), the names and values inside HTML tags, or indented code blocks, and treats [[Mara]] as plain text.
• Find treats a letter and its accent as one letter however it is typed, never splits them, and finds Turkish İstanbul when Match case is off.

0.49.0 (2026-10-09)

Added

• Ctrl+F in a binder view searches every note of the binder: as one page in the manuscript, and by lighting the matching cards and rows on the corkboard and outliner.
• Replace one match in the manuscript, or Replace all after a review of every change, with a snapshot taken first and Undo.
• “Find in binder” and “Find and replace in binder” in the command palette and the view’s menu.

Changed

• Find leaves link targets, tags, code and comments alone unless you type them as written, such as [[Mara or #Mara.

0.48.3

0.48.3 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• This release gathers the paragraph fixes, the command "Start a paragraph with a tab", and the fixes to bringing back everything.

0.48.2 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer will notice: 94 more tests of paragraphs begun with a tab, and the two findings still open are listed.

0.48.1 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• A long note of tab paragraphs on a phone no longer makes Obsidian's editor warn about restarting its measuring, when the page is put back where you left it.

0.48.0 (2026-10-09)

Added

• A command, "Start a paragraph with a tab", for phones and tablets: it puts a tab at the start of the paragraph the cursor is in, and can be added to Obsidian's toolbar over the keyboard.

0.47.0 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Tab on a line that already holds its tab and nothing else adds no second one, so Enter then Tab gives each paragraph one tab.

0.46.32 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• The manual says how to start a paragraph with a tab on a phone: the Indent button of Obsidian's toolbar over the keyboard.

0.46.31 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• A tabbed line straight under a line of text is set in in the manuscript's text, the Snapshots window and focus mode, as it is in the editor.

0.46.30 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• In a long note, tab paragraphs no longer flash with a guide line and jump sideways when the page is put back where you left it or you jump far into the note.

0.46.29 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• An open reading view follows both paragraph settings, and a note moved into or out of a binder, without opening the note again.

0.46.28 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• "Indent paragraphs" now works in the manuscript's sections shown as text, the Snapshots window and focus mode's scenes before and after.

0.46.27 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• A binder's note that is open when Obsidian starts, or moved into a binder while open, shows its tab paragraphs at once, not at the next click or key.

0.46.26 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• With "Indent paragraphs" on, the cursor on a new line after a paragraph waits at the indent, so the first letter doesn't jump.

0.46.25 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• Tab on an empty line in a binder's note, and the tab Enter carries on, is drawn as the paragraph's indent at once: no guide line, and the cursor no longer moves sideways when the first letter is typed. Four spaces fill the indent as a tab does.

0.46.24 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer will notice: which model the designer role runs on.

0.46.23 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• In the manuscript, a word longer than the column no longer runs off the edge of a section shown as plain text (on a phone, every section until it is tapped); it wraps there as it does in the editor.

0.46.22 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• Bringing back everything from a snapshot of a folder no longer makes again a note that was moved to another folder of the binder. The screen lists it under what is left as it is, with where it is now, and says if its text has changed.

0.46.21 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• Bringing back everything no longer makes a second copy of a short note that was renamed after Obsidian rewrote the links in it; the renamed note gets its name back, as longer notes already did.

0.46.20 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• In a snapshot's Show changes, a paragraph that starts with a tab is indented as it is in the note, instead of sitting flush left.

0.46.19 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer will notice: which model each kind of ticket runs on.

0.46.18 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer will notice: which model each agent role runs on.

0.46.17 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• A paragraph begun with a tab, exported to a Scrivener project and imported again, comes back with its tab when "Start a paragraph with a tab" is on.

0.46.16

0.46.16 (2026-10-09)

Added

• Since 0.44.16: "Bring back..." on a snapshot of a folder or the binder (the text and the order, or everything), and the last round of fixes to Export, on a computer, a phone and a tablet.

0.46.15 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer sees: one test of export styles now tests what Binders promises, and two round-trip findings through Scrivener are listed as open.

0.46.14 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• The manual now says that a note with Windows line breaks or a byte-order mark, brought back while it is open in an editor, gets every word and line back and is then saved by Obsidian's editor with its own line breaks, as any note you type in is.

0.46.13 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer sees: a round-trip test now accepts the vault's own spelling of a status.

0.46.12 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• A table that went out to a Scrivener project comes back as a table, with its rows together, instead of with a blank line between each row.

0.46.11 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer sees: tests written before "Everything" became the screen's first choice now choose their scope.

0.46.10 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• On a phone turned on its side, the Bring back screen puts its two buttons in one row and shows the start of what will change without scrolling.

0.46.9 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• On a phone, a long note name with no spaces now wraps in the Bring back screen instead of running off the edge.

0.46.8 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• A style file deleted outside Binders while a change to it was waiting no longer comes back or shows an error in the console.

0.46.7 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• Two comments in a row inside a sentence leave one space in the exported book, not two.

0.46.6 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• A binder that was moved or renamed since its last export no longer asks to replace its own exported file. Two binders with the same name are still asked.

0.46.5 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• On a phone, the Export window of an empty binder now says "Nothing to export" above its Export button, as it does on a computer.

0.46.4 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer sees: the style editor's sliders are the size of Obsidian's own, and the test now says so.

0.46.3 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• On a phone, a title too wide for an ebook's preview page breaks onto the next line instead of running off the page's edge.

0.46.2 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• On a phone, a long chapter name in Export's Contents wraps onto a second line instead of being cut off by its chapter label.

0.46.1 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer sees: seven test scenarios that failed on their own steps are taken out.

0.46.0 (2026-10-09)

Added

• "Bring back..." on a snapshot of a folder or binder can now bring back everything: each note as it was with its properties, notes and folders that are gone made again, and renamed or moved ones put back. Nothing is deleted; what is new since stays where it is, or goes into one folder if you choose.
• If Obsidian closes while a snapshot is being brought back, Binders says so the next time it opens and offers to finish or to put things back as they were.

Changed

• The "Bring back..." screen now opens on "Everything"; "The text and the order" is still there.

0.45.22 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer sees: a test's name.

0.45.21 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• Reordering a Longform project that has scenes indented under others no longer makes the sidebar's Contents list fail.

0.45.20 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• "Export again" on a binder whose notes have all gone, or are all left out, now says there is nothing to export and leaves the earlier file as it is.

0.45.19 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer sees: six new sets of tests, with the bugs they found left failing until each is fixed.

0.45.18 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer sees: the roadmap says export's QA round is finished, and what is still to be checked in other programs.

0.45.17 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer sees: the design notes for export say how the QA round's fixes work.

0.45.16 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• On a phone or tablet, the role at the end of a Contents row is large enough to tap.

0.45.15 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• When two books would save a file of the same name into one Exports folder, Export now asks before replacing the other book's file.

0.45.14 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• Export is turned off, and says why, when a binder has no notes or all of them are left out.

0.45.13 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• A manuscript's title page no longer says "about 100 words" for a book with no words.

0.45.12 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• A comment inside a sentence no longer leaves a double space in the exported book.

0.45.11 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer sees: a round of tests over every kind of export, on a computer, a phone and a tablet.

0.45.10 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer sees: the design notes for export say how the last fixes work.

0.45.9 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• With many things to look at, the Export window's sidebar scrolls instead of running off the window.

0.45.8 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• The warning that a typeface lacks a book's letters goes away when you choose another kind or change the style's typeface.

0.45.7 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• The Export window follows the page size and the style when they change in the binder's note while it is open.

0.45.6 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• Cancelling an export, or closing the Export window, while a PDF is being printed now stops the printing at once.

0.45.5 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• The Export window no longer checks whether Obsidian can print each time it redraws.

0.45.4 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• Changing a style while it is being renamed no longer leaves a second style under the old name.

0.45.3 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• Changing a style no longer overwrites a change made to its file a moment before by sync or another program.

0.45.2 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• Deleting a style no longer removes lines Binders couldn't read from the styles based on it.

0.45.1 (2026-10-09)

Fixed

• Importing a Scrivener project that Binders exported no longer warns of a colour clash on every label or makes a second set of labels.

0.45.0 (2026-10-09)

Added

• "Bring back..." on a snapshot of a folder or the binder puts back the text of the notes that are still there, the order of the items, or both. A screen first says what will change and what is left as it is. A snapshot of everything as it is now is taken first, so it can be taken back.

Changed

• Bringing back a folder's snapshot never makes, renames, moves or deletes a note, and leaves properties as they are; a note that changes while it is being brought back is left alone and named.

0.44.17 (2026-10-09)

Changed

• Nothing a writer sees: the contributors' rules and the roadmap now say what bringing back a whole snapshot may do, and what is left of it to build.

0.44.16

0.44.16 (2026-10-07)

Fixed

• This release carries the fix for the Folder notes plugin: with it on, clicking a binder or a folder inside one opens the binder view, not the folder's note.

0.44.15 (2026-10-07)

Fixed

• With the Folder notes plugin on, clicking a binder or a folder inside one in the file explorer opens the binder view again, not the folder's note. Folders outside binders still open their folder notes.

0.44.14 (2026-10-07)

Fixed

• Nothing you'll notice: a style rewrite from 0.44.9 that Obsidian's plugin review counted twice is undone.

0.44.13 (2026-10-07)

Fixed

• Nothing you'll notice: four more lines of code that Obsidian's plugin review flagged are written the way it prefers.

0.44.12

0.44.12 (2026-10-07)

Fixed

• Nothing you'll notice: this release carries the code and style clean-ups that Obsidian's plugin review asked for.

0.44.11 (2026-10-07)

Fixed

• Nothing you'll notice: the remaining style rules Obsidian's plugin review flagged for performance were replaced.

0.44.10 (2026-10-07)

Fixed

• Nothing you'll notice: three style rules were rewritten in a form Obsidian's plugin review prefers.

0.44.9 (2026-10-07)

Fixed

• Nothing a writer will notice: a few lines of code and style that Obsidian's plugin review flagged are written the way it prefers.

0.44.8 (2026-10-06)

Changed

• Nothing a writer will notice: releases are published as full releases, which Obsidian's directory can see, and no longer as pre-releases.

0.44.7 (2026-10-06)

Changed

• The README and the manual say how to install Binders from Obsidian's community plugins, with a link to its page there.

0.44.6 (2026-10-06)

Changed

• Nothing a writer will notice: the plugin's manifest keeps the version of the last release between releases, so installing never looks for a release that isn't there.

0.44.5

0.44.5 (2026-10-06)

Changed

• Nothing a writer will notice: the project's notes for its developers say the first beta is released.

0.44.4 (2026-10-06)

Added

• The first public beta of Binders. A folder becomes a binder: its notes and folders keep the order you give them, in Obsidian's own file explorer, and open as a corkboard, an outliner, or the whole manuscript as one page you can write in.
• In this beta: labels, statuses and word count targets; an inspector and the book's contents in the sidebar; split, merge, duplicate and group; snapshots of a scene, a folder or the whole binder; focus mode; export as a manuscript (Word or PDF), an ebook, a print-ready paperback PDF, a Scrivener project or one note, with styles you can change; import from Scrivener; Longform projects; phones and tablets.
• Install it with BRAT (fyresmith/binders) or by hand from this release's three files. It is not in Obsidian's community directory yet.

Changed

• Be careful of: Binders is tested on Linux and in Obsidian's emulation of a phone and a tablet. It has not been tried on a real phone, on macOS or on Windows. The exported Word file, ebook and PDF have not been opened in Word, Kindle Previewer or Apple Books, or sent to a printer. Keep a backup of your vault, and say what you find in the issue tracker. The manual's "Known limitations" has the full list.

0.44.4

0.44.4 (2026-10-06)

Added

• The first public beta of Binders. A folder becomes a binder: its notes and folders keep the order you give them, in Obsidian's own file explorer, and open as a corkboard, an outliner, or the whole manuscript as one page you can write in.
• In this beta: labels, statuses and word count targets; an inspector and the book's contents in the sidebar; split, merge, duplicate and group; snapshots of a scene, a folder or the whole binder; focus mode; export as a manuscript (Word or PDF), an ebook, a print-ready paperback PDF, a Scrivener project or one note, with styles you can change; import from Scrivener; Longform projects; phones and tablets.
• Install it with BRAT (fyresmith/binders) or by hand from this release's three files. It is not in Obsidian's community directory yet.

Changed

• Be careful of: Binders is tested on Linux and in Obsidian's emulation of a phone and a tablet. It has not been tried on a real phone, on macOS or on Windows. The exported Word file, ebook and PDF have not been opened in Word, Kindle Previewer or Apple Books, or sent to a printer. Keep a backup of your vault, and say what you find in the issue tracker. The manual's "Known limitations" has the full list.