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Kanso 0.6.0
0.6.0 - 2026-10-20
New
- cloud: Short links are made on go.kansoapp.app (2c13feb)
- site: Kanso's website, kansoapp.app (e339fd3)
- import: Markdown folders, Obsidian, Logseq, Notion, Evernote, Bear, Joplin, Standard Notes, Simplenote and UpNote come in, with links, tags and attachments (ccb4a03)
- app: Import… previews and imports other apps' notes, File › Open… brings in a Markdown file, and kanso import does both from a terminal (d56f379)
- site: The home page is Kanso, running in the browser (4d03793)
Fixed
- import: A Joplin export's name comes from its file on Windows too (df9b0aa)
Under the hood
Kanso 0.5.2
0.5.2 - 2026-10-20
New
- cloud: Published notes get a Rerout short link that previews the note's title (46eb294)
- sync: Publishing sends the note's title and shows the short link with the key (d8dfc5f)
Fixed
- updates: Restart quits and opens the new Kanso, instead of waiting for the next quit (2cd9879)
Under the hood
Kanso 0.5.0
0.5.0 - 2026-10-20
New
- release: A per-user Windows installer beside the zip (f66153a)
- render: Draw math, Mermaid diagrams and Excalidraw sketches in the theme's colours (8594dfd)
- preview: Show math, diagrams and Excalidraw drawings in the preview, and export notes as web pages or PDFs (653584c)
- mcp: Add kanso-export-html to export a note as a standalone web page (f39daf2)
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math: Show
$$…$$ on a line of its own as display math, centred, in the preview and exports (4694608) - store: Index each note's links, headings and tasks on this device (14a021a)
- mcp: Add kanso-get-outline and kanso-resolve-wikilink tools (489acc7)
- app: An outline and backlinks beside the note, and wiki-links between notes (aa87983)
- list: Wiki-links read as their alias or title in note excerpts (dd31e6f)
- list: Math reads as its TeX in note excerpts (7ffe1f5)
- cloud: Publish a note as an encrypted page anyone with the link can read (5f504da)
- sync: Seal and publish a note with its own key that never reaches the server (99ef980)
- publish: Publish a note to the web from its ⋯ menu, update it, or take it down (28db263)
- store: Daily notes, a Journal, Inbox and Templates, and tags nested with / (8be2538)
- mcp: Kanso-create-daily-note and kanso-create-from-template (1e36f92)
- app: Open at login on Windows, and as a macOS login item on macOS 13 and later (4d93b00)
- app: Today's note, notes from templates, quick capture from any app and a tag tree (028eb3f)
- cli: Kanso capture --book saves to a notebook by its name or ID (4b1ccc9)
- editor: Vim keys, with Normal, Insert and Visual modes in a note's text (d19fc09)
- editor: Vim keys gain H M L, ge, > and <, and . repeats Visual mode changes (27e5964)
- tasks: Due dates show as chips in the preview and are tinted in the editor, with @ date completion (6c91085)
- tasks: A Tasks view lists every task by when it's due, ticks them off in place and opens them at their line (e436364)
- reminders: Tasks with a time send a notification when due, with Mark Done and Dismiss (0e17f71)
- replace: Replace in all notes, with a live preview, options, and Undo replace (ff34ddb)
- history: Note history shows what changed since each version, with each section to copy (6e9bfc1)
- images: Drag an image's edge to resize it, size it with ![alt|300], or use Resize image… from the palette (d8a3b0b)
- related: Keep each note's embedding and the words read in its pictures on this device (80b92c2)
- mcp: Kanso-related-notes finds the notes closest in meaning to a note (6a95ada)
- graph: See how notes link, around the open note in the inspector and across the whole library (ef2cac7)
- ocr: Search finds notes by the words in their pictures, read with Vision on macOS (1aaf62e)
Improved
- app: Typing never waits on the outline (d95c0a0)
Fixed
- app: Plainer Local API and import wording (76d2e0c)
- release: Build the Windows installer for dev versions too (7b0fe29)
- render: Draw Mermaid arrowheads smaller so they sit lightly on thin lines and clear the nodes (58924a5)
- preview: Keep a drawing's actions in a quiet row under it that fades in on hover, never over the drawing (f78cf44)
- export: Export as PDF prints real pages on your default paper size, with margins (c1de524)
- preview: Text the Markdown parser can't handle shows as plain text instead of crashing (77de02e)
- cloud: Retire unpublished links for good, serve only the checked upload, and let the owner take a note down (ef1ef50)
- sync: Publish under a new link when the old one has expired or was retired, never reviving it (fc31799)
- api: Keep a note's published link when the local API or MCP writes the note (03563d8)
- publish: Say your devices, not your Macs, in the Publish sheet (225d09e)
- sync: A Journal, Inbox or Templates notebook made on two devices offline is one notebook, not a conflict (52d0a21)
- capture: Quick notes are written in the editor's font and size from Settings (ade79a3)
- app: A new note made under a nested tag gets that tag (b7803c0)
- reminders: Reminders only reach the notification centre from an app bundle, and say when notifications are off (185cb86)
- reminders: Build cleanly on Windows and Linux, where the bundle check isn't needed (f2f21f4)
- export: Wiki-links in exported and published pages show as their label, and ![alt|300] images keep their width (85f185e)
- Say device instead of Mac on Windows and Linux, name each platform's secret store, and show Ctrl shortcuts off macOS (13f3310)
- related: Say the same thing about the model download in the inspector and Settings (29e496a)
Under the hood
- release: Publish each release automatically once every check passes (9a01c36)
- Describe Kanso on its own terms in the README, changelog and themes guide (f54d468)
- readme: Releases publish themselves once every check passes (9a7f813)
- readme: The Mac download is notarized and updates itself (45d8b8e)
- app: Measure typing latency with the outline open (cb1bace)
- core: Excerpt properties allow dots and brackets a note itself has (618072b...
Kanso 0.2.0
0.2.0 - 2026-10-19
New
- Close brackets, quotes and Markdown markers as you type (4f383a9)
- Tab and Shift-Tab indent list items, with what hangs under them (6ea7aac)
- Format Table lines up a Markdown table (3945fee)
- Smart paste: links over selected words, formatted text as Markdown, images as attachments (0b023f6)
- Size attached images in the preview (a1a7dfd)
- Word goal with a progress ring in focus mode (8ee7204)
- Typewriter scrolling, and the writing aids in Settings › Editor (18e0836)
Fixed
- Kanso comes to the front after Restart now installs an update, instead of opening behind other windows (7982fed)
Under the hood
- Snapshots and latency runs for the writing aids (d3c7467)