Continuity for Windows v0.4.8
Continuity for Windows — the native Win32 markdown notes editor. Looking for the embeddable editor instead? See the sdk-v* prereleases.
This release rolls up everything since v0.4.2, which is versions 0.4.3 through 0.4.8. Most of it is vault reliability.
Vaults
- Autosave no longer wedges mid-session. A save that was briefly refused — a manual Ctrl+S racing the automatic save, or an external program (cloud sync, antivirus, backup) touching the file — could permanently stop autosave for that note with no visible prompt: the unsaved indicator stayed on and the file quietly stopped updating. Autosave now only pauses when the file genuinely still differs on disk (with the reload / keep mine / show diff banner) and resumes on its own once a transient conflict clears.
- Autosave no longer dies once a second window is open. Save confirmations were delivered on a channel shared by every window, so a second window could consume another window's save acknowledgement, leaving the first believing a save was still in progress and silently skipping all further autosaves for that note. Save results now go only to the window that requested them, and a watchdog clears any acknowledgement that is ever lost.
- The file on disk keeps up with what you typed. Closing a tab, closing the window, switching tabs or panes, or clicking away now exports every changed note under the vault, not just the ones already waiting on the debounce timer.
- Vaults remember their open tabs. Closing a vault and reopening it — via the launcher, a desktop shortcut, or
--vault— restores the same open files, the focused tab, and each tab's scroll position. State lives portably beside the vault in.continuity/workspace.toml, so it travels with the folder. - Closing a tab in an autosave vault no longer shows an "unsaved changes" prompt. Autosave owns the file, so closing just writes and closes. The prompt still appears for untitled buffers and for notes whose autosave is paused by an unresolved conflict.
Sidebar and tabs
- Middle-clicking a file in the sidebar opens it in a new tab, matching Ctrl+click.
- The sidebar highlights the file you are currently viewing. The highlight follows the focused tab and clears when the tab is not a file inside the open folder.
- Opening multiple selected documents from Explorer now creates one new window with every selected document in its own tab.
- Dropping a document onto an open window adds it as a tab in the pane under the drop point instead of opening another window.
Editing
- Markdown block toggles are scoped to the lines they rewrite. Marking one line no longer pulls the next one into the new block as lazy continuation text, and stripping a marker no longer drops the newly-plain line into the block above it. Where a rewrite would otherwise absorb an untouched neighbour, the toggle inserts a blank-line separator in the same edit and the same undo group.
Downloads
| Asset | Use |
|---|---|
continuity-0.4.8-setup.msi |
Recommended. Installs under Program Files, supports in-place upgrades, Start Menu shortcut, file associations. |
continuity-0.4.8-portable.zip |
No install. Extract and run continuity.exe; all app data stays in that folder. |
continuity-0.4.8-standalone.zip |
Just continuity.exe; settings, themes, and notes use normal Windows AppData. |
SHA256SUMS.txt |
Hashes for the above. |
Builds are unsigned, so Windows SmartScreen may warn until release signing is in place.
Full Changelog: v0.4.2...v0.4.8