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@marcelvict marcelvict released this 09 Sep 19:15
v1.4.0
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Mote 1.4.0 Release Notes

Paste mode from anywhere, resizable table columns, and a window that keeps up with you.

New

  • Paste mode from anywhere — type /paste, press ⌘K, or bind a hotkey. Clips land where your cursor was, trimmed and de-duplicated. Settings › Experiments.
  • Drag to resize table columns — double-click the grip or choose "Fit to content" to reset. Widths stay out of the markdown, so Obsidian and git see a plain table.

Improved

  • Smoother resizing — the shadow, character count, and ⌘[ / ⌘] readout stay attached to the window
  • Fewer autosave hiccups — metadata saves run in the background, cutting the time they block the interface by over 99% in our benchmark*
  • Large notes do less repeated work while you type, scroll, and resize, especially around long code blocks and quotes. Editing a 500,000-character note took about 17% less time in our benchmark*
  • Switching notes is quicker, especially between big ones and vault files
  • Vim mode opens in NORMAL, the way vim opens a file. A new note (⌘N) still starts in INSERT.
  • A polish pass on the chrome — the title stays clear of the buttons, the glass buttons are retuned, and menus follow your theme
  • ⇧⌘⌫ deletes the selected note in the note switcher

Fixed

  • Opening a .md from Finder no longer risks saving an empty file over it, and Esc closes a file opened that way
  • YouTube mode tells you when your browser blocks JavaScript from Apple Events, and which switch to flip
  • Vim mode — a half-typed command like d no longer survives a dismiss and eats the first key of your next visit
  • Short table columns no longer collapse letter by letter

By the numbers

Measured Before → after Change
Metadata save blocking the UI, 1,000 notes 48.06 → 0.013 ms 99.97% less
Edit + layout, 500k-character note 6 → 5 ms ~17% less
Editor handoff, unchanged 500k-character note 44.45 → 38.96 ms ~12% less
Decoration rebuild, 10,000-line code block 0.690 → 0.004 ms 99% less
Native note-bar frame validation 0.0275 → 0.0058 ms 79% less

* Internal testing on an M1 Pro with 16 GB RAM. Editing measured with a 500,000-character note; metadata saves with 1,000 synthetic notes. Results describe those workloads, not overall app speed.

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