Releases: sudomonas/napkin
Release list
Napkin 0.1.6
Napkin is somewhere to put things before you know whether they matter: paste text and images onto a napkin, and nothing needs a name, a folder or a tag. Everything stays on your computer. There is no account and no network access.
Napkin now opens on a board. This is a small release — one change you can see, and a README that finally shows what the application looks like.
It is early development software, so expect rough edges.
Download
| Linux (x86_64) | napkin-v0.1.6-x86_64.AppImage: chmod +x it and run it. |
| Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) | napkin-v0.1.6-windows-x64.zip: unzip it anywhere and run napkin.exe. Nothing needs installing. |
Windows: the build is not code-signed, so SmartScreen will warn the first time you run it. Choose More info → Run anyway. Your napkins are stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\napkin\napkin, readable only by your user account, so deleting the unzipped folder does not delete them.
Changed
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The window opens wide enough for two columns of cards. It used to open at about 605px, where the board draws a single narrow column — so the first thing a new user saw was a stack of notes, which is the one thing Napkin is not. The width is derived from the board's own arithmetic rather than picked, and it is clamped to your screen, so a small display still gets a window that fits on it.
This is the opening size only. The minimum has not changed: the window can still be dragged narrow or tiled to half a small screen. It just no longer starts there.
Also
- The README now has screenshots, the application icon, and a section on what Napkin is actually for — the gap between a clipboard that forgets and a notes application that asks you to file things.
Full changelog: v0.1.5...v0.1.6
Napkin 0.1.5
Napkin is somewhere to put things before you know whether they matter: paste text and images onto a napkin, and nothing needs a name, a folder or a tag. Everything stays on your computer. There is no account and no network access.
Napkin now tells you when it has done something, and several keyboard actions that quietly did the wrong thing have been corrected. One of them could lose work: on a long napkin, Ctrl+A selected only the cards on screen, so Ctrl+A then Delete appeared to clear the napkin while leaving most of it behind.
It is early development software, so expect rough edges.
Download
| Linux (x86_64) | napkin-v0.1.5-x86_64.AppImage: chmod +x it and run it. |
| Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) | napkin-v0.1.5-windows-x64.zip: unzip it anywhere and run napkin.exe. Nothing needs installing. |
Windows: the build is not code-signed, so SmartScreen will warn the first time you run it. Choose More info → Run anyway. Your napkins are stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\napkin\napkin, readable only by your user account, so deleting the unzipped folder does not delete them.
Fixed
Ctrl+Aselects the whole napkin. It used to select only the cards currently on screen. On a napkin of 60 items that meant 13 — soCtrl+AthenCtrl+Ccopied a fraction of what you asked for, andCtrl+AthenDeleteleft 47 items behind without a word. Deleted items were always recoverable from the trash, but the napkin was not emptied as it appeared to be.- Arrow keys move the way the board looks. Up and down stay in a column; left and right cross to the next one. Before,
Downmoved to the card on the right, and on a wide window the card directly below the cursor could not be reached by any key at all. - Quit quits. From the tray with the window already hidden, "Quit Napkin" did nothing. With the tray setting on, File ▸ Quit only hid the window.
- The tray's "Paste onto a new napkin" works. It made an empty napkin and pasted nothing, because it read the clipboard before the window had focus — which on Wayland returns nothing.
Says so now
- Copying says "Copied", however you ask for it. Only the button on the card said so;
Ctrl+Cand right-click ▸ Copy were silent. Copying several items reports the count. - Pasting something Napkin cannot hold says so. It holds text and images; anything else did nothing at all, which is hard to tell from a broken application.
- A copy that cannot be made says so instead of reporting success. If a picture's file has gone missing, copying it used to put the word
[image]on the clipboard and say "Copied" — and cutting it deleted the picture anyway. Cutting now removes nothing it could not copy.
Also
- The undo offer after a delete is no longer cancelled by an unrelated copy or paste, which used to make
Ctrl+Zdo nothing. - Arch Linux: there is now a
napkinpackage built from the release tag, alongside the existingnapkin-gitthat follows master. Seepackaging/arch/stable.
Full changelog: v0.1.4...v0.1.5
Napkin 0.1.4
Napkin is somewhere to put things before you know whether they matter: paste text and images onto a napkin, and nothing needs a name, a folder or a tag. Everything stays on your computer. There is no account and no network access.
Napkin now follows your desktop's light/dark setting while it is running. Before, switching Windows between light and dark changed nothing until you restarted Napkin. A theme you picked in Napkin's Settings still takes priority. Otherwise this is the same as 0.1.3.
It is early development software, so expect rough edges.
Download
| Linux (x86_64) | napkin-v0.1.4-x86_64.AppImage: chmod +x it and run it. |
| Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) | napkin-v0.1.4-windows-x64.zip: unzip it anywhere and run napkin.exe. Nothing needs installing. |
Windows: the build is not code-signed, so SmartScreen will warn the first time you run it. Choose More info → Run anyway. Your napkins are stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\napkin\napkin, readable only by your user account, so deleting the unzipped folder does not delete them.
What's new since 0.1.0
0.1.1 was the first published release and the first with a Windows build; 0.1.2 fixed the AppImage on Wayland, and 0.1.3 brought dark mode to the controls on Windows. Together with 0.1.4:
- Follows light/dark changes live, and on Windows dark mode reaches every control.
- Windows. Crash-safe image storage and single-instance handling rewritten for Windows. The data folder is locked to your user account. The full test suite runs on Windows in CI.
- Trash and undo. Deleted items go to the trash and can be restored. Ctrl+Z undoes the last action.
- Typing anywhere starts a note. Pin and Keep are now Ctrl+P and Ctrl+D.
- Search works on older Linux systems. It failed with SQLite older than 3.39.
- A new app icon, toolbar icons, and a Settings button.
- Exported notes keep their line endings exactly as typed.
Full changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.4
Napkin 0.1.3
Napkin is somewhere to put things before you know whether they matter: paste text and images onto a napkin, and nothing needs a name, a folder or a tag. Everything stays on your computer. There is no account and no network access.
Windows: dark mode now reaches the controls. Before this, the window went dark but buttons, dropdowns, text fields and scroll bars stayed light. Under Napkin's own Dark theme they were light with white text, which was close to unreadable. In dark mode Napkin now draws them itself, in its own colours; light mode keeps the native Windows look. The Linux build is unchanged apart from the version number.
It is early development software, so expect rough edges.
Download
| Linux (x86_64) | napkin-v0.1.3-x86_64.AppImage: chmod +x it and run it. |
| Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) | napkin-v0.1.3-windows-x64.zip: unzip it anywhere and run napkin.exe. Nothing needs installing. |
Windows: the build is not code-signed, so SmartScreen will warn the first time you run it. Choose More info → Run anyway. Your napkins are stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\napkin\napkin, readable only by your user account, so deleting the unzipped folder does not delete them.
What's new since 0.1.0
0.1.1 was the first published release and the first with a Windows build; 0.1.2 fixed the AppImage on Wayland. Together with 0.1.3:
- Windows. Crash-safe image storage and single-instance handling rewritten for Windows. The data folder is locked to your user account. The full test suite runs on Windows in CI.
- Trash and undo. Deleted items go to the trash and can be restored. Ctrl+Z undoes the last action.
- Typing anywhere starts a note. Pin and Keep are now Ctrl+P and Ctrl+D.
- Search works on older Linux systems. It failed with SQLite older than 3.39.
- A new app icon, toolbar icons, and a Settings button.
- Exported notes keep their line endings exactly as typed.
Full changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.3
Napkin 0.1.2
Napkin is somewhere to put things before you know whether they matter: paste text and images onto a napkin, and nothing needs a name, a folder or a tag. Everything stays on your computer. There is no account and no network access.
This release fixes the Linux AppImage in 0.1.1, which crashed on start on Wayland desktops such as KDE Plasma. It now bundles Qt's Wayland support and runs natively there. The Windows build is unchanged apart from the version number.
It is early development software, so expect rough edges.
Download
| Linux (x86_64) | napkin-v0.1.2-x86_64.AppImage: chmod +x it and run it. |
| Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) | napkin-v0.1.2-windows-x64.zip: unzip it anywhere and run napkin.exe. Nothing needs installing. |
Windows: the build is not code-signed, so SmartScreen will warn the first time you run it. Choose More info → Run anyway. Your napkins are stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\napkin\napkin, readable only by your user account, so deleting the unzipped folder does not delete them.
What's new since 0.1.0
0.1.1 was the first published release and the first with a Windows build. Together with 0.1.2:
- Windows. Crash-safe image storage and single-instance handling rewritten for Windows. The data folder is locked to your user account. The full test suite runs on Windows in CI.
- Trash and undo. Deleted items go to the trash and can be restored. Ctrl+Z undoes the last action.
- Typing anywhere starts a note. Pin and Keep are now Ctrl+P and Ctrl+D.
- Search works on older Linux systems. It failed with SQLite older than 3.39.
- A new app icon, toolbar icons, and a Settings button.
- Exported notes keep their line endings exactly as typed.
Full changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.2
Napkin 0.1.1
Linux users: use 0.1.2. This AppImage crashes on start on Wayland desktops such as KDE Plasma. The Windows zip here works, but 0.1.2 is the current release.
Napkin is somewhere to put things before you know whether they matter: paste text and images onto a napkin, and nothing needs a name, a folder or a tag. Everything stays on your computer. There is no account and no network access.
This is the first published release, and the first with a Windows build. It is early development software, so expect rough edges.
Download
| Linux (x86_64) | napkin-v0.1.1-x86_64.AppImage: chmod +x it and run it. |
| Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) | napkin-v0.1.1-windows-x64.zip: unzip it anywhere and run napkin.exe. Nothing needs installing. |
Windows: the build is not code-signed, so SmartScreen will warn the first time you run it. Choose More info → Run anyway. Your napkins are stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\napkin\napkin, readable only by your user account, so deleting the unzipped folder does not delete them.
What's new since 0.1.0
0.1.0 was tagged but never published; its build failed. So this is the first release anyone can download.
- Windows. Crash-safe image storage and single-instance handling rewritten for Windows. The data folder is locked to your user account. The full test suite runs on Windows in CI.
- Trash and undo. Deleted items go to the trash and can be restored. Ctrl+Z undoes the last action.
- Typing anywhere starts a note. Pin and Keep are now Ctrl+P and Ctrl+D.
- Search works on older Linux systems. It failed with SQLite older than 3.39.
- A new app icon, toolbar icons, and a Settings button.
- Exported notes keep their line endings exactly as typed.
Full changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1