A human-readable changelog. Less commit log, more product story: what changed, why it matters, and what got smoother.
v1.7.4FIX
Claude extension launch fix
This release fixes the packaged Claude extension so it can resolve the Noticky MCP bridge executable from inside the bundle.
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The Claude MCP bundle now uses a bundle-relative executable path.
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The Noticky MCP extension version is now 1.7.4.
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Existing MCP users are prompted once for the 1.7.4 Claude extension upgrade.
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MCP bundle validation now checks the bundle-relative command path.
v1.7.3FIX
Hot corners and Claude setup get steadier
This release tightens two recent additions: Quick Capture hot corners on multi-display setups, and local MCP sessions used by Claude.
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Quick Capture hot corners now work more reliably across multiple displays.
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Hot corner detection now normalizes event coordinates before deciding where the pointer is.
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Local MCP sessions can reconnect instead of getting stuck after a client restart.
v1.7.2UPDATE
Claude can work with your local sticky notes
Noticky now includes a local MCP server and a packaged Claude extension, so your notes can become local working context without copying them into another app by hand.
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A local MCP server for Noticky notes.
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A packaged, signed Claude MCP extension.
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Setup actions that detect connected MCP clients and help configure them.
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A self-configuring bridge with shared local credentials.
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Simpler MCP access permissions.
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Claude tools to search, list, read, open, create, append, update, trash, and restore Noticky notes.
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A policy-controlled App Store review request flow.
Fixed
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MCP consumer setup is more defensive during installation and configuration.
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The MCP bridge is signed before packaging.
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Release CI uses the Swift 6.2 toolchain for MCP builds.
v1.7.1FIX
Modern toolbar polish
A small layout fix for the modern note toolbar.
Fixed
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The modern toolbar now expands to the full note width, keeping controls out of the drag area.
v1.7.0UPDATE
Notes become working context
This release turns notes into richer work surfaces: they can stay above full-screen apps, reference calendar events and reminders, expose navigable sections, and keep external links editable in place.
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Full-screen note overlay mode.
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Note mentions and a context roadmap for richer references.
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Calendar event references powered by EventKit.
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Calendar event attachments inside notes.
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Inline calendar mentions with typed icons and hover previews.
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A two-step mention palette for choosing Notes, Calendar, or Reminders before searching.
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Native inline link styling with safer external-link editing from the popover.
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Reminder references, creation popovers, preview popovers, and inline reminder mentions.
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Actions to send selected text or checklist items to Reminders.
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Linked checklist completion sync with Reminders.
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Rich-text section detection and compact section navigation.
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A global note opacity preference.
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Circular checklist controls.
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Onboarding copy for Calendar and Reminder context.
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Calendar mentions keep stable references and interactive previews.
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Reminder references sync through CloudKit and refresh access without restarting.
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Missing Calendar or Reminder references now show an unavailable state instead of failing silently.
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Always-on-top behavior is more reliable across active Spaces.
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Shortcuts are more independent of keyboard layout.
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Rich-text font size, ordered list renumbering, and checklist formatting behave more predictably.
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Inactive note fade, last edited note focus, and undo state are more reliable.
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iCloud sync reliability was hardened.
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Consecutive checklist controls now all render.
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Light mode note text contrast and note visibility labels are clearer.
v1.5.3UPDATE
A better menu bar dashboard
The menu bar became a real command center, with faster note access, clearer creation actions, and more reliable editor behavior.
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Redesigned menu bar dashboard with note count, pinned notes, recent notes, creation actions, layouts, and tools.
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Quick Add saved feedback, making the newest quick note easier to recover.
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Refreshed Settings with clearer sections, calmer layout, and app status information.
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Improved onboarding for capture, notes, permissions, and layouts.
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Better image attachment controls, including attachment count, carousel, open, resize, link, unlink, and delete actions.
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Menu bar dashboard buttons, note rows, Settings, Quit, All Notes, and note toolbar controls now have consistent hover and press feedback.
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Rich text formatting persists more reliably after closing and reopening notes, including strikethrough.
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Markdown task list syntax now creates checklists correctly.
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Markdown headings now return to body text on the next line.
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Image carousel selection and centered image rendering are more reliable.
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Terminal, Receipt, Blueprint, and collapsed special skins render more consistently.
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Color and Skin choices now open visual panels instead of unstable nested dropdowns.
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All Notes and Preferences windows activate more reliably.
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Opening several notes in Stack or Tile layout is less likely to freeze the app.
v1.5.2FIX
Screenshots, rich text, and pin states settle down
This release stabilized the v1.5 feature set after the first screenshot, skin, and floating image updates landed.
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Hide from Screen Capture, so notes can stay out of screenshots, recordings, and screen sharing.
Fixed
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Rich text tables pasted from Apple Notes now persist after closing and reopening notes.
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Sticky Screenshot controls now support opacity changes, safer click-through handling, and scroll-wheel resizing.
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Markdown heading shortcuts, links, and floating formatting toolbar positioning are more reliable.
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The heading style menu now tracks the selected paragraph style.
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Note pin states are clearer: opening on launch and widget pinning now use distinct labels and indicators.
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Color picker toolbar icons are centered in their circular buttons.
v1.5.1FIX
Skins and panel chrome polish
A focused visual cleanup for the new note skins and floating panels.
Fixed
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Note skins and panel chrome look cleaner and more consistent.
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New skin surfaces avoid some of the early contrast and layout rough edges from the first v1.5 release.
v1.5.0UPDATE
Screenshots become sticky work surfaces
Noticky moved beyond plain text notes: screenshots, clipboard images, checklists, and selected text can all become floating context.
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PopClip support to turn selected text into a new Noticky note.
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A Settings button to install the PopClip extension faster.
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Sticky Screenshot to convert a selected screenshot into a floating image note.
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A customizable Sticky Screenshot shortcut in Settings.
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Checklist notes with interactive tasks and visible completion progress.
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Floating image overlays from screenshots or clipboard images.
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Floating image controls for opacity, lock, click-through, rounded corners, double-click zoom, and wheel resizing.
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Images shared from the macOS Share menu now open directly as floating overlays.
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Smart Sticky actions now show in-note progress while Apple Intelligence is working.
Fixed
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Rich text list formatting persists more reliably.
v1.3.5FIX
Checklist and editor polish
A cleanup release focused on reliability: task lists keep their state, formatting controls behave more predictably, and list editing feels less frustrating.
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Task-list checkbox state now persists after closing, reopening, or collapsing notes.
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Formatting toolbar actions now apply reliably on repeated single clicks.
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Double-clicking formatting controls no longer collapses the note by accident.
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Bullet, numbered, and task lists now exit list mode when pressing Enter on an empty item.
v1.3.4FIX
Export and visual polish
This release fixed feedback from real use, especially around PDF export, note contrast, and editing affordances.
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PDF export now works through a sandbox-safe save flow.
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Modern design no longer stacks an extra inner shadow on top of the panel shadow.
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Double-click collapse no longer leaks a transparency artifact through the note.
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Code blocks have better contrast across note colors.
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Typing after a fenced code block no longer carries the code background forward.
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The selection toolbar is anchored above the selection.
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Light yellow is softer and closer to the Apple Stickies feel.
v1.3.3UPDATE
More control over capture and layout
This update made Noticky more flexible: you can choose where Quick Capture appears, define default note styling, and customize layout shortcuts without colliding with macOS screenshot keys.
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Pick any corner for Quick Capture, or disable it completely.
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Set a default font and size for every new note.
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Customize layout shortcuts for Free, Stack, and Tile modes.
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Reorder notes in Stack and Tile layouts by dragging them.
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Crash on launch when many pinned notes were restored at once.
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Visual tearing during collapse and expand in Modern Design.
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Rich text editor startup is less likely to hit AppKit constraint loops.
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General stability improvements around fold animations and note editor startup.
v1.3.2FIX
Intel Mac release support
Release builds now produce a Universal Binary for Intel Mac support.
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Release builds now produce a Universal Binary for Intel Mac support.
v1.3.1FIX
Classic design crash fix
Classic Design no longer crashes from an infinite recursion in FormattingToolbarView.
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Classic Design no longer crashes from an infinite recursion in FormattingToolbarView.
v1.3.0UPDATE
Modern notes, layouts, and organization
This release refreshed the note experience with a modern design, more appearance controls, and layout modes for arranging several notes at once.
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Modern note design.
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Four new note colors and custom colors.
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Font picker and dark mode improvements.
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Free, Stack, and Tile layout modes.
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Show All, Hide All, collapse, and inactive fade controls.
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Pin auto-restore.
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Groups and folders.
Fixed
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Custom color picker conversion is more reliable.
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Custom color state updates avoid SwiftUI view update conflicts.
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Collapse race conditions are reduced.
v1.2.4FIX
App Store review compliance
App Store review compliance issues were addressed for submission.
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App Store review compliance issues were addressed for submission.
v1.2.3FIX
Reopen and sync polish
A small reliability pass for reopening, note editing shortcuts, and sync feedback.
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Cmd+A behavior is fully corrected.
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Reopening the app no longer creates duplicate windows.
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The sync spinner behaves more consistently.
v1.2.2FIX
Shortcut and notification fixes
This release fixes early shortcut and notification behavior.
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Cmd+A no longer conflicts with note editing.
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Foreground notifications behave more reliably.
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The sync spinner is clearer.
v1.2.1UPDATE
App Store preparation
This release prepared Noticky for App Store distribution and smoothed a few early UX details.
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Noticky-AppStore scheme for App Store builds.
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Customizable shortcuts.
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System date format support.
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Better date contrast.
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Xcode Cloud builds now include Package.resolved.
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Shared schemes are available for CI builds.
v1.1.1UPDATE
Onboarding and shortcut control
This release made the first-run experience clearer and removed the hardcoded note shortcut, which could conflict with Safari.
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A 4-step onboarding flow for new users.
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A configurable New Note shortcut in Preferences.
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Onboarding no longer closes right after launch.
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New notes open large enough to avoid clipping the formatting toolbar.
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Sandboxed auto-updates work with Sparkle XPC Installer and Downloader services configured.
v1.1.0UPDATE
Sync, widgets, sharing, and updates
A foundational product release: iCloud sync arrived, widgets went live, sharing into Noticky became possible, and update checks appeared in the menu bar app.
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Check for Updates in the menu bar app.
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iCloud sync with CKSyncEngine.
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Share extension support.
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Three widget types.
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Provisioning profiles for widgets and the share extension.
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Sparkle sandbox update exceptions.
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Provisioning and entitlement issues for Developer ID builds.
v1.0.6FIX
Production launch hardening
This release hardens Developer ID launch behavior for production builds.
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Developer ID builds launch correctly with the embedded provisioning profile.
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The production entitlement set no longer includes the wrong aps-environment entitlement.
v1.0.5FIX
Developer ID launch fix
Developer ID builds use the correct release entitlements.
Fixed
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Developer ID builds use the correct release entitlements.
v1.0.4FIX
Production signing fix
Production code signing now includes the required entitlements.
Fixed
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Production code signing now includes the required entitlements.
v1.0.3FIX
iCloud crash guard
A crash guard prevents an iCloud sync crash loop on launch.
Fixed
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A crash guard prevents an iCloud sync crash loop on launch.
v1.0.2UPDATE
Dock and menu bar behavior
Noticky can show in the Dock by default with a main menu bar.
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Noticky can show in the Dock by default with a main menu bar.
v1.0.1FIX
First hotfixes and release pipeline
Early launch fixes for licensing, payments, crash prevention, and release publishing.
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License worker migration from FastSpring to LemonSqueezy.
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Stripe webhook handling for early adopter payment links.
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Release pipeline upload support for DMG builds.
Fixed
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CKContainer initialization is deferred to prevent a launch crash on macOS 26 and newer.
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The appcast is updated automatically after release.
v1.0.0LAUNCH
Initial release
The first public version of Noticky introduced the core idea: native sticky notes for Mac that stay visible while you work.
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Always on Top, so notes can float above other windows, including full-screen spaces.
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Global note capture from anywhere on the Mac.
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Quick Capture for fast entry without opening the full notes list.
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Rich Markdown editing with live formatting.
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Image attachments with drag, drop, paste, and picker support.
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Touch ID or Mac password lock for sensitive notes.
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Tags for organizing and filtering notes.
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Export to TXT, Markdown, and PDF.
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Recoverable Trash with restore and purge behavior.
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Deep links for opening all notes or a specific note.
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Menu bar integration for a low-clutter Mac workflow.
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Native macOS app built with AppKit and SwiftUI.
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