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MarkNode v2.2.0

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MarkNode 2.2.0

New Features

  • Visual Editing Mode: Edit Markdown as formatted text instead of raw syntax. Headings, bold, italic, links, images, code blocks, quotes, lists, tables and rules all render in place as you type, with a formatting toolbar and dialogs for editing links, images, alt text and code-block languages. Switch between Source and Visual with a toggle or your own keyboard shortcut, and choose which mode new documents open in. Your file is saved byte-for-byte as it was written — if an edit can’t be applied safely, MarkNode tells you why and returns to Source rather than changing anything unexpected.
  • Outline and Mind Map for Code Files: The Outline and Mind Map panels now show a navigable structure for code and data files — Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX/TSX, Python, Go, Java, C, C++, HTML, CSS, JSON, YAML, TOML and XML — with per-symbol icons and click-to-jump navigation. Markdown keeps its fully editable structure.
  • Copy, Cut and Paste Outline Nodes: Select nodes in the Outline or Mind Map and copy, cut or paste whole subtrees — across panels, files and windows — with a clipboard indicator in both toolbars and clear confirmation of how many nodes moved.
  • Paste Anything as Outline Nodes: Paste text copied from a browser or another app into the Outline or Mind Map and it becomes nodes. Headings, lists and nesting are preserved, and for plain multi-line text you choose whether to create one node or split it into several — with a preview of what will be created.
  • MarkNode in Your Language: The app and website are now available in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. Your language is detected from your system — including regional variants such as Taiwanese and Hong Kong Chinese, Austrian German and Canadian French — and you can override it in Settings. Changing it updates the whole interface, menus included, without a restart.
  • Match Preview in Find in Files: Search results now show syntax-highlighted context around the selected match in a resizable split you can drag, and the size is remembered. Arrow keys step through matches across files with live preview, and Enter opens the match.
  • HTML File Preview: Open an .html file and see it rendered live alongside the source. Links to other local files open in the workspace; external links open in your browser.
  • Git Branches from the Status Bar: Click the branch name in the status bar to filter and switch between local branches, or type a new name to create one — no terminal needed. Clear messages explain what went wrong when a switch isn’t possible.
  • Search History: The Find and Replace boxes remember what you searched for. Press the down arrow or the chevron button to pick a recent term, clear a box with a single click, and clear the history when you want a fresh start. History survives closing files and restarting the app.
  • Application Menu on Windows and Linux: A menu button in the title bar opens the full File, Edit, View, Tools, Window and Help menu as a real system menu. Open it with Alt or F10, jump to a menu with Alt and its underlined letter, and navigate the whole tree from the keyboard.
  • Shared Always Show Patterns: Patterns that keep normally-hidden files visible are now shared across all your projects, using full gitignore-style matching. Enable or disable any shared pattern per project, and import or export your pattern lists.

Improvements

  • Search and Edit Actions Follow Your Focus: Find opens in the pane you’re actually working in — file tree, outline, terminal or editor — and Select All, Copy, Cut and Paste in the Edit menu act on the focused panel rather than always the editor.
  • Select All in the Terminal: Select All now genuinely selects the terminal buffer, and works in the HTML preview too. The plain shortcut still reaches your shell, so readline and tmux prefix keys are unaffected.
  • Publishing a New Branch: Pushing a branch that doesn’t exist on the remote yet now publishes it for you, with plain-language messages instead of raw Git errors.
  • Popups and the Search Panel Follow Your Theme: Autocomplete popups, hover tooltips and the Find and Replace panel now render correctly in every theme, using the app’s own scrollbars.
  • Sharper Interface Details: Icons and text line up properly throughout the app — tabs, tree rows, menus, breadcrumbs, source control, search results and the status bar — and Windows 11 and Linux now use the desktop’s real system typeface. Spreadsheet files get their own icon in the file tree.
  • Tidier Terminal Header: The new-session button sits next to the terminal tabs where you’d expect it, with the minimize control separated so it’s harder to hit by mistake.
  • Quieter Recent Files: Generated folders such as build, dist and tool caches no longer clutter recent files or trigger file-change activity, while staying visible if you keep drafts there.
  • Safer Support Logs: Sign-in tokens are no longer written to log files, so sharing a log for support no longer exposes a credential.

Bug Fixes

  • App Froze When Opening a File from Finder: Double-clicking a Markdown file could hang MarkNode before any window appeared, forcing a force-quit. Fixed — and the file you clicked now actually opens.
  • Folder Access No Longer Silently Lost: Previously granted folders — including iCloud Drive folders — no longer quietly lose access and vanish from Recent Projects. Access is re-established automatically where possible, and you’re asked to re-grant it only when genuinely needed.
  • Find Opens the Right Search Bar: The Find shortcut in the Markdown editor reliably opens the editor’s own search again instead of another panel’s find bar.
  • Complex Mermaid Diagrams Render Correctly: Diagrams using shapes or line breaks inside nodes are no longer drawn incorrectly, and wide diagrams now scroll properly instead of being squeezed.
  • PDFs Open Reliably: Fixed PDFs failing to load, and opening a second PDF in quick succession no longer leaves the previous document on screen.
  • Wrapped Headings in the Outline: Long headings wrap again instead of overlapping the row below.
  • File Icons Render Properly: File-type icons in the file tree are drawn as intended rather than as hollow outlines.
  • Update Dialog Shows the Right Notes: The update prompt no longer shows release notes from a previous check or appears before it’s ready.
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