Every notable change to re/notes, re/task and re/read.
Coming soon
Native apps are coming to the App Store and Google Play - re/notes first, with re/task following shortly after. The same end-to-end encrypted notes and tasks as dedicated apps, built from this same open-source code.
Improved
Saving or editing a phrase from the bubble takes less time with a large vocabulary. The copy of the vocabulary stored beside the database, a safeguard for the case the browser removes the database, was rewritten in full inside every save. It is now written a moment after the last change. Nothing changes in what is stored.
Pages layout: opening the keyboard inside the bubble no longer lays the pages out again.
Fixed
Pages layout: selecting words on the first or the last line of a page no longer turns the page. Before, holding a word on the first line and sliding along it to the next word turned the page back, and the same on the last line turned it on, because the zones at the top and the bottom edge that turn the page under a dragged selection reached into those lines. The zones now lie beyond the lines. A selection or a highlight dragged past the last line to the foot of the page still turns the page after a moment, as before.
Improved
The extension's name, shown in the stores and in the browser's list of add-ons, is now "re/read - read offline, keep a library, learn" (it was "read offline, translate and learn"). The offline reading list comes before language learning in the name, because for many people re/read is a reader and a library in their own language, and translation is optional. Nothing else changes in this version.
Fixed
An article from archive.today (archive.is, archive.ph) is shown in full in the reader. Before, the reader showed only one part of some articles opened from the archive, and paragraphs with many links were missing. If you saved such an article to the reading list before this version, delete it from the reading list and save it again to have the full text.
New
A "Rate re/read" row in the settings, under Support: it opens the review page of the store your browser installed re/read from - addons.mozilla.org in Firefox, the Chrome Web Store in Chrome, Brave and Edge. A link like the two rows above it: nothing is sent, and nothing happens until you press it.
New
The reading list shows when the backup was last written: under the Export button, a line such as "Last backup: 3 weeks ago. More since then: 3 articles, 14 saved phrases, 9 highlights." Before the first backup, the line lists what is on the device. The line is grey; it is shown in the text's colour when a month has passed and there is more on the device than in the backup, or when no backup was ever written. In the settings, the Backups table has a fourth row for the backup file, with the date of the last export.
Improved
The speaker button shows that the voice is being prepared: from the tap until the voice starts, the button is inverted (ink background, paper icon), and it stays so while the phrase is spoken. A tap during the preparation changes nothing; a tap during speech stops it. The same on the saved phrases page, in the reader's list of highlights, in the dictionary lookup field and on the Listen button in the settings. On an e-ink tablet the first phrase of a session is prepared for several seconds; before, nothing showed it.
Fixed
Pages layout, the bubble and the mouse wheel: with the bubble open, the wheel over the bubble's dictionary list scrolls the list, and the arrow keys after a click into the list scroll the list. Over the text, the wheel, the arrow keys, Page Down and a finger moved across the page close the bubble and turn the page. A tap on the text only closes the bubble. The Scroll layout is unchanged.
An article cut into boxes is read whole: on a site that divides the text of an article into two or three blocks with advertising between them (Ars Technica, for example), the reader showed one block of it, with no message that the rest was missing. The reader now shows such an article from the first paragraph to the last.
New
A note on a document: Add a note to this document, a new row in the reader's menu, opens the note window over the title of a saved article or an imported book. While the document has a note, the row is called Edit this document's note. Clearing the field and pressing Save removes the note.
Where the note is shown: in the reader under the title, after the site and the length of the text, with an icon next to it that opens the note for editing; on the document's Highlights page under the title line, with the same icon.
Search by note: the search in the reading list finds a document by its note, in addition to the title and the site. Type a word from the note and press Search; the row shows the note under the title and the site. With Search in the texts too, the first group of results is called In titles and notes.
Improved
Export as notes (.md) writes a document's note under the document's heading, before the quotes. A document with a note and without highlights is written to the file too.
The note on a document is part of the backup of everything, together with the highlights. When a backup is imported, a note is added only to a document that has no note yet; the import report shows the number of notes added. When the same page is saved again, its note is kept.
Custom CSS: new names #nav-note, #doc-note, #doc-note-text, #doc-note-edit, .reader-note, #marks-doc-note, #marks-doc-note-text, #marks-doc-note-edit, .marks-doc-note, .marks-doc-note-label and .library-doc-note. No name was removed.
New
Reading by pages: texts in the reader are now divided into pages by default. The first time, a note at the top of the text says so and has a Scroll button for going back to scrolling; the Layout row in the reader's Aa panel has both options, Pages and Scroll. With Pages, there is a whole line at the top and at the bottom of every page. You turn a page with a tap on the left or right side of the screen, by sliding a finger sideways, or by sliding it up or down, with the arrow keys, PgDn and PgUp, Home and End, or with the mouse wheel. The page number is shown at the bottom of the window.
A new section of the settings page, Pages layout, has three settings: Turning pages by touch (Tap the left or right side of the screen, Slide a finger sideways, Off), Page turn effect (Smooth slide, Dark flash (e-ink), Off) and Show the page footer with reading progress. By default, pages are turned by sliding a finger on a narrow screen such as a phone, and with a tap on a wider screen; sliding a finger up or down turns the page with both.
With the Scroll layout, scrolling further at the very end of a book's text opens the text that follows, and scrolling back at its very beginning opens the text that came before. It works with PgDn and PgUp, the space bar, the arrow keys, the mouse wheel, a trackpad and a finger. The scrolling has to start at the end of the text: fast scrolling that only reaches the end opens nothing. Continue reading under the text and Earlier text above it do the same with one press.
A book with no table of contents in its file and no chapter headings in its text has Contents too: a list of places in the book, each shown with its first words and with how far into the book it is, in percent.
The reader's menu has two new rows for a document that is in the reading list: Mark as read and Delete from the reading list. After the first press, Delete from the reading list changes to Sure?; the second press deletes the document.
With the Pages layout, when you drag a selection or a highlight to the bottom edge of the page, the page is turned and you can continue on the next one. The highlighter's toolbar has two arrows for turning pages.
E-ink is a new theme in the Aa panel, made for e-ink screens: black text on a white background, only the greys such a screen can show, stronger highlighter colours and no animations.
The settings page is divided into sections: Languages, Bubble and phrases, Reading view, Reading aloud, Data and copies, Switched-off sites, Custom CSS and About re/read. It has a list of sections, a Search the settings field where you find a setting by its name or description, and a First steps card, shown until its steps are done or until you hide it.
Under an article's title, the reader shows the site the article comes from. The icon next to it opens the original page in a new tab.
Improved
A long book is read as one text. The reader no longer shows the parts of a book (Part 2 of 63) or buttons for changing parts. The title, the author and the length of the whole book are shown at the beginning of the book only. With the Pages layout, turning the last page continues the book.
In a long book, the number at the bottom of the window in the Pages layout shows how much of the whole book you have read, in percent. It is the same number as in the book's row in the reading list. For articles and short books it is the page number, for example 3 / 12.
Reading aloud continues through a long book: after the last sentence of the loaded text, the text that follows is opened and the reading continues. Pause and Stop work at any moment.
Contents of a book is now the table of contents saved in the book file - the same list of chapters that other reading apps show. When the file has none, Contents shows the chapter headings found in the text, as before. A book that is already in the reading list keeps its Contents; import the file again to get the table from the file. A file made with Export as EPUB has the same table of contents.
Contents opens in a panel at the left side of the window, as tall as the window, so a long table of contents is easy to scroll. With the Pages layout and the page footer shown, a small Contents button is at the bottom of the window, under the beginning of the lines of text; the page number or the percent is now on the right.
In a book, the results of Search in text are grouped by chapter, and the Highlights page shows the chapter of a highlight.
The Data and copies section shows how much space is used by the translation models, the dictionaries, the reading list, the phrases with highlights and the backups, and when each backup was last updated.
The lists of translation models and of dictionaries are divided into Downloaded by you and Download models or Download dictionaries. Dictionaries are grouped by language.
Settings and Saved phrases opened from the reader's menu are shown inside the reader, so full screen is not ended. With Back you go back to the text at the same place.
The rows of the reader's menu are in a new order: Contents, Search in text, Highlights, Mark as read, Download pictures, Export as EPUB, Export as Markdown (.md), Delete from the reading list, Full screen, Saved phrases, Offline reading list, Open the original, Settings.
Custom CSS: new names #page-curtain, #page-footer, #page-foot-toc, #page-foot-count, .page-foot-toc, .page-foot-count, #page-head, #page-edge, #page-count, #page-flash, #mark-turn-prev, #mark-turn-next, #room, #source, #nav-mark-read, #nav-mark-read-label, #nav-delete, .nav-check, .toc-words, .toc-percent and .panel-more, the attributes data-reader-layout, data-reader-page-number, data-more and data-place, the values data-reader-theme="eink" and, in the bubble, data-scheme="eink", the attribute data-book-place on #article, and the variables --page-pressed-bg, --page-pressed-frame, --safe-top, --foot-h, --page-air, --page-band-h and --page-foot-inset. Removed together with the buttons for changing parts: #segment-next, #segment-prev-end, #segment-label, #segment-label-end, #toc, #toc-end, .segment-middle, .toc-button and .pager-blank; #segment-nav and #segment-nav-end no longer have the class .pager.
Fixed
A word in the language you translate from is translated also when the sentence around it is in another language, for example an English term in a Polish paragraph. This works when the word is in one of your dictionaries for that language; the bubble then shows its translation and the dictionary entries.
In full screen on a phone with a camera cutout, the bar at the top of re/read's pages is placed below the cutout, so its buttons are not covered.
New
A saved article or book can be exported from the reader's menu as an EPUB file (the text with the downloaded pictures, for e-book readers and reading apps) or as a Markdown file (the text with headings and links, for notes and other apps). In selection mode on the reading list, Export as EPUB and Export as Markdown write one file per selected document.
The Import button on the reading list accepts Markdown files (.md). The text is added as a book: divided into parts, with a table of contents from its headings and footnotes shown in a bubble. A file exported from the reader as Markdown can be imported back.
Improved
A saved article with pictures has a line under its title with the number of pictures and the button Download and show in the text. It is the same action as Download pictures in the menu. While the pictures are being downloaded, the line shows the progress and a Stop button; after the download, the line disappears.
New
Reading speed is a setting: a field on the settings page, in words a minute (50 to 600, 200 by default). The reading time on the reading list and under an article's title is calculated from this number.
Improved
The speed of reading aloud on the settings page is named Voice speed.
New
Learned moves the phrase to the Learned list on the saved phrases page, with its meanings, sentence and counts, and removes its underlines. On that list, Back to learning returns the phrase to the To learn list; Delete removes a phrase for good after a second press, and a button under the list deletes all learned phrases. Learned phrases are not written to the .tsv files, and importing a file does not change which phrases are learned. The backup of everything includes the Learned list.
Four new rows in the reader's Aa panel: Line spacing (Tight, Normal, Loose), Alignment (Left, Justified), Hyphenation (Off, On) and Paragraphs (Spaced, Indented, Both). Hyphenation uses the browser's own rules for the language the page or book declares; nothing is downloaded for it.
The reading list shows the length of each text: the number of words and about how many minutes it takes at 200 words a minute; for a book, the whole book in hours. The line under an article's title shows the same, together with the number of your saved phrases found in that text. For texts saved earlier, the numbers appear a moment after the list is opened.
Improved
The speaker button in the reader's bar starts reading aloud and, pressed again, stops it. Pause and resume are on the bar at the bottom and on the space bar.
A darker background marks the selected option in the Aa panel, the open tab on the reading list and on the saved phrases page, and a pressed button above the article; the difference is visible on e-ink.
Custom CSS: new names .reader-facts (#facts), .phrase-segments, .learned-actions, #delete-learned, .quiet-unlearn, .quiet-delete-all, and the attributes data-reader-line-height, data-reader-align, data-reader-hyphens and data-reader-paragraphs on the root element.
Improved
A pressed bar button (the highlighter, reading aloud, an open panel) has a darker background only, with the same frame as the other buttons. The full-screen button has no darker background in full screen; its icon changes instead.
New
Books can be included in the backup: tick "Export with books (N books · X MB)" under the pictures box on the reading list. The file then holds each book's text and pictures together with its reading position. On import, books that are not in the list are added, with their highlights and positions. Without the box, books are not in the file; keep their .epub files.
In Select mode, books can be ticked like articles. "Export selected" writes reread-selection.zip: the ticked articles and books with their highlights and positions, the books' pictures, and an article's pictures when the pictures box is ticked - without the saved phrases and the settings.
Full screen: a button in the bar of every page, on a computer as well; in full screen the bar is still visible.
Improved
The "Import and export" section lists what the backup contains; the .zip, .epub and .md files are described in the "File format" fold. The import report includes the titles of the books whose highlights are in the file but which are not in the list yet. Picture counts are shown with their size, for example "35 pictures · 4.1 MB".
The bar at the top of the reading list, the highlights, the saved phrases and the settings is visible also after the page is scrolled. Links to sections and rows reached with Tab are placed under the bar.
A pressed bar button (the highlighter, reading aloud, an open panel, full screen) has a thicker frame and a darker background, visible on e-ink as well.
Saved phrases on a phone: when a phrase is edited, the field, the hint and the Save and Cancel buttons are under the phrase, and the sentence under them.
Export with pictures needs less memory: the pictures are written into the file one article at a time.
Highlights imported into a book that is already in the list are placed where their words are, also in another part of the book than the one they were made in (for example after the book was imported again from its .epub file). A highlight whose words are not found exactly once in the book is kept on the Highlights page, and the number of such highlights is given in the import report.
Custom CSS: new names .transfer-notes, #library-export-books, .page-chrome, .page-bar, .page-tools, #fullscreen (on the saved phrases and settings pages) and the variables --header-air, --bar-h, --header-h; removed .library-row-still and --chrome-hold.
Improved
With "Save the sentence with the phrase" on, the sentence around a saved phrase is also saved when you press the phrase's underline or select it on a page, if the phrase has no sentence yet (it was saved before the setting was on, from the "Add a phrase" field, or from a two-column file). The sentence is shown under the phrase on the saved-phrases page and written into the file by "Export for Anki". A phrase that already has a sentence is not changed; with the setting off nothing is saved.
Fixed
The sentence saved with a phrase is now whole on pages and in books whose text has line breaks inside paragraphs (for example books from Project Gutenberg): such a line break, shown by the browser as a space, was treated as the end of the sentence, so the saved sentence could end where a line of the file ended. The same line breaks shortened the sentence used for the translation and added a pause in reading aloud; both are corrected. Sentences saved earlier are not changed.
Improved
Toolbar popup: a dictionary unfolded under "Look up a word" is scrolled into view the same way; there each dictionary can be unfolded independently of the others.
Fixed
In the bubble over a selection, one dictionary is unfolded at a time: when you unfold a second one, the first is folded and the unfolded entries are scrolled into view. Until now the second dictionary was unfolded below the visible part of the list, and the only visible change was a scrollbar.
New
Two counts are kept with each saved phrase: how many times its bubble was opened (a press on an underline, or a new selection of a phrase already saved), and how many times it occurred in the texts you finished in the reader (a part of a book you left through "Next" under its text, an article you marked as read). On the saved-phrases page they are shown beside the phrase as a magnifier and a book with a number, with a legend over the list; the list can be ordered by either count, and alphabetically.
The sentence a phrase was saved in can be kept with it: a new setting, "Save the sentence with the phrase", off by default. The sentence is shown under the phrase on the saved-phrases page, folded to one line, and written into a third column by "Export for Anki". Only the first sentence is kept; saving the same phrase again does not change it.
One backup of everything: "Export" on the reading list now writes reread-backup.zip with the reading list (highlights, reading positions and, if you tick the box, pictures), every saved phrase of every language pair with its sentence and counts, the highlights of every document - books too - and the settings. "Import" reads that file back part by part, adding what is missing and never overwriting what is already there; the settings are restored only when you tick the box. The older files (the list's .json or .zip, the highlights' .json) can still be imported. The Highlights page's own .json export and import are removed; its Markdown notes export remains. "Select" still exports the chosen articles as the list's own file.
A new setting, "Underline other forms of saved words", off by default: save "read", and "reads" and "reading" are underlined too, and the bubble over them shows what you saved for "read". Which forms are included depends on the dictionary installed for the language you read, so a dictionary has to be installed.
Improved
The saved-phrases page has a more compact layout: on a desktop a phrase with a one-line meaning takes one line, on a phone two; the sentence is under the meaning on both, and the buttons are on the phrase's line. On a phone the filter and the order select are one under the other. Custom CSS: new names .phrase-head, .phrase-body, .phrase-count, .phrase-count-icon, .phrase-legend and .icon-sprite; no name was removed.
The file written by "Export for Anki" can be imported back: its third column is the sentence. For a phrase already saved, the meanings are not changed, and the sentence from the file is added only when the phrase has none.
Toolbar popup: under "Look up a word" every line of a dictionary entry is shown; the box can be scrolled, so there is no "Show all" there.
Fixed
Dictionary entries: every HTML entity in a dictionary's text (for example [ for a bracket) is decoded, in entries imported earlier as well.
Settings: the "Saved phrases" row of the menu is shown also with "Use without a translation model" on.
New
Look up a word without selecting it: a field in the toolbar popup and an "Add a phrase" section on the saved-phrases page. Type a word or a short phrase to see the entries from the dictionaries installed for the language you read; the translation model is not used. On the phrases page you can tick a line to save it as a meaning, or type a meaning of your own under "Your own". In the popup the entries are only shown; a button below opens the phrases page with the same word.
Several meanings of your own at once: separate them with a semicolon, in the field under "Your own" and in the edit box of a phrase. A dictionary line with a semicolon inside remains one meaning until you edit that line. Meanings saved earlier with a semicolon typed in are split into separate meanings once, at the first start after the update; dictionary lines are not changed.
Improved
In the bubble over a selection, dictionary entries are displayed the same way as on the phrases page: one section per dictionary, a checkbox at each line. Ticking a line saves that meaning at once; unticking the last one removes the phrase. Parts of speech are shown as labels, pronunciations and cross-references under "More about the word". Custom CSS: the bubble's .entry* classes are replaced by the .lookup-* classes used on the pages.
Each dictionary can be given a display name of up to 40 characters (under "Details" on its row); it is used as the heading of the dictionary's entries in the bubble, the popup and the phrases page. The list of dictionaries has a new layout, the same on a phone and on a desktop, with "Show all" and "Show fewer" at the left edge. All checkboxes in the extension are now in the text colour.
Toolbar popup: "Open in reading view" fits on one line in every language and is greyed out on pages where the extension cannot run; the note under the language pair is removed (the switch below shows the same state); dictionary entries under the look-up field are spaced closer together.
Fixed
Firefox, on Android and on desktop: a problem with working after switching to airplane mode is fixed. Translation with the network off itself worked; it failed in one case: when nothing was selected for half a minute after the network had been switched off (airplane mode, Wi-Fi off), the next selection showed the message "Something went wrong inside the extension", every time, until the browser was restarted. The cause: the file of the translation engine was loaded with a kind of request that Firefox rejects while the network is off, even for a file inside the extension itself. The file is now loaded in a different way, so the state of the network makes no difference. Chromium browsers were not affected.
New
On Android, when the reader's bar has room (a tablet, an e-reader, a phone held sideways), there is a full-screen button next to the menu. One press switches the article to full screen and hides the reader's bar; a tab at the edge shows the bar again; the same button or Back ends full screen. The Full screen row in the menu remains on every device.
Improved
Under the translation of one or two words with no dictionary entry, the bubble now shows a note: a translation model often translates a word on its own wrongly, and a dictionary would give a better answer. The note is one of two: that no dictionary for this language is installed (the word "settings" in the note opens the Dictionaries section of the settings), or that the installed dictionaries do not have the word, with a link to the list of dictionary sources. In the settings, the sentences about single words in the Translation models section are highlighted, and in the Dictionaries section there is information on where its list comes from and that your own dictionaries can be added from files or from a link.
Fixed
The translation model is no longer used for text in your own language. Before the model is used, re/read checks the language of the selected text with the browser's built-in language detector (Compact Language Detector, part of Firefox and Chromium; it runs on your device and sends nothing anywhere) and with your dictionaries. If the sentence around the selection is in the pair's target language, or a dictionary of another language has the word and the pair's dictionaries do not, the model is skipped: the bubble shows the entries from that language's dictionary, or a note that no such dictionary is installed; reading aloud uses that language; nothing is saved automatically. The text of the line under such a word is now "Will be saved under the active language pair: ...". What is given to the detector is described in the privacy policy and in the question about language detection below.
The rows in the toolbar popup no longer move under the cursor. The site switch is shown from the first moment and filled in once the page's data has been read, instead of appearing a moment later and pushing the rows below down, which could tick a checkbox instead of opening the settings.
Improved
With the translation model off, the bubble now shows "Looking it up..." while the dictionaries are searched, as it shows "Translating..." with a model. Until now the bubble opened with only its buttons, and the entries could appear after a few seconds when the extension's background process had been stopped in the meantime.
Fixed
With the translation model off, a selected word is now looked up first in your dictionaries for the language pair, and in the language declared by the page only when those dictionaries do not have the word. Sites displayed in another language (for example Mastodon with a Polish interface) declare the language of their menus, not of their posts, so an English word on such a site was looked up in Polish and the bubble showed that there was no Polish dictionary. A Polish word on a Polish page is still found in your Polish dictionaries. The "No dictionary for ... yet" line shows the pair's language, the "Will be saved under ..." line is shown only when a dictionary of another language had the word, and reading aloud uses the language of the dictionary that had the word; a longer selection is read in the pair's language.
Improved
Switched-off sites can be added by hand: in the settings, under "Switched-off sites", type a site's address (or paste the full address of a page) and press Add. The section also has an explanation of when the popup has no switch: with "Use without a translation model" and "No bubble when selecting text" both on, nothing happens on ordinary pages, so there is nothing to switch off. www.example.org and example.org now count as one site; a subdomain such as news.example.org is a separate site.
Fixed
The re/read entry in the right-click menu is now created at every browser start, not only at installation, so it is present after an update done by replacing the extension's files (the zip from GitHub for Chromium browsers).
New
A dictionary can be added from a link. In the settings, under "Add a dictionary from a link", paste the address of a StarDict dictionary packed as a .zip file (for example one of the sources listed under Questions on the re/read page), choose the languages and press Download. The extension downloads the archive, unpacks it and adds the dictionary with the same checks as for files chosen by hand; nothing has to be unpacked or picked, which helps most on a phone or a tablet. The extension connects to that address once, when the button is pressed, and sends none of your data; only https addresses can be used.
Two more ways to open the reader on a computer, for those who have not pinned the toolbar button. The right-click menu on any web page has a re/read entry with "Read this page in the reader" and "Offline reading list". The bubble over a selected word or phrase has a third icon after the speaker and the copy icon: a page, which opens the page in the reader. Both do what the toolbar popup and the Alt+Shift+R shortcut already did; nothing else changes. The right-click entry needs a new permission, contextMenus, which the browser grants without asking; it adds the two rows and reads nothing from the page.
Improved
With a translation model on, the bubble over a selected word or phrase shows the translated sentence and the dictionary entries at once; until now they appeared only after a press on More (with the model off, the entries were already shown at once). Nothing extra is downloaded or computed: both were already prepared together with the translation. The More button is now labelled Less and hides them, and a new setting, "Show the sentence and dictionary entries right away", restores the short bubble. The setting is on for everyone, existing installations included, because a translation model often translates a single word wrongly and the dictionary definitions were shown only after an extra press. The bubble over an already saved phrase is unchanged.
The settings page now has a note on a weakness of translation models: in the Translation models section there is information that a single word on its own is often translated wrongly (the result is cut short, or is a word that does not exist) and that for single words the dictionaries in the section below are the better source.
Improved
An article from the offline reading list has a Delete button in its own view, whether it was opened from the list or directly from a page. Before, a page saved by default showed an "In the reading list" label instead, and the way to delete it was hard to find. A second press on Delete shows the question "Sure?" everywhere, and Delete is also shown under the last line of the article, next to Mark as read. After Delete the list is always shown again.
Fixed
A page deleted from the reading list and later opened in the reader again by hand is saved by default again, according to the setting. Only after a reload of the reader tab is the earlier decision not to save still applied.
Fixed
The Download pictures row remained in the reader's menu after leaving an article: over the offline reading list and the highlights page the menu still showed the last article's pictures and their count. The row is now hidden together with the article and shown again with the next one, with that article's own state.
New
The pictures of a book added from an EPUB file are kept: they are read from the file when the book is added and shown in the text; nothing is downloaded from the network. The list shows how many pictures a book has and how much space they take; the menu over the book has a Remove pictures row, which deletes the pictures and keeps the book.
Improved
The pins at the ends of the active highlight are handles: drag one to make the highlight shorter or longer, word by word, also across paragraphs. Before, a highlight could only be extended. On a phone the buttons of the highlight's toolbar have the size of the header's buttons, so they fit in one row at a larger font size.
On a page where only the reader is on, the bubble under a selected phrase shows two buttons: Read in the reader, filled, and Open the offline reading list, outlined. Before, the second one was plain text and was hard to recognise as a button. Esc closes the bubble; on a touch screen the bubble is opened below the phrase, away from the system's copy bar.
Fixed
Some pages were opened in the reader with the message "There was no article to find on that page" although the browser's own reader view could show them, for example every article on goodereader.com. Their HTML has a noscript block nested inside another, and the article text was dropped before the page was passed to the reader; the reader now receives the page exactly as the browser has it.
New
Full screen in the reader's menu: the browser's bars are hidden (on Firefox for Android the address bar and Android's status bar) and the article takes the whole screen until you press Back or Esc. Made for e-readers, where pages are turned with keys and the address bar was never hidden automatically.
New
Custom CSS: a field at the end of the settings page for your own CSS rules for the bubble, the reader page and the toolbar popup; never for the pages you read and never for the settings page itself, so a wrong rule can always be undone there. Rules that would load anything from the network are rejected. The settings page has links to the extension's stylesheets for the installed version; element names are kept between releases where possible.
Improved
In the bubble, a line separates one dictionary from the next, with more space around it; the space grows with the bubble's text size.
With dictionaries only and no meaning chosen, pressing Save shows "Press a meaning to save it" in the bubble; before, nothing happened.
Error messages on the extension's pages are shown in a frame with a coloured bar, so they are not mistaken for plain text.
Fixed
A bubble opened above a word remains above it after pressing a meaning or Save; before, an added line could move the bubble below the word and scroll the page.
New
Vocabulary and dictionaries work without a translation model: turn on "Use without a translation model" in the settings, and on ordinary pages the bubble shows dictionary meanings; press one to save it, or Edit to type your own.
Footnotes in EPUB books: tap the number and the note is shown in a small card next to it. Books imported before this version need to be imported again for this.
The Highlights page exports the highlights with their notes to a .json file and imports them again: into the same articles, and into a book imported again from the same EPUB. A highlight whose text has moved is found by its quote.
Improved
A font of your own: type the name of any font installed on the device in the settings, and the reader's Aa panel lists it as Custom. The bubble uses the reader's theme (dark, sepia), and a bookmark tab at the edge of the reader's bar hides and shows the bar.
Every import (articles, highlights, saved phrases) adds only what is missing; importing the same file twice duplicates nothing.
Fixed
Reading aloud used a voice of the wrong language on some pages and with Brave's fingerprinting protection on; WikDict's source annotations are no longer shown in dictionary entries.
New
re/read is out: a browser extension for reading in a language you are learning, in Firefox (desktop and Android) and in Chrome, Brave and Edge. Select a word or a phrase to see its translation in a bubble, save it, and it is underlined on every page where it appears. Translation works offline with Mozilla's Bergamot models, dictionaries in StarDict format can be used as well, and a reader mode opens any page or an EPUB book as a clean article with an offline reading list. No account, no server: nothing you read, select or save leaves your device.
Fixed
Fixed dialogs being cut off by the phone's system bars. A tall dialog could put its header and close button behind the status bar and its footer behind the gesture bar, leaving no way to close it. Dialogs are now centered and sized within the area the system bars leave free.
Fixed the back gesture closing the app instead of the dialog on top of it. Back now closes the front-most dialog, menu or list first, and only navigates back once nothing is open on top of the screen.
New
Added account-wide sync of the automatic-backup recovery phrase. The phrase is now stored with your account, encrypted end-to-end like your notes, so every device you log into uses the same phrase, it survives logging out, and a phrase from an older install is adopted automatically. The written-down phrase remains the only way to restore a backup.
Added a reminder for overdue automatic backups. Backups can only run while the app is open, so when the app has not been opened past the configured backup interval, a local notification asks to open it. The reminder is scheduled entirely on the device, is replaced on every backup run, and stays silent as long as the app is used regularly; denying the notification permission only mutes the reminder, backups are unaffected.
Improved
Sped up app start and sync bookkeeping on large accounts: note content is now stored separately from note metadata in the local database, so building the note list, counting pending changes and sync reconciliation no longer read every note's full content. On accounts with thousands of notes this removes tens of megabytes of work from every cold start. Existing notes are migrated in the background after the update; nothing changes in how notes look or sync.
Fixed
Fixed the “Building your local database” banner flashing on every launch even though the local database was already built - it now appears only when the database is actually empty (the true first sync). Status banners also slide in and out smoothly instead of snapping the layout.
Fixed the Android app's cold start showing a white flash and a second loading screen before content appeared. The system splash now keeps its background consistent with dark mode and stays up until the app is ready to paint, then fades directly into the populated interface.
Improved
Improved how quickly edits from your other devices show up. Notes now refresh when you return to the app and as you move around it - opening a note, switching folders or sections - instead of only every few minutes, so a change made on another device appears within seconds of using the app rather than after a wait. Only what changed is fetched, so this stays fast even on large accounts.
Fixed
Fixed rare cases, when the same account is used on more than one device, where a change could be lost or undone during sync: archiving, restoring, or emptying the trash on one device could revert an edit just made to that note on another device; a note trashed on one device could come back if it still had unsynced edits; and a note that briefly failed to sync could be skipped by later updates. Multi-device sync now resolves these correctly.
Improved
Improved creating a note: a new, empty note now opens with the editor focused, so you can start typing right away without clicking into it first. Opening an existing note still leaves the editor unfocused, so it renders cleanly and the on-screen keyboard stays down until you tap in.
Fixed
Fixed Live preview showing raw Markdown on a note's first line before the editor was focused, so a note starting with bold or another marker briefly revealed its symbols the moment it was opened. The formatting now stays rendered until you place the cursor in the editor, where the line you are editing reveals its Markdown as before.
Fixed Ctrl/Cmd+B toggling the notes sidebar instead of applying bold in the editor. The shortcut now bolds the selected text as expected, and toggles the sidebar only when the editor is not focused.
Improved
Improved the first sync and large imports: folders, tags and saved searches are now written in batches, which is faster and uses less memory, especially on Android.
Fixed
Fixed folders and their subfolders silently disappearing from the folder tree when two devices moved folders into a loop at the same time - the app now detects and repairs the loop during sync.
Fixed a rare data-loss window where unsynced offline edits could be discarded when sync ran while the app was still locked.
Fixed folder reordering and moves occasionally snapping back when a sync ran at the same moment.
Fixed folder-tree touch gestures getting stuck after an accidental multi-finger touch, and moving a folder now shows a clear message when its target changed in the meantime.
Fixed import and export error messages appearing in Polish regardless of the app language.
Fixed the automatic-backup folder permission lingering in Android system settings after signing out - it is now released together with the backup configuration.
New
Added manual folder ordering: a sort menu in the Folders panel header switches between Alphabetical and Custom order. In custom order, folders can be dragged between rows with an insertion line showing where they land, and each folder's menu gains Move up and Move down. The arrangement is stored end-to-end encrypted like the rest of your settings and follows you across devices.
Added long-press drag for folders on touch screens: hold a folder row briefly, then drag it into another folder, out to the top level, or between rows when custom order is on, with the same drop indicators as on desktop. Pausing over a collapsed folder springs it open so the drop can land inside, and dragging near the list's edge scrolls it.
Improved
Improved deleting a folder that contains many notes: the dialog now shows live progress, first through the notes and then through the folder tree itself, instead of sitting frozen until the deletion finishes.
Improved restoring an encrypted backup with a recovery phrase typed from paper: numbering, capital letters, extra spaces, or line breaks no longer fail as a wrong password. The input is still tried exactly as typed first, so a password that merely looks like a phrase keeps working.
Improved the optional passcode that locks local-only data: repeated wrong attempts now face growing on-device delays with a visible countdown, the minimum length is enforced when setting or changing the passcode, and easy-to-guess choices such as repeated or sequential digits get a warning while typing. Enabling the passcode also verifies that the unprotected key was fully removed from the device before reporting success.
Fixed
Fixed a sync race where a note, folder, tag, or saved search created while a sync refresh was already running could be wrongly treated as deleted on the server and removed locally, only to reappear on a later sync. Removals during a refresh are now limited to items already known before it started.
Fixed folders, tags, notes, and saved searches whose data cannot be decrypted (a corrupted record, or data written under a different account's key) rendering as blank rows, with the same errors repeating in the console after every sync. They now show a Cannot decrypt placeholder with an explanation. Folders and tags stay browsable, since their contents are intact and only the name is unreadable, and offer Rename, which repairs the entry by re-encrypting the name; notes and saved searches offer Delete, and an unreadable note can no longer be opened, protecting its stored content from being overwritten.
Fixed folders nested under another folder being impossible to move back to the top level. Every folder menu now has a Move to… action with a Top level target, which also makes folders movable on touch devices, and dropping a dragged folder onto empty space in the Folders panel moves it to the top level.
Fixed two-factor verification accepting a code without a fresh password check: the code step is now bound to a short-lived, single-use challenge issued when the password is verified, so a code alone can never complete a sign-in. An expired challenge returns sign-in to the password step with a clear message.
Fixed API endpoints accepting the long-lived refresh token where the short-lived access token was required. Every authenticated endpoint now demands a real access token, so the rotation, reuse detection, and sign-out revocation that guard refresh tokens can no longer be bypassed.
Fixed importing an encrypted backup that belongs to a different account proceeding silently and filling the account with unreadable entries that fail to sync. The import now stops with a clear message pointing to the portable backup, the format made for moving data between accounts, matching the guard re/task already has.
Fixed two issues when signing in to an account while local-only data was in use. re/task now closes out the local session properly, so the account's first sync no longer stalls until a page reload and a ghost local session no longer resurfaces after signing out. And re/notes no longer uploads notes still encrypted under the abandoned local key when the sign-in happened in re/task, which could leave permanently unreadable entries on the account.
Fixed
Fixed notes that could get stuck syncing, shown as a pending count that never cleared, after a folder they were in was deleted - including a folder removed on another device. The affected notes now finish uploading and move to All Notes.
Improved
Improved saved searches with an Edit query action, on the saved-search menu in the Search section and on smart folders pinned in the folder tree, that opens a dialog to change the search text and whether it searches note content. The edited query is re-encrypted on the device, so the server still only holds ciphertext, and a smart folder open in the main list now refreshes in place when its query changes. Saving a new search from the Search section also clears the box so the new entry appears in the saved-searches list instead of hiding behind the results, and a saved-search or folder row keeps a subtle highlight while its menu is open.
Improved
Improved smart folders, the saved searches pinned in the folder tree, to open in the main list like a folder instead of jumping to the Search section. The saved query becomes the list's filter while the folder tree stays in view, and the list's Search notes box narrows within the smart folder's results. On mobile a smart folder opens as its own list view.
New
Added a dedicated Shares section that replaces the Active shares pop-up with a list-and-detail layout, like Starred. Selecting a share opens a panel with a preview of the shared snapshot, the link to reveal, copy, or send through the device's share sheet, the open count and a relative expiry such as in 6 days, and a permanent Revoke behind a confirmation. From its menu the frozen snapshot can be exported or copied as Markdown, or the live note it was created from can be opened, with a clear message when that note was deleted or trashed. The list adds search and sorting, marks a note that has changed since it was shared, and tells apart several links for the same note by a position badge and each snapshot's date. Previews and Markdown use the snapshot already on the device, so nothing is requested from the server.
Added a collapsible note list on desktop for focusing on the open note: a toggle at the left edge of the note header, or Ctrl/Cmd+B, hides the list while the icon rail stays in place. The list comes back on its own whenever no note is open, and its collapsed state is remembered per device.
Added the option to dock the note outline beside the editor on desktop, instead of the overlay panel that closed on any outside click. Once pinned, the outline stays in view while you read or edit, docking for notes that have headings and hiding for those that do not; the choice is remembered per device. On mobile the outline stays a drawer.
Added pinning a saved search to the top level of the folder tree as a smart folder, alongside pinning one inside a folder. A no:folder search pinned at the top, for instance, works as an unfiled-notes view without creating a real folder. Smart folders show above the folder list, and the pin is end-to-end encrypted like the rest of the saved search.
Added no:folder and no:tag search operators for finding notes that are not in any folder or have no tags. They match on metadata alone, so they run on the instant-search path without decrypting note contents, and combine and negate like the other operators.
Improved
Improved the per-note share dialog to match the new Shares section: revoking a link, which is permanent, now asks for confirmation; the decryption-key caution appears under a revealed link and right after a link is created; and a badge flags a snapshot whose note has changed since it was shared.
Improved the header on mobile into one compact app bar shared by every note-list view: the re/notes logo on All Notes and a single title on Starred, Journal, Active shares, and Trash, with each view's actions in a consistent place and the count, sort, and search controls below it. The desktop layout is unchanged.
Fixed
Fixed bulk actions being unreachable from search results: the multiselect toolbar (move, pin, star, delete) now appears in the Search view as it does in the other lists, so matching notes can be selected and acted on together. The count and tools row also stays above the search box in every view, instead of changing position when Search is opened.
Fixed the Folders view opening to an empty pane on desktop: entering Folders now reopens the last folder viewed in this session, or the first folder, instead of a select-or-create screen with nothing to act on. Mobile still opens the full folder tree.
Fixed the last-synced footer and the note-list timestamps ignoring the 12-hour or 24-hour time-format setting and following the browser instead, so a 24-hour setting no longer showed times like 01:05 PM. They now follow both the time-format and date-format choices in Settings.
New
Added editing tools to tables in Live Preview: toolbars to insert or delete columns and rows, and to set a column's alignment (left, center, or right). They appear when you place the cursor in a table - one above the active column, one beside the active row - and the active column is highlighted, since alignment in Markdown tables applies to the whole column. Rows could previously only be added by pressing Tab or Enter at the end of the table.
Improved
Improved Live Preview tables to show formatting inside cells - bold, italic, strikethrough, inline code, and links - instead of the raw Markdown, matching how the same table looks in Preview and Markdown source. A cell switches to its raw text while you are editing it, and the formatting toolbar and the Ctrl/Cmd+B and Ctrl/Cmd+I shortcuts now work inside a cell.
Improved how new notes are created. The duplicate New Note button in the note-list header was removed, leaving one always-available New Note in the icon rail with a clearer icon. Folders now also offer New note in this folder - from the folder header, the folder's ⋯ menu, and the right-click and ⋯ menus in the folder tree - so a note can be created directly in the folder you want.
Fixed
Fixed editing a Live Preview table that had an empty cell shifting the other cells in that row by one column.
New
Added a Behavior settings page gathering editing preferences in one place: the view an existing note opens in - Preview, Edit, or Split - remembered per device, and a Confirm before deleting toggle for single notes, on by default. The editor mode setting (Live Preview or Markdown source) now lives here too. Find them under Settings, Behavior.
Added desktop conveniences in the browser app: right-click a note, folder, or tag to open the same actions as the ⋯ menu, and press Ctrl/Cmd+E to switch the open note between editing and preview. The editor-mode switch in the note header now applies only to the open note and resets when you move on, so an accidental change to raw Markdown no longer affects your default.
Added automated encrypted backups in the Android and iOS apps. re/notes writes a daily backup to a folder you choose on the device, with a manual Back up now and automatic cleanup of older copies. Each backup is sealed with a 12-word recovery phrase, separate from your account password and kept in the device's secure storage, so it restores into any account - even a brand-new one - through the existing Import screen. Encryption happens on the device and the files stay in your chosen folder.
Improved
Improved syncing for accounts with thousands of notes: changes are now fetched in pages with a real progress count (for example 320 / 2000) instead of a spinner that looked stuck. The first sync on a new device also shows a progress banner while your encrypted notes download.
Fixed
Fixed the Android and iOS apps stalling - or, on Android, running low on memory and reloading - while first syncing a large account. Notes are now saved in one batch and appear as soon as they download, rather than waiting behind version-history loading. Version history is fetched when you open the history panel.
Fixed an accidental tap on New Note leaving a blank note behind in your list. A new note now stays on the device until you change something and is discarded if you leave it untouched, so it is never saved or synced empty.
Fixed duplicate periodic folders - several Daily Notes folders and the like - that a sync timing issue could create, and prevented new ones from forming. When duplicates already exist, a prompt offers to merge them into one folder per kind; notes are moved rather than deleted, and the change can be undone from version history and Trash.
Fixed deletes and restores not syncing in the Android and iOS apps: removing a note, folder, tag, or saved search, or restoring a note from Trash, worked on the device but was rejected by the server and could reappear on the next sync. These now sync reliably.
Fixed two issues when opening notes through internal links or the back and forward trail: the actions menu (⋯) and the created and updated dates could disappear when a search or filter was active, and in-note Back could jump to an unrelated note instead of closing the note to where you opened it.
Fixed the first edit of a note replacing its earlier state in version history. The version from before your first change in a session is now kept, so you can still return to how a note looked when you opened it.
New
Added find-in-note search to re/notes, opened from the note menu or with Ctrl/Cmd+F: a live match count, previous and next navigation, and a case-sensitivity toggle. It works in the editor, split, and preview modes and runs entirely on the decrypted note in memory, so nothing is sent to the server.
Added a portable, password-protected backup that restores on any account, in both apps. Export decrypts your data and re-wraps it under a password (PBKDF2 600K + AES-256-GCM); import unlocks it with that password and re-encrypts everything under the destination account's key. Both steps happen in the browser, so the server still only holds ciphertext. Notes backups keep full fidelity - pins, stars, tags, folders, periodic notes, and timestamps. Importing the same file again adds a fresh copy rather than updating in place, and the import step now says so.
Added back and forward navigation across internal links in re/notes: after following links from one note to another, step back and forward through the trail with Alt+Left and Alt+Right, the header chevrons, or the mobile back gesture. Going back restores the previous note's scroll position. The trail is kept in memory only and cleared on lock or sign-out.
Fixed
Fixed internal links in the notes Preview showing the linked note's current title instead of the label you wrote; custom link text and heading-anchor links now read as authored, matching Live Preview and exported Markdown.
Fixed importing an account-key Encrypted Backup on a different account failing silently - that backup can only be read on the account that created it. The import now stops with a clear message pointing to the portable backup, which is the one that moves data between accounts.
Fixed Polish text showing in other languages across re/task's data settings: the decrypted-export warning, the export and import buttons, and the file picker. The import summary now also fills in the real counts of imported lists, tasks, and subtasks.
New
Added a document outline panel that lists the open note's headings; selecting one scrolls the note to that heading. It opens from the outline icon in the note header. Headings now also carry anchors, so in-note links like [Section](#section) jump to the matching heading, and a link to another note can target a specific heading.
Added an in-note table of contents: insert it from the note's actions menu to build a linked list of the note's headings, refreshed in one tap when they change. Its links reuse the same heading anchors, so they also work in a shared note and in PDF and Markdown exports.
Improved
Improved Markdown import link rewriting to preserve heading anchors: a link such as [[Doc#Heading]] now points to that heading in the imported note, not just the note's top.
New
Added a What's new dialog that summarizes each release in plain language, grouped into New, Improved, and Fixed. It opens automatically after an update and is available any time from Settings, Information. The notes ship inside the app and are checked on the device, so the server is never told what you have already seen.
Fixed
Fixed the Encryption X-Ray, the split view that shows your note beside the ciphertext stored on the server, drifting off-screen: the divider slid out of view on long notes and the panel sat half off-screen on short ones. It now stays pinned to the visible editor area, with snap points, keyboard control, and a remembered split position. Opens from the lock icon in the note toolbar.
New
Added a linked-notes panel that gathers a note's backlinks and outgoing links in one place, flags mutual links, and marks broken ones. Opens from the links icon in the note toolbar, or the note's overflow menu on mobile.
Added an option to rewrite inter-note links during Markdown import: relative Markdown links and Obsidian-style [[wikilinks]] become working in-app links. It is a checkbox in the folder-import dialog, off by default.
New
Added one-way folder sync on Android and iOS: a chosen folder of Markdown files on the device is imported as notes and re-synced as those files change. The folder stays the source: notes are never written back, and removing a file on disk leaves the existing note in place.
Improved
Sped up sync on Android and iOS by fetching version history only for notes that actually changed, instead of for every note: less data transferred and shorter syncs.
Fixed
Fixed the two-factor code field on iOS accepting only five of the six digits.
Improved
Improved tag autocomplete with keyboard navigation (arrow keys to move through suggestions, Enter to pick); it now also clears the typed text once a tag is chosen.
Improved
Improved how sync failures surface: when the server rejects a change (for example a validation error or a size limit), the affected note or task now shows a clear sync error on that item instead of failing silently.
Fixed
Fixed large notes that exceeded the server's request-size limit and could not sync; the limit was raised so they upload reliably.
Fixed the task detail view leaving a task interactive after it was moved to trash; it now returns to the previous list. The search toggle is also larger and easier to tap on phones.
New
Added a local-only mode that runs fully offline with no account, keeping data on the device. It can later be upgraded to a synced, end-to-end encrypted account without losing anything.
Added an optional passcode for local-only data, putting a lock on top of on-device storage when no account is in use.
New
Added one-way folder sync in desktop browsers: a folder of Markdown files on disk is linked and its changes are re-imported into your notes automatically (disk to app), nested paths included. Uses the File System Access API in Chrome and Edge.
Added a heart icon in the navigation bar that links to ways to support the project's development.
New
Added saved searches: any query can be stored as a named view that re-runs live each time it is opened, rather than capturing a snapshot. Saved views appear in the search panel and can be pinned into the folder tree as smart folders.
Added native sharing on Android and iOS: shared links open straight in the app, and a note can be sent out through the device's system share sheet.
Improved
Improved periodic-note sync to reconcile duplicates: when the same daily, weekly, or monthly note was created on two offline devices, the copies now merge into one.
Improved Live Preview rendering: a line of three dashes (---) now shows as a horizontal divider.
Improved code blocks with a one-tap copy button and a selectable last line.
Improved
Extended signed-in sessions to last up to 30 days before a password is needed again.
New
Added push notifications for task reminders, so a reminder can reach you even when the app is closed.
Improved
Improved visibility in Windows High Contrast (forced-colors) mode: selected items no longer blend into the background.
New
Added copy and Markdown (.md) download to read-only shares, so anyone viewing a shared note or list can take its contents with them.
New
Added read-only sharing behind a private link. The snapshot stays end-to-end encrypted: the decryption key rides in the link's # fragment, which browsers never send to the server, so the server only ever stores ciphertext.
New
Added multi-select for notes, so several can be moved, deleted, or reorganized in a single action.
New
Added shared unlock across re/notes and re/task: the two apps use one end-to-end encryption key, so unlocking either one covers both with a single password.
New
Added interactive checkboxes inside notes: task items that can be ticked off in place.
New
Added daily, weekly, and monthly notes, reachable from the left icon rail, with a calendar view for moving between dates.
Added syncing of app preferences across devices (theme, language, date and time format, notification and editor settings), end-to-end encrypted like the rest of your data.
New
Added a query language to search: field operators (tag:, folder:, list:, due:, created:, modified:, is:, has:), quoted phrases, negation, and OR/AND grouping. It all runs on the device against decrypted data: the server never sees a query.
New
Added reminder-timing controls in Settings, Notifications: a lead time for how far ahead a reminder fires, and a default time of day for reminders that carry only a date.
New
Added inline image rendering in the Live Preview editor, with click-to-load: a remote image is not fetched (and your IP is not exposed to its host) until you choose to load it.
Improved
Switched the default editor mode to Live Preview, with a one-time intro for going back to plain Markdown.
New
Added visual editing of Markdown tables, cell by cell, in the Live Preview editor.
Improved
Improved Live Preview rendering of code blocks, which now display with syntax highlighting.
New
Added a Live Preview editing mode that renders Markdown formatting inline as you type, instead of showing raw syntax.
Improved
Extended folder search to include everything in a folder's subfolders, not just its top level.
Improved
Improved the first sign-in on a device with clear download progress while the encrypted data is fetched.
New
Added PDF export for notes through the system print dialog.
New
Added nested folders, so notes can be organized in a hierarchy instead of a single flat list.
New
Added Markdown import for a folder of files, with control over where they land and how duplicate names are handled.
Fixed
Fixed offline sessions not restoring after a restart, and corrected the sync indicator to reflect real connectivity instead of just the browser's online flag.
New
Released re/notes and re/task publicly under the AGPL-3.0 license, after nearly a year of private development: end-to-end encrypted notes and tasks.
