What changed

One Line, the note app · on the web

If the screen looks different from yesterday, the reason is here. Changes to the iOS app are in “What’s New” on the App Store.

2026-09-21

You can now edit a note as raw Markdown. A “Markdown” option joined the view picker above a note. The editor normally hides markers like **bold** and ## and shows the result; this view hides nothing and stands the text exactly as written. The type is monospaced, so the cells of a | table line up.
The view picker now reads Read · Edit · Side by side · Markdown. That is the order of how much each one does. Opening a note lands on Read, so the option you are standing on comes first.
Switching views no longer moves the text. Going to “Edit” dropped the title by 10 pixels, and “Side by side” widened the page and shifted it left — you had to find your line again. All four views now stand at the same width in the same place.
Clicking the text while reading always opens Edit. The chosen view is remembered, so once you picked Markdown, every later click landed you in a screen full of markers. That gesture means “I want to fix this word.”

2026-09-20

Rows in the note list no longer overlap. Writing or editing one note made the rows below it ride 18 pixels up and cover the second line of the row above. Once it went wrong, it did not recover on that screen.
The themes were redrawn, and there are four — Apple style, Google style, Note, and Dark. The three light themes used to share one ink colour and only change the background, so “Paper” put cold navy text on a warm ground and looked muddy, while “One Line blue” was nearly indistinguishable from Light. Each now has its own ink, line weight, and corner radius. Whatever you had chosen stays chosen; only the names changed.
The Notes screen gained a dashboard. Most-used hashtags, pinned notes, most recent, longest untouched, most attachments, and bars for the last twelve months. “Dashboard” at the top of the left list brings you back to it any time.
The note list and the attachment list stand as cards. They are denser than the old one-row-per-line board, so more fits on a screen.
Today lifts one “Next up” onto a blue panel. If you note a travel time, it works out when to leave for you — “2:00 PM · 40 min travel” becomes “Leave at 1:20 PM”.
Writing “40 min travel” now stores those 40 minutes. It used to be misread as the length of the event and thrown away. Travel times set on your phone also survive an edit made on the web.
Reading one line matches the app again — all 251 reference cases pass. Nine more Korean action endings are recognised as tasks.
Appearance changes in one step on the desktop too. The phone sheet had view, density, theme, and language side by side, but the desktop menu was missing theme, so the same app made you open Settings on one of them.
On a phone, the current month's name no longer disappears from the activity bars.
Brand assets are collected in one place — icons, colours, screenshots, and video, available one by one or as four bundles.

2026-09-19 (night)

The “System” theme is selectable on a phone. All five themes sat on one line, so on a narrow screen the fifth was pushed outside the screen — with no horizontal scroll either, which made it a four-option setting in practice. The row now wraps and all five are visible.
The trial strip now reads in full on a phone. Only “Trying it out — anything you write…” was visible, with the rest cut off, because the button on the right took all the room. On narrow screens the button is now “Sign in” and the sentence is shorter; wide screens are unchanged.
Next year's dates now show the year. A date written without one that has already passed is read as next year (“9/15” written on 19 September means 2027), but the screen showed no year, so there was no way to tell that an item under “Coming up” was a year away.
When a line is nothing but a date and the word “deadline”, the title is now that word alone. The title used to be the whole line, so the list said the same date twice — once in the title and once in the date column. Lines where only a particle would be left keep their original text.
The trash is now one place shared with the app. From version 1.7 of the iOS app, what you delete on your phone lands in the web trash too, and you can restore it from either side. The web used to say “they go from your phone right away; restoring happens on the web” — that sentence and Article 4 of the privacy policy were both updated. The period (14 days) and the storage location are unchanged.
Reading a line matches the app again. The app ran 68 real-world lines by job function, fixed what broke, and grew the answer set to 244 cases. The web passes all 244.
The widest one was the Korean word for “deadline”: it ended in a syllable the past-tense rule claimed, so the date was thrown away entirely — “deadline on the 30th of this month” became an undated note. It is now a task with a due date.
Also newly read: several weekdays at once (“every Tue Thu”, “every Mon Wed Fri” — only the first was read and the rest stayed in the title), “every Tuesday” in its other Korean form, “weekends”, “the 1st of next month”, “next month” on its own, and “the last day of every month”. What cannot be stored no longer litters the title (a date range or a fortnightly interval is dropped cleanly).
A bare hour with no am/pm now reads as afternoon (the app changed this answer). “3 tomorrow” is 3pm, not 3am, and “call at 3” is this afternoon rather than tomorrow. Hours 8–11 still try the morning first and fall to the afternoon if it has passed.
Section labels now follow the app's type spec — Korean subheadings are not letter-spaced.

2026-09-19 (evening)

The page no longer jumps. Opening any screen used to shove everything down once the content arrived — the blue signed-out strip and the page width were both decided too late. The browser measured that as 0.19 (under 0.1 counts as good); it is now 0.
Reading and editing swap in place. Pressing Edit used to grow the top bar by a row, shrink the title from 34px to 22px and move the text 12px sideways. All three now hold still. The buttons below hold their places too — Archive and Delete on the left, and the primary button on the right reading either Edit or Done.
What you write on Today now shows up in Notes. Anything typed there used to be frozen as a task, so the notes screen, the drawer and the full list all said “Nothing written yet”. Now it splits the way you wrote it — “buy milk” is a task, a retro draft is a note, and “yesterday 2pm sales call” is a record of something past.
Tag counts now match the list. A chip saying “#marketing 1” that opened onto nothing is fixed. When there are no notes but there are tasks, it says so and links to Today.
The handles beside each line (＋ and ⋮⋮) are gone. What ＋ did is still there: type / in the text, or use the toolbar above.
Titles are no longer clipped on Today's time axis. A 30-minute event drew its title half-cut under the time — time and title now sit side by side. Undated tasks used to pile up in the all-day row; three now show and the rest fold away.
Clutter removed — the line that repeated a count already in the header, the “written 9/19” on every row, the two hints that stayed after you had finished writing, the “Attachments” heading with nothing under it, “1 earlier version” on a note never edited, the date and time chips left under an empty box (they now say which note they belong to), and the toast that covered the “Sign in and move to your account” button.
The keyboard reaches the page. All 42 cells of the left calendar were in the Tab order, so it took 55 presses to reach the writing box. It now takes one, and arrow keys move inside the calendar.
The writing surface has a shorter measure (1,280px → 1,120px). Settings lays out in two columns on wide windows, and the “Save this filter” button is gone from the note list.

2026-09-19

The notes screen is now built around the list. The summary cards (writing, tags, attachments) became a collapsed header you open when you need it, and the list of notes sits right below. Counts stay visible while closed — “Writing 17”.
Clicking a row opens that note on the right — you read it without losing the list. “Full screen” there gives the note the whole page, and “Edit” opens its editor. Esc closes it.
Below the list, photos appear as a grid (up to twelve; nothing is drawn if there are none). Recordings and documents are counted in the “See all in Attachments” link.
The “Recent notes” card is gone — the list right below it was doing the same job twice.
In the left menu, Settings moved into the account row (it was already there, so the same destination had two doors). A divider now separates Attachments from Trash — above is what you use, below is what you deleted.
On the notes screen the search drawer is now always expanded, and collapsing it is gone. Narrowed down it showed only a date and a few characters of each title, which is not enough to do the drawer's job — moving to a neighbouring note without losing your place. Drag its edge to change the width. On narrow screens the handle above a note opens it as an overlay.
Wide screens no longer waste their sides. Today, Calendar and Attachments grow with the window (once at 1,600px and again at 2,100px), and Today's time axis grows with them — until now even a 27-inch display showed a 704px strip down the middle.
The note list and the editor grew too. The board uses the whole window (on very large displays it stops short so titles and dates don't drift apart), and the writing surface went from 880px to 1,280px. If the longer measure bothers you, use “Side by side” — two columns fill the window while each line stays short.
Settings now lays out in two columns (1,600px and up). Cards sit beside each other instead of leaving the sides empty — splitting the column was the way to use the width without pushing each label away from its switch.
There is now a “Motion” setting (Settings → Appearance): match system, on, or reduced.
It used to look only at your device's “reduce motion” preference. But turning off animation effects in Windows or macOS sends the browser that same signal — so people who switched it off to make their desktop feel faster lost every animation in the app. Choose “On” and it moves regardless; choose “Reduced” and it stays calm even where the device does not ask for it. Choose nothing and it follows the device, as before.
The calm setting is not completely still — only the movement is dropped; screens still fade as they change (motion sickness comes from movement, not from brightness). This choice stays on this device.
Screen changes now move far enough to see (12px → 32px, 0.2s → 0.26s). The direction is unchanged — later tabs come in from the right, opening a note comes up from below.

2026-09-18

The note list is now a board. Titles stack one per line with tags, attachment counts and dates on the right — more than three times as many fit on a screen. Switch to the gallery when you are looking for a photo (that button was missing from the list screen; fixed).
Editing happens in one place. Text is edited on the note's own page only — list rows and the side panel are for reading, and “Edit” there takes you to that note's editor. While the same note could be edited in four places, no one could tell which save would win.
Screens no longer snap. Tabs slide sideways, going from a list into a note moves inward, and panels fade out when they close (several used to animate open and then simply vanish). The left menu now animates its labels and width in sequence — expanding had no transition at all before.
Short waits no longer flash. Reads that finish within 0.24s show no skeleton, and content fades in when it arrives. Things you press now press in — fingers have no hover, so that is the only “I touched it” signal.
If you have Reduce Motion enabled on your device, all of the above is switched off.
Deleting asks once — “Move to trash?”. The five-second undo still appears afterwards.
The trash now has its own place in the left menu. You no longer have to open Settings to find what you deleted.
Items stay in the trash for 14 days instead of 30, and after that a job on our servers actually deletes them once a day — including photos, recordings and documents that only that copy referred to. Until now the clean-up ran only when you opened the trash screen.
Opening a note now opens it for reading. To change it, use “Edit” at the top, or click the words you want to fix and the cursor lands there.
Collapsing the note list now keeps the dates and titles — “07/19 Today…”. What used to shrink to three icons is a list again.
Collapsing the left menu keeps the collapse button and the account row where they were. They used to jump up the screen.
“Ahead” on the Today screen starts open, and up to ten tasks show without expanding even when none of them have a deadline.
The new-note screen can attach files — not just images, but PDFs and documents. Finishing says it saved, and “Done” shows the ⌘/Ctrl+Enter shortcut.
Right-clicking a row opens that row's menu — open in new tab, archive, duplicate, copy link, share, delete. Inside the writing area the browser's own menu is left alone, because spell-check and paste live there.
Pressing the ⋮⋮ handle to the left of a line opens a line menu — move up or down, duplicate, delete, turn into a heading, task or list. Dragging still moves the line. The handle no longer disappears as your mouse approaches it.
The bubble above selected text gained task, list and code block.
“Edit schedule” is gone from plain notes, which never had one. Turning a note into a task now lives in the row's “…” menu.
A read-only share link now carries the note's attachments. Up to 25MB per file, 100MB and 20 files per link; anything left out is counted for you. Revoking the link closes the attachments in the same moment.
Upload limits are written down — 25MB for photos, 100MB for other files. The 5GB per account is unchanged.
A promo code arrives as a single link: the code is filled in for you and you only press “Apply”.

2026-09-15

You can write without an account. What you write stays in that browser and moves to your account when you sign in.
Deleted items sit in the trash for 30 days — restore them under Settings → Data. “Delete everything” goes through the trash too. On the phone deleting is immediate; restoring happens on the web.
A note can be shared as a read-only link. Create it from the “…” menu and the address is copied for you; revoke it any time in Settings. Search engines are told not to index it.
Markdown (.md) files exported from another app can be imported as notes. One file becomes one note, and nothing already here is overwritten.
Something becomes an event only when you say so. Writing “gym today” no longer puts itself on the calendar.
Checking off a repeating item now tells you when the next round is, with a button to open it.
The calendar explains its colours, arrow keys move between dates, PageUp and PageDown change month, and the time axis shrinks to the hours the day actually uses.
Notes longer than 1,200 characters open in reading mode. Click the text to edit — the cursor lands where you clicked.
The notes drawer can be resized by dragging, or with the keyboard.
When a save cannot go through, the screen says where your writing is. Crossing 80% of your attachment space is announced before anything is blocked.
A “skip to content” link for keyboard users, and completed rows are now dark enough to read.
Settings → Data opens with one line about where your writing lives, and Help links to the App Store.
Three guides: how writing gets filed, phone to computer, tidying up.
Pasting an app link into a chat now shows a proper card, and the build ships 355 files instead of 554.

2026-09-10

The view controls moved to the top of the left menu, so they sit in the same place on every screen. Notes switches between list and gallery, and a list can be one, two or three columns; Calendar switches the day's entries between a list and a grid. Screens with nothing to choose do not show the row at all.
Three columns stay three columns when the side panel opens, and a chosen column count survives a change in window size.
You can download every attachment at once as a zip. File names sit on one line with their icon, and text, PDF, HTML, documents and spreadsheets open in place.
The editor hides Markdown syntax. Bold text simply looks bold, and the line your cursor is on no longer changes shape.
Today takes to-dos only and Notes takes notes only. The saved indicator sits at the right end of the composer.
Notes have no schedule, so the schedule button is disabled and says why in place.
The intro page now has a 37-second tour: one line written, and where it lands. It plays right there without leaving the page, and nothing is downloaded until you press play.
The footer now links our Instagram account.
An address that does not exist now says so, instead of returning the app shell. Plain http and www are sent to the canonical address.
Coming back is faster: the browser reuses the app files, fonts and images instead of asking for them again.

2026-09-09

The web is now free to use in full — uploading photos, recordings and files included. Each account has one storage limit; past it, everything already uploaded stays and only new files are blocked.
You can upload several photos or files at once — the upload button takes more than one now, and you can see how many of them have gone up.
Drag files anywhere onto a note and they attach, even while you are only reading it; drop them on the one-line box instead and they become a new note. Attachments go to the cloud as they are.
The sidebar now holds Files, your tags and your saved views. Files gathers recordings and documents as well as photos, and the tags you use most are at the top with their counts.
Click the text of a note and you are editing it, at the spot you clicked. For something longer, “New note” opens a blank page — the note is created on your first keystroke.
The editor has shortcuts for bold, italic and code, Enter carries lists and checkboxes on, and pasting from a web page keeps the formatting. Paste a link onto selected text and the text becomes that link.
Image links show as pictures inside the editor, and find now searches within it. The version before each save can be brought back from “Earlier versions” under the note — kept in this browser only, and cleared when you sign out.
Every row has a “⋯” menu, and the #tags in a row can be clicked. Archiving, pinning or completing several at once — and removing an attachment — can be undone for five seconds, the way deleting can.
While a screen loads it holds the shape of what is coming instead of a line of text, and tooltips tell you the shortcut.
If you have not written anything yet, three examples sit under the box — tap one and it fills the box; nothing is saved until you press Enter. Settings are now split into Account, Appearance, Data and Help.

2026-09-08

Fixed the offline badge covering the bottom tabs on phones.
Signing out now also clears the notes and drafts left in this browser.
You can now change a saved item’s date, due time and repeat on the web.
Each attachment now has a save button.
Tag autocomplete now offers tags you used on other notes.
“Reduce motion” now actually reduces motion.

2026-09-07

The icon now matches the app.
The web is no longer Pro-only — reading, writing and editing are free. Only cloud storage for attachments is Pro.
Notes can be shown in one, two or three columns, with a choice of sort order and density.
You can name and save the filter you have set.
Location is removed from photos when you upload them (on by default).
You can choose the language, theme, first day of the week and 12/24-hour clock.