Note Repo

2.7.1

November 5, 2026

• Search shows the line that matches. Each search result now previews the line with your search in it. Before, it showed the first line of that day, so a match further down never showed up.

2.7.0

November 4, 2026

• Automatic updates with your license key. Enter the license key from your Polar receipt in Note Repo → License…, or when Check for Updates… asks for it, and Note Repo installs new versions itself. The app works without a key, and a key works on 3 Macs.
• Your notes and the noterepo command are unchanged.

2.6.0

October 27, 2026

Note Repo now checks the shared app version file on flaviocopes.com and offers Open GitHub Release when a newer version is available. Download the ZIP and replace the app yourself. You can choose Later or Skip This Version.

Your notes and the noterepo CLI keep working offline. There are no purchase keys inside the app.

2.5.0

October 8, 2026

Renamed the app to Note Repo.

Existing saved data stays available. The companion command keeps its existing name. In-app update links now use the renamed repository.

2.4.0

October 7, 2026

• Star items. Hover a bullet or number and click to star the item. Click the star again to remove it. Stars stay with their items when you save, reload, or edit them with the CLI.
• View starred. The button below Today shows starred items from every day in the main feed. Links still work, and clicking a star removes it from this view. Click Today to return to the full editor.
• Spelling and grammar checks are off in the editor.
• The CLI includes "starred": true for starred items in its JSON output.

2.3.0

October 7, 2026

• X posts are links. Paste a post from X and you get the first line of its text, the same way a blog link shows its title. noterepo add does the same. The preview card is gone. A post you saved before stays as its URL until you paste the link again.

The changelog lists what changed in every release.

2.2.0

October 3, 2026

• No more security warning. The first time you opened Note Repo, macOS used to say it “could not verify Note Repo is free of malware”, and you had to click Open Anyway in System Settings. Now it opens like other apps you download: macOS asks if you’re sure you want to open an app from the internet, and you click Open.
• Nothing else changed. Your notes, the noterepo CLI and the link to it stay the same.

The changelog lists what changed in every release.

2.1.0

September 30, 2026

• Updates from inside the app. Once a day, Note Repo asks GitHub for a newer version. When there is one, it shows what’s new, and Install and Relaunch puts it in place of the old app. Note Repo → Check for Updates… checks right away.
• Several lines in one item. ⌥Return starts a new line inside the same item, instead of a new item. It’s saved as <br>, so each item is still one line of Markdown, and the noterepo CLI reads and writes it the same way.
• Search results stay in their panel. A search with many matches used to spill its results over the sidebar and the window buttons. Now they scroll inside the panel.
• The cursor on an empty item. On an empty last item, the blinking cursor was shorter than the line and sat too high. Now it lines up with the bullet.

The changelog lists what changed in every release.

2.0.0

September 30, 2026

• A native app. SwiftUI draws the window, the sidebar and search, and each day is an AppKit text view. The download went from 122 MB to 1.5 MB. On the same notes, the app uses about 70 MB of memory instead of 190 MB, in one process instead of five.
• Intel Macs. The app is universal, so it runs on Intel Macs as well as Apple silicon. It needs macOS 14 or later.
• A native noterepo. The command-line tool is now a Swift program. Its commands, options and JSON output are the same as in 1.2, and it lives in the same place inside the app, so your links and your agents’ scripts keep working.
• X post previews drawn by the app. Note Repo reads the post’s author, text, photo and counts from X’s public embed service and draws the card itself, in light and dark, instead of loading X’s embed script.
• No more Reflect importer. It was a script in the repository, not part of the app.

To move an image to another day, cut and paste it. Dragging images between days isn’t tested in the native editor yet.

The changelog lists what changed in every release.

1.2.0

September 30, 2026

• YouTube titles. Paste a YouTube link and you get the video title. It works for Shorts, youtu.be links and embed links too, and noterepo add does the same. If a video was removed or made private, the link stays as a plain URL instead of reading ”- YouTube”.
• ⌘F searches. ⌘F puts the cursor in the search field, the same as ⌘K.
• No more date picker. The sidebar has only Today and search now. Search results, ⌘D and noterepo://day/… links still take you to any day.

1.1.0

September 29, 2026

• A CLI for agents. noterepo reads and writes the same notes as the app, and every command prints JSON. An agent can add items, links and images, edit, move and remove them, fill many days at once, search, and back up or restore the whole notebook. Run noterepo help for the list.
• Live updates. Changes made with the CLI show up in the open window within a second. If you’re typing in the same day at that moment, your text and the agent’s are merged instead of one overwriting the other.
• Reddit titles. Reddit links show the post title. Links to a comment read “Comment to” followed by the post title.

1.0.0

September 29, 2026

• Opens on today, with the earlier days that have notes above it
• Bulleted, numbered, and nested lists
• Pasted links show the page title and domain
• Previews for X posts
• Images by drag and drop or paste
• Search with ⌘K, and ⌘D to jump back to today
• Light and dark appearance that follows macOS
• An importer for Reflect daily notes

Your notes stay in a SQLite file on your Mac. There are no accounts.