Changelog

All notable changes to Zorite are documented here.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning. Every tagged release also has a GitHub page with installers and the full commit log: https://github.com/packetThrower/zorite/releases.

Unreleased

[0.2.0-beta.3] - 2026-06-20

Added

WYSIWYG live editor — the note editor now renders Markdown live as you type, and is the single renderer when enabled (the default). Headings, bold / italic / strikethrough, inline code, links, wiki-links, tags, blockquotes, lists, task checkboxes, fenced code blocks, images, PDF chips, mermaid diagrams, tables, thematic rules, footnotes, reference links, and <mark> all render formatted — with the raw Markdown revealed only around the caret. No more swapping between a rendered page and a raw-text line while editing.
Tables, edited in place — type directly in cells; the /table picker offers visual designs (Grid, Striped, Header, Minimal); an alignment toolbar (left / center / right) appears in the header row; and a right-click menu inserts or deletes rows and columns.

Known issues

Deleting the last row or column of a table can drop the caret just below the table; other rows and columns are unaffected.

0.1.2 - 2026-06-15

Fixed

Windows: the app exited with an error where no graphics display was available — headless or RDP sessions, and the winget validator’s sandbox. GPUI couldn’t initialize its DirectX renderer (the desktop compositor was unreachable), so the process exited non-zero. Zorite now probes for a graphics adapter at startup and, when none is usable, shows an explanatory dialog and exits cleanly instead of erroring out. No effect on a normal desktop; macOS and Linux were unaffected.

0.1.1 - 2026-06-15

Fixed

Windows: the app would not launch on a clean install. The build linked the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime (VCRUNTIME140.dll) dynamically, so on a machine without the VC++ Redistributable zorite.exe exited immediately with 0xC0000135 (STATUS_DLL_NOT_FOUND) — no window, no error dialog from the app. The C runtime is now statically linked (+crt-static), so the binary is self-contained. This affected every Windows install path (the installer, the .msi, Scoop, and direct downloads); macOS and Linux were unaffected.

First stable release. The highlights since 0.1.0-beta.2:

Added

Whiteboards — a new freeform infinite-canvas surface (the gpui-whiteboard crate): pan/zoom, a freehand pen, shapes (rectangle, ellipse, line, arrow, diamond, triangle, rounded-rectangle, star, hexagon), on-canvas text that edits like a real text field, dropped/pasted images (rotatable in 90° steps), and page-card embeds that link to notes. Select, move, resize, and rotate one element or a multi-selection; per-element colour, fill, gradient, and opacity; stroke thickness; z-order (bring to front / send to back); snap-to-grid; and copy/cut/paste across boards and windows. Reusable templates (save a selection, stamp it from a modal gallery). Boards are first-class pages with their own Whiteboards sidebar section, searchable by title (wb: + a filter chip); the toolbar is movable and category-grouped, with tooltips, keyboard shortcuts, and optional per-board fonts.
Logseq import — File → Import from Logseq… brings a graph’s pages/, journals/, and assets into Zorite (namespaces, task markers, properties, aliases, {{embed}}/((block-ref)), and hls__* PDF-highlight pages all handled), plus whiteboards (tldraw boards → native Zorite boards, images and all) and favorites. Built as an extensible reader/engine split so other sources can be added.
Mermaid diagrams — fenced mermaid code blocks render as themed, pure-Rust diagrams; click one to expand it in a lightbox.
Find in page — search the rendered note text with match highlighting, a running count, and scroll-to-match.
Click-to-caret editing — click anywhere on a rendered page (or right-click → Edit) to drop straight into edit mode with the caret at the click.
Favorites — pin any page to a Favorites group in the sidebar (right-click → Add to favorites); persists across launches.
Tab tear-off — drag a tab to reorder it, move it to another window, or tear it off into a brand-new window, with live cross-window content sync.
Type-aware search — results span pages, PDF and image files, and whiteboards, filterable by kind.
A GPL-3.0 LICENSE.

Changed

The product is now styled Zorite (binaries and identifiers stay lowercase zorite).
The journal feed loads lazily and frees off-screen image and diagram bitmaps, keeping long feeds responsive.
Sidebar polish: collapsible sections and namespace nodes, vertical indent guides for nested pages, and accented section headers with a hairline rule.
(Windows) the title-bar light/dark toggle now works and sits opposite the window controls.

Fixed

Clicking a link in a rendered note is no longer swallowed by click-to-edit.
The slash-command menu scrolls without scrolling the page behind it, and its items are clickable (not Enter-only).
Mermaid lightbox: a tighter hit-box and Esc to close.
Logseq import splits glued image runs so each renders as its own block image.

0.1.0-beta.2 - 2026-06-08

Added

Full-text search — a trigram FTS5 index over page titles and content: the same case-insensitive substring matching as before, now indexed so it scales to many pages.
Keyboard shortcuts and menus — standard cross-platform shortcuts (New Tab ⌘/Ctrl+T, New Window ⌘/Ctrl+N, Close Tab ⌘/Ctrl+W, Settings ⌘/Ctrl+,, Quit ⌘/Ctrl+Q, and Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab to switch tabs), a native macOS menu bar, and a Settings → Keyboard reference that lists them all.
PDF table of contents — detects a PDF’s outline and shows a navigable TOC panel; in-page links inside a PDF are now clickable.
Database safety — a schema upgrade now snapshots the database to zorite.db.bak-v<N> first, runs each step inside a transaction, and surfaces a clear dialog (pointing at the backup) on failure instead of silently opening to blank notes.
Configurable list indentation for markdown (the editor and the rendered view use the same width), and <mark> text renders as a highlight.
The new-page + button now also appears in the collapsed sidebar rail.

Changed

Per-keystroke autosave now uses SQLite’s WAL journal — smoother writes and better multi-window concurrency.
Open in new window now moves the tab instead of duplicating it.
PDF highlights require a drag (not a click) to create, and a multi-bullet selection is captured as a nested markdown list.
Esc exits markdown edit mode, returning to the rendered view.
Markdown rendering polish: monospace code spans, roomier heading spacing, and nested-list guide lines.
Settings: the Installed themes list no longer includes built-ins, and PDF rendering moved to its own category.

Fixed

Backspace inside a doubled bracket or quote pair (e.g. [[ ]], ( )) duplicated the pair instead of deleting it.
PDF viewer: draggable scrollbar behaviour, highlight row-drift deep in long documents, and the sidebar + button across platforms.

0.1.0-beta.1 - 2026-06-08

First cross-platform beta.

Added

Local-first journal and notes — a daily-journal feed where each day and page is a single markdown document; click any day or page’s open area to edit.
Linking and structure — [[wiki-links]] with backlinks, #tags, page aliases (alias::), and Logseq-style Foo::Bar namespace hierarchy in the sidebar.
Editing — a slash-command menu with templates (/date, /time), autocomplete for [[ links, # tags and {{ placeholders, auto-pairing brackets and quotes (wrap-selection, type-over, smart backspace), Tab/Shift+Tab list indenting, and auto-continued lists on Enter.
Markdown — full CommonMark + GFM rendering (the gpui-markdown crate) and inline images (render, paste and drag-drop, drag-to-resize).
In-app PDF viewer (the gpui-pdf crate) — virtualized pages, drag-drop import, zoom and navigation, find-in-PDF, and drag-to-highlight markup with a colour picker and note↔PDF jump links.
Multi-window — open a page or tab in a new window, drag tabs to reorder or tear off, with live cross-window content and backlink sync.
Sidebar — a collapsible rail, a jump-to-date calendar, a recently-viewed page tree, and search.
Theming and settings, plus cross-platform packaging (.app/.dmg, .exe, .deb/.AppImage/.rpm) with an app icon, and cross-platform CI.