Patch notes

• Nothing in the app changed. These notes were brought up to date.

• On Android, the mbrd icon joins a themed home screen.
• FixWith themed icons on (Android 13 and later), the icon takes the home screen's colour rather than staying in full colour beside the rest.

• These notes were brought up to date, and a slider on a phone stopped flashing the board.
• FixDragging a slider in the phone's panel keeps the panel see-through until your finger lifts. It used to turn solid a moment into the drag, a flash of the board on every whimsy change.

• A round of repairs: boards on a phone are saved more safely, broken files are turned away plainly, and four file types draw as they should.

On a phone

• FixA board is on the disk before the save counts as done, so a phone that loses power mid-save keeps the last good copy.
• FixA backup opened from Earlier versions stays a backup. Editing it no longer writes over it.
• FixThe bin keeps a board for 30 days from when it was binned, not from when it was last edited, so an old board no longer vanishes at once.
• FixBoards made after Not now come with you when you allow the folder later: they move into Documents/mbrd and stay on the shelf.
• FixOpening a board from a file manager no longer copies it again each time when it is already in the folder.
• FixA rename that only changes capitals takes.
• FixPressing sign-in twice no longer leaves the first one waiting forever.
• FixDeclining an update's install turns the Update row back into an offer rather than a button that does nothing.

Opening files

• FixA broken file says it is broken rather than asking whether to lift a size limit for it: 3D models, model archives and cover art whose sizes do not add up.
• FixA small file built to stall the app no longer freezes it. PureRef boards, STEP models and spreadsheets each get one time allowance per file, and a workbook too large to show says so.
• FixIGES arcs run from their start to their end instead of round the whole circle.
• FixAn AMF model placed inside another is drawn once, in the right place.
• FixCover art is found in more MP3s, including ones whose tag carries an extended header.
• FixEach spreadsheet sheet shows under its own tab's name, in the workbook's order.

The desktop app and syncing

• FixTwo settings saved at the same moment can no longer leave one unreadable, and half-written board files a crash left behind are cleared away after an hour.
• FixOptimize checks the video encoder it downloads and refuses any copy that is not the published one.
• FixStop syncing stops, even pressed while an upload is under way.
• Maintenance: the browser's autosave and the cloud sync now agree on which of a board's files to keep, from one shared list.

• Each palette opens with a wallpaper piece of its own.
• NewEvery palette starts on its own piece, in its own colours: Papyrus the anthurium, Absinthe the monstera, Orca the sea holly.
• NewBlack and white shadows in Settings > Debug casts every drop shadow in plain black on a light sheet and white on a dark one.

• Hint cards hold still through a zoom, and the title card keeps its outline.
• FixA hint card's dashed edge no longer jumps to a new width when a zoom ends.
• FixAt Light quality, or with shadows off, the title card and the whimsy dial keep a faint outline rather than none.
• Show me around wears only a dotted outline, as provisional as the card it sits on, and the whimsy dial's selection ring follows its rounded shape at Softish.
• NewColour the board to match in Settings > Debug puts the board in the colours of a wallpaper piece picked by hand, and back again.

• No wallpaper on a phone-shaped window.
• FixA window shaped like a phone, either way up, draws no wallpaper, and its rows leave the panel.

• Softish gets a wallpaper, and a board from a newer mbrd asks before it opens.

Wallpaper graphics

• NewSoftish has wallpaper graphics: plants, stones, crystals and feathers that come in from both edges of the window, picked by the palette's colour and painted in the tones of its paper, darker in dark mode. They sit along the top and the bottom and leave the middle, where the board is, mostly clear. A board shows the same pieces every time it opens, and they never go into an export.
• NewAdd your own... cuts the subject out of a picture and puts it on the edges, in its own colours or toned to the palette, kept in the board.
• NewMiddle and Harsh can wear one too. Each tier has its own Wallpaper graphics switch in Look: on by default at Softish, off at the other two.
• NewThe wallpaper follows the zoom. Zoom in and the pieces slide out past the edges; zoom out and they come further in, no further than where they were drawn to sit. At Full they glide there rather than jump.
• NewThe wallpaper moves with the rest of the look. A palette change swaps it as the colours begin to fade, and its left side fades out as the sidebar opens over it. On a phone, where the sidebar covers the screen, the new pieces wait for it to slide away so they can be seen coming in.
• The board file gains an optional wallpaper record, written only when a board's wallpaper differs from the default.

Opening and updating

• NewA board saved by a newer mbrd asks before it opens: Made in a newer mbrd, with Check for updates and Open anyway. Open anyway opens it as well as this version can, and the next save makes a new file, so the newer one is never written over by an older mbrd.
• NewCheck for updates on such a board updates at once and opens the board again afterwards: the desktop app downloads, installs and restarts, the phone installs what it finds, and the web reloads into the new version.
• FixCheck for updates on the web checks. It did nothing there.
• NewOn the web a new version loads at the next quiet moment without a message first. A board that cannot be stored still says the new version is waiting, with Reload now.
• NewThe patch notes have a Check for updates button beside Back to the board. It opens the board and runs the same check.

The desktop app

• FixThe title-bar menus are the app's own menu in every look, follow a change of look while the app runs, fade in rather than drop, and no longer flash the last menu opened before the new one draws. The board's name sits on the same line as File, Edit, View and Help.
• FixThe title bar's Update button keeps one width while it downloads, in every look.

Light and dark

• FasterSwitching between light and dark starts at once in the desktop app, Chrome and Edge, where a full board held it a quarter of a second or more, and the page crossfades smoothly rather than stuttering. Firefox keeps its fade.

On a phone

• NewA pinch on the controls over the board zooms the board, not the whole app: the zoom pill, the menu button, the drawer and undo row, the toolbar. One finger on a control is a tap as before, and the sidebar, the panels and the menus still zoom the page, for anyone enlarging their text.
• FasterPanning at 100% and flinging run smoother. On a Nothing Phone (4a), missed frames on a pan at 100% fall from 29% to 18% and on a fling from 9% to 6%, and the paper texture takes about 5 MB rather than 22.
• FasterA pinch out no longer hitches near 41% and 33%.

On the board

• FixBelow Full, a pinch or zoom no longer stretches the grid's dots and then snaps them back when the fingers lift.
• FixA picture resized past its smallest size can go back to the one it was placed at. A 2:3 photo held at 3x5 could not return to 3x4.
• FixWith the Timeline open, the board stops jumping every fifteen seconds when the window goes quiet.
• At Harsh the title card's outline is faint, so the board's name is not boxed in.

• Zooming on a phone stops losing pieces of the screen, and the Android app runs at 120 Hz.
• FasterThe Android app asks for the screen's top refresh rate, 120 Hz on a 120 Hz phone, rather than the 60 Hz Android gives it when no finger is down.
• FixThe interface stops vanishing on a zoom through 20-45%. The menu, the zoom pill and the bottom bar blinked out a frame at a time.
• FixThe board stops blanking in strips on a zoom below 30%, the interface with it.
• FixCards stop blinking out on a pinch back out again.
• FasterPanning a board with fences on a phone runs at full speed. A fence's dashed edge was slow to draw; on a Nothing Phone (4a) a pan with two fences on screen missed 20-28% of frames, and now misses 2%.
• FasterPhotos sharpen to their originals once the board stops rather than while it moves, as the thumbnails already did, which takes the stutter out of a long zoom.
• FixThe paper texture travels with the board again while it moves, at every quality. Below Full it had stood still mid-gesture, which read as flecks on the glass.
• NewOpen benchmark board in Settings > Debug puts the benchmark's board of about 120 cards on screen with nothing run, to try a gesture on by hand. Back to your board returns.

• Phones open on the canvas, and the Android app's first screen looks like the app.
• NewPhones open on the canvas rather than the Feed, and the Feed's sheet keeps its rounded corners on a phone.
• FasterBalanced runs smoother on a phone. A gesture no longer ends halfway on one long frame.
• NewThe Android storage screen wears the app's palette, light and dark, with the folder shown as a path on a card, one Allow button and a quiet Not now. A (?) beside the path says what each does.

• Nothing in the app changed. These notes were brought up to date.

• Settings is called Settings, and three things stop going wrong quietly.
• The System tab is now Settings. The Sounds slider moves into the Debug fold, the frame profiler and cue log rows are gone, and Clear everything sits below the Debug fold, where it shows without opening it.
• FixExport a copy in the apps writes a copy and nothing else. It used to rename the open board after the copy and mark it saved, so the next Save went to the copy rather than to the board's own file.
• FixSave image and Save PDF keep the letters of the board's name in the file name, Cyrillic and accented ones included, rather than dropping every letter outside English.
• FixCopy works when the app is opened from another machine on the same network: every menu Copy, the share link, Report a problem, a colour and a link card's address.
• FixA very quick tap no longer gets lost on a 3D model, the colour field, the Timeline's handles, the sheet's grips, the darkroom's frame, the viewer or the tour editor.
• Maintenance: a long round of tidying inside the app, with nothing else to see.

• Maintenance: comments inside the app were trimmed, with nothing to see.

• Rearrange under the title card gets a proper top edge.
• FixWith Keep cards below the title card on, a spiral or a scatter is a circle with its top cut flat. The first row of cards sits level under the title, rather than the block hanging from a single card at its point.
• NewSelect multiple clears the screen for picking. The bars step aside, a Done selecting button at the top is the way out, and a drag on bare board pans rather than drawing a box, so a board bigger than the screen can be picked across. A box drawn by a swipe adds to what is picked rather than replacing it.
• Maintenance: a round of tidying inside the app, with nothing to see.

• A board can hold boards of its own, and the files of other tools come in: Obsidian's canvases, PureRef's scenes, and an export that looks like the board.

Boards inside boards

• NewNew board inside makes a board within this one. It sits on the board as a card showing it small, and opens on a double-click or Enter. Up a level (Alt+Shift+Up) comes back out, and each level keeps its own view and its own undo.
• NewA trail of the boards above the one on screen, each a button. On a phone the one above sits behind an arrow, and Back in the browser, on a phone and in the apps comes up a level.
• NewCards move between boards. Hold a dragged card over a board card to send it inside, or use Put in a new board, Move into and Move up a level from its menu, each one undo. A duplicated, pasted or merged board card copies the boards inside it.
• NewA board inside another wears the look of the one holding it until a choice in its own Look panel makes the look its own. A box puts it back.
• The board file can now carry boards inside it. A copy of the app from before today refuses such a file rather than opening it with pieces missing.

Bringing work in and out

• NewJSON Canvas, the format Obsidian's canvases use, both ways. A dropped .canvas comes in as notes, pictures, links, fences and connections, finding its files among those dropped with it, and Save as JSON Canvas writes the board out with its files in a zip.
• NewPureRef files come in. A dropped .pur lands as its pictures where PureRef had them, sized, turned, cropped and mirrored, with its text as notes.
• NewSave SVG: the board as a file whose cards stay text, and sharp at any size, when a browser opens it.
• FixSave image and Save PDF look like the board at every whimsy level, in every browser and both apps.
• NewStarter boards beside the example board: a moodboard, a character sheet, a project brief and a reference grid, each a board of titled fences to fill.

Finding and getting around

• NewFind takes colour words - red, blue, grey, a hex code, and dark, light, pastel, muted, warm and cool, alone or together - and finds the swatches and pictures with that colour in them.
• NewAlt and an arrow move to the next card that way and say which it is. The plain arrows still nudge.
• NewEarlier versions on the shelf opens an older copy of a board as a board of its own. The apps keep ten a board, and the web keeps five while it is edited, one every fifteen minutes.
• FixRearrange with the title card kept on top hangs the cards in a centred block under it, rather than bending round it with a gap above.

Everything else

• NewColourblind mode, under System, redraws the interface's colours for deuteranopia, protanopia or tritanopia, names the colour of every swatch, and can show the board as each kind of vision sees it.
• NewSerbian and Macedonian Cyrillic set in the app's own type, with their own italic letters in notes, names, the board title and the masthead.
• FixA mouse wheel on Linux zooms however slowly it is turned.
• FixChanging the whimsy into or out of Harsh is one undo, and toggling it back and forth no longer piles up steps on the Timeline.
• NewA YouTube or Spotify card asks for its title and cover only once you press play, never just because it was drawn.
• NewCheck for updates automatically in the apps, on by default, with Help's check working either way.
• FasterThe Android app is smaller, and its backup leaves out a downloaded update.
• NewCredits says why the app exists, and lists what it is made with as a block each that opens on its source, licence and maker. Several can be open at once.
• NewThe privacy page wears your look, the whimsy level and the dark sheet both, as the patch notes do.
• Drawing is held back for now. A pen, a highlighter and an eraser were built today, behind Enable drawing in the Debug fold until they are ready.

• Nothing in the app changed. The project's page on GitHub now speaks to people using mbrd, with where to download the apps at the top.

• A long evening of menus that offer the next step, a LaTeX editor, a search over every command, and a board that explains the app.

The board

• NewS opens a search over every command at the pointer, the selection's own first. Move to a point puts the view on an x and y.
• NewNudge, Fit to contents and Fence from the menus: nudge just the selected cards or one fence, fit a fence to what it holds, fence a single card, and Gather and fence cards too far apart.
• NewMore ways to select: by the same tags, by any one tag, more like these, and Invert selection.
• NewThe Join tool has a flyout to join the selected, join everything, or remove connections.
• NewAlt+drag leaves the original and carries a copy, and on a stuck note it takes the note off its card.
• NewAlign, Distribute and Same size bring the notes stuck to the cards, measure from an anchored card, and grow the fence a card would leave.
• NewA fence that moves carries the anchored cards inside it.
• FixDropped and pasted files and links land clear of the cards already there, and so do cards put back from the bin.
• NewA tap on a binned card puts it back, and Restore all empties the bin onto the board.
• NewA merged board's cards come in selected, and dropping several board files offers to merge each.
• NewYour boards have a right-click menu with Duplicate board, and a web board offers to save a copy before it is deleted.
• NewDelete says what it deleted, with an Undo.
• NewA timeline step's menu can select what it changed, and zoom to it.
• FixA card's caption keeps its extension in view however long the name.
• FixA scroll-wheel notch zooms at once again rather than gliding.

Motion

• NewSelection rings lift with their cards, the viewer closes back into its card, and the note composer flies from and to its note.
• NewWith reduced motion on, things fade rather than slide.
• FixOn Softish a dragged card is put straight down rather than sinking past its place and bouncing back.

Viewer and darkroom

• NewThe viewer has a ⋯ menu, or a press and hold, with Edit picture and a delete that shows the next.
• NewOpen these looks through just the selection.
• FixA zoomed picture in the viewer pans in Firefox again.
• NewDarkroom crop shapes Original, 1:1, 4:5 and 16:9 hold while you drag, and Shift keeps the frame's shape. Closing with edits not applied asks first.
• FixOne darkroom Apply is one undo step, however much it changed.

Text and documents

• NewA LaTeX editor: a .tex opens beside a live preview, with an Insert menu of snippets and New LaTeX document under More tools. Maths is typeset there and in Markdown.
• NewMarkdown reads Obsidian's: wikilinks, embeds, highlights, callouts, tags, footnotes, properties and more, and the editor keeps them all.
• NewThe text editor zooms its page, from the status bar or with Ctrl+wheel, and remembers it.

Keeping your work

• NewAn example board explains the app with a tour of its own. Help > Take the Tour plays it.
• NewOn the web a new version loads itself at a quiet moment, the board stored first.
• NewThe apps keep rolling backups of every board, the newest ten, and a board whose page crashes reloads itself and says so.
• NewA second tab on the same board says its changes are not kept until the first closes, then takes over. A failed save is tried again.
• NewReport a problem copies the version, browser and last errors, sends nothing, and opens the issues page to paste them into.
• NewThe board is one Tab stop: Tab and Shift+Tab step through the cards in reading order and say what each is.
• NewThe About sheet says which mbrd this is, its licence and where its source is, and the privacy page names every place the app connects to.

• A picture that arrived as a plain card can be tried again.
• NewA picture the browser could not draw when it arrived - a HEIC, a camera RAW, or one you said no to at the size warning - lands as a card with its name and format, and that card now carries a Retry button. One press reads the file again: if it can be drawn now, the card becomes the picture and keeps its place, width, name and tags. If it still cannot, the card stays as it was and says so. Undo turns it back into the plain card.

• Room to work: a board can push its cards apart, and selecting on a phone stops fighting the finger.

On the board

• NewNudge board pushes overlapping cards apart by as little as it takes and keeps the board's shape. It is on the board's right-click menu and beside Rearrange everything in the sidebar. Anchored cards stay put, stuck notes ride along, and a fence too small for its cards grows to hold them.
• NewA click on a fence's body picks the fence. A drag across it still pans or draws a band, and with something already picked the click only puts that down.
• NewEvery board in the list has a picture, a board made on another machine, a new board and a fresh install included. The board file now carries its own small picture, and a copy of the app from before today simply does not show it.
• FixThe sidebar's scrollbar stays up on every tab.

Sharpness

• NewAt Full, pictures stay sharp down to 20% and sharpen as you zoom rather than when you let go, with a mouse or trackpad. A touch screen keeps sharpening on release, so a pinch stays smooth.
• FixA photo zoomed in close no longer blinks blank while its full-size original decodes. The smaller copy stays up until the original is ready.

On a phone

• NewWith a card picked, holding a second one starts a group instead of opening the menu, and a drag on bare board pans without dropping the group. Only a tap puts it down. In this mode a tap on a card's controls picks the card rather than playing it or following its link.
• FasterThe crop frame drags about twice as smoothly.
• FixA fingertip no longer resizes a small card by accident. Under a finger, the corners stop resizing below 30% zoom and the press moves the card instead. A mouse keeps 15%.

• Thirty small things that should already have worked. Keys for the tools, undo that says what it did, copies that survive a change of board, and files you can get back out.

Keys

• NewEscape during a drag puts the cards back where they started and records nothing.
• New? opens the keyboard shortcuts.
• NewShift keeps a dragged card on one line, Shift+F frames the selection, and 1 zooms to 100%.
• NewKeys for the tools that had none: N writes a note at the pointer, J turns Join on and off, L anchors or lets go, ] and [ bring to front and send to back, and Ctrl+G fences the selection.
• NewThe Menu key and Shift+F10 open the menu a right-click would.
• NewCtrl+F opens Find on the board, which now opens on your last search and can select every match at once with Shift+Enter.
• FixA held arrow key is one undo step, not one per press.

Picking and editing

• NewA note's colour can be changed after it is written, from its menu.
• NewA Select fold on the card menu picks every card of the same kind, everything in a fence, or every card joined to this one.
• NewThe selected cards' connections can be removed in one step.
• NewSame width and Same height under Align & distribute size the selection to the card you opened the menu on. A picture keeps its shape.
• NewDuplicate, copy and cut bring what goes with a card: the notes stuck on it, a fence's contents, and the lines between them.
• NewA copy made on one board pastes on the next, pictures and all.
• NewThe viewer steps to the previous and next item with the arrow keys, two buttons at its edges, or a swipe. Enter opens the picked card.

Undo and messages

• NewUndo and Redo say what they just did, beside the buttons.
• NewLarge changes carry an Undo on their message: a cut to the bin, a join, removed connections and a rearrange.
• NewA message that asks for something carries the button for it - Reload on a new version, Export, Connect, Create tour - and stays up while your pointer or keyboard is on it.
• NewThe import summary names the files that failed, or offers Show them when every new card landed off screen.

Files and saving

• NewA card's own file can be saved, from its menu or the viewer, under the name it arrived with. On a phone it can be sent to another app.
• NewReplace file… swaps the file a card holds and keeps the card: its place, width, tags and every line and tour stop that names it.
• NewA card whose file is missing says so with a dashed edge, and mends itself when the file is dropped back in.
• NewSave image and Save PDF can take only the selection, or one fence.
• FixA full web shelf asks before it deletes a board to make room, and offers to save a copy first. It used to drop the oldest board silently.
• FixWhen the browser stops storing the board, the corner says so with a standing Not saved - Export button until it resumes.
• FixCloud sync waits out an offline spell and pushes again when the connection is back, instead of stopping.

Around the app

• NewMedia keys, a headset and the lock screen control the board's music, with the track's title and cover shown by the system.
• NewA YouTube link keeps its timestamp, and music.youtube.com links play.
• NewThe browser tab carries the board's name.
• FixThe phone's Back button closes the open menu or dialog first in the browser and the installed web app, as it already did in the Android app.
• FixFocus follows the sidebar in and out from the keyboard.

• Maintenance: nothing a reader would see. The save script gained two quicker modes.

• Things move the way they should: from where they start, without swinging, and not at all when you asked for less motion.
• NewA picture opened from a card flies out of the card rather than swelling from the middle of the screen.
• NewRearrange slides the cards to their new places rather than jumping them there.
• NewThe Timeline slides in and out, and what sits along the foot of the window moves with it.
• FixZoom steps pressed during a zoom add up rather than restarting, and a jump to a card no longer swings outward before it lands.
• FixReduced motion now reaches every animation, the document flights and the zooms included.
• FixA submenu stays open while the pointer cuts diagonally across the rows above it, and menus opened from the keyboard no longer pop.
• FixA finger passing over a card no longer lifts it.
• FixIn the desktop app, a title-bar menu drops from its title with a light shadow of its own.
• Maintenance: a benchmark built into the app, for measuring zooms and pans on a given machine.

• A board file stops growing on every save, and a phone keeps up with a zoom. The rest of the day went on the text editor, most of it on a phone.

Board files

• FixSaving a board opened from its file no longer writes its pictures twice. A 388 MB board opened on a phone grew to 653 MB on its first save. The same save now adds 53 KB.
• FixThe history stops leaving a dead copy of itself in the file. It is kept in pieces of 500 steps, and a save rewrites only the last piece. Once enough of the file is dead, it is written whole again at a quiet moment: after a minute with no edit, as the app closes, or on Save.
• A board saved now opens in an older copy of the app with its history marked out of date. The board itself opens whole.

On a phone

• FasterA zoom in on a phone runs at three times the frame rate, 56 frames a second where it was 17, and a zoom out no longer blinks the board.
• FixCards stop vanishing for a moment as you zoom out from far in.
• FasterA zoom out through 25% no longer stutters, and a zoom near 35% no longer stalls. The photographs change to their small copies on the frame the zoom crosses, not after it stops.
• FixA long pan no longer fills the phone's memory. Every card the board put away as it left the screen stayed in memory, and a few minutes of panning held thousands of them.
• FasterThe grid's dots cost a fraction of what they did at Softish and Middle, so a zoom on a fast phone drops about a third fewer frames.
• FasterA board opens faster at Full and Balanced. A photograph is no longer copied again at every start, and one only a little larger than the sharpness limit is shown as it is. A board of 70 photographs spent 4.2 seconds on decoding as it opened, and now spends half a second.
• FasterA pan or a card drag starts without a hitch, where the first press restyled every card on the board.

The text editor

• NewThe page rises in from below as the editor opens, and tips and drops away as it closes.
• NewOn a phone, every tool sits in two rows at the top of the screen, clear of the keyboard, with the word count and a running session's time above them. The page runs from one edge of the screen to the other.
• NewA narrow window folds the ribbon rather than scrolling it. The styles become one button, Vomit Mode another, and the small commands lose their words.
• NewA document may be untitled. Clear its name on the sheet, and the card reads untitled.
• NewA sticky that grew into a document turns back into a sticky if you cut the text back down to fit while the editor is still open. The note opens with the caret where you deleted.
• FixThe sheet no longer jumps sideways as a scrollbar arrives.
• NewA document written back down to fit flies back into its sticky, and a sticky outgrowing itself hands over to its page without a jump.
• FixA long sticky scrolls inside the composer rather than running off the bottom of the window, and the count of what is left shows only in its last ten characters.
• FixA paste with a button or a dialog focused no longer lands on the board behind it as a stray .md card.

Around the app

• NewThe version at the foot of the sidebar links to these notes, beside a new Privacy link.
• NewThe browser's install prompt shows two pictures of the app, where it had none.
• NewArchive and folder cards are drawn as folders, with a look of their own at each whimsy tier.
• FixSigning in to Drive on the web finishes on a host that drops .html from the address, and the app starts offline again.
• FixA board pulled from the cloud keeps its look, settings and history.
• FixOver a hundred smaller repairs from a full read of the code, most of them the readers for unusual file formats refusing a broken file rather than stalling on it.

• mbrd writes documents now. A text file opens in a word processor of its own, and a sticky that runs long grows into one.

The text editor

• NewEdit opens a .md, .txt or .fountain in the text editor, a sheet of paper on a desk across the whole window. The ribbon holds undo, the marks, the paragraph styles, the lists, find and replace, and an outline down the left. The foot counts the words. A file you open and close unchanged is never rewritten.
• NewThe name at the head of the sheet is the document's name, and a change there renames the card.
• NewA sticky typed past 120 characters becomes a .md document and grows open into the editor at the caret. Not a keystroke is lost on the way.
• NewVomit Mode keeps you writing forward. Pick a time from 5 to 60 minutes, and everything before the word you are typing is locked until the time runs out. Backspace works inside the current word and no further. Super locks that word too, 10 seconds after your last key.
• NewA .fountain screenplay opens in screen mode, on the standard page in Courier. It types like a screenwriting tool: int. starts a scene heading, a name in capitals is followed by dialogue, and Tab changes the element. The foot estimates the pages and the scenes.
• NewThe editor has its own right-click menu. Shift and right-click still gives the browser's, with its spelling suggestions.
• NewA double-click still opens a document to read. The text sits on a page as tall as the window and wraps to it. Turn on ASCII art in the editor, and its lines keep their length.
• Credit where it is due: Vomit Mode is after vomitdraft.com.

Around the board

• FixA mouse wheel on Linux zooms again, where Chromium's finer steps read as a touchpad and panned the board. Mouse wheel gains Always zooms, touchpad too, and a window coming back into focus no longer jumps its zoom.
• NewA link to mbrd shows a new preview picture in chat apps. It is a tenth of the old size, small enough for WhatsApp to show it.

• An exported picture is sharp enough to print, and a sticky styles its words one at a time.

Exporting

• NewSave image and Save PDF ask first. Set the detail in ppi and see the pixel size it comes to, the JPEG quality, a margin in millimetres, and which of the joining lines, the sheet outline, the grid and the paper texture go in. A preview beside the options redraws as you change them.
• NewAn export is drawn at 300 ppi by default, so an A4 sheet comes out 2480 x 3508, and a PDF page is the board's real size. The JPEG keeps its full colour detail, where the browser's own encoder blurs the colour at every quality.
• FixAn export carries the board's own paper texture and its shadows, where it had a speckle like static and no shadows at all. Shadows and Card tilt switch them, and a tilted card has clean edges.
• FixThe title card exports with its name on it, where it was an empty box.

Sticky notes

• NewA sticky styles its words, not its lines. Title, font and highlight apply to the words you select, or to what you type next. The highlight is a pen, with the colour at the caret under it. Copy and paste between notes keeps the styles.
• NewThe composer shows the note exactly as it lands on the board, magnified, with the words wrapping where they will. A new note starts larger, at 160px square, and its type is a step smaller.
• NewA sticky holds 120 characters. The counter sits in the note's corner and goes red at twenty left. Past the limit it says the note becomes a .md file, and closing the editor makes it one, as one undo step.
• FixSelect all and then paste in a sticky keeps the paste, where the text went and nothing replaced it.
• FixSwitching to another window no longer closes the note you are writing.

On a phone

• FixThe Android app saves its board files again. A save failed on every board from 0.404 on.
• FixCheck for updates on the phone always answers. It says it is checking the moment you press it, says so if the check fails, and answers when the update is already downloaded.

Around the board

• FixThe corner marks of a selection stay visible past about 160% zoom, where they thinned down to the ring and vanished.

• A photograph draws on the board whatever the camera saved it as. iPhone HEICs and camera RAWs are turned into pictures as they land, and the cards that used to arrive grey and nameless arrive as what they are.

Photographs

• NewA .heic or .heif from an iPhone arrives as the picture. The file is read here and the picture inside it decoded by the machine's own decoder, about a fifth of a second for a twelve-megapixel one. Where that decoder is missing, a slower one is fetched instead, so the same file draws on every browser and at every address. A picture the phone stored as a grid of tiles comes back whole and the right way up.
• NewA camera RAW that baked no preview is developed as it arrives, so a night shot saved as a .dng is a photograph rather than a grey card - and Demosaic, which is offered only on a photograph, is there to develop every pixel of it when you want that.
• NewThe file you dropped is kept beside the picture, untouched, and Optimize is the one thing that throws it away.
• FasterOptimize shrinks a HEIC, where it used to count one and then quietly walk past it - often the largest file on a board made on a phone.
• FixEdit picture opens on a HEIC or a RAW from an older board, where it opened on a blank sheet.

Around the board

• FixPlay keeps the board in frame as it replays, so a history that builds a board up is watched rather than happening off the edge of the window.
• FixSaving a board in Samsung Internet no longer leaves an empty file. Where the browser offers to save and then refuses to write, the board comes down as an ordinary download instead.
• NewWhat this board weighs says where every file is held - on the board, in the drawer or in the history - as well as what it all comes to.
• FixThe credits scroll inside their own sheet, which keeps its corners.
• Maintenance: a release carries Windows and Android. A macOS or Linux copy sees the new version and waits for the next full release, which updates it straight there.

• A board on a phone stopped flickering. Three separate faults made cards vanish and come back, and all three are gone.
• FixCards no longer disappear while the board is zoomed out, where a screenful of them could go at once and return on the next touch.
• FixLight stopped reloading the board as you pan. Cards dropped out and drew again as the board moved, at that stop and at no other.
• FasterA pinch costs about half of what it did, so the board keeps up with your fingers. A GIF frozen at far zoom no longer stalls the gesture either.
• NewThe title card, once thrown away, comes back from the Drawer's Special shelf rather than from a button in the Drawer's header.
• FixThe waiting strip sits under the panels and the menus. An import runs for as long as it runs, and it stopped covering whatever you opened while it did.

• A right-click says the same thing everywhere: do something to this. The Timeline, the player and the toolbar answer it now, and the joining lines were redrawn.
• NewRight-click a step on the Timeline for the ways to it and through it: go there, change its rule, name it, delete it. Right-click anywhere else on the bar for the gear's own rows. Any mark can be named now, not only the point the board is standing on.
• NewDelete N steps after this point in the gear clears the history in front of the marker and leaves the board exactly as it is.
• NewRight-click the player for its buttons as rows, and a mute the bar has no room for.
• NewRight-click a tool in the toolbar to open its flyout at once.
• FixA joining line no longer lies along the card it leaves. It keeps a short straight at each end, and a small sideways step is drawn as one S rather than two corners.
• FixThe board takes the Timeline's band while the bar is faded and is held still as it does, so nothing slides half a band each way.

• Nothing a reader would notice - a day of work inside the app.

• On the phone every board became a file, and Light became light.
• NewThe Android app keeps each board as a file in the board folder, as the desktop does: the list reads the folder, New makes a file, a rename renames it, and Delete moves it to a bin that keeps it thirty days. The autosave writes the board to its own file a few seconds after an edit and again when the app goes away, adding only what changed.
• FasterA large board opens and saves on a phone that could not hold it before. A 400 MB board no longer has to fit in the page twice over.
• FasterLight is finally lighter on a phone. The paper texture comes off the page, and a photograph you zoom right into draws at once rather than stalling and flashing white first. Those were the two heaviest things on a board and the dial could reach neither.
• FasterA pan is smoother on a phone, with two rounds of work a frame taken out of it that nobody could see anyway.
• FixAn update says so where you are looking. The offer arrives as a note with its own button as well as sitting at the top of the Board tab.

• A drag that reaches the edge of the window carries the board with it, and the toolbar learned to change size without jumping.

Carrying things

• NewDrag a card, a band or a corner to the edge of the window and the board pans under it, so a card can be carried past what the window shows. It starts slowly and picks up the further in you push, and a shape dragged off the sticker pad or a card out of the drawer pans the same way.
• NewThe resize grips go at 15%, and the ring says so: from there down a card is carried rather than sized, and a grip that small covered more of the card than the card showed.
• NewA right-click inside a fence opens the fence's own menu, and a fence resized on a snapped board puts what it carries back on the grid.

The look

• NewThe toolbar moves between its sizes rather than snapping, as a panel opens or the window narrows, each tool gliding from where it was and a word fading in behind the movement.
• FixWith animations off, nothing strobes. The splash, the waiting bar, the darkroom and the player's bars each hold a frame worth holding, where a stopped loop used to flash.
• FixCard shadows reach the Feed at Balanced, where its tiles stayed flat and the switch did nothing.
• FixA slider on a phone keeps its name and its value on a card of its own while your finger is on it, over the board it is changing.
• FixPhotographs stopped blinking at Light while you zoom, where every card was being swapped to a thumbnail and back.
• FixThe drawer builds its cards ahead of the scroll at every stop, so they stop popping in and out on the device least able to afford the rebuilds.

Around the app

• NewGet the app opens the latest release in a new tab, where the apps and their notes live. The download page it used to open is gone.

• An archive drops in as one card you can open, the Timeline moved to the foot of the window, and the tour, the fences and the apps' updates were reworked. The rest of the day went on a long list of rough edges.

Archives and folders

• NewA ZIP, TAR, 7z, RAR or .gz arrives as one card with an Unzip button. A press puts what was inside on the board in a spiral round where the card sat, in the archive's own order, and one undo takes it back. A folder inside becomes a card with an Open button, which does the same one level down.
• NewA folder dragged in from Explorer or Finder still spreads its files over the board, but each folder inside it lands as one folder card rather than a flood of loose files.

The Timeline

• NewThe Timeline is a bar along the foot of the window, the way a history bar sits under a CAD drawing. It takes its own room rather than covering the board, starts on at a desk and off on a phone, and keeps your choice.
• NewThe bar is a row of steps with a playhead you drag, and the board follows it. Play walks forward from where you are, the arrow keys go one step at a time, and a gear holds naming, trimming and Hide timeline. The Show timeline box in the Board tab brings it back.
• FixGoing back and forth in the Timeline no longer loses changes that were never steps, such as the board's title or a setting.
• FixStepping through the Timeline redraws a card whose look changed, such as a note set to Low opacity, where it kept the look it had.
• FixPlay lines up with the sidebar's edge, its triangle sits in the middle of the button, and the gear has the outline and ground of a button.
• NewWhile Play runs, the board is there to watch. A press pans, the tools that would change it are dimmed, and a drop or a paste is turned away with a note that says to press Pause. Only Pause stops a replay, where any press on the page used to.
• NewDelete timeline in the gear clears the whole history after asking. The board as it stands becomes the start, and the board itself does not change.
• FixA reload opens at the newest step, where a board left after a few undos came back that many steps behind.
• FixThe steps scroll a whole step at a time, so no mark is cut in half at either end of the bar, and the scrollbar and the wheel reach the oldest steps.

The tour

• NewA board with no tour offers Create tour, and Take the tour and Edit the tour appear once there is one. While you tour or edit, the cards stay where they are: a press picks, a drag pans, and pointing at a stop lights it and fades the rest.
• NewThe tour bar has two rows, the stop's name and caption over back, forward, the stop's own actions and close. A clip or song alone in a stop plays by itself, and the board's music pauses while you tour. Delete in the editor takes a stop off the tour, with Undo on the note that says so.

Fences

• NewA fence can wear one of the four note colours, and roll up to its name bar. Rolled up, the cards inside are hidden and out of reach until it rolls down again, and Find unrolls it when the card it finds is inside.
• NewA new fence anchors itself ten seconds after you last move it. The anchor and pin badges on a card are buttons now: a press on the anchor lets the card go, and a press on the pin lets the note come away.
• NewOn the Feed, a fence's name heads its own cards, and fences and loose cards take turns in the board's order rather than every loose card falling to the end.

Around the board

• NewDemosaic develops a camera RAW from its sensor, where the card had shown only the small preview the camera tucked inside. Undo puts the preview back, and Optimize develops a RAW before it shrinks it.
• NewA Word file with no picture of itself shows its first page, set from its own text, headings, pictures and tables.
• NewThe style tile shows eight named swatches, and a click on one copies its hex code.
• NewThe Playlist button turns up once there has been music on the board, and the first song you drop opens the player. It stays off the bar while a video plays.
• FixPicture sharpness decides again. Above Soft, a photograph draws at the size the dial asks for rather than at the light display copy.
• FixThe interface sounds start switched off. They are experimental, so they wait until you turn them on, and everybody was set back to off once.
• NewA photo or video set to Fit takes the shape of its picture. The card keeps its shorter side and the longer one follows the picture, in the same undo step as the switch, and a corner drag keeps that shape until you hold Shift.
• NewA sticky offers Low opacity where it offered No card. The paper goes to 60% and the words stay solid, and the note comes back to full under the pointer or while you type in it. It is see-through at every whimsy tier, Harsh included, and below 40% zoom it is a whole note again.
• NewHolding Ctrl while you scroll moves the board up and down, as Shift moves it across. A pinch on a touchpad still zooms.
• FixA note's name no longer starts with #. Find, the Timeline, the tour and a note seen from far out show its words without the heading mark.
• FixBelow 40% zoom the buttons on a card go - the anchor and pin badges and the title card's pen and T. An audio card's play button fits inside the card, and one with cover art shows the art with the button over it.
• NewTilt cards on the Look tab. Switched off, every card stands square; a card you drag still tilts in your hand. It is on to begin with.
• NewA card wider than eight grid squares or taller than six rests straight, and takes its own lean back when you make it smaller again.
• FixA card lifts under the pointer by the same amount at every zoom, where far out it jumped by most of its own height.
• FixFit, recentring and the zoom buttons centre in the room an open sidebar leaves, rather than behind the panel.
• FixConnection lines hold still while you carry a card. Its own lines run straight, and everything is routed once when you put it down, where the whole board used to reroute each time your hand rested.
• FixThe close cross no longer shows a hole in its middle in Firefox at Harsh.

The sidebar and the toolbar

• NewEvery dropdown in the sidebar is the app's own picker, and the font pickers set each name in its own face. Any menu picks on a press, a drag and a release, the way a desktop menu does.
• NewThe Board tab was sorted. Save stands alone with Save As and Export under More, and a new Other section holds the tour, the Timeline and Board contents, where a video row now plays a silent preview on hover.
• NewThe toolbar slides aside for an open panel instead of vanishing, and drops its words, then tucks Colour, Link and Stickers behind More, as the room runs short.
• NewOpening or closing the sidebar pans the board by half its width, so what you were looking at stays in sight. The Playlist moves over with it and centres in the room the panel leaves.
• NewThe sidebar fills the screen only at 600 pixels wide or less, where it did from 700. Between the two it stays a panel at the side, with the board beside it, and it no longer fades away while you drag one of its sliders.
• NewThe header editor was tidied. The font is the sidebar's own picker with Default at the top, the size reads in pixels and every step shows, Line height appears only while Wrap long names is on, and Start over is Reset. A new board keeps its name on one line.
• FixThe player and the buttons along the foot sit level with the sidebar, 14 pixels off the bottom of the window.
• NewThe Keys list draws every key as a keycap.
• FixThe toolbar keeps up with a window being resized, where it trailed behind and stepped after it.
• FixThe sidebar's shadow no longer darkens the Timeline under it.

The look

• NewCorners travel when the whimsy dial moves. Every corner on screen eases into its new shape along with the colours, rather than jumping, and into Harsh they go quicker but still visibly.
• FixCards no longer pop up in place after a load or a change of look. Their lift and lean travel as they should while the colours fade.
• NewThe corners agree. Panels that sat a couple of pixels rounder than their neighbours match now, and the sidebar wears the toolbar's corner, level with it along the top.
• NewEvery button on the glass is square, 42 pixels or 45 on a touch screen, the zoom control's three parts included. At Softish they are fully round, and at Harsh the badges, closes and pick circles are square.

The Feed and the phone

• NewEvery Feed tile looks like its card on the board - style tiles, fonts and 3D models included - and a video plays in its tile with a tap.
• NewA press on the Feed's title opens the masthead editor, and Find scrolls the Feed to what it found and rings it.
• NewCards on the Feed can be selected. A click with Ctrl, Shift or Cmd picks one, and on a phone a long press offers Select multiple, after which each tap picks one. The menu, Delete and Tags then act on them all.
• NewAn audio tile on the Feed has its play button in the middle, as a video tile does.
• NewNotes stuck on a card ride its tile on the Feed, where each had a tile of its own somewhere else. A small sticky in the corner counts them, and a press lays them open over the card. Find on one of them opens its card's notes.
• FixA picture set to Fit takes its own shape on the Feed, tiles stand on a soft shadow at full quality, and on a phone the Feed runs edge to edge with Find at the top right.
• FixThe phone lost the controls that did nothing there - key hints, Reload board and Anchor on a Feed tile, and the grid and spacing settings in the sidebar. An empty Playlist has a way back to the board.

Sharing through Drive

• NewShared links lists every board you have shared, from any machine, each with Copy link and Stop sharing.
• NewA heavy board can be shared as a viewing copy, with the photographs at display size, a still for each clip and no bin or history, when that comes out much smaller.
• FixAn upload that drops resumes from the last byte that arrived, and a synced board stops leaving the files it no longer uses in your Drive.

The desktop and Android apps

• NewAn Update button on the title bar. The app looks once a day, and a press on the button downloads the new version, counting as it goes, then installs it and restarts. A macOS or portable copy opens the download page instead, and Check for updates answers on the same button, not in a dialog.
• NewThe Android app offers its update in a row at the top of the sidebar, counting while it downloads. It looks once a day, waits when Data Saver says so, and opens no dialogs.
• New**An unsaved board shows a *** on the title bar and in the window title.
• NewA .deb for Debian and Ubuntu beside the .AppImage, so a board opens on a double-click on Linux.
• FasterA desktop save writes only what changed to the end of the board's file rather than the whole board, and a save cut short by a crash leaves the last good one readable.
• FixThe desktop app no longer crashes on its first start after an update.
• FixThe Windows icon is back on the shortcuts and the taskbar, and draws cleanly at small sizes.
• FixAndroid's status and gesture bars stop flickering. They are black in dark mode and white in light mode.
• FixThe apps hide the Google Drive rows until signing in works there, rather than opening a sign-in that fails. A shared link still opens.

Repairs

• FixNew while typing in a note no longer leaves the old board's cards behind.
• FixA ZIP made on Windows shows its file names as they were written, where an older Windows encoding used to come out garbled.
• FixA board saved by a newer mbrd keeps what this one does not know, and a ZIP of some other kind is refused as This is not an mbrd board.
• FixThree small ones: an HEVC clip's poster is no longer black, the drop overlay goes when a drag leaves without dropping, and the viewer closes when another board opens.
• FasterDragging a note across a busy board is lighter, since it asks only the cards near it whether it should stick.
• Credit where it is due: the credits name what they had been missing - ONNX Runtime, u2netp, Geist Mono, the FFmpeg builds, Electron, sharp and Capacitor - libarchive.js, which opens 7z and RAR, and LibRaw, which develops a camera RAW.
• Maintenance: every gap in the stylesheets was put on one spacing rhythm, and the research notes were audited and tidied.

• mbrd is an Android app now, the same board as the website and the desktop, and on the desktop every board became a file you can see.

Android

• Newmbrd installs on Android 7 and later, as an .apk from /download beside the desktop builds. It is the same app as the website, wrapped for a phone.
• NewYour boards live in Documents/mbrd on the phone, so they show in Files and survive an uninstall. The app asks once, on a page that says why, and Not now keeps them inside the app until the next start.
• NewFiles open in mbrd from other apps, through Open with or Share. A board opens, a picture, clip, sound, PDF or text file lands as a card in the middle of the view, and a shared link becomes a link card.
• NewBack closes whatever is on top - a menu, a dialog, a panel - and with nothing left open it puts the app in the background with the board kept. The board is written away whenever the phone pauses the app.
• NewSave asks for a name, and an export or a share goes through the phone's own Save dialog and share sheet.
• NewThe app installs its own updates from the same releases as the desktop, on Android 12 and later without a confirm screen.

The desktop

• NewEvery desktop board is a file in Documents/mbrd. New makes the file at once and the board on screen is written to it as you work. The board list shows the folder with an Open folder button, and Open and Save start there.
• NewThe cross on a board in that folder moves the file to the bin, where it can be restored. A board kept anywhere else only leaves the list.
• FixCmd+Q quits the macOS app. It used to write the board away and then stop short of quitting.

• The lines between cards were rebuilt, photos grew a lighter stand-in, and link cards say more. A day spent on the board's plumbing.

The lines between cards

• NewConnection lines were rebuilt. A line leaves and arrives on whichever side of each card is nearest, finds its way around the cards between it with clean right-angled bends rather than a staircase, and wears the look of the whimsy dial. Several lines meeting one card fan across its edge instead of stacking, and a line you draw by dragging keeps the curve it had under your hand.
• FixThe "Cannot join" mark is gone. The rebuilt router reaches a side of every card, so the round badge that used to pin over a card and announce the pairs it could not connect has nothing left to report.

Photos and the Feed

• NewEvery photo keeps a lighter display copy, about a thousand pixels on its long side, which is what the board and the Feed now draw. An older board has the copies filled in the first time it opens.
• NewA card shows its full original when you zoom right in, and drops back to the light copy when you zoom out - so a close look stays sharp without the whole board carrying full-size pictures.
• FasterThe Feed keeps up on a big board. It draws only the tiles in view and fills them in as you scroll, each picture set to fill or fit its tile rather than all of them decoded at once.

Link cards

• NewPlayer and brand cards say more. A card fetches the page's own title, names the Steam game or the Reddit community it points at, and shows the X logo where a link leads there.
• NewA link card's menu leads with Edit and Copy link, and every link out of the app asks once before it takes you off the board.
• FixA pasted player link arrives the right size, at the least a player needs rather than the smaller default a plain link uses.

• A link card stopped being a title and a favicon, and a Spotify link plays where it sits.
• NewA Spotify link plays on the board. Paste a track, album or playlist and it becomes the real player in place, with the Spotify mark stretched across it.
• NewEvery link card wears its site. The site name fills the width of the card and its logo sits on the chip, so a wall of links reads as a wall of places rather than a column of addresses.

• The desktop window draws its own title bar.
• NewThe desktop window draws its own title bar, in the app's type and colours, carrying the name of the open board.
• Maintenance: the comments throughout the code were rewritten in plain, controlled English. Nothing on a board changed.

• Nothing a reader would notice - a version bump only.

• mbrd is an app you can install now. The board in the browser is unchanged and is still the whole of it. What the desktop adds is a window of its own, your boards where you can see them, and three jobs a tab is not allowed to do.

Installing

• Newmbrd installs on Windows, macOS and Linux. One Setup.exe asks on a page of its own whether to install or to leave a portable copy, a .dmg for macOS and an .AppImage for Linux. /download has the three, and says plainly what your computer will say about an app nobody has paid to sign yet, and what to do about it.
• NewA .mbrd file opens by double-clicking it. The title bar says which board is open, a menu bar carries the app's own commands, and a second file opens in the window already running rather than starting another.
• NewNew versions arrive on their own and install when you quit. A note says which version will install when you close the app, and then nothing happens until you do. A portable copy and an unsigned macOS build say they cannot replace themselves rather than offering a button that fails.

What the desktop does that a tab cannot

• NewYour boards are a folder, not a browser's storage. They sit in %APPDATA%/mbrd and its equivalents, and a portable copy keeps them in data beside the program. A browser may clear its own storage to make room; a folder stays where you put it.
• NewOptimize does video on the desktop. It is the first thing this app can do there and cannot do in a tab. ffmpeg is a program sitting beside the app rather than a 32 MB download into a page.
• FasterRemove background is close to instant on the desktop - 13 milliseconds against a couple of seconds in a browser, once the model has loaded the first time.
• NewAdd files offers every format mbrd knows - twelve groups, from pictures and sound to 3D and CAD, archives, maps and disk images - where it had offered only the four kinds the app can draw.

• A board can be shared as a link, and kept in your own Google Drive.
• NewShare link puts the board in your Drive and copies a link anybody can open. Keep this board copies it to your account and keeps it up to date from then on, Open from cloud opens it on another machine, Sync now sends whatever has changed, and Stop syncing leaves the stored copy where it is.
• The app asks for the one permission that reaches files it put there itself, and for nothing else in your Drive.

• A handful of repairs the audits had been carrying, and a Mobile board that resists at its edges.
• FixA Mobile board resists at its edges instead of stopping dead. Dragged past the top it follows at a diminishing fraction of your finger and settles back when you let go.
• FixThe tour's chips and the timeline's marks are one shape, where they had been two rows of small squares agreeing about nothing.
• FixTwo colours the tier work had left behind are put right.
• Maintenance: two small repairs the audits had been carrying, and the research written up.

• Nothing a reader would notice - a version bump only.

• Nothing a reader would notice - a version bump only.

• Mostly a release about what the app does when you touch it: a press that is answered, a menu that leaves the way it came, a board that steps back while you follow a thread across it. Two tools also stopped guessing, and the tour is built somewhere else entirely.

Touch and menus

• NewEvery button answers a press, and a tapped one stops staying lit afterwards. On a touch screen the browser answers hover from the last tap and leaves it standing, so a tool pressed once looked chosen until something else was.
• NewMenus leave the way they arrive. Find, the right-click menu, the toolbar's flyouts, the fence offer and the connection chip all used to appear and then simply vanish. Each plays its way out now, and a flyout opens from the middle of the button that opened it rather than from its corner.

The tour, and following a thread

• NewThe tour is built on the board. Every card carries a small square in its corner - a number if it is at that stop, a + if it is not - and a bar along the foot holds the order and a caption for each stop. It used to be a list in a panel covering the third of the board you were picking cards from.
• NewFollowing a card's threads steps the rest of the board back. Hovering a card used to drop every line that was not its own. The cards those lines reach stay as they are and everything else goes quiet - enough to separate, not enough to hide.
• FixA connection finds its way around the cards between its ends, where it used to settle on a side before looking and send a line behind a card.
• FixThe connect tool puts itself down after a pair, with Shift keeping it up. It stayed armed before, which every first-time hand read as the app having got stuck.

The two tools that stopped guessing

• NewRemove background finds the subject, rather than filling inwards from the edges against their average colour. A card cut out this way is cut out in the exported picture too.
• NewCAD files draw properly. .iges and .igs are read at all now, and they and .step go through a real CAD kernel rather than this app's own reading of their surfaces, so a curved part arrives curved.
• FixA cut-out card stops growing its background back when you zoom out.

• A release with almost nothing new on it: the app was read through twice for work it was doing twice over, and the result cleared.
• FixThe palette's photo count reads Every photo again at the top of its range, where it had printed 120 photos.
• FixSizes in feet and inches print like sizes in centimetres - 4 ft 3 × 5 ft 2 in, sharing the unit across the pair the way the metric ones always have.
• FasterWord, PowerPoint and the older .doc and .xls files find their preview sooner.
• FasterSaving, autosaving and emptying the bin cost less on a big board.
• FixThe sticker and sound windows stop leaking a little memory each time they open.

• A release about cards that used to be blank. A great many files that dropped in as a grey rectangle with a name now show their own picture, and the clips that would not preview at all finally do.

Files that show their own picture

• NewDocuments and design files show the thumbnail they were saved with. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote and OpenDocument files, the older .doc, .xls and .ppt, and Visio, Krita, Procreate, SolidWorks and 3ds Max files besides.
• NewPrograms and app packages show their own icon. A Windows .exe or .dll, an Android .apk, an iOS .ipa, a Windows .appx, an ebook, a comic or a 3D-print package shows its icon or its cover.
• NewCamera RAW and HEIC photos show a real image. The app pulls out the preview the camera tucked inside, so a folder of .cr2, .nef, .arw, .dng or .heic files is a wall of pictures again.

Video

• NewClips a browser cannot play still get the right shape and facts. AVI, WMV, FLV, MPEG and their kind now carry their true length and dimensions.
• FixVideo previews appear on Android phones and on Firefox. A clip used to land as a blank card there, a phone's own camera footage being the exact case that failed.
• FixPhoto-heavy boards no longer run older iPhones and iPads out of memory. The picture-shrinking that keeps a big board inside a tab's memory had stopped working on Safari before 16.4.
• FixEmptying the bin actually frees the space. A deleted file's data used to travel on inside the board and be written into every save afterwards.

• Nothing a reader would notice - version bumps only.

• The app was read end to end against its own stated intentions, and the places where the two had come apart were repaired. One thing was added along the way.

The one new thing

• NewA multi-select mode, for a finger. While it is on, a tap on a card adds it to what is picked rather than replacing it, and nothing you do to the board underneath clears the selection. It ends from the row it was started from, from Esc, or from opening another board.

Boards that would not behave

• FixDeleting a saved board asks first, and names it. It was one tap on a small glyph in the corner of a card whose whole face means Open, with no undo and no bin.
• FixA board that has lost one file can still be left, where the only way out had been Clear everything.
• FixReloading while a board is still opening no longer writes a blank one over it.
• FixTwo boards stashed at once no longer lose one of them, and the shelf is capped at twenty-four.
• FixA board carrying its own colours keeps them - the note washes, a card's shadow and how far a card leans.
• FixA save that fails says so, rather than leaving the button reading Saving... for the rest of the session.

Pictures, PDFs and notes

• FixPDFs draw on the live site. The reader was fetched from another host, which the site's own security rules refuse, so every PDF and .ai card fell back to grey. It ships with mbrd now.
• FixA note keeps its alignment and its markers through an export and a re-import.
• FixA handful of files that could stop the tab cannot any more - a model asking for more memory than the machine has, a picture claiming thirty thousand pixels a side, a note with a long run of backticks.

• The Timeline arrived - every change to the board as a step you can go back to - and a picture opened from the board learned to zoom.

The Timeline

• NewThe Timeline, under System, is every change to the board as a step you can go back to, and it lives in the board file rather than in the tab, so it is still there tomorrow.
• NewA step can be given a name, and a named step is a landmark you can find again months later.
• NewAn align, a distribute or an arrange can be changed after the fact, and everything you did after it happens again on top of the new answer.
• NewThe Timeline offers to fold steps older than thirty days into the starting point, leaving the board unchanged.
• NewExporting asks whether to send the history with the board, and the answer already under your thumb is to leave it out.

The picture viewer, and what a board weighs

• NewA picture opened from the board zooms and pans. The zoom goes to the point under the cursor rather than the middle of the window, so pointing at a face keeps the face.
• NewA line of a note can be drawn over with a marker, in four colours, the way a highlighter is.
• NewA crop reshapes the card it is in, so a 16:9 slice of a square photograph stops being letterboxed. The area is held.
• NewFlip and Flop in the darkroom, mirroring a picture left to right or top to bottom.
• NewWhat is in this board says where the weight went, counting by kind and naming the ten heaviest files. Pressing a row travels the board to it.
• NewA style tile, carrying the palette, the faces and a few of the pictures. It is a live card on the board: move the dial and every tile follows.
• NewA cut-out picture can drop its card, landing on the board as the shape rather than in a box.
• NewThe board file names its own parts, so a .mbrd renamed to .zip opens with the pictures under the names of the cards they sit on.

Repairs

• FixHovering a card animates again, after several releases of it arriving instantly.
• FixA note no longer sticks to the pointer after you change its face.
• NewSomething large is asked about before it comes in, once for the whole drop, rather than two minutes into decoding it.

• The changelog became a page of the app, printed the way your own board is printed.
• NewThe changelog is a page of the app, reached from System - so the look you set is the look you read it in.
• NewNothing you touch on the changelog is kept. The page never opens your session and never writes a preference.
• FixThe menu button has a hover you can see again.
• FixThe slider thumb stops leaking its fill past its own border.
• FixHovering works on a laptop that reports itself as a touchscreen.
• Maintenance: the last of the app was typed, closing the migration to a language that checks itself.

• Open one thing as big as the window will allow, and the phone and the desk stopped pretending to be each other. Documents, PDFs and Markdown open properly.

Open it big

• NewOpen one thing as big as the window will allow, with the board waiting behind it.
• NewDocuments open properly: Word, OpenDocument, slides, spreadsheets, CSV, SVG and comic archives.
• NewA PDF opens page by page, so a long one starts reading before the whole file has been parsed.
• NewMarkdown is set as prose, on the card and in the viewer.
• NewA document shows the picture it already has of itself, which most of these formats carry inside them.
• NewA dropped text file shows its opening words on the Feed instead of its name, and the Feed has a right-click menu it had gone without.

The phone and the desk

• NewColour, Link and Stickers moved behind a More button on the phone, so the toolbar holds what you reach for.
• NewThe Board tab was rebuilt around one primary section and one fold, with a View row at the top.
• FixThe note composer drew its sheet at life size, off to the left. It sits under the card it belongs to now.
• FixThe sticker drawer shuts the moment a shape is dragged out of it.
• FixThe Feed is printed on paper again, after a spell on untextured stock, and shows the hint cards on a brand-new board.

Under the bonnet

• FixThe app now tells you when something goes wrong, on the board, in words.
• Maintenance: the app was moved to TypeScript and broken into smaller modules, and given a Content-Security-Policy. Nothing on a board changed.

• Draw a connection between two cards, drag a sticker onto the board, and leave a window open while you work.
• NewDraw a connection between two cards, and edit it from a small chip that follows the line while it is selected.
• NewStickers, a drawer of shapes you can drag onto the board and tint from the board's own palette.
• NewWindows you can move and leave open, of which the sticker drawer is the first and the Playlist the second.
• NewHover flyouts on the toolbar, so a tool with options shows them where the tool is.

• The board can be read as one scrolling column, played as a playlist, and there can be more than one of it.
• NewThe Feed, a board read as one scrolling column instead of a cramped canvas.
• NewThe Playlist, every piece of audio on a board, as a player.
• NewMore than one board, in a switcher that holds them all with a picture of each.
• NewSave a picture of the board, or a PDF of it.
• NewShare, on a phone that has a share sheet, with the board going into it as a file rather than as a download.
• NewA PDF dropped on the board shows its first page, as does every other format carrying a preview picture inside it.

• Nothing a reader would notice - version bumps only.

• Nothing a reader would notice - a version bump only.

• Fences draw a named region on the board, a colour picker chooses a pigment by eye, and mbrd is on the web at an address.
• NewFences, a named region drawn on the board that the things inside it move with, readable at any zoom.
• NewA colour picker, so a pigment can be chosen by eye rather than picked from a list.
• Newmbrd is on the web at an address, with a 404 that is the app itself.
• NewAt the softer end of the look, a region is drawn as a cork board, with the stock to match.
• NewThe whole app moved onto one set of drawn icons rather than the characters it had been borrowing.
• NewThe browser's copy of a board is tidied on every save, so pictures belonging to something deleted a week ago stop taking up room.
• FixDropping a folder of more than five hundred files now says so.

• A quiet day of repairs behind the scenes.
• Maintenance: an import bug in a test put right, and the old CI workflow removed.

• The paper got its tooth, and the board grew a now-playing bar, a credits sheet and the toolbar it still has.
• NewThe paper got its tooth, a real 300gsm grain that travels with the board as you pan and zoom.
• NewA now-playing bar for whatever the board is playing.
• NewThe toolbar, in the shape it still has.
• NewThreads route around the cards they pass instead of running under them.
• NewA second typeface, Playfair, which gives the softer end of the dial a face with some weight to it.
• NewA credits sheet for the two people who made this.

• Nothing a reader would notice - version bumps only.

• A release about the board staying smooth while it moves, and about not losing anything.
• FasterSaving and reopening a board full of photographs is much quicker, without one round trip to storage per picture.
• FasterExporting no longer holds the whole board in memory twice.
• FasterDragging a colour stops writing to disk sixty times a second.
• FixA board with an unresolved conflict refuses to save rather than writing something half-merged over the good copy.
• FixA picture from a board you had already closed can no longer reappear on the next one.

• Worked on against measurements rather than impressions, taken against the display's own refresh.
• FasterPanning and zooming a large board now costs what is on the screen rather than what is on the board.
• NewA redrawn app icon: three cards on the grid.
• NewCards animate out when they leave, so something deleted reads as having gone rather than as having never been there.

• A lighter board on a phone: less decoded, less drawn, less loaded until you need it.
• FasterPhotographs are mounted at a sensible size for how large they are actually drawn, and zoomed out the app sheds image decoding and card shadows entirely.
• FasterA video does not load until it is first played on a touch device.
• NewThe Mobile foot collapses into one flush row.

• Nothing a reader would notice - version bumps only.

• The boundaries where a file comes in were tightened, so a malformed or hostile file is refused rather than trusted.
• NewA ceiling on what one drop may bring in, so a folder pointed at the board by accident is refused with a sentence.
• NewSticky notes were rebuilt, from how a note sizes itself to what happens to one too long for its own card.
• FixGestures snap to the board's real grid, not to the lattice as it appears at the current zoom.
• Maintenance: every bundled typeface now carries its provenance and its licence, and a stray easter egg was removed.

• The palette is read off your own pictures, and the app learned to trim a board, measure in real size and install properly.
• NewThe palette is read off your own pictures, taking the board's sheet, ink and accent from the photographs pinned to it.
• NewOptimize, one menu item that trims a board down to what it actually needs.
• NewReal size, so a paper outline dragged to scale tells you how big something is in millimetres or in inches.
• Newmbrd is installable properly, with icons at both sizes and in the masked shape a phone crops to.
• NewA zoom pill and a scale bar at the edge of the board.
• NewThe furniture steps back when you leave the board alone, and comes back the moment you touch anything.

• Pictures, 3D models and a board you can hold in one hand.
• NewA picture on any card, and album art to fill a music card.
• New3D models on the board, with no dependency to show for it.
• NewA YouTube link becomes a player, if you ask it to.
• NewA live font switcher, so each of the two type voices is chosen while you look at the result.
• NewFind on the board with Ctrl+K.
• NewA board you can hold in one hand, and the file format it saves to, specified and written down.

• mbrd arrived - an infinite freeform board in a browser tab with no account, no server and nothing uploaded.
• NewThe whimsy axis, one dial that takes the whole interface from scrapbook to spec sheet.
• NewNotes, links and audio cards, with album art filling a music card and Markdown in a note.
• NewA web of threads between items, drawn at whatever density the machine can afford.
• NewSave keeps the board in this browser, and Export writes a file you can put somewhere.
• NewA bin that greys out when it is empty, and renaming a card in place.
• NewLink cards, which you can drag in from another tab.