Changelog
Shady Notes is in the 4.x series and shipping steadily — from a one-gesture notepad to a full markdown workspace with tabs, themes, and a plugin platform. Highlights below; the full history ships with the app.
Open multiple notes side by side in a flat tab model: a tab strip appears above the preview with per-tab close buttons, ⌥-click or right-click to open in a new tab, ⌃⌥→ / ⌃⌥W / ⌃⇥ to open, close, and cycle.
⌥Tab / ⇧⌥Tab step through workspace filters — All → Root → each workspace → wrap.
Raw mode no longer hides backticks, previews render tables independently of the editor's mode, and columns are content-fitted from the very first render.
MarkdownDB indexes every note by front matter, with file watching and change notifications. Plugins are .md files with a YAML DSL — schema, queries, computed fields, mustache templates, and 30+ declarative native components.
A journal timeline with mood emoji and tags, a kanban board whose cards are plain .md files, and a vault-wide task aggregator — all scopeable to a workspace or the whole vault.
window.shady.query/update/create/delete expose the vault API to JavaScript, with theme tokens injected as CSS custom properties.
> [!TIP], > [!WARNING] and friends render with an SF Symbol icon, coloured title, and tinted background. External file changes are detected and reloaded automatically.
Paste screenshots or drag images from Finder; they land in the attachments folder as ![[wiki-links]]. Drag a corner handle to resize inline; click in read-only mode for a zoomable preview window.
Catppuccin ×4, Nord, Gruvbox ×2, Tokyo Night, Rose Pine and Solarized Light joined the palette — with live hover previews, a ⌘⌥T quick picker, and a VS Code-style find bar.
Every note became an individual .md file in an Obsidian-compatible vault, with a file-tree sidebar, async search, and persistent tabs.