Notebooks 3.8 for Mac
New features in Notebooks 3.8 include task badges for documents (checklist items), improved default theme, improvements for automatic task extraction, Wiki Link creation in formatted documents, PDF annotation summarization, and much more.
The update is available from this website and from the Mac App Store. Users of the non-Mac App Store version can use Notebooks‘ automatic update option as well.
As always, if you have any questions or feedback, don’t hesitate to reach out to us.The Changes in Detail
Additions
Checklists: You can now have the number of open checklist items displayed for each formatted or Markdown document—perfect for quickly identifying what needs attention. Enable it in Settings > Tasks or from any book’s ••• menu.
Summarize PDF Annotations: Quickly review highlights, comments, and notes with a new option to summarize PDF annotations.
Context Tags: Context tags are now colorized and highlighted in plain text and rendered Markdown, making them easy to spot at a glance.
Accent Color Support: Notebooks now adopts your system’s custom accent color for selected interface elements, bringing a more personalized touch to your workspace.
Send to Things: A new “Send to Things” action appears in the Share menu when Things.app is installed, making it even easier to integrate tasks into your workflow.
Enhancements
Extract Task: New tasks are saved in a book with the same name as the current document (if it exists). If the book doesn’t exist, Notebooks falls back to the default inbox or the current book. This feature no longer automatically creates a new book or falls back to Notebooks’ top level. Moreover, new tasks now reliably use the selected default document type.
Turn Text into Wiki Links: Easily link related documents by turning selected text into Wiki Links in formatted documents.
Plain Text Lists: In plain text, lines starting with your selected task marker now behave more like list items for better structure and navigation.
Smarter Compilation: The “Compile Documents” feature now automatically selects the most suitable output format and lets you define a title and separator.
Edit Images: In formatted documents, right-click an image to open and edit it in your Mac’s default app.
As always, this update includes performance improvements and bug fixes, too.
