Morrow 2.1.0

Morrow 2.1.0 is the first big update on the new Tauri foundation. It fixes the rough edges 2.0.0 brought with it, goes through a long list of reports from testers, closes all but one of the open issues on GitHub, and adds the things people kept asking for: colour themes, a Files view, calendar files, flat page icons, your own sidebar sections and a proper welcome for new users.

Making Morrow yours

2.0.0 was about the engine. This release is about how Morrow looks and feels once you've lived in it for a while. Most of it came straight from your reports and from comparing notes with other apps, and nearly all of it can be turned off or changed in Settings.

Your vaults are untouched. Everything new that Morrow keeps about a vault, like tag colours and sidebar sections, sits in small files in its .morrow folder, and the pages themselves stay plain Markdown that other apps can read.

Highlights

• Colour themes. Paper, Sepia, Nord, Forest and Midnight next to the default, each in light and dark, under Settings › Appearance. Midnight's dark is true black.
• Your own accent colour and text size. Pick any accent with the colour picker, and make the writing on pages smaller or larger.
• A welcome for new users. The first time Morrow opens it asks your name, theme, accent and font, then shows the few things worth knowing.
• A Files view. Every picture, sound, video and document in your vault, with the pages that use each one, from the sidebar.
• Calendar files. Save a database calendar as an .ics file for Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar, or bring the events from one in as rows.
• Weeks start on Monday, Sunday or Saturday, in every calendar.
• Flat icons for pages next to emoji, outlined or filled, from the new Icons tab in the icon picker.
• Your own sidebar sections. Put pages in sections that show like Favourites, from a page's menu. Rename, hide and order them in Settings.
• A sidebar you can arrange. Drag Search, Today, Tasks, Review and the rest into your own order or turn them off. Home, Pages and Settings always stay. Favourites, Templates, Archive and Trash only show once something is in them, and Home now sits above Today.
• A Templates section in the sidebar, and Start from a template on an empty page.
• A new Turn into menu, with Lettered list, Callout, Equation block, toggle headings and 2 to 5 columns in their own submenus. Colour now gives the whole block a background.
• A tidier toolbar over selected text, in a more natural order, with one Heading button that opens the levels, Clear formatting, Equation inline and a … button for Turn into. The assistant button only shows when the assistant is on.
• Times on dates. @today 17:05 shows as Today 05:05 PM, and its reminder can go off at that time. Reminder notifications now say what was written before the date.
• Lettered lists, counted a, b, c, from the / menu or by typing a. and a space.
• /embed for a YouTube video, or a picture, sound, video or folder on your computer. YouTube videos show their picture with a play button and stay clickable links in a PDF.
• Match case in search and in find on page.
• Tag colours. Pick the colour of a #tag, or of a Select option, from the tag's page, by right clicking it, or beside the option.
• Your vaults in Settings › Vault, where vaults can be put in order or forgotten without touching their files. (#28)
• Reorder a database by dragging its views and its table's columns, Name included. (#22)
• Resize table columns in pages by dragging their edges. The widths are saved with the page. (#23)
• Share to Morrow on Android. A link or text shared from another app goes into today's note. (#24)
• Change many blocks at once, such as turning a whole bulleted list into a checklist. (#25)
• Ctrl/Cmd + click on a page opens it in a tab behind the one you're on. Add Shift to bring it to the front.
• A setting to stop today's note being made by itself when Morrow opens.
• The view buttons are now View mode, Edit mode and Split mode, with an eye for View mode.
• Formulas are now called equations.

Fixes

• The accent colour no longer spreads onto headings, quotes, lists and icons. Colourful pages is off until you turn it on.
• Dates like @Today no longer turn into plain text after a restart once that day has a note.
• Spelling on Windows is checked in the first three languages Windows is set up for again, not only the main one, and right clicking a misspelled word shows the system's suggestions instead of the formatting bar.
• Home and End move the cursor on Windows again.
• Tab on a new line between a list item and the items under it indents the line, not the items, and Backspace and Delete take the line away cleanly.
• The / and @ menus close after a space or after words that match nothing, and the card on a link closes once it's used.
• Uppercase and Lowercase change every table cell picked, not only the first, and heading buttons are no longer offered inside tables.
• Blocks inside columns, and inside a toggle in a column, each have their own handle and Turn into menu. (#26)
• Search opens a folded toggle to show the words it found inside.
• Pictures copied with text no longer arrive in other apps as thin lines, and a picture or video copied in File Explorer comes in as the file, not just its name.
• A copied list pasted on an empty line takes that line's place instead of going in under it.
• Dragging several selected blocks moves all of them, and picking blocks in the margin keeps up with the mouse and catches YouTube videos.
• A block's ^id goes once nothing links to it, and copies of a block no longer take it.
• Link properties on plain pages have an Open link button.
• Turning a line into a toggle folds the blocks under it, up to the next heading at the same level or higher, inside the toggle.
• The sidebar slides open and shut instead of snapping.
• The mouse pointer hides while you type and comes back when the mouse moves.
• Dividers are the same thickness all the way across.
• Each side of a split keeps its own scroll position, even with the same page on both sides.
• A long vault name gets smaller in a narrow sidebar and ends in … rather than pushing the buttons out. (#27)
• Coding agents that start Morrow's MCP server no longer bring Morrow up on screen, and Morrow finds Node where Homebrew, nvm, Volta and fnm put it. (#29)
• When two devices can't reach each other to pair or sync, Morrow now says what usually stands in the way, and Settings › Sync can copy diagnostics to send along with a report. Pairing between some Windows computers and Android phones (#21) is still being looked into and will be fixed in a later release.

On a phone

• Morrow is in Android's share menu, so links shared from your browser or Reddit go straight into today's note.
• On a phone whose web view is too old for Morrow, such as an Android 9 emulator, Morrow says to update Android System WebView instead of showing a blank screen.
• The strips around the page and behind the status bar take the colour of the theme you pick.

Things to know when updating

• Colourful pages is now off by default. If you liked coloured headings and lists, turn it back on in Settings › Appearance.
• If you set up the MCP server with Morrow 1.x, copy the configuration from Settings › Assistant again. The old one started the Morrow app itself, which is what kept bringing the window up.
• If pairing still fails between two devices, use Copy diagnostics in Settings, Sync on both and add them to an issue. On Windows, check that your network is set to Private, or that Morrow is allowed on public networks in Windows Firewall.
• Turning a line into a toggle now takes in the blocks under it. Undo puts them back if you didn't want that.
• Tag colours, sidebar sections, the types picked for properties and table column widths are kept with the vault, so they come along to your other computers over sync.

Thank you to everyone who tested 2.0.0 so thoroughly and wrote up so much of it. This release is mostly yours.