Note Calc Beta

Version 0.5.0 · October 12, 2026

Changed

• The formatting bar has a new look, like in Google Docs: buttons sit in rounded groups and show icons instead of letters. Clicking «A» colors the text with the color picked last (shown by the bar under the letter); the arrow next to it opens the palette. Scrolled text fades out under the bar. In a narrow window the bar stays on one line: buttons that do not fit go under «⋯».
• The interface has no thin dividing lines anymore: the sidebar, tabs, totals bar, settings and input fields are set apart by soft fills and rounded corners.

Added

• You can remove Note Calc from your Mac right inside the app: Note Calc menu → «Uninstall Note Calc…» or Settings → Help. The app goes to the Trash along with its settings and license (the «Keep my data» checkbox keeps them). Your notes in Documents → Note Calc stay.
• The formatting bar now has underline (⌘U), text color (the «A» button, seven colors that adapt to the dark theme), highlight (⌘⇧H) and «Clear formatting» (⌘\): it takes bold, color, headings, lists and the rest off the selection, links stay. Shortcuts can be changed in Settings.
• Find and replace within a note: ⌘F, ⌘G for the next match, ⌘⇧G for the previous one.
• Spell checking: misspelled words are underlined, as in other Mac apps. Lines with calculations are not checked.
• With the cursor on a link, its address shows under it: edit it, open the link or remove it and keep the text.
• Dashes and quotes as you type: "--" with a space becomes "—", straight quotes become “curly” ones after English text and «guillemets» after Russian. ⌘Z right after brings back what you typed.
• Brackets close themselves: type "(" and ")" appears too.
• --- on its own line is drawn as a dividing line.
• Shift+Enter in a list item starts a new line within the same item instead of a new item. Backspace at the start of that line joins it back.
• Formatting survives copy and paste: bold, italics, headings, lists, checkboxes and links pasted from a browser, Google Docs, Word, Notes or chats stay formatted. What you copy from Note Calc arrives formatted in mail, documents and messengers, and as clean text without asterisks where there's no formatting.

Fixed

• Text in square brackets no longer looks like a link and keeps its brackets.
• Pasted text is no longer selected as a whole just because it mentions numbers: only a pasted column of numbers is selected (and summed right away).
• Blank lines are kept when copying into message boxes and similar fields, where paragraphs used to run together.
• The line above --- no longer turns into a big heading.
• Enter on an empty list item leaves the list instead of adding a blank line. Backspace at the start of an item removes its bullet (or moves a nested item one level out).
• Enter in the middle of a bold (italic, etc.) word keeps both halves formatted.
• Text typed right after a bold word is bold too, as in Word and Google Docs. To go on in plain text, press ⌘B at the end of the word.
• A numbered list renumbers itself when you delete, paste or move an item: delete the third item and the fourth becomes the third.

Version 0.4.0 · October 11, 2026

Added

• Settings → Help → «License»: Note Calc is in beta now, everything is free. There's also a field for a license key for later, and the day you joined.

Changed

• Settings → Help → «License»: if the saved key no longer works, you can see why — expired, revoked or meant for another app. From there you can remove it, paste a new one or buy a license.
• Note Calc now needs macOS 15 or later.

Fixed

• Error reports now arrive from any country, including Russia: they go through my own server. You turn them on or off in Settings, as before.
• The activation link from the email opens the Note Calc window even if it was closed, and doesn't replace a key that already works: to replace it, paste the new one in Settings → Help → License.
• Error reports no longer contain your Mac user name or the names of notes and files.

Version 0.3.0 · October 11, 2026

Added

• Updates on their own: once a day Note Calc looks for a new version and shows what's new in it, but installs it only when you agree. To check by hand — Note Calc menu → “Check for Updates…” or Settings → Help; the automatic check can be turned off there too.
• A What's New window after an update, and the whole history of changes — in the Note Calc menu → “What's New…” and in Settings → Help.
• Error reports, only with your consent: if something breaks, the developer gets a technical report (version, system, where the error happened). Your notes, calculations and files are never sent. Turn them on in Settings → General; the app asks once by itself.
• Notes that calculate by themselves: write as in a notepad, lines with calculations show the result on the right or right after the line.
• Variables and line references: “Price = 15”, reference chips with @; renaming a line updates every reference.
• Total words: sum, average, prev, total — they add up the block above or the whole note.
• Functions in Russian and English (СУММ / SUM, ОКРУГЛ / ROUND, ЕСЛИ / IF…), currencies with today's rates, percentages and taxes, dates.
• Mini tables with formulas, a total row and column, filling formulas across.
• Select lines or cells — the sum, average and count appear at the bottom.
• Notes are plain Markdown files in Documents, groups are folders; tabs, a sidebar list with search, pinning and trash.
• Images and files in notes: paste, drag from Finder, preview like in Finder with Space.
• Quick entry from any app with a shortcut (⌘⇧Space) — into the Inbox or into a chosen note.
• A menu bar icon, a window above all windows, a window along the right edge of the screen at full height.
• Russian and English interface, light and dark theme, zoom, your own shortcuts.

Changed

• Hints and texts in Russian now speak to you informally, like my other apps.