Changelog

All notable changes to NotePin are documented here.

v1.0.16 Bug Fix April 2026

🐛 Fixes

  • Quieter Badge Updates: NotePin now handles tabs that close during background badge refreshes, avoiding repeated service worker errors
v1.0.15 Update April 2026

✨ Added

  • Fullscreen Bulk Workflows: The fullscreen board now supports selecting visible notes, applying colors, pinning or unpinning, exporting selected notes, deleting selected notes with undo, and cleaning duplicate notes
  • Smarter Page Stickies: In-page sticky notes now remember position and collapsed state per site, include a compact note filter, and let you hide the overlay for the current site temporarily
  • Local Preview Harness: Popup, fullscreen, welcome, and edit pages can now be inspected outside the extension runtime with a lightweight mocked chrome.* API

🔄 Changed

  • More Resilient Settings: Settings now open immediately with cached values when the background runtime is unavailable, then show a warning instead of blocking the modal
  • Cleaner Fullscreen Onboarding: The first-run empty state now points to the fullscreen New Note button
  • Compact Bulk Color Picker: Bulk color actions now use a custom dropdown instead of an always-visible swatch row
  • Quieter Sticky Controls: Sticky search and hide-site controls stay hidden until the current site has at least five matching notes

🐛 Fixes

  • Safer Undo Restore: Restoring deleted notes now skips IDs that already exist, avoiding duplicate notes after sync or race-condition restores
  • Documentation Sync: Popup documentation now matches the current search-first filter layout with the Current Site checkbox
v1.0.14 Update April 2026

🔄 Changed

  • Minor Interface Improvements: Popup and fullscreen received small polish updates across note cards, note dialogs, and mobile layout behavior
  • Better Consistency: Note actions and metadata placement were refined so the experience feels more uniform across surfaces
v1.0.13 Bug Fix April 2026

🐛 Fixes

  • Consistent Note Metadata: Popup and fullscreen note cards now handle saved metadata the same way, so notes without a URL no longer leave an empty row above the text and notes with a URL keep the URL and date on the same line
  • Fullscreen Layout Polish: The fullscreen top bar and filter sidebar header are aligned to the same height again, and fullscreen mobile modals now open near the top with fixed spacing instead of sitting vertically centered
v1.0.12 Bug Fix April 2026

🐛 Fixes

  • Long Popup Notes: Viewing a long note in the popup now keeps the note header and top content visible by scrolling the note body instead of letting the whole modal drift out of view
  • No Empty URL Rows: Popup and fullscreen now hide blank URL rows in note cards and note-view modals when a note has no saved URL, including cases where the stored value is only whitespace
  • Cleaner Fullscreen Cards: Fullscreen notes without a URL now place the timestamp in the card's top-right corner so the note text starts at the top instead of leaving a dead spacer row
v1.0.11 Update April 2026

✨ Added

  • Optional Page Stickies: You can now turn on in-page sticky notes in Settings to show matching NotePin notes directly on supported websites
  • Dedicated Sticky Editor: Each page sticky now includes a quick edit button that opens its own focused editor window, so you can update a note without hunting for it in the popup
  • Drag To Corners: Page stickies can now be dragged to any screen corner and will remember the last corner you used on that site

🔄 Changed

  • Permission On Demand: NotePin now asks for website access only when you enable the new in-page sticky notes feature, and the toggle now stays enabled after you allow access
  • Page-Specific Stickies: You can now keep a sticky note tied to one exact page instead of every page on the same site
  • Simpler Note Browsing: Popup filtering now uses a simpler search-first layout with a Current Site toggle, and clicking note text opens the full note view directly
  • Consistent Sticky Appearance: Page stickies now keep NotePin's own typography on heavily styled sites instead of inheriting the page's fonts

🐛 Fixes

  • No Reload Needed: Page stickies now appear on tabs that were already open when you enable the feature, and they disappear right away when you turn the feature off
  • Better Sticky Reliability: Sticky notes now do a better job remembering their expanded state, updating on SPA-style navigation, and recovering cleanly after reloads or interrupted drags
  • Editor Sync: The popup and dedicated editor now stay in sync after you save in either place, so you always see the latest note content
  • Clearer Empty States: Search and Current Site views now explain whether there are no notes yet or just no matches for your current filter
v1.0.10 Bug Fix April 2026

🐛 Fixes

  • Sharper Button Labels: Popup, fullscreen, and welcome-page buttons now render text more crisply on Windows by using the bundled bold face and avoiding the soft hover shift that could blur labels
v1.0.9 Bug Fix April 2026

🐛 Fixes

  • Long Note Editors: Popup keeps long drafts under control inside the popup, fullscreen textareas auto-grow, inline editing temporarily removes the note card height cap, and textareas now shrink back down correctly after you shorten a note
v1.0.8 Update April 2026

✨ Added

  • Color Filters: Fullscreen now lets you filter notes by one or more colors and combine them with domain filters for tighter review passes

🔄 Changed

  • Smarter Filter Sidebar: The No Domain filter now sits directly under All Notes with a clearer icon, and selected colors stand out more clearly
  • Dark Mode Contrast: Active filters and the fullscreen New Note button are easier to read in dark mode

🐛 Fixes

  • Filter Reliability: Used note colors stay visible in the filter list, and imported notes now reopen the full board view so they are easier to review right away
  • Sidebar Layout: The domain list now scrolls on its own while the color tray stays pinned at the bottom of the fullscreen sidebar
  • UI Polish: Popup and fullscreen now have sharper button text, proper round action buttons, cleaner empty states, and a more visible scrollbar
  • Safer Recovery: Popup and fullscreen now surface reload, prefill, and import failures more clearly instead of silently dropping the update
v1.0.7 Update April 2026

🔄 Changed

  • Copy Feedback: Inline copy buttons now turn green with a checkmark for 3 seconds after a successful copy
  • Website Navigation: The site header now collapses into a burger menu on mobile so the main pages stay easy to navigate on smaller screens
  • Filter Guidance: Fullscreen empty states and Help & FAQ copy now explain the new color-filter workflow instead of treating colors as visual-only labels

🐛 Fixes

  • Filter Header Spacing: Fullscreen filter section headings now keep the intended spacing above the color and domain lists
  • New Note Cancel: Canceling a fullscreen draft now clears it immediately so it does not reopen unexpectedly or keep the refresh warning around
  • Popup Handoff: Sending a draft from popup to fullscreen now moves it cleanly, so canceling fullscreen does not leave the old draft waiting back in popup
  • Reloaded Drafts: Fullscreen now ignores stray browser-restored New Note values unless NotePin actually saved a draft to restore
  • Bulk Clear: Clearing every visible note in fullscreen now works reliably even after importing larger note collections
  • Release Packaging: The build now flags reserved and system-generated files such as _metadata before creating the upload zip, so packaging issues show up locally instead of during upload
  • Website Contrast: Dark-mode secondary text is now brighter, especially in changelog details and other supporting copy
v1.0.6 Update April 2026

✨ Added

  • Quick Copy: Every note card now includes a copy-to-clipboard button with success and error notifications when NotePin writes to the clipboard
  • Fullscreen Help: Fullscreen now includes an in-app Help & FAQ modal with quick answers and a large Feedback & Issues button

🔄 Changed

  • Browser Language: NotePin now follows Chrome's UI language for English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, and Norwegian Bokmål, with English as the fallback when your browser language is not supported
  • Uninstall Feedback: Removing NotePin now opens a short feedback form so you can share why the extension did not fit your workflow
  • Website Gallery: The screenshot preview section now gives popup and fullscreen captures a larger featured layout and uses the full-size images directly so the denser views stay readable before you open the lightbox
  • Shared Settings: Popup and fullscreen now use the same settings modal, with popup size and fullscreen sort moved to the top, import/export kept fullscreen-only, popup size presets previewing live, and settings saving as soon as you change them
  • Fullscreen Header: Header action icons are larger for easier scanning and clicking, and the old direct report button is now a help entry point with the feedback form one click away
  • Clear Placement: The fullscreen clear button now sits right-aligned below the note list and only shows when the current view has more than five notes
  • Expand Toggle: The fullscreen expand-all button now stays available whenever the current view includes notes long enough to collapse, and only hides when every visible note already fits within two lines

🐛 Fixes

  • Norwegian Chrome: Chrome profiles using Norwegian locale variants now pick up the localized Bokmål NotePin interface instead of falling back to English
  • Popup Draft Restore: Draft text now comes back the next time you open the popup if you closed it by mistake
  • Popup Settings Scroll: The popup settings modal now scrolls when its content is taller than the popup
  • Settings Modal: Fixed a shared settings error that could block the modal from opening in popup or fullscreen
  • Unsaved Draft Warning: Fullscreen now warns before you close the tab if a new note is still unsaved
  • Fullscreen Expand Toggle: Fixed browsers where line-clamped note text could keep the fullscreen expand-all button hidden or make it disappear after expanding everything
  • Status Placement: Shared success and error notifications now appear centered at the top instead of pinned to the right edge
v1.0.5 Bug Fix April 2026

🐛 Fixes

  • Draft Handoff: Opening fullscreen while you are still writing in the popup now carries that in-progress note across instead of starting blank
  • Draft Context: The transferred draft now keeps its selected color and pre-fills the page URL when NotePin can read the current site
v1.0.4 Update April 2026

✨ Added

  • Privacy Settings: You can now strip query strings and hash fragments from newly saved note URLs

🔄 Changed

  • Context Menu Flow: Saving selected text from the page context menu now opens NotePin with the text prefilled so you can review it before saving
  • Shared UI Refresh: Popup and fullscreen now share a more polished UI layer, and fullscreen works better on narrower screens
  • Save and Sync Feedback: Save and sync handling is more reliable and now surfaces clearer non-blocking feedback when sync has problems

🐛 Fixes

  • Bare URL Entry: Note URL fields now add https:// automatically for bare web addresses while still rejecting incomplete URLs
  • Missing Domain Filter: Fullscreen domain filters now include a No Domain option when saved notes do not have a domain
  • Search Feedback: Popup and fullscreen now show the exact search term when no notes match
  • Source URL Retention: Notes started from the page context menu now keep the original page URL and domain when saved from the popup
  • URL Validation: Invalid or unsupported page URLs are no longer attached to new notes or context-menu prefills
  • Accessibility: Improved keyboard and screen-reader support for note controls and status announcements
  • Mobile Layout and Startup: Fixed mobile fullscreen and popup issues affecting viewport sizing, header and footer layout, scrolling, and first-load stability
  • Search Control Borders: Popup and fullscreen search inputs now render cleanly as a single control
v1.0.3 Update April 2026

✨ Added

  • Microsoft Edge Release: NotePin is now available on Microsoft Edge Add-ons

🐛 Fixes

  • Sync Reliability: Improved sync recovery helps preserve existing notes and prevents accidental overwrites when browser sync data is temporarily incomplete
v1.0.2 Bug Fix March 2026

🐛 Fixes

  • Sync Storage: Fixed chrome.storage.sync chunking for emoji and other non-ASCII text
  • Search and Note Actions: Search, filtering, note actions, and import/export flows are more reliable in popup and fullscreen
  • Storage and Refresh: Improved storage recovery, badge counts, domain filters, and context menu refresh during startup and sync changes
v1.0.1 Bug Fix March 2026

🐛 Fixes

  • Popup Note Form: Note form no longer closes on filter tab clicks when it contains unsaved text
v1.0.0 Initial Release March 2026

✨ Added

  • Initial Release: NotePin launched with page-based notes you can create, edit, delete, pin, color, and expand inline
  • Popup and Fullscreen Views: Search, domain filtering, sorting, and note previews are available in both compact and full-page layouts
  • Sync and Drafts: Notes sync across devices and support import/export plus draft autosave
  • Quick Actions: Save selected text from the page context menu, view badge counts for the current site, and use copy, undo delete, and keyboard shortcuts
  • Design and Accessibility: Includes automatic dark mode, smart dates, shared theme variables, Lucide icons, and accessibility improvements