Changelog
Everything we ship, in plain language — including the things we got wrong and how we fixed
them.
Blocks you can move, and everywhere your pages live
New
- Every block has a handle. Hover a paragraph, heading or list item and a grip appears in the margin — drag it to move that block anywhere in the page.
- Click the same handle for the block’s own menu: turn it into another kind of block, duplicate it, delete it, or add one underneath. The new block opens the insert menu for you, so it can name itself straight away.
- Any page can show what’s inside it. Put pages inside a page and it grows a shelf at the foot — a plain list, a detailed list, or a wall of cards. There is no such thing as a folder in Mine: a folder is a page you’re looking at differently, and you can change your mind whenever you like.
- Pages have faces. Give a page an emoji and it appears in the sidebar, in search, and on its card.
- Columns. Type “/two columns” or “/three columns” and write side by side. On a phone they stack back into one column, in the order you wrote them.
- Library — your whole workspace in one place, most recently edited first, in whichever of the three views suits you. Every card shows a real miniature of the page itself, not a placeholder.
Better
- New page is a proper button at the top of the sidebar now, rather than a small icon tucked beside the others. It’s the thing you came here to do.
Under the hood
- Those page miniatures are built only when they scroll into view, and never for more than the first part of a page — so browsing a thousand pages costs about what browsing twelve does.
- The three views are one piece of code, shared by Library and by every page’s shelf. A view built once shows up everywhere, and can’t drift apart between them.
- Opening a page still never waits for the network, and still never waits for the editor: a page is plain text on screen until the moment you click into it. Everything above was built without changing that.
A front door
New
- Mine has a home page, and this changelog. Both are deliberately quiet — the product should do the talking.
Better
- Every button in the app is now ink rather than indigo. Higher contrast, and it stops Mine looking like everything else.
Fixed
- Small grey text on the home page fell just under the accessibility standard for contrast. It clears it now.
- The “a new version is ready” prompt was appearing on the marketing pages, where there is no app to update.
Your pages, on every device
New
- Sign in once per browser and your pages appear on every device you have signed in on. Until you do, Mine needs no account at all.
- Write on a plane with no signal, and your changes merge with everything else when you reconnect. No “which copy won?” dialog — ever.
- Deleting a page now deletes it everywhere, for good, rather than leaving copies on other devices.
- Mine works properly on a phone.
Better
- Typing on one device shows up on another in about a quarter of a second. It used to take a full second — we were batching changes more cautiously than we needed to.
Fixed
- Signing in on a new device could leave you with several copies of the Getting Started guide. A fresh device now withdraws its own copy when it joins a workspace that already has one.
- A bug that could have deleted pages you had filed inside the Getting Started guide. Found in review, fixed before it reached anyone, and pinned with a test so it cannot come back.
- A security hole that could have let another website open a connection to your notes. Found in our own review, closed, and verified against the live site.
Under the hood
- Before sync shipped we put it through 28 deliberately hostile tests: corrupted data, three-way conflicts, two devices deleting at once, junk messages, awkward unicode, repeated disconnections.
- Every risky part of Mine gets torn apart by a review pass before it ships. That habit has now caught three problems serious enough to lose data — all before release.
The app itself
New
- Write with everything you would expect: headings, lists, checklists, toggles, quotes, code, images, dividers. Reach any of them with “/” or with markdown shortcuts.
- Pages inside pages, as deep as you like.
- Everything you type is saved to your own device within about a tenth of a second. Nothing waits on a network.
- The whole app starts and runs with no connection at all — not a cached shell of it, the real thing. We tested it by killing the server mid-session.
- ⌘K jumps to any page instantly, searching the full path so you always know where something lives.
- A Getting Started guide writes itself into every new workspace.
Under the hood
- Pages are plain HTML until the moment you click to edit one. That is why opening a page feels like it has already happened — the editor only loads when you actually need it.
- A page with 20,000 blocks in it opens in 45 milliseconds. Large documents staying effortless is a permanent goal here, not a one-off measurement.