Outerline Outerline

Outerline 1.2

Summary

macOS

This release makes your library visible to the rest of the system. Saved documents in the active library are indexed for Spotlight, and new Siri and Shortcuts actions open, search, create, and append to documents. File > Import Web Page… turns a public HTTPS article into a local Markdown document, extracted on your Mac rather than by a service. Fenced code blocks with a recognized language now get offline syntax highlighting in both the editor and preview. Search throughout the app ignores accents, Advanced Search on Cmd+P becomes the single command-palette search surface, and Cmd+/ opens the formatting palette for whatever you have selected. Beneath that, library recovery was hardened for locations that are deleted, moved to Trash, unreadable, or temporarily unavailable in iCloud, the editor toolbar regains native Liquid Glass grouping on macOS 27, and MCP gains folder creation and a single edit_folder tool in place of two.

iOS

iPhone gains the same system integration: Spotlight indexing, Siri and Shortcuts actions, and conversion of an outerline:// link into document context. Import Web Page joins the Library actions menu with a clipboard-aware sheet, an inline folder picker, and cancellable progress. Code blocks pick up the same offline syntax highlighting, and the Library now keeps folders ahead of individual notes at every level, including filtered results, while your sort settings continue to apply within each group. Library and Recently Deleted search ignore accents, Preview moves into its own section of the editor’s ellipsis menu with a direct way back to editing, and there is a new branded launch screen for iOS 27. The fixes cover edit-comment keyboard teardown, repeated editor rebuilds and title flicker, an Undo button that appeared before there was anything to undo, unnecessary Purchase Recovery interruptions, and Settings > Account returning to the Settings root on a cold launch.

macOS

Improvements

  • Added Spotlight document discovery. The active library’s saved document titles, tags, and readable body text are indexed automatically, and selecting a result opens the document in Outerline. There is no in-app switch; Search and Siri visibility are managed in system settings.
  • Added Siri and Shortcuts actions to open, search, create, and append to documents. Capture uses the existing library and editor save paths and can run in the background when access is available.
  • Added Notes-schema Siri context on macOS 27. Document and folder entities describe your library, visible documents provide onscreen context, and documents expose readable text with Markdown transfer. This supplies the content for Siri requests; natural-language routing and answer quality still depend on your device and system settings.
  • Added Get Document from Link, which turns an outerline:// link into a Document with a readable Text property in Shortcuts. URL value queries also return document entities on macOS 26 and later. UUID links survive rename and move; heading, line, and annotation links identify the whole document.
  • Added syntax highlighting for fenced code blocks with a recognized language, in both the editor and preview. Highlighting works entirely offline, follows the light and dark appearances, and recognizes backtick and tilde fences. Unlabeled or unknown languages stay plain, and Mermaid blocks continue to render as diagrams in preview.
  • Added File > Import Web Page… for public HTTPS articles. Extraction runs locally, the import creates a collision-safe Markdown file in the active folder without overwriting an existing note, source metadata is preserved in frontmatter, and that metadata appears in Preview. Page content is never sent to an extraction service.
  • Added a Siri button beside the More menu in the editor toolbar, which opens the system Writing Tools interface for the current selection or document.
  • Made Advanced Search the single command-palette search surface, opened with Cmd+P. It searches the whole library with match case, whole word, grouped results, and match-line navigation. Quick Open has been retired.
  • Made search ignore capitalization and diacritics, so Chloe, pina, and naive also find Chloë, piña, and naïve. This applies to library toolbar search and Advanced Search; in Advanced Search, Match Case now controls capitalization only.
  • Added a selection-aware formatting palette on Cmd+/. It opens the full formatting command palette for the current selection or caret without inserting a slash, palette search leaves the document untouched, commands apply to the captured range, and the popover anchors near the selection.
  • Added MCP create_folder, which creates empty folders including any missing parents. Folders that already exist keep their identity and contents.
  • Consolidated MCP folder editing into edit_folder, which renames, moves, or does both while preserving folder and descendant identities. It replaces rename_folder and move_folder; saved workflows should use the new name with the same fromPath and toPath inputs, and MCP clients should be reconnected after updating Outerline.
  • Updated the Claude connector bundle to version 2.0.0. Its tool catalog, the seeded MCP guide, the support documentation, and the shipped Outerline skill all reflect the new folder tools.

Fixes

  • Fixed Add Comment commenting on the main window’s document while a document was open in its own window. It now comments on the frontmost window.
  • Fixed Format and Editor menu commands editing the main window’s document while a separate document window was in front. This covers Bold, Italic, Code, headings, links, lists, Blockquote, Code Block, Strikethrough, Horizontal Rule, Insert Table, Insert Image, Task List, view mode, Find, Outline, Links, Markup, and font size.
  • Restored native Liquid Glass backgrounds for related editor toolbar actions on macOS 27. Editor/Split/Preview, Formatting/Inspectors, and Share/Ellipsis remain distinct groups with flexible spacing between them.
  • Fixed a local library that was deleted or moved to Trash while Outerline was closed being recreated as an empty library at the old location. The next launch now returns to library setup instead.
  • Fixed a permission-denied library being forgotten. It keeps its configured path and security-scoped bookmarks and uses the existing Grant Access recovery flow.
  • Fixed iCloud availability handling. A missing app-owned iCloud Documents folder is recreated only when the ubiquity container is available, and a provider outage keeps your saved iCloud selection instead of switching to or creating a local library.
  • Pinned startup, runtime refreshes, metadata preparation, onboarding seeding, file-list reloads, sidebar mutations, and MCP configuration persistence to the validated library root.
  • Fixed startup recovery showing a raw filesystem notice alongside onboarding, and made non-directory locations produce a readable error.
  • Fixed undoing formatting from the palette or toolbar selecting the entire document and scrolling to the top. Inline, list, block, and link formatting now register the smallest changed range with undo, so the selection and viewport stay where you were working.
  • Fixed MCP folder operations accepting invalid input. They now reject vault-root edits, file collisions, out-of-vault paths, and moves into descendants, and keep registry paths vault-relative even when the library root is reached through a symbolic link.
  • Fixed an MCP initialization error that prevented Codex from connecting, caused by experimental capabilities in its startup handshake.

iOS

Improvements

  • Added Spotlight document discovery. The active library’s saved document titles, tags, and readable body text are indexed automatically, and selecting a result opens the document in Outerline. There is no in-app switch; Search and Siri visibility are managed in system settings.
  • Added Siri and Shortcuts actions to open, search, create, and append to documents. Capture uses the existing library and editor save paths and can run in the background when access is available.
  • Added Notes-schema Siri context on iOS 27. Document and folder entities describe your library, visible documents provide onscreen context, and documents expose readable text with Markdown transfer. This supplies the content for Siri requests; natural-language routing and answer quality still depend on your device and system settings.
  • Added Get Document from Link, which turns an outerline:// link into a Document with a readable Text property in Shortcuts. URL value queries also return document entities on iOS 26 and later. UUID links survive rename and move; heading, line, and annotation links identify the whole document.
  • Added syntax highlighting for fenced code blocks with a recognized language, in both the editor and preview. Highlighting works entirely offline, follows the light and dark appearances, and recognizes backtick and tilde fences. Unlabeled or unknown languages stay plain, and Mermaid blocks continue to render as diagrams in preview.
  • Added Import Web Page to the Library actions menu. The full-height sheet prefills an eligible clipboard URL, offers an inline expandable folder picker defaulting to All Documents, and imports with local extraction and cancellable progress. The finished article opens immediately at the top of the editor with its resolved title and filename already in the navigation bar.
  • Made the Library keep folders ahead of individual notes at every level of the tree, including filtered results. The root uses the selected Library sort field and direction, nested folders use their own sort setting (Name, ascending by default), and each setting sorts within the folder and note groups.
  • Made Library and Recently Deleted search ignore capitalization and diacritics across their existing title, folder, tag, preview, and filename fields.
  • Moved Preview into its own section of the editor’s ellipsis menu, below Star/Unstar. Entering preview replaces the ellipsis with an active blue eye; tapping it returns to editing and restores the menu.
  • Added a branded launch screen with a centered Outerline mark, for compatibility with the iOS 27 SDK.

Fixes

  • Fixed editing an existing comment leaving the keyboard partly open. Sending or dismissing an edit from an inline marker or the inspector now closes the software keyboard and its accessory completely, the editor formatting row no longer appears during comment editing or stays stranded above the bottom toolbar, and it returns normally the next time you tap into the document.
  • Fixed repeated editor rebuilds and title flicker. System-context updates no longer replace the editor and navigation hierarchy, loading keeps the native editor mounted, and content-derived titles remain authoritative over placeholder library titles.
  • Fixed the editor’s Undo button appearing before there was an edit to undo. It now stays hidden until there is one.
  • Fixed accounts with active Publish access being interrupted at launch by a rejected background Sandbox transaction, including a real paid account in TestFlight. Explicit purchase and Restore Purchases actions still explain Sandbox eligibility restrictions, and accounts without Publish access still receive recovery guidance.
  • Fixed Settings > Account briefly appearing and then returning to the Settings root on the first tap after a cold launch. Account refreshes now preserve the open Settings screen and its navigation state.