Sabo Typist 0.5: Projects, the Formats, and a Faster First Minute

Version 0.5 is out. It is the version where the editor learned what a project is, and the one where it stopped keeping you waiting.

Projects

A project is a folder in Documents › Sabo Typist, and inside it the documents, and beside them the project's own notes, sources, drafts and Trash. The app opens on the project you had open. File › Projects… lists them, to switch, rename or delete; the line at the top of the documents pane switches too.

A new project asks what it is for — a blog post, a short story, a novel, a film script, a television script, a radio play, a stage play, a musical, a podcast, an academic paper, a document, or anything at all — and shows the page each one starts on, every item of it there to change before the project is made. Tick the starter and the first document comes typed: your name and address at the top left of a story, a book's title page, a script's title page with who to call at the foot, the paper's heading. The details come from Settings › Personal, which is new, and where there is nothing there yet the lines say what goes on them.

Nothing in the file marks any of it. The title matter is ordinary lines, read by where they stand, the way the formats themselves are written, and it lands on the screen where it lands on paper. The count is drawn, not typed, and stays current. ⌘Return ends a page.

The formats

Beside the screenplay there are now twelve script formats, measured off the templates the BBC and the Dramatists Guild publish: BBC film and television, the taped drama and the taped sitcom, the American three-camera and tape-live sitcoms, radio in the BBC's cue style and scene style and the American one, the stage play as America and as Britain set it, the Broadway musical and the Guild's modern musical. Each element sits at its own column in its own face, in capitals or underlined where the format says so, and the paper and the screen count the same pages.

A document — a letter, a cover letter, a résumé, minutes, an agenda, an agreement, a report, school work, the outlines writers plan with — keeps its markdown in the file, and the page hides the marks: a heading in its size with the hashes gone, a bullet for a list's dash, a rule across the page for three dashes. On the line the caret is on, the marks come back.

The rest

Export offers rich text (.rtf) and plain text beside Markdown, PDF, Word and Final Draft. A rich text file, or TextEdit's kind with pictures in it, comes in as markdown. The drafts are a section at the foot of the documents pane now, not a window: open it, choose a draft, and it is over the page with what changed marked, and Bring This Draft Back does what it says.

The first minute

The first launch of 0.4 on a Mac whose Documents folder is kept in iCloud Drive could sit for half a minute under the beachball. The app read every file in the library at once, and iCloud fetched each one while everything waited. That is gone. Pictures are read in the background. A draft is judged by what changed since the last one, so leaving a document no longer reads the whole library. A document iCloud still holds is asked for and shown when it comes, and the page waits for it instead of the whole app. The library's index is written only when something in it changed.

The page is faster too. A long document — a novel, on sheets — used to take seconds to lay out, and again whenever its page count moved under the typing. The pages are now cut by arithmetic rather than by a path per page, and a hundred thousand words come up in well under a second, with every page break exactly where it was.

Under the hood the parts of the editor that have nothing to do with the Mac are being separated from the parts that do, so that one day the same core can be built somewhere else. There is nothing to see of that yet, and there should not be.

Build 10, September 29

The format bar (⌘6) is the Format menu on the strip at the foot of the window: the face and the size, then bold, italic, the highlighter, the alignment and the picture, each lit while the selection has it. It comes and goes with the strip, and stays in sokushinbutsu.

The type has a size now. Format › Size, or the bar's popup, sizes the selection, as bold does, and with nothing selected the whole document, which the project remembers for it. Twelve point is the page's own and what a manuscript's page count assumes, so a screenplay and a manuscript with an opening stay at twelve. The sizes go out in Word and in rich text as they are on the page.

A double-click on the bar over the page, or on either pane's, does what it does on any Mac title bar: the window fills the screen, and a second one puts it back. System Settings decides, as it does for every other window. So weird's third field is Weird light now, a deep of feather purple with the feathers' own light at the edges. The two sliders are shown only under Good Kitty, whose they are.

And a going-over of the whole editor, which found these, now mended:

Dragging the open document into another folder, or a folder holding it, left the window saving to where the file had been. Nothing typed after the drag was kept. It follows the file now, as a rename always did.
A document in another encoding, one from Windows or saved as UTF-16, opened as a blank page, and the first keystroke wrote the blank over it. It opens with its words and is saved back as UTF-8.
Replace in Documents could reach inside the marks that keep a highlight, a note's link and a size in the file: replacing "note" broke every note link. The search reads only the words now, and the match it shows is the one it counted.
A regular-expression search over a file with Windows line ends could crash when the list drew a match on a blank line.
A row of five or more equals signs, a divider or a long page break, turned into a yellow highlight and lost its signs.
Bold, italic or a size over a selection on a document page flattened its headings to the body's size and let their hidden marks take room. The headings keep their look.
The count on a manuscript's first page counted the markup too, a highlight's tags or a note's number, as words. It counts the words.
Typing the end mark, # # # # #, yourself made a chapter called "# # #" and then the end mark again. It is the end, once.
Word files from a screenplay set the cue, the dialogue and the parenthetical at the wrong places and let the lines run to Courier's own height, so Word's page count was not the paper's. They sit where the printed page puts them, twelve points a line. A note referred to twice gave Word two references to one note; the second is its number, as in rich text.
A Final Draft file from a script with a typed title page began with the title page as Action. It goes to Final Draft's title page.
Export as PDF while the notes filled the window saved the notes under the document's name.
Leaving an ordinary full screen reset the panes and the strip to how they were before the last sokushinbutsu.
Renaming "chapter one" to "Chapter One" made "Chapter One 2". A title beginning with a dot hid the file, and it dropped out of the library at the next launch.
Renaming a folder could quit the app when a size or a review copy was remembered for a document removed in the Finder.
The drafts at the foot of the documents pane could show the drafts of a document just closed.
A search as you type read every document in the library again at each pause, on the main thread, and waited for any file iCloud had taken off the disk. It reads only what changed since, and a document still in iCloud is asked for, not waited on.
A picture note loading could lay the whole page out again. Only the document's own pictures do.

Build 11, September 29

One project open on two Macs, or written on one while the other slept, through iCloud. The app read the project's index once, when it opened it: the list of notes, the sources, the parts, the order of the documents. The next time it saved, it wrote its own list over whatever the other Mac had added, and iCloud carried the loss back. A note made on the laptop could be gone by the time the desk had saved a document's part.

Now each save looks first. If the index on the disk is not the one this Mac last read or wrote, the two are put together: what this Mac changed since the last time they agreed, over what the other Mac has. A note added on either is kept on both. One deleted on one Mac and left alone on the other stays deleted. One deleted on one and rewritten on the other is kept, the writing being the later thought. The app also looks whenever it comes to the front, so the tree and the notes are the other Mac's before anything is typed over them.

The document on the page gets the same care. Changed on the other Mac and not touched here since, its new words come onto the page where the caret was. Changed there and typed in here, it is not saved over. The app asks which to keep, this Mac's or the other's, and both are kept as drafts whatever the answer, each with a note saying whose it was. Quitting with the question unanswered keeps both too.

Build 12, September 29

Small things at the edges, all of them the kind that make you distrust a page.

A document's headings went to Word and to rich text at the body's size, and the second level lost its bold. They go as they are on the page.
"— more —" at the foot of every page but the last was also printed on the last page, in Word and rich text, whenever there was a title page. The title page was being counted as one of the text's pages. It is not any more.
Clicking past the end of a centred line put the caret after its hidden mark, and what was typed there broke the line: the mark showed and the centring went. The same was true before a heading's hidden hashes. The caret stays on the words' side now. Return at a heading's first word makes a line above it, and Backspace there joins it to the line above, as they would with the marks showing.
Words brought back by undo after a change of look came back in the old look's colour or the old face. They come back in today's.
A picture on the page whose file was not there yet stayed missing after the file was put in the folder, until the app was quit. It comes once the file is there.

Build 13, September 29

The rest of the waiting on iCloud.

The project menu, and the Projects window, read every project's file each time they opened, and when iCloud had taken one off the disk, the app waited while it came back. They read only what changed since, and a project still in iCloud shows the card it had until it arrives.
Opening a project not opened in a while could sit under the beachball while iCloud fetched its index. It opens straight away on its documents. The notes, the order and the rest come in when the index does, and nothing is written over it before then.
The drafts at the foot of the documents pane counted each draft's words, and the words in and out, while the list was being drawn. On a long document with a long history that held the window. The counts are made to one side and appear in the rows as they are ready.
Opening the app no longer walks every document to see whether a draft is due when nothing has been written since the last one.

Build 14, September 29

Changing anything in Settings used to set the whole look again, however small the change: every word of the open document coloured anew, both panes drawn again, the words counted, the Trash swept. Leaving the Author field did it. Each step of a colour slider did it, many times a second, and on a novel the sliders dragged.

Now the app looks at what actually changed and does that. A change that touches no colour, the page or the face colours nothing, and the sliders tell the window a little less often while they move and exactly where they are let go. On a long document a colour change still takes a moment; that is next.

Build 15, September 29

Typing, in long things. Every key used to set off passes over the whole document: the looks of a document page read again from the first line, the first page's word count counted again, a script's pages cut again with every keep rule it has. On a short piece nobody could tell. On a novel with a typed opening it was a twentieth of a second a key, on a long document page more, and in a feature screenplay a fifth of a second, which is typing into treacle.

Now a key does only what it changed. A document page is looked at round the edit, as far as the edit can reach and no further. The first page's count waits for the typing to pause. A long script's pages are cut again a moment after the last key, not on every one; the words go on laying themselves into the pages as they stood, and the keep rules catch up. Measured on Big Fish, the feature, a key went from about 220 milliseconds to about 35, and a 135,000-word document page from about 75 to about 15. Every page break is where it was.

Build 16, September 29

⌘Z took back everything typed since the last click, which after a morning's writing could be the morning. It goes back a step at a time now, the steps a writer would name: a sentence, with the space after it; a paragraph, as far as its Return; whatever came before a pause of a second or more; and a correction on its own, so undoing a backspace does not also take the words it was correcting. ⇧⌘Z brings each back the same way.

Build 17, September 30

Another going-over of the whole app, every file of it, which found these, now mended:

Bold, a highlight or a size over whole lines wrapped the lines' own marks: a heading was written **# Title** and a note **[^1]: …**. The page looked right, and on paper every note printed in the text. A line's marks stay outside now.
A footnote put in at the start of a paragraph was saved as the note itself, and on paper the paragraph went into the note. It stays a reference.
⌘⌫ while typing asked to delete the document. It deletes to the start of the line, as it does everywhere else; with the documents list in front it still deletes the document.
Deleting the open document within a second of typing lost that second's words, and a switch after the disk refused a save lost the page. Both are written first now, and a page the disk refuses stays on the screen.
⌘S with nothing typed, after the other Mac saved, could put this Mac's older page over it. The newer one is simply taken.
Replace All read documents still coming from iCloud, holding the app until they came, and could write over a newer copy. It leaves them as they are and says how many.
A note edited, deleted or dragged while the other Mac's changes arrived could change the wrong note, or close the app. Notes are found by who they are now, not where they sat in the list.
Taking a review's edits put back anything changed on the page since they were read. It says so and asks for them to be brought in again.
On macOS 13, a project whose index iCloud had put away could be opened as empty and saved that way. It waits for the index now.
A draft kept after a very large paste could need gigabytes to compare. It takes a moment now.
Normseite, Cartella and Feuillet drifted off their margins when a margin field was tabbed through.
Citations with a field left empty: "()" and "In ," where nothing was, no title for a source with no author, a subtitle counted into a short title, "J.R.R." cut to "J.".
Word files put a run's settings in an order Word can refuse, and a full title page pushed a blank page after it. Rich text lost a script's tab stops, an act's drop and a document's rule. A document starting with a rule lost its first lines to the front matter.
The caret at the start of a heading was a point tall. A bold word in a document's title showed plain. Backspace on a rule joined it to the line above.
A folder called Trash became the Trash.

And it draws less: the look was read from the settings some ninety times a frame, So weird's field was made again on every blink of the caret, and a key set off three timers and a count. Each is done once now.

Build 18, September 30

The beta. Sabo Typist is free to download while it is in beta, with a key that stops the trial, from the download page. The Licence window says so: its button gets a key rather than buying one, the trial says where a key comes from, and a key the site gave says when it was given, not that it was bought.

Build 19, October 5

The format bar grew. After italic come underline (⌘U) and strikethrough (⌘⇧X), which work the way bold does: on the selection, on the word the caret is in, or on what you type next. In the file an underline is <u>…</u>, which markdown has no mark of its own for, and a strikethrough is ~~…~~; in a screenplay an underline is still Fountain's underscores. Both go to Word, to rich text and to paper, and a rich text file with underlining comes in underlined, not in italics.

After the alignment comes line and paragraph spacing, as Docs has it: single, 1.15, 1.5 or double, and space before or after a paragraph added or taken away. With something selected it is the selected paragraphs', written after the line in the same mark as its place, {line=1.5} or {.center after=0}; with nothing selected it is the whole document's, kept by the project as its size is. Either way one ⌘Z takes it back. It is not offered where the format fixes the type: a manuscript is double-spaced because the magazine says so.

Each look now has its own way of saying which row a right-click is about, in place of the Mac's blue ring, and its own question before anything is deleted: Baby, just stop asks on the marigold with a red Delete, Good Kitty in its own ink, Mall Bangs in platinum with the heavy black ring round the default, Samsara in soft grey on white, So weird on the field.

Build 20, October 6

A new icon: Sabo, the black cat, white eyes and all, on a rounded square that runs from blue to violet with a gloss over the top. She sits in the middle by her face. Her tail does not.

Settings were made over. The sections run down the left in big type with no headings over them, Personal first, and the chosen one is a square of colour from edge to edge. The search is a plain band across the top that turns white while you type in it. The pages lost their titles, which said what the sidebar already says. The looks and So weird's three fields are square blocks you can actually hit, the text fields are bigger and square, and Tab goes from one to the next, which it did not do at all. A lamp at the foot of the sidebar says Saving… while you type and Saved once it is kept, and typing is kept a moment after you stop rather than only when you leave the field. The page's Author fills itself from your last name in Personal, and follows it until you give the page a different one.

Under So weird, the ice cream truck's blue now holds through the middle of the window, where the page is, and the type on it is black.

Highlights, and notes made from them: right-click a highlight and Link to Note offers Create note, which makes the highlighted words a note and links them to it in one go. The chosen note's card under Good Kitty is grey now, not a white glare, and its edge runs from a deep version of the highlight's colour into the colour itself. A selection over a highlight shows the highlight darker instead of covering it in grey. A highlight paints the words, not the rest of the line after them. Return at the end of a highlighted bit starts the next line plain, and Remove Highlight works with only the caret there, so there is a way out of one.

And these, now mended:

The caret stood low, on most pages reaching into the line below. It stands on the line's own baseline now, from the top of the tall letters to the foot of the descenders. The selection's bands did the same and do the same.
{.center} and {.right} showed on a plain page, and a centred line was centred with its mark, a little to the left. They are hidden on every page.
Deleting from the end of the document upwards left the deleted lines drawn on the screen, and no scroll cleared them.
The strip's Saved and Saving… moved the format bar along every time it changed.

Build 21, October 6

A project is a shelf now, not a single kind of thing. What used to be its type is a format — Plain, Blog Post, Short Story, Novel, Film Script, TV Script, Radio Play, Stage Play, Musical, Podcast, Academic Paper, Letter or Paperwork — and a format can be set on any document or folder in it, not only on the project. Right-click a row and Format lists them all, with a check on the one it is in; the last item gives it back to its folder's. Off any row, the same menu changes the project's. The words are not touched: they are read again on the new page, so an underscore that was an italic in a story is an underline in a screenplay.

What has no format of its own is written in its folder's, and that in the project's. The page goes the same way: change the margins on a chapter and you have changed the novel's, and the screenplay folder beside it keeps its inch and a half. A new document is in its folder's format, and opens typed the way that format opens, as it did per project before.

File › New Document As, and New in the documents pane, make one in a format of its own whatever its folder's is, or from a letter or one of the forms, typed and ready to fill. The New Project sheet asks for a format where it asked for a type, with a line about each.

Projects from before keep what they were: a Generic project is Plain, a Document project is a Letter.

And these, now mended:

A new document, or any document you open, starts at the top of the page with the caret there, not wherever the last one was scrolled to, and not with the page's top margin cut off.

Build 22, October 6

Several documents at once. ⌘-click or ⇧-click rows in the documents pane to choose more than one, and the right-click menu acts on all of them: Move To lists every folder they could go into, New Folder with Selection puts them in a folder of their own in the order they were in and leaves its name ready to type over, Delete asks once for the lot, and Format sets them all, or gives each back to its own folder's. Drag them together, too. Choosing several opens nothing; the page stays on what you were writing.

A draft switched to Short Story, Novel or an academic paper now looks like one without retyping. The page indents its paragraphs, so the blank lines you typed between them take no room, on the screen and on paper. A longer gap is kept as a scene break, and so is a line of marks — #, ***, * * * — now set in the middle. A tab typed at the head of a paragraph is no longer added to the page's indent, a list or a paragraph broken by hand sits at the margin, and in a letter, paragraphs typed one under the other get the gap a blank line would give them. None of it touches the file: switch back to Plain and the blank lines are where you left them.

And these, now mended:

A story whose first paragraph is prose no longer takes that paragraph for your name and address, nor the second for its title; it opens with Settings › Personal's instead. A letter's first paragraph is no longer set as your address, and an MLA paper's first lines no longer as its heading.
A story that opens on its one # Title takes it as the title on page one, not as a chapter on page two.
A typed story or novel begins a chapter on a fresh page at each # heading, not only at a page break, and after a page break only the chapter's own line is centred, not the text under it. A typed title or chapter no longer prints its hashes.
# # # is a scene break, not a chapter.

Build 23, October 6

PDFs in the notes. Drop one in, paste it, or choose New › PDF or Picture… in the notes pane, and it is a note like a picture is, with its page count on the card; drop or choose several and each is a note of its own. Open a picture or a PDF and it fills a window, a page at a time, with a pen in red, blue or black, a yellow highlighter, and an eraser for either. The file that came in is never written to: what you draw is kept beside it, and erasing every stroke leaves the note as it came. Printed, such a note shows its first page with your marks on it.

And this, now mended:

In a story or novel, a line you set right, centred or spaced from the format bar is a paragraph of its own, not one carried on from the line above.

Build 24, October 6

Write one thing without a project. File › New Document makes a file in Documents, in no project, and File › Open… opens any text file where it is and edits it there, never copied or moved. A rich text, Word or Final Draft file is copied into Documents as text. These loose documents have a list of their own in the documents pane, with notes and drafts like a project, and the path to the file where a project shows its name. A file that belongs to a project still opens in that project. A new document in the open project is New Project Document (⌃⌘N).

Links. Choose some words, right-click, Link…, and type a page or an email address. The file keeps [words](address), as markdown does; the page shows the words and hides the marks. Right-click a link to edit it, open it or remove it. Word, rich text and the PDF each make it a link of their own, and plain text puts the address after the words.

Word files come in as they were written: headings by their style, as # and ##, and links with their addresses. Before, every heading came in as body text and every link as just its words. The Finder offers Sabo Typist for Word and OpenDocument files too.

A picture on the page goes to the left or the right with the words around it, or across the column. Pick which from its panel, and drag its inner edge to size it.

Documents and windows. ⌘W closes the document and leaves the window; ⌘⇧W closes the window. Add File to Library… is now ⌥⌘O. A document chosen in the documents pane, clicked or arrowed to, opens with the keyboard still in the list, so the arrows go on through the documents; Tab or Return hands it to the page. A question the window asks, such as whether to delete, comes up as a card over it rather than the system's sheet, and the window takes no clicks until it is answered.

The status bar shows from the first launch, with the lamp, the zoom and the count. ⌘3 still hides it, and the switch for it is gone from Settings.

Build 25, October 7

A face for some of the words. Choose them and pick a face from the format bar's popup. The file keeps it the way it keeps a size, as <span style="font-family: …">, and Word and rich text set those words in that face. With nothing chosen, the popup sets the document's face, as before.

Custom Spacing…, at the foot of Format › Spacing, takes any numbers: the lines as a multiple, such as 1.75, and the space before and after each paragraph in points. With words chosen it sets their paragraphs; with nothing chosen, the whole document.

Page Break (⌘Return) ends the page on every page now: a plain one, a document, a paper with no typed title page, a letter. Before, only a format with a typed title page honoured it, and anywhere else the break printed as a stray character.

Printing on another paper than the document's, or turned on its side, lays the page out for that sheet: the count at the right edge, a letter's address, a title halfway down. Before, those stayed where the document's own paper put them.

Word files bring their footnotes: each [^1] where it was, and the note at the end. Before, the notes were dropped, even from a file Sabo Typist had written.

Typing is about twice as fast on a long document: under 20 milliseconds a keystroke on a 120,000-word novel, where it was 37. Comparing two drafts of a long chapter, which could take seconds, is quick again.

Fixed:

Bring This Draft Back, with Show what changed on, put the struck-out words back too.
A document's spacing, set on one Mac, was lost when the other Mac's changes came in.
Quitting after a save the disk refused lost the last words without a word. Now it asks.
The margin and Trash fields in Settings rewrote themselves while you were typing in them.
New Project turned a layout you had not touched into Custom.
Help gave the old shortcuts for ⌘N, ⌘O and ⌘W.
Choosing a draft, or dropping a picture or PDF on the notes, held the window while iCloud fetched the file.
A picture replaced in its folder blinked out and back.
The caret before a link at the start of a line was a point tall.
~~words~~ typed by hand struck through only after the document was opened again.
Back and Forward forgot a document once it was renamed.
A citation with three or more editors, in MLA and Chicago.

Build 26, October 7

A colour for the words. The format bar has a text colour switch, an A over a bar of the colour the words have. It opens on a grid of colours, Default to give the words back the look's own ink, and a row of your own colours from the Mac's picker. The file keeps the colour as <span style="color: …">, and the paper, Word and rich text all print it.

The highlighter takes any colour now, from the same kind of switch: a pen over the colour, a grid of light colours, None, and your own. Yellow, blue, pink and green are still written the way they always were. Any other colour goes in the file as the mark's own background. Words with a colour of their own keep it over a highlight.

Large status bar, in Settings: the strip at the foot of the window twice the size, its words, its switches and its height.

Words copied off the page and pasted back on it keep their looks: bold, slant, underline, a face or a size of their own, a highlight, a colour. From anywhere else they come in plain, as before.

Fixed:

Highlighted words in a dark look opened in white, not the dark ink they wear over a highlight.
A selection could end inside a line's hidden marks, the {line=1.5} after a heading, and Delete then left half the mark showing. Delete, Backspace and ⌃K now take the marks whole when they join two lines.
With the plain documents' index still in iCloud, the list could open as a project and write an Untitled into it.
A row's selection showed past its ring, and a card's face showed round its edge.

Build 27, October 9

This one is for the testers. Everything here is free while Sabo Typist is in beta, the phone included, and what you find is what decides what gets fixed next.

The phone

Sabo Typist has an iPhone app now, on TestFlight. It is for the thought you have on a walk: speak it, type it or photograph it, and it lands in a project's notes on the Mac. A recording can go into a note, into a new document of its own named for its first words, or onto the end of a document you have open. The words come in as you speak, and the recording is kept with them for the word that came out wrong.

The phone also has your documents. It shows every project, and you can read a document, write in it, rename it or start a new one, and the Mac takes the change in. If the Mac changed the same document in the meantime, the phone's version is kept beside it, as "(from phone)", and nothing is written over.

To pair them, choose File › Pair a Phone… on the Mac and point the phone's camera at the code. On the same Wi-Fi, or with the Mac on the phone's own hotspot, the two talk directly, with no server in between. Away from the Mac, they go through Sabo Mailbox, which keeps what the phone sends sealed with the pairing's key until the Mac collects it. The Mac shows a line at the foot of its window when something comes in, and the phone says whether it is up to date and since when.

To join, write to ciao@sabotypist.com and say you want the phone. You will get a TestFlight invitation.

On the Mac

Pictures from the notes go onto the page. Drag a photo from its card and drop it on the page: it is copied in beside the document and set to the side of the paragraph under the pointer, the words going round it.

A picture's line, the ![](photo.jpg){.left} that says where it goes, is hidden now, so the page shows the picture and nothing else. The file keeps the line as it was. The pointer over a picture brings a × to its corner to take it off the page, and Backspace takes it whole. ⌘Z brings it back either way.

Notes fold down to their titles. The arrow at the left of a note's title folds it and opens it again; Collapse All, on the right-click, folds every one. A note stays folded until you open it. A folded note with no title shows its first words.

New Document from Note, on a note's right-click, makes a document of it in the folder you have chosen: named for the note's title, its words in it, and where they are from under them. A picture's note makes a document with the picture. The note stays where it was.

Fixed:

A photo dragged from the notes never reached the page, and a press on the photo could not start a drag at all.
Typing beside a picture went into its line, and the picture fell apart into its letters.

What to try

Pair the phone, and send something from it with the Mac asleep, then wake the Mac. Did it arrive, and how long did it take?
Edit the same document on both and see what each one keeps.
Drop a photo from the notes into a chapter, fold a long note, make a document from one.

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Build 28, October 9

The phone

The iPhone app no longer needs a Mac to be useful. With none paired, it keeps its own projects: + New project, under the list, makes one, and New makes one when there are none. Notes, documents, the end of a document and a spoken document all work on the phone alone. Pair it later and its projects are made on the Mac the first time something comes for them.

Where the phone stands with the Mac is said in one place: Settings, under Sync with your Mac, once it is paired. The home says only "Up to date" and the time, beside Sabo.

While you write a document, a faded microphone at the foot of the words speaks the rest onto its end, and a paste button beside it puts in what you copied, without iOS asking first. New, on a project's Notes, makes a note; anywhere else, a document.

The phone's build is 15, on TestFlight.

On the Mac

A word at the foot of the window says when your projects have gone to the phone, as well as when something has come from it. Settings › iPhone › Show when it syncs turns every such word off.

Unpairing, in File › Pair a Phone…, now deletes the mailbox on the server and everything sealed in it.

Fixed:

A document made on the phone and typed in at once came to the Mac twice: empty, and again as "(from phone)".
Edits made away from the Mac, through Sabo Mailbox, were kept beside the document as "(from phone)" from the second edit on.
A capture for a project made on the phone went into the last project opened, under "For …".
The photo button did nothing after choosing Take Photo or Choose from Library.

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Build 29, October 9

Never losing the work

Sabo Mailbox now keeps your projects whole — documents, notes, and the notes' pictures and recordings — sealed so that only your phone and your Mac can open them. Because nobody else holds the key, nobody else can give it back to you if you lose them. So there are ways to keep the key that are all yours:

File › Print Recovery Sheet… prints one page: a code your phone's camera reads, and the same code in letters and figures. Keep it somewhere safe, away from the Mac.
File › Restore from Sabo Mailbox… takes that code on a new Mac and brings every project back, pictures and recordings with it. Nothing already on the Mac is written over.
File › Trusted Person lets someone else with Sabo Typist keep your recovery for you, sealed so that only their Mac can open it. They send you their keeper code; your Mac seals your recovery to it; you send that back by Messages or mail. If you lose everything, they print your sheet again.

Settings › iPhone says how much of your mailbox your work fills. The mailbox is free while Sabo Typist is in beta.

From the phone

What you delete on the phone — a document, a note or a whole project — goes to the Trash on the Mac, where you can get it back. A project open on the Mac is not deleted. The phone can now show a note's picture and play its recording, fetched from the Mac. Both need the next phone build on TestFlight.

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Build 30, October 10

Colour and links

The format bar has two new switches: the text's colour and the highlighter. Each shows the colour the selection has and opens on a grid of colours, the one that takes it off, and a row of your own, added from the Mac's colour picker.

A web or email address pasted over words makes them its link; pasted over a link's words, it is the link's new address. Right-click a link to change its address, follow it or take it off.

Page numbers

View › Page Numbers (⌥⌘5) turns them on and off, and View › Page Number Position puts them in one of six places, at the head of the page or the foot. The format bar has the same switch. A page that was never shown now comes on single-spaced, as a plain page does; Custom Spacing…, at the foot of the spacing menu, takes any line spacing and any space before and after.

Copy and paste

What you copy out is the markdown, as the file has it, so a markdown editor or a text field gets the writing as written. Mail, Pages and Word take it as rich text instead, with the marks gone and in their own ink. Pasted back on a page here, it keeps every look. Words from elsewhere come in plain, their markdown read on the spot, and one ⌘Z takes the whole paste out.

The right-click menu is short now: what the pointer is on, then the clipboard, then the looks, then what goes in at the caret.

Fixed:

A paste into a centred line left it uncentred.
Line breaks from Word files and web pages came in as several kinds.
A file that is neither a picture nor words showed a badge when dragged onto the page, for a drop that did nothing.
The phone's sync now shows in the window's corner: Syncing… in amber, then Synced in green.

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Build 31, October 10

The outline

View › Outline (⌘⇧O) puts the document's bones where the list of documents was: a script's acts and scenes, numbered as the page numbers them, or a manuscript's chapters and headings, each level a step in. Click a row and the page turns to it; the arrow keys walk them. Outline again, and the documents slide back.

Double-click a row, or choose Edit in its menu, to retype the heading on the page. Delete takes the scene out, or the chapter with everything under it. It asks first, and ⌘Z brings it back.

Any line can join the outline: right-click it and choose Outline. On a plain document the line keeps whatever look you gave it, bold, centred or anything else, and carries a hidden mark after its words. On a formatted document it becomes the format's own heading; on a script, a scene heading or a section, which the outline lists and the page never prints. Choose it again to take the mark off. A selection marks every line it touches.

Fixed:

With the Mac's "Add period with double-space" on, two spaces turned into a full stop. Two spaces are two spaces now.

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Build 32, October 13

Drafts look like the page

A draft you choose in Drafts (⌘⇧D) now shows the way your document does. If the page has sheets, the draft is on sheets; if not, it's the same plain column. It has the same zoom, the same face and a screenplay's indents. Bold stays bold and a highlight stays lit, with no stars or tags showing. Show what changed still marks what came in and strikes through what went out, and Esc takes you back to the page.

Mall Bangs in Bondi Blue

Mall Bangs' highlight and its projects desk are now a pale Bondi Blue, the 1998 iMac's colour, in place of Mac OS 8's lilac. Every field is square, and in 1998 so is the chosen row.

Fixed:

⌘V with a screenshot on the clipboard beeped in the new note's field and on the page. It now makes the picture a note, or puts it on the page.
Under a draft or a review, the page's I-beam and hands showed through over the buttons on top.
Esc in Help's filter now empties it first, then closes.

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Build 35, October 13

A welcome

The first time the window opens, a card comes up over it with a word from me and one switch. Off, you get the words on the ground and nothing else. On, everything around the page opens at once: the documents, the notes, the drafts, the format bar, the status bar and the icon bar. Under the switch is the look's name; click it and the window changes to the next look while the card stays put. It shows once.

Page outline

Settings › Bars has a Page outline switch, and it means the same in every look. Off, which is where it starts, there is no sheet: the paper is the desk and the words sit on it. On, you get the look's own page: a hairline, a white sheet on a grey desk, a shadow or a slab.

The rest

The accent is the icon's purple in place of the Mac's blue in menus, switches and the chosen row, as long as your Mac's accent is set to Multicolor.
The looks have their names in all five languages.
Before you make your first project, the line at the top of the documents has no menu and File › Projects… is greyed out, since there is nothing to choose between.

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Build 41, October 23

A note lands the same everywhere

This build is about the notes, across the Mac, the web, the phone and Sabo Browser: wherever you make one, it should be the same note when it turns up somewhere else.

A note's id is now the same kind everywhere, so a note that goes Mac → web → Mac in a review copy is one note, and a highlight bound to it still opens it.
Collect as Note on the web leaves the title empty as the Mac does; a project on the web shows its own notes only; emptied words are no change on the web either.
The web's voice notes are recorded as AAC in MP4 wherever the browser can, which every Sabo plays; a recording the phone cannot play says so on its card.
A PDF note is a plate on the phone that opens the file, not a blank picture.
Find in Documents (⌥⌘F) finds the notes too, last under their own heading; choosing a match shows the card. A note is never replaced in.
Use as Footnote goes by the note's id, so another Mac's notes merging in cannot move the mark to the wrong card.

The phone finishes a note

The note screen has the attribution line, "— where it is from", under the words. Typed there, it names a source on the Mac as it does when typed on the Mac.
The notes' Trash is on the phone: "Trash · N" beside the notes tab, and Put Back under each note in it. A note deleted on the phone shows in that Trash at once.

From Sabo Browser into the Typist

Keep in Sabo, on a note in the browser's margin, now puts the quotation straight into your Typist's project on the same Mac — the one last opened — with the page as a source of the project's, cited on the note. No server, no sign-in; the web desk gets it only where there is no Typist. The citation names the page's own title, not the bookmark it is filed under; and a note is kept once, the row saying Kept in Sabo after.

Import Project, again

Import Project on the web keeps a note's and a source's ids, and a project of the same name already in the account is added to rather than made again: what the folder has that the account has not comes in, nothing is written over. It is the one sync between a Mac and the account that is done by hand.

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Build 42, October 23

Your Sabo account on the Mac

Settings › Account signs the Mac in to the account you use at write.sabotypist.com: your email, the six-digit code from the mail, and for a new account the terms. From then on your projects, documents and notes are kept in step with the web, both ways, so the same account opens them in a browser and on your phone. A change made in both places at once keeps the web's copy beside yours as “(from web)”, and nothing is lost. Signed out, nothing is sent, and your files stay where they are.

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Build 43, October 25

Deleting a project

Right-click the project's name at the top of the documents list for Rename…, Reveal in Finder and Delete…. Delete asks, then puts the whole project in the Mac's Trash, where it can still be got back. The open project can go too: the window moves on to the project you had open before it, or to the plain documents when none is left. File › Projects… lets the open one go as well now, and the web has the same: a right-click on the project's name, and a Projects list that lets the open one go. Signed in, a project deleted on the Mac leaves your Sabo account on the next sync, and the question says so.

Numbers past 99

A numbered list that runs past 99 — a reading list picking up at 174 — drew its numbers over the first word of each item, on the Mac and on the web alike: a number has a quarter inch, and three figures want more. Now an item whose number is wider than its quarter inch hangs its words further in, every line of the item together, half an em clear of the number; a list that fits stays where it was. The file was never wrong — the line is 174. …, as any program reads it — so nothing imported needs doing again.

Lists on the format bar

The format bar has a list button after the spacing. Click it and choose a checklist, a bulleted list or a numbered list: the selected lines become that list, or the list comes off where every line already is one. In the file a list is markdown, so any program reads it. The bar's drops are popovers with their teardrop again, on the Mac and the web; every other menu stays one piece with its button.

Right-click a document in the list and Save As… is there, for that document. On the web, Save As › PDF now saves the PDF straight to your downloads, with no print panel in between: the same pages the print gives you, with text you can select and search. The Mac always wrote the PDF straight to the file.

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Build 44, October 25

Save where you choose

Save As opens out every time, the sidebar and the folders, with the whole path of where it will save over the format, so you can see where a copy goes before it goes. The web has the same: Where shows the path from the folder you chose, each step a way back up, and New Folder. On the web that is Chrome's and Edge's; Safari and Firefox save to your downloads, and the panel says so.

The Sabo folder, anywhere

Settings › System › Your projects shows the folder your projects live in, opens it in the Finder, and Change… picks another: an external disk, a folder you sync. Sabo Typist relaunches to open from it. Your projects stay where they were until you move them there in the Finder. If the disk is not plugged in, the standing folder in Documents opens instead.

Drag a document out

A document or a folder in the list drags out to the Desktop, a Finder window or Mail, as its file.

Baby, just stop, Mall Bangs and So weird draw the row above the toolbar black, its title and switches white; Samsara and Good Kitty give the toolbar a light edge along its top when it sits at the head.

The agreement is now with Bramblewick LLC, which makes and sells Sabo Typist. Nothing in it changed for you but the name.

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Build 45, October 25

Click the document's name at the top of the page to rename it there, as you would in the list: Return keeps the new name, Esc leaves the old one. The web has the same.

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Build 46, October 25

⇧Return is a line break inside the paragraph, as in Word and Docs: the next line sits straight under, with none of the space a paragraph leaves after itself and no first-line indent — a poem's lines, an address. Return still begins a paragraph. The web has the same, and the break goes out in Word, rich text and plain text as the line break it is.

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Build 47, October 25

Drafts are now Version History (⌘⇧D). A writer's second draft is a rewrite, a document of its own; what the app keeps as you go is the document as it stood at a moment, so it is a version. Each one has a number, the oldest 1, so you can say "Version 3" and mean one: the list reads "Version 3 · Today at 6:55 PM". File › Keep a Version (⌘S) and Keep a Version with a Note… (⌥⌘S) keep one; Choose one and the page shows it, with no bar over it: its row in the list carries Show what changed and a restore icon (a clock turning forward) at its right, Restore This Version on its tooltip. Click the row again, or press Esc, for the page back. The web has the same.

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Build 48, October 26

A Word file comes in with its shape: Word's bulleted and numbered lists come in as lists, and a résumé's name and section titles, set bold and bigger than the text, come in as headings. Bold also shows in a face that has no bold of its own, such as Geneva, in the text and in headings. The web reads Word files the same way.

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Build 49, October 26

A Word file keeps its dividers and its spacing: a line under a heading comes in as a rule, drawn as a line on the page, and where Word leaves a gap between paragraphs a blank line parts them. A rule is drawn as a line on a plain page too now, as on a document; a manuscript still types it. On the web, a long paragraph with another line straight under it is parted from it as on the Mac.

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Build 50, October 26

Format › Spacing and the spacing switch on the format bar now check the line spacing in force, as the web does: Single unless you have chosen another for the document, or for the paragraphs you have selected. Choosing Single takes your choice off again.

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Build 51, October 26

A file goes back out as the type it came in as. Drop in a Word file, change a line, and Save As or Download gives you a Word file again; the same for rich text, plain text, Markdown and a script's Final Draft or Fountain. Right-click a document and choose File Type to send it out as something else from now on, or pick another format in Save As for one copy. The web has the same.

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Build 52, October 26

A divider goes out as a line. A line of three dashes on a plain page is drawn as a rule on the page, and now it goes out as one too, in Word, rich text and PDF, where it went out as the dashes. A manuscript still types it. The web has the same.

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Build 53, October 27

Share has its own menu in the menu bar, just before Help: Share…, Shared with You, People and Groups, Share for Review and Bring In Edits. The button over the page is gone; Share… opens under the document's name, and Shared with You says how many are new. The box where you look someone up no longer offers Hide My Email.

Fixed:

A document the disk would not give opens as nothing, never as a blank page a keystroke would save over.
What the Mac could not read, or a folder it could not list, is no longer taken for deleted, here or on your account.
Another Mac's copy of a document is let go only once Version History has kept it.
Version History brings back only a version it can read.
Sync Now no longer sends new documents to your account twice.
A pasted pairing link with a space in it no longer crashes the app.

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Build 54, October 27

New icons. Every icon in the window is drawn by one hand now, the same set the web uses: one line weight across the top of the window, the panes, search, Settings and the format bar, where before each was a system symbol sized its own way. Settings is four sections, the ones you open most at the top: Look, Page, Account and General. Version History's rail and notes are in the look's own colour, not blue, and the current version's ring sits on the line.

Fixed:

A divider below where you type no longer flickers through the line above it for a moment.

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Build 55, October 27

Home. The project picker opens on Home: every project as a root of its own, your plain documents last, each folder opening and shutting with a click on its row, as in VS Code. Hover a root for New Document, New Folder, Refresh and Collapse All. The three pane switches at the top right are one now, the layout icon: its menu shows and hides the documents, the notes and the status bar, each with its key (⌘1, ⌘2, ⌘3).

One version history. Signed in, Version History lists the same versions on the Mac and on the web, and every version kept on this Mac goes up to your account, offline ones too once you are back. A document's versions follow it when you rename it or its folder.

Fixed:

No more "Before your account's words" version every time your account's words came down.

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Build 56, October 28

The Mac and the web are the same app now. A start screen when you open it: your projects, the document you were in with Continue writing, the four you edited last, a new document in any format, and a field that finds a document, a project or a template. View › Start Screen brings it back; Settings › Projects turns it off. Back and forward are carets either side of the document's name, shown only when there is somewhere to go. Shared with Me is a section at the foot of the documents, with a dot on what is new. Scroll through a long document and the page you are on shows beside it on the desk. A new Mac starts with Templates, one document in every format. The Share menu waits for Settings › Account › Work with others.

Every menu that opens from a button hangs from it by a teardrop, as on the web, and lights the row under the pointer. New in the notes is an icon in the corner of their title. A document's right-click menu has Download, straight to your Downloads. Drop files from the Finder on the documents and they come in, the column lit in your look's own way. New Project asks before throwing away a name you typed.

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Build 57, October 30

Notes fill the window as a board. Notes › Fill the Window lays every note out as a card in rows and columns: drag one to a new place and the spaces show where it can go. Sort the board by date and set the cards' size, and the notes are found as you type in the search on the name's line. Every card is ruled now, a red line under its title and blue ones under the words, and each note can have a colour. Drop a picture on a card and it becomes that note's picture, with the words kept under it; drag the knob on the picture's edge to make it wider or narrower, without touching the file.

On the page, View › Show Ruler puts a ruler above it with handles for the margins, and Format › Indent moves a paragraph in and out. The size on the format bar takes any number. A document's row has a ··· at its right with its menu. The start screen sits in a band under the title bar, as on the web. Hover over the corner and the look's name rolls up. Under So weird, a question asked over the window stands on a card of its own colour, pink or purple, not the window's.

Fixed:

A note's words no longer jump when you click into them.
Opening and closing the notes board no longer leaves the lines running past a card's edge.
The lines on a card no longer cross its outer edge.
An MLA heading short a line keeps its shape when you delete into it.
Search keeps the way back to where you were.

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Build 58, October 31

Crop a picture. Open a note's picture and pick Crop (C) beside the pen, the highlighter and the eraser: the whole picture shows with a frame over it. Drag an edge, a corner or the frame, or draw a new one, and press Return. The card, its preview and print all show the crop, and the file you dropped in is never cut. ⌘Z takes a crop back.

A card with a picture is a card like any other: there is a line under the picture to write on, even before it has words.

Fixed:

Dragging a note in the list no longer leaves a gap or makes another note disappear.
A note dropped over the lower half of a card goes under it, not above it.

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Build 59, October 31

The ruler has handles you can take hold of. The first line's indent is the bar along the top, the left and right indents are the triangles at the foot, and the margins' edges sit between them beside the numbers, so the three that share the left margin are each caught by where you press. Drag any of them and a dashed line runs down the page where it will land, with the measure beside the pointer; it snaps to the ruler's marks, or anywhere with ⌥ held, and Esc lets go. On a script the handles show where the format puts each element, and stay.

Tags on your notes. A note has a line for tags now, at the left of where it is from: a theme, a chapter, a character, anything, parted by commas. The tags the notes wear sit over them as chips, on the pane and on the board; press one and only its notes show, press another and its notes show too, press it again and it is let go. The search finds a tag as it finds a word. A note made while a chip is pressed wears that tag. A book is still the note's source; a tag is anything else. The same on the web and on the phone, and a tag travels with the note between them.

Fixed:

The margins' edges on the ruler could not be dragged.
The ruler's handles no longer vanish on a script, or between documents on the web.

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Build 60, November 2

Two ways, not three. Your phone reaches your Mac on the same Wi-Fi, and by iCloud Drive when you are away; everywhere else, your writing travels through your Sabo account. Sabo Mailbox, the third way, is put away: it never ran, and the account does what it was for. The Sabo menu's recovery sheet, restore and trusted person go with it, and Settings › iPhone loses its row.

The phone says how it stands, honestly. "Sending" is only said while something is going; what cannot go says why — "4 waiting · your Mac isn't reachable" — under the name on the home and in Settings. Settings › Where your writing lives is one list: On this phone, A folder you choose, Your Sabo account, Your Mac; the account's line carries the address you are signed in with, whichever is chosen.

Fixed:

Settings › iPhone › Sabo Mailbox said "Paired" of a server that did not answer.

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Build 62, November 3

Fixed:

Clicking a version in Version History did nothing: the version was chosen and let go again in the same click. Click one and the page shows it; click it again, or press Esc, for the page back.
A version shown with Show what changed on stood blank lines the page has not, where the version before had its lines placed otherwise: a line break that went out is no longer laid in as a struck, invisible break. The same on the web, where Diary's title stood two lines over its byline.

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Build 63, November 3

Fixed:

Esc did not leave full screen. It does now, from the page or from a pane, once there is nothing else to step out of: a draft over the page, Sokushinbutsu and the notes filling the window each go first, one Esc at a time, as on the web.

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Build 64, November 3

Fixed:

With the notes filling the window, their bar lost the arrow that puts them away, and the switch turned into another symbol. Both stay now, the switch lit, as on the web; the arrow (or ⌘2) gives the window back without the notes. Under Samsara the notes' bar showed neither, nor the Trash; they show there too now, as on the web, and only ⌘4 takes them away.
A click on a version in Version History could seem to do nothing while the version was still being read behind the others. The chosen version is read first and shown as soon as its words are here; a version that cannot be read says so, instead of showing an empty page with everything struck. The list says "Reading the versions…" while it comes. The same on the web.

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Build 66, November 3

Fixed:

Scrolling the notes board could quit the app when the cards were at a size other than 100% and the Mac shows its scroll bars always.
A note changed on the web reached the Mac without a picture put on it there, or where it is from, and the Mac then sent its own copy back and cleared the "where it is from" typed on the web. Both now come across whole. A picture dropped on a card on the Mac goes up to the web too.

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Build 67, November 3

The Share panel has a Writing Record section: the record the web editor keeps of a document — every change as it was made, typed or pasted, chained and stamped — opens as its case file in the browser, where it is read, replayed and shared by link. The Mac itself does not keep the record yet.

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Build 68, November 3

Notes Fill the Window opens and closes with a short move: the pane's edge sweeps across in a fifth of a second and settles, as on the web. With Reduce Motion on it changes at once.

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Build 69, November 3

Version History is where the writing record lives. Each version's row is its date — "Today at 1:51 PM · 1,110 words · 12 in, 41 out" — and its number is in the row's tip. At the header's right, a light: green while every change you make is being kept, and a click turns the record off or on. Beside it, the record's menu: what is kept, Open the Writing Record…, and a link to hand out — Share a Link, Copy Link, Take Back the Link. Under those, the same for the whole project: the work as a whole on one page — its chapters, its days, the chain checked chapter by chapter — and one link for all of it. The Share panel's Writing Record section has moved here.

The Mac keeps the writing record now, as the web does. Every change you make on a document of your Sabo account goes into the same record, typed, pasted, moved, cut and undone, at the moment you made it. A chapter written on the Mac in the morning and on the web at night is one record, and its case file replays both. A phone's edit that arrives while the document is open is kept as a change from elsewhere.

Versions come one a sitting now. One is kept when you leave a document, when you quit, and when you press ⌘S, and no longer after every pause in your typing, so Version History is not a wall of them. On the web, Save and Keep a Version with a Note… are gone from the File menu: the page saves itself as you type, and keeps a version when you leave it.

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Build 70, November 10

Sharing, read again from the start. The Share menu is in the bar whatever Work with others says: that switch keeps other people out of your documents, it no longer hides the menu. Share… is about the open document and nothing else — the field at the top, who has it, the people you shared with lately, your page — and what others sent you lives in one place, Shared with Me, at the foot of the documents, with a word from Sabo (a piece chosen for the Workshop, one taken down) as a row of its own at the top. Share › Shared with Me opens it, and says how many are new.

Every act now leaves a line at the panel's foot: Shared with @ada. · Shared again with the Workshop. · Stopped sharing with @ada — Undo · Published. · Link copied. Undo takes a share or a piece back; nothing asks first any more. When something cannot be done the line says why in Sabo's words, and in your language, with Subscribe… beside it when the subscription is the why.

A share opens on the desk over your own page, read only, with its bar — whose it is, the note, the date, the words — and its versions in a pop-up, each marked against the one before as Version History marks yours. The window that held shares is gone. The panel's field, buttons and rules are the look's own now, and the stray @ beside every name without a handle is gone with them.

Fixed:

Signed out, the Share panel said there was no connection.
With no connection, it said the document was not in your account yet and told you to Sync Now.
Categories saved from the Share panel were never confirmed.
"1 people" in People and Groups.

Version History reads the same under every look. A version is shown on a white page in black type, whatever the look round it, and marked against the one before the way a proofreader marks a proof: what went out is struck through in red where it stood, what came in is written in red over a caret, as a copyeditor marks a page with one red pen, and a paragraph break that came or went is a pilcrow, red or struck. Until now the marks took the look's own colours — a band for what came in, grey for what went out — and under a dark look the two were hard to tell apart. The same on the web.

The edits a reviewer sends back, under File › Bring In Edits…, are marked the same way on the same white page: what an edit takes out struck through in red, what it brings in red over a caret, a break it opens or closes a pilcrow. An edit you leave is struck through in grey, and a click takes it back. The same on the web.

Version History is set in the pane's own type now, its bar and its rows the size of the documents above them, where before they were small print at the pane's foot. And the bar — the handle that opens and shuts the list, and gives it its height — is on its own colour, a step off the pane, so you can see where the documents end and the versions begin. Each look has its own: a shade along the ramp under Good Kitty, a darker platinum under Mall Bangs, a lighter grey under Samsara, the poster's indigo under Baby, just stop, and a tint over the field under So weird. Shared with Me, above it, is set the same way. The same on the web.

The versions are listed in their days: a row a day, shut to begin with, saying how many versions it holds, and a click opens it onto them, each its time. A version you choose opens its day, and the arrows walk from one day into the next. The same on the web.

Fixed:

Over the record's light and its menu on the Version History bar the cursor was the bar's up-and-down arrow; it is the hand now, and the light says Start recording or Stop recording.

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Build 65, November 3

Fixed:

On the note cards the ruled lines ran through the letters' tails, and drifted further off with every line. Each line of a note is now as deep as on the web, its letters centred in it, and the rule runs along its foot, clear of the words, on every card and every line alike. A note cut off after five lines ends in "…" again, and the rules stay put while you type into a card.
The cards' red and blue lines are a little quieter, a fifth less saturated, on the Mac, the web and the phone alike.

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Build 61, November 2

Tab over lines indents them. Select words on more than one line and press Tab: those paragraphs step in half an inch, as Format › Indent › Increase Indent has it, and ⇧Tab steps them out. Over one line Tab is a tab, as before. The same on the web.

Fixed:

Tab over words on more than one line deleted them.
On the web, Bold over a centred or right-aligned line put the stars round the line's mark as well, and the mark then showed as typed on every version. Bold over lines that are all bold takes it off them all.
An indented paragraph's mark counted as a word, and showed as typed on the phone.

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