4/22/25: Contacting us just got easier

Somehow, without my noticing, the Contact Growlybird command on the Help menu of recently-updated apps got broken. Now it's working again. This is the only change to these apps, so if you don't want to contact us, feel free to ignore the update to Backup, Calculator, Jigsaw, Notes, Photo, and Write.

Journal also has a useful new preference. I noticed when updating my own journal on my laptop that on Macs that have touch bars it's too easy to accidentally type the escape key, which by convention removes all changes to the current field without the possibility of undo. If you're a clumsy typist, as I am, you will want to turn on the new option to ignore the escape key.



3/20/25: Another Notes bug fix

The two recent fixes for Notes were correct but not sufficient to fix the problem a few users were experiencing. I got it on the second try. This bug could corrupt notebook files, so please upgrade now.



3/16/25: Notes bug fixes

Notes had two rare bugs that seemed to affect some users repeatedly and most people never. I squashed them.



2/23/25: Backup… oops

I missed an item on my to-do list for Backup in yesterday's update, a minor UI glitch. The Stop button is now enabled when you start a backup. Sorry, folks.



2/22/25: Some tweaks to commonly-updated apps

Here's a batch of bug fixes and minor improvements. It seems like almost every update has a change to most of these.

  • Backup now allows you to eject your backup disks without having to go to the Finder to do it. This is handy especially when you backup to a partition of an external drive: it ejects all partitions without asking. The Finder always asks if you want to eject them all.
  • Calculator has some important bug fixes.
  • Notes used to optionally expand a new text note as you typed the first line. That got broken somehow (I don't know when), but it's fixed now.
  • Write had a problem saving to HTML and EPUB files: sometimes the formatting of text would be wrong.


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