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Marknote 1.5.2

Hunterx — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Hello again! Welcome to another bugfix release. This update is highly recommended, as it tackles a few critical issues to keep the app running smoothly.

Resolved a crash that occurred when creating your first notebook.
Fixed an issue that prevented notebooks from being removed.
Corrected a glitch allowing notes to be drag-and-dropped through quick sketches.
Note sorting is functioning as intended now.
Restored the undo and redo buttons when a single note is open.
Added the "Clear" button to allow removing content from the quick sketches.
Added several minor background improvements for better overall stability.

Get Marknote

We encourage everyone to update as soon as possible. You can grab the latest version via Flatpak, or your favorite package manager.

Packager Section

You can find the package on download.kde.org and it has been signed with Carl Schwan's GPG key.

Marknote 1.5.1

Hunterx — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Last week we released version 1.5 of Marknote, a fast and free alternative to existing slow and pay-walled note-taking apps. Today we announce a release that fixes some issues and improves a few things across the app.

So here is a list of the most notable changes and improvements:

Pasting text in Source mode no longer clears document content.
Pasting images from clipboard works really well too.
Find and replace text shortcuts are brought back.
Note names are now properly elided.
Markdown syntax highlighter is added to the Source mode.
Code blocks now have their own background.
Items in the Table of Contents will follow active paragraphs.
Edit button is shown in compact mode (for when the format bar is hidden).
Fullscreen mode is brought back for those who need full immersion (Ctrl+Shift+F on Linux or Alt+Enter on Windows).
The KRunner plugin now works pretty well inside Flatpak.
Single note loading is much faster now.
We optimized image loading and reduced video memory usage by almost 50%.

The future is bright

To address some of the questions since the last release:

Yes, code blocks will have proper highlighting in upcoming versions (please keep in mind that we don't have the staff of a large enterprise company, and we probably don't need one either ;)).
Yes again, quotes and some embedded content types are planned to be added too.
Yes once more, cross-platform support is set to be improved. We will release stable versions for all the major platforms once they get through proper testing.
And one more thing: the all-new and shiny block editor is a work in progress, and it will be done when it's done™.

Thank you all

Thanks to everyone for making Marknote your software of choice. We will make sure to keep Marknote up and running at lightning speed for everyone. As always, you can get the latest version of the app via Flatpak, Snapcraft or your favorite package manager. Stay tuned!

Marknote 1.5

Hunterx — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:30:00 +0000

It’s been a busy few months for the development team! We’ve been focusing heavily on turning Marknote into a much more robust knowledge base while keeping the interface as clean and distraction-free as possible. Today, we're releasing version 1.5, and it’s packed with major additions and quality-of-life improvements.

Here is a rundown of what we’ve added to this release.

Source Mode

One of the most highly requested features is finally here: Source Mode. Thanks to some fantastic work from our Season of KDE (SoK) contributor, Siddharth Chopra, you can now bypass the rich-text WYSIWYG interface entirely. If you’re the type of person who prefers looking at the raw Markdown syntax while structuring your thoughts, you can now seamlessly toggle into a dedicated source editing view.

Note links

Notes are rarely isolated thoughts, so we’ve added internal wiki-style links with cross-notebook lookup. You can now easily link documents to one another, making it much simpler to build out a connected web of ideas.

Note management

We made it easier to manage your growing number of notes. Each notebook will now show you how many notes it contains. If you need to move notes between notebooks, it is now easy to do that via drag and drop. And finally, we added a new “Duplicate Note” action to make it simple to create templates and copy existing notes.

KRunner plugin

To help you get to those ideas faster, we also added a KRunner plugin. You don't even need to have Marknote open—just pull up KRunner on your Plasma desktop, type what you’re looking for, and jump straight into your note.

Search and replace

Full-text search and replace functionality is also here to make your life much easier.

UI polish and under-the-hood work

We added beautiful, all-new animations for note and notebook items, for the search bar, and brought back the smooth sidebar transitions to make navigation feel dynamic.

We added full Undo/Redo functionality to the Quick Sketch dialog.

We added several improvements to table formatting and actions to make managing grids much less frustrating.

On the technical side, we bumped our Kirigami Addons dependency to 1.11.0, fixed an annoying issue where opening a note updated its modification timestamp, and resolved a Flatpak bug that prevented notes from opening via file managers.

Try it out

Marknote 1.5 is rolling out now! You can grab it on Linux via Flatpak and Snapcraft. A massive thank you to everyone who contributed code, translations, and bug reports for this cycle. Happy note-taking!