What’s new

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What’s new

Hi there,

We’re closing out the summer with a huge update! Tags now flow right in your text, colors and color pickers got a major revamp, including completely custom colors, Daily Notes can be exported for any date range, and Quick Entry on Mac got smarter.

On Windows and Web, we’ve shipped beautiful new CJK typography (coming to the native apps as well soon!) and a big round of Tasks improvements. Plus lots of fixes and polish across the board.

Also, if you are a Quip user, we are building an import tool – if you want to test it early, please drop an email to support@craft.do.

If you want, watch Peter’s video first or jump into all the details below!

\ \ Customize Craft Like Never Before: Colors, Tags & More - YouTube\ \ Tap to unmute\ \ \ \ Craft Docs\ \ 2:36 min\ \ 6,151 Views\ \ 168 Likes\ \ Data is Outdated](https://youtu.be/6LfTrbIzspI)

Smoother Tag Editing

Available on Mac, iPhone, iPad

Since introducing Tags, one of the biggest pain points has been editing: tag badges meant you couldn’t simply move your cursor into a tag and change it. We’ve reworked the whole inline experience, tags are now much more integrated into your docs, faster to add, easier to edit, and they fit smoothly into your writing flow. No more interruptions.

And we’re not stopping here. In upcoming releases we’ll deepen tag integration with collections and tasks, and the Tags page will move from document-based listing to block-based results, coming to Search later, too.

New Colors & ColorPickers

Available on Mac, iPhone, iPad

Colors and Color Pickers are getting a big update: We have modernized all of the default color palettes in Craft and added the ability to select completely custom colors for blocks, inline text color, table colors and collections.

New Default Colors: Block colors, page background and text colors, backdrop colors, washi tape colors, inline highlight colors, collection colors, colors in tables, colors for folders and interface accent colors all have an updated default color palette.

More Custom Colors: Block color, table colors and select item colors in collections can now be set to a completely custom color

Custom Inline Highlights & Text Colors: You can now select any hue for an inline highlight, or set a completely custom inline text color.

Automatic Contrast Adjustment: In the page background and page text color panels, you get a warning when your text is becoming hard to read, and with a single tap Craft adjusts your colors to a minimum readable contrast.

Custom Default Block Colors: In the block color palette, open the context menu for a color via right click and choose “Customize” to set your own default colors. Perfect to keep your favorite color at hand or for brand colors you use again and again.

Named Colors: All color palettes now show a tooltip with the name of the color on hover.

Improved Color Picker: The color picker panel has been improved and made more powerful. Numeric input is now more flexible, with support for RGB and HSB modes. There is a new “Spectrum” color picker, and the Grid view has a new and improved color palette.

Command Menu Colors: The colors accessible from the Slash-Menu now match the default block colors in name and value

Tables & Collection Block Colors: Block colors applied to tables and collections are now used as border and text color by the tables/collections and block decorations are displayed correctly.

Clearer Collection Colors: The colors for single and multi-select options in collections are now displayed more clearly for better differentiation. You can also now select a custom color for an option.

Interface Accent Color: For the interface accent color, you can now choose between ten different colors in settings.

Daily Note Export

Available on Mac, iPhone, iPad

You can now export Daily Notes for a selected date range. Accessible in the three dot menu of the Calendar or All Docs view.

Upgraded Quick Entry

Quick Entry now supports the same task, quote, and code block shortcuts you use in the editor, and opening documents from Spotlight works reliably.

Quality of Life improvements

As we promised, over the next several months roughly 80% of our effort will go toward improving and refining the parts of Craft you already use every day. On top of everything above, we’ve also improved and fixed 30+ other aspects of Craft.

Reminders: When adding a reminder to a block inside a daily note, or to a scheduled task, there now is a suggestion for that given day, so you can set the reminder in a single click

Export Panel: The interface of the PDF and Markdown export panel has been updated to a more modern UI that fits in with the rest of the app.

Before

After

Tags: When creation of a new tag is stopped by an ignore rule, the panel now displays a link directly to the rule in Settings, so you can quickly adjust it

Links & Files: The panel to edit title and description of links and files has been redesigned to a more flexible panel with growing text fields, that let you see the whole description at once.

Quick Entry: Quick Entry now support the same task, quote and code block shortcuts that you also use inside the editor

Daily Note: On macOS, the tasks inside the tasks of the Daily Note now display a badge with the reminder time, when one is set

Titles in Bottom Action Bar: When a text block is selected that is a title, there is now an item in the Bottom Action Bar that displays its type, making heading levels easier to identify and change

Bottom Action Bar: When selecting multiple files, links or images, the bottom action bar on macOS now displays the size options, so updating multiple blocks at once is easier

The Mac bottom action bar's size items (Small/Regular/Card/Embed for URL and file blocks, Auto/Large and Fill/Fit for visual media) only appeared for a single selected block — selecting multiple blocks dropped them entirely. They now also show for multi-selections when every selected block supports them (mixed selections keep the previous minimal bar).

Illustrations: The colorful icons for Page and Card; for Link and File layout sizes and on iOS for creating new folders and documents from the bottom toolbar have been updated to more modern illustrations

Update Illustrations in bottom toolbar create menu

Update Illustrations for Page and Card

Update Illustrations for Link layout

Pixel Adjustment: The page container border and the main container border have been moved to the outside for clearer separation

Page container Border

Main Container Border

Bugfixes

Tags: Make hex rule for tags more permissive, so it only disallows six and eight digit hex codes, not three and four digit ones, like #2026

Tables: Fixed block colors only applying to a single cell when the whole table was selected

Tables: Tables now respect block colors and fonts instead of always using the document style

Collections: Collections now respect block colors and fonts instead of always using the document style

Quick Entry: Fixed opening documents from Spotlight when the Quick Entry panel was the last active window

Browse: Fixed the Unsorted folder item count including hidden Daily Notes

Tasks: Fixed creating tasks in a new Daily Note from the Tasks view on iPhone

Document Previews: Fixed cover images briefly disappearing when collaborators edited a subpage

Sidebar: Fixed the current space name sometimes appearing cropped after launching the app

Notifications: Fixed in-app toast notifications sometimes using the wrong background color over styled documents

Card Styles: Fixed a bug where Unsplash images weren’t applied when searching with a hardware keyboard

Cards: Fixed card blocks and style previews sometimes using the app appearance instead of the document style

Before:

After:

Editor: Fix missing page background color for page breaks without backdrop on iPhone

Daily Note: Fix bug where calendar highlights could appear in wrong color

Daily Note: Fix bug where tasks inside the default template where not scheduled correctly

Link Previews: Fix smart link card footer URL overflowing container

Comments: Fix missing background tint on comment thread preview

Sidebar: Fixed “Copy” actions on documents not working unless All Docs was open

Document Previews: Fixed preview cards sometimes appearing blank after scrolling or reopening a folder

Quick Open: Added a “No Results” message when no items match the search

Web and Windows improvements

Improved CJK Typography

We’ve significantly improved how Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese text renders across all four Craft fonts, including bold and italic. Your notes have never looked better. Please let us know how you like the updated fonts - drop us an email to support@craft.do.

Refined Tasks

Press Ctrl+J to capture a new task from anywhere. Task rows have more breathing room, checkboxes now come tinted with your accent color or an upcoming deadline, and the Logbook got smarter: un-completing a task no longer loses its deadline and sub-block preview.

Bug Fixes & Polish

Tasks: Logbook tasks are no longer draggable, since they can’t be reordered

Tasks: Removed the redundant overdue badge in the Today view

Tasks: Fixed the Esc key not closing the Tasks header context menus

Tasks: Cleaned up the shortcuts sheet — removed two shortcuts that aren’t available in the Tasks view

Sidebar: The document theme now shows correctly behind the bottom section of the sidebar

Backdrops & Covers: Restored random Unsplash suggestions in untitled documents

Accessibility: The template picker is now fully keyboard-accessible — Tab to move selection, Enter to choose a template