Tot Pocket

iOS:

• Fixed scrolling stutter on iOS 16
• Share button is now shown while keyboard is hidden
• Added rectangular and circular Lock Screen widgets


watchOS:

• Added ability to clear a dot using the text’s long-press menu
• Added circular, rectangular, and corner watch face complications

All:

• Fixed crashes caused by Windows CRLF line endings in plain text [Yay Tim!]


iOS:

• Fixed new “Dot” icons on iPad
• Empty plain text dots are now initialized correctly [Yay Adrian!]


macOS:

• Added “Hotkey Window Follows Mouse” to Window menu: repositions window under mouse when Show Window hotkey is used [Yay Alex!]


watchOS:

• The text input help is only shown once [Yay Vatsal!]

All:

• Smart Bullets:
- Perfect for creating TODOs and checklists
- Click or tap on a Smart Bullet to toggle its state ON/OFF
- Bullets are normal text that you can copy & paste into other documents
- Easy to share Smart Bullet lists as plain text
- Optimized for both platforms:
macOS: Pick Smart Bullet using * button in status bar
iOS: Set which Smart Bullet to use via Quick Keys in Settings
- Check out What’s New in Help for a video overview and more info


iOS:

• Support for Widgets:
- Multi-dot for viewing a summary of all of your dots [Yay Everyone!]
- Single dot for viewing a snippet of a configured dot [Yay and their dog!]
- Widget content can be updated via iOS Shortcuts
• Links now open directly in Tot:
- Use Settings to turn this feature off and open links in Safari instead
• Improved pointer interactions on iPadOS when using a trackpad
• Fixed current selection in character picker


macOS:

• Fixed a crash when viewing plain text in Help [Yay Terry!]
• Fixed a problem with popover window not appearing over a full screen window [Yay Adrian!]
• Added “Paste and Match Style” [Yay sharprichnorth!]

All:

• Added support for Shortcuts:
- Commands to get, set, or show text from any dot
- Query a dot to get text counts, modification date, JSON dictionary, and more
- Works great as scratchpad to collect input for a Shortcut
- Also a convenient way to save text that has been processed
- Same actions on macOS and iOS, allowing shared workflows

macOS:

• New “Control With” setting – Smart Icons:
- Use Tot's menu bar icon to display a popover window
- Detaching the popover window shows Tot's app icon in the Dock
- Select Tot with Command-Tab keys and access menu bar options [Yay Elsie!]
- Tot's Dock icon disappears when its window is closed
• Improved window behavior when changing Dock and menu bar settings
• Added caching to speed up Font menu (both in menu bar and context menu) [Yay Allen!]
• Reminder about the iOS app isn’t shown on first few runs
• Hovering over a dot now displays its number as a helpful tooltip

iOS:

• Increased contrast of unused dots in dark mode [Yay Mark!]

All:

• Fixed a crash during iCloud updates - often seen at launch
• Fixed a typo in help: there are no longer limitions in this app
• Hash marks for Markdown headers are no longer used for AutoList [Yay TJ!]
• Fixed issues with some bullet characters not automatically starting a list

iOS:

• Fixed a problem with text undo not working
• Changed shortcut action names to be more explicit by adding “Text”
• Fixed a problem with RTL text being displayed incorrectly when returning to foreground [Yay Moshik!]

macOS:

• Fixed a problem with spell check settings not saving correctly
• Improved rendering of dots on the flat title bar
• Fixed placement of popover window in menu bar

All:

• Dot defragger: compacts dots to keep things clean and organized:
- Cleans up dots by moving full ones to the left and empty ones to the right
- iOS: Use “Compact Dots” in share sheet (or tap & hold on share icon)
- macOS: Use Window > Compact Dots… (or ⇧⌘D)
• AutoList will only remove bullets if they are in the middle of a list [Thanks Ian!]
• Fixed check for 100,000 characters: deleting text no longer triggers the alert
• If the first paragraph of a dot is mostly Arabic or Hebrew, the text will automatically switch to using a Right-to-Left writing direction [Thanks Ezra!]
• In plain text, ⌘B and ⌘I inserts a single Markdown character without a selection (this previously only worked with selected text)


macOS:

• New symbol picker added to status bar:
- Click on the asterisk to get a popover with symbols
- Pick a bullet to start a new list, Emoji to add status, or any other symbol
- A quick alternative to ⌃⌘Spacebar


iOS:

• Fixed sample text at first launch

• Compatibility with latest operating systems and hardware

macOS:

• Fixed an issue where the center dot wasn’t clickable. [Yay Chris!]
• Fixed titlebar appearance.

All:

• Improved Markdown support:
- Text should not lose characters when switching edit modes, and literal escapes are only added as needed.
- Fixed issues with escaped Markdown characters not being removed from rich text. [Yay Marvin!]
- Underscores and asterisks in rich text are now escaped when converted to Markdown.
- Text for inline links is handled correctly now.
- Improved handling of horizontal rulers.

iOS:

• Added entitlement for “user installed fonts” so Adobe CC fonts can be used.
• Change sharing extension button from “Done” to “Save”.
• Fixed issues with keys when reduced transparency was turned on. [Yay Oli!]
• Typing whitespace at the end of a link will remove link formatting and allow normal text to be entered. [Yay Gruber!]

macOS:

• The icon picker in Settings is a lot simpler now. We’re not afraid to make mistakes, we’re afraid of bad decisions that don’t get corrected. :-)
• Added icons that look better on future versions of macOS.
• Titlebar appearance was adapted for future versions of macOS.
• Pasting relative URLs now treats them as plain text. [Yay Marvin!]
• Fixed selecting fixed width fonts by not using a localized name. [Yay Carles!]
• Fixed issues with substitutions and text checking getting stored and synced correctly. [Yay Dom!]

All:

• Added Share extension and widget
- On macOS, enable in System Preferences > Extensions
- On iOS, use ⋯ in Share sheet app icons to add Tot
- On iOS, use Edit at bottom of widget view to add Tot
• New Mobius icon. [Yay Ged!]
• Added a limit of 100,000 characters per dot. [Yay Garrett!]

iOS:

• Default font is now selected correctly in settings (both variable and fixed).
• Fixed a bug where tapping a link while editing didn’t select the entire URL.
• Fixed VoiceOver for switching edit modes. [Yay Alex!]
• Improvements when navigating header using VoiceOver. [Yay Alex!]

macOS:

• Help text is displayed using the font size setting of the current dot. [Yay zax!]
• Fixed styling for links dragged in from Chrome.
• URLs pasted into rich text are now linked automatically.
• Scrollbar is now tinted using dot theme [Yay Frank!]
• Fixed drawing issues with status bar.
• Improved VoiceOver labels for statistics and text mode toggle. [Yay Alex!]
• Improved VoiceOver for dot header, status bar, and settings. [Yay Robin!]

iOS:

• Fixed VoiceOver when switching edit modes. [Yay Alex!]
• Improvements when navigating header using VoiceOver. [Yay Alex!]
• Disabled text size changes using keyboard commands (Cmd + and -). [Yay Gruber!]
• Text statistics are no longer abbreviated if there’s enough space (e.g. iPad).


macOS:

• Fixed a crash when dragging or quitting from menu bar (yes, really).

iOS:

• AutoList improvements:

 - Items without any text are automatically removed when you press return. [Yay Ben, Gus, Ged, and Ian!]

- A new item will be inserted before the current line if the cursor is at or before the symbol. [Yay Ian!]

- Text now scrolls into view after inserting a new symbol. [Yay Ian!]


• Font improvements:
- Tot now supports custom fonts.
- For help installing fonts on iOS, please see: https://support.iconfactory.com/kb/tot/using-custom-fonts-in-tot-pocket
- Added setting for fixed width font. [Yay Gruber!]
- Added sliders in Settings to fine tune text size. [Yay Ged!]


• Updated tab button icon (so it no longer looks like indent).
• Fixed name of dark green icon [Yay Karan!]
• Fixed a problem with pasting URLs as plain text.

macOS:

• AutoList improvements:
- Items without any text are automatically removed when you press return. [Yay Ben, Gus, Ged, and Ian!]
- A new item will be inserted before the current line if the cursor is at or before the symbol. [Yay Ian!]
- Text now scrolls into view after inserting a new symbol. [Yay Ian!]

• Hiding the window with the hotkey will restore the application that was open when the window was activated.
• Updated help with settings for menu bar items: configuring text view quotes and spelling, floating window support, and modifying keyboard shortcuts. [Yay @tot_app followers!]
• Removed an unneeded submenu from text view context menu.