Besides these new features, we are preparing a new feature, Automation / Integration, to maximize productivity for users using multiple tools.

We are so excited to hear your feedback about all these updates! 🔥

TL;DR

1. Annual plan
2. Performance improvements
3. Automation / Integration
4. Multiple themes
5. New properties

1. Annual plan

Finally we’ve launched the annual plan and you can save up to 20%!

LIMITED-TIME OFFER: We’d love to offer a 20% discount additionally.

Open Boost Note, select your preferred upgrade plan, and use code FTRW7M at checkout! Please note that this discount code can be applied to the yearly plan only and will be expired at 23:59PM 9th March, 2022 (GMT+9).

2. Performance improvements

Recently released some performance improvements in the form of more efficient database queries and a segmented load to the front end in order to provide a better experience.

This is, however, not the end of the planned improvements as we will continue to explore solutions so that the speed and user experience of the application can be greatly increased. Please stay tuned for more improvements in the near future!

3. Automation / Integration

Currently, we’re preparing a new feature, Automation / Integration, to maximize productivity for users using multiple tools. Here is the white paper.

Beta access is available for customers that have completed a 1:1 video hands-on with our dev team. If you’re interested, please pick a date from this calendar.

4. Multiple themes

Previously, only dark and light themes were available.

Now Solarized Dark, Dracula, Monokai and Sepia are added, choose your favorite and customize your workspace!

5. New properties

Dependencies, URL and Checkbox properties are available!

From product backlog to technical specifications, Boost Note gives you an open space to create content of all kinds. Build a best-in-class workspace with flexible props and views.

• Product backlog: Organize your dev team’s product backlog with Kanban
• Knowledge base: Build a team-wide knowledge base to cut down on repetitive questions
• Tech specs: Having a ‘living document’ with powerful markdown editor
• Meeting minutes: Organize meeting minutes with Calendar view

- Team Boost Note

New in February: Annual plan, performance improvements and more was originally published in Boost Note on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Put in your product backlog and filter them by Status. With Boost Note’s document driven project management workflow, you’ll be able to organize ticket and document in one place.​

​Show product roadmap with Calendar

Add Date to every doc and see them in the Calendar view. You’ll be able to organize meeting minutes, product roadmap and everything you want!​

​What’s come next

We’ll launch the GitHub integration. You’ll be able to import GitHub issues and pull requests to Boost Note views and see the status in real-time.

This solution will be good fit with dev team organizes tasks with multiple GitHub repositories. Stay tuned!

​

New views have been rolling out to maximizes the dev team’s velocity! was originally published in Boost Note on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

A developer team’s velocity is the key for agile development. But sometimes we suffer from sources of burnout such as misunderstanding on the tech specs, repeated progress updates and so on during the agile development iteration.

To solve that we are thrilled to introduce the document centric workflow with new properties, smart views and new folder. Check out below for all the updates!

Document Properties

Customize your document with rich properties for Date, Person, Time, Status and Label. You’ll be able to change the prop title for all, add new options for Status and change the background color for Status and Label.

New folder page

Moreover, with regards to document organization, the new folder page works as an information management system.

Being able to view and manage document properties from a single page will keep your dev team on the same page due to high visibility for all information.

This solution would be fit for

• Agile dev teams: Organize your dev team’s sprint backlog
• Feedback portal: Gather customer feedback in one place
• Knowledge base: Build a team-wide knowledge base to cut down on the repetitive questions
• Meeting minutes: Organize a meeting minutes and write together with teammates

Smart Views

⚠️ Note: Smart Folder has been migrated to the Smart Views.

The more information you have, the more you sacrifice searchability. With Smart Views, you’ll be able to filter the document based on doc properties and quickly interact with the sets of documents important to you.

Smart Views works fine for

• Tech specs: Filter `Label:Tech specs && Assignee:Me` and find a your spec in a moment
• My Tasks: Filter `Assignee:Me && Status:In progress` and organize my own tasks
• Reviewers: Filter `Reviewer:Me` and organize pull requests you have to review

Invite teammates today and cut down on the noise and maximize dev team’s velocity with Boost Note’s document centric workflow!

What’s come next

New Views
Calendar, Kanban, Gantt chart etc will come soon.

Seamless integration with DevOps tools
Repetitive communication and manual workflows is a source of burnout. Your team has enough on their plates- Boost Note’s integrations centralize your product info from 3rd party DevOps tools to maximize developer’s velocity.

Thanks for reading!

Check our every update on the changelog. Let us know what you think of Boost Note — we always love hearing your feedback over on the Community Forum!

And if you’d like to stay in the loop, follow us on Twitter or star GitHub repository or join our Slack group.

Our community always welcomes you ❤️

Migrate documents now

Boost Note supports importing documents from other note-taking services such as Notion, Confluence, Evernote, Dropbox Paper, Quip, etc., and file formats for Markdown, Text, and HTML.

Our mission is to “boost developer’s productivity and creativity” and we are passionate about developing a №1 tool for developers.

There are great note apps and wiki tools out there, but they not always developer-friendly. If you believe in the potential of Boost Note, please switch over today with the migration feature from other tools.

Learn how to migrate

What’s new in Boost Note: Maximize dev team’s velocity with new doc properties and smart views! was originally published in Boost Note on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

With the last release, we introduced Page load speed improvement, Revision diff and Desktop in-page search which many of you had given us feedback about!

Besides these new features, we are also introducing the Free plan expansion 🔥 So here goes!

TL;DR

1. Plan changes
2. Page load speed improvement
3. Desktop in-page search
4. Revision diff
5. Editor customization
- Spelling check
- Custom css style for markdown renderer
- Editor font
- Toggle line number gutter

1. Plan changes

Boost Note can be used for personal use, but it is more powerful for when used to share and collaborate in a team.

We’ve decided to increase the limitations of the free plan to make it easy for your dev team to try Boost Note- now you can invite three Admin and Members to your space in the free plan!

Invite your dev team today to start collaboration.

2. Page load speed improvement

The app is now caching initial page data for folder pages and document pages. When you try to open a page you have opened before, the page will use the cached page data and be shown immediately.

3. Desktop in-page search

In-page search is available for the desktop app. (macOS : `Cmd + F`, Windows/Linux : `Ctrl + F`)​

4. Revision diff

You can see the diff between revisions from the revision modal.​

5. Editor customization

We’ve added more editor customization. All settings are available from the settings modal (macOS: `Cmd + ,`, Windows/Linux: `Ctrl + ,` → Preferences tab.

Spelling check​

Custom CSS style for markdown renderer

Editor font

Toggle line number gutter

Block Editor (Closed Beta)

We’re currently preparing a new document format to provide a more integrated working environment. In this format, you can add GitHub Issues, Jira tickets, and any other external data to a document.

Once they are added to a document, they will be kept updated in the document so you can easily look over their status easily without opening them individually one by one. Also, you can remap properties from multiple sources to customize your blocks more flexibly.

👉 Block Editor introduction and roadmap

If you’re interested, you can register our closed beta program from the settings modal.

​Thanks for reading!

Check our every update on the changelog. Let us know what you think of Boost Note — we always love hearing your feedback over on the Community Forum!

And if you’d like to stay in the loop, follow us on Twitter or star GitHub repository or join our Slack group.

Our community always welcomes you ❤️​

Migrate documents now​

​Boost Note supports importing documents from other note-taking services such as Notion, Confluence, Evernote, Dropbox Paper, Quip, etc., and file formats for Markdown, Text, and HTML.

Our mission is to “boost developer’s productivity and creativity” and we are passionate about developing a №1 tool for developers.

There are great note apps and wiki tools out there, but they not always developer-friendly. If you believe in the potential of Boost Note, please switch over today with the migration feature from other tools.

Learn how to migrate

What’s new in Boost Note in Sep: Increased the free plan, Page load speed improvement, Desktop… was originally published in Boost Note on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Today, we’ve very excited to announce the mobile apps and the free plan expansion 🎉.

Mobile App Beta is here!

​We’ve been building Boost Note to empower developer team’s productivity. The lack of a mobile app was inconvenient for you — yeah me too, I even opened Boost Note with my laptop on the way to work.

Today, we’ve glad to announce the mobile apps thanks to our member’s effort. It is still in the beta and the quality of the app is lower than the desktop app and the web version, but we’ve decided to launch them because we’ve received the tons of requests.

Let us know your request or bug report to the community forum!

• App Store
• Google Play

Unlimited doc for free plan​

​One of the biggest reasons users left Boost Note was the 30 doc limitation. In order to encourage more developers to use Boost Note to help their productivity, we’ve decided to remove the doc number limitations in the free plan for Personal spaces.

Also, you can invite unlimited team members with Viewer role in the free plan! Invite your dev team today to start collaboration!

Of course we’ve prepared the migration from other doc tools like Confluence, Notion, Google docs and etc. Please see the guide and migrate!

A special offer to your team

We’ve built Boost Note as a tool for personal originally, and over 10,000 developer teams have started to collaborate with Boost Note.
We believe that our collaboration features will meet your dev team’s needs too.

If you wish to switch to our Standard or Pro plan, we’ll be happy to offer your team a 30% discount for 6 months. This coupon will be available for Team spaces (more than 2 Member roles) and the first 100 teams only.

To get started, enter the code below to the subscription form.
E-VOUCHER CODE: BOOOOST

Please see this article to learn how to use it.

Boost Note | Develop as one, grow as one

​Thanks for reading!

Check our every update on the changelog. Let us know what you think of Boost Note — we always love hearing your feedback over on the Community Forum! And if you’d like to stay in the loop, follow us on Twitter or star GitHub repository or join our Slack group.

What’s next?

• 🧱 Block Editor
• 📆 Calendar View
• 🗒 Table View
• Want a feature? Let us know over our on our Community Forum.

All the best,
The team at Boost Note

🚀 Boost Note: Mobile App and Unlimited Doc for Free plan! was originally published in Boost Note on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

With the last release, we introduced i18n and Slack integration which many of you had given us feedback about!

Besides these new features, we are also introducing some significant improvements around performance & comments, and a couple of smaller improvements!

We are so excited to hear your feedback about all these updates! 🔥

TL;DR

1. Android and iOS apps
2. i18n 🌎
3. Viewer Role
4. Slack Integration
5. Mention and Notification
6. Speed Improvements

1. Android and iOS apps

We’ve been doing final testing for the mobile apps! Over the past several months we received tons of request for it. We can not wait for the launch!!

We are planning to launch iOS and Android apps around mid-July. Stay tuned!

2. i18n 🌎​

​Around 40% of Boost Note users are from non-English countries.

In order to prioritize development speed, we’ve only supported the English so far, but we are now working on supporting other languages because we’ve been receiving language requests every day.

We completed support for French and Japanese so far, but we need your help!

Please fork our repository and contribute your language. Many Boost Note users in your country are waiting for your pull request :)
https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote.next/tree/master/src/cloud/lib/i18n

3. Viewer role​

​Viewer role has been launched for team users!

This allows you to invite members with a restricted role, called Viewer, to your space for free.

Many users have been using Boost Note as a knowledge sharing tool with their dev team lately. Start collaborating with your colleagues easily by using Viewer role!

Please see the permissions for each role here.

4. Slack Integration​

​Now, you can preview Boost Note doc inside the slack via copy&paste url!
It allows your teammates to see the documents without opening Boost Note.

Enable Slack integration from settings and get started!

5. Mention and notification

We’ve also launched the Mention and Notification for team users.
You can mention your teammates with @ in the comment form to send a notification from the side navigation.

Let’s use Mentions and eliminate missing important information!

6. Speed improvements

We’ve fixed the following two speed issues.

(1) Loading speed of the side navigation
Resolved the problem of slow loading speed as the capacity in Space increases. It’s about 5x faster.

(2) Input speed when markdown editing
Resolved an issue where the input speed when editing markdown would slow down as the amount of space in the space increased.
This issue has been completely resolved, and you can now comfortably write markdown.

We care deeply about performance improvements and continue to work on it. If you notice any issues, don’t hesitate to reply to this email or post on the Forum.

Boost Note | Develop as one, grow as one

Thank you for reading!

We are planning to make various improvements and add new features in July. If you have any feedback, don’t hesitate to join our community and share it with us!

Our community always welcomes you.

• Release notes
• User forum (New!)
• GitHub repository
• Reddit
• Slack group
• Twitter​

Migrate documents now​

​Boost Note supports importing documents from other note-taking services such as Notion, Confluence, Evernote, Dropbox Paper, Quip, etc., and file formats for Markdown, Text, and HTML.

Our mission is to “boost developer’s productivity and creativity” and we are passionate about developing a №1 tool for developers.

There are great note apps and wiki tools out there, but they not always developer-friendly. If you believe in the potential of Boost Note, please switch over today with the migration feature from other tools.

Learn how to migrate

What’s new in Boost Note in June: i18n 🌎, Slack integration, Viewer roles & Many More! was originally published in Boost Note on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

This month we are introducing three important updates, Smart Folder, Document Property and Comment features.

We also added numerous improvements based on your feedback. Check out below for all the updates!

1. Smart Folder​

When it comes to note taking and wiki tools, the more information you have, the more chaotic it can become to manage and search information.

We wanted to solve this problem to achieve the goal of “access the necessary information within 5 seconds”.

The Smart folder is a kind of folder with special features. Unlike regular folders, the smart folder will filter all documents in Boost Note according to the conditions, such as document information, status, labels and so on, you set, and assemble all documents that meet these conditions in the Smart Folder.

Learn more how to use it and getting started!

2. Document Property​

​It allows you to organize documents more flexibly and more intelligently.
You can set the Status to In Progress for doc in progress, Completed when finished, Due Date for doc with deadlines, etc. Customize and manage doc in your way.

We are planning to introduce the customizable workflow using properties such as following examples next Month. Don’t hesitate to share your idea to us if you have!

- Assigned member → Send a notification
- Due date arrived → Change status to completed automatically
- Label attached → Assign member automatically
- and more

3. Comment and Notification​

​To boost developer team’s productivity, we listen carefully to feedback from our users everyday.
We rolled out the most common feedback from users- comment!

You can add comments to the entire document or to each line, allowing you to actively communicate with your team members.

We’ll introduce mentions inside the comment next week!

4. Side navigation sorting

This is a relatively small improvement, but one that many of users have asked for. You can sort the folders and docs in the side navigation. Thanks to all who sent feedback!

We also implemented the category sorting, you can drag and drop to change the order of categories such as Bookmarks, Workspaces, Labels, etc in your favor.

June roadmap: Mobile apps

Finally we decided to launch the mobile apps for iOS and Android! We’ve already stared to implement and do our best to launch in June!​

As well as mobile apps, we are planning to make various improvements and add new features in June. If you have any feedback, don’t hesitate to share it with us!​

Migrate documents now​

Boost Note supports importing documents from other note-taking services such as Notion, Confluence, Evernote, Dropbox Paper, Quip, etc., and file formats for Markdown, Text, and HTML.

Our mission is to “boost developer’s productivity and creativity” and we are passionate about developing a №1 tool for developers.

There are great note apps and wiki tools out there, but they not always developer-friendly. If you believe in the potential of Boost Note, please switch over today with the migration feature from other tools.

Learn how to migrate​

What’s new in Boost Note in May: Smart Folder, Doc Property, Comment & Many More! was originally published in Boost Note on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We hope you are enjoying Boost Note!

Since the last monthly email, the Boost Note team has improved the app a lot and recently, we renewed the entire UI to provide IDE-like UX and make it more developer-friendly.

Here are the major updates this month:

(1) Speed Improvement​

​Since we do care about users’ feedback and got a lot of feedback related to its speed, we made it about 1.3x faster* than before.

* Please note that there may be a difference in speed improvement depending on the document amount in your workspace and the internet situation.

From now on, the app will cache documents that have been loaded once, and when you open the same document next time, you can edit it from the cached one without waiting for sync with the real-time server. Also, we optimized data fetching for the document a bit too.

For the next speed improvement, we will polish the data structure for the page loading to reduce the data transmission time required for initial rendering to less than 500ms, regardless of the amount of documents in your workspace.

(2) UI/UX Renewal​

​We’ve been focusing on improving the quality of the app experience since the last newsletter. The new UI is like an IDE, such as VSCode and WebStorm, which is very familiar for developers.

This new UI will boost the team’s productivity and not sacrifice their time to get used to the tool.

(3) Fuzzy Search​

A fuzzy search like VSCode has been rolled out! Hit cmd/ctrl+P and get started.

Updates (2) and (3) should work without updating if you are using the cloud version, but If you are also using the desktop app, you may need to update the version to v0.16.0 or more (It doesn’t work under v0.16.0.)

Boost Note | Develop as one, grow as one

What’s coming next?​

​We are planning to release another feature called “Document Property” with excellent filtering. This feature allows you to organize documents more flexibly and more intelligently, and you can find documents quickly by using filters.

Stay tuned!

What’s new in Boost Note in April: Speed Improvement, UI/UX Renewal, Fuzzy Search, and more. was originally published in Boost Note on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Release 0.12.2 · BoostIO/BoostNote.next

Update Notes

• Improved global search modal for local workspace by @Komediruzecki
• Revamped shortcut keys
• Notarized macOS app

Improved global search modal

@Komediruzecki introduced huge improvements for global search in local workspaces. Just like IntelliJ IDEA, you can see content from the search in the modal. Please check it out. You can open it via clicking the search button or a keyboard shotcut (macOS: Cmd + P, Windows/Linux: Ctrl + P)

Revamped shortcut keys

The below shortcuts are available for both local workspaces and cloud workspaces.

Notarized macOS app

For macOS users, Boost Note.next app has been notarized! So new macOS users won’t see the message below after downloading the app.

What’s next

We still have lots of pull requests to review and merge.

• Snap package option for Linux users https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote.next/pull/694
• Tag coloring
  https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote.next/pull/704
• Introduce admonitions plugin
  https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote.next/pull/727
• Internal note link
  https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote.next/pull/691

Also, frontend code of the cloud workspaces (This is not the legacy cloud storage), which is currently hosted on our server, will be merged into BoostNote.next and be published as open source. This will provide more unified UX between the local workspaces and the cloud workspaces.

Lastly, we will introduce Hot Update. Like lots of mobile games, the app can be updated without restarting.(Sometimes it will ask you to restart if the changes cannot be bundled on the frontend side)

The next release, v0.13.x, will be shipped around the 2nd week of January and will include:

• Some features from the submitted pull requests
• Unified cloud workspaces
• Hot update

Thanks for reading. If you have any ideas or feedback for the app, please join our slack and ping me(@rokt33r)!

Join Boost Note on Slack

Update Notes v0.12.x was originally published in Boost Note on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Here’s a compilation of what happened in the Boost Note community since the last update.

Sneak preview of upcoming updates

Expect these in the next release of Boost Note!

• Colored tags
• Internal note linking
• Global search menu
• Attachments included in PDF/HTML exports
• Save code to file button
• Improved importing of Boostnote Legacy notes

New feature suggestions

Give these a 👍 if you are interested in them!

• #714 Copy the attachment name in attachment page
• #717 Line numbers for code blocks

In case you missed them, here are some suggested features that might be worth giving a 👍

• #247 Markdown preview is not scrolling along with editor
• #474 Support for Note/Attention/etc containers
• #3662 Remember toggle mode (Legacy)

Hop in on these discussions for improvements to Boost Note 💬

• #603 Store as notes as .md files
• #700 Revamp all Shortcut keys

Bugs to fix

Here are new bugs that have been reported. Help squash them by submitting a PR 🐛

• #708 Handle malformed note data
• #690 Move notes to other folders in Wiki mode
• #719 Editor/Preview switch state not remembered

Issues with updates

Help each other out by providing more info about these issues! 🤝

• #581 Window stuck in Loading data
• #614 Save notes to custom path on mobile
• #697 Images/attachments not indexed in Attachments when importing from BoostNote legacy
• #1046 App icon pixelated on Windows (Legacy)
• #1356 Browser extension(s) to save web pages to Boostnote (Legacy)
• #3664 Backspace Button for Delete Operations (Legacy)

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