# MojoPad 1.47.0 Released (New Features) (Bug Fixes) **URL:** \ **Category:** MojoPad\ **Created:** [July 26, 2026, 1:22am UTC](https://mojopad.discourse.group/t/mojopad-1-47-0-released-new-features-bug-fixes/53 "2026-07-26T01:22:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mark\_Busse](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/mojopad.discourse.group/mark_busse/32/43_2.png) [@Mark\_Busse](https://mojopad.discourse.group/u/Mark_Busse)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 1:22am UTC](https://mojopad.discourse.group/t/mojopad-1-47-0-released-new-features-bug-fixes/53/1 "2026-07-26T01:22:44Z")
**Storyboard — some writing is too big to hold in your head: a novel, a thesis, a forty-minute talk. Lay it out as cards, write inside the structure, and see the whole of it while you work on any one part.** - **A tree of cards, in columns.** File ▸ New Storyboard gives you a board where the first column holds your top-level cards — chapters, acts, sections — the next column their children, and so on as deep as the work needs. Click a card and it lights up **with everything that belongs to it** while the rest of the board recedes, so brightness answers “what am I looking at, and what belongs to it” at a glance. Whatever you select stays centred: the card, its parents, and its children all line up in the middle of the window, however deep you go. - **Grow it from the keyboard.** Return writes in a card, Esc when you’re done. ⌘↓ adds a card below, ⌘↑ above, ⌘→ a child — and a new column opens the first time you go deeper. ⌥arrows move a card, with its whole branch travelling along; ⌘⇧↓ merges two cards when the thoughts turn out to be one; ⌘Z undoes any of it, drags included. Prefer the mouse? Point at a card and insert tabs grow on its edges — above, below, and a child on the right, each naming its shortcut as you reach for it — and every card drags by the ridged handle on its left. - **A card is a page in miniature.** Markdown as you type — `##` becomes a heading, `-` a list — and **/** opens the command menu for anything markdown can’t say: callouts, equations, diagrams, videos, links, images, a transclusion of another page. The format bar wakes up as you write in a card and the floating bar appears when you select words, ✦ AI button and all. Name another page inside a card and it links, exactly as it would anywhere else. ⇧Return opens one card fullscreen when it stops being a note and becomes the draft. W shows live word counts for the card, its branch, and the whole board. - **See what you’ll get before you commit to it.** The **Send to…** button in the board’s top-right corner opens a panel beside the board showing the finished thing. Choose the **shape** — a paper page or an outline page — and watch the preview change. Choose **how much** : everything, this card and everything under it, the deepest cards only, or just the column you’re in. The board stays live beside the panel, so clicking a different card moves the preview with it — which is how you send one chapter of a long board rather than the whole thing. **Create page** makes what you’re looking at, as a **new page** ; the board itself is never touched. An outline page gives one row per card with its prose in the row’s note. A paper page turns the structure into a document: how deep a card sits becomes its heading level, its title becomes that heading, and the rest becomes the prose beneath. Draft a book in cards; hand in a manuscript. - **Or export the board itself.** You don’t have to make a page first. Export Page As — PDF, HTML, Markdown, plain text — reads a board as the document it describes, by the same rule the paper page uses. So do the whole-document exports, the ePub, the Word files and the website. Cards holding a picture, a table or a checklist come through as what they are. A board is a manuscript wherever you send it. - **Bring a board in from elsewhere.** Copy a tree out of another card tool or outliner, click the board’s background, and paste: the whole thing arrives nested exactly as it was, markdown rendered, web addresses linked, and the stray markup other apps leave in their text cleaned away rather than showing up mid-sentence. Exported files work too, `.json` or OPML — so anything that can write an outline can hand you a board. - **A sample storyboard to poke at.** Help ▸ Add a Sample Storyboard drops a board called _Welcome to Storyboards_ into your wiki — a storyboard about storyboards, whose every card is real and yours to edit, move or delete. Reading about a new way of writing only gets you so far; this one you learn by pressing the keys. Delete the page when you’re done with it. - **Choose the board’s mood.** A swatch in the corner sets the backdrop: ocean, indigo, slate, graphite, forest, moss, plum, ember, or your own colour. Each board remembers its own, so a novel can sit on midnight blue while a research board sits on moss. A shortcuts panel sits along the edge while the grammar becomes muscle memory; **?** tucks it away. **Your pages can live in files on your Mac.** _A DEVONthink user asked for this, and it was built with that arrangement in mind: point MojoPad at a folder your document manager already indexes and the same notes are live in both places at once. Write here, and the file in your library changes. Write there, and the page catches up. Nothing is copied, nothing is converted, and your library stays the source of truth — thank you for asking._ - **A page that is a file.** File ▸ New Page from a File… asks for a markdown or text file anywhere on your Mac and gives you a page whose words _are_ that file. It links, it’s found by search, it takes backlinks, it shows up in the graph — like any other page. But type here and the file changes; change the file in another app and the page catches up, usually before you’ve looked back at it. Nothing is copied and nothing is converted. Use it when a note already lives somewhere it needs to stay: a folder DEVONthink or another document manager indexes, a shared folder, a project’s notes, something you also edit on a phone. MojoPad writes the file in place, so an indexed item stays the same item and the links your library holds to it keep working. - **Follow a whole folder.** File ▸ Link a Folder… takes a folder of notes and makes a page of every text file in it, with the folders inside it becoming folders in your sidebar. Files you add to that folder later turn up as pages on their own — whether they appear while you’re working or while MojoPad is closed. Clip something into the folder from another app, and a minute later it’s a page here, searchable and ready to link. Stop Following a Folder… ends the arrangement whenever you like; the pages stay, each still tied to its own file. - **Send a page you already have out to a file.** The other direction: open any page and choose File ▸ Move This Page to a File…, say where it should live, and its words go there — page and file are the same thing from then on. Its name, tags, properties and backlinks stay in the wiki; the file gets the writing. - **A page tells you when it reaches outside.** Any page whose words live elsewhere carries a small mark under its title naming its file; click it to show that file in the Finder. If the link isn’t live — the folder wasn’t approved, or the file has gone — the mark says _not connected_ instead, so you always know which pages are talking to disk and which aren’t. - **Neither side gets overwritten.** If a page and its file are both changed while they’re apart — you wrote here, something else wrote there — MojoPad won’t pick a winner. A bar offers _Use the file’s_ or _Keep mine_, with both versions intact until you choose. - **You’re asked before anything on disk is touched.** A MojoPad document is a folder you can send to someone, so opening one that came from elsewhere asks first, naming every folder it wants to reach — and approving only the folders it named. Say no and those pages still open, from the copies stored inside the document, and nothing on your disk is read or written. Only text files can be linked at all, a link that turns out to point somewhere else is refused, and a document with a password can’t have linked pages, because those files would sit unprotected. - **Your words stay yours even when the file doesn’t.** Every linked page keeps a copy inside the document, so it still opens, still searches and still appears in the graph when the file is on a disconnected drive or has been deleted. Put the file back and the page reconnects to it. **And the rest of it —** - **A backslash does what it should in Markdown.** Writing `\*` now shows an asterisk instead of starting italics — the standard way to say “treat this character as itself”. It works for every punctuation mark, in Markdown pages and in cards, and what you wrote stays that way when the page is saved and opened again. - **Markdown reads more of what you write.** Written-out characters like `&` and `—` now come through as the characters themselves rather than as the code for them; ` __bold__ ` works alongside **`bold`** ; a heading that closes with its own hashes drops them; and a code block indented under a list item stays with that item instead of spilling backticks into the text. - **A heading no longer runs into the paragraph under it.** Exporting to Markdown ran two blocks together whenever they sat inside the same list item — “Why it mattersRisks grow…” — so an exported page could arrive with sentences fused. Every block now gets the blank line it’s owed. This affects any page with paragraphs inside list items, not only boards. - **Code blocks wrap on paper.** A long line in a code block used to run off the right edge of a PDF or a printed page, taking the rest of the line with it and printing a scrollbar where the words should have been. On paper it wraps; on screen it still scrolls, which reads better there. - **Outlines show their structure.** A faint line now runs between the rows of a branch, so a deep outline reads at a glance. It appears wherever a row has children, stays clear of every bullet, and vanishes with the branch when you collapse it. - **Collapse arrows work where you see them.** Clicking the little triangle beside a parent row did nothing until you’d first moved the pointer onto the row itself — the triangle you were aiming at was a picture, not a button. It’s the button now. - **The chevron you click stays under your finger.** Collapsing a section near the end of a long page dragged the whole document downward — the branch appeared to fall away rather than close up into its heading, and the chevron ended up somewhere other than where you clicked it. Rows now hold their place through both collapse and expand, whether they are outline rows, bulleted items or headings. - **Highlight a passage in a PDF.** Select text and a small bar of colours floats above it — amber, yellow, green, pink or blue. Until now the only way to leave a mark was to quote the passage into a note; you can simply mark it while you read. Right-click a mark to recolour or remove it, or clear them all from the toolbar. Anywhere else in the page the usual right-click menu is back — Copy, Look Up, Read Aloud — and it now looks up whatever word is under your pointer, without your selecting it first. - **Exporting a long document to PDF works.** Sending a large document — one with images, or simply a lot of pages — to PDF asked where to save it and then quietly wrote nothing at all. It exports properly now, and if an export ever does fail it says so instead of leaving you looking at an empty folder. - **Keep the manual in your own wiki.** Help ▸ Add the Manual to This Wiki drops the whole manual in as a single page with a table of contents, so the documentation turns up in search beside your own notes and you can scribble on it. Delete that one page to remove it. - **MojoPad opens wearing your theme.** Launching flashed the default look for an instant — theme, spacing and toolbar — before snapping to yours. The window now arrives correct from the first frame. (From a reader — thank you.) - **Carry your settings between two Macs.** MojoPad ▸ Settings File ▸ Export Settings writes your preferences to a small file; put it in whatever folder you already sync, and Import Settings on the other Mac brings across theme, fonts, layout, spacing, shortcuts and the rest. Your licence, your open documents, each machine’s window positions, any search key you’ve pasted in, and the folder permissions you’ve granted for linked files all deliberately stay put — those belong to the Mac you’re sitting at. (From a reader working across a laptop and a desktop — thank you.) - **The diagnostic report says more, and gives less away.** Help ▸ Save Diagnostic Report now tries the update address from inside the app and writes down exactly what happened — reached in so many milliseconds, or the precise reason it failed — alongside a second, unrelated address, so a report tells us in one line whether a Mac can’t reach anything or only can’t reach us. It also records where the app is installed from (the usual reason a Mac can never update itself), your storyboards and how big they are, how many reading highlights a document holds, and the state of every page linked to a file. Any key you’ve pasted into settings is named but never printed, and a folder nobody has approved is never read. - **The update check keeps trying.** Checking for updates at launch made a single attempt a few seconds in; if the network wasn’t ready — waking from sleep, a VPN still connecting — it gave up until the next restart, which on a Mac left open for weeks reads as “it never updates.” It now retries until it reaches the server, and checks again quietly through a long session. And if it truly can’t get through, it now names the reason and offers the download page, rather than saying “try again later.” (From a reader who noticed and then pinned it down — thank you.) ---
**Author:** ![macosxguru](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/mojopad.discourse.group/macosxguru/32/57_2.png) [@macosxguru](https://mojopad.discourse.group/u/macosxguru)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2026, 2:09am UTC](https://mojopad.discourse.group/t/mojopad-1-47-0-released-new-features-bug-fixes/53/2 "2026-07-26T02:09:33Z")
Wow. Another deep update. Thank you. macosxguru