- Bring your notes over from another app, pictures and all. Nearly every notes app can export what you’ve written as a folder — the notes in one place, the pictures they use beside them. Choose that folder with File ▸ Import…, or drop it onto a page, and the whole thing comes in. The pictures are the part that usually goes missing: a note points at them by a path that only means something in the folder it came from, so MojoPad reads them while that folder is still in front of it. It handles the three ways apps write those links — a plain path, a path with its spaces escaped, and the bare-filename style where the picture could be anywhere in the export — and the folders you had are the folders you get, however deep. Settings folders are skipped, so you get your notes rather than an app’s configuration. (From a reader with notes scattered across several apps — thank you.)
- You choose what comes in, and where each part of it goes. Notes are rarely one kind of writing: a journalling app often holds a diary in one journal, a notebook in another and half-thoughts in a third, and a folder of notes usually has folders inside it. So choosing an export no longer imports it — MojoPad opens on what it found, a line for each part with its own count, and you say where each one lands: into a folder you already keep, chosen from a list of everything in your wiki, into a new one you name on the spot, or into the Journal as the days it belongs to. Or leave a part behind entirely.
- Dated writing can become Journal days. Entries written on the same day are put together on that day, in the order you wrote them — which is what a diary has always meant. Writing that carries no dates isn’t offered the Journal at all, because an offer that can’t work is worse than no offer.
- Links and tags survive the move. A link written in double brackets becomes a real link to that page — MojoPad links by name, so once both notes are in, they find each other. A tag written in a note becomes one of the page’s tags, and stays in the text where you wrote it.
- Two things arrive switched off unless you ask for them. Some apps record where you were for every single note, and a journal keeps the place and the weather. That isn’t usually what anyone means by “import my notes”, so it’s yours to turn on rather than yours to discover later.
- A sentence that mixes writing systems is read by two voices taking turns inside it. Your main voice reads what it can say; your second voice reads the rest. It works both ways round — so a Mac running in Japanese has its English read by an English voice, and nobody has to swap their two voices over when they change language. The question asked is never “is this Japanese?” but “can the voice in hand say this?”.
- The MojoPad Voices speak English, so Japanese in the same sentence goes to your second voice. Until now, choosing one of them quietly switched the second voice off altogether, and Japanese was announced character by character instead of read. The on-device voice and your Mac’s own now take turns inside the one sentence, and you hear a sentence rather than a seam.
- A Japanese word of one character is read as a word. 本, 人, 国 and 私 were each being swallowed by the English voice around them — a stretch shorter than two characters was folded into its neighbour, which is right for a stray Latin letter and wrong for a whole word.
- Both voices and the reading speed are in Settings ▸ Reading Aloud. They could only be reached from the bar that appears once a reading had already started — so the way to change them was to begin a reading you didn’t want, change them mid-sentence, and start again.
- The page title can have a face of its own. Settings ▸ Editing ▸ Page title: the same face as your headings (which is what it has always been), the same as your body text, or anything you like. The Heading font setting already promised “headings across every page”, and the page’s own title — the largest heading on the page — was the one thing ignoring it. (From the forum — thank you.)
- Following a folder no longer rewrites every file in it. Linking a folder of twelve hundred notes re-saved all twelve hundred straight away, which on a folder that syncs is twelve hundred re-uploads and a re-index in every other app watching it. The files are left exactly as they were found.
- A folder is followed all the way down, and much further than before. Sub-folders, and sub-folders inside those. If a folder holds more than MojoPad takes, it now tells you how many files it actually found and offers to follow a sub-folder instead, rather than saying only that the folder was large. (From a reader whose folder of twelve hundred showed five hundred — thank you.)
- Each file gets one page, even when a lot arrives at once. Notes dropped into several sub-folders at the same moment could produce a page per sub-folder that noticed — eighteen new files arriving as a hundred pages, several of them writing to the same file.
- Big jobs say what they are doing. Bringing in two thousand notes, or following a folder of a thousand, counts as it goes instead of leaving you watching a still window and wondering. Anything quick still happens without a word — a panel that flashes up and vanishes is worse than none.
- Following a big folder, and removing its pages again, no longer stalls the window, and pages that say the same thing are found again in a large wiki — that check silently found nothing at all above about fifteen hundred pages.
- The diagnostic report answers three questions it couldn’t before: whether a followed folder is being followed in full, what an import actually brought in and what it couldn’t find, and what a read aloud would sound like on your Mac.
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