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Where your notes go

On first run EEditor creates a workspace folder and opens it. Use open… in the sidebar to point it somewhere else — a Dropbox folder, a git repository, an external drive. The choice is remembered.

Everything is a plain file. There is no database of your notes, no lock file and no proprietary format; the SQLite database holds only the agenda and any tables you create yourself in EELisp.

Verifying a download

Every release carries SHA256SUMS.txt, the SHA-256 digest of each file. Compute yours and compare it with the line for that file:

shasum -a 256 EEditor-macOS.dmg

Release notes

2.5.0 — several windows, ⌘P for every action, a board, and a screen that plays games: a raycaster and an MSX. Full notes.

• Several windows, one workspace each: File → New Window… (⌃⌘N), every window its own folder, agenda and keybindings, restored at the next launch.
• ⌘P finds actions: type > (or press ⌘⇧P) for every command, key, button and form, by any of their words. ⌃Tab steps through the tabs, ⌘1…⌘9 picks one.
• A board (kanban) for forms and the Agenda window, and (pim-board "work") as a table in a note. The header's buttons and the sidebar's panels come from your keybindings file: (button …), (panel …).
• Sheets: iferror for a formula's fallback, and =(sparkline B2:B30) draws a line in its cell. (install-pim) puts the PIM's keys into any folder.
• A screen for games: a form's screen now shows any picture a program draws, frame by frame, with the keys held and sound. In the manual, with a raycaster to try.
• An MSX, written in EELisp: its Z80, video and sound chips, booting the free C-BIOS. Cartridges up to 2 MB, Konami's SCC sound, the joystick on the cursor keys. Play Snake on it — and write that game yourself, in Z80 assembly, in five steps.

2.4.1 — spreadsheet functions in every sheet, and an About box. Full notes.

• Spreadsheet functions, ready in any formula with nothing to load: countif, sumif, averageif and their …ifs forms, vlookup, xlookup, index, match, median, stdev, rank, left, mid, proper, textjoin and more. Conditions read the way a spreadsheet reads them: "Work", ">10", "<>Done", "W*". In the manual.
• Whole columns: =(countif E:E "Work") reads column E down to its last filled row, and keeps up as rows are added.
• A range wider and taller than one cell now arrives as a list of rows, so lookups know where a row ends. One row or one column is still a flat list.
• Your own functions: put them in .eeditor/functions.eelisp (the open-functions command creates it). They load at launch and again whenever the file is saved.
• About EEditor, in the workspace's right-click menu and as the about command: the version, and who makes it.

2.4.0 — mind maps, and a workspace that starts with something in it. Full notes.

• Mind maps: a note named Name.mindmap.md — a heading and a bullet list — opens as a map. Tab adds a child, Enter a sibling, drag a branch to move it; map | text flips back to the outline, which is all the file holds. Save it as PNG or SVG, or print it to PDF.
• Sample notes: open an empty folder and EEditor offers to fill it — the welcome note, the example forms, a mind map of every shortcut, and the PIM tour with its agenda. Add sample notes… in the workspace menu does the same for any folder, and never overwrites a file.
• The PIM tour is now a tutorial: fifteen lessons, each saying what to press and what you should see.
• The PIM's keys move to ⌘⌥ + letter (Ctrl+Alt on Windows and Linux); the date prompt is ⌘⌥E, since macOS keeps ⌘⌥D for the Dock.
• Switching folders now loads the new folder's keybindings and runs its (on-start …).

2.3.0 — a ZX Spectrum in a form, org-mode habits, and a Visual Basic 6 theme. Full notes.

• ZX Spectrum 48K, written in EELisp and running in a form: load a ROM or a .sna snapshot, type on its keyboard or the one on screen, paste BASIC and read the listing back, go full screen or give it a window of its own.
• Screen control for forms: a canvas that redraws up to fifty times a second from an EELisp expression, with its own keys and paste.
• Org-mode habits: task lines in notes linked to the agenda and kept in sync, capture into notes, refile, clocking, archive, reminders and dynamic blocks — a guide and a ready-made configuration.
• Visual Basic 6 theme: Windows 98 grey, bevels and navy captions; the theme button walks dark → light → VB6.
• Downloads now have fixed names and a SHA256SUMS.txt with every release.

2.2.0 — forms, sheets, and apps that run anywhere. Full notes.

• Forms: a designer in the Visual Basic tradition — draw the controls, attach EELisp to their events, run. Chapter 10.
• Apps: a main form runs the others in a frame, the dBASE way; variables shared across them; menus merged.
• Export as HTML: an app — its forms, images and spreadsheets, and the EELisp engine — as one file that runs in any browser, offline. Try one.
• Sheets: a grid whose formulas are EELisp, each a file in your workspace.
• Notes: images and Mermaid diagrams; ⌘⇧↵ runs the selection.
• From 2.1, never published on its own: the agenda is saved in your workspace, every text file opens, nothing unsaved is lost on the way out, files from outside the workspace, and a launch the macOS privacy prompt can't hang.

2.0.0 — the cross-platform rewrite.

• Windows and Linux builds for the first time; macOS ships as one universal binary.
• New engine: EELisp rebuilt in Rust, with tail calls, working macros and transactions.
• Keybindings are now a file of EELisp you edit, with (on-start …) to choose the note you land on.
• Open files from outside the workspace by drag-and-drop or Open With, in place or copied in.
• Editor tabs, wiki-link autocomplete, backlinks bar, PDF export, and a calendar you can drag items around in.

Older Mac-only releases are no longer distributed here.