Changelog

New Features

• Desktop Import your notes into nocal
  • Bring notes in from Markdown, plain text, a .zip of Markdown files, or an Evernote .enex export
  • Drag files straight onto the notes sidebar to import them where you drop them
  • The Evernote importer carries your text, headings, lists, checklists, and tables, and reports anything it could not bring across
  • Export all of your notes back out as Markdown whenever you want
• Desktop Act on several notes at once
  • Select two or more notes to open a bulk actions bar
  • Move them to trash together, with a single confirm
• All See which parts of a note came from AI
  • AI-written blocks stay highlighted until you have read them, and show which assistant wrote them: OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, Cursor, or an MCP client
  • Click into a section to clear its highlight

Improvements

• Desktop Shrunk tabs hold their normal width instead of stretching

Bug Fixes

• Mobile Calendar scrolling now works even when your finger starts on an event you just tapped
• All Fixed notes that could open blank when they began with a list or a table
• All The notes list no longer flashes a longer, out-of-date list for a moment as the app starts

New Features

• All Bring a space into any note
  • Type @ in a note and pick a space — it drops in right where your cursor is
  • Its pinned events, note, and open tasks all render inline, and stay live
  • A fast way to pull a project's context into your daily or weekly note
• Desktop Works at smaller window sizes
  • nocal now fits comfortably in a narrower window, so it sits well side by side with your other apps
• Mobile Manage pinned events on the go
  • Pin a meeting, unpin one, or open a meeting's agenda from a bottom sheet, all from your phone
• Mobile Fewer interruptions
  • A new per-event toggle skips grace-time and speedy-meeting nudges for a single meeting

Improvements

• Desktop A lighter, faster app — the download is cut by more than half, so nocal opens faster and takes less room on disk
• All A cleaner spaces view, with tidier tasks, pinned tiles, and note widgets

Bug Fixes

• Mobile You now get clear feedback when an event fails to save, instead of a silent miss

New Features

• Desktop Full Access Book and edit from the menu bar
  • The menu-bar calendar isn't read-only anymore — drag across it to book
  • Click any event to edit it inline: attendees, location, video link, recurrence
  • Your next meeting and a countdown to it sit in the menu bar itself
  • Search, book, and edit without ever opening the main window
• All One search for everything
  • Search spans your events and your notes at once, instead of notes alone
  • Your pinned, recent, and upcoming items are waiting the moment you open it
  • Desktop Open it with ⌘K from anywhere, move with the arrow keys, and press Enter to open — all without leaving the keyboard

Improvements

• Desktop Describe a meeting and the booking form fills in as you type — now in the menu-bar app as well as the main window
• Desktop Book focus time by saying what you'll work on: type "Focus on email" and the email task is added to the event for you
• Mobile A warmer home — an empty weekly note now invites you to start writing instead of showing a plain line
• Mobile A refreshed floating navigation bar that lifts off the bottom of the screen, with a clearer active tab, larger tap targets, and a new-note button that has real depth and a satisfying tap

Bug Fixes

• Mobile Fixed the inbox getting stuck on its loading placeholders and never showing your invites
• Mobile Fixed subscription issues: being unable to finish subscribing when the app store was briefly unreachable, and your status not updating until you restarted the app
• Desktop Fixed a crash that could take down the note editor as it opened

New Features

• All Catch and delete spam invites
  • nocal now flags invites that look like spam, so junk meetings don't sneak onto your calendar
  • Delete a flagged invite outright — deleting also blocks future invites from that sender
  • Deleting is silent, so the sender is never notified you saw it
  • Flagged something we shouldn't have? Choose "Not spam" to keep the invite and stop flagging that sender
  • Suspicious invites show the sender's domain, so you can see exactly why one was caught

Bug Fixes

• All Signing in with a personal Outlook account no longer fails with a server error — nocal now requests the right calendar permissions for personal Microsoft accounts.
• Mobile Fixed a crash on older Android devices when interacting with menus and buttons.
• All RSVPing to a Microsoft meeting you organize now shows a clear message instead of a generic error.
• Desktop More reliable automatic updates on Windows — fixes an issue where some users were blocked from installing updates.

New Features

• All Ideas
  • nocal scans your day for ways to open up focus time — accept, nudge, or skip each idea
  • It flags meetings you could skip, and suggests moving others to open up bigger blocks
  • It suggests focus blocks, lunch, and ramp-up / wind-down time around the meetings you keep
  • Desktop Open Ideas from the calendar to scan suggestions across the week
  • Mobile Find Ideas right on your Home screen

• All Link tasks to focus time
  • Pick the tasks you'll work on when you create a focus block — they're added to its note

Improvements

• All Major updates to make the event form cleaner and easier to use
• All The event form now shows a live preview of the event's attached note
• Mobile The recurrence picker is now a smoother bottom-sheet flow
• Mobile More pickers open as bottom sheets for easier one-handed use

New Features

• All Microsoft Teams on events
  • Add Microsoft Teams to events when your account supports it

Improvements

• All If you haven't set a default meeting-notes folder, nocal now creates a Meeting notes folder the first time you need one
• All Notes you start from inside another note stay in that note's folder
• All Meeting notes in the directory now show just the event title instead of "Meeting notes: event title"
• All Consolidated the menus and controls in the sidebar for adding notes, spaces, and folders
• Desktop Cleaner labels and larger titles throughout the sidebar
• Mobile Menu UIs improved app-wide
• Mobile The calendar is smoother to drag and swipe
• Mobile Homescreen styles updated for better usability

Bug Fixes

• Desktop Keyboard shortcut dialog is more reliable, including dismissing when you switch to another app
• Desktop More reliable updates on macOS
• iOS If a purchase goes through but the confirmation step fails, the app can usually recover the next time you open it

Improvements

• All Rename a Space directly from its header — click the title to edit. The backing Space note's title stays in sync automatically.
• Desktop Space header now floats as a glass-panel that frosts on scroll, matching regular notes.

Bug Fixes

• All Spaces now scroll as one unit — no more tiny inner scroll strip squeezing the tasks, recent notes, and pinned meetings on short screens.
• Mobile Note content no longer clips at the bottom above the tab bar.

New Features

• All Microsoft Outlook support
  • Connect your Outlook calendar alongside Google Calendar
  • Create, edit, and RSVP to Outlook events directly from nocal
  • Multi-account: manage Google and Microsoft calendars side by side
• iOS iOS is officially launched
  • Download nocal on the App Store
• All Spaces
  • Group the notes, meetings, and tasks for a project, area, or team into a single space
  • Any top-level folder can be created as a space, or converted into one from its folder menu
  • Smart templates (PARA, Management, and more) with recommended folders to get you started
• Desktop Tasks in the sidebar
  • A new Recent Tasks block surfaces open tasks from across your notes
  • Group by note, expand/collapse, and jump straight to the source

Improvements

• Desktop Sidebars are now minimizable, with indicator rails that keep counts visible when collapsed
• Desktop The left sidebar can now be resized
• All Contacts from Google and Microsoft now power richer @ mentions

Bug Fixes

• All Numerous fixes to recurring events, including ghost instances and "this and future" edits on previously-moved occurrences
• Desktop "Show on startup" preference is now honored on macOS and Windows. If this is still not working for you, please contact us at [email protected]
• All Microsoft calendar events no longer incorrectly appear as read-only
• All Calendar group "Add Group" button now works
• Desktop The Week tab label updates with the selected week
• All Pressing Enter in a mention suggestion now selects it correctly inside lists

Improvements

• Mobile Invite co-workers and friends directly from the app
• Desktop UI updates and fixes to the referral program

New Features

• All MCP Integration
  • AI can now read or write directly into notes through MCP — e.g. "Research competitors and add a summary + action items to my project note."
  • Agent integrations now include a direct MCP URL option for quick setup
• Desktop Referral program
  • Share nocal with friends and earn free months of Full Access — find your referral link in Settings

Improvements

• Refinements across themes for more consistent contrast
• Small layout and spacing updates throughout preferences and notes

Bug Fixes

• Mobile Fixed issue with "create note" button not working
• All Fixed an issue where drag and drop wouldn't drop in the correct folder

New Features

• All New layout focused on fast note navigation
  • A new tabbed layout lets you hop between notes quickly and keep writing momentum
  • Directory navigation now centers folders and built-in organizational methodologies, so structure is easier to maintain
• All Two new themes
  • Zen added as a new light theme
  • Quiet Fjord added as a new dark theme
• iOS iOS launch
  • nocal is now available on iOS, bringing the mobile experience to Apple devices
• All Full Access AI tools for your workflow
  • AI tools now help you find tasks and action items across your notes
  • Summarize recent work and keep your workspace organized without manual cleanup

New Features

• All Full Access Multi-calendar inbox
  • Include calendars you manage, exclude read-only or view-only calendars — full control
  • Inbox now prioritizes recently received invitations and upcoming events still needing an RSVP
• Mobile Full Access Homescreen widget customizations
  • Multiple layout options to fit your home screen perfectly
  • Customize appearance and size for any desktop or home screen

Improvements

• Offine / online detection now instant and more reliable

Bug fixes

• Logging out and logging back in properly clears state on mobile

New Features

• All Full Access Connect multiple Google Calendar accounts
• All Full Access Multi-calendar management
  • Add multiple calendars from different Google accounts into the same view
  • Create up to three calendar groups, accessible with hotkeys
  • Set calendars to be always visible or minimized into bars. Minimized calendars can be maximized with a hotkey.
  • Mention events in your notes from any of your calendars

Improvements

• All Drag-and-drop and drag-to-expand now working
• All Calendar colors update to use Google Calendar's "modern" color palette.
• All In-app "What's New" dialog now appears for major updates

Improvements

• All "Remove formatting" now removes all text formatting (bold, italic, colors, etc.), but will no longer remove the wrapping component (eg. tasklist, numbered list, etc.)
• All You can now reset the color of text to the default
• Android When there are edits that can be undone or redone, new buttons show up to make this especially easy

Bug Fixes

• All Copying meeting links now properly copies the link

Bug Fixes

• Android Default font sizes for notes are increased
• Android Subscription management fixes
• Desktop Calendar navigation background color fixed