Current Version: v1.4.9
Below is a wish-list of features we’re working hard to get into WayNotes, followed by release notes for app releases themselves. Please note that priorities changes, and development sometimes takes apps in a direction that significantly changes or cancels some features, so none of the below goals should be viewed as fixed in stone, and can change at any time.
Roadmap
Short-term Goals (v1.5) – Nearly Complete (updated 10/16/2026):
- Migration from Cordova to Capacitor: Completed
- Cordova served well, but is long in the tooth. Capacitor is younger and more vigorously supported.
- Migration from file-based notebooks to SQLLite: Completed
- We’re going to add a migration tool to automatically migrate files to the database, without deleting the files.
- This also opens the door for near-future performance optimizations such as spatial loading/unloading of objects in view. Especially good for people who draw a lot!
- Color Gradient Tool – Completed
- An upgrade to the Color Picker will show a tab for a Color Gradient tool. To start: Start and End color stops (2), angle, and type of gradient (linear, radial, etc).
- Will add checkered background to swatches to show off translucent colors.
- Also added recent color palette.
- Paste-to-Note – Completed
- This feature will create a note when pasting an image or text into the canvas (unless you’re pasting into an already-open note.
- Update: Text works. Image pasting is proving…interesting…
- Library View enhancements – Completed
- Progress bars on books for loading. You might not notice at first, but for heavy books, you should know that it’s loading and not just frozen.
- Some minor layout changes.
- Polyline Brush – Completed
- This brush will be a multiline brush where you click to create a line segment.
- Polyline, Line, Brush, and DrawShape will possibly get merged into a Brush Menu, like Shape- and Transform- menus
- There is now a Brush Tools Menu, much like Shapes and Transforms menus.
- General UI/UX enhancements – Completed
- Going to improve basic control UX.
- Standardizing the way drop-down menus are presented.
- Possibly some theme color enlivening.
- Things have been standardized a lot more over before, both for UI controls and for colors.
- What’s New Carousel – Completed
- This is intended to load information on new features, as well as tips and hints and even news that you can find here.
- Search Panel – Nearly Complete
- Basic searching by tag or name. Clicking on results will jump you to the location of that object.
- Update: Testing and refining the basic features.
- Performance enhancements – Completed
- There’s a few minor changes that can be felt in certain situations. Will try and get those in for this release.
- A good amount of enhancements have made it in.
- Known Bugs – Ongoing
- When the notebook is open and the Chunk Options dialog is open, that dialog can be pushed up and even off-screen by the Android keyboard in some situations – Fixed.
- Pen Brush could use some work with smoothing out lines just a bit – Fixed.
- Went over the code from top to bottom, fixing scores of bugs experienced and not, resulting in a more solid app experience. Of course, this effort is always ongoing.
- If you’re reading this, email support@orbitalarcade.com and report any bugs or wishlist items you’d like to see addressed.
Medium-term Goals (v1.6):
- Most likely a maintenance release with bugfixes and possibly exposing of some more sliders and knobs for settings…
Long-term Goals (v2.0):
- TBD: Merging feedback about how the tool is used to manage knowledge, but features to connect the dots on information, even across books, are likely. More drawing features, expanding on the note features as well.
Released Versions
WayNotes 1.4.9 (documentation):
- Fixed issue where some editing functions in Object Settings menu did not work
- Fixed issue where the Pen Brush would drag an object if you began drawing over it
- Eraser Brush was not deleting Line and Pen Brush objects because of a change in internal coordinate representation. Fixed.
- Clicking on the canvas sometimes selected an object without highlighting it. This was because of a 0 x 0 sized object being created by the hand if you were using a stylus in most situations. Fixed this by doing better monitoring of when Line, Pen, or Drawshape objects are created, and auto-deleting them when they’re 0 x 0 in size.
- Removed the “Select on Create” option in the App Settings menu. This well-meaning option very much interfered with the drawing process and introduced bad UX.
- Minor fix in consistency of label text font-sizes in Tool Options menu.
- The Note Editor would, on exit, make the note non-selectable, due to some internal changes to the note object structure in 1.4.8. This was remedied.
- Note Editor anchors had a bug where they would “snap back” when dragged. This is now fixed.
- Some performance improvements- notably in the Eraser Brush collider calculations.
WayNotes 1.4.8 (documentation):
- Context Menus
- Grids: Hex and triangle grids, ability to change grid sizes
- Undo/Redo: Extend functionality to all transform menu operations
- Notes: Ability to select multiple objects on canvas and group them into a notes
- Notes: Ability to draw bounds of a note and write/draw within those constraints
- Notes: Expand drawing tool use in text-editor, revise UI accordingly
- Notes: Ability to paste images into notes directly
- Notes: Better export ability
- Color Picker: Add tool to pick colors from canvas
- Color Picker: Add palette of last N-colors used in session
- Spanish Language Localization
- Tag Editor: Tag any object with 1+ tags
- Name Editor: Name any object (non-unique names will be okay)
- Book Options settings accessibility from Book Entries in Home menu
- Optimizations
WayNotes 1.4.5 (documentation):
- Post-Launch bug fixes
- Tutorial/Onboarding improvements
- Code optimizations
WayNotes 1.4.1 (docs unavailable):
- New app icons
- Finalized Library View with revamped sorting and dashboard system
- New Toolbar and Top menu bar layouts, including flyouts
- Material Icons in most places have replaced old icons, and using other icons (with attribution) where needed
- New default tool when toggling out of other tools or selecting it: touch pan, touch select, dblclick of content chunks, pinch zoom
- Singleton for color picker
- Native dialogs for prompts, confirmations, and alerts
- Gradients and better generators for grids for canvas
- File format changes
- Bug fixes from internal testing
WayNotes v1.3.0 (docs unavailable):
- Undo/Redo system
- Export individual text chunks to HTML
- Ability to change color of canvas BG grid
- Ability to flip and mirror objects
- Ability to raise, lower, bring to top and send to back for objects’ layer order
- Group and Ungroup features
- Various bug fixes
WayNotes v1.1.0 (docs unavailable):
- New Color Picker dialog, with a new button layout for stroke/fill color picking colors
- Revamped layout for the Tool Options Dialog
- Revamped layout for the Nav Menu
- Better text chunk creation flow of single-click-to-edit instead of the drag and create then double-click method previous to this
- Most Toolbar tools now toggle, as they should
- Various bugfixes
- Code optimization in many places
- Support for nested objects in file format
- Chunks now have UUIDv7 ids
- Last edit times for chunks are now tracked
- Internal code refactoring
WayNotes v1.0.0 (docs unavailable):
- Vector drawing tools for freehand lines, straight lines, closed shapes, polygons, stars, circles/ellipses, and rectangles
- Ability to adjust line width, line style, line and fill color, etc
- Creation of text boxes that represent rich text notes that can contain images, and are editable
- Eraser button to erase drawn objects
- Ability to delete text objects or other selected nodes
- Infinite canvas with ability to pan, zoom, and reset viewport
- Ability to name locations and instantly travel to them
- JSON-formatted files designed for offline-first usage.