What is new in EveryJot

1.20 - the version sent to the App Store

It is the project's first request to publish, made on 17 August 2026: until now EveryJot had only gone to TestFlight. Waiting for the outcome.

• The signature at the bottom of Settings, above the version. It is the same line the other apps carry, with the same full stop: a footer that changes shape from one app to the next stops being a signature.

1.19 - cancelling a recording

• Cancelling no longer leaves an empty note behind. The note enters the archive before the microphone comes on, which is right, but if you then cancel and there is nothing inside, it now goes away. Notes with text, an attachment or protection stay.
• Cancelling restarted the recording on its own: the timer went backwards and the Cancel button looked broken.

1.18 - four faults in recording from the icon

• The keyboard covered the recording panel: you could not see the timer, could not reach "Stop" and could not put the keyboard away.
• A recording could disappear along with its note. Close the app while it was recording and on relaunch neither the note nor the clip was there. Now the note enters the archive before the microphone comes on.
• A half-finished recording is found again: on relaunch the app reopens that note and offers to attach it.
• The timer no longer counts a recording that is not there: the Dynamic Island kept counting for hours a recording that had died with the process.

1.17 - long press on the icon

• Three entries when you hold the icon down: New note, New recording and Search. They go straight to doing one thing, without going through the app.
• New recording is the one that matters most: recording is the "now or never" feature and before it cost opening the app, reaching a note and tapping the microphone. Now the note is born and the microphone comes on by itself.
• Search opens the Library with the field already up: with a notes app you do two things, write a new note and find an old one, and the second cost three taps.
• "New reminder" is not there and that is a decision: here a reminder lives on a note, so from there it would have been born on an empty note and Apple Reminders would have shown an entry with no title and no body.

1.16 - notebooks and tags

• An emptied notebook still claimed to hold notes: the card counted the ones in the bin too, while anyone opening that notebook sees them excluded.
• "Edit" in Notebooks now does something. It is called Select, it picks notebooks and tags and deletes them together; notebooks stay reorderable by dragging. The warning also says how many notes will be left without a notebook: they are not deleted, but they lose their container and whoever deletes should know first.

1.15 - the look follows the account

• Palette and visual identity travel over iCloud and are found again on every device with the same account. Before there was only the sentence promising it.
• The app lock, the PIN and the failed-attempt count stay on the phone on purpose: they protect this phone, and syncing them would mean locking one because another one was locked.

1.14 - multiple selection in the Library

• Selection mode does something. It used to have two actions only, both off until a note was picked: entering selection, the bar looked optionless. Now there is a menu with Select all, Share, Export, Move to a notebook, Add a tag and Delete, with the number of chosen notes above.
• Deleting several notes at once, which was not possible before: they go to the Bin, so they can be restored for thirty days.
• A recording's name follows the app's language: it was written in Italian by hand, so with the app in English the card read "Registrazion..." in the middle of an English interface.
• The iCloud screen was describing EveryCent: it talked about subscriptions, payment methods and cards, which EveryJot does not have. It was the sentence copied from the other app.

1.13 - the recording is visible outside the app

• The Live Activity for recording. While recording, the timer shows in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen, with the note title beside it, and it stops from there without reopening the app. Before, the only sign that it was still recording was the orange microphone indicator of iOS, which does not say which app, for how long, or how to stop it.
• The timer does not stop during a phone call and does not gift you the call's time: on resume it starts again from the seconds actually recorded.
• Laid out like the system ones, after two attempts: timer in red, "Recording" in bold and the note title below, with the round stop button on the right.

1.12 - the formatting bar

• It often did not appear at all: counted over ten launches in a row, it was there four times out of ten. What stayed in its place was the space reserved for it, that is, a gap.
• The app draws it now, not the system. The numbers taken on a real iPhone say the space iOS reserves changes from one opening to the next, so no fixed margin could hold.
• The attachment and microphone icons no longer move, nor disappear behind the bar.
• The keyboard comes up straight away when a note opens.

1.11 - the iMessage screenshots

Three screenshots per language for the "iMessage apps" section of the App Store listing, and the check that really sending a note from the extension works: it becomes a message with title, preview and icon, it leaves and it arrives "Delivered".

1.10 - four refinements

• The bar at the top of the editor is shorter and in an order chosen by whoever uses it: Notebook, tags, Reminder, Protected, Share, Export, Pending.
• The paperclip and the microphone are no longer in that bar: they were the last two, that is, past the edge of the screen. They live at the ends of the attachment strip, where they are seen without looking.
• "Ink" is the visual identity the app introduces itself with.
• The "New note" Control Centre command had the same icon as EveryCent: anyone with both apps found two identical commands with no way of telling which was which.

1.9 - from the Reminders card to the note

It was a list showing that a thing exists without letting you do anything with it. Now the title opens the note and the bell opens the reminder sheet, to move a due date without going through the editor.

1.8 - from notebooks and tags to the notes

• Tapping them did nothing: they could only be created, renamed and deleted, so the Notebooks card showed containers without ever letting you look inside.
• There was no way out of an attachment preview: an image opened full screen with no bar and the only way back was closing the app.
• The microphone and the paperclip sit at the ends of the attachment strip, next to what they produce.
• The keyboard goes away by dragging the text down, the gesture everyone knows from Mail and Messages.

1.7 - the other apps in Contacts

The list of my apps with the real logo, what they do and the link to their App Store page. Apps come before websites: someone who has just installed an app is readier to install another one than to open a blog.

1.6 - audio recording and attachments

• You record a voice note from the editor. A meeting is recorded inside the note you are writing it in and the recording becomes an attachment like any other. The panel does not close by accident when dragged down: losing a meeting halfway through a slip of the finger would be the worst way to lose it.
• If the app dies while recording, what had been recorded is found again on relaunch.
• Recording stops by itself at the maximum length - one hour and forty-nine minutes - and says so. The limit is not a number written by hand: it comes from the attachment ceiling and the audio quality.
• You can put files inside a note: images, PDFs, Word, audio, anything. The file is copied into EveryJot and not linked, because a link to a file later moved would become a broken attachment.
• The attachments of a protected note are encrypted with the same key as the text. If the text were encrypted and the photo of the attached document were not, the protection would be a promise not kept.
• Options tells you how much space they take: it is the iCloud space of whoever uses the app, and without that line there is no way to notice it growing.

1.5 - the fifteen logos

The icons of the fifteen palettes redrawn, cleaner and more legible at the real size of an icon.

1.4 - the reminder carries the note with it

• The whole content goes into the "Notes" field of the system reminder, not just the first line. It comes from a report: a long note was saved perfectly, but the linked reminder carried only the title.
• An "EveryJot" list inside Apple Reminders, so notes no longer mix with everything else. The list is chosen in Options.
• The body of a protected note does not go into the reminder, only the title: pouring it into Reminders would undo the protection.

1.3.1 - first version on TestFlight

• Fixed a serious fault born in 1.2: the archive was being looked for in the wrong place and anyone who had installed that build would have found an empty Library, with no warning at all. The notes were not lost, the app was looking elsewhere.

1.3 - never released

• Protected notes in Settings: it says whether a PIN is set, lets you change it and explains what it is, that is, an EveryJot code and not the phone's, from which the key that encrypts the notes is born.
• Always ask for the PIN: on, protected notes open with the PIN only.
• Changing the PIN rewraps the keys of every protected note. Without that step each protected note would have become unreadable forever.
• The editor shares Markdown too, not only the PDF, and a new notebook is created without leaving the editor.

1.2 - never released

• Whoever writes chooses the formatting bar: five commands out of thirteen, reorderable by dragging. The ones left out live in the panel, so nothing disappears.
• Locking the whole app with Face ID, Touch ID or the phone passcode. It is a different thing from protecting a single note and the screen says so.
• Settings split into seven screens, and the quick gestures take the new note into Shortcuts, the Action button, the back tap, Siri and Control Centre.

1.1 - never released

Every fix that came out of an independent review: twenty-four faults found inside work declared finished.

• A failed decryption no longer destroys the content: the editor opened empty and the first keystroke wrote that emptiness over the real note.
• The Markdown engine no longer deletes characters and a control character no longer corrupts the Word file.
• Reminders ring and no longer unlink themselves on a second device.
• Security: the PIN is no longer a bare hash but goes through PBKDF2 with a random salt and two hundred and ten thousand rounds; every note's key is wrapped by a key born from the PIN, so without the PIN nothing decrypts; PIN attempts are limited; the keys of deleted notes leave the keychain.

1.0 - never released

The first build: data model, fifteen palettes and three visual identities, a Markdown engine written from scratch with no dependencies, editor with formatting bar, notebooks and tags, Library with sorting, search and filters, a bin cleared after thirty days, protected notes with AES-GCM encryption, iCloud sync, export to Markdown, PDF, image and Word, links to Apple Reminders, opening external .md files and an iMessage extension.