What changed in each version, newest first. Each release added from 0.7.0 onwards
lists its installers. For earlier versions, download the latest one instead.
The Mac app is now signed and notarized by Apple. Drag it to Applications and open it as usual — the Terminal command earlier releases needed is gone.
Updates installed from inside the app carry the same signature, so a Mac copy updated from here on stays signed.
Installing
Both builds are signed. On Windows, SmartScreen may still show a notice for a while as the new signature builds up reputation; if it does, choose More info → Run anyway.
The sidebar is no longer split into Checklists, Docs, Diagrams and Files. A project has one set of folders, and a checklist, a doc, a diagram and a file can all sit in the same one, so everything for the stage can live in a Stage folder.
Folders at the top level are sections, each with its own heading. Add one with New section at the bottom of the sidebar, or Section in the + beside the search box. Double-click a section's name to rename it.
Each section's + makes a checklist, doc or diagram, adds a file, or imports one, right inside that section. The + beside the search box does the same at the top level.
Each row shows what kind of thing it is: a hash for a doc, a ticked box for a checklist, and icons for diagrams and files.
Your existing projects move over on their own. Folders with the same name in different lists become one folder, and nothing is lost.
Arrange by date added now orders checklists, docs, diagrams and files together.
Moving things around
Drag anything into any folder or section, including a folder into another.
⌘-click (Ctrl-click on Windows) to pick several rows, or Shift-click to pick a run of them, then drag one to move them all. Esc lets go.
Pictures
Click a picture in a step, a doc or a checklist's description to see it full size, with pinch and click to zoom and Escape to close. A picture saved on your computer also offers Open in default app. Option-click still opens the editor there.
Smaller changes
Menus in the sidebar fit inside a short window and scroll, rather than running off the bottom.
Importing an exported page is now one choice that takes either a checklist or a doc.
Files attached to a step or a doc no longer get a row of their own in the sidebar. They are still attached where you put them. Files you added to the project itself are in the sidebar as before.
Installing
The Windows build is signed. Windows may still show a SmartScreen notice for a while as the new signature builds up reputation; if it does, choose More info → Run anyway.
The macOS build is unsigned. After dragging it to Applications, run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
Point at the line between two steps and a + appears: click it to add a step right there, instead of adding it at the bottom and dragging it up. A section with only one step has the + above that step too.
Between two sections, the + adds a new section in that spot.
The new step or section opens with its name selected, so you can type its name straight away.
Checklists
Each section with a heading now sits in its own box, with the heading across the top, so it's clear where one section ends and the next begins. Exported pages look the same.
Steps now open with their explanation showing. You can still turn this off in Settings.
An empty section no longer says "No steps in this section yet"; the field for adding a step is enough.
Docs
The Edit button stays at the top of the doc as you scroll, so you no longer have to scroll back up to start editing. While you're editing it becomes a Done button. The switch for hiding pictures moved up beside it.
Installing
The Windows build is signed. Windows may still show a SmartScreen notice for a while as the new signature builds up reputation; if it does, choose More info → Run anyway.
The macOS build is unsigned. After dragging it to Applications, run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
The Windows installer is now signed. Windows names the publisher instead of "Unknown publisher" when you install, and the app and its updates carry the same signature.
The feedback form and its tip now say your message goes to the development team.
Installing
The Windows build is signed. Windows may still show a SmartScreen notice for a while as the new signature builds up reputation; if it does, choose More info → Run anyway.
The macOS build is unsigned. After dragging it to Applications, run:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
A search box at the top of the sidebar finds checklists, docs, diagrams and files by name, in every section at once, including the files in your external folders.
Type any words in any order: "plot stage" finds "Stage plot", and capitals and accents don't matter. A folder's name counts too, so searching for a folder shows what's in it.
Each section shows only what matches, with folders opened to show it, and sections with nothing to show step aside. Clear the search and the sidebar goes back exactly as it was.
Press ⌘F (Ctrl+F on Windows) to jump to the search, and Escape to clear it.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
Drag a file from Files in the sidebar onto a step or a Resources area to attach it there, including while Resources is open for editing. It attaches the file the project already has rather than copying it again.
While dragging, hold near the top or bottom of the sidebar and it scrolls, so a folder far down the list can be reached. Rest on a folded folder and it opens.
An external folder's subfolders now take drops too, so a file can be copied straight into the subfolder it belongs in.
Smaller changes
Folders in Files and linked folders start folded. Folding the Files or External folders heading folds everything inside again.
The button that finishes editing Resources now reads "Done editing" and stands out, like the one in the text editors.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
Text no longer blurs while you edit it zoomed in. Small labels used to turn fuzzy as soon as you started typing; they now stay sharp at any zoom.
More text sizes than S, M, L and XL. Under Font size in the panel on the left, click the number with ▾ to pick any size from 4 to 72. It resizes the selected words, or the words you are typing, without stopping your typing. A label inside a shape wraps to fit and the shape grows if it needs to.
External folders
External folders can be arranged like the rest of the sidebar: the ⋯ beside the heading sorts their files by name, by when they arrived on this computer, or with the most or least recently changed first.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
Pictures and PDFs attached to a step, kept in Files or linked from your writing now open in the app's own viewer, the same one videos use, instead of another program.
Pinch to zoom on either. A picture shows at its true size, even on a sharp screen; click it for full size.
PDF pages are drawn crisply and long documents stay quick to scroll.
Press Escape to close the viewer, or use Open in default app to see the file in its usual program.
Renaming files
Point at a file in Files and click the pencil, or right-click it, to give it a new name. The name changes everywhere the file is used.
A file the app keeps a copy of (anything you dropped or pasted in) takes the new name on disk too, so it opens under that name. Files of your own, picked from your computer or a linked folder, keep their names on disk.
The viewer's title now shows the file's name in the app, not the code-prefixed name the app stores it under.
Smaller changes
Editing a checklist's or doc's resources takes one click: the pencil opens every row ready to edit.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
One double-click opens the words in a shape, even when the shape sits inside a group, or a group inside a group. It used to take a double-click for every level.
While typing in a shape, Tab moves on to the next shape's words, row by row, and Shift+Tab goes back. Inside a group, such as a table, Tab stays within it and comes round again at the end, so a table fills in like a spreadsheet.
Bringing drawings in
Import a diagram now takes Mermaid charts (.mmd), drawn as shapes and arrows you can keep editing.
It also takes a PNG or SVG saved from draw.io or Excalidraw with the drawing inside, and opens the drawing rather than a flat picture. A picture with no drawing in it says so.
Sending drawings out
The canvas's ☰ menu has Save to your computer, with five formats:
draw.io file. New. Boxes, text, arrows still joined to their shapes, freehand lines, pictures and groups all come across, and a hand-drawn diagram keeps its hand-drawn look in draw.io. Anything draw.io can't show is left out, and the app tells you how many things that was.
Excalidraw file, as before.
SVG and PNG pictures that carry the drawing inside, so they show anywhere and can still be brought back in and edited.
PDF.
Shift+Cmd+S (Ctrl+Shift+S on Windows) is now Save copy. It used to save an Excalidraw file.
Saving a diagram under a name another diagram in the project already has asks for a new one first, and suggests one, so two diagrams in the sidebar never share a name. This catches the same drawing imported twice.
Fixes
Cmd+, (Ctrl+, on Windows) opened Settings hidden behind the diagram editor, so it looked like nothing happened. Settings now opens on top of whatever is showing.
Many of the tips were wrong or out of date. Every one has been checked and corrected. A tip now goes away when you leave the page it's about, and comes back when you return.
Smaller changes
Double-clicking a checklist, doc or diagram in the sidebar no longer turns its name into a text box. Rename a checklist or doc by clicking its title on its own page, and a diagram in the name box at the top of the editor.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
Open any checklist, doc or diagram in a window of its own and work on two side by side — a doc next to its checklist, or a diagram beside the page it belongs to. Use the window button at the top of the page, right-click an item in the sidebar and choose Open in New Window, or press ⌘⇧N (Ctrl+Shift+N on Windows).
While an item is out, the main window shows "Open in another window" in its place, with Focus and Bring back, and the sidebar marks it. You can keep working on anything else in the main window meanwhile.
Each pop-out has a button to take it back to the main window. Asking for an item that is already out brings its window to the front rather than opening a second one.
Diagrams open full-window in their pop-out. Saving one redraws its picture in every window that shows it.
Links in a pop-out open their page in that same window, with Back. Files dropped on a pop-out are added to the project, as in the main window.
Settings changed in one window, such as reading width, follow in the others. Zoom stays per window.
Pop-outs belong to the open project: switching projects closes them. Closing the main window, quitting, or restarting for an update saves what was typed in them first and closes them all. A drawing with unsaved changes asks before Bring back or a project switch closes it.
Arranging the sidebar
Each sidebar section has a ⋯ menu, which now holds Import and New folder, and can arrange the section by date added, most or least recently changed, or name. Each section remembers its own choice.
Smaller changes
Every dialog now closes with Escape, including the AI import dialog, which stays open until an import in progress finishes.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
Exported checklists, docs and projects are now drawn by the app's own pieces, so they look and work the way the app does, and keep matching it as the app changes.
Hide details / Show details replaces Collapse all and Expand all, as in the app: it folds step explanations and leaves sections open. Click a step's or section's row to fold it.
Exported docs fold by heading and have the Contents row under their title.
The title and progress line (or a doc's Contents) stay pinned at the top as the page scrolls.
A project page's sidebar can be dragged wider or narrower, like the app's.
Each new export starts with nothing ticked. Ticks made on a page are still kept if you reopen that same file.
A link to a checklist or doc that isn't in the file now says "(not included in this export)" instead of doing nothing when clicked.
The footer links to upandrunning.app.
Exporting
Every export now asks its questions in one panel inside the app: what kind of file, whether attached files go with it, and for a single checklist or doc, whether to bring along what it links to.
Bringing linked items along puts them in the same file as extra pages, so the links work. The panel lists what would come, and warns when a chain of links would pull in a lot.
The project menu's three export entries are now one, "Export this project…", offering a project file, a web page or a folder.
Docs
Headings fold away the writing under them, and a Contents row under the title jumps to each section. Fold all / Open all does every section at once, and a doc remembers which sections you'd folded.
The editor has H1 and H2 buttons. A doc folds at its top heading level, and the next level down stays open inside.
Export a doc as Markdown, with its pictures in a folder beside it. Bring a Markdown or text file in as a doc from the import button beside Docs.
Getting around
After following a link to another checklist or doc, a "Back to …" bar at the top of the page takes you back, as does ⌘[ (Alt+← on Windows). Dismiss it with its ×.
A checklist's title and progress line stay pinned at the top while its steps scroll.
Fixes and smaller changes
Dragging a file over the window no longer makes the page shake. Every step, open or folded, can take a dropped file.
Dragging a section or step to the very top now works. Folded sections sit closer together, and no drop line appears where dropping would change nothing.
The link bar no longer stays on screen over other windows, like About, after you click away from the writing.
An imported checklist, doc or project with a name already in use becomes "Name (copy 1)".
The project menu's import takes project files (.uar). Checklists and docs come in from their own section's import button, and each button's file picker shows only what it can use.
A little more room between a doc's edit and pictures buttons.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
Clicking a link while editing no longer pops up a box. Instead, whenever the cursor is in a link, a small bar appears over it with Edit and Go to. It doesn't interrupt your typing and disappears when you move off the link. Edit opens the full box for the link's words and address.
Menus and popups in the editor and the diagram editor had lost their shadow, so they blended into the page. It's back.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
Click a heading to fold away everything under it, down to the next heading at the same level or above. Click again to bring it back.
A row of links to the doc's sections now sits under its title. Click one to jump there; a folded section opens on the way.
The title and that row stay at the top of the window as you scroll.
Links
The link button now opens a box asking for the link's words and its address, instead of leaving you to type the address into hidden Markdown. Select some words first and they become the link.
Click a link while editing to change its words or address, take the link off, or open it.
Fixes
Headings could come out smaller than the paragraph under them, especially with a larger text size. They now scale with the text, in the app and in exported pages.
Cutting a link and pasting it elsewhere left only its words. The whole link comes with it now, and the same goes for bold, italic and code.
Pressing Return at the end of a link's words split the words from the address. It now starts the new line after the link.
Dragging a checklist, doc, diagram or file out of a folder in the sidebar shows a line where it will land at the top of the section, and the folder stays where it is.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
A new look: the app's mark is now a hash with a green tick rising out of its middle square, markdown and a step done in one. It replaces the "##" in the app icon, at the top of the sidebar, and in exported web pages.
The app icon is lit from the top left, with a soft shine along the hash's edges and the tick's upper side. At the smallest sizes, such as the Windows taskbar and file icons, a simpler flat version keeps it legible.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
Each folder under External folders now folds away: click its name to show or hide its files. A folder that can't be found still says so while folded, and you can still drop onto a folded folder while dragging.
Opening a linked folder on your computer has moved to its own button, which appears beside the unlink × when you point at the folder.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
Checklists, Docs, Diagrams and Files can each be sorted into folders. Use the folder button beside a section's +, then drag items onto a folder. Drag them onto the section's name to take them back out.
Folders can go inside folders, as deep as you like. Hover a folder for a button that makes a folder inside it, and drag a folder onto another to move it with everything in it.
Double-click a folder to rename it. Removing a folder deletes nothing: what it held moves up a level.
External folders
Linked folders now have a section of their own, and a project can link as many as you like. Folders kept by Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud or Box show a cloud; others show a plain folder.
Drop files onto an external folder to copy them in, whether from your computer or from Files.
Drop a checklist or doc onto one to save it there as a web page anyone can open. Drop a diagram to save it as an Excalidraw file or a PDF; it asks which each time.
When the folder already has a file by that name, the app asks whether to replace it or keep both. Nothing in an external folder is ever deleted.
Working with steps and resources
Resources are always on show once something is attached, with a pencil to edit them, rather than hidden behind a "Resources" toggle. A step's links stay visible when the step is folded.
"Hide details" / "Show details" replaces Collapse all and Expand all. It shows or hides step explanations and leaves sections as they are.
Point at a step and press E to open its editor.
A file dropped anywhere on the window is added to Files.
Fixes
Selecting a link's words in the editor and deleting them left the hidden link code behind ([](…)). Deleting the words now removes the whole link, and the same goes for bold, italic, code and struck-through words.
Menus for adding links, files, docs and diagrams were cut off near the bottom of the window. They now open upward when there isn't room below.
Clicking the expand arrow while renaming a step or section only ended the rename. The arrow is now hidden until you finish.
Items in the sidebar are indented under their section headings.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
Link a folder to a project with the new folder button beside Files,
and everything in it shows in the sidebar as it is now, subfolders as
groups that fold away. A shared Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or iCloud
folder works too: files your team adds there appear once they've synced to
your computer.
The folder is looked at again whenever you come back to the app, and every
half-minute while you're in it. The app never deletes anything from it, so
folder files have no delete button, and unlinking only stops showing it.
Opened on a computer where the folder lives somewhere else, the project
says so and offers Locate folder….
Attaching files
+ File on a step, a checklist or a doc now offers the files the
project already has, the linked folder's included, with a search box and
Browse computer… below. A file from the folder stays linked, so when
someone updates it there, the step opens the new version.
Exporting
Export as a folder, in the project menu, writes the web page with
every file it carries in a files folder beside it: no size limit, and
nothing squeezed into one huge file.
A one-file export carrying more than 50 MB of attachments now warns you
and suggests the folder export.
Exports leave out the linked folder's own files, since your team already
has them; the exported page names the folder instead.
Diagrams
Save to… in the drawing's ☰ menu (⇧⌘S, or Ctrl+Shift+S) saves an
.excalidraw file where you choose, named after the diagram, for anyone to
open and keep editing in Excalidraw. It used to drop every file in
Downloads under a date-stamped name.
⌘S (Ctrl+S) saves the diagram, as the Save button does.
The canvas menu no longer has Open or Reset the canvas, which could replace
or clear your drawing.
Smaller changes
Text size in Settings is picked from five sizes, 90% to 140%. The old − and
buttons moved out from under the pointer each time they changed the size.
On/off settings are shown as switches.
Bring back in Settings → Help now shows a tip straight away, and
there's a Show a tip button.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
Add to Files in the diagram editor's ⋯ menu saves the drawing into
the project's Files list as a PDF (to print or send), a PNG or an SVG,
named after the diagram.
Choose Selected to add just the shapes you've selected, labels and
all, so a sheet with notes and scraps on it can give up only the part
worth printing, or Whole drawing for everything.
Files are always the light version on white, whatever canvas you draw on.
If Files already has a file with that name, you're asked whether to
replace it or keep both.
Deleting files
Every file in the sidebar's Files list now has a delete button. Before,
files couldn't be deleted from there at all.
Deleting a file takes it out of everywhere it's used: every checklist, step
and doc it's attached to, and links to it in your writing become plain text.
The confirmation lists each of those places first. The file on your
computer isn't touched, and Recently deleted keeps it for 30 days.
The diagram editor
Save now keeps the editor open, and is greyed out when there's nothing
new to save. A new × button closes the editor, and asks whether to save
if you have unsaved changes.
Escape no longer closes the editor, so pressing it to drop a tool or a
selection can't throw your drawing away.
The top bar holds just the name, + Table, Save and ×. Everything
else is in the ⋯ menu: Add to Files, Save copy, Light canvas, In
sidebar, and the pages the diagram is shown on.
Save copy now carries on editing in the copy, and leaves the original
as it was.
A diagram that isn't on any checklist or doc can't be taken out of the
sidebar, since that's the only place to open it from. The app explains
why.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
A new import button beside the + in the sidebar's Diagrams list brings
in an Excalidraw file (.excalidraw) or a draw.io file (.drawio, or the
.xml draw.io exports). It opens on the canvas as a new diagram, named after
the file, and is kept once you save it.
draw.io drawings are redrawn as Excalidraw shapes: boxes, ellipses,
diamonds, text and containers, with the lines between them still attached,
along with their bends, labels, arrowheads, dashes and colours. draw.io's
icon sets arrive as plain boxes. Only the first page of a multi-page file
comes in, and the app tells you when there were more.
New versions and tips
The app now tells you when a newer version is out, with a link to what's
new and the installers. It checks once a day, sends nothing about you, and
never installs anything itself. Skip a version you don't want, or turn the
check off in Settings → Help. About shows whether you're up to date.
A tip appears in the corner shortly after the app opens: a shortcut, or
something easy to miss. Got it retires a tip for good; turn tips off,
or bring dismissed ones back, in Settings → Help.
Writing
The editor toolbar gains strikethrough, inline code (also ⌘E), quote,
code block and divider buttons.
Every formatting button now switches off as well as on: press bold on bold
words to unbold them, a bullet on a bulleted line to remove it, code block
inside a block to unfence it. A bullet pressed on a numbered list swaps it
for a bulleted one.
Code blocks and quotes are drawn as a box and a bar while you write, so you
can see where they start and stop.
Pressing Return at the end of bold, italic, struck-through or code words no
longer breaks them by carrying the closing marks onto the next line.
Option+click (Alt+click on Windows) a step's explanation to start editing it
right at that spot, as you already could in docs and checklist descriptions.
Diagrams
Save copy in the diagram editor saves what's on the canvas as a
separate diagram, so you can start a new drawing from an existing one. The
original, and every page that shows it, stay as they were. The copy appears
in the sidebar's Diagrams list with "copy" after its name.
Choose the canvas diagrams open on in Settings → Appearance: follow the
system, light or dark. Light is the default. The editor's Light /
Dark button switches for the drawing you have open. Pages look the same
either way: every save still makes both a light and a dark picture.
The editor's top bar fits a narrow window. Labels no longer break over two
lines; the controls move to a second row instead.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
Option+click anywhere in a doc or a checklist's description to open the
editor with the cursor on that spot, instead of at the top. Clicking past
the end of the writing puts the cursor at the end.
Fixes
A diagram drawn from the sidebar's + vanished the moment you clicked
Save diagram, and never showed up in the Diagrams list. It now stays
listed after saving.
Smaller changes
Removing a diagram or a file from the sidebar now asks first. If the
diagram isn't shown on any page, the question warns that you won't be able
to open it again.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
Export an entire project as one HTML page. It looks like the app: your
checklists and docs down the left with a tally beside each, and whatever
you pick open on the right.
Links between items now work in an export. A step that links to the doc
explaining it used to export as dead text; inside a project page the link
opens that doc.
The open item is part of the page's address, so Back works, and a link you
send someone opens on the item you meant.
Ticks on a checklist are remembered whether it was exported on its own or
as part of a project.
Downloading
One Mac download that runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel, replacing the
two separate builds.
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
0.6.0
Handing someone a checklist
Export HTML now produces a page that looks and works like the app, instead of
a plain white sheet with everything open at once.
A progress strip across the top — one dash per step, filling in as they
are ticked, with the count beside it.
Sections fold, each with its own done/total tally and a box that ticks
every step in it at once.
Steps open and close to show their explanation, and Collapse all /
Expand all close or open the lot.
A picture switch on each step that has pictures, so a step thick with
screenshots can be read past without hiding the pictures on any other step.
What is hidden leaves its name behind, and clicking that brings the picture
back for a look.
The project's name sits above the title, and in the browser tab, so a
page handed to a volunteer says which event it is for — two projects can
easily both hold a checklist called "Setup".
The page carries everything it needs, typeface included: it works off a
memory stick, from an email attachment, with the network down.
Printing takes the dark case off and unfolds all of it, pictures
included — a sheet someone carries can't be expanded.
Reference docs exported as HTML get the same treatment, with their own picture
switch in the corner of the page.
Fixes
Dragging a step now shows where it will land. The insertion line was
being painted behind the step rows above it, so it only ever appeared before
the first step and after the last. It now sits on the rule between two rows,
wherever you are aiming.
Dragging is no longer jittery. Every pointer event rebuilt the whole
checklist — every step's text parsed again — for a line that hadn't moved.
Now nothing happens until the line actually has somewhere new to go.
The step being dragged no longer draws its own amber line, which read as an
insertion point in the wrong place.
Smaller things
Step numbers are drawn as boxes whether or not they are ticked. The
number has always been the checkbox, but nothing said so until you pointed
at it — which says nothing at all on a phone.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
0.5.0
Writing that looks like what you'll read
The editor now draws your Markdown as it will read: headings sized, bold
bold, links showing their words, and pictures drawn where they are written.
Nothing is converted — the text in the editor is exactly the text in the
file, so nothing can be lost in translation.
The Markdown button in the toolbar shows the source, marks and all, for
when that is what you want. The editor can be set to open either way in
Settings.
Paste a screenshot straight into an explanation. Copy one with Share → Copy
and press paste; it is filed in the project exactly as a dropped picture is.
⌘B and ⌘I bold and italic — and they are switches: pressing one on writing
that is already bold takes the marks away instead of adding a second pair.
The toolbar buttons behave the same way.
Pictures in the editor have the same corner to drag as the ones on the page.
Nothing is deleted for thirty days
Deleting a project, checklist, doc or file no longer loses it. It waits in
Recently deleted in the sidebar, which says what each thing was, what it
was called and how long it has left, and offers it back.
Deleting a section or a step offers Undo on the spot instead — those are
not kept in the list, since a deleted step is nearly always a typo being
fixed.
Settings
A settings window, opened with ⌘, or the gear beside About. Everything in it
takes effect as you change it.
Text size — the same size the View menu sets, in one place where it can
be found.
Reading width — how wide a line of writing is allowed to get, from
Narrow to Widest. It now applies to a step's explanation and a checklist's
description as well as to doc pages.
Show pictures and open steps with their explanation showing set how
writing arrives; each step and each page can still differ.
Where everything is kept, with a button to open the folder. That folder
is what to back up.
Reading a long checklist
Any step with pictures in it has a switch beside its arrow to stand them in
by name instead. A page of screenshots is a lot of scrolling when you are
after the words; click a name to look at one, and click away to fold it up.
A step's row now stays at the top of the window while you scroll through a
long explanation, so which step you are reading — and the pencil to edit it
— stay where you can reach them.
A checklist with one named section can Unpack it: the heading goes and
the steps stay, which puts the checklist back to a plain list. Adding a
section brings headings back.
The controls above a checklist no longer stack into a narrow column when the
window is narrow.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
0.4.0
Before you upgrade
This version changes how projects are stored on disk, and converts what you
already have the first time it opens. The conversion keeps everything — your
projects, your checklists, and which steps were ticked.
It is one-way. If you go back to 0.3.0 afterwards, it will not find your
projects. They are still in the file, but the older version can't read the
new layout. If that matters to you, copy
~/Library/Application Support/com.bendoggett.up-and-running/up-and-running.json
(macOS) or %APPDATA%\com.bendoggett.up-and-running\up-and-running.json
(Windows) somewhere safe before opening this version.
The change is groundwork for syncing a project between your own machines. It
also means ticking steps no longer counts as editing the checklist, which is
what makes it possible for more than one person to work through the same one.
Drawings
There is a triangle in the shape library. Excalidraw has no triangle
tool — you draw one with the line tool and it comes out as a blob unless you
set Edges to sharp first. This one has sharp corners already.
Diagrams are readable in the app and on a printed page. They used to be
drawn once, for white paper, and then glared out of the dark window. Each is
saved twice now; exports and printouts still get the light version.
Shapes added in a new version now reach you. Saving anything to the shape
library used to replace the shipped shapes wholesale, so anything added later
never appeared. The built-in shapes are merged in now.
The fixed-size tables have gone from the library. The toolbar already builds
a table at whatever size you ask for, which made them a worse version of
something that was already there.
Exports
HTML exports no longer lose their pictures. An export copies every
picture into the page so it works with no files alongside it — and then a
safety check was emptying them out again, leaving blank space where a diagram
should be. Photographs, diagrams, and the widths you resized them to all
survive now.
A bundled file in a link downloads when clicked instead of doing nothing.
Exporting a project and importing it back no longer carries the ticks with
it. You get the checklist, ready to run, rather than a copy of somebody's
half-finished Sunday.
Licences
About & licences, at the bottom of the sidebar, lists every open-source
component the app is built from — 812 of them — with a filter and the full
licence text for each.
Installing
Unsigned builds. On macOS, after dragging to Applications:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app".
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
0.3.0
Diagrams you draw in the app, and docs that carry their own links.
Diagrams
Draw one from any editor. The Diagram button opens a canvas; give the
drawing a name, save, and it is placed in the writing where your cursor was.
Everything that works for a picture works for it — resize it by dragging a
corner, and an HTML export carries it inside the page.
Edit it where it is shown. Hover a diagram in a step or a doc for Edit,
or an × to take it off that page without touching the drawing itself.
One drawing, many pages. Tick Show in Diagrams to give it a place in
the sidebar, then place it in as many explanations as you like. They all
point at the same drawing: edit it once and every one of them updates, and
renaming it renames it everywhere.
Tables. Excalidraw has no table, so the canvas builds one — say how many
rows and columns and it draws a grid of boxes to type into, with shapes
snapping to each other as you arrange them.
Docs
Links live in the writing. A doc no longer keeps a separate Resources
panel. Link to another checklist or doc from the toolbar, drop any file
straight onto the page, and write web links in the sentence that needs them.
Anything already in a doc's Resources is moved into the page for you.
Files linked this way are counted and bundled by the export prompt exactly
as attached files always were, and still appear in the sidebar's Files list.
Docs open a taller editor, and are edited by the pencil in the corner of the
page rather than a button in a bar at the top.
Smaller things
View → Zoom with a level the app remembers, and content that uses the
width of the window.
Sidebar sections fold away, and their titles read as headings.
Links and files in a step's Resources show without opening anything.
Cmd+Enter closes whichever editor is open.
Fixes
Images in a checklist's description were left out of HTML exports,
leaving a gap where the picture should be.
A project moved to another machine kept its pictures inside its own text
rather than unpacking them, and a doc's attached files were dropped on
import entirely. Both now arrive as if they had been made there.
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app"
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
0.2.1
A follow-up to v0.2.0, fixing what happened to a project's pictures and files
when it was moved to another machine.
Fixes
Imported projects keep their pictures properly. An exported project
carries its pictures inside the text, and importing left them there — so a
project that had been moved between machines was heavier than one made
locally, and the same picture used in three places was stored three times.
Pictures are now unpacked into the project's image folder on import, one
copy each, exactly as if they had been dropped in.
A doc's attached files survive an import. They were being discarded, and
the doc left pointing at a file that only existed on the machine the project
came from. Docs and the project's Files list now restore their attachments
the way checklists always have.
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Up and Running.app"
On Windows: More info → Run anyway.
0.2.0
Pictures in explanations
Drop an image straight into any step, doc, or checklist description — or use
the 🖼 button. The picture is copied into the project rather than pointed at
where it happened to sit, so it keeps working if the original moves, and when
the project is opened on another machine.
Resize a picture by hovering it and dragging the corner; double-click the
corner to put it back to its own size. The width can also be typed into the
Markdown (), and either way it survives an HTML export.
Pictures used in writing are kept separately from the files attached to
steps, so the Files list stays a list of things volunteers open.
Fixes
Pictures whose filename contained a space never loaded. They do now —
including macOS screenshots, whose names contain an unusual space character
that made this certain to happen.
Images in a checklist description were left out of HTML exports, so the
exported page showed a gap where the picture should be.
A picture that genuinely can't be found now says so and names the address it
looked for, instead of leaving blank space that gives no clue whether the
file moved or the Markdown has a typo.
Editing a checklist
Click a step's title to rename it in place. The arrow beside it opens the
explanation, and nothing else does, so the two no longer compete for a click.
Only one step's editor is open at a time — opening one closes the last.
⌘↵ (Ctrl+Enter on Windows) closes whichever editor is open.
A section with no name now shows a prompt to name it. Previously there was
nothing to click.
Collapse all and Expand all sit with Uncheck all at the top, rather than
stranded past the last section.
Elsewhere
View → Zoom (⌘+, ⌘−, ⌘0), and the app remembers where you left it.
Content follows the window width up to a comfortable cap, instead of sitting
in a fixed column.
Up and Running