Notebooks 13.1 for iPhone & iPad

Thank you for your feedback on Notebooks 13. This update is much about fixing a few issues and bringing back options we thought were no longer needed. It also includes a range of improvements across Notebooks as well: context menus are better organized with submenus, renaming or moving documents and books can now be undone with a three-finger swipe, you can continue editing formatted documents when switching between apps. The Print and Create PDF options for images are back, JXL image format is now supported, and sharing from Safari and other apps works more consistently. Settings have been tidied up with clearer names and new options, including a “Start at” setting and the return of “Show Sidebars” and the Classic Icon.

The update is available on the App Store. If you have any questions or feedback, don’t hesitate to reach out to us.

The Changes in Detail

Documents

  • The context menu that pops up when text is selected is better organized and uses submenus when possible.
  • The Share and Process menus, available from the dedicated toolbar buttons, are also better organized.
  • Renaming a document from the title menu can be undone (with a 3-finger-swipe-left gesture, for example).
  • After moving the current document using the dedicated action from the title menu, Notebooks reliably displays the closest neighbor instead of an empty document (iPhone).
  • The pinch & zoom gesture in plain text no longer conflicts with Undo/Redo (3 finger swipe left/right)

Editing

  • You can immediately resume editing formatted documents at the current position when switching back from another app. (This is already available for plain text documents.)
  • When using a split keyboard with Notebooks’ extra keys turned off, the document remains visible between the keyboard sections (iPad).
  • Extra keyboard keys remain readable even when reduced transparency is enabled in iOS Accessibility settings.

Images

  • The options to Print and Create PDF are back, as they were accidentally removed in the previous version.
  • Notebooks now supports the jxl image format.

Books

  • Moving items between books and renaming a book from the title menu can be undone (with a 3-finger-swipe-left gesture, for example).
  • The “Reorder” button in the title correctly updates when the sort order changes during synchronization.
  • Dropping items into smart books is no longer possible.
  • With extra-large text sizes selected in iOS settings, the + menu uses shorter titles to prevent scrolling.
  • Shows separators between books.
  • Moving books can be undone with the standard iOS undo gesture (3-finger-swipe-left, for example).
  • Fix a potential crash when opening to Sidebar for the first time after opening Notebooks (iPhone).
  • Correctly localized actions.

Sharing from other apps

  • Sharing websites from Safari tries to preserve the site title and avoids duplicates.
  • Importing documents from other apps via “Copy to Notebooks” works as expected.
  • Shortcuts work as expected when Notebooks is not running in the background.

Settings

  • The “Show Sidebars” option, which was previously known as “Use Column View”, is back on iPads. It allows users to remove the two left columns and get a layout similar to an iPhone.
  • Notebooks now has a “Start at” setting in its Settings > General, with options for Recent Documsn, Home, and Library. This replaces the setting which was available from System Settings > Apps > Notebooks.
  • We’ve renamed “Typewriter Layout” to “Centered Layout” (iPad).
  • A new option allows you to show or hide the header in document-only mode when “centered layout” is inactive.
  • The “Classic Icon” option is back in the settings.
  • We’ve renamed “Export to iTunes” to “Export to Computer,” which more accurately describes the action.

Miscellaneous

  • When creating an eBook from search results or from a smart book, Notebooks avoids duplicates in the table of contents.
  • On some iPads, typing text could have accidentally toggled fullscreen (document-only) mode. This issue should no longer occur.
  • On iPhone Max, Notebooks always remains in compact mode and does not display the sidebar, even in landscape mode.

Notebooks 13.1 for iPhone & iPad