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- New: a Tasks tab for projects in your LinkTiles account. Checkboxes you type in notes and tasks you add in Tasks share one list, with due dates, blockers and done kept in step both ways
- Tasks appears on its own once a project has tasks. Hide it, or add it to any project, from Manage details or the + beside the tabs
- Deleting a checkbox in a note deletes its task, and Undo brings it back. Deleting a task in Tasks removes it from your notes too, also with Undo
- A checkbox turned into plain text drops its date and blocker markers
- Project pages in a space someone shared with you say who shared it and your role
- In a narrow window, menus, pickers and the date editor open as sheets sized for touch
- Notes that contain shared tasks can be edited from LinkTiles 3.11.0 or later
- In shared notes, each collaborator's selected text is highlighted in their own avatar colour
- Links in notes always open in a new tab, kept separate from LinkTiles
- Member avatars show Google profile photos; other accounts show their initial
- In a space someone has shared with you, projects and bookmarks now move only between that owner's spaces. To put something in one of your own spaces, use Copy
- Fix: dragging a project onto a space it cannot move to no longer looks like it moved and then jumps back. The space is not offered as a drop target, and Move to space lists only spaces it can go to
- New notes open as soon as you create them, and the first note's heading is ready to type into
- Ticking a task in its dropdown updates an open note immediately, without losing text you are typing or newer checkbox changes while the save completes
- Adding a date keeps the list expanded, reveals the new row and briefly highlights it
- Overdue dates now show in red in the full date list as well as the compact preview
- Timeline updates its day after midnight or when you return from sleep, without moving your scroll
- Fix: entering, leaving or switching a focused project clears the applied filter as well as its search box
- Fix: Enter saves an edited page title in the popup and Quick Save; repeated presses cannot create overlapping saves
- Fix: dragging tiles in grid or list view, including Quick Save, no longer bunches them up or drops them into stale positions
- Fix: pasting into Unsorted puts the bookmarks in the global inbox rather than the last space visited
- Fix: copied bookmarks belong to the account that copied them and keep their own product pictures
- Fix: leaving Shared projects no longer leaves its sidebar row selected alongside the current view
- Shared bookmarks you can only read can now be selected in bulk and opened in tabs
- Markdown import is available before creating a project's first note
- Fix: empty-task hints no longer duplicate or remain after a task is removed
- Saving a product page now keeps a picture of the product on the tile, instead of the site's icon. It works wherever you save from a page you have open: the popup, Quick Save, and Ctrl+Shift+S
- The save window shows the picture it found before you pick where to put it, so you can see what is being saved rather than finding out afterwards
- Product pictures fill the tile rather than sitting in the small icon box, and show in list view too
- Saving no longer waits for the picture. The window closes as soon as the bookmark is saved, and the picture arrives a moment later
- Pages that do not publish a picture, and pages that are not products, keep their icon exactly as before. A bookmark is never held up or failed because its picture could not be found
- New spaces, projects, notes and bookmarks now appear the moment you make them, instead of waiting for the server. A new project is on screen and ready to type into straight away
- Fix: toggling a checkbox quickly could count the same click more than once, so the box flipped two or four times for one or two clicks
- Fix: a new project could land half off the bottom of the screen, or sit empty for a moment at the wrong size before filling in
- Fix: an icon on a bookmark shared with you could tell the site that hosts it each time you opened your dashboard. Shared bookmarks now show their picture without the site hearing about it
- Share a space or a project with a link. Anyone signed in to LinkTiles who opens it can join, at the level you choose — and you can change that level for future joiners without affecting anybody already in
- Turning a link off is a pause: nobody new can join, everyone already in keeps their access, and turning it back on resumes the same link. Resetting is the one that replaces it, and every copy of the old link stops working
- Removing one person does not turn the link off, so they can rejoin while it is on. “Stop sharing” turns the link off along with everyone's access
- Settings › Sharing shows when a link is on, including for a space or project nobody has joined yet — sharing you have forgotten about is the kind worth seeing
- A link opened by someone without LinkTiles now lands on a page that shows what was shared and lets them join, instead of a Chrome Web Store link
- Someone who joins by link can see who shared it with them, and the share sheet says so before you turn a link on
- A space or project is now limited to 50 people, not counting the owner
- Fix: if you have never moved your bookmarks to the cloud, the dashboard was missing its menus and the buttons for adding anything. Everything is editable again, and the popup can save to your spaces as before
- Fix: a brand-new account could not save its first bookmark into Personal
- Fix: the web app at linktiles.app did not load in Safari
- Fix: signing in with Google on the web now always asks which account to use, rather than reusing the last one on that computer
- Fix: importing bookmarks said it had imported them even when there was nothing to import, or when it had failed. It now says what actually happened
- Fix: exporting your data says it is working, and no longer starts a second export if you click again
- Security: opening the notes list or searching your notes no longer loads images from a note someone shared with you, which could tell whoever wrote it that you had read it
- Security: updated the note editor, closing two issues in how it handles content written by someone you share a note with
- Build tables in notes, with controls for adding and removing rows and columns
- Tables survive a trip out to Markdown and back as real tables, not as pasted text
- Imported notes keep their smaller headings instead of flattening them into ordinary text
- Notes imported from Obsidian keep their real title rather than taking it from the metadata at the top of the file
- Fix: the Markdown button in the Notes view no longer sits greyed out on an account with no notes yet
- The formatting menu now shows an icon beside each kind of block
- Send notes out as Markdown and bring them back in — one note saves as a .md file, several as a single .zip
- Choose exactly which notes leave, and which of the notes inside a file arrive
- Choose the project an import lands in, or create one for it without leaving the picker
- Tasks you dropped stay dropped through a round trip rather than coming back ticked
- Import says what it cannot keep — tables and images — before anything is created
- Open a project on its own page from the sidebar, where bookmarks, notes, dates and tags each get the full window instead of a cramped card
- The note list and formatting bar stay put while a long note scrolls, and the page scrolls as one rather than trapping a second scrollbar inside it
- Fix: long pasted code and links in notes now wrap instead of running off the edge of the panel
- Space and project headers now share one height, spacing and sticky behaviour
- Fix: bookmark icons are drawn the same way everywhere, including in the Timeline sidebar
- Browser-tab saves now respond immediately, whether you save one tab, a selection, or a whole window
- Fix: one unusually long tab title can no longer stop a whole batch from saving
- Fix: links in notes open on click, and text typed after leaving the link editor stays outside the link
- Fix: opening a note no longer changes its edited time or moves it to the top of recently updated notes
- Space filters stay visible while they hold a query and fold away when empty
- Empty notes, dates and tags now use one clearer, consistent design
- Fix: opening a project from Timeline no longer occasionally crashes while the project is loading
- Security update to two libraries used when displaying note content, including one that keeps shared notes safe to render
- Share one project, not the whole space. Invite somebody to a single project and they see that project only — not the space it sits in, and nothing else in there
- People can edit now, not just look. Choose “Can edit” when you invite, and they can add, change and organise inside what you shared
- Change your mind at any time: switch somebody between viewing and editing, or remove their access, and it takes effect straight away
- Notes are written together. When a project is shared with an editor, its notes update live for everyone who has them open, and you can see who else is in a note
- Nothing is lost if your connection drops — your typing is kept and merged when you come back
- Projects shared with you gather under “Shared with you”, where you can sort them, open them, and leave any you no longer want
- Whoever shared it can still only be seen by you: nothing of yours is shared back
- Settings now has a Sharing tab — one place showing every space shared with you and every space you’ve shared, instead of checking them one at a time
- Leave a shared space from there, or jump to who has access to one of yours
- Your sidebar order is yours. You can now drag a space someone shared with you into whatever position suits you — it moves in your sidebar only, never in theirs
- Your chosen space order now stays consistent in the popup, Quick Save, Notes, Tags, Timeline and space pickers
- Opening the share sheet is quicker, and it no longer looks empty for a moment before your name appears
- Share a space with someone. Invite them by email and they can see everything in that space — every project, bookmark, note, date and tag, including whatever you add later
- Shared spaces are read‑only: the person you share with can look, but cannot change, add or delete anything
- Nothing is shared back the other way — they get no access to any of your other spaces
- Invitations arrive by email. Accept from the top of your sidebar and the space appears alongside your own
- Don’t want it? Decline the invitation, or leave a shared space later from its menu
- Remove someone’s access whenever you like, from the same sheet you invited them in
- Timeline, Tags and Notes show which spaces are shared, so it’s clear whose is whose
- You’ll need a verified email address to send or accept an invitation — check your inbox for the verification email if you signed up with a password
- Account emails — verification and password resets — now come from linktiles.app, so they should reach your inbox rather than your spam folder
- Fix: deleting a bookmark from its menu now clears it right away instead of leaving it on screen
- A new project scrolls into view when it lands below the fold
- Projects with no notes, dates or tags now open those tabs directly, without a separate menu
- Adding a date or a tag goes straight to the picker instead of asking a second time
- Tasks can carry a due date, typed straight into the task — press / inside a task for dates and more
- The task readout leads with what’s late: overdue work first, undated work last
- Filter the readout by what’s left, what’s overdue, or what’s blocked
- A task can be marked as blocked by another task, and shows what it is waiting on
- Work you have decided against can be dropped rather than ticked, so it stops counting as done
- Works whether or not you have a LinkTiles account
- Projects can hold several notes instead of one, with a note list in the project card and in the Timeline sidebar
- A new Notes workspace gathers every note across every space in one place, with search
- A note's title is simply its first line — there is nothing to fill in
- The task readout now gathers tasks from all of a project's notes, grouped by note and leading with what's left
- Search and the space filter now cover every note, not just the first
- Multiple notes per project require a LinkTiles account; local storage keeps one note per project
- Cloud-backed actions now respond immediately across tasks, tags, dates, tiles, projects, and spaces
- Move, copy, delete, paste, sort, and bulk workflows stay fast even while the cloud catches up
- Undo appears immediately and restores items in their original order
- Fix: pending cloud changes no longer leave duplicate, ghost, or permanently pending items
- Fix: Timeline tooltips and navigation/search highlights are no longer clipped
- Fix: Google sign-in now completes if Chrome restarts or discards LinkTiles during authentication
- Brief extension connection gaps are retried without reopening the Google account chooser
- Interrupted migrations can safely continue after LinkTiles is reopened
- Fix: project tag pickers now show only tags from the project's space
- Moving or copying tagged projects carries their tags into the destination space
- Fix: rapid tag creation no longer produces duplicate tags
- Fix: deleting a space once again offers Undo and restores its projects and tags
- Cloud sync: sign in with a free account to sync bookmarks across devices and back them up automatically
- Sign in with Google or with email and password
- Existing local users keep their data on-device and can migrate whenever they choose
- No ads, analytics, or tracking; export or delete your data anytime
- Backup and restore safety: legacy unassigned project IDs are remapped and child records (tiles, dates, tags) reconnected during restore
- Backup and restore safety: internal extension URLs are now filtered out during restore
- Improved test coverage for backup/restore edge cases
- Project details panel: add dates, tags, and notes to any project via the tab strip
- Timeline view: see all project dates on a Gantt-style timeline with filters and detail sidebar
- Tags view: browse and filter projects by tag across all spaces
- Notes view: see all project notes in one place
- Sidebar Views section: collapsible section with Timeline, Tags, and Notes views
- Backup and restore now includes dates, tags, and project links
- Date picker modal for adding and editing project date ranges
- Fix: tile URL field now accepts pasted text when editing an existing tile
- Unsorted view: added search filter, tile sort (A-Z, Z-A, date, domain), and list/grid toggle
- Fix: search filter now highlights matching tiles in Unsorted view
- Internal rewrite to React + TypeScript + Vite build system
- Improved sidebar scroll behavior (no more bounce on macOS)
- Fix: notes link mode no longer sticks after inserting a link
- Fix: browser tabs can now be dragged to Unsorted
- Updated logo and extension icons to new two-tile mark (icon8-skinny)
- Updated popup "Open LinkTiles" button logo
- Updated site pages with new logo and favicon
- Unified save picker: popup and quick-save share a single module with consistent search, recent projects, and keyboard navigation
- Fix: space filter now preserves open notes when dropping browser tabs
- Fix: clipboard paste highlight only appears for tiles-only clipboard
- Fix: filter bar and tabs panel interactions no longer conflict
- Fix: sidebar no longer flashes after dropping tiles or browser tabs onto project rows
- Fix: caret is immediately interactive after creating the first project in an empty space
- Fix: caret hides when the last project is dragged out of a space
- Fix: undo of cross-space move or project delete correctly restores caret behavior
- Collapsible sidebar tree: spaces expand to show projects underneath, with drag-and-drop reordering and cross-space moves
- Sidebar identity chips: colored chips with icon/emoji/initial replace color dots
- Unified space modal for create and edit with color picker, icon/emoji picker, and live preview
- Notes toolbar: underline added to text styles, bulleted list promoted to toolbar
- Notes link popover: inline field icons, smarter positioning for long link text
- Tile creation popover replaces old modal
- Unsorted as drop target for tiles, bulk selections, and browser tabs
- Empty states with action links when a space has no projects
- Streamlined first-run onboarding
- Fix: empty state clears immediately when adding a project
- Fix: sidebar project kebab aligned with tile count
- Fix: shift-click range select in tabs panel
- Updated app icon to new chain-link mark
- Fix: granting tabs permission no longer duplicates projects in the space view
- Favicon refresh: clear cached favicons and re-fetch through the higher-quality tab path when tabs permission is granted
- Tabs permission migration: moved to optional — eliminates "Read your browsing history" install warning
- Contextual permission requests: tabs panel, popup "Save all tabs", and add-tile modal each explain the benefit and prompt only when needed
- Graceful degradation: favicon and title lookups fall back to network chain when tabs permission is not granted
- Space filter: normalize smart quotes so apostrophes match regardless of curly vs straight
- Space filter: project titles now included in search results
- Tile sorting (A-Z, Z-A, Date) now available in global Unsorted view
- Quick save modal: project tree fills available space instead of leaving dead padding
- Add-tile modal: name field pre-fills with URL when title fetch is unavailable
- Sidebar: rounded rows with inset margin
- Drop target: no layout shift, bouncing arrow indicator below toolbar
- Fix: bulk drag to empty unassigned drop target now works in bulk mode
- Fix: shift-range bulk actions treat all-tiles-selected as project selection
- Unify project copy into shared copyProjectToSpace() function, replacing 4 inline implementations
- Fix: "New tile" button in empty Unsorted view now works (creates tile grid on demand)
- Fix: popup "Save All Tabs" button no longer disabled when the current tab is an internal page
- Design token system: centralized color palette via tokens.json, build-tokens.js, and generated tokens.css wired into all entry points
- New visual theme: warm paper/linen palette, brand blue (#1F77CC), neutral surfaces, white popup/quick-save/settings backgrounds
- New app icon: diagonal 2-tone linen/blue-tint tiles with center dot, retina-ready PNGs (16/48/128)
- Space colors: dot-only indicators (no background tint), solid brand background on selected state with white text
- Dark mode refinements: updated to match new token-based palette across all UI surfaces
- Toolbar and project controls: white surface backgrounds, refined icon styles
- Website redesign: new landing page, warm paper palette, blue brand, updated nav/footer across all pages
- Bulk selection redesign — hover checkboxes on tiles and projects, Ctrl+C/V clipboard shortcuts, shift-click range select with flat document-order logic
- Pinned Unsorted section — always visible at top of each space, drop target for tile drags from anywhere including the Browser Tabs panel
- New Project: inline creation with immediate title edit, no modal
- Popup and quick-save: inline project creation with immediate selection, no modal
- Tile modal: URL field comes first; title auto-populates from the open tab or a page fetch
- Browser Tabs panel: close button in panel header; toolbar toggle hides when panel is open
- Paste into Unsorted now strips project containers and flattens all tiles
- Fix: paste scroll and pulse lag removed
- Fix: bulk drag drop target now matches single-tile and panel-tab visual behavior
- Fix: inline project name edit uses subtle brand underline instead of browser outline
- Popup redesign — project tree with spaces, Quick Save pre-selected, matches quick-save modal style
- "Open LinkTiles" now focuses an existing dashboard tab instead of always opening a new one
- Save button disabled on internal pages (new tab, chrome://, etc.)
- Save All Tabs respects the selected project destination
- Import Google Bookmarks — loose bookmarks now land in a "Bookmarks Bar" project instead of Unsorted
- Fix: Quick Save icon in popup no longer shows brand color when unselected
- Fix: sort projects menu no longer renders transparent
- List view — toggle any project between tile grid and compact list view; scales with tile size setting and shows full tile name
- Undo improvements — scroll position preserved, tile delete restores in place without page refresh, copy-to-space undo navigates back to source space
- Kebab menu polish — consistent SVG icons and hover states across spaces, projects, and tiles; dark mode contrast fixed
- Open Tabs panel — renamed from "Open Browser Tabs", added subtitle explaining drag and multi-select
- Fix: bulk action bar tooltips no longer render under the toolbar when scrolled
- Fix: tile delete menu now closes before deletion
- Fix: dark mode drag handle dots now have proper contrast
- Bulk drag to Quick Save — in bulk select mode, drag selected tiles to the Quick Save sidebar item to move them all at once, with undo support
- Dark mode — full dark theme available in Settings, covering all UI including tiles, sidebar, modals, notes, and auto-backup
- Settings modal — theme toggle, tile size picker (small/medium/large), open-in-new-tab toggle, and Import Google Bookmarks
- Auto-backup settings now live in the main Settings modal (Auto-Backup tab)
- Tile size — small, medium (default, 98×110px), and large options
- Sidebar space menu now opens to the right for better visibility
- Fix: auto-backup tab in Settings refreshes immediately after backup completes or folder permission is granted
- Clicking a notes search result opens the project's notes panel and scrolls it into view
- Fix: favicon onerror now clears the bad URL from storage and re-probes instead of silently showing initials
- Fix: removed invalid fetch mode combination that caused console errors during favicon discovery
- IndexedDB wipe detection — if Chrome clears your storage, a recovery modal appears offering to restore from backup or start fresh
- Default Personal space now gets a star icon on first run
- Fix: user data removed from console logs
- Restore preview shows file name and item counts before committing
- Restoring the same backup twice is now a no-op — no duplicates created
- Remaps legacy unassigned project IDs when restoring older backups
- Removes empty default Personal space before importing
- Color and icon picker now available when creating a new space
- Fix: file picker now opens reliably on restore across all Chrome profiles
- Color and icon picker in Create New Space — set appearance at creation time, not just when editing
- Status notifications replaced with neutral dark toasts (bottom-center)
- Error toasts now visually distinct with a dark red tint
- Status and undo toasts stack instead of overlapping
- Space icons — choose from 76 icons, rendered in the sidebar next to the space name
- Search now includes project notes with excerpt and match highlighting
- Sort projects button (A→Z, Z→A, date added)
- Sort tiles within any project via the kebab menu (A→Z, Z→A, date added, by domain)
- Fix: sort projects button closes other open menus before opening
- Fix: scroll restored project into view after undo delete
- Auto-backup — automatically back up to a local folder on a schedule (hourly to weekly)
- Configurable retention count — old backups rotate out automatically
- "Only on change" option skips backups when nothing has changed
- Health alerts in gear menu when backup folder is missing or permission has expired
- Re-adopts existing backup files when folder is changed or storage is wiped
- Fix: nested Chrome bookmark folders each become their own project on import
- Fix: bookmark import preserves folder and tile order
- Fix: deleting the last space now correctly selects the space above it
- Fix: space delete toast no longer counts Unsorted as a project
- Fix: undo space delete scrolls sidebar to the restored space
- Bulk drag — select multiple tiles or projects and drag them to any space
- Mixed bulk selections now show the space picker instead of alerting
- Bulk Move/Copy navigates to the target, scrolls to landed items, pulses them, and shows an undo toast
- Undo bulk delete scrolls to and pulses restored items
- Bulk action buttons replaced with icon buttons with tooltips
- Esc key exits bulk select mode
- Sticky project controls bar with scroll-triggered shadow
- Navigate to target space and highlight project after Move or Copy
- Undo toast for Move to Space
- Enter/Escape keyboard support for Move and Copy modals
- Fix: import of legacy backups and broken import/copy
- Fix: onboarding Browser Tabs callout alignment
- Browser Tabs button moved into project controls bar
- Expand All / Collapse All replaced with a single icon toggle
- Larger project control buttons for easier interaction
- Fix: favicon probe performance improvements
- Merge/dedupe option when restoring a backup
- Navigate to target space after cross-space drag-drop with undo toast
- Navigate to selected space after importing Google Bookmarks
- Keyboard shortcuts updated to avoid Chrome conflicts (Quick Save: Ctrl+Shift+E, Dashboard: Ctrl+Shift+L)
- Fix: search no longer navigates to Quick Save when selecting tiles saved there
- Fix: diff-based browser tabs refresh eliminates favicon flash
- Bookmarks permission is now optional — only requested when you click Import Bookmarks
- Arrow key and Enter keyboard navigation for search results
- Fix: onboarding flow stalling if bookmarks permission is denied
- Fix: context menu duplicate ID errors on extension update/reload
- Fix: Chrome split-screen triggering when dragging tabs near window edge
- Rich text editor for project notes — bullet lists, checklists, bold/italic
- Floating spotlight callout onboarding system
- Clicking a tile name now opens the URL
- Fix: default Personal space missing Unsorted section on first run
- Fix: edit modal not opening for tiles in per-space Unsorted sections
- Fix: tab drops into empty Quick Save not reflecting until refresh