Tangent lets you write the way you think. Your thoughts are connected; Tangent lets you link to existing notes and make new ones with ease. Let your mind wander along the path of interest. Don't suppress tangential thoughts; embrace them. Key features include:
- [[Wiki-link]] linking to other files in your workspace by name.
- Horizontally-scrolling sliding panels for quickly moving back and forth along a trail of thoughts.
- A Map View of the links between notes created and followed during your current session.
- Note creation automation with support for creating notes within folders defined by wildcards.
- Full-workspace note search powered by a custom query language.
Tangent reads and writes plaintext notes using a loose interpretation of Markdown syntax. Text is rendered in a pseudo-WYSIWYG style, with formatting characters appearing only when you need them. Tangent supports bold, italics, headers, lists, links, images, todos, tags, inline code, block code with syntax highlighting, inline and block KaTeX math, color highlights, strikethrough, and comments.
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0.12.928 Aug 2026
- Added commands for activating color highlights. They are now accessible from the application and context menus and can have keyboard shortcuts bound to them.
- Added a command for toggling checkboxes on and off (Ctrl+[).
- Added custom styling for checkboxes and range sliders that correctly invoke the configured accent color.
- Fixed an issue where automatic word finding (e.g. for inline formatting toggles) did not detect non-Latin words.
- Fixed an issue where Math, Mermaid Diagrams, and Highlights did not correctly fade out in focus mode.
- Fixed an issue where the currently selected settings tab wasn't obvious in light mode.
- Fixed an issue where hitting enter after "- [] 1" removed that line.
0.12.821 Aug 2026
- Fixed an issue that caused errors in Mermaid Diagrams to add elements in the background, eventually breaking layout.
- Fixed an issue where headers with adjacent space-like elements (e.g. My - Header) would not be matched properly.
- Fixed an issue where the images of website previews were not horizontally centered.
0.12.718 Aug 2026
- Added "Open to the Right/Left/Replace" options to the context menu of files and folders in the sidebar.
- Changed the "trash items on delete" default to false on Linux. This caused friction for many.
- Added gray emoji-based highlight options.
- Changed the configuration of "safe header" names to be much more lenient, allowing for non-latin headers.
0.12.611 Aug 2026
- Fixed an issue where Wiki Links to headers that had extra whitespace around them couldn't match their target header.