Keep It 2.6 Release Notes Archive
Version 2.6.8
Requirements
macOS 12.0 Monterey or later.
Released
August 19, 2025
Changes
- Fixed an issue showing previews and thumbnails for web archives on macOS 15.6.
- Updated web page text settings to accommodate changes to third-party browser behaviour.
Version 2.6.7
Requirements
macOS 12.0 Monterey or later.
Released
July 29, 2025
Changes
- Fixed an issue where clicking a highlight with a note in a PDF would show two separate ways to edit the note.
- Fixed an issue changing iCloud share settings for an item using the button in the editor window toolbar.
- Fixed an issue where disabling Perform OCR in the Import From Scanner panel would have no effect.
- The AppleScript “add files” command can now add comments and a source URL to the created items.
Version 2.6.6
Requirements
macOS 12.0 Monterey or later.
Released
July 8, 2025
Changes
- When first downloading a library with Finder integration enabled, if the remaining available free space would be reduced to less than 10% of the startup disk’s total capacity, the “Download all items” setting is automatically disabled.
- Fixed an issue that could occur in Keep It’s Finder location after a large number of items have been deleted.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when restoring editing windows at launch.
- Fixed an issue reloading a Markdown preview using the toolbar button.
- Fixed an issue showing Web Page Text settings while viewing a rich text document.
Version 2.6.5
Requirements
macOS 12.0 Monterey or later.
Released
June 10, 2025
Changes
- Fixed an issue where not all kinds of files could be attached using the Attach File shortcut.
- Fixed an issue where bundles may not appear in the sidebar.
- When exporting, the “Welcome to Keep It” item will not be included.
- Fixed an issue where text recognition may not be performed on standalone scanned PDFs.
Version 2.6.4
Requirements
macOS 12.0 Monterey or later.
Released
May 15, 2025
Changes
- Fixed an issue exporting notes or encrypted items with drag and drop when Finder integration disabled.
- Fixed issues could occur in Keep It’s Finder extension when handling an iCloud error.
- Improvements changing the sort order of the items list.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the consolidation of duplicate tags.
- Fixed an issue searching for special characters in the contents of files.
- Improvements when importing exported libraries.
Version 2.6.3
Requirements
macOS 12.0 Monterey or later.
Released
April 22, 2025
Changes
- Fixed an issue copying and pasting rows in a table.
- Fixed an issue inserting a newline after some highlighted text.
- Fixed an issue undoing text highlights in notes and rich text files.
- Fixed an issue selecting newly created nested folders or bundles when the sidebar is focused on a folder.
- Fixed an issue where import errors may not always be reported in the Activity window.
- Fixed an issue where it would be possible to set read-only permissions for shared items and folders on macOS 13 and later.
- Fixed an issue that could occur when deleting from iCloud.
Version 2.6.2
Requirements
macOS 12.0 Monterey or later.
Released
April 3, 2025
Changes
- Fixed issues selecting newly created items in the list.
- Fixed an issue where newlines in web page text may not be cleaned up.
- Fixed an issue where the kind could be shown twice for some items when the “Always Show Kind” option is selected.
- Fixed an issue handling files that corrupt Keep It’s search indexes.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when switching lists.
- Fixed an issue saving items to iCloud when their files are moved or deleted before the save completes.
- The items list is now sorted by Date Modified by default. Use the View menu to change that. Changing All Items will change all lists that have not been customised.
Version 2.6.1
Requirements
macOS 12.0 Monterey or later.
Released
March 18, 2025
Changes
- Fixed an issue where adding shared items to bundles and changing their tags would not update correctly on other devices.
- Fixed an issue where Keep It would not resume downloading files from iCloud after network connectivity is restored.
- Fixed an issue where the “Kind” or “Attachment Kind” pop-ups in the saved search editor may show an incorrect list of types when switching between them.
- Fixed an issue correctly identifying the current note style.
- Fixed an issue setting the cursor position by clicking attachments in notes and rich text documents.
- Fixed an issue where the current line height would be applied to files attached to notes and rich text documents.
- Preview attachments or links with Quick Look by pressing the spacebar on selected text in a note or rich text document.
Version 2.6
Requirements
macOS 12.0 Monterey or later.
Released
February 25, 2025
Summary
- Improved text highlighting in notes and rich text files
- Choose maximum size for images in notes
- Optionally show featured images in Reader mode and minimal web pages
- Improved table editing in notes and rich text files
- Authorize to view and decrypt items with Apple Watch
- Insert ISO 8601 formatted dates
- Improved search suggestions
- Import and export dates in bookmarks HTML files
- Improvements for importing and exporting libraries
Notes
- In Notes settings, select “Constrain display sizes” to constrain the size of images in all notes, and choose from four different sizes.
- The “Show Small Images” setting in the Format menu has been changed to “Constrain Image Sizes”, and only applies to the current note. The size used will be the one on Notes settings, but this setting only applies to the current note (the “Thumbnail” size matches the old behaviour).
- On macOS 15.0 Sequoia and later, highlights in rich text files are preserved when converted to notes.
Notes & Rich Text
- Highlights added to notes and rich text documents now have a new appearance.
- Add and remove rows in a table by clicking the table button in the format bar, or using the items in the contextual menu.
- The name generated for notes and rich text documents will now include the filename of the first attachment, if any.
- Settings for pasting web page text have moved from Notes settings to a separate panel that you can access by choosing Format > Web Page Text from the menu.
Encrypted Items
- As well as Touch ID, when available, you can now authorize to view or export encrypted files with a companion device, such as Apple Watch.
- In Advanced settings, select “Always authenticate with password” to always enter a password rather than use Touch ID or a companion device.
Images
- Improved the load time of large standalone images.
Web Links
- Web Link settings now includes all the relevant options previously in Import settings, along with the autoplay setting from Files settings.
- A featured image will now be shown in Reader mode. This can be disabled in Web Links settings.
- A featured image will now be included in minimal web pages. This can be enabled in Web Links settings.
- Fixed an issue that could occur when an unsaved web link’s URL changes.
- Items for Look Up, Translate, and more are now shown in contextual menus for web links and saved web pages.
Items List
- When dragging items in icon view mode, the original items no longer disappear from view.
- Fixed an issue where it would not be possible to swipe back from viewing a web page or movie in Compact Mode.
- The summary for PDF documents now shows the number of pages in the document.
- Improved the appearance of the Kind shown in the items list.
Bookmarks Files
- When importing a bookmarks HTML file, select “Include dates if available” to use the added and modified dates exported from Firefox, Chrome (date added only) and possibly other browsers as the dates on the created bookmark file.
- Keep It now includes the added and modified dates when exporting a bookmarks HTML file.
- Only HTTP and HTTPs links are imported.
Import and Export
- Import exported Keep It libraries by choosing Keep It > Import > Exported Library from the menu, and select the folder that contains the “Files” folder and metadata file. This works for libraries exported with Property List format metadata for Keep It 1.x and 2.x, but searches are only preserved for libraries exported with Keep It 2.6 or later.
- When exporting the library or a particular list with encrypted items, Keep It will now prompt for the encryption password before the export begins.
- When exporting a library and choosing to include metadata, that file is now always in property list format to ensure it can be imported again.
- The Keep It > Library > Export iCloud Data menu item has been renamed to “Export Library”, and is available whether or not the library is using iCloud.
- When importing mail messages via Scripts or Keep It’s automator workflow, the file extension will now be hidden.
Search
- Suggestions for labels, tags, and attachments now only include matches from the current list.
- Improved searching by file type or attachment type.
- Improved the appearance of the Kind shown in search suggestions, and saved search editor.
- Attachment search suggestions are more concise.
- The suggestion for untagged items now shows a tag icon with a slash through it.
- Fixed an issue where using the search field may have no effect after switching to another list from a saved search that was modified in the search field.
- Fixed an issue indexing mail attachments that have no filename.
General
- Choose Edit > Insert Date & Time > Formats from the menu to choose ISO 8601 as the format for inserting dates and times. When the date format is set to “ISO 8601”, the time format will be too, and vice versa. These dates are always in the local time zone, rather than GMT.
- Worked around a crash that could occur when generating thumbnails on Intel-based Macs.
- Fixed an AppleScript issue where changing the created or modified date on an item wouldn’t update the file.