Changelog

Version 1.0

Latest August 30, 2026

Boards and shapes

• Shapes you type straight into. Rectangle, ellipse and triangle, placed by clicking the canvas or dragging to size. New shapes cycle through five soft fill colours so a fresh board is not monochrome.
• Typing past the edge grows the shape rather than refusing the keystroke or hiding what you wrote. Both dimensions scale together so the proportions hold, and because the growth and the text change are recorded as one step, a single undo takes back both.
• Bold, italic, font size and text colour, plus alignment within the shape, from the Format menu or the toolbar. Formatting applies to every selected shape as one undo step.
• Four style presets — Default, Sticky Note, Glass Card and Neon Outline — with shadow and glow tiers.
• Board backgrounds: solid, gradient, dots, grid or an image. The background belongs to the board rather than to the app theme, so a light board stays light in dark mode.
• Import text from a file into a shape, which grows to fit the content.

Widgets

• A shape can hold a checklist, a code block, an image, a bookmark, a table or a month calendar instead of plain text — and is still an ordinary shape that moves, resizes, groups, snaps, links, takes a style and carries properties.
• Pictures are stored inside the board file, so a board keeps working after you move or delete the original. Images over 5 MB are downscaled on import — MemoDesk says so when it does, and never modifies your original file.
• Widget contents are searched and filtered like any other text, so a search finds the line in the table rather than only the shape holding it.

Pinned notes

• Pin any shape to the desktop as a small window with no title bar and no taskbar button, floating above other windows.
• It is the same shape, not a copy. Typing in the pinned window updates the board as you type, and one Ctrl+Z in the main window backs the edit out of both. Resizing the note resizes the shape.
• Always on top, opacity down to 40%, and click-through so the note ignores the mouse entirely and sits there like a heads-up display.
• A pinned note always opens fully on screen, on the monitor the shape is on, rather than half off the desktop.

Arranging and linking

• Links that reroute themselves. Both ends attach to the shape rather than a fixed point, so a connector follows as either shape moves or resizes. Three routings (straight, bezier, orthogonal), three arrow styles, and labels you type by double-clicking the link.
• Align six ways and distribute along either axis, plus bring to front and send to back.
• Snapping with guides. Edges and centres snap to nearby shapes with a dashed guide showing the line being matched. The tolerance is measured on screen rather than on the board, so snapping feels identical at any zoom.
• Grouping without a container object — the other selected shapes become children of the front-most one, so any shape can act as a group and a group is still a normal shape you can edit and style. Groups collapse and expand.
• Zoom from 10% to 400%, pan by middle-drag or space-drag, and Fit. Below about 40% shapes draw in a simplified form without their text, which is what keeps large boards responsive.

Properties, filter and search

• Properties on every shape — title, description, status, priority, due date, reminder, tags, accent colour and any number of custom fields. Status is free-form, so a board can define its own workflow.
• Filter one board by text, status, minimum priority and tags. Shapes that do not match are dimmed rather than hidden — on a canvas, where something sits is part of what it means, so hiding shapes would quietly rearrange how the board reads.
• Search every board this installation has opened or saved. Open boards are searched from memory, so unsaved edits are findable too.
• An outline panel listing the board as a tree nested by group, with each shape’s status beside it and a coloured pip for Medium priority and above. Clicking a row scrolls the canvas to that shape.

Reminders and the notification area

• Reminders on a shape, announced from the tray. Clicking the notification opens the board and takes you to the shape. A date with no time means 9am, and the line under the field always says which moment will be used.
• A notification-area icon for as long as MemoDesk runs. Minimising puts the window there instead of the taskbar, and pinned notes stay on the desktop. Right-click for Show/Hide, New board, recent boards and Exit.

Files, export and history

• One board is one .memodesk file you save wherever you like.
• Revision history inside the file. Every save adds a revision; browse them and restore one. Restoring never deletes anything — saving afterwards simply adds the restored state as the newest revision, so you can always go forward again. How many are kept is a setting.
• Export as PNG, print, or send to PDF — always the whole board at full detail, whatever is on screen. Printing scales down to fit the page but never enlarges a small board past its real size.
• Three templates — Kanban board, weekly planner and brainstorm map — or start from an empty canvas. A template is only a head start; nothing about the board afterwards remembers it began as one.
• A start screen with New, Open, templates and recent boards. Boards that have been deleted or moved drop off the recent list rather than offering to open something that is not there.

The window

• A full menu bar — File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Arrange, Tools and Help — and a toolbar for the things worth a single click. Nothing lives only on the toolbar; every button on it is also a menu item.
• Boards open in tabs, and MemoDesk reopens the ones you had open when you last closed it. Launching it again focuses the existing window instead of opening a second copy.
• Light and dark themes that follow Windows, a Mica title bar on Windows 11, and per-monitor DPI awareness.
• A status bar that says what the current selection is and what you can do with it.

Notes

• MemoDesk works entirely offline. There is no account, no sign-in, no sync and no telemetry — and no networking code at all, so it cannot send your writing anywhere.
• Reminders need MemoDesk running, with the board open. Minimised into the notification area counts; a closed board or a shut-down app does not. The notification is not kept in the Windows notification centre, so a missed one is gone from there — the reminder stays on the shape, which is the real record.
• PDF export uses the PDF printer Windows provides, so the text in the PDF is a picture rather than something you can select. PNG export and printing are direct.
• Known gaps rather than defects: rotation is in the file format but has no handle yet, resize handles act on a single shape rather than a multiple selection, and the properties panel edits one shape at a time.