Dec 15, 2021
beam changelog
Beta 0.16.0
New features
- Drag & Drop Tab Groups
- Support for Dashlane passwords import
- Undo menu shows what you are about to Undo/Redo
Tweaks
- Improved Markdown export
- Improved support for capturing SVGs into your notes
- Solved some crashes on macOS Ventura”
Fixes
- 400 error when opening some web pages
- Fixed Omnibox indexing of clicked GMail links
- Improved Omnibox ranking for redirected URLs
- Fixed passwords encryption corruption
- Reference section in a note would sometimes disappear when clicked
- Captured tab group in a note would not display the right count of tabs
Beta 0.15.0
New features
- Tab group sharing: right-click a tab group to share it instantly.
- Delete tab groups from the Omnibox
- Markdown import
- Cursor color preferences
Tweaks
- Updated design for the calendar, notes and update window
- New cursor design for capture
Fixes
- Properly remember selection in notes when switching between notes and the web
- Fix errors on link opening via right-click
- Fixed Journal shortcuts: Today and Tomorrow
- Some tabs wouldn’t display media controls
- Improved Omnibox ranking
- Pause automated tab grouping on shared tab groups so that it is clearer they are not being automatically re-published with unwanted tabs (don’t worry, they weren’t)
- Fixed a memory leak when right-clicking
Beta 0.14.0
New features
- Export your notes in Markdown
- Add macOS accent color
Tweaks
- Contrast improvements
- Note design improvements
- Improved tab closing logic
Fixes
- Fixed broken credit card auto-fill
- Improved password auto-fill support
- Improved indexing of Youtube pages
- Improve private key management
- Properly restore pinned tabs & tabs when restarting beam
- Share search text between beam and other apps
- Fix Tab group design in Notes
- Properly indent captured images
- Fixed background tab opening on some websites
- Fixed wrapping of links in notes
- Fixed colors mix up when switching OS theme
Beta 0.13.0
New features
- CMD-click back/forward opens new tab
- Drag’n’drop image and text files in browser tab opens them instantly in a tab
- Manual tab grouping
- Retain history for duplicated tabs
Tweaks
- Remove fade animation on / menu
- Passwords frecency
- Improve payment field detection on specific websites
- Dismiss autofill menu with escape key without exiting full screen mode
- Lower memory usage when displaying gifs in notes
- Save and maintain order of tab group pages relative to tabs
- Harmonize contextual menu design for tab group
- Dismiss password manager menu when navigating back/forward
- Recalculate tabs draggable area when group item is renamed
- Restore user session after an update
- Enable zoom menu for PDF viewer
Fixes
- Accurate update of notes Links counter when adding links/references
- Autofill menu should not be displayed when selected field is a pop-up menu
- Activate backlinks on mouse up instead of mouse down
- Fix capture page share option not doing anything
- Fix sound control disappearing from tab when hovering
Beta 0.12.0
New features
- Save Tab Groups in notes
- Display Tab count on collapsed tab group
- Mac OS touch ID to protect password and credit cards preferences
- Windows state restoration
- Launch mode preference: open beam on the Journal or the web, restore tabs or not.
- Local backups
- Paste to match style
- Tab to Highlight browser preference
Tweaks
- Improved payment web interaction
- Harmonize TabGroup right click menu design
- Full Page Capture pop up behavior
- Search Suggestions setting
- Maximum tab width for very wide screens
- Lottie animation for pdf download button
- Harmonize right-click menu for tab group
- Restoring a tab restores its history
- Improved Toggle/Cmd-D performances
Fixes
- Closing tab playing audio/video stops sound
- Removing a password from password manager does not clear the search filter
- Alert message for password import errors
- Invalid references and links section
- Copy and paste sometimes missed images & note links
- Password autofill popover color broken when switching themes
- Password manager key icon appearing on unrelated fields
- Truncating issue of titles and URL in HyperlinkEditorView
- Restore Tab groups when restoring tabs with shift-cmd-t
- Cmd-Enter Animation
- Inserting an external tab inside the pinned notes + fix potential index issues
- Favicon not showing on pinned tab with media playing
- Password deletion sync not working between two computers
- BigSur tab dragging and group renaming
- Resolve urls containing `../` in download manager
- Geolocation api
- Files attached to notes are deleted
Beta 0.11.0
New Features
- Automated Tab grouping during navigation
- Tab groups in Omnibox: easily get back to your tab groups
- Zoom meetings support when linking your Calendar
- Touch bar navigation
- Add “Download Linked file” right-click menu action
- New preference to set the behavior of Command-Click on a link
Tweaks
- Improved right-click menu on the web
- Drag and drop files from the “Downloads” popover
- Add scrolling indicator in password/credit cards autofill lists
- Improved compatibility with some websites
- Improved Capture speed
- Improved performance syncing images to your Beam account
Fixes
- Fixed password corruption between multiple computers
- Stopped some tabs from playing sound after being closed
- Fix tab muting behavior
- Removed the white lines appearing when playing a full-screen video
- Fixed tab switching when in fullscreen
- Fix issues with Command+Enter to trigger a search with some websites
- Fixed bugs when linking multiple calendars to your Beam account
Beta 0.10.0
New Features
- Pin your favorite notes
- Sort notes by publishing status in "All Notes".
- Support for capturing embeds from many more providers: Figma, Google Maps, Slideshare, SoundCloud, Spotify, Ted, Twitter, YouTube.
- Access to a tab's history when reopening a closed tab (only available on macOS 12).
- Proper right-click menu actions on the web.
Tweaks
- Remembering filters set on "All Notes" when switching to another view.
- Reloading offline tabs when reconnecting to the Internet.
- The Dock "Downloads" folder bounces when a download completes.
Fixes
- Properly asks for system calendars access.
- Deleting a published note unpublishes it.
- Copying a tab's URL now shows the page title when pasted to your notes.
Beta 0.9.1
- Fix link issues in editor
Beta 0.9: Public Profile
New Features
Beam public profiles: publishing a note can be done via
- Secret link (default)
- On your beam public profile. (ex: visit beam profile.)
- Cmd+Enter on selected text on the web launches a search
- Apple calendar Support
- Better formatting of captured & pasted links
Tweaks
- Improve restoring closed tabs
- Update omnibox minimum size and offset
Fixes
- "/" menu popover positionning in case of overflow
- Google search result with turkish encoding
- Fix empty google search history result showing up in omnibox
Beta 0.8
New features
- Detach tab to create new window
- Paste url into text
- Support middle click on links and tabs
- Support for capturing SVGs
- Add cross-site tracking toggle in privacy preferences
Tweaks
- Hyperlink Editor tweaks
- Payment field detection heuristic improvement
- Translucency of Omnibox and Tab Bar
Bug Fixes
- Fix JS errors in autofill, prevent widgets from being displayed twice
- Fix opening of web views for supported local files
- Fix autocompleted text not properly reset after a search
- Credit card autofill UI fixes
- Credit card preferences UI fixes
- Fix signed in status lost on some websites
- Fix crash in protocol witness for WebPage.frame.getter in conformance BrowserTab
- Fix capture pop-up contains a card that doesn’t actually exist
- Doube clicking the tab bar minimize / maximize window size
Beta 0.7: Payments
New Feature
- Payment preferences and autofill
Tweaks
- Opening urls shows existing tab with same url
- Autocomplete on Notes
- Improve history import
- Improve tab layout shift when jumping between tabs
- Improve Capture sharing of embeds and links
Bug fixes
- Fix crash when closing a fullscreen tab
- BE-3646 Fix alias not detected for slow JS navigation
- Improve readability script
- Reliable capture of amazon images
- Retain paused media state
- Fix consecutive captures on LinkedIn
- Fix Tab title and icons are out of bounds for single tab in small window
- Refactor Swift async code into await
- Remove empty journal notes from the recents notes
- Fix Capture image from reddit
Beta 0.6: Incognito & Capture improvements
New Features
- Incognito mode
- ⌘-click in note to open link in background
- Friendlier password generator
- Copy and share in Capture pop-up
- Strikethrough shortcut: ⇧⌘E
- ⌥+backspace and ⌘+backspace shortcut
Tweaks
- Improve field classification heuristics for password manager
Fixes
- Password manager key icon and menu overlap omnibox
- Fix omnibox focus stolen by webpage
- Delete calendar on sign out
- Fix help window position top on big sur
Beta 0.4: Journal and bullets
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New features:
- New Journal design
- Drag and drop bullets
- Help section
- Import passwords
- Add new note button and shortcut (option Cmd N)
- Create note in omnibox
Tweaks
- Disable omnibox shake
- Center “other passwords” modal dialog on main window
- Disable backspace key navigation on WKWebView
- Calendar discovery improvements
- Animate Omnibox create note mode
- Change default window size
- Journal focus on today scrolling
Bug Fix
- Fix all notes disappear when pressing it twice
- Fix long note title in all notes list
- Fix regression (password manager widgets overlap window title bar)
- Filter DOM mutation events for input fields so that only changes are sent to the native application
- Prevent password manager key icon from appearing on unexpected fields
- Fix links creation
- Fix frequency of calendar tooltip
- Pressing ⌥+S repeatedly should only save the page once
- Fixes multiple interaction of the omnibox in the journal
- Fix favicon not reseting for website without favicons
- Captured tweet gets saved multiple times
- Resizing the window make content in the journal jump
- Fix animation opening notes for the first time
Beam 0.3: Welcome tour and Capture
New Features
- Welcome Tour
- Improve Capture popup design
- Automatic creation of Todo
- Support for pasting images file
- Better support of PDF
Tweaks
- Improvement to Journal layout and animations
- Make omnibox show default result when clicking on clear button
- Improvement to Note frecency
- Update style for Single Tab
- Hidden copy/paste action and tooltip Shift Cmd C
- Prevent today’s note deletion
Bug fixes
- Hide empty daily notes in All Notes
- Restore scroll position of note editor
- Flickering UI on ImageNode
- Support displaying blobs inline
- Fix crash when undoing text deletion
- Fix hidden bullet on placeholder node
- Downloader overlaps error popup
- Fix long note title in Note Switcher
- CALayer position contains NaN
Beam 0.2
New features
- Omnibox default state actions
- Sound feedback when copying tab url
- Visual feedback when copying tab url
- Paste Images in BeamEditor
- Tooltips for Toolbar buttons
- Cmd+S capture support for a pdf page
- More precision on Adblocker
- Minimizing embed
Tweaks
- Download popup design update
- Cmd-D opens Omnibox if there’s no opened tabs
- Add show password button in onboarding login fields
- Make Google auth window big enough for the content
- Show download list in reverse chronological order
Bug Fix
- Cannot move cursor right of a collapsed image using the mouse
- Download window is not resizing properly
- Fix toolbar tooltip overflow
- Beachballing on network reconnection
- Deleted note is still suggested when saving data
- Fix crash in mouseDragged over a link
- Fix scroll in download list
- Fix Omnibox search field not scrollable for long text
- Shoot area misplaced on youtube embed
Welcome to Beam 0.1
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- beam is a new way to experience the Internet. A browser, a note-taking tool & a publishing platform.
- You can use it locally or use our end-to-end encrypted sync.
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Web & Notes, unified!
- In beam, search includes both your notes and the web. If you ever took some notes on a topic, search will surface it.
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Capture the web
- Hold ⌥ Option while browsing to capture any text, images or videos.
- You can also select text and press Option or save a whole page with Option-S.
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Backlinks
- Taking notes is cool. Effortlessly seeing them connect over time with backlinks is cooler.
- To create a backlink, type @ or [[.
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In & Out browser
- Publishing your notes is as simple as browsing the web. Get your thoughts out there at the press of a button.
+ all you expect from a browser
- Password manager
- Ad blocker
- Calendar integration
- Markdown support
- Light / Dark mode
- End-to-end encryption
3 key shortcuts
- ⌘T to search the web or your notes
- ⌘D to toggle between Web and Notes
- Hold ⌥ (option) to capture content on the web
- There are many more handy shortcuts to be found in the help menu.
Tell us what you think
- Your feedback is precious. Use the Help Section at the bottom right corner of the app to: