Changelog

Jan. 30, 2024

v 2024.02

- Fixed bug where the hash character in a URL would incorrectly get URL encoded.

Jan. 21, 2024

v 2024.01

- Tag and Folder listings are now grids. You can now see more data at once.

- The app now has a better default size on macOS.

- Folder deleting was inconsistent. Now, deleting a folder will always move its contents into it's parent folder if a parent folder exists.

Dec. 28, 2023

v 2023.05

- **Important:** Legacy shortcuts have been removed. Apologies but the same functionality is still there with new shortcuts that offer more options for search, sorting, etc.

- Added the browser options Quiche Brwoser and Orion by Kagi.

- Option to add bookmarks, folders or tags from an empty search result view.

- Tweaks to visual layouts of some of less commonly used views.

- You can now drag bookmarks from a list into another app to copy the URL.

Sept. 18, 2023

v 2023.04

- Tags and Folders are no longer converted to lowercase

- New 'Rich Link' and 'Rich Link With Tags' bookmark styles

- Small widgets can now open links and do not just open the app

- Small widgets optimized for iPad lockscreen

- Fixed numeric sorting of bookmarks

- Various small bug fixes

May 20, 2023

v 2023.03

- Fixed bug where Buchen did not show up in the ShareSheet for all items that can provide a URL.

- Improve performance for deleting all data when you have a lot of data.

April 21, 2023

v 2023.02

- Added 'Delete' to context menus for Tags and Folders

April 13, 2023

v 2023.01

- Swipe to delete will now just delete the bookmark. It will not ask for confirmation.

- Added folders. You can import and export folders as JSON or HTML.
Note: the Buchen JSON format for export will be changed. Importing will support the old and new format.

- Folder and Tag Add / Edit views will allow you to add and remove bookmarks.

- A visual redesign to make better use of some newer features.

- Lock screen widget for bookmarks, tags, and folders.

- Searching your data will work everywhere, for bookmarks, tag, and folder searching when you're in those sections.

- Swipe down will dismiss keyboard. This works on search fields and add / edit forms.

- The untagged label will navigate to the untagged bookmarks view.

- When using a bookmark style that shows tags, you will also see the folder if the bookmark has one.

- Settings: Sorting options have their own section now.

- Added "Recently Visited" widgets.
Note: This only tracks recent visits after the update due to the database modification.

- More Shortcuts. If you care about shortcuts, just go checkout the Shortcuts app.

- Added FireFox Focus browser.

- Categories menu has keyboard shortcuts on Mac.

- New 'App Accent color' choices

- The option to toggle Markdown display in notes.
Currently, a small subset of Markdown is supported. If this proves useful and popular, this may get expanded soon.

- Long-press menus added to tags and folders

- Most of the Help documentation has been replaced by a support page on the app's site. This link is easily found in Settings where the help used to be.

- Various bug fixes.
Many of these bug fixes should fix some remaining crashes that could occur during imports.

Feb. 3, 2023

v 2022.07.02

- Swipe to delete no longer shows an alert. It just deletes the bookmark

- Add / Edit Tag focuses on name field now

Sept. 13, 2022

v 2022.07

- Bug Fixes and optimizations

- Fix Share Extension and Widget on iOS 16

- "Search Bookmarks By Tags" shortcut action will now return untagged bookmarks when the provided an empty tag search query

Aug. 6, 2022

v 2022.06

This version improves bookmark imports and fixes some incompatible data issues that could crash the app.

July 17, 2022

v 2022.05

This version contains small change to the share extension.

Select text on a website and when you use the Buchen share extension, the selected text will appear in the note field.

July 6, 2022

v 2022.04

This version brings improvements to tag editing within the bookmark add / edit view.

- Fixed a regression where duplicate tags could be created.

- Tag management for a bookmark has been simplified and no longer requires navigating to another view.

- The option to remove all tags from a bookmark or reset tag edits (undo changes).

- Tags are displayed in a simple horizontal scrollable view. Tapping them removes them

- A single input that allows you to search for tags or add a tag. No worries too, simply quickly adding a tag won't create a duplicate.

- When the text you type finds tags starting with that text it will present a horizontally scrollable view and you just tap tags to add them. They will be removed from the list of found tags too.

June 9, 2022

v 2022.03

Major changes:

- Removed '...' button. All actions within this menu should now be accessed with a long-press or swipe actions

- Added Share Extension for the Share Sheet. Now you can add bookmarks from Safari and other apps.

- 'Add bookmark' and 'Add tag' now in the top menu

- Not a fan of yellow? Now you can choose from a selection of colors to tweak both the app and widget UI. If there are colors you would like to see feel free to suggest a color.

- Sorting options for both bookmarks and tags

- Multiple bookmark display styles. This option is in both bookmarks and tags. This means you can style bookmark entries differently for the bookmark and tag sections. Please feel free to give feedback on the options.

- When you choose a bookmark style that shows tags you will now get a horizontally scrolling list of tags for the bookmark. You can click these to navigate to that tag and see all the bookmarks for it.

- A new setting to have the app default to showing bookmarks or tags.

Other changes:

- Importing of bookmarks has been greatly improved. The app has been tested with files containing 10,000 bookmarks.

- new home screen quick action for tags

- The data deletion functionality has been moved out of "General" Settings into a new "Data Management" section

- UI consistency improvements

- Keyboard shortcut improvements

- Fixed QR Code and file exports on M1 Macs

- Widget UI tweaks

- Improvements to the wording of the 'Tag Search' shortcut

- New URL Scheme for adding tags (Read the Help topic 'Technical Documentation' for more information)

March 21, 2022

v 2022.02

- Fixed broken "visit" counts

- Minor visual tweaks for tag view

Feb. 28, 2022

v 2022.01

- Added the ability to set the app to always be in Dark (or Light) mode

- Small UI tweaks

- Various internal improvements

Dec. 11, 2021

v 2021.17

- You can now import bookmarks from a desktop browser's bookmark HTML file. The HTML import will use the added date and tags attributes. It can also get notes when the file uses the Delicious / Pinboard html format.

- Tags support, more information below.

- Long-pressing notes in the detail view now allows the text to be copied.

- Accessibility improvements.

- Minor improvements in the Help view.

The new tagging interface let's you easily add new tags while suggesting existing ones.

Tags can be imported from Firefox backup JSON files or bookmark HTML files.

Tags can be exported in both the Buchen JSON format and the HTML format.

Search will filter your bookmarks by tags too.

Settings now contains a tag manager for adding, deleting and viewing tags.

There is now a new shortcut for searching for tags. You can search with multiple tags and decide if one or all tags must apply.

The tag manager is accessible via quick actions on the home screen.

Oct. 23, 2021

v 2021.16

- Merge HTML and JSON exporting into one view.

- German localization fixes

- Minor visual tweaks