MilkMind

✨ New

• Open source licenses. At the bottom of Settings › About, press Show under “Open source licenses” to list the 689 open source packages MilkMind uses (162 web, 527 Rust). Search by name or license (MIT, Apache-2.0 and so on), and open a row to see its repository link, copyright notice and full license text. The list loads only when you open it.

🌸 Flower background

• Flowers grow in. Instead of appearing all at once, the garden grows over about three seconds: stems reach out first, then the blooms open.
• No more flashing while you type. When you pause and the flowers regrow, the old garden no longer blinks out. The new one grows in over it while the old one fades away a moment later.
• “Reach into the text” now works as a share of each line’s empty room. Before, a fixed strip down the middle of the text column always stayed clear, so the flowers stopped along one straight line. Now at 50%, a line that is 70% empty gives the flowers 35% of the column and a blank line gives them half, so the garden’s edge follows the shape of your writing.
• Pick a flower style from the menu bar. View › Background effect › Flower style lists 15 styles — Minhwa, Najeon mother-of-pearl, Goryeo celadon, Delft blue and more — and choosing one turns the flower background on. Style names are shown in the app’s language (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese).

🐞 Bug fixes

• With the flower background’s “Reach into the text” turned up, a horizontal scrollbar could come and go while the flowers kept regrowing in a flicker. The flowers now never extend past the editor’s width, and a change as small as a scrollbar appearing no longer regrows them.

🧠 Mindmap

• Flower mode, refined. The look of v0.5.21’s flower map is back, now for every layout. Each flower sits at the end of its node’s name that faces the parent, so flower and text read as a pair, and the text rests on a stem running beneath it. Parent and child are joined by one smooth S-curved vine: a top-down map hangs as vines from an arch, a fishbone flows along an S-curved spine, and a radial map reaches out on every side. Branches leaving the root swing around its title.

🌸 Flower background

• Set how far flowers reach into the text, 0–100%. Settings › Background effect › Flowers replaces the Margins / Around the text choice with a single slider. At 0% flowers grow only either side of the text column (the old Margins); higher, they creep in beside short lines and between paragraphs and scroll with the text; at 100% they fill every space the text leaves (the old Around the text). Your current setting carries over.

🧠 Mindmap

• Flower mode: any layout grows as a tree. Last version’s Flowers layout is now a mode you can turn on for every layout — left, right, both sides, top-down, fishbone and radial. The layout only places the nodes; the branches then grow to reach them the way a plant would: a main stem reaches out from each parent toward its children, and a side branch forks off it to every child, ending in a flower. A top-down map becomes a tree spreading downward, a two-sided map grows limbs both ways, a fishbone a spine with bones, and a radial map a tree reaching out on every side.
• In flower mode node cards, circles and underlines step aside and only the text remains. Stems never cross a label — they run along its edge — and each branch keeps its own kind and color of flower.
• Where to turn it on: the 🌸 button beside the layout buttons at the map’s top left switches the current document (saved in it as mindmap_flora). Settings › Mindmap › Flower mode sets the default for every document, and File › New › Flower map starts a new map with flowers on.
• Documents saved with v0.5.21’s Flowers layout open as a two-sided map in flower mode.

🌸 Flower background

• Choose where flowers grow. Settings › Background effect › Flowers now offers Margins (either side of the text column) or Around the text. Around the text, flowers also grow beside headings, short lines, lists and tables — wherever your writing leaves room — and scroll with the text. When you edit, only the parts whose shape changed regrow, once typing pauses.

🌸 Flower background

• A new background effect: Flowers. Flowers and vines grow in the editor’s side margins. They grow in once when a document opens and then stay put, so nothing moves while you write. Every document grows its own garden, and the same document always grows the same one. Nothing ever crosses into your text.
• Pick a flower style. Settings › Background effect › Flower style offers 15 looks — Delft blue, Morris, Korean folk painting (minhwa), mother-of-pearl (najeon), Goryeo celadon, ukiyo-e, risograph, pen sketch and more. The amount, size, speed and opacity knobs apply as usual. On a dark theme, light styles such as mother-of-pearl read best.

🧠 Mindmap

• A new layout: Flowers. The root opens as a large flower, branches become curving stems, every child node carries a smaller flower, and leaves and sprays fill the space between. Each branch keeps its own kind and color of flower, and stems run beneath the labels so names are never covered. Choose it from the layout buttons at the map’s top left, in Settings, or with File › New › Flower map; it uses the same flower style as the background.
• Editing, dragging and everything else work as in the other layouts. The flowers regrow shortly after you stop editing; a large map (around 80 nodes) takes a few seconds, and editing stays smooth meanwhile.
• PNG and SVG exports include the flowers and stems. A ```mindmap flora block inside a document draws as a two-sided map without the flowers.

📊 Diagrams

• Diagrams use a new renderer. ```mermaid blocks are now drawn by Pele, which makes the app much lighter (diagram code went from about 2.9 MB to 0.7 MB) and draws about 8× faster. The syntax is still Mermaid’s, and every diagram type you used before is supported — flowchart, sequence, Gantt, class, state, ER, pie, mindmap, timeline, Git, Wardley, Architecture and more.
• Diagrams follow the app theme. Switch to dark mode and diagrams turn dark right away; before, they stayed bright on a dark page. HTML and PDF exports use light colors suited to white paper.
• What looks different: the layout engine is new, so diagrams are arranged a little differently. %%{init}%% directives and a frontmatter theme: no longer apply — diagrams take the app’s theme colors instead. Colors you set directly with style or classDef are kept. mindmap diagrams spread left and right instead of radially.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Fixed Mermaid diagrams inside mindmap nodes getting stuck on ⏳, or reverting to ⏳ when you clicked the node.

📤 Export

• YouTube videos play right inside exported HTML. A YouTube link written as an image (![caption](https://youtu.be/…)) used to show as a player only in the editor preview, and turned into a broken image when exported to HTML. Exported HTML now carries the same YouTube player. Give a size like ![caption|400x225](…) to set its dimensions; otherwise it’s 560×315. PDF, print and DOCX keep the image syntax as before.

✏️ Editor

• Edit link text in place. Previously, as soon as the cursor entered a link’s text the whole [text](url) source unfolded. Now the link stays rendered while you edit its text, and the markdown syntax appears only when the cursor touches the [ or the ](url) boundary.
• Dragging a selection across images and checkboxes leaves them rendered. When a selection merely covers an element it stays rendered; the source shows only when the selection’s end point (the caret) sits right next to it. Selecting and copying several lines no longer makes the view jump around.

📱 Mobile

• Long-press a node to move it. Previously a node started moving the moment your finger touched it and slid, so trying to pan the map often dragged a node somewhere you didn’t mean. Now a quick swipe over a node pans the map; hold for about half a second and the node lifts with a haptic tick, ready to drag. A short tap still selects the node, and nothing changes when you use a mouse.
• New Android home-screen icon. It’s the same milk “M” logo as the desktop app, padded to sit at the same size as other app icons — the old one showed the logo cropped and oversized.

🔧 Other

• Updated the app framework (Tauri) to 2.12.

🐞 Bug fixes

• In the radial mindmap, turning on node numbers no longer pushes a bubble’s text up toward the top. The text now sits in the centre of the bubble, number or not.
• Radial mindmap nodes holding a long sentence or a table no longer stretch into ovals or spill text outside the circle. Bubbles now grow to fit their content and always stay round: long sentences wrap into a roughly square block, short titles stay on one line, and tables, images and code keep their natural width.
• ```mindmap radial code blocks size their bubbles the same way, and labels mixing bold, code or links no longer wrap incorrectly.

🧠 Mindmap

• New radial layout. The central topic sits in the middle, the main branches spread out all around it, and each branch’s items cluster around it as round bubbles — a good fit for brainstorming or an at-a-glance overview. Pick it with the sixth icon in the layout switcher at the top left of the map, with Radial under Settings › Mindmap › Mindmap direction, or with File › New document › Radial; add mindmap_type: radial to the front matter to pin a document to it. With Node fill set to Soft tint, the centre and the main branches are filled and everything else is lightly washed; with Solid fill, every bubble takes its branch colour. It also renders inside ```mindmap radial code blocks.
• React Flow is now the default mindmap engine. If you explicitly chose mind-elixir in settings, that choice is kept. mind-elixir is the previous engine; it stays for now but will be removed soon.
• Build structure from the keyboard in React Flow maps, too. The shortcuts that only mind-elixir had are now here — Shift+Enter adds a sibling above, Ctrl+Enter inserts a parent, F2 renames, Alt+↑/↓ or PgUp/PgDn reorders siblings, Ctrl+K → 0–9/= collapses or expands by level, F1 fits the whole map, and Ctrl+=/Ctrl+-/Ctrl+0 zooms.
• Heading marks on list items now look like headings. Write - #### Title or - [ ] ### Task and it shows at that heading’s size and weight in both the editor and the mindmap node. Previously - #### Title came out as an empty node in the map.

🐞 Bug fixes

• Dragging a heading node under a heading of the same level no longer makes it jump back out after saving and reopening. Its heading level now steps down to match where you moved it (## → ###).

✨ Features

• Ctrl(⌘)+P prints what you are looking at. In the editor and the split view the document goes out in a paper layout — headings, lists, task checkboxes, tables, code, quotes and images are laid out for print, and csv tables and mermaid diagrams come out exactly as in the preview. With only the mindmap open, the whole map prints as an image. The print header shows the document title instead of the app name, and the body uses the fonts of your editor theme. There is a Print… item in the File menu, too. It goes straight to the OS print dialog with nothing extra to install — pick a PDF printer there if you want a PDF.
• Ctrl(⌘)+K picks up an address from the clipboard. Copy a URL in your browser, select some text, press Ctrl+K, and the [text](url) link is complete on the spot. With nothing selected, the link text placeholder comes in already selected so you can just type; in docs mode the link dialog opens with its address field filled in. Only addresses starting with https://…, mailto: or www. are recognised — file paths and ordinary text are left alone, so with anything else on the clipboard Ctrl+K behaves exactly as before. Turn it off under Settings › General › Link from clipboard if you prefer.

✨ Features

• A plain address opens on Ctrl(⌘)+click, with no link syntax around it. Until now only [text](url) links opened; an https://… pasted straight into the text was coloured like a link but did nothing when clicked. Bare addresses now count, and so do <https://…>, addresses starting with www., and email addresses. A www. address opens in the browser, an email address in your mail app.
• Those addresses look like links, too. They pick up the theme’s link colour and underline, and the cursor turns into a pointer over them, so it is visible that there is something to click.

✨ Features

• Acrylic, Mica and the other window materials now reach the page you write on. Until now only the menu, tab and status bars and the margins beside the text went translucent, while the text column kept painting its theme background — an opaque band down the middle of an otherwise see-through window. The whole window now shares one opacity.
• Window opacity goes down to 0%. The floor used to be 20%. At 0 the app paints no background of its own, so Windows’ material comes through exactly as the OS draws it. The setting is now called Window opacity rather than Frame opacity, since it covers the text page too.

Note: on Windows 11 Mica, Acrylic and Tabbed are drawn by the OS from your desktop wallpaper only — other windows behind yours never show through. Pick Blur if you want to see what is actually behind the window.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed mindmap PNG/SVG export in dark mode showing nothing but a white sheet. The export always painted a white background, and a dark theme’s light text disappeared on top of it. The image now takes the canvas colour you see on screen.

✨ No license screen during the beta

The License tab in Settings and Help ▸ License are gone from the menus for now. There is no key to enter and nothing to buy yet, so the screen had nothing to offer. Anyone who has already registered a key still sees it.

When the beta ends, the tab comes back without a reinstall. Once a day the app checks the site for the beta status; when the end is announced, every installed copy — this one included — shows the License tab again. A failed check changes nothing: if you are offline or the site is briefly down, the beta simply stays open.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed a version-range mismatch in the auto-update plugin that stalled release builds. It also stops future plugin releases from blocking a build.
• The band behind the writing column is no longer painted by the scroll container. It looks the same, and the column, the properties panel and the banner now take their band width from a single value.

✨ The material now covers the whole frame

Last release, only the menu bar and the tab bar turned translucent. But the tab bar appears only when documents open as tabs, and the default is a new window — so for most people a single strip of menu bar was all that showed. Turning the material on barely looked like anything.

Now everything outside the column you write in comes through.

• The margins either side of the text and the status bar along the bottom let the desktop through. The wider the window, the more of it you see.
• Behind the text, nothing changed. The theme background still sits under every line, so reading is exactly as before.
• The writing column no longer shifts sideways when a document grows long enough to scroll.
• The mindmap view stays opaque, as it was.
• The setting was renamed — Chrome opacity ▸ Frame opacity.

Acrylic shows the backdrop only while the window is active. Windows freezes it to a flat colour whenever you are working elsewhere; that is the operating system’s own behaviour, not MilkMind’s.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed two Korean typos in Settings — 츽 재질 ▸ 창 재질, 안 씨음 ▸ 안 씀.

✨ Acrylic window materials

Your desktop shows faintly through the menu bar and the tab bar. Windows draws the material itself, so the backdrop follows along as you move the window. Pick one under Settings ▸ Appearance ▸ Window material.

• Mica / Acrylic / Blur / Tabbed — four materials. Mica needs Windows 11; the rest work on Windows 10 too.
• A menu and tab bar opacity slider controls how much of the desktop comes through.
• The writing surface is untouched. The editor body keeps its theme background, so your text never mixes with the wallpaper behind it. The twenty themes are tuned for flat colour — put a photograph underneath and the contrast falls apart.
• Only turning a material on needs a restart. Switching or turning it off applies immediately. A transparent window loses subpixel text rendering, so MilkMind does not make the window transparent while you are not using the effect.

Windows only for now. macOS needs an API Apple restricts, and on Linux the blur is up to the desktop environment.

🎨 Also

• The theme gallery descriptions are now written in English too — previously only the names appeared when reading in English.

🎨 Twenty themes

Twenty ready-made editor themes are now available to download. Each file carries both a light and a dark look, so once imported you switch between them with Themes ▸ Light/Dark. The palette dresses the mindmap view as well as the editor.

They are sorted along three axes — colour harmony, contrast and saturation — so you can find the one you are after.

Analogous (12)

Neighbouring hues only — quiet, and of a piece.

• Paper Lane · high contrast · muted — Faded newsprint with an old-style serif. For long reading and writing where the type does the work.
• Cobalt Study · high contrast · muted — Deep cobalt on white paper, with headings, quotes and links all tied to one blue family.
• Pine Hollow · high contrast · muted — Desaturated forest green on off-white. Easier to sit with for hours.
• Frost Slate · high contrast · muted — Cool blue-grey neutrals. Nothing shouts, which suits documents full of tables and code.
• Mulberry Ink · high contrast · muted — A plum accent over the faintest lilac ground: calm, with one bright note.
• Terracotta Desk · high contrast · muted — Fired-clay orange on cream, with a tinted background behind blockquotes so paragraphs break cleanly.
• Mint Ledger · high contrast · muted — Clear teal on a cool white. Checklists and tables read crisply.
• Sepia Study · high contrast · muted — Deep sepia with the blue light taken out. For polishing a draft late at night.
• Ultramarine Bloom · high contrast · vivid — Blue crossing into violet, at full strength. Ink bleeding into white paper.
• Peach Chalk · high contrast · pastel — Pastel peach shading to rose, under jet-black type. Soft colour, sharp letters.
• Emerald Dusk · soft contrast · vivid — Greens and teals held close in value, so the bright green glows rather than shouts.
• Lilac Haze · soft contrast · pastel — Lilac and pale blue packed into a very narrow value range. The whole screen behind one layer of mist.

Complementary (5)

The two opposite hues are split by role: the accent takes links, bullets and checkboxes, its opposite takes headings and the blockquote rule.

• Midnight Neon · high contrast · vivid — Dark-first and high contrast, with a cyan accent and magenta headings lifting off the black.
• Signal Flare · high contrast · vivid — Orange and sky blue, exactly opposite on the wheel. Links go orange, headings go blue.
• Sherbet Press · high contrast · pastel — Mint and rose, a complementary pastel pair, with a rose-tinted panel behind blockquotes.
• Ochre Plum · soft contrast · vivid — Ochre yellow against plum violet, on a mid-tone ground that keeps both from shouting.
• Sage Rosewater · soft contrast · pastel — Sage green facing dusty pink, both with the volume turned down. The softest screen here.

Triadic (2)

Three points evenly spaced around the wheel, one each for the accent, the headings and the links.

• Prism Bright · high contrast · vivid — Crimson, sky and amber: three points of the wheel, one each for accent, heading and link.
• Macaron Tray · soft contrast · pastel — Pistachio, blueberry and raspberry, all pulled down to pastel. Sweet, but quiet.

Monochrome (1)

Movement within a single hue.

• Graphite Mono · high contrast · muted — Achromatic minimalism. Even the accent is grey, so only the words are left.

Every colour and font stays editable after import — pick the one closest to what you want and make it yours. A theme takes its name from the filename, so rename the file before importing, or rename it in the editor afterwards.

The soft-contrast themes are still comfortable to read: all forty variants are checked against WCAG AA (4.5:1) before they ship.

✨ One import button

• Three buttons became one — ⤓ Import theme, ⤓ Import Typora theme and ⤓ Import Obsidian theme are now a single ⤓ Import theme.
• The format is read from the file itself — MilkMind tells Typora, Obsidian and MilkMind themes apart by their internal structure, not by name or extension. A renamed file, or one whose origin you have forgotten, just works.
• It tells you what it recognised — after an import you see something like “Imported as a Typora theme”, so you can confirm it read the file correctly.
• Files that are not themes are refused, with a reason — pick a fragment stylesheet that only carries syntax highlighting, or the wrong .json, and MilkMind says what is wrong instead of quietly creating an empty theme.

✨ Automatic updates

• You get told when a new version is out — MilkMind checks quietly a moment after launch, and once a day after that. When it finds something, a small pill appears in the bottom right corner and nothing else interrupts you. A failed check (offline, say) passes in silence.
• Downloading and installing are separate — Download does not install anything. Keep working while it downloads, and the new build is installed only when you press Restart now. The app never quits on you mid-sentence.
• You can also check yourself — Help ▸ Check for updates or Settings ▸ About. A manual check tells you the answer either way, including “you’re on the latest”.
• What's new — takes you straight to that version’s release notes.

Automatic updates work from 0.5.6 onwards. If you’re on an older build, this one download is still a manual one.

✨ Remember fold state

• What you folded comes back folded — turn on Settings ▸ Mind map ▸ Remember fold state and folded headings, list items and nodes are recorded in the document’s frontmatter under folded:, then restored when you open the file again. Folding in the editor and folding in the mind map are recorded the same way.
• Anchors are added for you — if a folded line has no name, a short anchor (^93cra4) is appended to it. Lines that already carry a ^id keep theirs. These are ordinary line anchors, so [[^id]] links work with them too.
• Off means untouched — it is off by default, and while it’s off nothing reads or writes folded:. Unfold everything and the line disappears cleanly.

⚓ Line anchors — name a line, jump to it

• Write ^id at the end of a line to name it — non-Latin ids work too. Paragraph, list item, heading, it doesn’t matter.
• Write [[^id]] and you have a link to that line — Ctrl (⌘ on Mac) + click jumps there, and the line flashes briefly so you can see where you landed. [[^id|shown text]] sets the label, and the Obsidian-style [[#^id]] and plain markdown links behave the same.
• Hover to preview the line — check what a link points at without leaving your place. If nothing matches, the link is dimmed, so typos show up immediately.
• The same syntax works in the mind map — Ctrl+click a [[^id]] inside a node to jump to the node carrying that anchor. If it sits inside a folded branch, the branch unfolds and the node is brought to the centre.

🧠 Node numbers in the mind map

• Each node can show a 6(12) badge — the first number is its position among its siblings, the one in brackets is how many direct children it has. Branch width at a glance.
• Folded branches still count — numbers don’t shift as you fold and unfold.
• Toggle it in View ▸ Node numbers or Settings ▸ Mind map ▸ Node numbers (off by default).

🔗 Link and image dialog in Docs mode

• Ctrl+K inserts and edits links in Docs mode — hiding the URL is the point of Docs mode, but it also meant you couldn’t fix a URL once it was in. Now the label and the URL go into a dialog.
• Double-click an existing link to open the same dialog — change the URL, or remove the link and keep the text.
• Images come with a file picker and a size — browse for an image on your PC and give a width/height in pixels (leave them empty for the original size).

🐞 Fixes

• A link whose text was the URL itself vanished entirely. Fixed.

Under the hood

• The mind map is its own module now — Markdown ⇄ mind map conversion, the five layouts, fold syncing, markdown inside nodes, and image export are one piece separate from the app. Future mind map work continues there.
• Nothing changed in how you use it — switching layouts, folding and unfolding, checkboxes, renaming, adding nodes with Tab and Enter, drag to rearrange, PNG/SVG export, mind map code fence previews, and editor theme colours all behave exactly as before.

About and documentation links

• An About section in Settings — alongside the version you’re running, there are buttons for the User guide, Release notes, and About ProDuckCity. Help ▸ About MilkMind now opens this section too (the old two-line dialog has been folded into it).
• Open the docs from the Help menu — Help ▸ User guide / Release notes / About ProDuckCity opens the page in your default browser. If the app language is Korean you get the Korean page; otherwise English.
• The Buy button goes to the checkout page — Buy in Settings ▸ Licence now opens the MilkMind checkout.

During the beta everything is unlocked whether you register or not.

Licences

• A licence section in Settings — go to Settings ▸ Licence (or Help ▸ Licence…) to enter and activate a key you’ve bought. Once it’s registered you’ll see your current tier, how many machines are in use, and when it was last checked. A PC you no longer use can be freed up with Deactivate this device.
• Your key never lands in a document or a settings backup — on Windows it goes into the operating system’s credential manager, and elsewhere into a file in the app’s settings folder that only you can read. Copy your settings to another PC and the licence stays behind.
• It keeps working when the internet doesn’t — a check every six days is enough, and it runs for 14 days without reaching the server at all. Server maintenance or a network problem will never lock you out mid-work.
• Register once, however many windows you have open — activating in one window takes effect in all of them immediately.
• The wording is available in Korean, English, Japanese, and Chinese.

For now, everything is unlocked during the beta whether you register or not. Registering early simply carries over when the full release arrives.

Editor

• Docs mode — turn on View ▸ Docs mode and Markdown syntax (**, #, [](...)) never shows itself, not even under the cursor. The old WYSIWYG revealed the raw source wherever the cursor landed; in docs mode the document stays finished-looking from the first line to the last. It’s the mode for people coming from Word or Google Docs, and for anyone who finds Markdown symbols distracting. The setting survives a restart.
• A formatting toolbar for docs mode — with the symbols hidden, formatting goes in through buttons. A pill-shaped toolbar sits above the editor with undo/redo, paragraph styles, bold, italic, strikethrough, highlight, code, link, image, checklist/bullet/numbered lists, indentation, and zoom. Pressing a button leaves your cursor and selection exactly where they were.
• The cursor steps over hidden syntax — docs mode treats each invisible symbol run as a single unit, so the arrow keys, Home, and End jump across it instead of falling inside. Backspace removes the matching pair together, so you never end up with a half-open **bold*.
• Highlighting with ==highlight== — the same syntax Obsidian and Typora use. It paints yellow in the editor and exports as <mark>. You can also reach it from Format ▸ Highlight or the docs toolbar.
• Select text and press = to wrap it — the same behaviour as pressing [ for brackets. Once gives you =text=; press it again and you get the ==text== highlight. With nothing selected, = types a plain = as usual.

Mind map

• Up and down arrows now move the way the map looks — they used to walk only through nodes at the same depth, so a node sitting directly above you would be skipped in favour of a same-depth node far across the canvas. Now they move to whichever node is visually above or below on the same side, whatever its depth. Going to a parent or child is still the job of the left and right keys, so nothing gets ambiguous. Moving into children sideways also picks the vertically closest one. (Top-down and fishbone layouts, where up/down placement carries no meaning, behave as before.)