Changelog

🎁 New Features

• Timer in Simple Capture - Take screenshots with a delay
• Markdown export can embed images
• Mardown' TOC has links to steps
• Select date format dd/mm or mm/dd in application settings
• Change size of the cursor that marks clicks
• Ctrl/CMD + Shift + V inserts image from your clipboard as a new step
• Configure the step number size
• Step number size is preserved between steps

⭐ Improvements

• Folge can now capture applications working in full screen mode
• Fully refactored steps list and dragging. Now works like a charm!
• Ctrl/CMD + Shift + Del deletes current step
• Full screen capture mode works with any screen, not only with the chosen one
• Active Window can be captured with hotkeys
• 'Add New Step' button moved to the top
• 'Add New Step' context menu improved

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Region capture correctly stores coordinates when switching between modes
• In the Guides List number of steps doesn't display deleted steps
• Folge properly works with 2 and more external monitors
• Substeps in HTML exports now have div wrapping them

🎁 New Features

• App is available in Spanish
• Focused view. ✨ Automatically crop and focus your screenshots to speed up guide creation. Read more here.
• Restore guides into folders. Ability to restore guides into certain folders.
• Customize and display substep elements. From now on, multi-image steps can display their substep's titles, images, and descriptions. Define order and visibility per element! Read more here.
• Change parent step by right clicking. You can select one or multiple steps, right-click and select the new parent step without dragging and dropping images. Read more here.

⭐ Improvements

• App no longer freezes when adding new captures to a guide with many steps.
• Use CMD/Ctrl + Shift + Arrows to move between steps
• Pressing Tab always focuses on the Step Title. Following Tab focuses on the step description editor.
• New text edit cursor.
• Export document filename can now be one of the following: 1) Original Guide Title; 2) Sanitized with hyphens; 3) Sanitized with underscores
• Showing custom cursor when dragging handles on canvas
• Step text blocks can now be reordered
• Textbox can be resized on drawing
• Dragging steps with substeps is now allowed

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Step numbers can be letters and numbers
• If something goes wrong during capturing, Folge doesn't crash but restores its state
• In rich HTML header logo doesn't have a border
• In rich HTML, ToC can't get bigger than the screen and is now scrollable

🎁 New Features

• App is available in Portuguese . Thank you, José, for your help!
• Header logo in Rich HTML. You can now add your logo to the rich HTML export, and it will nicely hover on the right.
• New Crop UI. Completely reworked standalone Crop UI for pixel-perfect crops 🤌.
• Bulk crop multiple images. Ability to crop multiple images at the same time. It saves you time!
• Fit image into width/height. By default, images are resized into max width/height during export so they all look the same.
• Grab mode. In the editor, press Space to grab and move the canvas.

⭐ Improvements

• Backup guides directly from the guides list by selecting multiple and choosing the Backup option.
• Import steps dialog now has search functionality
• Step numbers can be locked to preserve numbers, even if the previous step number has been deleted.
• Improved steps nesting experience; now UI visualizes nesting.
• New text blocks positions: before, after the title, and before, after the image
• Localized dates everywhere in the UI and exports
• Images are optimized when exported, so the final export is smaller

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Scrolling was happening when the spacebar was pressed.
• Clicking outside of the steps list doesn't unfocus the current step anymore
• OCR footer is not displayed mid-screen anymore
• Fix guide description for rich HTML so it is visible on smaller screens
• Make images in simple html respect alignment
• Hide empty titles in PDF

🎁 New Features

• Start screen, bye bye 👋 . You welcomed Folge users for almost 3 years, thank you for your hard work. From now on Folge opens the Guides List screen right away
• Step text blocks. Add more context, information or warnings to your steps with text blocks that can be created for each step and placed before or after the step description. How to use Text Blocks
• Automated backups. No need to manually backup guides anymore. Automated backups can be performed in the background, and backup all your work to local or shared locations. More about Automated Backups
• Shadow control. It is now possible to edit shadows, and not just enable or disable it. Color, distance, blur can be adjusted.
• Draw straight lines. Lines and Arrows can be drawn while holding the Shift key to achieve perfectness
• Separate Apple Silicon Build. From now on Folge will have a separate Apple Silicon build which makes Folge notably faster on new chipsets.

⭐ Improvements

• Show spinner when deleting/moving/duplicating multiple guides at once.
• Simple Capture mode now loads faster.
• PDF export template looks better.
• Actions with steps in the Step List now performed via right click and context menues.
• Reworked the watermark for free users.
• Markdown export: switched to using Markdown Extra to support more elements.
• Markdown export: headings are properly represented with each nesting level.
• Active window capturing is faster.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Properly display scrolling for a very long guides list table.
• Step image border color picker is displayed properly in the export settings.
• When drawing vertical lines or arrows they sometimes were changing angle.
• Copy pasting assets from one step to another was sometings buggy
• Adjust mark click area and cursor during capturing, sizes are now properly scaled
• Switching between region and active window modes works as expected.

⭐ Improvements

• Capturing dialog now has "Latest step details" groupped and collapsible.
• Add jpeg to the list of supported images.
• A bit of speed up for capturing.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Switching between region and full screen capturing was sometimes showing incorrect region.

🎁 New Features

• Reworked the Guides List screen. Refreshed the general UI, changed the layout of the buttons.
• Favorite guides. Click ⭐ icon next to the guide to put it into the fav list on the left and pin it in the Quick Actions menu ( read more below )
• Quick Actions. Press ⌘ + / (Mac) or Ctrl + / (Windows) in the Editor to access the Quick Actions menu, where you see favorited guides and can search and quickly navigate to the other guides.
• Active Window Capturing. A new capturing mode will automatically detect the window you are working with and only capture it. Currently in Beta
• Multi Image Steps. New Step Settings allows you to have multiple images per step. How to use Multi Image Steps
• Tooltip. New Shape can be found in the Toolbox. Create nice looking speech bubbles or tooltips with draggable pointers.
• Help Center. New floating icon in the bottom right corner to quickly access essential parts.

⭐ Improvements

• Show the number of steps in each guide on the Guides List screen.
• During capturing, it is possible to toggle the Dark Mode to make the region selector and floating menu black color. Useful when capturing apps with dominating white UI.
• Change number of steps rendered during PDF Preview. Go to Settings -> Application to change it.
• Simple capturing can happen without clicking the Confirm button, which speeds up work. Go to Settings -> Capruting to change this setting.
• Steps can be nested for up to 5 levels.
• Text object on canvas now has the Text Alignment setting.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Shadow wasn't properly preserved for some shapes when copy pasting them.
• Deleting step wasn't always switching to the next step correctly.
• Duplicating the Export Settings Template with a header or footer was causing exports to fail when using this template..
• Both "Simple Capture" and "Stand and complete capturing" hotkeys if pressed inside the editor will add screenshots to the current guide

⭐ Improvements

• In the Simple Capture mode floating menu is always visible despite the selected region.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Sometimes cropped images were not displaying blurred areas correctly.
• Pretty annoying bug for Windows, when multiple external monitors are connected with different scaling options

🎁 New Features

• Import and export "Export settings templates". In the export dialog right-click any export template and export it into a `flgst` file to transfer to another copy of Folge
• Save original capture image. Click "Step Image Actions" -> "Save original image"
• Guide Folders can now be nested, and subfolders can be created.
• Add images on top of the step image. Click Toolbar -> "Add Image to Canvas" and select the image to be added.
• Per-step settings are introduced under the "Step properties" section in the right column of the editor.
• First "Per Step Setting" is "Force step to a new page" which will always push the step to a new page during PDF and Word exports
• Simple screenshot hotkey can now be found in Settings -> Hotkeys. While editing a guide, you can quickly add a new step from a simple capture by pressing this combination

⭐ Improvements

• Text objects can now have an outline. Outline Width and Color are introduced as object properties .
• Color Picker dialog has an eyedropper that can select any color from the screen.
• Guide auto naming ( Color + Animal ) is deprecated in favour of `Untitled + CURRENT_DATETIME`.
• Empty guide screen now has guide name edit field for quick editing.
• All dialogs for renaming things ( guides, folders, etc. ) are now prefilled with the original title.
• In the Guides List mode, one can use the Shift + Mouse click to select multiple guides.
• Custom HTML is enabled for the Guide' Description editor.
• Guides in the Guides List mode can now be sorted by title or creation date

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Refactored color picker dialog, now it is properly shown next to the color placeholder and is not overlapped or cut by UI.
• Guide details dialog is larger for editing convenience.
• Object properties are made a bit smaller for better UI.
• Folge works properly on OS X 13 Ventura.
• Mark click object's border color in Settings was not working properly for some users.

🎁 New Features

• Export settings templates - define multiple styling settings
• New export setting for PDF, DOC, HTML - "Include substeps in ToC".
• Color presets in color dialog - add, store and remove custom colors.
• Settings window is now fully independent, can be opened alonsideg with the editor

⭐ Improvements

• Image canvas history (undo/redo) was rewritten.
• Make number inputs in object properties incrementable using up and down keyboard keys.
• Editor remembers scroll position between steps.
• ToC in PDF has page numbers.
• Fonts & Colors option in Export Settingsfor ToC item in DOC and PDF to be underlined or not
• Settings -> Capturing -> "Mark clicked area" now supports border color
• Settings -> Capturing -> Show Cursor has two new mac cursors ( hand and pointer)
• When dropping images in editor to create new step(s) always switch to the first new step.
• Restore Guide modal now supports option to restore guide as a copy, not to override existing one.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• When moving shapes on canvas with arrow keys, drag handles were not moving.
• Substeps without parents in trashbin are properly displayed.
• Restoring substep from trashbin now restores step in root, and doesn't lose it as before.
• Multiple copies of the same guide can now be restored.
• Clicking Toc item in rich html now highlights current item.
• Custom CSS doesn't truncate spaces in class names.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• When exporting in JSON/Markdown always use / in image paths.
• Do not encode html characters in powerpoint slides
• Step title and description fields in Capture mode were not always working for some Windows users
• Add period after number in the step title

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Various bug fixes and improvements.

🎁 New Features

• New capturing mode - take single screenshot. Just like regular screenshot tools. Just choose Add Step -> Simple Screenshot
• All export formats now support image border with defined width and color.
• When exporting, it is possible to define fully custom path and file names for images.
• Add title and description to the step while capturing to not lose any context.

⭐ Improvements

• Define file name format for backup files.
• Rich HTML improved for mobile devices.
• Word Document export correctly supports lists.
• Richt HMTML completion box will scroll you to the next step when checked.
• Do not export empty step title in PDF

🔧 Bug Fixes

• Replacing cropped image with clipboard image required manual resetting.
• Some actions on steps were causing reordering issues.
• PDF export was sometimes missing objects and shapes in images.
• During export progress bar shows real number of steps without hidden and deleted.

🔧 Bug Fixes

• For some users PDF exporting was stuck.