What's new in v6 - Announcements - Inkdrop Forum
What's new in v6
Announcements
craftzdog<br>(Takuya Matsuyama)
August 5, 2026, 5:55am
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Inkdrop v6 is the biggest release since the app was born.
Nearly every layer has been rebuilt — the editor, the Markdown renderer, the theming system, the storage engine, the plugin toolchain, and the build pipeline — while keeping the app small, fast, and focused on writing.
It also completes the roadmap vol.6 in full.
Here’s everything that’s new.
New Editor
The whole editor has been rebuilt on CodeMirror 6 . That single change unlocked most of the features below — and it finally retires the Atom-era foundation Inkdrop had been carrying since v1.
Floating toolbar
In v5 the toolbar was pinned above the editor, taking up space even when you weren’t using it. Now it floats in only when you select text.
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Slash commands
On an empty line, press / to insert blockquotes, headings, alerts, and more without touching the mouse.
Slash commands790×554 32 KB
Autocompletion everywhere
Type ``` and the editor suggests a language for your code block:
Code block language suggestion1090×556 46.9 KB
Inside a code block, autocompletion switches to the language you picked:
Autocompletion in code blocks668×426 25.8 KB
And typing : plus two characters brings up GitHub-style emoji candidates:
Emoji autocompletion562×536 43.9 KB
GitHub Alerts syntax
Alerts are highlighted with the proper colors and left border — nested alerts and quotes included — with autocompletion for the alert type.
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Note links with [[
Press [[ to search your notes and insert an internal link. The candidate list previews the note beside it, with full syntax highlighting.
Quick note link insertion2302×558 123 KB
Syntax highlighting in the note link preview2380×1110 330 KB
The note you want doesn’t exist yet? Start typing a title, choose Create new note , and it’s created, linked, and opened in one step.
Create a new note from the note link autocomplete870×250 12.9 KB
Reading highlights
Select text and hit the highlight button to wrap it in a tag — perfect for emphasizing what resonates in your reading notes. It pairs nicely with the Web Clipper’s Kindle highlight import.
Highlight button on the floating toolbar1082×186 15.7 KB
Highlighted text in the editor1082×324 26.5 KB
Highlighted text rendered in the preview748×164 9.76 KB
The smoothest link pasting
Pasting a URL used to pop a dialog that stole focus from the editor. Now the link formats appear inline in the autocompletion menu, and the page title is fetched in the background — so you never wait, and you never leave the editor.
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Resize images right in the editor
Inkdrop now understands Marp-style image size specifiers:
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You don’t have to memorize the syntax — put your cursor on an image and a resize toolbar pops up with Auto / Small / Half / Full presets.
Image resize toolbar2034×765 96.2 KB
Image resizing examples2034×1714 287 KB
→ Docs: Resize images
A refurbished editor header
Navigation back/forward, view mode buttons, and a distraction-free toggle are now right in the header, so new users can find the basics without reading the manual.
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The old right-side drawer has been replaced by a native action menu that drops down from the more button — or press Cmd/Ctrl+J — with proper keyboard navigation and type-ahead.
Copy button for code blocks
The button appears when your cursor enters a code block.
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Native spellcheck
The editor now uses the OS-native spellchecker. Toggle it via Preferences → Editing → Markdown → Spellcheck .
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Link tooltips
When the cursor lands on a URL, a tooltip offers to open it in your browser — internal note links included.
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Little things that add up
ToDo items get a strikethrough when checked
editor:move-line-up / editor:move-line-down (Alt+↑ / Alt+↓)
View menu toggles for line numbers, line wrapping, and readable line length
Multiple cursors and rectangular selection
New Markdown Renderer
The Markdown preview got just as much attention as the editor.
Find in preview
A long-awaited one. It highlights matches across DOM elements , so complex queries like e if a and ct(ar work — which is what makes finding text inside code blocks actually possible.
Advanced code blocks
Code blocks now render with language icons, line numbers, and meta info — plus a copy button on hover.
Language icons for code blocks1668×1064 226 KB
Copy button in the preview1914×814 138 KB
Fenced blocks tagged markdown are highlighted with the full GitHub Flavored Markdown grammar — headings, emphasis, links, task lists, nested fenced...