GraphNotes

Roadmap

GraphNotes is in public beta on TestFlight. This page follows it from the first beta build to version 1.0 on the App Store and beyond, and says what is not planned.

Last updated November 14, 2026. Nothing ahead has a date: each item is announced when a build has it.

  1. The public beta opens. October 20, 2026, on TestFlight.

  2. In the beta now

    New since the end of October:

    • Claude on your Mac. Connect Claude from GraphNotes for Mac, and it can search and read your library, your PDFs’ pages included, and propose links, notes, highlights and docs. Nothing changes until you choose Keep, and Assistant Access is off until you turn it on.
    • GraphNotes for Mac. Your library on a Mac with macOS 27: read, type, highlight, link, search and arrange boards with the keyboard and pointer. Handwriting shows there and is written on iPad or iPhone Duo.
    • Export Everything. Your whole library in open formats that other apps can open: docs and highlights as Markdown with their links, PDFs with their highlights written in, handwriting as images and boards as JSON Canvas.
    • Search from where you are. The magnifier in a board’s, doc’s or PDF’s bar searches your whole library, handwriting included, and shows a result in place when it is already in front of you.
    • To Do and Done. Mark a doc, PDF, highlight or sticky note, and check it off on its card. The sidebar’s To Do list gathers them, and marks are yours alone.
    • Getting Started. A first run that teaches by doing: a card on My Desk follows you as you write a note, connect it to a sample paper and find it again.
    • Handwriting from two devices at once. If you write in the same note on two devices before they sync, the strokes from both are kept.
    • Margin view. A PDF opens with each highlight’s notes beside its passage.
    • Connect notes across PDFs. On a board, connect a note in one PDF’s margin to a note in another’s, drawn straight from note to note.
    • Back Up Library and Restore from Backup. Your whole library, with its PDFs, in one file you keep.
    • Export with Highlights. A copy of a PDF with your highlights and, if you choose, your notes written into it.
    • PDFs from other apps. Share a PDF to GraphNotes, or save it in the GraphNotes Inbox folder in iCloud Drive.
    • Links that open in GraphNotes. Copy Link gives a graphnotes.app link. Tapped in Messages, Mail or Notes, it opens the note on an iPad or iPhone that has it.
    • iPhone. Handwriting on iPhone Duo with Apple Pencil (USB-C); on other iPhones you read, highlight, type, link and search.

  3. Before version 1.0

    What version 1.0 waits for:

    • An accessibility pass. VoiceOver, Full Keyboard Access and larger text, on iPad and iPhone.
    • Checks on real devices. Sync and board sharing across devices and Apple Accounts, and speed with a thousand docs, large boards and a lot of handwriting.

  4. Version 1.0. The first release on the App Store.

  5. Version 1.1

    Planned for the first update after 1.0:

    • A folder kept up to date. Choose a folder in Files, and GraphNotes keeps a copy of your notes current there, in the same open formats as the export, so your notes are always somewhere else as well.
    • Import from Zotero. A collection comes in with its PDFs, and the highlights you made in Zotero arrive at their passages.
    • More Shortcuts actions. For docs and highlights. Searching GraphNotes from Shortcuts is in the beta now.

  6. Later

    • Links to a handwritten phrase, not only to the block it is in.
    • Several GraphNotes windows side by side on iPad.

  7. Being considered

    • More ways in and out: highlights that another app already saved in a PDF, and sending highlights on to other tools.
    • A supporter purchase. It would unlock nothing.

Not planned

Why nothing ahead has a date

I make GraphNotes by myself, and I would rather tell you that something is done than when I hope it will be. If something on this page matters to you, or something is missing from it, write to me. I read every message myself, and it helps me decide what comes first.

Nathan Rischling