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Simplenote for iOS version 3.0.6 has been released. It has full translations into French, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Many thanks to those who helped: Alexandre Testu (French) Bernd Folberth (German) Michiel Houtman (Dutch) Arturo Martín (Spanish) This update also has the following important changes: fixed text and notes sometimes getting duplicated fixed bug where edits could be lost ifContinue reading “Translations and more fixes”

Some of you may have noticed there’s a new little status indicator in the Simplenote web app. This is the first of a few important fixes we’re working on. These will be released over the coming weeks. We’re also aware of some potential issues with Internet Explorer 8. We’ll take a look at those asContinue reading “Incoming web app fixes”

Thanks everyone for your patience while we roll out some important fixes. The latest update for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is 3.0.5. It has a variety of fixes for unfortunate problems that some people were experiencing. The complete list of changes is: fixed bug that could cause syncing to stop working fixed bug thatContinue reading “Important update released for iOS”

We’d like to apologize for some recent, intermittent problems when signing into Simplenote and syncing your data. The root cause is a problem at our hosting provider that is beyond our control. Thankfully, a large number of very smart people are working to solve that problem urgently. An unintended side-effect is that, when one ofContinue reading “Recent login and sync problems”

A critical Simplenote update has been released for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. It contains the following fixes:  fixed a problem that could result in data loss if you updated but had not yet created an account fixed a problem that could result in data loss while working offline fixed some problems with tags (althoughContinue reading “Critical update 3.0.3, forthcoming 3.0.4”

Our update went live several hours ago and we’re buried in feedback. Most of it is very positive, which is extremely rewarding for us. Thanks everyone for your kind words. We’ll be going through it all in the coming days. This will take some time as we work through the backlog. If you unsuccessfully triedContinue reading “Briefly: our big update”

We’re proud to announce that a major new version of Simplenote is just around the corner. It should be available in a matter of days. In the meantime, we’re temporarily absent from the App Store. We apologize for that. We encountered some unfortunate problems with a new App Store release process.

But the update is coming, and soon! We’re not revealing all the details until it’s live, but we’d like to at least prepare you for what to expect.

Simplenote will be unavailable in the App Store for a short period of time. We apologize to our potential new users. You’re welcome to create an account in the meantime and we’ll let you know when we’re back.

Sometimes everything happens at once. That appears to be the case with Simplenote clients for Android this week. Suddenly, out of nowhere, there are now three separate notes apps for Android that work with Simplenote. Great! We’ve added them to our Extras page. These are fairly basic offerings at the moment, but hopefully they’ll continueContinue reading “Simplenote on Android, and the Holy Grail”

Today, Simplenote will be working in read-only mode for about an hour, which means syncing won’t work during that period. Then, over the next week, you might find that syncing isn’t quite as fast as usual. And lastly, exactly a week from today, there will be one more scheduled maintenance period. This maintenance is theContinue reading “Some scheduled maintenance”