What's new

Group chats and supergroups are monitored properly, including those without a @username (they used to show "Not found"); each file from a group is named after the member who sent it. Checks are now quick — only what is new plus the last 24 hours — and a Full check (right-click a contact) walks everything from the start date again. A diagnostic log with no private data replaces crash_log.txt: a local file that is never sent anywhere and can be switched off in Settings. The About window shows the build number. The first check of each contact after updating is a full one and takes longer. Version 2.30.1: bug fixes.

What's new since 0.1.2.

Centre of mass. The Center of Mass fold measures the character by its meshes and shows its centre of mass as a yellow ball, with a shadow on the ground in the colour of the support: green over the feet, red outside them, white in the air. Things in the hands pull the centre by their mass, and Drop lets go of them on the frame you pick. Draw Trail draws a live trail of the centre: a dot per frame, blue before the current frame and pink after, redrawn by itself after key edits; a jump is checked against real gravity. Several characters in one scene, each with its own centre. The Setup window keeps the body mass, the up axis, the ground height, the materials of things and presets.

Centre of mass animation, as in Cascadeur. Select the pelvis and press Animate Center of Mass: magenta rings appear on the centre of mass. Move and turn them, key them, and the whole character follows, turning about its centre of mass. A live trajectory of the centre redraws after every key, and its points can be dragged with the mouse. To Pelvis bakes the motion into the pelvis keys with any rigs on the character, Discard removes the rings without baking.

A ballistic curve for jumps, as in Cascadeur. Pick the jump's frames and press Ballistic Curve: take-off, top and landing. Snap puts the centre of mass on the curve on every frame of the flight. Drag the top and the jump goes higher or lower; move the landing and the animation after the jump goes with it, no foot sliding. The curve shows its own gravity, Real g makes it real.

Manual and lesson. New step-by-step sections, "Center of mass animation" and "Ballistic curve": what to select, what to press, what you get, with screenshots and diagrams. Window screenshots are now shown at their real size. A video lesson, "Center of mass", in English and Russian.

Checked in Maya 2019, 2022 and 2025.

EOV Motion Trail 2.0.0 - the updated Free Motion Trail.

The 1.4 public beta grew up inside eov animation tools and comes here on its own, for everyone who downloaded the beta:

• open code, one install for every Maya 2019-2026 by drag-and-drop, no per-version compiled files;
• the installer clears the beta away: its files go to a backup folder, its shelf buttons become the new one, scenes with beta trails open with the new plugin;
• many fixes: animation layers (weights, Override), a fresh Maya without the plugin loaded, Set Range one frame too long, menus on a second monitor, a new trail inheriting an old one's cache;
• Trail On / Off in one command and on a hotkey, a menu that stays open, a settings window for your own style;
• manual in English and Russian.

New since 2.5.1:

• Hand routine work to an AI agent: it checks the project out, adds tasks, sets assignees, dates, descriptions, Jira links, statuses and cells right in the open window
• Every edit of the agent shows up at once; Ctrl+Z undoes its whole batch; check-in and deleting only on your direct command
• A ready skill in the archive (AI_Agent_Skill) for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and similar agents
• Windows remember their size and place: the main window, Team Load, the project calculator, the activity log, track history
• New manual section on AI agents, with installation for each agent
• The file format has not changed: colleagues on 2.5.1 keep working with the same projects

From your feedback:

• A frame is selected by a click on any empty spot inside it, as in Miro
• A drag from an empty spot inside a frame still draws a selection box, and moves the frame with its contents when the frame is selected
• A frame title in a large font is no longer cut off
• The web board in the browser has all of this too; the manual (F1) is updated

From the first feedback:

• The window comes back at its size and place
• A board opens where you left it: the same part and zoom (can be turned off in Settings)
• The sticky note and shape tools start at once with the last color and shape, the choice open beside them
• A frame carries what is in it, as in Miro, and is copied with it
• Bring to front and send to back: PgUp / PgDn, panel buttons and a right-click menu
• Connector thickness, from 1 to 12
• ffmpeg goes on with one command or as a folder next to the program, no PATH editing; a step-by-step page in the manual (F1)
• The web board in the browser has all of this too

What changed since 0.1.1.

Fixed: after Bake & Remove an object could stand still. If an object had a single key on its channels before the rig, say a magazine under a Proxy locator, Bake & Remove wrote the right keys, but Maya kept showing it in one pose on every frame, so the magazine just rode along with the weapon. Reopening the scene brought the motion back. Now the object moves right away, and one Ctrl+Z still undoes the whole bake.

Checked in Maya 2019, 2022 and 2025, and on the scene where it was found.

What changed since 0.1.0.

Swap in the Space row. When a control rides on the wrong one, say the hand follows the magazine while you meant the magazine to ride in the hand, select the two and press Swap. They change places, both animations stay as they were on every frame, and one Ctrl+Z undoes it. To Selected the wrong way round no longer just refuses: it tells you to press Swap.

Fixed: Bake & Remove froze a riding control. If a hand rode on a Proxy locator and Bake & Remove took all rigs, the locator could go first, and the hand froze in the pose of the current frame. Now controls that ride on a rig go back to the world before that rig is removed, with their animation kept. The order of the rigs no longer matters, and switching IK to FK under a riding control is safe as well.

The Space label has its own line now, so the name of what the controls ride on is readable again. The manual has a part on Swap.

Checked in Maya 2019, 2022 and 2025.

1.23.0 adds a simple editor to the player: cut unwanted parts out of a clip and join what is left into one file. Also new: checking for updates from the program, and export fixes for screen recordings.

Cut parts out

• The C key cuts the clip at the playhead: a yellow line appears on the timeline. You can rebind it on the Settings → Hotkeys tab, entry Razor Cut.
• Right-click a segment between lines and choose Disable Segment: it turns grey, and playback skips it, sound included, Loop too. Enable Segment brings it back, Enable All Segments brings back all of them.
• Cut a bit early or late? Grab the line with the mouse and move it — the frame shows where the cut is. Remove Cut removes a line, Remove All Cuts removes them all.
• Nothing is deleted: grey parts stay on the timeline and frame numbers don't change. Every step can be undone with Ctrl+Z.
• The usual export (Ctrl+E) joins only the live parts into one file, with sound and no clicks at the joins; a JPEG sequence is numbered straight through.
• Cuts are remembered per clip — in the project and when you move around the playlist.

Updates

• Help → Check for Updates opens the program page with the new versions.

Export

• If the export folder can't be written to (often the case with screen-recorder folders), the program tells you before it starts and lets you pick another place. Instead of a long ffmpeg error you get a plain message.
• Fixed Fast Copy on screen recordings with sparse frames (Bandicam, OBS): a cut piece could come out broken and shorter, now it is frame-exact.

The manual

• New section "Cut parts out", the C key in the hotkey list, and Troubleshooting covers the export-folder permission. Search with Enter now goes through every section.

What changed since 1.5.2.

Search inside the open note.

The search box (Ctrl+F) has a switch now: All notes or This note, and Tab flips it. In the open note every match is lit up right in the text, and the list gives one line per match with its line number. Enter goes to the chosen match, and the highlighting stays after the box closes.

F3 and Shift+F3 step to the next and the previous match, round the end of the note. Esc in the text takes the highlighting away.

The search remembers.

Where you searched and what you typed are kept, even after a restart: Ctrl+F opens on the same choice with the same words.

Manual: the Search section gained its second half with a picture,

and the new keys are in Keyboard shortcuts.

The tool's window now matches Maya's size - on 4K and on a laptop at 150 % alike.

• Scales like Maya. On high-resolution screens with Windows scaling at 125-200 %, Maya draws its interface bigger, while the tool's windows stayed small. Now they follow Maya's scale by default (Auto) - buttons, fonts, the speed curve and every dialog.
• Interface Size. Want it bigger or smaller than Maya? Click ? in the window's title bar, then Interface Size, 100 to 200 %. The window reopens at the new size at once, with the same curve and preview. The choice is remembered for every Maya version.
• Scale shown in About. The last line of the About box shows Maya's and the tool's scale - handy when you write to the author about how the window looks.
• Manual updated in English and Russian: a section on Interface Size and fresh window shots.

To update, drop the installer file into Maya and click Update - presets and settings stay.

Faster bake on long, dense takes - and a way to stop it.

• Long takes bake in seconds. Takes with a key on every frame or subframe - mocap, simulations - used to bake for many minutes, and Ctrl+Z took nearly as long. Now both take seconds.
• Cancel Bake. While it bakes, the Bake button turns into Cancel Bake: click it or press Esc, and the scene goes back to how it was - keys, range, preview and the speed curve.
• Clean uninstall. Uninstall now also removes the tool's small undo plug-in from Maya's plug-ins folders.
• Manual updated in English and Russian: Cancel Bake, and why a very long take bakes slowly only in the first Maya session after the install.

To update, drop the installer file into Maya and click Update - presets and settings stay.

2.0.3 adds the reminders timeline: every reminder and postponed record of the project on one strip, so none of them slips by unnoticed.

New

• The reminders timeline. Right-click the day timeline on the Work screen → Reminders, and a strip with all reminders and postponed records of the current project takes its place; the same item, ticked, brings the day back.
• Only the days that matter. Columns are the dates that have something on them, plus today, so even a hundred reminders over a year fit on one strip. A dashed line between columns means more than a week is skipped there.
• The day's lanes. Tasks, reviews, meetings, notes: a reminder stands on the lane of the record it is about.
• The forgotten one stands out. A reminder past its day and still open is red; closed ones are grey, for the last three months. A click on a chip opens the record, a click on a date opens that day.

Changed

• The Glowmire tutorial project now has an overdue reminder, a closed one and a reminder about a review, so the timeline has something to show.
• The manual has a new "Reminders timeline" section with a picture; screenshots re-taken.

Installing and updating

• Quit the program, delete everything in the HLT2 folder except settings.json and secrets, and unzip the new archive into the same place. Journals, settings and the Telegram sign-in stay.

2.0.2 is a small update to the Work screen: a busy day no longer stretches the page, clips carry no long names at their side, and the pop-up tooltips are gone.

Changed

• The theses of the day scroll. On a day with many tasks done, the list on the right no longer grows into a long sheet that pushes the week down: the card stays short and the rest scrolls inside it.
• No names beside the clips on the day track. A task's name is written only inside its clip and cut with "…" when it does not fit. The full name is on the right panel when the clip is picked.
• No pop-up tooltips. The long tooltips over clips, buttons and fields are gone: everything they said is in the manual (F1). The only one left shows where a record lands while you drag it.

Installing and updating

• Quit the program, delete everything in the HLT2 folder except settings.json and secrets, and unzip the new archive into the same place. Journals, settings and the Telegram sign-in stay.

1.02 is a small update: PictCommander can be made the default photo viewer on current Windows 11 again, opens photos from Explorer and builds thumbnails faster, and the Help menu now has an update check.

Fixed

• Default program on current Windows 11. Recent Windows 11 no longer lets a program make itself the default, so the ticks under File associations could quietly do nothing. PictCommander now lists itself in Windows Settings (Default apps → PictCommander), checks what a double-click will really open, and when Windows holds on to another program it offers an "Open Windows Settings" button that goes straight to the right page.

Faster

• Photos from Explorer. Opening a JPEG no longer loads the PSD library along with it - the photo is up about a second and a half sooner.
• Thumbnails of camera photos are built about two and a half times faster, with no visible difference in quality.
• Nearest first. Open a photo from the middle of a big folder and the thumbnails around it appear first, not after every one before it.

New

• Help → Check for updates opens the PictCommander versions page in your browser.
• The manual has a section on updating and a tip to keep the program on an SSD.

Installing and updating

• The folder in the archive is now just PictCommander, with no version number. To update, close the program, delete what is in its folder (_internal included) and unzip the new archive in the same place. Settings, favourites and the thumbnail cache are kept elsewhere and are not touched.
• After updating, open Tools → Settings → File associations once and press Apply - the program will list itself in Windows Settings.

2.0.1 is a small bug-fix update: files under a newly added review mask are now found in older messages too, a long name on the day track is no longer written twice, and the Help menu can check for updates.

Fixed

• Files from chats under a new mask. A review mask added later (.zip, say) used to catch only files sent after it: whatever came before had already been read past. Now a new mask makes the chats be read again over the last 30 days. From what was read before, only files under the new mask are taken, so reviews you deleted do not come back.
• A long name on the day track. When a name did not fit its clip, it was written a second time to the right of it - and showed up twice. Now only really narrow clips are labelled at the side; everywhere else the name is cut with "…", and the full one is in the tooltip.

New

• Help → Check for updates opens the page with the versions of HLT 2 in the browser.

Installing and updating

• The program folder is now one for every version - HLT2, with no number; the number is only in the name of the archive. To update, quit the program, delete everything in the folder except settings.json and secrets, and unzip the new archive into the same place.
• Coming from 2.0.0 (folder HLT2-2.0.0): move settings.json and secrets into the new HLT2 folder once. If starting with Windows was on, the new HLT2.exe points Windows at itself.
• The manual and the README cover this in their section on updating.

1.22.5 is a small update: it adds hotkey support to Recent Personal, the personal-folders mode that came in 1.22. Each name can now have a key of its own, so a person's newest video opens with a single keystroke, no menu needed.

Recent Personal

• Settings → Recent Personal has a new Hotkey column. Click Set…, then press a key or a combination such as Ctrl+1. Esc cancels, the ✕ button removes the key.
• The key does what clicking the name does: in normal mode it opens the newest video, in Split the previous take goes left and the new one right. The same works in Maya Mode and Overlay Pro with Side-by-Side on.
• The menu shows the key next to the name, and it works with any keyboard layout.
• A key that already runs a regular action can't be taken — you get a warning. A key used by another name can be moved over, and the Hotkeys tab asks before taking a key away from a name.

The manual

• The Recent Personal section explains the new keys, and Troubleshooting covers a name key that stopped working.

What changed since 2.0.2.

• The Recent panel now has two tabs. Recent is exactly Maya's own File > Recent Files list, in the same order, newest on top. Before, the shelf kept a recent list of its own: it was shared by all Maya versions, filled up with old files and pushed Maya's list out, so the panel rarely matched the menu.
• Imported is the list of files you imported lately - something Maya doesn't keep anywhere. Every import counts: the I button, File > Import, or a file dragged into the viewport. The last 15 files are kept; Clear Imported empties only this list. The panel remembers which tab you had open.
• Favorites and Recent close on a click anywhere outside the panel. A click on the Favorites / Recent button still opens and closes it; while a file dialog or a menu opened from the panel is up, the panel stays.
• The manual's Recent files section is rewritten for the tabs, with new screenshots.

Checked in Maya 2019, 2022 and 2025. Update with the installer as usual - your buttons, profiles and favorites stay.

What changed since 2.0.1.

• Drag-and-drop installer. Drag MP_Rollout_Shelf_drag_into_Maya.py into the Maya window and press Install: the tool goes in once for every Maya 2019-2026 on the computer, a shelf button with the new icon appears, and other Maya versions put the button on at their next start. Dropping the file again offers Update and Uninstall. Update never touches your buttons, profiles and favorites; old copies in the scripts folders are cleaned up, and buttons of version 1.x kept inside them are moved to the data folder first.
• The shelf has its own icon - on the shelf button and on the floating window.
• The docked shelf now sits right beside the viewport instead of along the whole edge of the Maya window. It takes the viewport's height, and the time slider, range slider and command line keep the full width of the window again. On the left it stands between the viewport and whatever is already docked there, such as the Outliner.
• It still remembers its width and comes back in place after a Maya restart.
• The README in the archive is now in English and Russian, with update steps and a link to the download page. The archive unpacks into a folder without a version number, so an update just replaces its contents.

Docking checked in Maya 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026, left and right and after a restart; the installer - in Maya 2019 and 2025.

The headline of 1.22 is Recent Personal: the newest video from a person's folder opens in one click, and in Split the previous take opens next to it.

Recent Personal

• File → Recent Personal and a new button on the drawing toolbar hold a list of people. Pick a name and the newest video from that person's folder opens.
• Set the list up on Settings → Recent Personal: a name and a folder per line, up to 40 lines, ordered with Up and Down.
• "Newest" is the later of the created and modified dates, so a file that was copied in or saved by a messenger still opens as the fresh one.
• In Split the previous video opens on the left and the newest on the right — one look shows what changed. The same goes for Maya Mode and Overlay Pro with Side-by-Side on.
• The Subfolders box searches nested folders too. Show the newest file name in the menu shows which file each name will open.
• The button stays out of 2×2, Video Layers and Tracking. To take it off the toolbar, use View → Toolbar.

The manual

• A new section, Recent Personal, plus its screenshots in the Overview, Interface and Settings.
• Every screenshot in the manual is retaken for the new toolbar.

Fixes

• The settings item in the timecode button's menu opened the Screenshots tab; it now opens Timecode.

What changed since 1.5.1.

More room on a small screen.

The tree's rows are about a third shorter, so more notes fit in view; the font is the same. The toolbar buttons are icons only and more compact: the whole toolbar fits on one line from a window about 910 pixels wide, and the names are in the tooltips. Right-click menus are tighter too.

Move to, on the right-click menu.

Right-click a note or a folder → Move to → any folder of the library. The same move a drag makes, without pulling a row across the whole tree. The folder it is in now shows greyed; a folder cannot be moved into itself.

A narrowest window.

The window stops narrowing where the toolbar would start losing buttons.

Fixed: moving the open note straight after typing.

A file with the last few letters could stay behind at the old place, and the moved note would be without them. Whatever has been typed is now written before any move, by drag or by menu.

The manual is reshot: sharp pictures, every window and menu in the

Overview, and a new Licence section.

What changed since 1.5.0.

Settings fit a laptop screen.

The Settings window was taller than many laptop screens: on 1366×768, or on Full HD at 125–150 % scaling, the Save button ended up under the taskbar. Now the window is never taller than the free space on the screen. The settings scroll, and Save, Cancel and Reset to defaults always stay in view at the bottom. On a big monitor the window opens whole, as before.

The headline of 1.21 is a new user manual: visual, with callouts on every screenshot, and one key away — press F1 in the program. Everything we found while checking the manual against the program is fixed too.

The manual on F1

• Help → User Manual or F1 opens the manual in your browser, in the language of Windows. It sits next to the program, in the manual folder, and works offline.
• Every screenshot carries callouts: a number, a thin line to the spot and a caption below. Hover over a caption and the spot lights up.
• The Overview is a map of the whole program: every window, menu and dialog, and each callout links to the section that covers it in detail.
• New sections: Quick start, Troubleshooting, License.
• The manual was checked against the program and corrected: what Shift does with the shapes, how keys work in Split and 2×2, what goes into a screenshot.

Projects open from Explorer

A .fcmd project now opens on a double-click once you associate it with the program in Settings → File Types. Before, the program tried to open it as a video.

Fixes

• Button tooltips show the keys that actually work, and follow your own hotkey settings.
• The T key (timecode) no longer throws an error when the Settings window has never been opened.
• The timecode background can be made transparent: the color dialog now has an Alpha channel field.
• The file naming hint on Settings → Screenshots displays properly.
• The Split export checkbox now says honestly that the sound comes from the longer clip.
• The About window shows the program icon again, and a build number next to the version.
• The Maya tools now sit right in the program folder, in maya_script.

New since 2.3.1:

• Project Calculator: finish date and team size with min and max, risk, presets, export to Excel
• Team Load window: who is busy, free or on holiday, by team, with a list mode for meetings
• Formulas: IF with comparisons, build a formula with the mouse, references survive deleted rows, bulk Remove formula
• Track groups and sub-tracks; frozen columns like in Excel; Ctrl+B shows the whole timeline
• Work folders: drop a folder on a track name to link it, open in Explorer or Total Commander
• Excel export dialog: pick sheets, rows and columns; rows can be marked "don't export"; Total row
• Weekend work flag per task; work total in the status bar; sum, average and count of selected cells
• Info badges on the timeline, message presets for the producer, filter by activity
• Team server: an older version cannot damage a project saved by a newer one, honest read-only mode
• New illustrated manual (F1) and three lessons with sample projects, English and Russian
• Fixes: three silent data-loss cases, crashes and hangs, faster drawing

What changed since 1.4.2.

Newest on top.

A new setting: the Order row in Settings, just under the notes folder. Turn it on, and every folder starts with the note you changed last, followed by the rest from newest to oldest. Handy when you come back to yesterday's notes more often than to whatever sorts first.

Pinned notes still come first, then folders by name, then notes by how recent they are. The note you are writing in rises to the top once, on autosave, and then stays put rather than jumping about under the cursor.

Your own arrangement is not lost. While the setting is on, rows cannot be dragged up and down. Turn it off and your order is back as it was. It is off by default.

The open note stands out.

With plenty of coloured rows in the tree, the open note took some finding: the little caret on its left got lost between the bright bands above and below. Now the open note's row has a frame round it, white or black, whichever shows up better against its row, and the caret takes the same colour. No other row ever has that frame, so the open note stands out whatever colours its neighbours have.

A build number in About.

About now shows a build number beside the version. Two copies of the same version can be told apart, and if something goes wrong, the number says exactly which copy you have. The title bar now writes the version as "v.1.5.0".

Everything since 1.3.0, the last version on this page: 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.4.0, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 were built one after another and arrive here together.

A numbered list keeps its own count.

You have a list of five and want one more after the second. Enter used to give you a second "3.", and every number below it had to be fixed by hand. Now the new item is 3, and the old 3, 4 and 5 become 4, 5 and 6 by themselves.

Taking an item out works the same way. Delete it, backspace it away, cut it with Ctrl+X or clear several lines at once, and the numbers below close up.

A list that starts at 5 still starts at 5. A nested list keeps its own count, and a blank line or plain text ends the list. One Ctrl+Z takes back the new line and the renumbering together. Only the digits change, so the cursor stays where it was.

For now this happens from the keyboard. Pasting or cutting through the right-click menu and dragging text with the mouse leave the numbers alone.

The manual opens from the program: F1.

F1, or the book button on the toolbar between Settings and About, opens the user manual in your browser, in the language of the interface. It is now two pages, English and Russian, built from pictures of the program itself. The numbers on each picture point at the parts, and the list under it says what they do. There is a search box too. The manual sits in the "manual" folder next to FuryNotes.exe, so you can open it or send it on without the program.

A note opens where you left it.

Leave a note half-read, look at another one, come back, and you are on the same line instead of at the end. Anything you had selected is still selected. FuryNotes remembers the place for every note you open while it is running.

Folders from elsewhere, right in the tree.

Documents that live in someone else's folder, such as a project's papers or a shared drive, can now go on the tree without being copied in. Right-click the tree, choose "Connect an external folder…", give it a name, and its .md and .txt files appear as one list you can read and edit in place. FuryNotes writes nothing into that folder.

"What to show from this folder…" lists everything in it with a tick box, so you can clear them all and tick the few you need. A single unwanted file is quicker to drop from the tree with "Hide from this folder". Anything that lands in the folder later shows up by itself. Ctrl+F finds these documents too, and earlier copies of their text are kept in your own notes folder.

Read the folder again: F5.

Drop a .md or .txt file into the notes folder from Explorer, from a download or from another program, and the ring button at the end of the top row (or F5) brings it into the tree. It also re-reads the open note if its text was changed from outside. Whenever you switch back to FuryNotes from another program, the tree is re-read by itself.

The date comes with the time, and with a button.

Ctrl+Shift+D now writes the date and the time, to the second: 2026-09-27 14:05:31. Two entries made on the same day no longer look like one. The calendar button at the end of the second toolbar row does the same thing with the mouse.

A release about the small things that eat time every day, and a new user manual.

The pointer in the picture.

"Capture the mouse pointer" - on the Capture tab of Settings and in the tray menu. The pointer goes into the picture where it stood, in all five kinds of capture. Off to begin with.

Favorite folders in the save window.

Star a folder and it moves up into Favorites, where no new folder will push it out. "Remove from the list", the Delete key or a right-click drops a line; the folder on the disk stays put. Fifty folders are remembered instead of thirty, shared by both lists. A favorite on a drive that is not plugged in is shown greyed out.

Searching the folders.

A search field above the list keeps only the folders whose path has every word you type, in any order. You can type right on the list. The first Esc clears the search, the second closes the window.

• The save window remembers its size, and which list the last picture went into.

The eye brings the cover back over the whole screen.

It used to lead to the ordinary window, which then had to be arranged again. The choice is on the Toolbar tab, "What the eye brings back". F10 and Esc in see-through mode do the same.

A restart in one click.

"Restart BackDrop" in the tray menu, and a "Restart now" button under the language choice.

A new user manual.

Two pages, English and Russian, window pictures with a callout on every button, and a search. It opens on F1, from the tray menu and with the "User manual" button in the ordinary window, and lives in the manual folder beside the program. Checked against the program line by line.

Fixed.

The Windows 11 taskbar no longer turns darker in see-through mode. A text caption lands exactly the size it was in the box. Colour names and the panel place picker are translated into Russian. Turning on autostart from the tray no longer announces that it worked.

The headline of version 1.20: sound you can see, and notes you can leave right on the frame. A waveform runs over the picture, an external track can be attached to a silent playblast, and captions on the frame live as objects you can edit at any time.

Waveform over the frame

A strip with the sound at the edge of the picture: the playhead runs along it, and hits and syllables are visible at a glance. The wheel zooms into the part you need and sets the In/Out segment, and the middle button drags the zoomed piece left and right.

Separate audio track

WAV, MP3 and other files instead of the embedded sound: attach a voice-over or music to a silent playblast without a video editor, with a frame offset. The track is saved in the project and goes into exports.

Text on the frame — a new text editor

A caption lives on its frame as an object: fonts with live preview, ready-made and custom styles, outline, backing, shadow, text in a frame that fits its own size, and a Make it readable button that picks the look from the frame underneath. A caption stays editable at any time — even a week later.

Curve Speed got friendlier

The wheel zooms into a part of the curve, Ctrl+wheel stretches the speed scale, the middle button pans the graph. The Zoom sets In/Out box ties the zoom to the segment when you want it. A key on the playhead line can now be selected, moved and deleted.

Playlist order

Reorder files by dragging and sort them by name — the review queue and the sequence come together in seconds.

Also in this release

Proper arrows on drop-downs and number fields, readable tooltips, buttons that keep their shape, Maya tools verified in every Maya 2019–2026, and an updated interactive manual in English and Russian.

The update is recommended for all users of version 1.19.

Version 1.19 grew out of feedback from 1.18 users. The headline feature is viewing several clips as one: select shots in the playlist and review the edit and the cuts between them, just like in RV — all the way to exporting the sequence as a single file. Alongside it come scrub audio for lip-sync, hotkeys for every drawing tool, settings that no longer reset, and a new visual HTML user manual.

Clips as one sequence — like in RV

Check the edit without assembling it in a video editor.

• Select clips in the playlist with Ctrl or Shift and press the As one sequence button at the bottom of the playlist. With fewer than two selected, the whole playlist goes in, in playlist order.
• One timeline for the whole sequence: cuts show as yellow ticks, frame numbers run straight through, and the current clip's name appears right on the frame (the N button).
• Shift+→ and Shift+← jump to the next and previous cut. Playback, Loop, In/Out points, scrubbing and scrub audio all work across cuts.
• Clips can differ: another resolution is letterboxed, a clip without sound plays silence, and variable-frame-rate screencasts stay in sync. A clip with a different fps is conformed to the sequence — the program warns you.
• Drawings and bookmarks are remembered per clip and its own frame: reorder the clips or open a clip on its own — the annotations stay in place.
• The sequence is saved into the .fcmd project with the position and segment. If a clip has gone missing from disk, the sequence is rebuilt from the rest.
• The sequence runs in the Normal mode; Split, 2x2 and other modes close it. Turn the button off and the clip under the playhead stays in the player, on the same frame.

Exporting a sequence as one file

Send the edit for review as a single video, not a pile of files.

• The regular Export (Ctrl+E) in sequence mode renders the In/Out segment across every cut into one MP4 with the sequence audio.
• The frames are exactly what the player shows, at the first clip's resolution.
• A JPEG sequence is numbered by sequence frames.
• Cancel stops the export and deletes the unfinished file.

Scrub audio for lip-sync

Hear a frame's sound when you move through the video by hand.

• The sound-wave button next to the volume, or Shift+S: every frame step plays a short slice of that frame's audio.
• It sounds when stepping with the arrows and dragging on the timeline or right on the frame; normal playback, jumps and bookmark navigation stay as before.
• Right-click the button to choose the slice length: 1, 2 or 3 frames.
• Works in Normal, Split and 2x2 modes (the active panel is voiced); the switch is shared and remembered. Off by default.

Hotkeys for drawing

Annotate without trips to the toolbar.

• 1–8 — pencil, vanishing ink, line, arrow, rectangle, circle, triangle, text. A digit turns drawing on by itself.
• "-" and "=" — line width or font size.
• Delete clears the frame's annotation immediately, without a prompt; Shift+Delete clears all frames, with confirmation. Both can be undone with Ctrl+Z.
• Button tooltips show the current keys; every key can be reassigned on the Hotkeys tab.

Stability and convenience

• Settings no longer reset. The settings file moved to the user profile folder (%APPDATA%\FramesCommander): it is always writable, even when the program sits in Program Files, and a new version unpacked in place of the old one picks up your hotkeys. Old settings migrate automatically on first launch. A failed read no longer wipes the settings.
• Per-file bookmarks, just like drawings. Come back to a file in the playlist — its bookmarks are where you left them.
• Undoing Clear All works again: annotation cleared from every frame comes back with Ctrl+Z.
• Undo doesn't mix files up: after switching files, the previous file's undo steps are no longer applied to the new one.
• A new manual. An interactive HTML guide with annotated screenshots, step-by-step instructions, text search and sections for every mode. The Russian edition is ready; the English one is in progress.

The update is recommended for all users of version 1.18.

Nearly all of this release grew out of one message. Someone built a note full of links to files on their own disk, ran into a few rough edges, and wrote in about them. Here is what came of it.

The program keeps earlier versions of your text.

A note here saves itself, so there is never a "did I save that?". For the same reason there was never an unsaved version to fall back on either: delete a paragraph, look away for a second, and it is gone from the file; close the program and the undo stack goes with it. FuryNotes now quietly puts copies of the text aside.

When a copy is taken: — before you start changing a note. The first keystroke after you open it is the last moment the old text exists anywhere, so that is when the copy is made. Merely opening a note and reading it copies nothing — otherwise one pass through the library would leave a copy of everything you had glanced at; — while you write — at most one copy every ten minutes; — the moment a note is deleted, whatever the clock says. Delete a folder and every note inside it is copied.

Getting one back: right-click any note or folder in the tree → "History…". On the left is every note that has copies kept, deleted ones included — they are marked, and they come back exactly the same way. On the right are its copies by date and the text of whichever you pick, so you can be sure you are taking the right one. "Restore this copy" writes it back into the note.

Restoring destroys nothing. What the note says right now is kept as another copy first, so a restore can itself be undone. A note that is gone altogether is written back where it used to live.

The copies are ordinary text files — no database, no format of our own. They sit in a ".furynotes-history" folder beside your notes and mirror them: "Work\ideas.md" has its copies in ".furynotes-history\Work\ideas.md\", one file per copy, named by the date and time. Explorer and Notepad open them; FuryNotes is not needed to read them. Same rule as the notes themselves being plain .md files: a lifebelt only one program can open is a poor lifebelt.

Twenty copies of each note are kept, and older ones drop off as new ones arrive. A copy identical to the previous one is never written — change nothing and nothing is put aside. A renamed or moved note takes its copies with it.

This does not replace the Recycle Bin. Deleting still sends the file itself to the Windows Recycle Bin, and that is the first place to look. The copies are for the day the Bin has been emptied.

All of it can be switched off: settings → "Keep earlier copies of the text". It is on as the program ships, because a safety net nobody switched on is not a safety net.

Search finds a note by its name, not only by its text.

Ctrl+F now matches what a note is called as well. Those matches come first, on a row of their own: the name itself is highlighted, and a line of the note is shown underneath for context. Enter opens it at the top and highlights nothing — what matched was not a word inside the note but what the note is called.

There is nothing to switch: names and text are always searched together. A note still on its date-stamped filename is called by its first line, in the tree and in the search alike, so looking for that finds it either way.

A disagreement was fixed on the way. The search used to label a result with the note's first line even when the note had been given a name — a note called "Shopping" read as "Shopping" in the tree and as its first line in the search. Both lists now call it the same thing.

Renaming, with a double click.

Double-click a note and its name opens for editing right there in the row. Enter keeps the new name, Esc leaves it as it was. F2 and right-click → "Rename" do the same thing, for a folder as well: a folder was already edited in its row while a note needed a separate little window, which made the commoner of the two the slower one.

Double-clicking a folder still opens and closes it — that gesture is taken there and stays as it was. Rename a folder with F2 or the menu.

A rename still carries the pin, favourite, colour and icon over to the new name — and now the kept copies of the text as well.

A link says how to open it.

A link opens on Ctrl+click. It always did, but there was nowhere to learn that: the address is hidden, so on screen a link is just a coloured word. The person who built a page of local links concluded they simply did not work.

Now: rest the pointer on a link and a tooltip shows where it points and reminds you about Ctrl+click. Or right-click it — "Open link" is the first thing on the menu, above Cut.

Fixed: stars inside a link.

Ctrl+B on a word inside a link wrote two pairs of stars, and they stayed there in the middle of the line — the word never came out bold. And if you started removing them by hand it was easy to catch the closing bracket, at which point the link stopped being a link and its address showed up in plain sight.

The cause was that a link swallowed its own label whole, so formatting inside it was not recognised at all. It is now: Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I and Ctrl+Shift+X work on a link's words like anywhere else, and the stars hide themselves as usual. The address is still protected — underscores and stars inside a path do not format anything.

Smaller things.

Renaming a folder no longer breaks Favourites for the notes inside it. Before, those shortcuts pointed at nothing afterwards and quietly dropped off the list.

The manual (docs\manual) has been updated: a new "Note history" section, additions to "Links", "Search" and "Renaming", and a 1.3.0 card in "What's new".

Over five versions BackDrop stopped being only a cover: it now photographs the screen as well — five ways to capture, each on its own system-wide key, and every one of them works while the program is nowhere to be seen. It lives in the tray, comes up with Windows and speaks Russian as well as English.

Five ways to photograph the screen.

Settings, Capture tab. Each way has its own key field and its own line in the tray menu:

• Alt+1 — a piece of the screen, a frame you drag by hand
• Alt+2 — the window in front
• Alt+3 — the screen under the pointer
• Alt+4 — every monitor at once, in a single picture
• Alt+5 — the area you set aside, a frame left standing on screen

The keys are yours to change, and any of them can be left empty. The key is registered with Windows itself, so it answers over any program and with BackDrop away in the tray: take the picture, save it, and the program never showed itself at all.

A piece of the screen, framed by hand.

Alt+1 freezes the screen, so a notification that pops up or a video playing below cannot spoil the shot halfway through. Drag the frame, adjust it by its corners and sides, move the whole thing, or start again by dragging outside it. Three buttons sit under the frame: copy (Enter or Ctrl+C), save (Ctrl+S), close (Esc). The screen is no longer dimmed while you frame — all that is left is the dashed border, the white handles and the size of the selection in pixels.

Marking up the picture before it leaves.

The bar under the frame carries a set of pens: freehand, line, rectangle, circle, arrow and text, with a colour swatch, undo and a wipe beside them. An arrow and a caption can go on before the picture goes anywhere: what you see drawn is exactly what reaches the clipboard or the file — the ink is clipped to the frame. A minus and a plus set the size: line width 1 to 20 with a pen or a shape, font size 8 to 72 with the text tool; hold a button down and the value walks the range. The colour and the width here are the same pen as the one on the canvas, and the choice survives a restart. A tool in hand takes the mouse; a second click on it, a right-click or Esc puts it down and hands the frame back.

Quick captures: the window, a screen, every screen.

Alt+2, Alt+3 and Alt+4 ask nothing at all. The file goes straight into the folder named on the Capture tab, under the name and format you chose, with the next number that name has not used — no frame, no dialog, and deliberately no word of confirmation: a message after every capture wears out its welcome by the tenth one. The window in front is cut to what the window actually draws, without the invisible border Windows keeps around a resizable window — the strip of desktop around every shot is gone. Every monitor comes out as one picture, laid out the way the screens sit on the desk. The tray menu grew a Capture submenu listing all five with the key each answers to, plus entries that open the pictures folder and put the path of the last picture on the clipboard.

The area you set aside (Alt+5).

An area you set up once and photograph as many times as you like. The first press puts a frame on the screen; every press after that takes what is inside it. Draw it once around the thing you keep needing a picture of — a log window, a viewport, a corner of a chat — then go back to work, and the key takes the same rectangle every time. The middle of the frame is see-through: clicks inside land in whatever you are actually working in, and only the border and the bar above the frame take the mouse. The bar shows the size of the picture to come and carries two buttons — the camera takes it, the x puts the area away, and the x asks first. The border is drawn outside the piece being photographed, so the frame is never in its own picture and the screen does not even flicker. Where the frame stood is remembered: put it away, ask for it again, and it comes back to the same place — and it comes back on its own at the next start, if that is how you left it.

The name, the number and the folder.

The name and format of saved pictures live on the Behavior tab: "screenshot" to begin with, PNG or JPG, and JPG quality is a setting now instead of a number baked into the code. A new picture takes the number after the highest, not the first free one — in a folder that had had pictures deleted out of it, the newest file used to land in the middle of a listing sorted by name, which looked exactly like a capture that had not happened. The checkbox "Say in the name what the picture is of" gives each kind of capture its own word and its own count — screenshot_front_app_1, screenshot_scr_1, screenshot_allscrn_1, screenshot_area_1, screenshot_region_1 — so the kinds stop interleaving in the folder. Off to begin with; turning it on leaves saved files alone. A name the folder already has is now a proper question: replace it, keep both, or cancel. Keeping both writes "name (2).png" beside it, Explorer style.

The save picture window.

The save button — on the toolbar and under the selection frame both — remembers the last thirty folders and shows them as a list in a window of its own. A double click on a folder, or Enter on the selected line, writes the file there under the automatic name; "Browse..." opens the ordinary file dialog for a folder that is not on the list, or a name of your own. The window opens centred on what is being saved, and it is not modal, so the frame behind it can still be adjusted without closing the question: the picture is cut when you pick the folder, not when you press the button. A folder on a drive that is not plugged in today simply drops off the list. Ctrl+S still goes straight to the file dialog.

The picture, or a link to it, on the clipboard.

A saved picture can leave one of two things on the clipboard: the picture itself, for pasting into a chat, or the path to the file it just wrote, for pasting a link where the pixels will not go. Never both — there is one clipboard, and a picture put on it would wipe the path, so the two checkboxes in Settings clear each other. It holds for every save now, however it was asked for: a quick capture on its key, a folder picked in the save window, or the file dialog.

Living in the tray.

While BackDrop is running it keeps an icon in the notification area. A left click puts the program away, or brings it back exactly as it was: the same mode, the same drawings, the same place. A right click opens the menu: show or put away, see-through mode, the captures, the pictures folder, the path of the last picture, start with Windows, Settings, About, and Quit — the one way out for good. The x on the floating palette puts BackDrop in the tray without ending it, and the window's own close button does the same; the checkbox for that is on by default, and clearing it makes the button end the program as it used to. Starting the program twice is now hard to do: a second launch wakes the copy already running and bows out.

Starting with Windows.

The Startup tab, "Launch BackDrop when I log in". No administrator rights are needed, the entry shows up in Task Manager alongside every other startup program, and clearing the checkbox removes it. On the same tab, what the program greets you with: the palette in see-through mode over a live desktop with clicks passing through (the default), waiting in the tray with nothing on the screen at all though the capture keys still work, or the ordinary window for anyone who wants the old start. That choice used to apply only to an automatic start; it applies to every start now.

Hotkeys of your own.

The field catches whatever you press, and Clear leaves a capture mode with no key at all. A combination needs at least one modifier — a bare letter would be taken away from every other program on the computer; PrtSc and Pause are the exceptions. If another program already holds the combination, BackDrop says so: a line with the reason sits under the field on the Capture tab, and the tray menu writes "key taken" beside the mode. Such a key used to say nothing — it looked like a working one in Settings and simply did not appear in the menu.

A Russian interface.

The whole program speaks Russian: windows, settings, tooltips, the tray menu — and the user manual comes in both languages. The language is picked on the Behavior tab and takes effect at the next start. It is a written translation rather than a literal one, with the program and the manual agreeing on the same words throughout.

Fullscreen leaves the taskbar alone.

The window used to fill the whole monitor, and Windows answered by taking the taskbar off the screen. BackDrop now covers the work area — everything but the taskbar: the clock, the tray and the way to your other programs stay in sight. What gets hidden is the desktop, not Windows itself. The floating palette stopped jumping along with it: the restore-window button now stands on the palette in both modes, both modes measure the palette's parking place with the same ruler, and a palette parked at the bottom stops just above the taskbar instead of lying over it. The Toolbar tab gained an "Edge gap" slider, 0 to 20 pixels.

Silence when it worked.

A save and a copy no longer announce themselves. The file is in the folder and the picture is in the clipboard; a message on top of that is one more thing to read and one more thing that can land in a recording, which is what the program is for. What is left speaks only when something failed or was refused.

Fixed.

• The save button under the selection made the screen flash and did nothing else: the list of recent folders was a drop-down menu, and the menu closed itself the same instant. It is a window now.
• Turning down the save dialog cost you the whole selection — the frame closed before the dialog opened. It now comes back with the selection intact.
• The capture key fired over an open dialog too. The frame then took neither clicks nor Escape, and the only way out was the task manager.
• Pressing the key twice made two frames on top of each other and left a still picture on the screen that answered to nothing.
• Quit in the tray menu ended the program instantly, without asking — the cover vanished, and the session's drawings with it.
• A minimized window would not come back from the tray: a click on the icon offered to put the program away rather than show it.
• Two copies launched at the same moment both carried on — two tray icons and two writers to one settings file.
• With no notification area on the desktop, the program hid into nothing: no window, no icon, no way to get it back.
• A capture picked from the tray menu could catch the menu itself: it was dismissed, but the screen underneath had not been redrawn yet.
• In see-through mode the folder-picking window made it into the saved picture.
• The Russian interface translated the author's signature in the window title; it is "(by e.ov)" everywhere now.

The About window has been rewritten — it still described the program as a cover and nothing else. The user manual is updated for 1.6, with new sections on the captures, on marking up a picture, on the area you set aside, on the file names and on the new backdrop.ini keys.

Icons for notes.

A note can be given a picture, and it stands in front of its name in the tree. Fifty-odd to choose from: an aeroplane, books, a guitar, a lightbulb, a rocket, a heart, smileys, music notes, a calculator and so on. The point is simple — in a column of similar names the eye finds a shape faster than it reads words. Right-click a note → "Icon", then the grid; one click and it is there. "No icon" in the same menu takes it off. The icon belongs to the note: rename it or move it to another folder and the icon goes along, the way a colour and a pin already do. It also travels to another computer — only the icon's name is kept beside the note, and the picture itself is inside the program at both ends.

A colour of its own for each icon.

Under the grid are ten neon colours. The one you pick paints that icon, not all of them, so you can tell things apart: work in blue, home in green, urgent in red. "Default colour" puts it back. The colour knows about the theme. What is stored is really the hue, and how light to draw it is worked out again for the background in use. That is why the same note looks right on the dark theme and on the light one — a vivid yellow-green that glows on black would otherwise simply vanish on white.

Neon and a glow, if you want them.

Two tick-boxes in the settings. "Neon note icons" paints every icon that has no colour of its own in your accent colour. "with a glow" lights a halo around them — the neon outline itself. Both are off as the program ships: this is a taste, not the way the program has to look. The glow is drawn into the empty margins around the icon, so not one name in the tree moves by a single pixel.

Back and forward, like a browser.

Two arrows on the toolbar, and Alt+← / Alt+→, walk the notes you have already opened. The side buttons on your mouse do the same. The trail follows the notes rather than the files: a note that has since been deleted is not a dead end — that step is skipped and the next one taken — and a renamed note keeps its place in the chain. An arrow with nowhere to go is drawn faded, so you can see at a glance whether there is anything behind you.

You can see which note is open.

A caret now stands in front of its row and its name is a shade brighter than the rest. Before this, coming back to the program meant working out where you had left off. A pinned note keeps its bookmark at the same time — the marks no longer push each other out.

Two gestures on a folder instead of one.

The folder's icon opens and closes it, the name only selects it, and a double click on the name opens it. Before, a click anywhere on the row toggled the folder, so it could not be chosen as the place for a new note without flapping open on the way. Two vertical stripes down a selected row went at the same time: one was ours, the other was Windows painting its own accent colour, which answered to nothing in the theme.

A new manual, one for everything.

Instead of a stack of per-version documents there is now a single page: docs/manual. English and Russian switch with a button, and it has contents down the side and a search across the text. A "What's new" section carries a card per version, so a minute is enough to see what has appeared since you last updated. And the formatting section opens with a cheat sheet: one picture showing every kind of formatting at once, where each line names the keys that made it.

Smaller fixes.

Toolbar buttons that cannot be used now look switched off — before this, a "Back" with nowhere to go was as bright as a working one.

A FLOATING TOOLBAR, TWELVE PLACES TO PARK IT, BUTTONS ON THE PANEL ITSELF, Fixes

Row colours in the note tree. Drag rows: the order is yours. Formats now stack on one word. A star is just a star. Smaller fixes.

RoadMapper 2.3.1 brings 100+ new features compared to 2.2, including Kitsu sync, formulas and client-server collaboration. The full list is here. https://eu-melnikov.github.io/files/roadmapper-2.3-release-notes.html

Pin mode bugfix

Format several lines at once.

You can now select multiple lines and make them bold, italic, strikethrough or monospace in one go. Before, this worked on a single line only.

"Keep on top" mode.

A new toolbar button — right of the one that hides the note tree — keeps the window above all others, so your note stays in view. Press it again to turn it off. The state is remembered until the next launch.

"Update" button.

A button in the top-right corner opens the versions page in your browser, so you can check for a newer version in one click.

Links now reach your own computer: turn any word into a shortcut to a local file or folder that opens on Ctrl+click (with a prompt before it runs a program). Making web links is simpler too — a typed or copied address becomes clickable in one step. And now only one copy of the program runs at a time: launching it again brings the open window back, so two copies can't overwrite your notes.

A notepad without the "where do I even save this?" question.

Optimization. Minor fix.

Unified playback platform. Hotkey editor. Easier tracking. Flexible ghosting. Vanishing "magic" ink. Offset for Maya. Correct VFR playback. Smooth multi-video.

Video tracking, Ghosting (Onion Skinning), Frame Offset, Curve Speed Fixes.

Search in Worker Dropdowns, Search in Column Filters, Alphabetical Sorting, Keyboard Support

Auto-play on File Open Videos now automatically start playing when opened from Windows Explorer or after export. Playlist Position Memory When switching between files in playlist, your playhead position and in/out points are now remembered. Playlist States Saved to Project In/out points and playhead positions for ALL playlist files are now saved with the project.

Version 2.0: task dependencies with visual links, focus mode for chains, custom statuses with any colors, tag system, flexible columns with dropdowns, cross-track task movement, task cloning, Maya-style navigation, floating filter windows, enhanced Excel export.

Fix for Paste Image from Clipboard in split/2x2 modes. Fix for QImage processing with padding. Added GIF animation support. Scrub Speed persistence for split modes

Auto-fit window to video size, Smooth video scaling, Open file location, Auto-open folder after export, Auto-play after export, Image Mirroring, Playback Speed Control, Curve Speed — Speed Curve Editor, Maya Integration — Retiming Export,