What's new

September 9, 2026

A short walkthrough, and a way to ask your teacher to write on a page.

• New The first time you open your home screen, a class, or a notebook, a short guided tour points out what each button does. Teachers and students get different ones, because they're looking at different things. Skip it or finish it and it won't come back — and you can start all of them over from Settings if you want another look.
• New A student can open pages of their own class notebook to their teacher. Choose Let your teacher write, tick the pages, and the teacher gets a pen on those pages and no others. They still can't change what the student wrote, and unticking closes a page again.
• Improved Adding pages to a notebook is one button. Add pages now asks where they're coming from — blank paper, a file off your machine, or something in your Google Drive. Pulling a file out of Drive straight into a notebook you're already building is new; before, Drive could only start a new one.
• Improved Dragging a page to a new place in a notebook shows it there straight away instead of waiting for the save. Saving the new order is also one request now rather than one per page, so a fifty-page notebook rearranges in about the time a five-page one used to.

September 8, 2026

Notesanity moved to its own infrastructure, and got a website.

• New A public website: this changelog, a help center, pricing, and a status page that checks the service live rather than being updated by hand.
• Improved Notesanity now runs on its own infrastructure at notesanity.com, which we control end to end. Sign-in emails now come from notesanity.com instead of a platform address, and the old three-a-minute cap on sending is gone — a class of twenty-five invitations now goes out in about a minute rather than thirteen.
• Improved Signing in with Google no longer depends on anything outside Notesanity, and works the same as a sign-in link or a password.
• Fixed Signing out showed an error page instead of returning you to the front page.

August 24, 2026

Erasing, students' own notebooks, and a save bug that could lose a stroke.

• New The eraser has two modes. Quick removes a whole stroke wherever you touch it; Manual rubs out only the part you drag over, so you can fix one letter without redrawing the word.
• New Students can keep their own notebook inside a class. Their teacher can read it; nobody can write in it, and it is never assigned.
• New Students can name and group the pages of their own notebooks into sections.
• New Teachers can build a notebook from a file already in Google Drive, without downloading it first.
• New Blank notebooks now take a paper style and a page count separately, so you can have eight pages of music staves instead of a fixed thirty.
• New Schools are recognized by email domain, so more than one school can use Notesanity without seeing each other.
• Improved A grade that has already gone back to a student no longer offers to be re-saved. Reopening the work puts it back in play, and keeps the grade you already gave.
• Improved Saving ink is about fifteen times smaller. Adding a stroke to a full page used to rewrite the whole page; now it rewrites a fraction of it.
• Improved Opening an assignment for a large class is much faster — the whole roster is fetched at once rather than student by student.
• Fixed A save that was refused could retry forever, showing “Offline — retrying” when the network was fine.
• Fixed A stroke drawn while a save was in flight could be dropped and never saved.
• Fixed “Offline” now means offline. Other failures say what they actually are instead of sending you to check your Wi-Fi.

August 23, 2026

• Fixed Pages scrolled sideways on phones and on iPads held upright. Several screens were affected, including the notebook editor, where more than half the page could be off-screen.

August 17, 2026

Notebooks that don't start from a document.

• New Start a notebook from blank paper — lined, graph, dot grid, music staves, engineering, isometric or a coordinate plane — instead of uploading a document.
• New Students can keep personal notebooks outside any class, and export them to PDF.
• New A console for platform administrators covering accounts, notebooks, assignments, grades and errors.
• New Sign-in email delivery is now visible, so an administrator can see whether a link was actually sent.
• Fixed Students invited to a class were never actually emailed.

August 14, 2026

The largest release so far: what a page can ask for, and how a teacher responds to it.

• New Pages can carry prompts with answer areas, image uploads and audio recordings — a student can answer a question by talking to it.
• New Teachers can place their own rich text and pictures on a page, as part of the page rather than something to answer.
• New Sign in with an email and password, or a link sent to your address, alongside Google.
• New Teachers can insert blank pages into an existing notebook, choosing the ruling and the rule color.
• New The highlighter snaps level when it recognizes you are highlighting along a line of text.
• New The select tool moves your own ink, text and stamps after you have drawn them.
• New Named sections, and a history you can hover any mark to see.
• New Handed-in work is locked, so it cannot be changed after a teacher has seen it.
• Improved A brand of its own — typography, color and layout applied across the app and its emails, which had been plain enough to look like spam.
• Improved Working on an iPad gives the page far more room; the toolbars used to take half the screen.
• Improved Progress is reported as whether a student has started and when they last worked, rather than a fraction that counted the wrong things.
• Improved Field settings have an explicit Save and Cancel instead of saving as you type.
• Fixed Signing up with a password always failed — the password hashing exceeded a platform limit that only appeared once deployed.
• Fixed Students could not add text boxes; the stamp, text and comment tools were being swallowed by the page.
• Fixed Audio recordings were rejected by the server, and the audio field covered the page content underneath it.
• Fixed Tapping a text box, an image or an audio field with a pen selected drew a dot on it instead of opening it.