# Gravity 1.4.0 for Mac: Search that understands what you mean

Canonical: https://www.gravitynotes.app/changelog/macos/1.4.0-24

7 November 2026

- Search understands meaning: "sofa" finds your note about the couch, and "lawyer house purchase" finds the one about the solicitor.
- Search ignores accents and special letters in every language, so "kobenhavn" finds København and "елку" finds ёлку.
- Phone numbers, postcodes and codes match however you type them: 07700900123 finds 07700 900123.
- Dates, times and numbers match in any format: "14 march" finds 14/03, and "1240" finds £1,240.
- Typos, plurals and shorthand like appt or Thurs still find your note.
- Short words inside Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai text are found, and searching for an emoji finds the notes that have it.
- When many notes match, your newest and rescued notes come first.
- Copying something like "password: bluebell42" into search finds the note it came from.
- Short tags like `w:` find their notes again, and `cafe:` finds notes tagged Café:.
- Search finds a note in your list however many notes with the same words or meaning are in Deleted Notes or Archive.
- The menu bar feather drifts while your notes sync. When you need to sign in or fix a sync problem, it shows a red dot and the menu starts with what to do. Otherwise Gravity Sync sits beside Settings.
- Updating Gravity keeps you signed in to Gravity Sync.
- Gravity now sends usage and crash reports, without your notes or the names of your files, so problems get found and fixed sooner. The privacy policy lists what they contain.
- Esc never throws away what you typed. A new note's draft is kept, and an edited note is saved, with Undo.
- ⌘Return saves in every editor. Double Return to save is now an Editor setting that covers every editor, and it's off unless you had turned it on.
- Spell check, autocorrect and text replacement work in the editors. Smart quotes and dashes stay off, so Markdown stays intact.
- New shortcuts: Shift-⌘H for a heading and Shift-⌘7 for a list. Tab and Shift-Tab indent list items.
- New list items, checklist items, headings and quotes start with a capital letter. Delete the capital and type a lowercase letter, and Gravity leaves it.
- Backspace on an empty list item removes the whole marker, and numbered lists renumber themselves.
- Deleted Notes has one name everywhere, including Empty Deleted Notes in the menu bar.
- Deleting a note permanently no longer asks first; Undo is right there. ⌘Z undoes list actions too, including Rescue to top.
- Text sizes match the phone, with a new Small size.
- Search can sort by Best match or Newest.
- Note details, empty lists and error messages use the same wording as the phone.
- Deleted Notes can clear itself: keep deleted notes forever, or for 7, 30 or 90 days, and each note shows how many days it has left, as on the phone.
- Deleted Notes keeps notes for the same time on every device: change it on one and the others follow. A change made while sync is off is the one that syncs when you turn it back on.
- Fixed a crash when using Undo after leaving a note editor.