Week 15
💡 Spotlight

A new onboarding milestones checklist on your Dashboard guides you through Scribenote's core features step-by-step. Once you've completed all your milestones, Discover More unlocks - helping you go beyond the basics and find the features that save you the most time at every appointment. This release also fixes extra blank lines that were appearing in PDF exports.

✨ New Features
  • Onboarding Milestones and Discover More: New users now see a list of onboarding milestones on their Dashboard that walks through Scribenote's core features - recording an appointment, creating a note template, using Companion, reviewing a note, and exporting to your PIMS. Once all milestones are complete, a celebration banner appears with a "Discover More" button that takes you to Account Settings > Onboarding, where you can explore features and tips beyond the basics, to get more out of Scribenote’s features.
🐛 Bug Fixes
  • PDF Export - Extra Line Spacing: Fixed an issue where PDF exports of SOAP and Freeform notes had extra blank lines inserted between each paragraph line, making notes appear double-spaced. If your exported PDFs had unexpected gaps between lines, this is now resolved - your PDF will match exactly what you typed in the note.
Week 14
💡 Spotlight

Exporting notes to your practice management software just got easier! Set your PIMS provider once in Account Settings or right from the Export Note section, and we'll automatically highlight the best export option for your software in green. No more guessing which format to choose.

✨ New Features
  • Easier PIMS exporting: You can now select your practice management software from the new PIMS Provider dropdown (in Account Settings or the Export Note section), and we'll automatically recommended the export options that work with your software highlighted in green.
🐛 Bug Fixes
  • Freeform Note PDF Export: PDF exports now use the full page width for freeform notes with bullet points and numbered lists — no more text squished into a narrow column.
Week 13
💡 Spotlight

Companion themes are now available in Account Settings, bringing personalized colour schemes inspired by Quill, Summi, and Sage to your entire app experience. The Template Wizard has been enhanced with a new 'Build With Quill' option that lets you describe templates and have Companion create and optimize them for you.

✨ New Features
  • Template Optimization: In the template builder, the More dropdown now includes an 'Optimize My Template' option that opens Scribenote companion and asks it to improve your template's structure, sections, and formatting.
  • Companion Themes: In Account Settings, the theme selector now includes three fun companion-inspired colour themes - Quill's Theme (warm amber), Summi's Theme (soft purple), and Sage's Theme (cool green) - that restyle the entire app with each companion's personality.
  • Enhanced Template Wizard: In the note template wizard, a new 'Build With Quill' option lets you describe the template you need and have Companion build it for you, with example prompts to get started. The previous 'Select a Preset' and 'Start from Scratch' options have been combined into a single 'Build Your Own' option where you can choose a preset or skip to build from scratch, and the note format choice (SOAP or Freeform) now appears directly on the template editing step.
  • Mobile Education Screen: On mobile devices before signup, you now see an education screen explaining the app - helping you understand features before creating an account.
  • PDF Markdown Support: In downloaded note PDFs - basic markdown formatting like bold and italics now appears properly - improving readability of exported records.
  • What’s new Menu: The in-app context menu now allows you to view product updates.
🐛 Bug Fixes
  • Audio File Upload Support: The Upload Audio File button on the recording page now accepts .3gp and .mov files, which are common audio formats from mobile devices and voice recorders.
About Scribenote Weekly Updates

Scribenauts work really hard to bring you delightful, easy to use software that helps you slay your day as a busy veterinary professional. This is a continuous process that involves everything from building industry changing new innovations to fixing minor bugs. We’ve been doing this since the first line of code for Scribenote was written on December 27, 2019. We’ve historically been pretty bad at sharing the details of all this work, but one of our our resolutions for 2026 is to share our progress with the veterinary community every week. We hope that by seeing the craft that goes into making Scribenote you might feel a little closer to the people who are trying to make something special for you.