MIndForger 2.2.0: Rewrap, Snap, WebEngine, KaTeX and Mermaid
Written for MindForger by Martin Dvorak on 2026-09-14
MindForger is getting back in shape! This minor release brings significant stabilization and performance improvements, which MindForger has desperately needed for some time. I fixed long standing bugs and accelerated Markdown to HTML rendering. I switched MindForger from the legacy, slow, and fragile HTML rendering engine (QtWebKit fork abandoned in 2018 which I kept for Linux distro backward compatibility) to the latest and greatest one (QtWebEngine) which has been used by Windows and macOS for years. I also fixed and sped up math, source code, and diagrams rendering by switching to SOTA libraries, upgrading to the latest versions and fixing what was broken.
Editation
Rewrap Paragraph fills the paragraph/rewraps the paragraph under the cursor to 80 columns.
Easily add emojis by clicking associated button when adding new Notebook/Note or editing Notebook/Note name or description.
Markdown to HTML rendering
Qt WebEngine, which is ~8x faster than Qt WebKit, is newly default HTML rendering backend on Linux as it already was on Windows and macOS.
Math support now offers KaTeX (fast, offline @ QT resources included MF binary) and MathJax (legacy, upgraded, offline) instead of online CDN dependency.
Offline Mermaid diagram rendering works again - mermaid.js was not registered as a Qt resource, so it always silently failed. Online option removed.
Autolinking
Colors of autolinking generated Note/Outline interlinks are in blue.
Bare http(s):// URLs containing Markdown-special characters (e.g. '_') got backslash-escaped by the autolinking preprocessor's Markdown round-trip which corrupted the result - fixed by verbatim using CommonMark's <...>.
Snap
Menu/toolbar icons are no longer missing in the strict Snap.