• Everything is entry:
• Numbered and free chapters, tags, and tag categories are removed and
their functionality merged into entries. Chapters are also a special
kind of entry now.
• This on one hand simplified the workflow but on the other hand also
opened the door for new possibilities such as adding content to
everything and creating links between them.
• Numbered and free entries can now be organized in a hierarchical way
in the list, up to 3 levels.
• The text editor:
• The entry text editor is ever-preset now. In the 1.X era, the central
panel used to be used for displaying/editing many things in addition
to entries. In 2.X paradigm, such functionality is done in the extra
panel.
• Remember last scroll positions in entries during a session.
• The internals of dealing with embedded images overhauled resulting
in a better user experience.
• Added an option to copy embedded images to a relative path to the
diary file. This will help keeping all the data related to a diary
in one folder.
• Word count is now updated periodically (on a separate thread) while
editing.
• Toolbar:
• The functionality of the fixed toolbar and the right click menu
unified in a popover that can be accessed by right clicking.
• This is part of the efforts for achieving a more :distraction-free:
writing environment where tools are hidden unless they are needed.
• Entry list:
• Now that everything is entry, entry list only lists entries, indeed.
There is no item for the diary itself (the diary properties can be
edited from the dedicated diary button in the headerbar.)
• A right click menu added for easy access to some properties.
• Changing properties of multiple entries can only be dome from the
right-click menu.
• Sorting direction for ordinal and temporal entries can now be set
separately.
• Entries can now be sorted by name as well.
• Much improved the drag and drop system which now offers to drop
before, after, and into an entry.
• Tags are dead long live tags!
• While the special entity called tag is no more, entries can now be
used instead for achieving the same goal plus more.
• So entries can be tagged with entries but so can paragraphs.
• Entries can be filtered per being tagged with an entry.
• Graphs can be plotted per having a reference to a tag (entry) or per
value they assign to a tag (entry).
• The tag bar and the tag panel was removed. :distraction-free:
• There is an :IDE-like: auto completion popover for reliving the user
from having to type entire entry names.
• Inline tags also behave like links to other entries. This also
provides another means for linking entries in addition to by date &
by id.
• Added a new syntax to specify planned value for a tag in the form of
:TAG:=REALIZED/PLANNED
• More paragraph oriented work-flow
• This version gives more sovereignty to paragraphs elevating them to
distinctly recognized elements in the database.
• Paragraphs can now be justified to center and right.
• Extra panel
• A new panel added to the bottom of the window for various
functionality, such as searching, filtering, charts, etc...
• The new calendar widget
• Replaced the standard Gtk+ calendar with a custom made calendar
widget that better integrates with the rest of the program and offers
additional features.
• Chapter background colors are now displayed in the calendar.
• Added a right click menu for creating entries and chapters on
selected dates.
• Days can now be dragged & dropped into entry text.
• In the future more features will be added to the calendar.
• Now it is also possible to select dates (instead of typing them)
using the calendar popover activated from the calendar icon in date
picker widgets.
• Map & location support
• A new map widget (using libchamplain) was added to the UI.
• Entries can now be assigned a location and a path.
• This will make writing writing about places and planning journeys
easier and more fun.
• This can also be used to create charts of distances traveled per day.
• Added support for geo tags.
• Chart improvements:
• Added a flexible mechanism to create charts for any quantifiable
aspect of entries.
• Charts can be tailored to respect paragraph level tag relationships.
• All aspects of the charts can be edited through a single popover.
• Any number of charts can be created within a diary and than embedded
into entries by name.
• Visual appeal of the charts improved greatly.
• Added weekly mode (besides the existing monthly and yearly).
• Split cumulative mode into continuous and periodic sub types.
• Added option to underlay the planned values under realized values.
• Charts can now be dragged from the picker widget icon and dropped
into entries.
• More streamlined text search:
• Text search is now a completely separate action from filtering.
• Text search now lists the paragraphs rather than updating the entry
list or disturbing the other parts of the UI in any way.
• Filtering improvements:
• Filters have their dedicated pane in the extra panel.
• A new, much more flexible filtering system that supports 2 levels of
AND/OR filterers.
• The long requested feature delivered: Multiple tags can be filtered.
• Different filter configurations can be created, named and added to
the diary to be used later.
• Theme improvements:
• Themes are now separate entities of their own (They used to be parts
of tags).
• Introduced several stock themes in addition the the standard
Lifeograph theme. New diaries will be created with them.
• Entries can be filtered by themes.
• Background images can now be set for themes. A handful of images
bundled to the package for a more sensational writing experience.
• Greatly improved preview system and editor for themes.
• Printing improvements:
• Added an option to use the theme colors in printouts (including the
background color).
• To-do items are printed much more nicely now.
• Added an option to start entries in new pages.
• Justify text option removed in favor of respecting the per paragraph
justification settings.
• Better support for keyboard only workflow:
• Added new shortcuts to enable doing most of the tasks while typing
without resorting to mouse.
• New "IDE-like" functionality to open new line below the current line.
• Bug fixes
• Adding tons of new features (possibly creating new bugs) did not stop
us from fixing some longstanding bugs in text parsing, spellchecking,
image handling, text alignment, and many others.
• Miscellaneous improvements:
• A separate undo history is kept now for each entry and changing the
current entry no longer clears the undo stack.
• Added new keyboard shortcuts for various operations.
• Clicking the column headers in diary file list in login view no
longer changes the sorting. It can only be adjusted from the
hamburger menu now. The rationale is that the column headers were
rather prone to accidental clicks.
• Clicking the back button right after logging in will log you out.
• The main icon updated to conform to the contemporary trends in
graphics design.
• Improvement the listing of differences in the synchronization dialog.
• Many under-the-hood improvements such as
• A clearer db file structure.
• Removal of big chunks of deprecated code and optimizations in
many algorithms.
• General infrastructural improvements in the code to have a better
base for future development
