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Keepmark Changelog

What's new in Keepmark 1.43.0

Mar 26, 2023
  • The release includes improvements related to opening Tasks in a new window - among other things, you can now mark a task as completed from this window.
  • I have improved the mechanism of re-indexing documents at the start of the application to shorten the process even further.
  • Improvements in the preview of audio/video files especially for Windows - files are now correctly released after the preview, so there shouldn’t be any problems with e.g. deleting or renaming them.
  • I’ve introduced more asynchronous actions - so the app interface should run a bit smoother.
  • I’ve fixed downloading images (for Feeds and Bookmarks) if its address started with // (without the indicated http/https protocol).

New in Keepmark 1.42.0 (Feb 14, 2023)

  • The main new feature is the introduction of a “context” for working on a document, where the document we are working on remains in our view, and independently of it we can browse the other documents in the repository - as you can see in the attached screenshot.

New in Keepmark 1.41.0 (Dec 29, 2022)

  • I did it! As of today, the new Keepmark 1.41.0 is available for download. There’s not much new this time - it’s a more technical release. The biggest visible change is the new view for tags. From now on, access to tags is in the folder list view, or filters (instead of a separate view), which makes it even more convenient to filter the documents of interest. In addition, these tags can be organized into groups to more easily reach the ones expected, and when working with them, you can select many of them at once. I’ve also worked on increasing the smoothness of the application.
  • New tags panel:
  • When it comes to me, one of the less frequently used functionalities is just the document review based on tags. Which is strange, because they add quite a bit of value when searching for documents. I decided to change this a bit and look into why this is the case. I came to the conclusion that the problem here is that they are not very convenient to use in Keepmark, and I set about redesigning this panel. I removed the dedicated view for them and moved them to the filters view (which should also be redesigned) and folders. From now on, tags can be used to further narrow down the filter or folder of our choice. That’s not all though - take a look at the screen below.

New in Keepmark 1.40.0 (Nov 13, 2022)

  • Another month of work and another version of Keepmark ready for download. Within this release you can find 3 new features - cookie management, icon assignment to selected folders (along with minor changes to the folder view), and the ability to add notes to documents. I’ve already mentioned the first 2 in earlier posts, while the 3rd feature seems the most attractive to me. It allows you to add and display notes on the side of a document, making it much easier to work with a particular document, both when creating it and when extracting important information from it.
  • Until now, in order to add notes to a document, you had to create an additional document in which these notes would be saved. This resulted in having to switch between tabs, or opening the same document in 2 separate windows. Now you can see all the notes in the side panel, editing them, or deleting them at any time.
  • As part of this release, I also added spell check support to all places where the user enters some additional content (tasks description, notes, quick document creation, event logging, etc.). Unfortunately, I haven’t yet found a place for the user to decide on the language, so the choice of default language for spell checking can be found in the application settings.

New in Keepmark 1.39.0 (Oct 2, 2022)

  • It’s time for another release - Keepmark 1.39.0. In this release, there is a mechanism for discovering news from web pages (as I mentioned earlier) based on RSS/Atom feeds and headlines on the page - you no longer need to search what is the address for a given page for feeds, Keepmark will do it for you. Another change is the ability to export documents from a given folder in the repository. I also spent a lot of time on improvements to the markdown/textpack editor.
  • Export documents:
  • One of the characteristics of Keepmark (an advantage or disadvantage - depending on the context and the problem you want to solve with Keepmark) is that it stores information/meta-data about documents in sidecar files. This makes it easier, moving the documents along with the meta-data, but also makes it a bit “messy” if we want to view these files outside of Keepmark. In the upcoming version, I wanted to mitigate this problem a bit by providing the ability to export files located in a selected folder.
  • The new release will bring more convenient way to add Feed/RSS channels. Until now, to add a news feed you had to enter its name, and find the URL of such a feed. In the new approach, you only need to know the address of the site from which you want to download news. By pasting this address in the window for adding a new feed, Keepmark itself will try to recognize all the information. However, if the site does not have its own RSS/Atom feed, Keepmark can try fetching news from the page based on the headlines. The new component also shows a preview of the selected source so that you can verify what news is published for each available source.

New in Keepmark 1.38.0 (Aug 20, 2022)

  • The most expected new feature here is the introduction of spell check for notes. This way, you don’t have to open the typed text in an external application to verify if there are any typos in the text. To start using this functionality, you first need to import dictionaries in the concerned languages (the app will also help with this). In addition, there are more smaller improvements and fixes. One of them is, for example, the presentation on the list of tasks the information about the project to which the selected task has been assigned.

New in Keepmark 1.37.0 (Jul 13, 2022)

  • In addition to a bunch of smaller fixes and improvements, this version comes with 2 new features - quick note creation, and the ability to add custom entries to ActivityFeed.

New in Keepmark 1.36.0 (Jun 12, 2022)

  • It’s probably a good moment to share the results of my work - from today Keepmark 1.36.0 is available. In this release I decided to resign from my own window frame in favor of the native frame provided by the system. This gives the system more control over the application - the user can, for example, use window snapping to the edge of the screen. This is the most noticeable change, but not the only one.
  • Another feature I mentioned in a previous post - the ability to add links as relationships to documents or tasks - when you add a link, a new document will be created for it in the repository.
  • Additionally, in the release I worked on:
  • introduction of suggesting tags for tasks (based on similar tasks and current content);
  • I’ve removed conversion of documents to PDF format to external tools - the functionality didn’t work uniformly on different systems, so I leave it up to the user to install and configure the converter - without it the conversion option will be invisible;
  • in the meta-data panel of the document there are clickable links for the URLs, and folder, so you can open the location in the default system application;
  • faster loading of preview documents on the list - with large documents the application was very slow;
  • zoom for HTML files preview, and visual fixes in document preview toolbars;
  • fixed problems with character encoding when creating a bookmark from URL;
  • and some other minor fixes - like fixing deleting multimedia files on windows when they are viewed.

New in Keepmark 1.34.0 (Mar 16, 2022)

  • This time there are not so many changes as in the previous release. The main new feature is the added ActivityFeed, which allows you to track the latest changes within a given repository - especially useful if the repository will not be used for some time and you want to get an overview of the latest changes that have occurred in it, or you just want to know what you were working on yesterday.
  • Activity Feed:
  • It’s been quiet here for a while, so I guess it’s time to share what I’m currently working on. Since the previous version was released, I have been focusing on 1 new feature - “Activity Feed”. Its purpose is to show the log with the latest changes and events that took place within the repository. The functionality should be very helpful if we need to track what recently happened in the repository - e.g. what files and tasks we worked on recently, or what new documents appeared recently in the repository.

New in Keepmark 1.33.0 (Jan 29, 2022)

  • The biggest feature was mentioned in previous posts - Dashboard module, which can present the status of the selected workspace. Apart from that, a lot of smaller features appeared, such as simple configurable workflow for the documents module.

New in Keepmark 1.32.0 (Dec 29, 2021)

  • It’s time to release a bunch of fixes and improvements I’ve collected in the new Keepmark 1.32.0. Among the changes there are 2 new features - the ability to merge documents, and the ability to open documents using configured external tools. The last one can be quite a powerful and interesting tool to extend Keepmark’s functionality on your own (e.g. by attaching your own external scripts and applications there).

New in Keepmark 1.31.0 (Nov 20, 2021)

  • I’ve mainly focused on improvements in the synchronization mechanism - including a preview of files with conflicts. I have also made changes to the application launch mechanism (a new launcher was created), and started working on keyboard shortcuts, but I do not consider this topic as finished.
  • I spent a lot of time on the new launcher for the application, which is related to the introduced keyboard shortcuts - I would like to provide a global hot key in future releases, which will allow easy start of documents searching, without switching to the main Keepmark window. In general, I would like to lead to a situation where it would be possible to fully use Keepmark without using the mouse and this release is already some kind of introduction to this plan.

New in Keepmark 1.11.0 (Sep 20, 2019)

  • Tree view of folders
  • Open preview in new window