Tiro notes 0.30.99

I have been quite busy working on Tiro and deploying it to the command line (npx tiro-notes@develop), so I left aside the binary releases. Here is an update. The goal is to increase the frequency of binary releases to one every 1-2 months.

The changelog is extensive as a lot has been going on in terms of functionalities and bug fixes. Over 100 new functionalities have been added. Special emphasis has been placed on performance improvements and stability.

I am still struggling to document everything that is being released, so it will be done gradually on the Tiro Notes website and on the blog.

New functionalities

Omnibar

• enable it : ctrl + space

• search mode

• explorer mode

• omnibar plugin mode

• last notes mode

• omnibar note preview + editor working

Design

• being able to change color theme of the app

Editor

• switched from monaco to codemirror editor

• fold all code functionality button added
  

• custom tags rendering inside the editor view

• hover a note link to show its preview popup

  • that preview can be directly edited

• images and links directly rendering to the edition part of the markdown editor

• latex support added (should add --latex on a note to enable it, then wrap the latex expressions around $my_latex_expression$

Editor Live edition

• when you edit a note, it will automatically auto update all windows with that note on all tiro clients connected.
• allows collaborative live edition (although tiro is not design as a collaborative solution).

Autocomplete snippet system

• typing "--" enable an editor autocomplete snippet system
• add "./.tiro/snippets.md" to add autocompletions
  • supports javascript expressions like "time | ${new Date().toLocaleTimeString()}"

Mobile version

• almost all desktop functionalities work now on mobile
  
  

Ai Assistant

• AI assistant functionality added
  • more details on blog post https://tiro-notes.org/blog/devlog/2023/06/agnostic-ai-assistant-into-tiro-notes.html/

Note export

• added the possibility to export to pdf, ppt, and docx using pandoc (to be installed on the system)
• still keeping the possibility to save in pdf/html the current note using the browser print api

History mode

• switching the note history mode to a relative folder ./.history/mynotename/ for performance improvement

• housekeeping note history performance improvement

• local history note: even if offline (disconnected from tiro backend server), it will still create local note history.

Activity mode

• opt-out by default (can be enabled in the settings)
• adding a new activity mode that logs user activity
• can generate a report from the javascript console (ctrl+i) using api.activity.getReport()

Performance mode

• if you use tiro notes using cli (npx tiro-notes), if you use the option -v 3, you enable performance tracking mode
• can generate a report from the javascript console (ctrl+i) using api.performance.getReport()

Notifications system

• new notification system developped
• new api.ui.notification.emit

Command Execution system

• api.command.exec to execute any command from tiro interface
• api.command.stream to execute and stream the answer (for chatgpt api for instance)

Sound api

• api.audio.play added
• api.audio.stop added

Background tasks plugin

• allows to run plugin code in the background, useful for reminder plugins like the calendar or the new timer system

Lightbox system

• now clicking on an image opens a new lightbox system
• lightbox have a zoom system
• api.ui.lightbox.open added

Preview url system

• adding a preview url button
• adding a fetch the url content system (will fetch an url article content and displays it)
• adding a text-to-speech url system (will fetch the url content then opens the text to speech system

Text to speech system

• improving the text to speech system
• making it available across tiro and plugins using api.ui.textToSpeechPopup.open
  

Plugins system

• extending the custom tag logic to a more global plugin system

• should be loaded inside .tiro/plugins

• you can now create plugins for the omnibar, the editor (custom tag) or for background tasks

• will eventually replace the custom tags system

• working on a plugin market store where one will be able to download and activate plugins from an interface

• api added

  • api.plugins.list
  • api.plugins.get
  • api.plugins.cronCache

Custom tags

• adding the possibility to open the custom tag in a popup, in fullscreen or in a floating side position

New custom tags

new epub custom tag

• allows you to read your epubs inside tiro
• combined with the text to speech functionality, allows you to listen to your books from tiro
  • if using edge browser (for the case of tiro cli), you can access to high quality AI text to speech voices from microsoft

Commander custom tag

• allows to execute directly commands from tiro interface

Rss custom tag renamed to feed

• allows youtube feeds to be added to create your own youtube homepage
• bookmarking system
• adding categories

Graph custom tag

• allows to see your notes content as a graph

• creates connections from hashtags, so:

  • #parent_node #child_note_1
  • #parent_node #child_note_2
  • would create a 3 points graph with parent node at the center

• Allows to preview the note content from the graph by clicking on the node

Calendar plugin

• adding a calendar plugin with monthly view, notification reminder system and omnibar plugin

Timer plugin

• adding a omnibar countdown timer plugin
  • that display a countdown on the interface of the current task
  • that keep tracks of all the hours spent for each task
  • (later : will display a timeline graph with all the hours spent on each task)

Weather plugin

• simple omnibar weather plugin that gives a 7 days conditions weather

Spreadsheet plugin

• creates a markdown table where we can execute excel formulas in it

Performance and stability

• huge bugfix and performance improvement
  • switching from monaco to codemirror
  • Switching to react 18 to improve performance

Mobile version

• editor is the same than on the desktop version thanks to codemirror mobile system

Api

• big emphasis to as much functionalities as possible inside the tiro api to be accessible anywhere (including plugins).

• full api testable on the console of the app/browser (ctrl+i > console > type api.)

• api.cache.get/set added for easy backend storage solution

• api.search.word

• api.search.files

• api.search.hashtags

• api.ui.browser.goTo : make the interface jump to a specific file and folder

• api.ui.notePreviewPopup.open : create a note preview popup

• api.encryption.encryptText/decryptText

• api.lastNotesApi.getAll()

• api.ressource.download : download an url somewhere

• api.ressource.fetch : download an url and return it as text

• api.ressource.fetchUrlArticle : fetch an url content and returns its simplified article version (using mozilla readability.js)

Dev Api

• tiroDevCli.cache.clean_cache()
• tiroDevCli.cron.trigger()

0.30.3 Release

Changelog

Interface

• Updated design & Interface
• Multi-window interface
• Persistent Tabs interface
• Customizable interface colors (right now only the main color is customizable)

Persistent user settings

• User settings and preferences are now saved in the backend to be sync on all devices
• Last Notes is now synced across all devices
• settings: new settings panel
• settings: sub section "connected devices" with qrcode generation for easy connection

Code

• Client : Major refactoring with creation of a Client API system

Custom Tags

• Custom Tags : new simplified system to load custom tags using api.utils.loadCustomTags
• Custom Tags : more secured, isolated environment using <iframe>
• Custom Tags : custom tags now have access to the whole new client API
• Custom Tags : new [[spreadsheet]] custom tag
• Custom Tags : new [[rss]] custom tag
• Custom Tags : [[latex]] is now a custom tag
• Custom Tags : updated [[mermaid]] custom tag
• Custom Tags : new [[view]] custom tag
• Custom Tags : discontinued old [[calendar]] custom tag, new one is coming soon

Documentation

• Documentation : tiro-notes.org website with extended documentation
• Documentation : auto-generation of Client Api https://tiro-notes.org/#/client-api using typedoc and a custom docs/generator system

Notes:

• Custom tags added
• Fixing issue of background process not being killed after closing
• Bugfixing

For MacOs users, meanwhile I am working on the signing process, you can open the application by going to System preference > Security & Privacy > "Tiro Notes was blocked..." > Open Anyway

Notes:

• Working apps for Windows, Mac and Linux
• Command line npx tiro-notes system
• Improvements in configuration, logging
• [[latex]] and [[script]] tags added
• Uploaded files have now nice preview
• Adding Hide sidebar functionality
• Bugfix

Initial release of Tiro. Requires to be executed with NodeJS via CLI.

INSTALLATION

• you need nodejs installed (v14 minimum)
• you need ripgrep installed (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)

$ curl -O -L https://github.com/dotgreg/tiro/releases/download/pre-production/tiro-0.24-node.zip
$ unzip tiro-0.24-node.zip
$ cd tiro
$ npm start

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