Returning to more regular releases, after a month of work on the new version I wanted to announce the release of the next version of Keepmark. As with the previous version, here too I mainly focused on improvements around the new editor. The new editor now also supports textpack files, and appeared in the views for creating a quick note, tasks, or creating notes for individual documents. Another improvement is additional menu in the editor triggered by ctrl+space, which allows you to work with the editor without taking your hands off the keyboard.

It’s been almost a year since the last version of Keepmark was released. A few months ago I reported that I was still continuing the work. I set myself a tough task and it took me a little more than I planned. However, it seems to me that the new functionality is ready enough to show it to the world in a working application. We are talking about the new text editor, which I wrote entirely from scratch. The default editor, for now remains the one that was there until now. With future releases, the new editor will become the default, and the old one will remain as a backup option until it is eventually dropped.

The last major release was over a year ago, I think it’s right time (although it was probably a few months ago already) to share what’s going on in the project. So, in a nutshell - despite the long break in releases, work on Keepmark was still going on. Initially, the plan was a bit different. I started by trying to rewrite the GUI of the application from JavaFx to the old swing. Why? After all, it seems more mature and stable than JavaFx, other giants developing decent products use it, additionally, I was discouraged by the fact that newer versions of JavaFx ran out of support for older Macs. So I spent 2-3 months of my work on it, and eventually decided to give up on the idea - too much work had been put into what I had created so far to do it from scratch - I would probably burn myself out completely and abandon the project. So, I decided to stay with the technology I started with here and took on another great feature that will hopefully make Keepmark even better. And here we come to what I want to show off.

A little faster this time than last, but with a little less new features - Keepmark 1.43.0 is available since today. In this release I’ve introduced a new minimalist document list view, and to make it easier to configure the view - a new menu for its administration. I’ve simplified the management of deleted documents a little by introducing the ability to view them by deletion session, along with the ability to restore documents that have been deleted in a given session. There have also been some minor improvements.

Working further on minor improvements, there is a new view for the document list - the simplified list. It shows the least amount of document detail in the list, but thus allows many more items to be displayed on one screen. It shows a file type icon next to each item and, if there are more than one, there is also a small ‘badge’ with their number. I have also redesigned the menu for managing the list view. To keep it “compact”, I used icons instead of text (the text will only appear in the tooltip when you hover over an icon). The whole feature is shown in the screen below.