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.

Today I’m releasing the latest version of Keepmark - 1.38.0. 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.

In the upcoming release I have focused a little more on the editor. I’ve experimented a bit and one of the new features will be the spell checker. This is one of those features that not only I missed. There is a hunspell mechanism that runs underneath, which is used among others in the LibreOffice product. Before activating the function, the user will have to download the relevant dictionaries he is interested in, and then while working in the editor he will be able to decide in which language the spell checking should take place.

Since today, the new Keepmark 1.37.0 is available for download. 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. I’ve already mentioned both in earlier posts. Quick note creation will allow you to note down your thoughts at any time - without thinking about how to name the note, or where to put it. Creating your own entries in ActivityFeed, on the other hand, will give you a better overview of the recent work you’ve been doing within your workspace - ideal if you need to report in daily meetings what you’ve been working on lately.

Another new feature (actually an extension of one of the previous ones) that will appear in the upcoming release is the ability to add custom events to the workspace’s activity feed. This will help the user to report various events that may happen during the day. The need here came out of my daily work, where various situations happen during the day that I would like to report in the daily meetings of the next day, and there is no need to specially create a document for this, which I would later have to delete.