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.

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.

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.