
LIFEOGRAPH RELEASE HISTORY
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(For a complete history, refer to example.diary in the package.)


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2.0.0 - 2020-12-06

    • Everything is entry:
        • Numbered and free chapters, tags, and tag categories are removed and
          their functionality merged into entries. Chapters are also a special 
          kind of entry now. 
        • This on one hand simplified the workflow but on the other hand also
          opened the door for new possibilities such as adding content to 
          everything and creating links between them.
        • Numbered and free entries can now be organized in a hierarchical way
          in the list, up to 3 levels.
    • The text editor:
        • The entry text editor is ever-preset now. In the 1.X era, the central
          panel used to be used for displaying/editing many things in addition
          to entries. In 2.X paradigm, such functionality is done in the extra
          panel.
        • Remember last scroll positions in entries during a session.
        • The internals of dealing with embedded images overhauled resulting
          in a better user experience.
        • Added an option to copy embedded images to a relative path to the
          diary file. This will help keeping all the data related to a diary
          in one folder.
        • Word count is now updated periodically (on a separate thread) while
          editing.
    • Toolbar:
        • The functionality of the fixed toolbar and the right click menu
          unified in a popover that can be accessed by right clicking.
        • This is part of the efforts for achieving a more :distraction-free:
          writing environment where tools are hidden unless they are needed.
    • Entry list:
        • Now that everything is entry, entry list only lists entries, indeed.
          There is no item for the diary itself (the diary properties can be
          edited from the dedicated diary button in the headerbar.)
        • A right click menu added for easy access to some properties.
        • Changing properties of multiple entries can only be dome from the
          right-click menu.
        • Sorting direction for ordinal and temporal entries can now be set
          separately.
        • Entries can now be sorted by name as well.
        • Much improved the drag and drop system which now offers to drop
          before, after, and into an entry.
    • Tags are dead long live tags!
        • While the special entity called tag is no more, entries can now be
          used instead for achieving the same goal plus more.
        • So entries can be tagged with entries but so can paragraphs.
        • Entries can be filtered per being tagged with an entry.
        • Graphs can be plotted per having a reference to a tag (entry) or per
          value they assign to a tag (entry).
        • The tag bar and the tag panel was removed. :distraction-free:
        • There is an :IDE-like: auto completion popover for reliving the user
          from having to type entire entry names.
        • Inline tags also behave like links to other entries. This also
          provides another means for linking entries in addition to by date &
          by id.
        • Added a new syntax to specify planned value for a tag in the form of
          :TAG:=REALIZED/PLANNED
    • More paragraph oriented work-flow:
        • This version gives more sovereignty to paragraphs elevating them to
          distinctly recognized elements in the database.
        • Paragraphs can now be justified to center and right.
    • Extra panel:
        • A new panel added to the bottom of the window for various
          functionality, such as searching, filtering, charts, etc... 
    • The new calendar widget:
        • Replaced the standard Gtk+ calendar with a custom made calendar
          widget that better integrates with the rest of the program and offers
          additional features.
        • Chapter background colors are now displayed in the calendar.
        • Added a right click menu for creating entries and chapters on
          selected dates.
        • Days can now be dragged & dropped into entry text.
        • In the future more features will be added to the calendar.
        • Now it is also possible to select dates (instead of typing them)
          using the calendar popover activated from the calendar icon in date
          picker widgets.
    • The new table view:
        • A new extra panel for displaying tabular data conveniently.
        • Tables are created through a very simple interface.
        • Tables can base on entry level as well as paragraph level data.
        • Tabular data can be copied as tab delimited text and can be pasted
          into a spreadsheet program.
    • Map & location support:
        • A new map widget (using libchamplain) was added to the UI.
        • Entries can now be assigned a location and a path.
        • This will make writing writing about places and planning journeys
          easier and more fun.
        • This can also be used to create charts of distances traveled per day.
        • Added support for geo tags.
    • Chart improvements:
        • Added a flexible mechanism to create charts for any quantifiable
          aspect of entries.
        • Charts can now be based on paragraphs based on dates entered in
          paragraphs.
        • All aspects of the charts can be edited through a single popover.
        • Any number of charts can be created within a diary and than embedded
          into entries by name.
        • Visual appeal of the charts improved greatly.
        • Added weekly mode (besides the existing monthly and yearly).
        • Split cumulative mode into continuous and periodic sub types.
        • Added option to underlay the planned values under realized values.
        • Charts can now be dragged from the picker widget icon and dropped
          into entries.
    • More streamlined text search:
        • Text search is now a completely separate action from filtering.
        • Text search now lists the paragraphs rather than updating the entry
          list or disturbing the other parts of the UI in any way.
    • Filtering improvements:
        • Filters have their dedicated pane in the extra panel.
        • A new, much more flexible filtering system that supports 2 levels of
          AND/OR filterers.
        • The long requested feature delivered: Multiple tags can be filtered.  
        • Different filter configurations can be created, named and added to
          the diary to be used later.
        • It is now possible to filter by theme, completion and order as well.
    • Theme improvements:
        • Themes are now separate entities of their own (They used to be parts
          of tags).
        • Introduced several stock themes in addition the the standard
          Lifeograph theme. New diaries will be created with them.
        • Entries can be filtered by themes.
        • Background images can now be set for themes. A handful of images
          bundled to the package for a more sensational writing experience.
        • Greatly improved preview system and editor for themes.
    • Completion percentages
	    • Lifeograph can now optionally calculate and display completion
	      percentage for entries.
        • This is not tied to the entry status and is controlled separately
          through values of a tag selected for this purpose by the user.
    • Printing improvements:
        • Added an option to use the theme colors in printouts (including the
          background color).
        • To-do items are printed much more nicely now.
        • Added an option to start entries in new pages.
        • Justify text option removed in favor of respecting the per paragraph
          justification settings.
    • Better support for keyboard only workflow:
        • Added new shortcuts to enable doing most of the tasks while typing
          without resorting to mouse.
        • New "IDE-like" functionality to open new line below the current line. 
    • Bug fixes:
        • Adding tons of new features (possibly creating new bugs) did not stop
          us from fixing some longstanding bugs in text parsing, spellchecking,
          image handling, text alignment, and many others.
    • Miscellaneous improvements:
        • A separate undo history is kept now for each entry and changing the
          current entry no longer clears the undo stack.
        • Added new keyboard shortcuts for various operations.
        • Clicking the column headers in diary file list in login view no
          longer changes the sorting. It can only be adjusted from the
          hamburger menu now. The rationale is that the column headers were
          rather prone to accidental clicks.
        • Clicking the back button right after logging in will log you out.
        • The main icon updated to conform to the contemporary trends in
          graphics design.
        • Improvement the listing of differences in the synchronization dialog.
        • Many under-the-hood improvements such as 
            • A clearer db file structure.
            • Removal of big chunks of deprecated code and optimizations in
              many algorithms.
            • General infrastructural improvements in the code to have a better
              base for future developments.


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1.6.1 - 2020-01-06

    • Bug fixes
    • Translation updates


1.6.0 - 2019-09-07

    • Revamped login view:
        • Completely new, cleaner look
        • Single click to open diaries, selection mode for removing
        • Icons for diary files
        • Removed Lifeograph Manual from the diaries list. The manual can now be
          opened from the menu in a separate window which is a more proper way
          for a help document
    • Entry parser rewritten to be much more capable and easy to improve
        • Overlapping and nesting text formats are supported
        • Added subsubheading format (paragraphs starting with double space)
        • Implemented inserting tag charts into entries. (chart:<tag-name>)
    • New diary sychronization tool which is a big improvement over the previous
      import tool. Now it is possible to synchronize different versions of a
      diary file.
        • Element ids are created randomly rather than sequentially to improve
          their reliability while matching elements during sync
    • Always open diaries in read-only mode. Editing can then be enabled while
      reading the diary if needed
        • --read-only option now disables entering edit mode
    • Printing system improved with support for adjustible page margins
    • New default theme that is more in line with Lifeograph color palette
    • Use transition animation when navigating  between same kind of elements,
      too. e.g. from entry to entry
    • New password popover that replaces the old password dialog
    • Visually differentiate parametric tags with dedicated icons
    • Added option to prefer dark variant of the Gtk+ theme
    • Several other refinements in GUI
    • Slightly improved drag&drop system
    • Many bug fixes and small improvements
    • Removed Cmake support. Now only Meson is supported
        

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1.5.1 - 2019-01-23

    • Bug fixes


1.5.0 - 2018-11-18

    • A more modern UI with new icons and widget types
        • Gtk+ minimum version requirement bumped to 3.22
    • When not set specifically, to-do status of an entry is derived from its
      content
    • Greatly improved chart widget
        • Much better hover info
        • Equal and consistent steps between different zoom levels
        • Option to underlay previous month to do comparisons
    • Show total/average value for parametric tags
    • Added a deferred to-do status for paragraphs "[>]"
    • Added a keyboard shortcut for adding a todo-entry (Ctrl+D)
        • Changed add normal entry shortcut to Ctrl+E
    • Added a keyboard shortcut for duplicating current paragraph in entry
      editor (Alt+2)
    • Apply to-do status and favored-ness changes to all selected entries
      in the entry list
    • Option to sort entries in ascending or descending order
    • Add "=" automatically when adding parametric tags
    • Unlimited browsing history
    • Added a keyboard shortcut for browsing forward (Alt+Right)
    • Split main Glade file into two parts to speed up startup
    • Migrated to Meson as the main build system
    • Modified code to allow compilation on Windows (Gtk+ version will now
      replace the native Windows version)
    • Added Japanese translation
    • Many bug fixes and small improvements


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1.4.2 - 2017-04-30

    • Bug fixes


1.4.1 - 2017-02-12

    • Bug fixes
    • Translation updates


1.4.0 - 2016-11-13

    • Tags as parameters: it is now possible to assign values to tags to specify
      amounts, rates, and degrees for entries
    • Revamped graphs
        • It is now possible to zoom in & out in graph widget
        • Graphs can be yearly now as well as monthly
        • A generally more elegant look & feel for graphs
        • The ability to use different background colors for chapters in graphs
    • Animated transitions between views
    • When a piece of text is dropped onto an entry in the list, append the text
      to the entry (very handy for moving text between entries)
    • Go to the related tags view when double clicked in entry view
    • Auto replace triple dash (---) with m-dash (—) in entry editor
    • Strike-through canceled chapters in the list
    • Filter view turned into a popover resulting in a more compact and less
      distractive design
    • Indicate completion statuses of entries in text export and print-out
    • Removed graphs from tag categories and ordinal chapters as they do not
      make much sense
    • Migrated to C++11
    • Fixed visual problems in Gtk+ 3.20
    • Many fixes and small improvements    


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1.3.0 - 2016-01-17

    * New todo list system for entry editor using square brackets
        * "In Progress" status added to todo list items
        * implemented changing the status of multiple todo items at once
    * Added support for - lists (new dash added to the next line automatically)
    * Increment following item nos when a new item line is added in the middle
      of a numbered list
    * Show word count for entries in the info line
    * Implemented recording and displaying status change date for entries
    * Unhide all markup text in the current paragraph (rather than just the
      ones that cursor touches)
    * Added chart view to the chapters (uses entry creation time for ordinal
      chapters)
    * Updated the entry view popover design
    * Moved active filter and revert filter buttons to the headerbar
    * Added support for following symbolic links (patch by Kirr)
    * Added a symbolic app icon to be displayed on Gnome shell
    * Implemented a basic theming system for the icons
    * Added the first icon theme "Ribbla" by Alex Romsh
    * Many fixes and small improvements


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1.2.1 - 2015-01-05

    * Several bug fixes, code cleanups
    * Small updates to Lifeograph manual
    * Translation updates


1.2.0 - 2014-11-11

    * Even more modernized UI:
        * Lifeograph is using a header bar now and provides more area for the
          content
        * Popovers are used to go beyond what was possible with menus
        * New, more informative welcome screen for the first time users
        * Refreshed icons
    * Introduced a new and more intuitive chapter system
        * Chapters and topics are now called "dated chapters" and "numbered
          chapters" respectively
        * Todo groups are converted into "free chapters". These are similar to
          numbered chapters but their numbers are hidden
        * It is possible to set the todo status for all three kinds of chapters
    * Entries in any chapter can be assigned a todo status now
    * Added a new "in progress" todo status
    * Added support for multiple selections in the entry list which makes it
      possible to drag & drop multiple entries at once
    * Made the auto logout on idle counter hard to miss
    * Added the option to disable auto logout for the current session only
    * Addded support for indenting wrapped lines
    * General improvements to the drag & drop system
    * Implemeted editing the order of entries within numbered chapters by typing
    * Fixed and improved plain text export
    * Removed support for diaries created by versions 0.10 or older
    * Minimum required Gtk+ version bumped to 3.12
    * Many fixes and small improvements
    * Translation updates


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1.1.1 - 2014-09-02

    * Added saving the theme of the Untagged meta-tag which was missing in
      v1.1.0. This required the diary version to be increased
    * Enabled reordering of todo groups
    * Many bug fixes
    * Translation updates


1.1.0 - 2014-08-03

    * Added options for changing the format dates are displayed in
    * Added a new entry type for todo items
    * Added many new icons and updated some of the existing ones 
    * Updated the main window layout
    * Improved the presentation of favored and trashed entries in the list
    * Merged themes into the tags
    * Modified the tag widget to render each tag using the themes associated
      with them
    * Added the ability to import chapters from other diaries
    * Created a new WYSIWYG like theme editing widget
    * Created a meta-tag called "Untagged" for theming and filtering entries 
      not associated with any tag
    * A new filtering system where filtering status can be edited in a
      dedicated view and can be saved to the diary
    * Upgraded the diary file format to support the new features
    * Lifeograph now itself creates a backup copy of the old diaries when
      upgrading
    * Added a hidden option to disable scaling in the entry and tag lists to
      solve the problems in some high resolution setups
    * Minimum required Gtk+ version bumped to 3.6
    * Fixed crash on Gtk+ 3.12
    * Miscellaneous bug fixes
    * Translation updates


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1.0.1 - 2014-02-01

    * Bug fixes
    * Small updates to the user manual


1.0.0 - 2013-12-08

    * Brand new main icon
    * Moved from Waf to Cmake for the build system
    * Implemented the ability to add password to diaries directly in the file
      dialog while creating them
    * Migrated to Gtk::Application and added app menu
    * Improved user interface for creating new entries and chapters
    * Simplified the look of the diary view
    * Implemented moving tags to categories by dragging and dropping
    * Implemented moving chapters to different dates by dragging and dropping
      onto entries
    * Implemented changing topic order by dragging and dropping
    * Implemented tagging and theming entries by dropping tags and themes onto
      the items in the entry list
    * Added the option to dismiss the associated entries when dismissing tags
      and chapters
    * Added the option to dismiss the associated tags when dismissing tag
      categories
    * Added a chart to the tag category view
    * Improved visibility and sensitivity states of chapter, theme and diary
      view widgets in read-only mode
    * Disabled spell-checking in read-only mode
    * Never show markup chars in read-only mode
    * For increased security, Lifeograph now asks for password before exporting
      encrypted diaries
    * Added support for using multiple configuration files via setting
      LIFEOGRAPH_CONFIG_FILE variable in the environment
    * Translation updates
    * Updated, and extended the user manual
    * Install Lifeograph diary file Icons to the system
    * Many bug fixes


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