jcv8000/Codex

📦 General

• Updated to Electron 32 and Node.js 20
• Added Russian localization (@wennerryle) #85
• Updated MathLive to 0.104
• This adds a new menu in the Math Editor to insert common math expressions easily, like a matrix.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where favoriting / unfavoriting pages doesn't work.
• Fixed an issue where the `textContent` of notes was not being saved, which is what the search bar uses to find text.
• If the search bar is not correctly finding text in your notes, you might need to go through your pages manually and re-save them to generate each page's text content for searching.

✨ New Survey

• https://forms.gle/r4HqxLb6Yh663LV28

📦 Other

• As always, bug reports and issues go in the [Issues](https://github.com/jcv8000/Codex/issues).

📦 Important

• Reworked saving system - #72
• Now only saves when there are changes made to a page
• New "Autosave when switching pages / exiting the editor" setting
• Enabled by default (same behavior as how it used to work)
• Disabling this setting will show a popup to save/discard unsaved changes when switching pages or exiting the editor

📦 Tech Stack Upgrades

• Updated to Node.js 18 and Electron 26
• Upgraded to Vite 5
• 72 new icons from Tabler Icons

🐛 Bug Fixes / Improvements

• Fixed when deleting the active page, the editor doesn't go back to Home
• Fixed sidebar width not actually saving when dragging it all the way to the left or right
• When creating an item inside a folder the folder will open to show the new item
• Fixed "Toggle Developer Tools" menu item not working
• Added a tip about alt+clicking folders to recursively close its subfolders

📋 Changes

• 18 new icons from Tabler Icons 2.41
• Fixed horizontal rules being difficult to see in dark mode
• Fixed block quote borders being difficult to see in dark mode
• Fixed copying and pasting text with a custom font-size not working correctly
• Added (mostly complete) Simplified Chinese translation thanks to @hghgthifg (#66)

📋 Changes

• Fixed an issue where the Editor was reloading its content and extensions while typing - ca8d911
• Switched back to React instead of Preact in builds, the React build doesn't seem to lag while typing as much as Preact did - 078b1e8
• 18 new icons from Tabler Icons 2.40

📦 Improvements

• Added single-line and multi-line indenting and un-indenting (Tab / Shift-Tab) in code blocks
• Added a Tab Size setting for how many spaces to add/remove when pressing Tab/Shift-Tab in code blocks
• Added a setting for word-wrap in code blocks (disabled by default)
• Icon Selector:
• Now shows the name of the selected icon below the icon in Edit menus
• The Icon Selector popup highlights the currently-selected icon
• Improved how icons are searched for, finding them by name should be easier
• Custom scrollbars for code blocks

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed not being able to tab/shift-tab in code blocks that are inside a table
• Fixed tab/shift-tab not working to sink/lift list items
• Localized the "Collapse" tooltip in code blocks
• [Contribute your own translation/language to Codex](https://github.com/jcv8000/Codex/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)

✨ Features

• Updated to Electron 22.3.27
• Hundreds of new icons from Tabler Icons (`2.30 -> 2.39`)
• Added custom Codex icon to icon list
• Clickable links in editor (Ctrl-click or Cmd-click)
• Prompts before opening to make sure you trust the link, you can also trust specific domains
• Visible border between links right next to each other that have different URLs
• Hovering over links shows the URL
• New editor toolbar button for creating/editing links
• + 3 more

🐛 Bug fixes / Improvements

• Fixed an error popping up when an update check failed - https://github.com/jcv8000/Codex/commit/be955e125d479211f60b41a7f4dceaf8e3b8f82a
• Fixed scrollbars appearing in code blocks in exported PDFs - https://github.com/jcv8000/Codex/commit/e8395eed25b675ad68e61bf1b6027445a43efe94
• Fixed code blocks inside of tables stretching the table past the width of the editor - https://github.com/jcv8000/Codex/commit/cd7540cfa421813489b59ada1a270ce85ee92778
• Code blocks inside of tables now display correctly when exporting to Markdown - https://github.com/jcv8000/Codex/commit/bd5498e91162b1ee7ccb784376a9c072bbf156fe
• Fixed PDFs having dark-mode styles if Codex is set to dark mode - https://github.com/jcv8000/Codex/commit/6fc8fb9229b4689118982347e98fcf5646eb6fdd
• Adjusted the sizing of the editor toolbar so that it fits on a regular 1920 x 1080 screen without wrapping
• This is a complete rewrite of the project using better technologies like TypeScript and React.

📦 ⚠️**Back up the `save.json` and `notes` folder for _all_ of your saves before updating to 2.0.0⚠️**

• The new version has to convert your old save file and each individual page's file to a new format, you should back everything up in case something gets corrupted.

📦 Code Signing

• Official macOS builds (x64 and arm64) are now being included and _are_ code-signed & notarized with an Apple Developer account.

✨ New Features

• New UI library & redesign
• Notebooks/Folders can be nested inside of other notebooks/folders for better organization
• Pages can now also be top-level by dragging it above/below a top-level Notebook
• Switched to the Tabler Icon library that has over 4,800 icons, and a lot more programming/CS-related icons
• You can now change icons for Pages
• New Icon Picker popup for changing an item's icon
• The sidebar now has a Search bar that lets you search for pages by name and by their contents
• Completely new editor using TipTap
• + 16 more

📦 Next Steps

• If you find any issues/bugs with this beta release of 2.0, or if you have any suggestions or feedback, please make an Issue here.
• A new website and docs will be coming out soon.
• Might look into releasing Codex on the Microsoft Store and the Mac App Store

✨ Planned Features for later (2.1.0?)

• Canvas element, which will let you draw in the editor
• In-editor search (like Ctrl+F in a browser)
• Create links to other pages in your notes
• Embedding YouTube videos
• ⚠️Back up the `save.json` and `notes` folder for _all_ of your saves before updating to 2.0.0⚠️

📦 ⚠️**Back up the `save.json` and `notes` folder for _all_ of your saves before updating to 2.0.0⚠️**

• The new version has to convert your old save file and each individual page's file to a new format, you should back everything up in case something gets corrupted.

📦 Code Signing

• Official macOS builds (x64 and arm64) are now being included and _are_ code-signed & notarized with an Apple Developer account.

✨ New Features

• New UI library & redesign
• Notebooks/Folders can be nested inside of other notebooks/folders for better organization
• Pages can now also be top-level by dragging it above/below a top-level Notebook
• Switched to the Tabler Icon library that has over 4,000 icons, and a lot more programming/CS-related icons
• You can now change icons for Pages
• New Icon Picker popup for changing an item's icon
• The sidebar now has a Search bar that lets you search for pages by name and by their contents
• Completely new editor using TipTap
• + 16 more

📦 Next Steps

• If you find any issues/bugs with this beta release of 2.0, or if you have any suggestions or feedback, please make an Issue here.
• A new website and docs will be coming out soon.
• Might look into releasing Codex on the Microsoft Store and the Mac App Store

✨ Planned Features for later (2.1.0?)

• Canvas element, which will let you draw in the editor
• In-editor search (like Ctrl+F in a browser)
• Create links to other pages in your notes
• Embedding YouTube videos
• ⚠️Back up the `save.json` and `notes` folder for _all_ of your saves before updating to 2.0.0⚠️

📋 Changelog

• This is a minor release to update packages that had security vulnerabilities.
• Also added a note on the home screen to let people know that version 2.0 is coming soon and the project isn't dead

📋 Changes

• Fixed a code execution vulnerability (#8) with notebook names/page names. This could only happen if you typed in a malicious name yourself or downloaded a `save.json` file from someone else and put it in your save directory.
• Using a code block with the "other" language doesn't freeze the editor anymore and highlights properly (#9)
• The code language overlay now doesn't show if there's no language/other
• Added menu options and macros for Nim and OCaml (macros: `[nim]` and `[ocaml]`)
• Added a section in the "Basic Editing" doc about how to paste in images

📋 Changes

• Added support for KaTeX equations in notes
• You can now collapse large code blocks by clicking the arrow icon in the top-right of the code block
• Added Markdown exporting
• Added an option to export all of the pages in a notebook to PDF/markdown
• Included a better default font for Linux users (Fira Mono)
• Updated Electron to `12.1.0`
• Removed the survey link from the home page, moved it to the Help menu/tab
• Added a documentation page for equations
• + 15 more

📦 For developers

• Added electron-builder to the devDependencies so it doesn't have to download every time you run `npx electron-builder`

📋 Changes

• Updated a package that had a security vulnerability (Codex doesn't load any external content anyway, except for checking for updates, so it shouldn't have affected Codex users)
• Updated to Electron 12.0.11
• Added a link to an optional feedback survey on the home page

📋 Changes

• Added custom scrollbars to the sidebar and main window
• Resizable and responsive sidebar that can be collapsed and opened even in small windows
• Redesigned home page
• Favorites section on home page
• Code blocks can now show the code block's language in the top-right
• You can now set a custom Icon for each notebook
• Updated to Electron 12.0.8
• Switching pages now scrolls the page to the top as it should
• + 7 more

📋 Changes

• Enabled spellcheck in the editor
• Smaller font size on code blocks
• Reworked settings page
• Added shift-tab keybind in code blocks
• Remade about page
• Fixed pdf background
• Fixed context menus going off-screen
• Fixed text on "rename" button
• + 8 more

📋 Changes

• Fixed auto-indentation not working on code that has actual tab characters
• The behavior of writing Lists has been improved a lot
• Pressing Ctrl+U now enables Underline even if you don't have any text selected, just like bold and italics
• Added a macro for the R language, `[r]`, and a menu item
• Fixed editor toolbar not being centered in a small window
• Fixed the spacing between list items
• Made the numbers in a numbered list bold
• The New Update popup now has a link to view the changelog
• + 3 more