Textus

What's new

Textus 1.3.11 writes new links as standard Markdown links that open in any app, and fixes preview tabs, which took no clicks in 1.3.10.

Improved

• New links are standard Markdown links by default, by the path from the note - [Nov 8](Week45/Nov%208.md) - which open in any app: a page or database made from the pages tree, a note picked after [[. A folder that chose [[wiki links]] (Two-way Links › New Links), an Obsidian vault, and a note that already links that way keep them, so a page never mixes the two; a [[link]] that needs a path to find its note shows the note's name, not the path.

Fixed

• A preview tab, its title in italics, can be clicked and closed again; since 1.3.10 it took no clicks, so it could neither be brought back to the front nor closed.
• A click in the middle of a tab with a short name opens it instead of closing it: the close button sits at the tab's end.
• Typing -[], -[x] or -【】 at the start of a line that already has words in it makes the line a task, its words the task's text, as [] does at the start of a list item; before, only an empty line became one.
• Clicking into a link no longer draws the caret a character off for a moment while the link's source appears around it.

Installers for macOS (Apple silicon and Intel), Windows and Linux (x64 and ARM64) are below; the app updates itself.

What's new

Textus 1.3.10 brings preview tabs, one View › Mode menu, the same scrolling in every mode and dragging that works everywhere; databases become Obsidian Bases, and plugins gain Canvas, Link Cards and Pomodoro.

New

• Preview tabs. A click on a file in the sidebar opens it in a preview tab, its title in italics; the next file clicked takes its place, so looking through files no longer piles up tabs. Writing in it, double-clicking its tab or double-clicking the file keeps it.
• File icons for the common kinds - databases (.base), canvases, PDF, Word, spreadsheets, slides, audio, video, archives, code, data files, LaTeX, e-books and fonts - from the open-source Lucide set.
• Official plugins with it: Workspace keeps databases as Obsidian Bases (.base files and ```base blocks) with table, board, cards, list and calendar views, and Notion Import brings a Notion export over, page icons included; new Canvas (Obsidian canvases and Excalidraw drawings), Link Cards and Pomodoro; Tasks, Templates, Daily Notes (now weekly and monthly too), Quick Notes (kept in a file), Zotero (literature notes), Bookmarks and Graph follow an Obsidian vault's own files.
• What Textus AI made for you in Create shows a "Made with Textus AI" tag in Settings › Extensions, among your plugins, themes and skills.
• Your own skills can be deleted from Settings › Extensions › Skills; their files go to the Trash.
• Research can hand a narrower part of a question (a case, a data set, a dispute) to a helper of its own. Off unless turned on in Settings › Textus AI: it is more thorough, but slower and makes more model calls.
• The Files tab has New Document and New Folder buttons beside its name, and you name the new item right in the list. Double-click the empty space below the files for a new Markdown document; right-click › New Document and New Folder name in place too.
• Settings › Textus AI › Research: check each cited sentence. Before Research revises its draft, every cited sentence is compared with its sources' notes and one that overstates them is rewritten. Off by default: it adds one model call per section. (#596)
• Plugins can claim Markdown documents by their front matter (customEditors[].frontMatter): a board saved as a plain .md with kanban-plugin: board opens as a board, as Obsidian's Kanban files do.
• Settings › Editor › Embedded notes: show ![[note]] embeds in full, as before, or as a card each that opens on a click.

Improved

• A plugin version that needs a newer Textus is never installed by an update: the version you have keeps working, and the store shows Needs Textus X.Y.Z instead of Install until Textus is updated.
• Themes, Custom CSS and a document's HTML can no longer load scripts or reach the web by themselves. Web fonts in a theme or in Custom CSS still show: Textus fetches them and keeps them with the theme, so they also work offline afterwards. Copy Picture on a web picture now copies the picture from any site.
• Source and split views colour their Markdown: headings, emphasis, links, quotes and fenced code read the way they do in the rendered document, instead of one flat grey.
• Icons, the title bar, the tabs and the sidebar's tabs grow with Settings › Interface Text Size, and in a straight line with the window's width (up to 1.35× on a wide or full-screen window), instead of staying small on a large screen.
• Clipboard History is now an official plugin (Settings › Extensions) instead of part of Textus itself. If you used it, Textus offers the plugin once; the old list stays behind.
• Research checks its notes against what the sources said: a quote that isn't in the page is refused, a figure the source doesn't give is sent back (1,200 and 1200, 3,5 % and 3.5 %, 1.2万 and 12,000 count as the same), and a note resting on an address that was never read is written as someone's claim, not as fact. A section's cited figures must come from its notes. Thanks to @jzzzzh. (#596)