mindforger

This minor MindForger release brings rewrite of associations lookup and visualization, new status bar w/ ADLMSTW diodes and new Debian PPA.

• Mind inspired features
  • 3rd generation of the Notebook/Notes associations - Best Matching 25 based associations algorithm (BM25; evolution of BoW; TF-IDF + normalization which prevents long(er) docs from winning): Notes are matched by whole words (e.g. "art" no longer matches "start"), rare words weigh more than common ones (TF-IDF), long Notes no longer win just because of their length, Notes sharing tags w/ the current Note/Notebook are associated and the associations are computed ~2x faster.
  • Association score is shown visually as a meter and the precise score is newly shown in the tooltip only.
• Status bar
  • Status bar indicators ("diodes") in the lower right corner of the main window - a capsule w/ autolinking (A), diagrams (D), live spell check (L), math (M), source code syntax highlighting (S), thinking (T) and Wingman availability (W) segments.
• Distributions
  • MindForger is newly provided for Debian 13 Trixie in addition to Debian 12 Bookworm (Debian 11 Bullseye, 10 Buster and 9 Stretch PPAs are kept, but frozen) at https://www.mindforger.com/debian-ppa/
  • Debian PPA signing key self-signatures were refreshed from SHA-1 to SHA-512 (the key fingerprint is unchanged) as Debian Trixie apt rejects keys w/ SHA-1 self-signatures - please DO re-import the key from https://www.mindforger.com/gpgpubkey.txt
  • Fedora COPR - MindForger is newly provided as a dnf repository for all current Fedora releases (Fedora 44 and 43, x86_64 and aarch64) at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dvorka/mindforger/.
  • Windows - winget package ID is MartinDvorak.MindForger going forward - the already existing community maintained package.
• Fixes
  • Autolinking, thinking and math are stable enough so that they are newly enabled by default after fresh MindForger installation.

Ubuntu PPA | Debian PPA | Fedora COPR | Windows nightly builds

This minor MindForger release brings Flatpak distribution.

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This minor MindForger release brings Notebook shelves, localization to 4 languages, lines sorting, winget packaging, Markdown export, non-ASCII links navigation, various fixes and small enhancements:

• Notebook shelves
  • Single notebook tree was rewritten to custom notebook shelves - create as many named notebook shelves for notebooks you want to group as needed and add Notebooks to them explicitly.
• Localization
  • Czech (cs_CZ) localization.
  • Mandarin Chinese (simplified, zh_CN) localization (LLM - not reviewed by native speaker).
  • Hindi (hi_IN) localization (LLM - not reviewed by native speaker)..
  • Spanish (es_ES) localization (LLM - not reviewed by native speaker)..
  • Preferences now let you pick the UI language - System default, English, Czech, Spanish or other available translation instead of following the OS locale.
• Export
  • Notebook/Export/Markdown - export a Notebook to a file in Markdown format.
  • CSV export no longer freezes UI on big repo and/or slow(er) HW as export newly runs in the modal dialog w/ progress bar and it can be cancelled.
  • CSV export reported success even when the CSV file could not be written and it did not check whether the target CSV file already exists.
• Edit
  • Edit/Sort Lines - sorts the selected lines - or the lines of the block under the cursor - alphabetically.
  • Improved Emoji insert dialog so that it can be used w/o mouse, emojis can be filtered by name, selected using arrows - which move by the visual rows across the dialog sections - and inserted w/ Enter or Ctrl-[number] shortcuts.
  • Changed in-app diagram support configuration from drop-down to checkbox.
• Search
  • Improved performance of the find Note/Notebook by Name dialog on large repositories - filtering as you type is debounced and no longer reallocates Qt strings per keystroke. The list is newly filtered via a proxy/cache model which fixed a serious lag when using backspace.

Ubuntu PPA | Debian PPA | Windows nightly builds

MindForger is getting back in shape! This minor release brings significant stabilization and performance improvements, which MindForger has desperately needed for some time. I fixed long standing bugs and accelerated Markdown to HTML rendering. I switched MindForger from the legacy, slow, and fragile HTML rendering engine (QtWebKit fork abandoned in 2018 which I kept for Linux distro backward compatibility) to the latest and greatest one (QtWebEngine) which has been used by Windows and macOS for years. I also fixed and sped up math, source code, and diagrams rendering by switching to SOTA libraries, upgrading to the latest versions and fixing what was broken.

• Editation
  • Rewrap Paragraph fills the paragraph/rewraps the paragraph under the cursor to 80 columns.
  • Easily add emojis by clicking associated button when adding new Notebook/Note or editing Notebook/Note name or description.
• Markdown to HTML rendering
  • Qt WebEngine, which is ~8x faster than Qt WebKit, is newly default HTML rendering backend on Linux as it already was on Windows and macOS.
  • Math support now offers KaTeX (fast, offline @ QT resources included MF binary) and MathJax (legacy, upgraded, offline) instead of online CDN dependency.
  • Offline Mermaid diagram rendering works again - mermaid.js was not registered as a Qt resource, so it always silently failed. Online option removed.
• Autolinking
  • Colors of autolinking generated Note/Outline interlinks are in blue.
  • Bare http(s):// URLs containing Markdown-special characters (e.g. '_') got backslash-escaped by the autolinking preprocessor's Markdown round-trip which corrupted the result - fixed by verbatim using CommonMark's <...>.
• Snap
  • Menu/toolbar icons are no longer missing in the strict Snap.

Ubuntu PPA | Debian PPA | Windows nightly builds