🚀Changelog

v0.7.0

Project Infrastructure

• 🧰 Project is fully migrated to React

• 🎨 CSS customization is done through variables, not individual rules

  • Both individual users and theme-makers can create complete themes with minimal effort

  • CSS vars cover all interface colors

  • Default theme is a11y-friendly

• ✔️ Project is accessible, reliable, and maintainable

• 🏪 Extension is compatible with Roam Depot

New Features

• ⚙️ Settings panel View and edit your settings in a clean interface

  • With RoamDepot allowing settings to be saved between sessions, all user settings will now be set directly within the interface. The Settings dialog can be opened by a right-click on the extension icon, then by clicking on the "Settings" option.

  • No more creating a zoteroRoam_settings object, and having to dabble in roam/js code 🎉

• Dashboard panel

  • 🏷️ Tag Manager Edit, merge and delete Zotero tags

  • 📅 Recent Items Navigate items recently added/modified

  • 🔍 Explorer Browse your libraries with complex queries

• 🧱 SmartBlocks integration

  • Command available in SB: ZOTERORANDOMCITEKEY, with optional tags query

  • Metadata formatting can be done via a SmartBlock, with custom commands to retrieve and format metadata:

    • ZOTEROITEMABSTRACT

    • ZOTEROITEMCOLLECTIONS

    • ZOTEROITEMCREATORS

    • ZOTEROITEMDATEADDED

    • ZOTEROITEMLINK

    • ZOTEROITEMPUBLICATION

    • ZOTEROITEMRELATED

    • ZOTEROITEMTAGS

    • ZOTEROITEMTITLE

    • ZOTEROITEMTYPE

    • ZOTEROITEMURL

    • ZOTEROITEMYEAR

    • ZOTERONOTES

    • ZOTEROPDFS

• 🔎 Web Import

  Add items to Zotero from a URL

  • For blocks that contain one or more specified tag(s), and where the extension detects at least one URL -- an import button will appear next to the block

  • Clicking the button will open a panel to import any/all of the URLs into Zotero (with pickers for library, collections, and tags)

• 💪 Support for Zotero 6 annotations

  • Formatting can be controlled from the settings, in the Annotations section

  • Annotations are imported by default metadata formatter

Improvements / Quality of Life

• ✨ Extension icon displays a panel on hover, with additional information/actions

  • Extension status (on/off/disabled)

  • Data retrieval status for each data kind, with last updated time & a button to refresh that data

  • Toggle for dark/light theming

  • Links to extension documentation & changelog

  • Extension version

• 🎓 Semantic Scholar data

  • Citations & References are shown in the same dialog, with tabs - instead of separate dialogs

  • Items can be sorted (by publication year, influence, or whether the item is in one of the loaded Zotero libraries)

• 🔍 Search Panel

  • Search bar is more compact

  • Visibility on results shown vs. total results

  • Item view is redesigned

  • "Show Notes" now opens a drawer, instead of showing the notes underneath the item details

• 🔣 Interface and styling

  • Better consistency for item menus : the same set of actions is now available, regardless of where the menu is located

  • Better visual cues to indicate whether an item is in library/in Roam

  • Toast notification emitted whenever text is copied to the clipboard

  • Contextual guides added to clarify extension behavior or provide information about data sources

  • All dialogs can now be closed by using the close button, pressing Escape, or clicking outside of the dialog window

  • Shortcuts are now specified by a natural string, e.g "alt+P". You can use the interactive tester at the bottom of this page to check the correct specification for your keyboard and setup.

  • Dialog sizing is sensitive to display size

Bug Fixes

Too many to list 🪲