Roadmap/Future Development

An overview of features that are under consideration or in the works - and how to contribute

Current Features

• Load full results of API request

  • Parallel processing of additional requests

• Import an item's metadata

  • Through context menu on page references

• Custom data formatting

  • Flat data structures

  • Nested data structures

• Visual & verbose lifecycle in UI

• Sync/update functionality

  • Informative UI

  • With manual trigger

Roadmap

In active development

• Search Panel (with Tarek Raafat's autoComplete.js)

  • Built-in library import

  • Convenient navigation

    • Open from context menu

    • Open by shortcut (alt-Q)

    • Autofocus on search bar

    • Close by button

    • Close by shortcut (alt-Q or Esc)

  • CSS classes for custom user styling

  • Multiple searchable fields

    • Title

    • Year

    • Authors

    • Tags

    • Citekey

    • Other

  • Informative display of results list

    • Title, authors, year, citekey

    • Publication information

    • Tags

    • Number of results displayed / total results

  • Integrated display of selected item

    • Show basic item information

      • Show citekey

      • Show basic metadata

        • Authors

          • Display as Roam page references if exist

        • Year

        • Publication info

        • Abstract

        • Tags

          • Display as Roam tags if exist

    • Show graph information

      • Existence/absence of page

      • Page children (if any)

      • Page preview (if exists)

    • Item-related actions

      • Import item data into Roam

        • Create page first (if doesn't exist)

      • Copy citekey to clipboard

        • Different formats available

      • Go to Roam page

      • Preview formatted metadata

  • User customization

    • Search filters/parameters

      • Select searchable fields

      • Pick maximum number of results to display

    • Quick Copy mode vs. item lookup

      • Quick Copy override

      • Always copy upon selection

    • Custom shortcuts

Potential future features/ideas

• Overview of library items that are/aren't in Roam ?

• Multi-selection import ?

• Attachments management ?

• Extend user customization ?

How to support/contribute

Improvements/New features : I'm happy to take feedback, suggestions, and ideas ; I'm reachable through the Roam Slack, Twitter, or email. Feel free to message me if you run into problems when setting up/using the extension.

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Extension development : I work on this extension in my spare time, while I'm currently in between jobs. A few kind people have reached out to ask how they could support me : if you'd like, you can buy me a coffee or sponsor my open-source work ! Any encouragement and feedback is much appreciated.