🚀Changelog
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Bug Fixes
Fixed lack of auto-updating after import of items
Fixed bug where contextual buttons were added multiple times over each other
Fixed missing space between creator name & creator role
Fixed bug where search panel could be opened on top of another dialog
More consistent/detailed ARIA labelling of DOM elements
Improvements/QoL
Backend/Metadata
Tags are automatically retrieved for each library
Speed optimizations for Roam API queries
More reusable Pagination class
Visual/CSS improvements
Added icons to context menus
Dialogs can be closed by clicking on their backdrop
Open-in-Zotero buttons have different labels to distinguish between Web library and local app
Better display of in-panel item information
Cleaner look
Metadata now matches what shows in list view
Item DOI/URL (if exists) now directly visible
Creators list moved to bottom section
"Copy as..." buttons now have outlined styling for better differentiation
Creators and tags which exist in Roam are now functional links (click to navigate to their Roam page)
New features
Tag Manager (early version)
Bug Fixes
Fixed page contents shifting to the left when a contextual button is present (=> DNP log)
Fixed inconsistent DOI parsing & matching (lowercase vs. uppercase/multicase)
Fixed inconsistent navigation to citekey pages, using the new roamAlphaAPI method
Improvements/QoL
Metadata import
More intuitive syntax for the settings
Metadata template can now be either a JavaScript function or a SmartBlock
Visual/CSS improvements
data-* (and other) attributes are now available in list displays
Enable contextual customization
Better display for mobile & smaller screens
Better display of library backlinks
Logical ordering (by year of publication)
Alternating highlighting to facilitate parsing
More informative "add" buttons
Better library search panel
Cleaner, more compact look
Highlighting of search terms
Visual differentiation of items in-graph vs. Zotero-only
Sorting by match ranking (matches in title prioritized, single field over multi-field)
Performance improvement upon opening
New user settings
render_inline: true will render inline citekey references of type [[@citekey] as citations of type Smith et al. (2003).
New features
Bug Fixes
Removed limit of 25 collections displayed per library when importing items
Fixed on-page menu not displaying when there is an error retrieving citations data
Fixed DOI parsing issue when the DOI is not in the right format
Bug Fixes
Notes parsing will now clean closing </span> tags
Conflict with Roam42 Smartblocks V1 (due to tribute) is fixed
Improvements/QoL
Related items
Now includes references (substitution of the Scite.ai API for the Semantic Scholar API)
List is sorted by first author's last name, and organized into references vs. citing papers
Metadata import
Block objects now support the latest update to the roamAlphaAPI : children-view-type, alignment, and heading parameters can be specified
Notes import
Notes are now nested under a [[Notes]] block
Cleaner handling of event listeners in the code base, through event delegation
Deletion of items in Zotero will now be reflected in the extension's data store
New user settings
theme lets you add a custom class to the extension's Blueprint dialogs and the on-page menu.
Using theme: "bp3-dark" will directly trigger Blueprint's dark theme !
pageMenu
New sub-setting : trigger
Specifies when to trigger on-page menu/contextual buttons
New features :
Daily Notes pages --> XX items added
Non-DNP, non-citekey pages --> XX items tagged + YY abstracts
Bug Fixes
PDF links for items in group libraries now have the right target (in panel and page menu)
When using creator types with zoteroRoam.formatting.getCreators, "author" no longer appears
Panel sizing is determined according to viewport size rather than absolute dimensions
Improvements/QoL
More extensive use of Blueprint's CSS classes for styling
Results lists scroll when navigated instead of overflowing
Bug Fixes
Local/web links for items in group libraries now have the right target
DOI links open in new tab
Improvements/QoL
Updated the autoComplete dependency
Small styling adjustments
Item rendering in library panel
Added "Open in browser" button, which opens the item's DOI record or its URL (if available)
Bug Fixes
PDF links for items in group libraries now have the right target (from utils function)
Improvements/QoL
Restyling of library search panel & citations search panel
Removed clunky header/footer in the dialog box, optimization of space taken up
Distinct styling for library search vs. citations
Added visual cues for abstract & action items to enhance readability
Library search only
Notes can be toggled & are displayed in a sliding drawer (no more scrolling)
Citations search only
The citekey for the cited item is displayed in the dialog's header
Context menu for page references
Added "View item information" option
On-page menu
Added "View item information" / "Open in Zotero (local)" / "Open in Zotero (web)" options
Notes import
Built-in parser now scrubs newlines at the beginning/end of blocks
Library search panel can now be launched from the Roam Command Palette
New user settings
pageMenu can be defined, with a defaults property that specifies which items to include in the on-page menu (docs page)
Shortcuts
toggleNotes can be used to show/hide notes when viewing an item's information in the search panel
Bug Fixes
Autocomplete
Trigger can include special characters that have meaning in RegEx, like *
Metadata formatting
getItemChildren has proper return value of false when there are no notes
getCreators now has an option to turn off brackets around creators' names
Notes import
Bug fix : discrepancies between import of notes within metadata vs. separate import
Built-in parser parseNoteBlock scrubs newlines at the beginning and end of blocks
Search panel
"Go to page" button works more reliably, and becomes active when page is created
Added small delay when opening, to prevent shortcut from printing characters in the searchbar
New feature : on-page menu Provides action menu for each page opened in main section/sidebar
Buttons for importing metadata & notes
List of links to PDF attachments
Scite.ai badge
List of external links (Connected Papers, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar)
Ability to browse citing papers
In library
All with metadata available
New user settings
notes lets you customize the HTML parsing of Zotero notes
autoload makes the extension activate itself upon each graph load
autoupdate makes the extension check for new/modified data every 60s
Improvements/QoL
Autocomplete
New option format: 'popover' will insert a popover element containing the embedded page
Search panel
Search is now multi-field instead of single-field
General UI/UX
Harmonizing of the CSS classes system
Cleanup of some injected CSS
Substitution of alert for BP3 toast notifications
Bug Fixes
Autocomplete dropdown shows correct the publication year, instead of being off by one (bug was happening with timezones West of UTC)
Context menu appears more reliably than before (was due to conflict with native menu, resulting in neither menu showing up)
PDF links of type "imported_url" are generated with the correct target
Import of metadata to wrong page in sidebar is fixed (was due to problems in identifying the DOM element containing the target UID)
Exploratory search : import items from the web (early version)
SmartBlocks integration (early version)