Reiad,

Very Cool, Thanks so much. To be honest I needed the features so much I 
have used BLC in my Course notes tiddlywiki. I suppose it will be safer for 
me to leave it in the retro version?

I will evaluate and use the new version very soon.

Regards
Tony


On Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 7:05:10 AM UTC+10, Reid Gould wrote:
>
> To all,
>
> The third and final "feature preview" release is available! Version 0.1.3 
> contains all the features I'm planning on including in the version 1 
> release. This version should contain no bugs or unexpected behaviors. STILL 
> WAIT to use it in a permanent installation, I'm tidying up internal naming 
> and how I'm saving some of the temporary state associated with boards and I 
> won't be providing an upgrade path from version 0 to version 1.
>
> New features and significant changes include:
>
>    - The "Search Filter" list. when a filter is typed into this control, 
>    a special list appears on the side which contains results from tiddlers in 
>    the wiki that are outside the board. This is very handy way to import 
>    tiddlers onto the board, or maybe even to pop up a temporary board just to 
>    quickly sort a bunch of tiddlers into tags, then delete the board if you 
>    don't need it.
>    - "New Card" now generates titles using the shortid plugin, which 
>    makes a string of letters and numbers that is URL friendly and 
>    cryptographically guaranteed to be unique. The old way just used a 
>    timestamp, which is not good for sharing with others and redundant with 
> the 
>    "created" field.
>    - Improved "boardHeight" and "listWidth" controls, including the 
>    ability to snap to a number of lists visible that will change with the 
> size 
>    of your window, and the ability to set the height to 100% to fit perfectly 
>    when using "Open in a New Window". 
>    - Board title shows up in the separated windows.
>    - More powerful user filter for cards on the board. The user filter is 
>    now appended to the end of the filter that generates the content of each 
>    list, so you can type any number of runs which should always start with 
> the 
>    "+" or "-" modifiers.
>    - Tid download buttons were making bad files that couldn't be 
>    imported, they are now fixed.
>
> There will still be some cosmetic changes, such as a restyle to make a 
> much more thin control banner, and I'll be posting a version 0.2.0 as a 
> release candidate and asking for code review soon.
>
> I've been thinking about names, and right now I think I'm going to call 
> the plugin "Dropboard". It's still a very utilitarian name, but I think 
> that's ok because it will most often be seen next to "TiddlyWiki" and it 
> won't compete for attention, while still being fairly descriptive about 
> what it does.
>
> Thanks everybody!
>
> - Reid
>
> On Sunday, September 10, 2017 at 1:26:01 PM UTC-5, Reid Gould wrote:
>>
>>
>> To anyone still following,
>>
>> A new version is online at the same link 
>> <https://reidgould.github.io/tiddlywiki-blc-plugin/> above! 
>> I've worked out a number of critical bugs, you should no longer see cards 
>> landing in places different from where they were dropped. All the features 
>> visible in the control banner are fully functional, plus a few more 
>> including:
>>
>>    - Collapsible lists! The button on the right hand side of the list 
>>    title will collapse your list to a thin view so that the cards do not 
>>    display, but you can still drag cards into that list. One use might be 
>> for 
>>    a "Done" list that over time could get very long. Collapsing the list 
>> will 
>>    reduce lag in the interface and keep distractions away.
>>    - A filter field for the user to type any TW filter that hides any 
>>    card that matches, so you can focus in on only what you want to see.
>>    - Ability to hide the normal "text" field on cards, so that you can 
>>    use BLC even when content is large. You can use the BLC "shorttext" field 
>>    for a summary paragraph containing only plain text, or only see the title 
>>    of the card. Cards with hidden text fields show an attachment icon at the 
>>    bottom right.
>>    - Ability to hide display of image tiddlers.
>>    - Options for the total board height and list width, including an 
>>    option to limit list width to a maximum value.
>>    - Ability to drag tiddlers between card and list positions. Try 
>>    making several lists with some cards inside, then drag them all into a 
>>    "list of lists" to stow them out of the way as cards, but keep them 
>> easily 
>>    accessible to move back into list position.
>>
>> Remember, BLC is still in beta. Don't use it in a permanent installation 
>> YET. I will soon be requesting code review over in the dev group, and will 
>> let everyone know when it hits version 1.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone for responding with your encouragement and 
>> suggestions, keep it coming and let me know about any bugs or issues you 
>> find when testing.
>>
>> One last thing! I think the name "BLC" is a little boring. Do you all 
>> have any better ideas of what we could call this thing? Please share!
>>
>> - Reid
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 10:07:47 AM UTC-5, Reid Gould wrote:
>>>
>>> BLC Plugin sees it's first light of day!
>>>
>>> The wiki: User Guide and Demo  
>>> <https://reidgould.github.io/tiddlywiki-blc-plugin/>
>>> Source on GitHub:  https://github.com/reidgould/tiddlywiki-blc-plugin
>>>
>>> Trello style cards and lists are very important to my methods, but I 
>>> can't stand not owning my own data. So when I discovered how fantastically 
>>> hackable TiddlyWiki is, I made this! It uses normal TW tags and list fields 
>>> and if you already have those relationships established, you just need to 
>>> transclude the template into your text and it will show you your existing 
>>> tiddlers in board, list, card style.
>>>
>>> WARNING: This is still in quite early development and is very much not 
>>> stable. I'm partway through a refactor of the macros I'm using for listops 
>>> and they have some bugs.
>>>
>>> Still, it's starting to become something, so I'm sharing it now hoping 
>>> for some feedback from you more experienced users. I'd welcome issues on 
>>> the GitHub page, or any sort of suggestions here on the forum.
>>>
>>> Thanks to all the people who made this awesome little tool!
>>>
>>> - Reid
>>>
>>>
>>>

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