![]() While I was improving the sidebar, I realised that there’s a lot of space for improvement. This works especially well in conjunction with the distraction free mode and the option to mute non-focused lines in the editor. That means that the text cursor will always be placed centrally on your screen, and all focus is upon the line you are right now editing. By pressing Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+T or choosing the corresponding menu item from the view menu you can switch the editor into typewriter mode. Maybe the most exciting feature is the long awaited typewriter mode. The other changes are also amazing, but these ten things are really those you wanted (or didn’t know you wanted ) and which I finally was able to implement! Let’s go over each one of it one by one. There are ten distinct new features that 1.8 will bring. Now that you’re - hopefully - not as confused anymore, let’s head over to the next great improvements that Zettlr 1.8 will bring! Ten Exciting New Features Therefore, a new name was needed and I am happy to have found a good one for it: The left sidebar is now called the “file manager,” because that’s just what it is, and the right sidebar is now “the” sidebar. However, one is a real sidebar (the right one), whereas the other is a built-in omnipresent component (the left one). Then, the next problem was that Zettlr has two sidebars. All folders you open in the app are from now on called workspaces, that is: a space on your computer in which you work. Now I finally have a better word: Workspaces. I realised how many of you struggled with the naming convention by the sheer amount of people who had difficulties getting started with Zettlr, as it was rather opaque that the app is designed to load directories in it and work within these. But what does “root” even stand for? While technical people will surely know what I mean by that, everyone else might simply shrug and leave it with that. For instance, the folders you could load into the app were in general lingo referred to as “root” directories. One of the biggest impediment until now was that many names for different components of the app were not useful. This is still much, yes, but as always: Think of Microsoft Word’s almost two Gigabyte for essentially the same functionality. But, more importantly, by switching our build process, we were able to remove unused files (such as Readme files or documentation), resulting in something around 50 Megabyte of weight loss! Hence, we’re dropping again from over 300 Megabyte to more manageable 250 Megabyte. This has two important implications for you as a user: First, the app will now boot faster, because there’s less work to do to read in all the code that makes Zettlr do stuff. While formerly, Zettlr’s assets were simply copied into the binary, they are now compiled before being put in there. So what has changed? Let’s right dive in!ĭownload immediately Decreased App Size and Faster BootĪ major reason why the release of Zettlr 1.8 has taken so long is that we’ve completely replaced our build process and therefore needed to move around the complete code base. ![]() The changelog has grown to more than 200 lines - that is over 200 distinct fixes and improvements! I was able to fix many especially annoying bugs for which I didn’t have the time prior. You have waited for months now for an update, and I am extremely happy with how it turned out. Zettlr 1.8 is finally here and I do not exaggerate when I say that this is the biggest, most comprehensive update the application has ever received. Announcements, Releases on November 27, 2020
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