2.0 Release - Feedback wanted

[Lukas]

In order to increase maintenance and future development of the plugin, it will undergo a complete rewrite. The improvements include (1) modularization of the codebase, (2) switch to TypeScript, (3) use pnpm as the main package manager and (4) add unit testing. @tim-hilt has already implemented most of the things in his fork and we will start the integration in the following procedure.

1. @tim-hilt s work will be integrated in the release-2.0 branch
2. New version will be developed in this branch
3. We want to invite as many testers as possible to test out the new release and provide us feedback.

Reporting errors template

1. Obsidian version:
2. All settings from your Daily notes or Periodic Notes plugin :
3. Commit Hash:

Installation instructions for new release:

1. Download or clone the release-2.0 branch into your path/to/vault/.obsidian/plugins/ folder
2. Run pnpm install
3. pnpm build will build the project.

[josephdong1000]

Version 2.0 addresses heading category rollover well!

One feature I do miss though is the ability to rollover all miscellaneous todos under one heading. Currently, you specify which headings act as source and targets for todos. Having another field where you define where all remaining todos will go would be nice.

Thanks, and cheers!

[Tim Hilt]

Yes, that’s true… previous behavior isn’t possible anymore. Do you have a suggestion about how this could be realized in the settings? I don’t have a good looking/intuitive solution in mind just yet

[josephdong1000]

I had in mind whatever the field was before, IIRC it was just a text box where you typed the heading or a dropdown menu with all of the headings in the daily note template file.

The latter doesn't sound too bad to me. I'm imaging a toggle switch called "Gather miscellaneous todos" that defaults on and shows a dropdown with all headings in the todo file. That way people can choose to dump misÎc todos to a heading that already sources and receives todos (what I do), dump them to a different section, or ignore misc todos altogether.

[Eamon Burns]

@josephdong1000 another possible solution is a dropdown which selects what to do with todos under each heading:

<!-- Todo headings -->
# Heading 1      -      ignore
# Heading 2      -      pass-through
# Heading 3      -      consolidate
# Heading 4      -      consolidate 

<!-- Consolidate to: -->
# Heading 5

• Todos under Heading 1 are ignored
• Todos under Heading 2 are rolled over to Heading 2 in the new note
• Todos under Heading 3 and Heading 4 are consolidated to Heading 5

[Mario Mui]

The changes should be introduced incrementally. start adding bits. New build system first. stability over features.

[JordanWean]

This release fails to identify my daily notes as daily notes. New daily notes get nothing rolled over and if I use the Rollover Daily Todos Now command, I get "2024-04-24 is not a daily note". It doesn't work on other dates either. The official version works fine.