PaperRoute Tracker v0.8.0 — Route Analytics & Reports
PaperRoute v0.8.0 shows what your publication routes have taken: each route drawn to scale, your own history with each journal, and reports to share with a supervisor or coauthor. Everything is calculated on your computer from your own records. It follows the v0.8.0-rc.1 Preview.
Included
- Route maps. A manuscript's Route opens on its whole route drawn to scale, from first submission to publication (or to today). Each stretch is colored by who held it: the journal, you (revising or rerouting), or production. Journals are named above their stretches, and every event is numbered and explained underneath, such as "Desk rejected, Jan 12: 7 days after submission" or "Resubmitted, Jun 10: after 69 days of revising". Time the record does not assign is hatched as not recorded, never estimated.
- Insights (Ctrl+5), a new page:
- Across the top: your manuscripts and submissions, the median time to a first decision, and the median time from first submission to acceptance, each with the number of records behind it.
- Your Journals: submissions, outcomes, and turnaround with each journal you have used.
- Your Routes: journals, revision rounds, and days to acceptance and publication for each submitted manuscript.
- Route Map: every published route lined up at day 0, with the median time to publication and how much of it was spent with journals, revising, and in production. Work not yet published can be included, drawn to today.
- Your history with a journal appears in one line when you select it on the Journals page.
- Reports to share. Pipeline Report... summarizes the manuscripts you choose; Route Report... (a manuscript's ⋯ menu) shows one route in full. Both are previewed, then saved as a single web page to print or save as PDF. They never include notes, correspondence, reviewer comments, file paths, or contact details.
- Work types and tags. Give each manuscript a type (journal article, preprint, conference paper or abstract, poster, book chapter, thesis, other) and your own colored tags on its Overview. Tags show on board cards and in the Library, and both are searchable. Imports set the type only when the source states it. CV export can group by type.
- One window per library. Opening PaperRoute again brings the open window forward instead of starting a second copy that could overwrite the first one's saves.
- Shortcuts. Ctrl+5 opens Insights; Import & Export moves to Ctrl+6.
- Fixed since rc.1. The update prompt and its progress window scale with the display, so Download & Restart shows its full label at 125% and 150%. The prompt comes from the installed version, so this applies to updates offered from v0.8 onward.
Before upgrading
v0.8 upgrades the library to Schema 8, which adds work types, tags, and tag colors. The upgrade validates your library and changes only the schema marker; manuscript data, managed files, and automatic backups stay byte-for-byte, and every manuscript starts with no type and no tags. v0.7 cannot open a library after v0.8 has used it, so make a portable backup with v0.7 first (Settings → Backup Library...) and keep it. The upgrade notes explain the details.
Verification
Every automated test passes, with none skipped. The published assets, the live updater from v0.7.0, the Schema 8 upgrade on a synthetic library, a clean install, and the new screens at 100%, 125%, and 150% in Light and Dark are recorded in #85.