Emberr 1.2.0 (Beta)

[benny10ben]

Added

• Import your notes from Markdown files or an Obsidian vault
• A new callout block for tips and warnings
• Write text on canvas arrows
• Paste an image link to add a picture from the web
• Back up only the spaces you pick, and restore them as new spaces
• Use the same properties across all your databases
• See how far your self-hosted sync has got, and cancel it anytime

Improved

• Emberr opens faster and uses less memory
• New rows in a filtered database fit the filter automatically
• Database column widths stay the way you set them on each device
• Images and Bookmarks look tidier
• Voice notes take up less space on Android
• Smoother sideways scrolling with a trackpad on Linux

Fixed

• Self-hosted sync no longer restarts on its own or brings back deleted notes
• Notes in the trash no longer show up in overviews, the calendar or widgets
• Voice recordings on desktop are no longer silent
• Scrolling over tables on desktop works again
• Database changes are no longer lost while saving
• Renaming a note now updates its title everywhere

Downloads

Platform	File
Android	Emberr-android.apk
Linux (tarball)	emberr-x86_64.tar.gz
Linux (AppImage)	Emberr-x86_64.AppImage
Windows	Emberr-Setup-x86_64.exe

Desktop users can update using in-app updater.

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This discussion was created from the release Emberr 1.2.0 (Beta).

[xavier-rabilloud]

Hello,

I am currently testing Emberr v.1.2.

I am really amazed by the quality of this work, and as a user of Coda (now Superhuman Docs), I am absolutely delighted to finally find an opensource app proposing an approaching philosophy.

Okay, it's already v1.2 but only a few days ago I see you mentioned "rough edges" of a beta. All I do see is such a sleek app !

So many thanks for making such a gift to the opensource community and the users in general !!!

I have a few questions :

1. A button to access an FAQ is displayed, but when tapping it, nothing happens. I presume the FAQ remains to be created ?

2. How do you indent an item of an (un)ordered list ?

3. How do you delete a full table ? (I've really tested everything I could think of...)

4. I see that nothing hinders a user from creating several folders / subfolders with the exact same name. May it cause some problems ? Is it a deliberate freedom given to the user ?

[xavier-rabilloud]

Oh wow... By sheer chance, I found a way to change the indentation of a list element. It feels soooo clunky...

I go to the very right of the horizontal toolbar ; I tap on the + sign ; it displays a / ; if I am lucky it also opens the blocs palette, if I am not it only displays the / character, I delete it and I retry taping on + or typing directly / on the line of the item I want to indent ; in the blocs palette, I scroll down aaaaalll the way to the "indentation" section, then I increase or decrease indent.

What a journey !

Would be so great to have indentation options directly in the horizontal toolbar !!

I open an issue about this.

[benny10ben]

heyy, thank you so much for the support and feedback. i have already implemented most of your suggestions in the next update :D

Also coming to deletion of tables, you can long press on android / right click on desktop which selects the block and then you can delete the block from there. I will see if I can implement any other easy way to delete the tables , appreciate for raising the point.

Thanks once again , your support means a lot :)

[xavier-rabilloud]

Hey, many thanks for your openness and reactivity to features requests, and for already integrating mine !

Regarding tables deletion, I just retested it.

For simple tables (no databases), I cannot delete them. I try to long press on any cell, it opens a collapsible menu where I can indeed delete a row or a column, but not the whole table. And if I long press just above or under the table, it selects the empty space as a distinct element.

For a database, in my opinion there is a UX problem : 

• (the most intuitive place where I tested long pressing before asking) long press the [[icon] Table] greyed "bubble" : it opens a collapsible menu where the only option is to "rename" the table. It is here that I look for the "delete" option for the whole table
• long press the table name : it just selects the text (anyway, I tested that just to be sure, but it is not the spontaneous move I would do)
• long press on any cell : it opens a collapsible menu with numerous options, but not delete the table
• finally, you have to long press an empty space to the right of the name, the grey bubble or the search icon to get the whole table to be selected and a toolbar displayed with the "delete" option. I am not even sure I would have found this, be it for your answer that got me retesting methodically all places in the table to see where it would get the option to display

Thus I would kindly advise that you add the "delete" option in the collapsible menu that already contains the "rename" option.

Thanks again for your work on this app !

[xavier-rabilloud]

oooooh okay I see : to delete simple tables, you have to long press in the tiny empty space to the right of the table !
when using Emberr in vertical mode (my case), this space is at most a 10th of the screen width !
Really I finally thought of trying this only after the previous exchange made me understand that it is the general philosophy of the app that you have to long press on an empty part of a bloc to select it as a whole.