We did some work today on the community feed server.

If you want to post to the feed, you need to reload Fargo.

Be sure you're running 0.72.

In Fargo 0.71 there's a new Settings panel called Code, with a place to enter JavaScript that runs when Fargo starts up. Screen shot.

Note of caution: If you're a programmer, be careful. If you're not a programmer, be much more careful. This is potentially a very powerful feature which means it is also potentially a very dangerous feature.

Be sure you know what the code you're entering does, and that you trust the person who gave it to you. When in doubt, don't.

With that caveat... we look forward to seeing what people do with this feature.

Lots of little chotchkas in this release.

Heart menu

• We use a lot of toolkits provided by some very generous developers and designers. The heart menu is where we thank them for their generosity. Screen shot.

• It's divided into three sections:

  • 1. Tools that we use in the workstation software, Fargo and Little Outliner,
  • 1. Tools that we use in our server software,
  • 1. Technologies we use everywhere.

Suitcase icon

• There's a new icon in the left sidebar, the suitcase. Screen shot.

• When you click it, the Edit Attributes dialog opens.

• By popular demand, from the best users in the universe!

Save button hidden

• The Save button which was new in Fargo 0.65 would be visible even when viewing read-only outlines.

• Now it is only visible on outlines that you can edit.

Fix in Set Name command

• If you try to set the name of a new outline that did not have a title, before we assign the name, we set the title to the name you chose.

• A few users set the name of the first outline they created in their first use of Fargo. When the outline got a title, we automatically change the name of the file from untitled.opml to title.opml. This would break their named outline.

In 0.69, we added support for a new attribute, cssTextClass. If present, when we render the headline in Fargo, we add the class to the text. So this allows you to control the styling of text in Fargo on a per-headline basis.

An example

• Using the CSS setting, I added this class:

  • .greenText {

  • color: green !important;

  • }

• Then I set a cssTextClass attribute on a headline to greenText.

• As you might imagine, the text is now displayed in green when I view it in Fargo.

• BTW, it didn't work until I added the !important bit to the declaration. If at first you try a style and it doesn't seem to take, try adding this bit. I don't really understand what it does, but it seems to help.

Why separate worknote?

• I'm trying out a new idea, writing up a technical feature in a separate worknote. I don't want all users to feel they need to understand this. We added the feature for more technical users, to give them a way to try some ideas out with Fargo.

There's a new strikethrough icon in the left margin. Screen shot.

It marks the selected text with a strikethrough.

If you're in structure mode when you click the icon, the whole headline is changed.

Doing it again "unstrikes" the text (if that's a word).

Phone-friendly

• Previous versions of Fargo did not work at all on phone-size screens. This version works a lot better. As with the tablet-size version of Fargo, we're going to iterate over this, so it will work better over time. If you have suggestions, please post comments here.

Comments in WordPress blog posts

• You can now add comments to your blog posts, and they will not appear in the post on the WordPress server.

Custom icons are now grayed

• Fargo now grays custom icons the same way it grays wedges.

• If an item is collapsed and has subs the icon is displayed in black.

• Otherwise it's gray.

Fargo docs updated

• We added the big features from the Worknotes site to the Fargo docs.

You can now use the cursor keys in watched outlines in read-only mode.

Watched outlines

• A bit of terminology.

• There are two kinds of outlines in Fargo.

  • 1. Editable outlines.
  • 1. Watched outlines.

• Editable outlines live in the Fargo sub-folder of your Dropbox Apps folder. Open them with the File/Open command.

• Watched outlines live elsewhere. You can open them in read-only mode via the Open By URL command, also in the File menu. When they update, your view of them updates. Until now you had to keep the URLs of these outlines somewhere else, or leave the tabs open all the time.

Bookmarks menu

• The Bookmarks menu is for watched outlines.

• It behaves more or less like the Bookmarks menu in a web browser. When you have opened an outline that you want to remember, choose Add Bookmark from the Bookmarks menu. A dialog appears asking what you want to call the bookmark. We suggest the title of the outline (or the long title if it has one).

• When you choose Edit Bookmarks, a new tab opens with the contents of the menu in an outline. You can edit the bookmarks there. The menu contains link nodes. You can change the text, or the URLs associated with the items, and reorganize the menu in any way you like.

• Only the top level headlines are included in the Bookmarks menu.

Changes in the Icon Chooser

• The OK button changes to Close, to more accurately indicate what it does.

• We added a link to the wonderful Font Awesome github repo in the dialog.

• We open sourced our dialog, so other people may include the Icon Chooser in their apps. It's licensed under the GPL.

Icon Chooser dialog

• There's a new Choose Icon command in the Outliner menu. It brings up a dialog with several tabs. In each tab are 35 awesome icons. Screen shot.

• Click on one of the icons to set the icon of the bar cursor headline.

• Click Close to dismiss the dialog without setting an icon.

Save Button

• There's a new Save button in the right sidebar.

• It has two states:

  • 1. The outline in the active tab has changes. In this case the button says SAVE and is enabled.
  • 1. The outline has not been changed, then the button says SAVED and is disabled.

• This way you can see at a glance if your outline needs to be saved, whether or not you have AutoSave turned on.

• We hope, with this change, to prevent some data loss for users.

New commands

• There are two new commands in Fargo's Outliner menu.

  • Add Include prompts for a URL and turns the bar cursor headline into an include node. The URL must point to an OPML file, though the command does not verify this.

  • Add Feed turns the bar cursor headline into a node of type rss. A collection of these nodes forms a standard OPML subscription list. The URL should point to a feed, in RSS or Atom formats. Again, no attempt is made by Fargo to verify the format of the file being pointed to.

Clipboard

• The internal clipboard now remembers outline attributes. So when you copy within an outline, or between two outlines in different tabs, the attributes are now preserved.

Troubleshooting link

• Added a Troubleshooting link in the right sidebar and in the Docs menu.