Zettlr

Zettlr is a reliable companion for writing scientific texts and taking notes. It is made for academics in the humanities and arts and is intended to keep your content apart from your design, but close to the notes you take. To reach this goal, Zettlr incorporates several important features:

• File-agnostic editing. Zettlr does not store any information about your files, except in your files. This way you can always switch to and from Zettlr. Every file you see inside the preview pane corresponds to a file on your disk. With no special additions that might render the use of your files difficult for other editors.
• Zettelkasten-Methods implemented directly into the app. With Zettlr, you can link files and searches using "Wiki-Links" in the format [[your search text|@ID:ID]], give IDs by typing @ID:Your-ID-Here and tag your files using Twitter-like hashtags: #hashtag. Holding down the Alt-key and clicking on links will try to open exact-match files and also initiate searches, while Alt-clicks on tags will simply initiate searches. More features are likely to come.
• A directory list. This list contains all open directories and files. You can open new directories by pressing Cmd/Ctrl+O. New files can be opened simply by double clicking them in your file browser or by dragging them onto the app. Every time you start the app, all previously opened paths will be re-loaded.
• A preview pane that lists all the files that are inside the currently selected directory and separates them by their subdirectory. Just click on a file to open it in …
• … the editor, which takes the most space and is the crucial component that actually makes Zettlr an editor. You are able to write Markdown-files in the area, a slim text format that keeps formatting to a bare minimum.
• Exporting options. Using the open source software pandoc and LaTeX, Zettlr enables you to export all files on the fly in a variety of formats; currently HTML, DOCX, ODT and PDF. Just open a file and press Cmd/Ctrl+E.
• Searching. Zettlr enables you to quickly search through your files to find what you are looking for in a fraction of the time you'd need if you store all your information in several word documents that you'd have to open and search.
• A toolbar containing all functions in handy button-form.

GUI and functionality:

• Import functionality: Now you can import from nearly all file types pandoc supports into Zettlr. Simply select the desired target directory and select File -> Import files
• Added a lot of exporting options. More are still to come
• Export Markdown files as reveal.js presentations: From 0.19.0 on, Zettlr will support the export of reveal.js-presentations. Also, there's theme support built in
• If you insert a footnote, the cursor is not moved throughout the document so that the writing flow is more immersive
• The text field used to edit a footnote reference text is now automatically focused
• The editor will now directly mute lines when in full screen as soon as you change the preference setting for this. You don't have to move the cursor anymore for this
• Fixed a bug that showed a dedicated file menu when right-clicking directory ribbons and then threw errors if you clicked on anything in the menu
• Fixed the strange behaviour of Zettlr telling you there are no suggestions for a word, although you did not right-click a wrongly spelled word
• Inline links rendered inside headers are now always the correct size
• Email-addresses are now correctly identified and will be rendered as clickable links as well. If you Alt-click on them, they will open the default email option (i.e. they are the same as clicking on any website's email addresses)
• Fixes to the project feature
• Made the dictionaries finally independent from the four default translations
• Added about 70 languages to the four default translations. This means: If you now include a custom dictionary or a custom translation, chances are high that it will be detected and translated automatically
• Added a bunch of dictionaries that now come shipped with the app
• Finally found & fixed the bug that kept detecting whole swathes of text as links and inserted them on link insert or didn't detect any link at all
• Transferred the download page in the updater to the new download landing page at zettlr.com/download
• Clicking on marked tags in the preview list will now trigger a search for these tags
• Added support for TeX-files. So in case you want to export something to PDF, you can add custom LaTeX statements in their respective file to amend the styling Zettlr applies
• You can now rest assured that on export of projects with nested files all images, even relative ones, will successfully be rendered in your PDF output
• Changes to the HTML exporting template. Now, images should always fit on screen
• You can now create LaTeX files by using the extension .tex when creating new files
• Better Pomodoro counter

Under the hood:

• Changes to the runCommand method in ZettlrEditor
• Changes to the insertFootnote command
• Changes to the _editFootnote() method in ZettlrEditor
• Changed the event type the editor is listening to when you finished editing a footnote from keyup to keydown
• Moved the inline and block element rendering functions to their own commands to reduce the file size of ZettlrEditor
• Fixed the task recognition regex to prevent ugly errors logged to the console if you entered on an empty line a task list item directly followed by braces (such as - [ ](some text))
• Additional security checks while building the context menu
• Amended the regex for rendering links. Also provided a callback option for CodeMirror to be able to port the plugin fully externally and integrate it into other instances
• Added ZettlrImport class for handling file imports
• Removed the unnecessary PDF exporting LaTeX template from the pandoc directory
• Added another newline character when gluing Markdown files together on project exports
• Fixed a bug that would not read in a saved project config on restart
• Huge changes to the selection and retrieval of dictionaries for the spellchecking algorithm
• Made the regular expression detecting links in the clipboard non-global and limited it to only detecting single links in the clipboard
• The download page will now count all updates by users to keep track of how many users are using the app (only the click is counted, no personal information is collected). To avoid detection of you updating, simply visit zettlr.com/download manually
• Amended ZettlrRenderer by a function to programmatically trigger global searches
• Added .tex to the list of supported file types. Added a mode switch to ZettlrEditors open() method
• Small fix to the toolbar CSS for not having a hover effect on the Pomodoro button in dark mode
• Change to the less.js script. It now minimises the CSS output to further optimise the styling
• Spell checking is now off by default in fresh installations to speed up the first start
• Amendments to ZettlrProject, ZettlrFile and ZettlrExport to ensure relative image paths are accurately converted into absolute ones on exporting them
• Streamlined setting the ZettlrWindow title. Zettlrwindow::setTitle() is now deprecated