Version 1.2.0 is mostly about one question: how do you share content with your Fellowship without giving up control over your Realm? The answer is the new Sharing Center. On top of that come a tidier calendar import and a small but handy Markdown help inside the editor.

Added

  • Content shares and the Sharing Center: Share content from your Compendium with your Fellowship on purpose, either as a one-time copy or as an ongoing sync. You can also bundle several pieces of content behind a single link.

Changed

  • Clearer wording around the AI features: The hints about AI features that used to show up as a "what to do next" guide were swapped out, because they make little sense without an active Keeper. If you would like to test the Keeper features and help shape where they go, feel free to reach out on Discord.
  • Tidier calendar import and export: The whole area got cleaner. There is now a clear pointer to the registry where you can find calendar templates, plus a small animation for adding your own custom calendar to the registry so other users can use it too.
  • Help in the Markdown editor: The Markdown editor for larger text fields now has built-in help that explains what Markdown even is and links to more reading. You can still format your text without knowing any Markdown.

Fixes

  • Cleaned up design edges: A few design quirks like broken edges, wrong colors, or wrong icons were fixed.
  • No more see-through editor: A locked Markdown editor was transparent in fullscreen mode. That is fixed now.

Sharing content with the Sharing Center

The biggest new thing in 1.2.0 is the Sharing Center. With it you share content from your Compendium with your Fellowship on purpose, without publishing your Realm. You decide whether a piece of content is handed over as a one-time copy or as an ongoing sync, and you can see transparently which fields go along with it. For everything that comes up regularly, you can bundle several pieces of content behind a single link.

Why privacy and data ownership matter so much to me here, and how copy, sync, and review work in detail, I wrote down in more depth on the blog: Privacy and Sharing Content.

So what exactly is Markdown?

Markdown is a simple way to format plain text. Instead of buttons or menus you use a handful of unobtrusive characters that already look like what they do while you type: asterisks around a word make it emphasized, a hash at the start of a line becomes a heading, and a dash starts a list item. The neat part is that the text still reads fine even if nobody ever turns it into fancy formatting. So you just start writing, and in the background it becomes properly formatted text.

If you want to dig deeper, you can find the full syntax at markdown.de (in German). But you do not have to memorize any of it in Chronicle Keeper: the editor formats for you without any Markdown knowledge if you want.