Greetings fellow Pandas! We have a couple of new features and a handful of fixes in this release. Please give these a spin and keep the excellent feedback coming.
What’s new:
Stats Panel - A redesigned Stats Panel that is more compact and easier to read. Click any stat to open it in the new Stats Bar that stays on the screen as you work. The redesigned stats panel works for a whole note but also for a portion of selected text.
To open the Stats Panel, simply use the (i) icon in the toolbar or the ⌘⇧Y shortcut.
Uniformed font-weight in the titles for non-Latin languages.
Autocomplete suggestions for emoji and programming languages are once again tappable on iOS.
Thanks for testing Bear
We really appreciate all your help and feedback in testing Bear. In fact, this new test build was entirely a result of your feedback! Please keep it coming, and we’ll be in touch in the forum threads.
In the main Bear app you can pin the info window - this would be really useful in Panda as well e.g. to:
See the word count increase as you enter more text
Keep the ToC visible so that you can quickly navigate around the document
Also, if I’m being picky, it would be great to pick the number of levels of headings you want to see in your ToC e.g. don’t show headings below h3.
I’m currently using https://github.com/jonschlinkert/markdown-toc and a custom Keyboard Maestro script to manage tables of contents in Bear and have found that for me showing headings below h3 isn’t helpful.
Thanks for giving the update a go, we really appreciate it.
Regarding the pinning info window, when you open the Stats Panel via the (i) icon, if you drag it after opening it, it will stay on the screen for you to use when in the editor.
It will update as you enter more text like you mentioned above!
Similarly, this works (dragging after opening via the (i) icon) for the ToC too.
Regarding the additional feedback, thank you for providing this, i’ll pass it onto the team to consider.
I actually like the option of h1-h6 ToC. I structure my headings deliberately for structured markup (otherwise i’d just use bold for subheadings) and choose to use headers specifically for the option at some later date of referencing that heading, so i very much appreciate it being in the ToC
The dragging out of the info panel is super nice … but: If you are using Panda in “tab” mode with more than one document, the info panel does not change when switching documents. Further complicating the matter: if you have an info panel split out for more than one note, there is no identifier of which split-out-info-panel belongs with which note - as there is no document title or any other indicator to suggest which note it “belongs” to. I can see this being a problem in TOC view with people who want to have a persistent “outline” of their note.
My recommendation, fwiw, would be to have just one split-out panel allowed at any one time, and have it display the info contents for whichever note is the “active” one.
Hi @Vindaloo - I totally understand your point around markdown headings providing structured formatting and that for you showing every level of headings in the ToC makes sense.
I don’t think I explained it very well but I was trying to make a case for having “number of heading levels shown in ToC” as a user controllable setting.
I like how the table of contents is a separate view, available to all pages — In contrast, currently, in bear, I manually create my own table of contents at the top of each page.
One suggestion is, can there be a setting/preference on whether we want the Statistics tab or the Table of Contents tab to show by default? (or maybe bear can simply remember the last used tab globally, for all pages)
Another sort of tangential personal request, can there be a keyboard shortcut to pop-up the table of contents? — For me, ideally, this hypothetical TOC pop-up could be immediately searchable/filterable by typing once the pop-up appears. — Then typing enter/return would automatically navigate to that TOC element.
— In contrast, currently, in bear, I manually create my own table of contents at the top of each page.