Changelog

Bases

This release introduces tons of new features and improvements to Bases. This release also includes the initial version of the Bases API.

New

• Added "Group by" to group your data by the given property. Available in the "Sort menu."
• Added table summaries. To use use them, right-click a table column and choose "Summarize...". Choose from the list of built-in summary functions, or write your own.
• New List view lets you display files as bulleted lists and numbered lists. Supports multi-line content and nested properties.
• Initial Bases API.
• New Maps plugin lets you visualize your base entries on a map. Install it from the Community plugins directory. This is an official open source plugin that also provides an example of how developers can implement new view types for Bases.
• New table selection.
• Full keyboard navigation. Full list of hotkeys below.
• Copy/paste support.
• Basic edit history (undo and redo) via Cmd/Ctrl-Z and Cmd/Ctrl-Shift-Z.

Improvements

• Added reduce() function for lists.
• Added new html() function for rendering custom HTML.
• Add new random() function. Useful if you want to create a custom formula for randomizing your sort order.
• Add support for timezone offset in ISO 8601 datetime parsing.
• View will periodically refresh the results of file.backlinks and other formulas that result in stale data.
• Clicking the ribbon item with modifier keys opens the file in a new tab (Ctrl/Cmd), a new split (Ctrl/Cmd-Shift), or a new window (Ctrl/Cmd-Alt-Shift).
• Indeterminate checkboxes (where the value is null) are now sorted with false values.
• Improved behavior of "New item" file creation. Improved property value inference.
• "Change view" command has been renamed to "Switch view..."

Table Hotkeys

• Ctrl/Cmd-C, Ctrl/Cmd-V to copy and paste the selected cells.
• Ctrl/Cmd-z, Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-Z to undo and redo changes made while editing properties.
• Ctrl/Cmd-A to select all cells in the current group
• Ctrl/Cmd-Shift-Arrowkey to select all cells in a given direction.
• ctrl-Space to select the column.
• Shift-Space to select the row.
• Enter to focus the current cell. For checkboxes, this toggles the checkbox. For formulas, this opens the formula editor.
• Home go to the first column.
• End go to the last column.
• Pageup/Pagedown go to navigate by visual page height.
• Esc to clear the current cell selection.
• Backspace to clear the current cells.
• Tab go to the next cell.
• Shift-tab to to the previous cell.

Other Table Shortcuts

• Shift-click to create a cell selection
• Right-click on the cell selection to get a context menu for the files.

Everything else

• The selected theme is reloaded when appearance.json changes.
• When closing a tab, the tab to the right is activated (previously the tab to the left would get activated).
• Fix "Fold all" and "Unfold all" commands when popover or embedded Markdown file is focused.
• File Explorer: Save layout after changing sort.
• File Explorer: Using Ctrl/Cmd + Arrow keys to change the file now triggers the sidebars to react to the new open file.
• Graph view: Support modifiers when opening graph from command palette.
• Properties: List properties now allow duplicate values.
• Properties: The first suggestion result is not automatically selected if there is no input text.
• Properties: The Global Properties view can down delete a property across all your notes. Right-Click on a property and choose "Delete".
• The "Indent" and "Unindent" commands are now available on desktop.
• Reading mode: If no text is selected, Ctrl/Cmd-C will now copy the full note source to the clipboard.

Developers

• FileManager#generateMarkdownLink no longer prepends "!" on attachment links.
• A new open-link event is now fired on the active element the user triggers the "Follow link under cursor" command.