Beta Updates

Update 1676597211079, Mobile 1676598630796:
This update is the New Sync System that we’ve been working on for quite a while now! I initially started it almost 1.5 years ago, then because it was a huge project I paused it to focus on smaller bugs/features, then I started it over in a better way, in open source.

As opposed to the earlier plan, this fits right into the same backend database so there’s no migration or major changes. It will just work better. You should not even notice a difference, except that you’ll see a “Loading documents…” message on the first load while it updates the local cache.

This new system is more consistent, using one state/sync method for everything: documents, boards, settings, and even UI state. We built it in partnership with the Bravely team, and it’s already used in their web and mobile apps. The sync system is a plugin for our open source Legend-State library, which we will also open source later this month. That way other developers can use it, which hopefully will help the community as well as help find bugs and improve Legend.

The main new feature is just that it will work better. But also:

• Offline <-> Offline sync is more correct and consistent. There were some tough-to-solve edge cases (creating documents offline, moving between documents, sync failures with massive documents) that are fully fixed in this new system.
• The desktop app syncs to files (see the path in the Desktop section of settings). So now you can back up Legend’s files yourself.
• Boards also sync to files. We don’t have a way to restore Board backups just yet, but we can now explore that.
• This reduced a ton of code and complexity in Legend’s core, so it will be much easier to iterate new features/fixes quickly.

Please put your thoughts/bug reports/comments in the new system system thread to keep it all together. Thanks!

Update 1678171097463:

• Fix: Uncollapsing in overview
• Fix: Search filters not saving/loading correctly sometimes
• Fix: Some miscellaneous errors in loading and syncing boards
• Fix: Agenda panes sometimes appearing empty @Jorge
• Feature: Added a table of downloading status when first signing in. This should be nice for updating you on download progress and may also help catch errors - if it gets stuck forever with one document not loaded you can tell me which document is not loading correctly.

Update 1678435323379, mobile 1678435604691:

• Fix: Sync was sometimes appearing to ping-pong to previous data if saved multiple times with just the right timing (it did sync correctly but could change the local version to an intermediate value)
• Fix: Sync is more resilient to errors
• Fix: Loading is more resilient to errors
• Fix: Board sync recovers from errors that were in previous beta versions @Eik
• Fix: Completing items was not displaying all of their hierarchy as complete @Eik
• Feature: The loading screen now shows which documents are loaded, to show progress on initial download and highlight potential load errors if one document fails to load
• Change: Changed loading animation to not freeze when doing intense loading

Update 1678626540121, mobile 1678627311854:

• Fix: Improved board syncing in many ways - should be faster and transfer less data
• Fix: Board sync could clear the panes in a board in some edge cases @Jorge
• Fix: Decrypting a document did not immediately add it to the documents list @Jorge
• Fix: Sorted documents on loading screen alphabetically @Jerud