Softpedia >Mac >Math/Scientific >Findings >  Changelog

Findings Changelog

What's new in Findings 2.1

Sep 25, 2018
  • Collection colors. Findings offers several pre-defined colors you can apply to a collection. Any entry or protocol in that collection will then be displayed with that color.
  • Dark Mode. The entire appearance of the application can be switched to light or dark mode, or simply follow the system preference. Best of all, the feature is available on all system versions. When supported by the operating system, Findings will also use the system accent color.
  • Sticky colors have been improved to stand out, yet be more legible and easy on the eyes.
  • Entries with active content for the current day now stand out thanks to a prominent 'TODAY' badge.
  • And many other small improvements to improve the user experience.
  • We also fixed a number of bugs and issues:
  • Correct formatting of date intervals, for users who set a custom date format in the system preferences.
  • Wrong sorting of entries by date.
  • Contextual menu for the entry list now properly triggered by control-click.
  • Issue when typing using a keyboard input source (e.g. Japanese, Korean, accents, etc).
  • Select the 'Timers' item in the sidebar when creating a new timer, so that the new timer is actually visible.
  • Properly locks title and summary fields based on status (not just the body of the document).
  • Properly locks experiments marked as completed in Findings 1.
  • Clicking on newly created attachment was wrongly and confusingly invoking the open file dialog.
  • Crash when navigating the entries very quickly.
  • Crash with import of some Word documents.

New in Findings 2.0.7 (Jun 27, 2018)

  • Improved:
  • Enables the use of checkmark in research and meeting notes.
  • Fix:
  • Prevents showing any 'Free Trial' dialog or equivalent when the user already has a Pro license.
  • Actions from the format menu actions now properly applied when used while in the table editor.

New in Findings 2.0.6 (Jun 20, 2018)

  • Unlocks Pro features even if granted outside of the Mac App Store.
  • Fix: honoring the preference to not include a link to the Findings website in PDF export.

New in Findings 2.0.3 Build 5423 (May 9, 2018)

  • Improved:
  • Better layout and user interface for placeholder attachments. Placeholder attachments can be inserted in protocols, to have an empty, clickable box for future insertion of an attachment.
  • More consistent user interface for the registration workflow.
  • Deleting the entire line for an attachment paragraph only clears the legend text, without deleting the whole paragraph.
  • Fix:
  • Insertion of text happening in the wrong place when pasting multiple paragraphs.
  • Correct handling of new lines when pasting multiple paragraphs.
  • Do not delete the content of the current paragraph when inserting a day header.
  • Avoids inserting an empty line at the beginning of a protocol insertion.
  • Properly refresh the day indicator for newly inserted protocols.
  • Properly restore indentation level when undoing deletion of bullet or number list.
  • Correctly highlights the style indicator when selecting multiple lines (bold, italic, etc).
  • Properly inactivate the buttons in the filter bar when hidden.
  • All menu items were disabled in the calendar range popup in the journal view.
  • Issue with license code sometimes not taken into account to disable the inclusion of a link to the Findings website in the preferences.

New in Findings 2.0.2 Build 5357 (Mar 26, 2018)

  • New:
  • Table editing separate from the document editor, giving more space to scroll and manipulate the table content.
  • Improved:
  • Remember main window size and position.
  • The 'Format' and 'Insert' menus adapt better to the current content.
  • Draws checkmarks for done paragraphs in print, PDF export and journal.
  • Make it easier to delete a day header, by having a delete button.
  • Pasting from Excel now creates a table, not a PDF.
  • Quick animations after using the 'copy' button for attachments and tables, to clearly indicate the "copy" action has happened.
  • Quicklook panel now follows the key window, to display the attachments of the selected entry or protocol.
  • Showing button bars also for attachments that don't have a preview image.
  • Adds items for individual days and other useful options in the calendar preset menu for the pdf and print options.
  • Double-click on attachment file icon and name can also be used to edit an attachment file.
  • Alphabetical sorting of documents is now case-insensitive.
  • Better vertical alignment for level-1 headers that are not protocol headers.
  • Changing sidebar background to lighter color when not key window.
  • Disabling paragraph type menu for protocol headers, because they can't be applied.
  • Enables indentation menu items for normal paragraphs as well.
  • Hide 'Header' level 1 option when editing a protocol, because they can't be used in protocols.
  • Fix:
  • Multiple issues with table editing.
  • Bugs with collection sync.
  • Editing of entries would be disabled because of a wrong way to check license code validity.
  • Actually fixes issue with the preference for including a link to Findings in PDF export, as was falsely promised in the release notes of 2.0.1. Sorry about that!
  • No more empty "zombie" experiments that would come back to life for some users after restarting the app, even if deleted.
  • Insert dragged attachments at the correct position in the text, not at the end.
  • Correctly applies the date range when printing a single document.
  • Failure to type a composed character on an empty new line (e.g. for Asian languages, or accented characters).
  • Pasting text into a fixed-width paragraph now correctly keeps it fixed-width.
  • Correctly includes the background color when copying and pasting in-document stickies (except when pasting within another sticky).
  • No more overlay of timestamps over the dash or number in a list.
  • Search within document failed when query included uppercase characters.
  • Placeholder 'No Document' or 'Multiple Documents' sometimes missing.
  • Do not make main window front upon app activation unless there is no other visible window.
  • Removing mysterious and useless '+' button from the action bar for standalone stickies.
  • Fixing potential issue with Quicklook panel.
  • Fix missing content for numbered paragraphs for standalone stickies or in-document stickies in PDF export.
  • Fixing issue with output for subsequent standalone stickies in PDF export.
  • No more spurious empty lines when copying from completed entry.
  • Correctly displaying tables from protocols inserted into an experiment.
  • Fixing issue with clicking on URLs when more than one url in the paragraph.
  • Menu item 'Copy Document Link' was not working for individual document windows.
  • Crash:
  • Crash triggered when editing tables or resizing table columns.
  • Crash when using the date filter.
  • Occasional crash when changing the content of a paragraph.
  • Occasional crash when loading a standalone sticky or timer.
  • Occasional crash when loading the filter buttons.
  • Rare crash in Dropbox sync setup upon router or network error.
  • Rare crash in PDF export, for some experiment titles.

New in Findings 2.0.1 Build 5241 (Mar 16, 2018)

  • Improved:
  • Adds menu item for removing an entry or protocol from the currently selected collection, also enabling the use of the backspace key for that action.
  • Keyboard shortcut for 'Fixed Width' (alt-cmd-x)
  • New:
  • Press alt key during startup to disable crash reporting.
  • Fix:
  • The action 'Duplicate Protocol' now works as expected.
  • Setting a proper title when duplicating an entry, instead of just calling it 'Untitled Experiment'.
  • Spurious message about trial mode for Pro users.
  • Enables option to remove link to the Findings website in PDF output for Pro users.
  • Displaying the Findings application name in the Force-Quit dialog, instead of an empty string.
  • Crash:
  • Fixes crash at startup, that could happen when UI was ready before the library data.
  • Crash when duplicating a sticky.
  • Fixes crash in early app startup.
  • Fixes crash triggered by rare malformed library configuration file.

New in Findings 1.4.5 Build 3581 (Jun 28, 2017)

  • Fixed - Better handling of file URLs (with file:// scheme) in macOS Sierra, by showing the file in Finder instead of being denied access to the file by the OS sandbox.
  • Fixed - Potential failure to set up Dropbox sync due to a 'bucket merge' error.
  • Fixed - Nested folding in the document editor could mask the text content under the subheader, even though it was actually still there.
  • Fixed - Inserting a paragraph after a folded header now unfolds the content so that the inserted paragraph is visible, and the folding status is consistent, again avoiding confusion with content seemingly disappearing.
  • Fixed - Occasional loss of text fragments after multiple edits of a paragraph with multiple styles applied.
  • Fixed - Infinite loop and application hang when quickly opening and closing an experiment.
  • Fixed - Occasional loss of responsiveness (aka spinning beach ball) in the document editor.
  • Fixed - Correctly saving content when switchcing between protocols less than a few seconds after editing.
  • Fixed - Correct font size for subscript/superscript when pasting styled text in a table cell.
  • Fixed - Better time detection from document text that refer to 'hours', to set timer duration automatically.
  • Fixed - Tables sometimes missing when using copy and paste operations in the document editor.
  • Improved - Selection affinity preserved in the document editor.
  • Improved - Switching to Dropbox API v2 for the sync setup.

New in Findings 1.4.4 Build 3564 (Feb 27, 2017)

  • Issue with displaying dates in older experiments created with a user locale that includes non-latin numerals.
  • No more error when using cut-and-paste of multiple table cells.
  • Document editor getting sometimes stuck after multiple overlapping styles applied to a range of text.
  • Document editor getting sometimes stuck after pasting styled text.
  • Text not correctly deleted and replaced by empty line when pressing return with a single-paragraph selection that included the first character of that paragraph, and not the line feed.
  • Timer is maintained when switching between bullets, numbered, fixed-width and normal text.

New in Findings 1.4.3 Build 3551 (Dec 21, 2016)

  • New protocol category for 'Crafts', such as weaving, knitting, woodworking, drawing, etc.
  • No more spurious logs in the Console about unexpected timer count or about saving closed store.
  • Better handling of library content with missing components.
  • Date applied using the calendar widget to a date header would not always be applied correctly, and would instead have the month or day set to be the same as the previously entered date.
  • Correctly loading all documents at launch to display in the experiment or protocol list, even if they are not listed in a manifest on disk.
  • Crash when trying to change the field for a new protocol created from an experiment.
  • Rare bug where some experiment dates could not be displayed anymore, which would then lead to a crash.

New in Findings 1.4.2 Build 3539 (Nov 10, 2016)

  • Highlights:
  • Today button in document editor.
  • Shiny new window for the menu item Help > Subscribe to Mailing List.
  • Several improvements and bug fixes to the document editor, in particular around tables.
  • Changelog:
  • New: 'Today' button in the experiment header to scroll to today, applicable to both the text view and the calendar view
  • New: Special window for mailing list signup, featuring Bathy, waves and bubbles. Don't miss it! Just go in the menu Help > Subscribe to Mailing List
  • Improved: No more flickering of the attachment preview images when switching between experiment tabs
  • Improved: Document metadata was sometimes superfluously saved to disk even when there had not been any changes
  • Improved: Allow table columns to be made narrower when set manually. The default width remains unchanged, but is not the mimimum width anymore
  • Improved: Allow text styling for step titles (bold, italic, font color, etc), correctly keeping both the text and the style consistent in the rest of the document
  • Improved: Icons now provide additional visual indication of the two actions available in the attachment popup menu in the document toolbar editor: insert a file, or a link to a file
  • Improved: Keep the 'All Experiments' tab selected in the dashboard view when creating a new experiment
  • Improved: Disable window tabbing in macOS 10.12 Sierra, as it's not applicable to the single-window setup of Findings
  • Fixed: Protocol day count should not be editable
  • Fixed: Occasional issue with undo getting stuck and not working in table cells
  • Fixed: When typing in tables while on a non-retina screen, the text would sometimes disappear towards the top or the left
  • Fixed: Table column width set manually is persisted to disk
  • Fixed: Bullet and numbered list are now correctly included when pasting from Findings to Word or Pages
  • Fixed: Application could become stuck and/or behaving erratically after trying to insert a table or pressing the delete key right after a table
  • Fixed: Unexpected bahavior when pasting tab-delimited string into tables
  • Fixed: When pressing the tab key at the beginning of a paragraph, only create a bullet list if the paragraph is of normal type, and indent if a list item
  • Fixed: Use the current paragraph format (note, fixed-width, title, attachment legend, etc.) when pasting plain text instead of inserting a 'normal' paragraph format
  • Fixed: Correct handling of some special situations where the character '>' could disappear after closing and reopening a document, or could lead to an exception and a stuck application when used as the first character of a table cell
  • Fixed: Attachments were not correctly included when copying and pasting multiple paragraphs that included a table
  • Fixed: Insertion of an attachment at the end of a document would fail if there was a list or monospace paragraph
  • Crash: Crash when pasting formatted lists with linebreaks from Word or Pages
  • Crash: Occasional crashes related to delayed notifications of changed documents.

New in Findings 1.4.1 Build 3468 (Sep 21, 2016)

  • New: Studies app now listed in 'More Apps for Science' in the Help menu. Learn more at studiesapp.com
  • Improved: Tweaks to the automatic update process.
  • Crash: Fixes a crash triggered by rare occurrences of unescaped characters in some documents. It was a rare crash, but it was also a crash that one could not escape, as was experienced by one sad user.

New in Findings 1.4 Build 3453 (Aug 24, 2016)

  • Support for strike-through (not unlike this) in experiment and protocol text.
  • Support for underline.
  • Support for font colors.
  • Support for highlight, with different colors!.
  • Autodetection of links to make them clickable. It works with web browser links, like http://findingsapp.com, but also any type of links, such as Papers links, file links (more on this below), etc.
  • Insertion of file links as an alternative to file attachments. You can insert a file link using the 'Format' menu or the attachment toolbar button. Instead of copying the file as part of the experiment or protocol, the file is simply linked and left at its original location, similar to what you would have with a file alias in Finder. This is particularly useful for files on remote network drives, or external storage volumes. A file link is simply a "path URL" like file:///Volumes/Sequences/20160722/results1 (you can edit it manually too). Links can be to folders or actual files. Clicking on the link will open the file (or folder). Beware: the link will be broken if the path cannot be reached, for instance if the disk was ejected, or if the file was renamed or moved.
  • Copy-paste formatted content within a document or between two documents, including attachments, tables, notes, etc (finally!).
  • Redesigned table, with many improvements, and new flexible cell selection: entire rows, columns, or any rectangular selection.
  • Smart, automatic column width based on content in redesigned table interface.
  • Custom table column width using mouse drag.
  • Copy-paste tables and table selections to and from Excel and Numbers.
  • Copy-paste to and from Word and Pages, including tables.
  • Copy from web, including tables.
  • Copy-paste tables and table selections as tab-delimited text to and from text editors.
  • Table contextual menus for easier row and column deletion or insertion.
  • Emphasizing relevant fields and subfields in the popup menus used in the protocol browser and protocol editor.
  • Fields and subfields for medicine, veterinary medicine, earth science and training & coaching.
  • Create experiment directly from a selected protocol. This makes it much easier to start an experiment from a protocol, without having to switch to the protocol view in the experiment editor.
  • Create protocol from experiment. As an alternative, a protocol can be populated from a fragment of an experiment using copy and paste.
  • Share button in the toolbar, which invokes the 'Share & Export' sheet.
  • Pressing enter twice exits a list or a code block.
  • Ability to insert carriage returns in table cells, by using the alt-return key combination.
  • Support “Capture Selection from the screen” in contextual menu in document editor.
  • Calendar view scrolls to the currently edited day when switching from the text editor view.
  • Immediately showing the open panel when choosing to insert an attachment in an experiment. For protocols, the old behavior of inserting an attachment placeholder (clickable box) remains, so that one can create attachment placeholders that will be also shown when a protocol is used in an experiment, in line with the thinking that protocols act as template blocks for experiments.
  • Write 'Day X of Y' instead of just 'Day X' in step headers of experiments.
  • Faster loading of large documents.
  • Much improved performance when typing text in large documents.
  • Reduced CPU usage related to sync.
  • Copy-paste within tables now works for any rectangular area and includes formatting.
  • Menu "Delete Project..." now have ellipsis, consistent with its behavior.
  • Date picker in the document editor has a more consistent interface, with support for double-clicking and more.
  • Properly indicating in the toolbar what the style of the typed text will be (bold, italic) when style was just set but no character was typed yet.
  • Adjusting styles consistently when the selection is zero-length (just the insertion point), in such a way that subsequent typing fully respects the styles (bold, italic, etc). This had many small problems that should now all be gone.
  • Correctly saving the changes done in experiments or protocols in the last 5 seconds before quitting the app.
  • Correctly scrolling to current insertion point after various operations.
  • Correctly scrolling to last insertion point after reloading a document.

New in Findings 1.3.5 Build 3129 (Jul 4, 2016)

  • Fixed:
  • Compatibility with the upcoming Findings for Mac 1.4 (beta available via the menu Findings > Preferences > Options). Findings 1.4 introduces changes that can result in a crash at launch when the synced library is also used with an older version on Mac or iOS.

New in Findings 1.3.4 Build 3125 (May 27, 2016)

  • Improved:
  • Reduced CPU activity at app launch, in particular for large libraries.
  • Better responsiveness when typing in large documents.
  • Faster loading of large experiments or protocols, avoiding operations that could even lead to the dreaded spinning beach ball.
  • Fixed:
  • Automatic scrolling to the insertion point when pasting or when inserting various elements in experiments or protocols, like attachments, section titles, etc.
  • Superflous confusing newline after tables in experiments or protocols.
  • Automatic scrolling to the insertion point when typing was not always working.
  • Problems with some keyboard input methods (in particular Chinese: Pinyin) when used on a new empty line.
  • Document library path wrongly reset when Dropbox folder is in /Users/Shared.

New in Findings 1.3.3 Build 3093 (Mar 17, 2016)

  • Highlights:
  • Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes
  • Security fix
  • Improved:
  • Do not ask about day offset if editing the last date of a document.
  • Avoid empty export of PDFs or archives, which would result in a confusing error message.
  • Findings archive can be unzipped using the Finder (after changing the extension to 'zip').
  • Fixed:
  • Correct path for the device information file in Findings archives.
  • Using https for the Sparkle-based updater, to prevent potential man-in-the-middle attack allowed by vulnerability in the Sparkle framework.
  • Spurious console logs from the OS X sandbox denying access to files that Findings was trying to read by mistake. This should also improve performance.

New in Findings 1.3.2 Build 3077 (Jan 18, 2016)

  • Improved:
  • Do not ask use about day offset if editing a date that was just previously inserted at the end of a document.
  • Protocol import of Markdown files with the 'txt' extension.
  • Fixed:
  • Day offset options in the editor for protocols.
  • Invalid zip files created when using the 'Share' menu item in the Export sheet.
  • Export dialog not loading in some system configurations because of missing share menu item.
  • Crash:
  • Potential crash when setting up Dropbox as part of taking down the library.
  • Crash when trying to render thumbnail for document not on disk anymore.
  • Crash when using the 'Cancel' button in the date change confirmation dialog.

New in Findings 1.3.1 Build 3058 (Dec 9, 2015)

  • Improvements:
  • Direct import of zip files containing files in one of the supported formats (zip files were handled before, but only as part of a dragged folder).
  • Better handling of some of the zip files created by Finder (which encodes folders using rather primitive conventions).
  • Changing a date in a header now triggers a dialog to offer clear options to resolve potential date chronology issues or to optionally apply the same day offset to multiple dates in the document.
  • Notify the user of date chronology conflict when inserting a new date header, with various options to resolve the conflict.
  • Deletion of day headers is now easier using a dedicated button in the editor gutter.
  • Insertion of notes and day headers is done after the first paragraph of the current selection, instead of before it.
  • Copying and pasting content from one table to another within the editor, or from tab-delimited text.
  • Licensing information in the About window, and a subtle nod to our beloved customers in the acknowledgments.
  • Navigation between the fields of a day header using the arrows.
  • The app is now 1 megabyte smaller. At our scale, this means billions of hours saved thanks to faster downloads (or a fraction thereof; you're the scientist, do the maths).
  • Brighter color when reaching the end of the Pro trial period.
  • Fixes:
  • Insertion of attachment box at a seemingly random position instead of the expected insertion point.
  • Application could become unresponsive for several seconds with 100% CPU usage when quitting.
  • Potential export failure for large number of documents.
  • Spinning beach ball during import of a large number of experiments.
  • Insertion point jumping into the first protocol listed after updating the search results, which would lead to overwriting the search string in the protocol text.
  • Spurious insertion of a new page after a table when using PDF export or print.
  • Annoying sync-triggered resurrection of previously deleted built-in protocols.
  • Opening the file twice when double-clicking an attachment icon or file name.
  • Proper handling of strings that look like HTML tags, just like for instance.
  • Search highlights not properly cleaned-up from tables.
  • Correctly cycling through search results when all matches are in the same paragraph.
  • Proper alignment of the experiment dashboard scrolling bar to the right side of the window.
  • Refreshing the experiment cards at midnight and in waking from sleep.
  • 'Spelling & Grammar' submenu in the contextual menu of the editor.
  • Unexpected change of multi-line selections after copying to the clipboard.

New in Findings 1.3 Build 3009 (Nov 5, 2015)

  • HIGHGLIGHTS:
  • New export and import options
  • Sharing experiments and protocols
  • Full-text search
  • Redesigned experiment cards
  • 30-trial of Pro version for non-registered users
  • NEW:
  • Export of Findings archives that include all the information needed to be shared with others and added to other Findings libraries; different versions of the same document will be merged as needed (see the ‘import’ feature!).
  • Export of multiple experiments or protocols, including whole projects and whole library, with an option to filter by date (filtering by date only for Pro users).
  • Import of Findings archives, which support merging of different versions of the same experiment or protocol; merging works the same as sync, but can be done by sharing documents back and forth via any method like email, AirDrop, Dropbox, etc.
  • Redesigned import workflow, allowing import of multiple files of different types, including files in zip archives; import can be triggered by the ‘Import...’ menu item (cmd-O), or by dragging files and folders onto the app main window or the Dock icon. Supported formats: Word, rtf or markdown for protocols; Findings archives for experiments and protocols.
  • Full-text search of experiments or protocols, not just based on title, but also aim/summary, author, as well as the entire content of the documents. Search correctly handles composed characters (e.g. accentuated letters), punctuation and greek letters (so one can e.g. search ‘beta’ and find content that includes ‘β’).
  • Search within an opened experiment or protocol. Matches are highlighted in the document and can be navigated using the ‘Find Next’ and ‘Find Previous’ menu items (cmd-G and shift-cmd-G), or using the return key (or shift-return).
  • Vignettes in experiment cards. You can pick a vignette by opening an experiment and clicking on the vignette area in the header. The vignette will then show in the experiment card.
  • Project colors visible in experiment cards. For now, project colors are assigned randomly (but reproducibly). Experiment tabs now have a project color badge instead of the flask icon. Let us know if you like the new look!
  • 30-day trial of the Pro version for non-registered users. After 30 days, the app reverses to the free Basic version, which offers up to 20 experiments, as well as all the other features (except filtering by date for export).
  • IMPROVED:
  • Export options for PDF and print output: optional attachments, custom attachment preview size, custom font.
  • Better restoration and better default for the active interface element when opening an experiment.
  • Spell and grammar checking in document editor.
  • Automatically creating a vignette when first inserting an attachment in an experiment.
  • Allows to reset the experiment vignette to the default empty placeholder.
  • Numeric-aware sort of experiments, protocols and projects.
  • Past experiments awaiting completion are now clearly separated in the ‘Ongoing’ dashboard, and are listed below the active experiments instead of above.
  • Smarter default project for new experiments, based on the latest one actively set by the user.
  • “Jump to selection” menu item.
  • Better contrast, tighter spacing and layout tweaks in the experiment dashboard and cards.
  • Experiment cards resize to fit the window width.
  • Completion button is also shown in ongoing experiment cards.
  • Experiment cards show two paragraphs in the task box: previous completed task and current task.
  • Rating can be changed directly in the experiment cards.
  • The task box of today’s experiment now has a gray background when all done, to distinguish it from experiments that still have pending tasks for today.
  • More automatic diagnostics pre-filled when sending an email.
  • PDF export now include multiple options: custom font, image size, with or without attachments; this is done via the new export sheet.
  • Sharing via Mail.app, Messages or AirDrop, for experiments or protocols in Findings or PDF format; this is also done via the new export sheet.
  • The ‘Library’ tab in Preferences distinguishes the actual document folder from the non-essential derived data folder, and clarifies the distinction between critical and non-critical data.
  • Timer panel menu item toggles the window visibility.
  • Additional warning when enabling Dropbox to encourage the user to back up her computer; an additional backup copy of the documents is also created in Findings/Local/Default in the process of enabling Dropbox sync.
  • FIXED:
  • Jumping cursor when selecting table content in document editor.
  • Unexpected jumping of the selection cursor of the document editor in various situations.
  • Unwanted scrolling in large documents when adding or deleting newlines.
  • Unwanted scrolling when selecting cells in tables.
  • Occasional horizontal scrolling that would hide part of the left margin of the document editor.
  • Properly scrolls to show inserted attachment box.
  • Spurious and annoying “flash” refresh of the thumbnails in the document editor.
  • Erratic behavior of the window when dragged using the top part in OS X 10.11 "El Capitan".
  • Protocol custom titles not properly showing in all the corresponding headers inside an experiment.
  • List numbering continues correctly after a table in PDF export, consistent with the document editor.
  • Missing attachment in PDF export if the legend contained a slash character.
  • Printing right after a change in the document could sometimes output the document without the change.
  • Properly split large tables over multiple pages when exporting to PDF.
  • Properly copy attachments when duplicating a protocol.
  • Tab stops in PDF export match the tab stops in the document editor.
  • Occasionally missing box when trying to drag a protocol into the calendar view of an experiment.
  • Cropped shadows in the metadata text fields of the document editor headers.
  • Navigation with arrow keys in tables in the document editor.
  • Unnecessary and annoying “flash” refresh of the experiment cards in the dashboard.
  • Unresponsive timer buttons in the timer panel.
  • Consistent tooltip for the ‘+’ button in the toolbar when browsing protocols.
  • Mark experiment as completed in the experiment editor header.
  • Missing timer refresh in experiment dashboard cards.
  • Wrongly placed separator in the Help menu.
  • Missing close button in the 'About Findings' window.
  • CRASH:
  • Crash when deleting untitled experiment.
  • Crash when displaying some experiment cards with particular settings.
  • Crash when refreshing the dashboard in some circustamces, in particular upon deletion.

New in Findings 1.2.4 Build 2731 (Oct 1, 2015)

  • Fix: Dropbox authentication failure on OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
  • Fix: potential Dropbox authentication failure on 10.10 Yosemite.
  • Fix: potential crash after Dropbox authentication.
  • Fix: potential crash on launch depending on document content in the library.

New in Findings 1.2.3 Build 2725 (Jul 9, 2015)

  • Improvement: status column in the experiment list view, which indicates wether it's 'ongoing' or 'completed'. List view can be enabled in the preferences.
  • Improvement: keyboard shortcuts for adding and deleting rows and columns in tables.
  • Improvement: clearer menu items for adding and deleting rows and columns in tables.
  • Improvement: navigating up and down a table with the arrow keys.
  • Fix: spurious display of timers in experiment cards in some situations.
  • Fix: crashes that started appearing for large-ish libraries used on multiple devices, and required important foundation changes to fix. Special thanks to Adam for his seemingly infinite patience!
  • Fix: scrolling issues with the experiment dashboard.

New in Findings 1.2.2 Build 2687 (Jun 4, 2015)

  • New: change from time-based trial to two-tiers Basic/Pro modes. Basic (free) offers up to 20 free experiments (experiment editing is disabled when more than 20 experiments are loaded) and unlimited protocols. Pro (paid license) unlocks all limits using a serial number. If you purchased a Findings license in the past, you are automatically a Pro user, and the application will continue working exactly as before.
  • Improvement: clarify that all experiments are shown in the list view, not just the completed ones (list view can be enabled in the preferences).
  • Improvement: links to the Findings iOS app and to other science apps in the Help menu.
  • Fix: path extension properly added to attachments included in PDF export, with better naming now always based on the file name and attachment legend.
  • Fix: insertion of text occuring at the end of the line when typing at the very beginning of an attachment legend.

New in Findings 1.2.1 Build 2647 (May 20, 2015)

  • Fix: insertion of text within a table cell would add the text at the end of the text.
  • Fix: crash while editing protocols.
  • Fix: missing window buttons in full-screen in OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

New in Findings 1.2.0 Build 2635 (Apr 29, 2015)

  • New tables, timers, timestamps and stopwatches:
  • New: tables in experiments and protocols. Insertion of new tables can be done using the corresponding menu item in the Format menu or the table icon in the top toolbar of a document. After creation, the cells can be navigated using the tab and shift-tab keys. For insertion/deletion of columns and rows, use the corresponding menu items in the Format menu.
  • New: countdown timers. Timers can be created for any paragraph in an experiment or a protocol by clicking on the timer button in the gutter of the text view. Findings sets the duration based on the content of the paragraph, but it can also be adjusted manually using the 'gears' button. Timers can be started, paused or stopped from the text view of the experiment, from the experiment card, or from the timer panel (via the Window menu). Local notifications will be displayed when the timer is done.
  • New: timestamps. A timestamp can be created for any paragraph in an experiment and will by default indicate the time at which it was created (it can be edited as needed to change the time).
  • New: stopwatches. Clicking a timestamp will change it into a stopwatch, showing the time elapsed since the timestamp. It can be stopped to record the end time as well.
  • New: field for 'Computer Science', subfield 'Microfabrication' in Engineering, subfield 'Proteomics'. Let us know if you have more requests for missing fields of subfields.
  • Improvement: allows insertion of tabs to align text based on default tab stops (note that the tab stops cannot be edited; use tables instead for guaranteed alignment, or fixed-width paragraphs for character alignment).
  • Improvement: ask for confirmation before copying large attachment into an experiment (custom limits can be set using the menu Findings > Preferences > Options).
  • Improvement: when inserting a day header in an experiment, use today's date if possible instead of day following the previous date in the document.
  • Improvement: empty paragraph added at the end of a document after a note, attachment or table to avoid confusion.
  • Improvement: double-clicking in a task or a timer in an experiment card in the dashboard opens the document at the corresponding paragraph.
  • Improvement: greying out of completed sections of an experiment keeps the content more readable and does not include attachments, notes and timers.
  • Improvement: PDF export uses the document title for the file name.
  • Improvement: Window menu.
  • Fix: superscript and subscript in PDF export and print.
  • Fix: taking into account the volume name to open Microsoft documents with paths longer than 255 characters.
  • Fix: de-indenting not working when applied to numbered lists.
  • Fix: cropped experiment cards in the ongoing experiment view.
  • Fix: experiment list view showing empty content on occasion.
  • Fix: numbered lists wrongly interrupted by notes and attachments in PDF export.
  • Fix: inconsistent behavior of the document editor after folding part of the selected text.
  • Fix: missing undo for metadata headers of experiments and protocols.
  • Fix: missing page header on the last page of exported PDF.
  • Fix: more stringent checks during Dropbox setup.
  • Fix: clearer content for some of the Dropbox error messages.

New in Findings 1.1.2 Build 2465 (Dec 18, 2014)

  • New: social science field and subfields in the protocol library
  • New: business field and subfields in the protocol library
  • New: protocol subfield for econometrics and for explosive engineering.
  • New: duplicate protocol using the File menu or the '+' button.
  • Improvement: persists selection and folding status of experiments and protocols.
  • Improvement: persists protocol field selection.
  • Improvement: easier insertion of carriage returns in experiment aim and protocol summary (just press return).
  • Improvement: experiments with content for today or the future can now also be marked as completed.
  • Improvement: clearer menu item for protocol or experiment deletion.
  • Improvement: better error message during Dropbox sync setup to suggest to adjust ‘Selective Sync’.
  • Improvement: built-in protocols are locked and cannot be edited.
  • Improvement: past experiments are now sorted in reverse chronological order.
  • Improvement: no more "blinking" of the user interface when navigating protocols.
  • Improvement: numbered lists now continue even when interrupted by notes, attachments or bullet lists.
  • Improvement: animation of experiment cards also when changing completion status via the menu items.
  • Fix: no more occasional error loading library due to duplication of built-in protocols.
  • Fix: better recovery from library loading error following unexpected sandbox restrictions.
  • Fix: deleted built-in protocols were wrongly added back on the next run of the app.
  • Fix: protocol table view shows garbage / empty content.
  • Fix: projects could occasionally get duplicated after adding them.
  • Fix: experiment header not resizing properly when aims or title grows or shrinks.
  • Fix: insertion points would sometimes go missing in the text fields of the document metadata header.
  • Fix: selected protocol would disappear when changing the field to a different one.
  • Fix: some menu items were not disabled when not applicable in the current context.
  • Fix: default protocol subfield for protocol creation.
  • Fix: sync would sometimes happen only after restarting the app.
  • Fix: experiment card would sometimes not refresh its content after editing the text in the document.
  • Fix: properly dealing with multiple attachments with the same file name when exporting to PDF.
  • Fix: PDF export would fail if the experiment title contained an illegal character.
  • Fix: the menu item for marking experiment as completed or ongoing was wrongly disabled when using the list view option.

New in Findings 1.1.1 Build 2396 (Nov 7, 2014)

  • New: psychology field and subfields in the protocol library, as well as additional subcategories for the cookery "field".
  • New: subscription to pre-release versions of Findings. To be notified of beta versions, check the corresponding box in Preferences > Options.
  • Improvement: multiple spaces can be inserted, instead of being collapsed into one.
  • Improvement: native full-screen window button in Yosemite.
  • Improvement: displaying the year for dates outside the current year in the experiment cards.
  • Fix: typing composed characters using special keyboard input (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc) could lead to extra "fantom" characters.
  • Fix: undo not working when deleting an attachment while the selection includes part of the legend.
  • Fix: now showing styled text for the next task in experiment cards, instead of exposing the ugly and confusing markup.
  • Fix: experiment cards scrolling area not properly aligned with the window borders.
  • Fix: removing unused menu items that would only lead to confusion.
  • Fix: unsightly baseline changes when applying subscript or superscript.
  • Fix: the window would sometimes remain blank after exiting the welcome guide or the store.
  • Fix: rare issue where Dropbox sync could not be started because of an attachment with an extension starting with 'fd'.
  • Fix: library would not load when using Dropbox and the OS X account name is different from the home folder name.