Improving Stability

We really want users to feel comfortable about using Bluebird Documentation. This is something that we continue working on forever!

We know that we're a small team, but that should not impact your experience with us. If there are ever issues with our interface, we don't want you to lose your documents; we know that can be very frustrating. Part of this release includes a lot of server work to make sure we're logging errors that happen on our end, and user facing changes, too; to make sure users don't lose content they were working on. If there is an error, we need to know about it as soon as possible, and what users were working on needs to be kept safe.

This doesn't just apply to documentation. We're also trying to provide a more stable user experience for My Notebook users as well. We know losing notebook pages, or strokes on a page after refreshing can be frustrating.

We're planning on implementing a "snapshot" and a "history" approach for this. The "history" approach involves making sure users can access previous versions of a document, and the "snapshot" implementation is to make sure contents are saved during edits; this is to make sure you don't lose any changes you were making while editing in case there was an issue on our end.

General Enhancements

1. Make Quill rich text editor font sizes and line spaces more accurate; to better match what will actually display on the document.
2. Allow changing of position for the top panel in the notebook editor.
3. Add a select tool in the notebook editor to be able to move strokes.
4. The rule in My Notebook will display degrees.
5. Offline mode for My Notebook.
6. Add compatibility for stylus buttons.
7. Button compatibility in the notebook editor.
8. Button compatibility in the rest of Bluebird Documentation.
9. Currently, the drawing canvas scales (along with the strokes) to fit different display sizes. Keep this option, but also have the option to make notebooks not scale at all. This is to better suite certain paper backgrounds like calendars.
10. The notebook editor/drawing canvas should finish loading when all the strokes have loaded.
11. Add custom right click actions for faster user actions.
12. Documents with longer names are currently shortened in the sidebar. This is fine, but make it so that the full name is revealed when hovered over.
13. Users that are not logged in should have access to the help page.
14. Users that are not logged in should have access to search public documents.
15. Add a modal to showcase features for users that are not logged in.
16. Add the means to recover lost documents. Add functionality to save and retrieve "snapshots" of documents.
17. Comments should display the user name as the author; not the user email.
18. When a space, or a page under a space, is opened, that whole space should expand in the sidebar to show contents.
19. The document currently being viewed should stand out in the sidebar.
20. Add a "learn more" option on the home page for a fast way for users to see features offered at BBD.

Bugfixes

1. Make the Quill table option the same color as the rest of the options.
2. Fix the issue with the "Small" font size option disappearing when selected.
3. In the document options at the top right of each document, the share icon should have the same on hover effect as the other icons.
4. Currently, users that are not authorized to view workspace settings just see a blank settings page. Fix this to display a proper message according to the user's role.
5. The enhance right click can block correcting typos.
6. When editing a workspace page, other pages cannot be chosen as parent documents.
7. Workspace document names should allow periods, dashes, and underscores; in addition to what's already allowed.
8. Fix the sidebar display on long devices. The items in the sidebar can sit behind the create and help/workspace settings buttons.