Pins

we now have basic entry pinning support. this was a bit less difficult than i thought it was going to be. but now you can pin an item and it always stays at the top of the list (unless you’re searching). anyways, that is one item ticked off the todo list.

apart from that, i had to do some minor backend refactoring and reorganizing so that it is easier to build more upon.

next?

image and/or file copy support. this is one monumental task. i think the way we’ll approach this is by storing the entire file if it’s smaller than, say 5mb, and if it is larger, we just store the path to the file. we dont want to store the user’s 5gb video file they just copied.

for images, i think the play is to generate a low quality thumbnail of the image to display in the app. for files, if it is a text file, we can show just the first 5 or so lines with a link to the file, other wise we’ll just give a link.

until now, the code i’ve written sadly relies too much on the fact that every event is a text copy as we ignore everything else. it’s going to be a rather painstaking experience refactoring the codebase.

the challenge is going to be keeping Squirrel quick and responsive while supporting all of this additional functionality.