Changelog

April 19, 2024

v 3.1

Consolidate 3.1 is a major update, bringing a new navigation design, new study and search screens, and numerous improvements.

# New Navigation
App features have been split across three sections: Library, Study, and Search.
• New: When viewing a lesson, selecting a category will navigate to that category.
• Improved: The selected section and current view will restored when reopening the app.

# Search
The search tab helps you find lessons in a course.
• New: Search tokens help you build advanced search queries, filtering titles, learning outcomes, and notes.
• New: Recent searches are saved to help you quickly view a previous search.

# Study
The study tab displays current and previous study sessions.
• New: View all study sessions in reverse chronological order.
• New: Select a study session to navigate to the lesson.

# Actions and Commands
• New: Navigate between the new tabs/sidebar items from the View menu or using keyboard shortcuts.
• New: Lessons can be copied to another course.
• New: Toggle ‘Ready to Study’, start a ‘Live Study’, or log a previous study session using keyboard shortcuts.
• New: The ‘Add Existing Lessons to Category’ command can be found in the File menu or using a keyboard shortcut.
• New: When viewing a lesson, categories can be edited from the toolbar.
• New: Categories can be opened in a new window.
• New: Add links, learning outcomes, and notes using keyboard shortcuts.
• New: Launch the developer website from Settings.

# Visual Design
• Improved: The colour of buttons and headings have been changed to increase contrast.
• Improved: The Progress widget matches the design of the new category tiles in the library screen.
• Improved: When adding existing lessons to a category, the search bar stays visible when scrolling.
• Improved: The design of category header has increased contrast with toolbar buttons.
• Improved: The ‘Add Tag’ view is larger when viewed as a popover.
• Improved: The ‘Leave a Tip’ view has minor design tweaks.

# Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
• Fixed: When the total study duration of a category was greater than 9 hours, the widget would crash.
• Improved: Reduced the likelihood of hangs when navigating a course with many categories and lessons.

Feb. 6, 2024

v 3.0.6

Consolidate 3.0.6 contains the following fixes:
• Fixed: The ‘Copy Notes’ and ‘Copy Next Steps’ buttons would have no effect.
• Fixed: The ‘Find Lessons/Courses/Categories’ actions in Shortcuts would not correctly pluralize their titles.

Jan. 29, 2024

v 3.0.5

Consolidate 3.0.5 contains the following improvements:

• Confirmation is required before deleting study sessions and links.
• Navigating around the app is much faster.
• Link previews are now cached to reduce duplicate network requests.

Jan. 14, 2024

v 3.0.3

Consolidate 3.0.3 is a minor update containing the following improvements:

• Selected lessons can be opened using the ⌘O keyboard shortcut.
• The Copy Link command can be accessed using the ⌘⌥C keyboard shortcut.
• The iCloud Status box in the courses list shows more descriptive information.
• When no default course has been selected, the next opened course will be automatically set as default.
• Removed the background of live activities when viewing in Stand By.
• When logging a study duration, the onscreen keyboard is numerical rather than alphabetical.
• Improved the contrast of the Add Course button.
• Simplified the onboarding tutorial.
• Added descriptors to the Add Lesson and Add Category screens to help new users understand their function.
• Added new options for study type.
• Lessons will open once they have been created.