0.4.0

New features

• Note.sync_template(): Synchronize this note with a template note, recursively adding and re-ordering child notes matched by title
  • Useful for updating template instances when you modify a template
  • Replicates any cloned notes within the template
• Note.copy(): Create a shallow or deep copy of this note
• Label/relation accessors: Note.labels, Note.relations
  • Can each be filtered by owned vs inherited: Note.labels.owned, Note.labels.inherited, Note.relations.owned, Note.relations.inherited
  • Uses list semantics with additional getters/setters like Note.labels.get(), Note.labels.get_value(), Note.labels.get_values() (see the documentation for all interfaces)
• Indexing into a note (e.g. note["myLabel"]) now supports single-valued labels only (not relations) to improve type strictness
• Support subclassing Note to add custom accessors, subclass BaseDeclarativeNote for notes as code

Breaking changes

• Note.attributes no longer settable; set owned attribute list by setting Note.attributes.owned
  • This is more consistent with the semantics of Note.attributes as a list of all owned and inherited attributes
• Note.attributes no longer indexable by attribute name; use new getters/setters like Note.labels.get_value(), Note.labels.set_value()
• Restructured subpackages

Project direction

• Offline bidirectional Markdown conversion and sync mechanism is deprioritized for the foreseeable future
  • There are a number of design/implementation and practical challenges:
    • Violates "single source of truth" principle
    • Inherently lossy conversion from Trilium HTML format to Markdown, and challenges achieving feature parity in Markdown (e.g. links to other notes)
  • Instead, possible custom export/import interface and command-line hook
    • E.g.: trilium-alchemy export --exporter my_pkg.my_exporter path/to/destination

Road to 1.0

• SDK is tentatively feature-complete
• CLI features being refined and planned
  • Extension management
  • Sync notes with templates (leverage Note.sync_template())
  • Export/import zip
  • Create backup
  • Health check (verify connection, version compatibility, etc)
  • Stress testing
    • Generate a given number of test notes with a given hierarchy depth, e.g. create 100k notes to test what Trilium is specified to handle