PressPlanner v1.4

PressPlanner App Release Notes (v1.4)

• Addressed various miscellaneous bugs for improved stability.
• Comprehensive revamp of the User Guide and Developer Guide for easier navigation and use.

PressPlanner v1.3.1

PressPlanner App Release Notes (v1.3.1)

We are thrilled to bring you the latest version of PressPlanner, and with it some powerful new features to level up your journalism game! This set of features is all about getting more value out of your contacts and articles, helping you identify who you should be talking to for any story you are working on.

New Feature: Lookup

• Use the lookup feature to find contacts of interviewees and contributors to any article, or to find articles that a person of interest contributed to.

• Leverage these connections to:

  • Source interviewees for developing stories, based on their contributions to past articles.
  • Reconnect with past collaborators.
  • Easily find articles and contacts which you might have forgotten the names of.

• Command Format:

  • lookup INDEX : Displays articles linked to the indexed person.
  • lookup -a INDEX : Displays persons linked to the indexed article.

New Feature: Filter

• Filter the displayed article list by status, date ranges, tags or a combination of all of these fields.
  • Focus in and only display articles of interest when developing a new story or searching for references.
  • Use this powerful tool in conjunction with the new Lookup command to:
    • Quickly filter articles,
    • Find related contacts,
    • Reach out to develop a story angle or get in touch for interviews and collaboration.
• Command Format:

  • filter -a s/STATUS t/TAG st/START_DATE en/END_DATE: Applies the specified filter.

    • Refer to the User Guide for more information on each element of this command.

  • rmfilter -a: Removes the current filter.

    • Filters persist even when the list -a command is invoked.
    • Use the rmfilter -a command to return to the view of all articles within the database instead.

New Feature: Sort

• Sort persons or articles by name or date respectively.
  • Use this feature to keep your data neatly organised and more easy to navigate manually.
  • Bear in mind that this feature, unlike the filter feature, actually sorts the data saved to your computer.
    • This means that data will remain sorted even upon exiting and reopening the app.
    • Refer to the User Guide for more information on the behaviour of this command in conjunction with others.
• Command Format:
  • sort n/: Sorts persons by name in ascending alphabetical order.
  • sort -a d/: Sorts articles by date in descending order.

Enhancements

Warning

All prefixes within commands (e.g. t/ for tags, D/ for date) have been reworked from our previous version.

• Command Improvements:
  • Prefixes are now case-insensitive. Don't worry about accidentally capitalising the tag t/ prefix, or any other for that matter.
    • To do this, we have reworked several prefixes for articles to more common-sense names (e.g. T/ for Title in v1.2 is now h/ for Headline, S/ for Source is now i/ for Interviewee).
    • Refer to the User Guide to see all the changes.
      • Use the Commands Quick Reference section or navigate to the specific command that you are interested in.
• More Interface Improvements:
  • The UI now accounts for empty fields correctly.
    • No more odd padding for empty contributor, interviewee, tag or outlet fields.
  • We've recoloured tag pills (for the same fields mentioned above) to make them more visually pleasing and distinct.

PressPlanner v1.3b

Once again we are excited to announce the rollout of a suite of new features for PressPlanner. In this release we have some powerful new tools for you to leverage to level up your journalism game.

New Feature: Lookup

• Lookup contacts related to articles and vice versa with the simple lookup command
  • lookup INDEX : Displays articles linked to target person
  • lookup -a INDEX : Displays persons linked to target article

New Feature: Filter

• Filter unwanted articles out of your current view using the filter command
• filter -a S/status T/tag ST/start date EN/end date
• Remove said filter using the rmfilter command
• rmfilter -a

New Feature: Sort

• Sorts persons by name
• sort n/
• Sorts articles by date
• sort -a d/

Enhancements

• Command Improvements
  • All prefixes within commands have be reworked
  • Prefixes now are case-insensitive. Don't worry about accidentally capitalising the tag t/ prefix or any other for that matter.
    • To do this, we have reworked several prefixes for articles to more common-sense names (e.g. T/ for Title is now h/ for Headline, S/ for Source is now i/ for Interviewee).
    • Refer to the User Guide in this release to see all changes
• More Interface Improvements
  • The UI now spaces out correctly for absent fields
  • We've recolored all tags to look more visually pleasing

PressPlanner v1.3

PressPlanner App Release Notes (v1.3)

We're thrilled to present the latest update to PressPlanner (v1.3), marking another leap forawrd in improving your journalism workflow! With this update, we've added many welcome UI changes and an entire new data field to track the outlets that publish your work.

New Feature: Outlets

• You can now easily keep track of which outlets publish your articles using the data field: Outlets
  • Look out for the new Outlets O/ prefix
    

Reworked Feature: Tags

• We noticed that only having a single category was limiting and unintuitive for classifying articles. Now, articles instead can have multiple tags.
  • Add tags to your article using the TAG/ prefix
    

Note

We have completely removed the C/ category prefix entirely, now tags can be added using the TAG/ prefix. Refer to the New Commands Quick Reference section below for all the changes.

Enhancements

• Command Improvements:
• The article Date(D) syntax has been changed to a more readable format:
  • Type your dates as dd-mm-yyyy HH:mm for easier use

Note

HH:mm refers to 24-hour time format e.g. 00:00 to 23:59
See the New Commands Quick Reference for details on all changes to commands.

• More interface improvements:
  • The UI now display Persons and Articles side-by-side for ease-of-use on your PC.
  • Authors, Sources, Tags and Outlets now display as tag pills on the UI for easy reading.

New Commands Quick Reference

Commands	Syntax
Add Article	add -a T/Title [A/Authors...] [SRC/Sources...] [TAG/Tags...] [O/Outlets...] D/dd-mm-yyyy HH:mm S/Status
Edit Article	edit -a INDEX T/Title [A/Authors...] [SRC/Sources...] [TAG/Tags...] [O/Outlets...] D/dd-mm-yyyy HH:mm S/Status

What's Next?

• Look out for the following exciting upcoming features in future releases:
  • Improved and more powerful search functionality
  • Linking of articles and contacts for cross-referencing
  • Miscellaneous UI changes for a more pleasant user experience

PressPlanner v1.2

PressPlanner App Release Notes (v1.2)

We are excited to announce the release of PressPlanner (v1.2)! This release introduces the ability to add and manage your portfolio of articles, improving workflow for following up on prior stories and finding contacts to reconnect with for future interviews.

New Feature: Article Management

• Add: Now you can easily add new article and store them in your database
  
• Edit: Modify and make corrections to existing articles
  
• Delete: Remove articles that are no longer needed
  
• Find: Seamlessly search for specific articles using key words for quick access
  
• List: List all your articles and sift through them using the GUI
  

Note

For more detailed information on how to use these functions refer to the "Managing Articles" section of our user guide

Enhancements

• Improved user interface
  • Packaged with the new article management is a split-screen view of the addressbook and articles database to match.
  • Search your addressbook and article bank side-by-side for quick access at a glance.

New Commands Quick Reference

Here's a quick summary of the new commands you can use to manage your articles:

Action	Command Format	Example
Add Article	add -a T/Title A/Author1... D/yyyy-mm-ddT00:00:00 SRC/Source1 ... C/Category S/Status	add -a T/iPhone 13 Review: The Latest Apple Flagship A/John Doe D/2024-03-19T12:30:45 SRC/Michael Lee C/New Releases S/DRAFT
Delete Article	delete -a [INDEX]	delete -a 1
List Article	list -a	list -a
Edit Article	edit -a INDEX [T/TITLE] [A/AUTHORS] [D/PUBLICATION_DATE] [src/SOURCES] [C/CATEGORY] [S/STATUS]...	edit -a 1 T/Tech News 1
Find Article	find -a KEYWORD [MORE_KEYWORDS]	find -a Product Review

v1.1

The first working version of Press Planner for week 7 Milestone.