History and Road Map¶
Past¶
2015¶
November: First implementation, simple data types, simple GUI
2016¶
February: Implemented selection (the same item gets selected in all trees, changing a tab shows the same item)
March: Implemented remaining local functionality (Copy Branch as Sibling, Copy Children to Siblings, Remove from this Tree, Delete Item)
August: Created installable python package
2017¶
May: Implemented new field type text
June: Create deployable packages for Linux and Windows
June: Made pre-release v0.0 available
October: Implemented new field type node-path, re-wrote the way nodes move to new parents
November: Uploaded package to pypi.python.org, TreeTime can now be installed using pip
2018¶
October: Re-implemented the parent selection mechanism. The old cascaded menus have been replaced with single drop down lists.
October: Re-furbished the GUI and removed a couple of bugs. Slighty changed the data file format. Implemented theme selection. Tested pyqtdeploy for deployment instead of pyinstaller. Updated the description.
November: Released version 2018-10
2019¶
January: Implemented new field type “URL”
2020¶
June: Fixed problem with protected cells (typing into a cell without data could cause a crash), and fixed file selection dialog (now only offers .trt files).
July: Implemented text export - single branches or complete trees can now be exported to txt files.
August: Implemented time counters - nodes can record the time using a special field of type “timer” (experimental). GUI buttons can start and stop the stopwatch function.
September: Added move-to-top-level option for first level nodes
October: Added a dark and a light palette for GUI colours, selectable in addition to the theme selection.
November: Fixed too slow editing in text fields when tree files are big (>1.5 MB).
2021¶
January: Released version 2021.01.
January: Bugfixing (timer crash)
February: Released version 2021.2.
March: New functions “Delete node” and “Remove node from tree” now move descendants one level up. “Remove branch” removes the respective branch in all trees, “Delete branch” deletes a branch, all child branches and inter-connections in all trees.
March: If a file with running timers is saved, those timers will be running when the file is loaded.
March: Added tooltips for main buttons
March: Implemented HTML export of branches and complete trees
March: Added auto-delete for orphans
March: Released version 2021.3
April: Added file option
April: Implemented four-column layout and rainbow colours for html export
April: Released version 2021.4
May: Improvement to html and txt export (changed colours, headings have no different sizes)
May: On export of both html and txt, user can now decide how many tree levels (depth) should be exported.
May: Released version 2021.5
July: Fixed broken application logo
July: Implemented CSV export
August: Released version 2021.8
September: Added new export option “Text to Clipboard”
November: Added new export option “Html (List) to File”
December: Added two primitive template files (a text-only single tree and dual tree mindmap)
December: Released version 2021.9
2022¶
March: Fixed crash bug on non-export
March 2022: Improved sorting and grouping in html export, changed to five columns
June 2022: Added a tutorial file
June 2022: Added first-use dialog when no file is loaded, instead of the file-open dialog
June 2022: Released version 2022.1
2023¶
February 2023: Added new tree field types “concatenation” and “set”.
February 2023: Implemented adjustable width for the data item and the tree table main view.
February 2023: Release version 2023.1
April 2023: Removed deprecated tree field (“concatenation”), fixed missing logo.
May 2023: Ported to PyQt 6.0
May 2023: Implemented auto-adjusting name column
June 2023: Created new default theme “Organic”, a mix between Fusion and Breeze
June 2023: Implemented display of tree field definitions and of data field definitions
July 2023: Release version 2023.2
October 2023: Fixed crash when exporting text to clipboard.
2024¶
January 2024: Changed node symbol to small circle in text eport (after asking users on social media).
February 2024: Implemented min, max, min-string, max-string fields.
March 2024: Implemented longtext data field.
April 2024: Extended documentation on readthedocs.io. Release version 2024.1
Present¶
Bugfixing
Extend documentation on readthedocs.io
Add more fields
Add more examples and more template data files
Implement tree field editing with graphical dialog (add, remove, change tree fields)
Implement data item field editing with graphical dialog (add, remove, change data item fields)
Future¶
Near Future¶
Implement search function
Implementing continuous text and html export (to use treetime as a meeting note-taking app where participants view an auto-updating html file with the notes)
Mid Future¶
Implement graphical UI for editing tree field and data field definitions
Implement global functions (Linearise Tree, Level-Swap, Merge identical Siblings, Merge Identical Parents/Children, Remove all Orphans, Insert all Orphans as Children)
Far Future¶
Implement safe usage by multiple simultaneous users
Implement a database backend instead of text file storage
A whole lot of other fancy things that will probably never get done