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"METERS vol.1" displaying various stat visualization Meter Blocks against a dark blue background with a character wielding a weapon on the right side.
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Dev Update: Meters Vol. 1

Surprise update for you! You can now track numbers on your LegendKeeper wiki pages and in your Block sidebar using LegendKeeper's new Meter Block: Health bars, ability scores, spell slots, mana pools; any kind of meter you can think of. We wanted number properties to feel as beautiful as text, so we've put a lot of thought into these. Six ways to visualize your stats You've got a few options: * Bars - Your classic progress bar, segmented or smooth. * Circle - Full circular gauges. Great f

Dev Update: The Road to 1.0
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Dev Update: The Road to 1.0

Hey folks! I've been a bit quiet lately... I got married! My wife and I had a lovely courthouse ceremony and then threw a rowdy Nightmare Before Christmas themed Halloween house party for our reception. It was a blast! (And I'm so tired!) Now that LegendKeeper's Timeline Feature is out, as well as our Free Timeline Maker, you might be wondering what's next for LK! Timelines was always the 4th Pillar of LegendKeeper, alongside the Wiki, Maps, and Whiteboards. With these four powerful tools, you

The Update Before Time
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The Update Before Time

Hey, stranger! Braden here. As it turns out, making a flexible, easy-to-use tool for interacting with fantasy time is, in fact, F@$%ing HARD. Our fantasy timeline feature is nearly done, and over the past few months of internal and alpha testing, we've run into obstacle after (solvable) obstacle. Time is a naturally complex domain which is rife with skeuomorphic pitfalls. With the help of our wonderful alpha testing group, the Oracles, we think we've cracked it, and are now working on polish a

Tackling Time
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Tackling Time

Now that've we've shipped the Import/Export update, which allows you to easily bring data in and out of LegendKeeper, we've turned our attention to the big daddy of features. This feature is the top-voted, most demanded LegendKeeper feature EVER. That's right... Timelines. But why has it taken us so long to get here? A few years back, we envisioned LK having four core pillars of creation: Maps, Wiki Pages, Boards, and Timelines. To us, these were the ultimate ways one might interact with their

Dev Update: Import-ant Progress
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Dev Update: Import-ant Progress

Heyoo! Here's what's going on behind-the-scenes at Team LK HQ. The ENNIES! In case you missed it, we got nominated for an ENNIE, which is an award for excellence in tabletop gaming. We'd love to have your vote! Voting closes tomorrow and you can vote here. Marketing We recently brought on a marketing team to help us with a bunch of outward-facing tasks. Thankfully, LegendKeeper's marketing isn't boring ads stuff– it's more like building knowledgebases, product demos, informative pages, blo

Dev Update: Billing and Backlog
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Dev Update: Billing and Backlog

Hey y'all, Braden here; just wanted to give a quick dev update on LegendKeeper. Justin has been full-time for a few weeks now, so here's a peek at what we've been up to. Billing I'm working on our upcoming billing update, which will add PayPal as a payment option, as well as 30+ currencies from around the world. The current setup hasn't been ideal for our customers outside of the US. It's something we've wanted to remedy for a long time. This also means we'll be adding sales tax or VAT to th

Dev Update: Map tiles, backlinks, aliases
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Dev Update: Map tiles, backlinks, aliases

Hey folks! It's been a while since the last dev update, so let's do a round-up of the latest changes to LegendKeeper. This post will get a litte bit technical because I 💁‍♂️feel like it💁‍♂️. Map Tiles The map tiling system got a huge upgrade in 0.15.4.0. In case you've already forgotten, here's how it worked prior: To use an image as a map, you'd upload a "Map Image", wait 1 to 15 minutes for it to process, and then use that sweet slippy tile map. That... sucked. It was the oldest, jankies

Dev Update: Take a look at banner!
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Dev Update: Take a look at banner!

The latest update brings a new, dramatic way to customize the atmosphere of your LegendKeeper pages: Banners! You can now place decorative, panoramic images at the top of your text pages. On a wiki page, click the three-dot menu and click "Show banner" to get started. This option won't show up on a map or board tab, as the banner is not displayed there due to space reasons. I'm finding this to be a great way to freshen up my pages. What are you going to use it for? This update also has a bunc

Dev Update: Playing with Blocks
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Dev Update: Playing with Blocks

I heard you like dragging and dropping things? Content blocks in the text editor now have a handy little grip menu that allows you to drag blocks and insert content easily. Additionally, content block options have been moved into the grip menu, making for a much cleaner interface with less hover-y things flying around everywhere. Crunchy Stuff Whew! I finally got update 0.15.0.0 out. Despite only having a few user-facing features, this update was enormous. If you've followed prior dev logs, y

LK Weekly: Progress on Timelines
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LK Weekly: Progress on Timelines

Hey everyone! It’s been a while since my last weekly. The stuff I’ve been working on has been dense, and after long weeks it was hard to sit down and write technical posts reviewing everything. But, I’m working on some exciting things, so it's time to fill you in. Text Editor Overall, the new text editor has been a huge hit, and has remedied many issues with the text editing experience. There are still things to improve and bugs to fix. I’ve been shipping small updates, and I expect to be fixi

LK Weekly: The Finish Line
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LK Weekly: The Finish Line

Heyo! Quick update for you! The 0.14 editor update is feature complete and has completed round 1 of QA. I'll be doing another rigorous round of testing and hopefully launching next week! I'm really excited to get this update out; it's going to improve LK's feel a lot, and help me move on to more powerful, streamlined features. Not to mention finally getting to work on Timeline. :D Most improvements are around stability and un-jankifying the typing experience, but I wanted to give a teaser of s

LK Weekly: Editor Progress
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LK Weekly: Editor Progress

Hey folks, just wanted to give a quick progress update on the big editor patch. All the core functionality is implemented, and I'm down to bugfixing and wiring up the parts where the editor needs to talk to the rest of the app. I'll have our preview-testing group start banging on the editor next week, and if all goes well, I'll have the 0.14 out the week after. Overall, I'm quite pleased with the editor. It's a big invesment into the LK codebase, and will improve the core experience a lot. Kee

LK Weekly: Chaos Monkey!
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LK Weekly: Chaos Monkey!

Yo, new weekly! Editor I'm nearly done with the new Editor! The new editor has a number of improvements, including: * Improved performance * Less jank * Better handling of copy-paste * Better text input * Nicer-looking tables * Automatic, inline autolink hints (in addition to the bulk autolink you already have) * Text highlighting * Image upload on drag & drop/copy-paste * And many other small improvements. Chonky Docs Before I deployed the new editor to the Hydra Slayers (our prev

LK Weekly: Hello from Copenhagen
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LK Weekly: Hello from Copenhagen

Hey everyone; just checking in with another weekly. This week, I've returned to Copenhagen to visit my girlfriend. I'll be here for a month or so, so expect my hours of activity to be shifted by about 7 hours :). After a few days of jet lag, I think I'm mostly settled in! Colors The next update, 0.13.5.0, will introduce custom colors for pins, and will come out sometime this week. This is a long-awaited feature, and I'm excited to give you some more design flexibility for your worlds. Editor