Now/Next

Now

These are things we are currently working on and should appear into upcoming releases:

Allow title-based links, e.g. [[title]] instead of [[id]] or [[id|title]]
Add a alternate simplified CSV format (single spreadsheet with wikilinks in the content field)
Improve graph display: increase zoom depth (issue 38), automatically center on selected node (issue 39)
Add toggles on left and right panes to hide/show them at will
Add an option to display link/backlink context inline instead of in a tooltip
Add an option to process bibliographic references as graph nodes
Simplify configuration (data selection, type definition, paths)
Make multi-type nodes multi-colored
Have multiple type indicators in front of the names of multi-type records
Improve command line messages

These are things we plan to do in future development cycles:

Create a software-as-a-service version of Cosma
Improve Focus mode
Adapt the cosmoscope user interface to smaller windows/screens
Support more Pandoc Markdown features (starting with mathematical expressions, see issue 57).
Do not insert empty type and tags fields when no types or tags have been entered
Hide empty metadata fields in the record pane
Facilitate using multiple custom CSS files
Add lazy loading to images

Here are things we are discussing and may work on in the future:

Use different spatialization algorithms
Expose graph data in a dedicated pane akin to the “Bibliographic data” one
Allow menu and record pane width to be adjusted
Allow the “Links” and “Backlinks” sections to be sorted by record type
Allow links to entities stored in a data file (e.g. a list of countries)
Add project data conversion from CSV to Markdown and vice versa
Take into account subdirectory structure (display the index as a tree, filter records by subdirectory, etc.)
Support syntax to include SVG figures and CSV-based tables
Support org-mode syntax
Parse Zettlr-style tags (issue 40)
Add functionality based on ontologies, such as inferring links
Add functionality based on graph properties, such as finding and displaying paths between two files if any
Add functionality based on large language models, such as a conversational search interface