Now/Next
Cosma’s development is cyclical: we get a bit of funding, work on ideas, develop them, then go back to sleep. This page describes what we are currently working on, what we plan to do, and what we may work on in the future. You can check what was eventually released by visiting the Changelog. To receive a notification when we publish a new version of Cosma, subscribe to the cosma-annonces mailing list.
Now
As of June 2024, we have started a new development cycle.
These are things we are currently working on and should appear into upcoming releases:
- Improve link types: display filters, optional labels, link types in CSV (thanks to pull request 104)
- Improve reference integration: citation types, manually-created bibliographic records
- Support writing LaTeX math as in Pandoc’s Markdown (requested in issue 57)
- Update dependencies and remove vulnerabilities
- Improve quality assurance with a new test workflow
- Create a developer documentation
Next
These are things we plan to do in future development cycles:
- Improve chronological mode
- Rework custom metadata
- Simplify some configuration parameters (data selection, type definition)
- Improve command line messages
- Improve error reports (for instance when encountering issues in YAML headers)
- Improve Focus mode
- Adapt the cosmoscope user interface to smaller windows/screens
- Support more Pandoc Markdown features
- Facilitate using multiple custom CSS files
- Add lazy loading to images
- Add project data conversion from CSV to Markdown and vice versa
Maybe next?
Here are things we are discussing and may work on in the future:
- Use different spatialization algorithms
- Handle graph issues like broken links, loops, etc.
- 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)
- 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
- Create a software-as-a-service version of Cosma