1.5.0

What's new

Refactored book import logic

The main purpose of this refactoring was to make the import processes more consistent and user-friendly.

This update includes:

• Refactor of book import logic that does not overwrite existing highlights
• Dialog box to confirm overwrite of existing book highlight(s) for cases when backups are disabled
• Documentation describing the updated behavior

1.4.0

What's new

Sorting highlights

The plugin now supports sorting of highlights by the following criteria:

• creation date (from old to new and vice versa)
• modification date (from old to new and vice versa)
• location in a book

You can configure the sorting criteria in the plugin settings.

For more details on how to use the sorting feature along with examples, check the plugin's documentation

Bug Fixes

• Removed excessive newline characters generated at the end of the contextualText, resulting in inconsistent rendering of highlights in the Editing view (#28)
• Corrected misspelled 'highlight' word throughout the codebase (#36)

1.3.0

What's new

Links to highlighted fragments in Apple Books

When working with your highlights, you may want to get back to the exact place in the book where this highlighted fragment was taken. From now on, the default template features the highlightLocation template variable that allows you to specify such links. Check the example in the Template variables section in the README.

Bug Fixes

• Minor syntactic issue in the example for the template with colored highlights resulted in unnecessary newlines in the generated files.

New contributors

• @absorpheus

1.2.5

Bug Fixes

• The plugin didn't resolve helper functions when using a template with a custom date-time format (fixes #25)

1.2.4

Bug Fixes

• The plugin didn't handle properly highlights containing newlines (fixes #21)

1.2.3

Bug Fixes

• Incorrect paths to databases resulted in the no such table <TABLE_NAME> errors in the console (fixes #17)

1.2.2

Bug Fixes

• The plugin didn't handle empty responses from the Books database (no books or no highlights) properly and returned generic non-user-friendly errors (fixes #15).

1.2.1

Bug Fixes

• Large amount of data in response from the Books database didn't fit into the default size of the buffer, resulting in the ERR_CHILD_PROCESS_STDIO_MAXBUFFER error in the console (fixes #11).

1.2.0

What's new

1. Add support for colored highlights in template

From now on, you can import your highlights to Obsidian in the same color as you marked them in Apple Books. For more information, please check the Template with colored highlights section in the README file.

2. Add support for Date formatting

To set the desired date output format, a new dateFormat helper is now available within the template. For more information, please check the Date formatting section in the README file.

1.1.1

Bug Fixes

• A book title containing non-YAML compatible symbols (like colon :) resulted in a broken Properties block (frontmatter) in the Reading mode (fixes #3).
• Suboptimal configuration of the default template allowed rendering of escaped HTML entities like & or &#x27 in the resulting Markdown files (fixes #4).

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Full Changelog: 1.1.0...1.1.1