Reminders & commands

Hello! A couple updates from the past month and preview of things being worked on:

Commands

Commands allow you to write custom code that you can execute at will. They will eventually be able to be executed via keyboard shortcut, but for now they can be accessed in the top left.

You could, for example write commands that:

• Check or uncheck all task items in an event

• Sort all the events in your document

• Adjust events' ranges or descriptions

See here for more information and examples of what you can do with commands.

If you come up with some commands that you think others might like please share them (or at least tell me about them)!

Reminders (beta)

If you have a subscription, you can get email reminders about upcoming events. Add a reminders entry to the header of a cloud markwhen document to get reminders before an event: reminders: 30 minutes. You can also add reminders for specific tags. Read more about it here.

VS Code extension and Obsidian plugin

Development should hopefully pick back up for other editors; there is even a volunteer in the discord who is even working on an obsidian plugin! In the meantime I tried updating the vs code extension but it seems to be broken for some people. You may have better luck sticking to v1.3.1.

Rudimentary ical parsing

The parser has been updated with a parseIcal function that does rudimentary parsing of the ical spec to turn it into a markwhen document. You could, for example, export your google calendar as ical and turn it into a markwhen document that you can then visualize.