Today marks the date of the first “minor” release of Jupiter - version 0.1.0. The main improvement is a switch to acommand or Notion only flow for workspace and vacations. No more mucking about in yaml files. Instead everything canbe done via the jupiter CLI app or via Notion.
Here’s a sneak peak of the new flow for dealing with vacations:
Working more the tool and showing it to various friends and colleagues has really highlighted the clunkiness of thecurrent approach. So I set out to rethink a bit how this interaction would go. Three things stuck out. First, editingyaml files is a bad UX. Second, editing yaml files and maintaing an ill-specified schema for them is a _horrible_UX. Third, there should be an idea of equivalence between Notion and the jupiter CLI app - to allow easierinteraction on the one side, and to allow for independence and flexibility on the other side.
The results is a natural flow. The yaml files are an implementation detail and directly interacting with them willgradually be phased out. Instead jupiter CLI commands operating on them (and on Notion), or Notion actions (whichneed to be synced back to the local store) will take their place. For now, workspace and vacations interactions aretotally replaced.
For workspace interactions, creating a user.yaml file is replaced with the jupiter ws-init command. There are alsojupiter ws-set-name, jupiter ws-set-token, and jupiter ws-sync commands added to cover changing names, changingthe Notion access token, and syncing back any Notion-side changes to the local storage. There isn’t a jupiter ws-set-space-id command, because that thing should not be editable. A small win for UX. The name can bechange via Notion too, by simply editing the name of the root page.
For vacations interactions, editing the user.yaml file is replaced with the jupiter vacations-add and jupiter vacations-remove commands. There are also vacations-set-name, vacations-set-start-date and vacations-set-end-date commands with predictable semantics. Finally, a jupiter vacations-sync command makes sureNotion and the local storage are synchronised, by adding vacations from one not found in another. On Notion side, youjust have a spreadsheet like view of all the vacations, and can add/edit/remove them in-place. A single call tovacations-sync is needed at the end to make everything synced.
That’s it for this release announcement. I’ll be working a bit next on some quality control, namely linting andtesting and their integration into the CI flow, and I’ll probably blog a bit about that too. I’ll also be looking ata better way to publish the documentation. After that, I’ll return to more feature work and try to migrate theproject interactions and recurring tasks actions. Be sure to checkout the release notes, and the newtutorial, and the revised concepts page.
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