Pins

Target Groups, Media Track Quick Pins, and Bug Fixes - January 12, 2024

• Added ability to quick-add pins to a target group from the menu bar dropdown.
• Added ability to quick-pin tracks in Music, TV, and Spotify.
• Added support for pin tooltips in the menu bar dropdown. (Does not work in current version of Raycast.)
• Use gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct instead of text-davinci-003 for AI placeholder.
• Fixed bug where non-document-based applications that expose an Applescript API could yield an error.

Tooltips, Tag Filtering, and New Placeholders - December 29, 2023

• Now using the placeholders-toolkit package.
• Added pin tags and tag filtering.
• Added ability to edit or copy placeholders by right-clicking on them in the menu bar dropdown. Configured in the extension settings.
• Added placeholder tooltips when editing a pin target.
• Added {{write to="[path]":...}} placeholder for writing text to a file.
• Added {{chooseFile}}, {{chooseFolder}}, and {{chooseApplication}} placeholders.
• Added optional offsets parameter to the {{clipboardText}} placeholder.
• Added ability to use Pin keyboard shortcuts within the 'View Pins' command.
• Added link to the Placeholders Guide in the edit pin form header.
• Adjusted behavior of {{selectedText}} placeholder to avoid triggering alert sounds each time the menu is opened.

Bug fixes - November 6, 2023

• Fixed bug where pins with corrupted data from previous versions would cause themselves and others to disappear after editing. (Resolve SKaplanOfficial/Raycast-Pins4)

Bug fixes & Quality of Life Improvements - November 1, 2023

• Added group statistics, viewable when editing a group.
• Added action to create a subgroup of the selected group
• Added actions for deleting all pins or groups at once
• Added ability to install example groups separately from example pins
• Added ability to install example groups or pins while there are already pins/groups present. Existing items will be preserved.
• Added {{timezone}} placeholder for getting the name of the user's timezone.
• Adjusted {{alert}}, {{dialog}}, and {{toast}} placeholders to accept a title argument (e.g. {{alert title="Example":Message text}}).
• Fixed bug where editing a pin could cause its ID to be nullified, effectively deleting the pin.
• Fixed bug where inputting web URLs in the target field would prevent the list of 'Open With' applications from properly updating and leaving only a "None" option.
• Fixed bug where empty groups would still get displayed in the menu bar dropdown.

Subgroups, Sorting, Settings, Bug Fixes, and More - September 5, 2023

• Added ability to create subgroups
• Added ability to automatically sort pins using various criteria on a per-group basis
• Added ability to pin text fragments that will be copied to the clipboard when clicked
• Added Quick Pin for pinning the currently selected text as a text fragment
• Added ability to configure keyboard shortcuts for opening pins
• Added ability to set pin and group icon color
• Added pin statistics based on their creation date, last used date, frequency of use, placeholder usage, average execution time, and more
• Added several new placeholders, including {{location}} to get physical location & address data
• Added list item accessories for various pin details, e.g. last used date, times used, etc.
• Added setting to export Pins data in other formats (CSV, TOML, YAML, XML) in addition to JSON
• Added support for importing data from CSV, TOML, YAML, XML, and JSON files
• Added various display settings, e.g. show/hide list item accessories, show/hide inbuilt menu items, customize color of the main menu bar icon, etc.
• Fixed error where getting selection from Finder would fail if Finder is inactive (even if a window is open)
• Fixed bug where deleting a group could rearrange pins in other groups
• Fixed bug where moving items up/down could rearrange pins in other groups
• Fixed bug where non-url targets that resemble URLs are sometimes treated as URLs (e.g. "button%20returned:ok" was treated as a URL, now it is not)
• Fixed bug where leaving pin name blank did not use the target as the pin name, despite saying it would
• Fixed bug where the {{selectedText}} placeholder caused an alert sound to play if no text was selected

Bug fixes - June 19, 2023

• Fixed bug where pins without a group would not be treated as valid pins in some cases
• Fixed bug where "Duplicate" action would overwrite the original pin
• Fixed bug where script placeholders resolving to empty strings would show an error when used as the target of a pin
• Changed "New Pin" to default to Favicon / File Icon instead of "None"

Pinned Terminal Commands, Placeholders, Pin Expirations, and More - June 16, 2023

• Added per-pin "Open With" setting to allow you to choose which application to open the pin in
• Added per-pin "Expiration Date" setting to automatically remove the pin after a given date & time
• Added support for pinning Terminal commands
• Added additional "Quick Pins" for various actions, e.g. pinning the selected note in Notes, pinning selected files in Finder, pinning current document in Pages/Word, etc.
• Added Placeholder system inspired by PromptLab
• Added action to open the Placeholders Guide in the default Markdown viewer
• Added action to install example pins on first launch
• Added actions for copying pin/group names and URLs
• Added setting to display "Recent Applications" group
• Added setting to hide pins when any of their placeholders are not currently valid, e.g. {{selectedText}} when no text selected
• Added various display settings
• Fixed bug where NEXT_PIN_ID would not be set upon importing data, causing repeated pin IDs
• Fixed bug where pins would attempt to fetch favicons for non-URL targets, causing endless warnings in the console
• Fixed bug where "Pin This Tab" would fail if the tab name contained commas
• Fixed bug where menu bar dropdown would not update after adding pins for the first time

Minor Improvements - May 22, 2023

• Added "Preferred Browser" setting to allow you to choose which browser to open links in
• Added support for tilde expansion in paths
• Added menu items for "Pin This Tab", "Pin This Directory", and "Pin This App"
• Added 'Show "Pin This" shortcut' setting to allow you to hide the "Pin This" items
• Added "Create New Pin" and "Create New Group" actions
• Added "Duplicate Pin" action
• When adding a new pin, the icon dropdown will now show the favicon or file icon of the URL/path

Initial Version - October 5, 2022