Happy New Year! We hope you all had a great time celebrating the hollidays.

Just a couple of months ago, we released Pagehop 1.0. But we haven’t stopped working, not even for a day, and here we are! Check the highlights of our first (not so) minor release — 1.1. You can download Pagehop 1.1 from here.

New look!

With Pagehop 1.1 we decided to address one of the most mentioned by our users issue —”da looks”. ☺ With 1.0 we targeted functional completeness, extensibility, full documentation etc. and now we decided to finally get to the drawing board (literally) and make a beautiful UI design.

So, what used to look like this:

…became this:

Quite the transformation, isn’t it? ☺

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Check for update

A few seconds to couple of minutes after new version of Pagehop is available, users will be notified.

Manual check through the menu is available for convenience.

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Direct navigation to a url

Just like in the browser (but few key strokes, less), you can directly write the url you want to visit.

This is also useful for page-hopping — instead of searching for your starting point with a recipe, you can simply write it down and start hopping with the :l (Links) tool.

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No more scraping of Hacker News

The recipe now uses the new HN API!

We are, generally, seeing a small performance gain, but this is just the beginning, since the API hasn’t really been optimized for real-world usage, yet (it’s just v. 0). For example, right now, we have to make a separate request for every single item to be fetched, while batching probably will be added soon.

Unfortunately, we had to cut a few of the options of the recipe — :c and :n are not supported — simply can’t be implemented with the current state of the HN API. But don’t worry, we contacted the API team and they’ve assured us, these will soon be possible.

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Shortcut in Menu

As pointed by some of Pagehop’s early users, the shortcut to open Pagehop should be easier to find.

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System recipe replaces AllRecipes and AllTools

The new recipe System, provides 3 options:

:r list all recipes

list all recipes :t list all tools

list all tools :u check for update

We’re also testing out an idea for in-recipe help with System:

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Keep last query and results

Starting from 1.1, Pagehop will preserve the last written query and the loaded results, so you never need to rewrite a big query again.

Opening Pagehop with the last query it was closed with, the text will be selected. This means that if you just start typing, you will effectively replace the previous query with your new one.

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You can always type

In ver 1.0, you could tab between the query field and the results. But since many of our users found this weird, we decided that you always should be able to type. Pressing the Up and Down arrows now will change selection, but the caret will remain active in the query field.

Because of this change, we had to disable a feature (temporarily) — pressing Right arrow now doesn’t append :l at the end of the query since the field is always active (focused) and Right arrow is already used for moving the caret a character to the right. We are open to suggestions as to how should we return this feature.

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Many more tiny improvements and lots of bugs fixed

You can check the complete list of items in the Pagehop 1.1's Release Notes.

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Huge Thanks!

to all of our users for being the best! Thanks for your awesome feedback and support.

We hope this release will make your experience even better.

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Until next time

We cincerely hope this release will make you at least 1/2 as happy as we are — that’s a lot!

If you want to help us spread the word about our little app — please share this post in your social channels and/or like our page in Facebook and/or follow us on Twitter and/or follow us on Ello.

If you have ideas you want to share, custom recipes/tools, or a custom case for using Pagehop — don’t hesitate to contact us.

If you are enjoying using Pagehop, please, consider buying a license.

So, what are you waiting for? Go ahead and download Pagehop 1.1.

Enjoy!

Cheers,

The Pagehop Team