Hello Christiaan, 

I’m very interested in this “syncable” notes feature, because syncing tools 
have caused some problems for me in the past.  I don’t see much documentation 
of how the notes format has changed on the wiki, just explanations for hidden 
preferences, command-line switches, etc.  So I have two questions:  

1. Do you know whether syncable notes will work with other services besides 
iCloud?  I primarily use Google Drive.  

2. If we have existing files with legacy (non-syncable) notes, I’m guessing 
we’ll need to “manually" change the notes format to make them syncable.  Is 
something like `skimnotes convert -s file.pdf` the best way to do this?  

Thanks, 
Dan Hicks
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Dan Hicks
Assistant Professor
Cognitive and Information Sciences
University of California, Merced

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and social standing, never can bring about a reform.  Those who are really in 
earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation.” — 
Susan B. Anthony

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> On Mar 23, 2020, at 5:43 AM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> A new version of Skim is available for download at 
> <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ <http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/>> or 
> using the built-in updater.
> 
> Thanks to those of you who submitted reproducible bug reports and comments 
> along with the exception reports; as always, please continue to submit bug 
> reports at <http://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/_list/tickets 
> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=192583>>.
> 
> For those interested in what is fixed, release notes follow.
> 
> Changes since Skim 1.5.6
> 
> NOTE:  If you need attached notes to be read by older versions of Skim 
> (before 1.5.4), you should choose to write legacy Skim notes in the General 
> preferences.
> 
> New Features
>   *  New feature showing an overview of all pages.
>   *  Shortcuts Control-= and Option-Control-= to auto size text notes 
> (ignoring width).
>   *  Text note editing respects newlines (Tab commits, Option-Tab inserts 
> tab).
>   *  Allow using note resize shortcuts when editing text note.
>   *  Write syncable Skim notes by default (preserved by iCloud).
>   *  New preference to write legacy Skim notes.
>   *  SkimNotes and SkimPDF tools now write syncable Skim notes by default.
>   *  New hidden preference to include newlines from the selection in the 
> default note text.
>   *  Contextual menu item to bring a note to the front for selection of 
> overlapping notes.
> 
> Bugs Fixed
>   *  Fix opening Skim notes documents from Finder on Catalina.
>   *  Fix some Japanese terms.
>   *  Workaround for crash when converting notes with popups.
>   *  Workaround for layout bugs when opening a locked PDF file.
>   *  Fix text note layout during edit.
>   *  Make sure edits in the notes table are committed before e.g. saving.
> 
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