Suggestions for footnotes, formatting, templates, and windows

I’m currently exploring the trial and very pleased so far. I do have a few suggestions:

  • Footnotes
    • I would ideally like them to update the numbering if you insert a source between two previous citations. Writing doesn’t always happen linearly, so this is important.
    • I’m unsure how to insert a footnote for a source I’ve already used. The /footnote command only inserts a new number and source.
  • Formatting
    • I would like the ability to format text with a superscript or subscript. I can’t find a setting to do that.
  • Templates
    • I’d like to be able to insert a template after creating a page. When I create a link by highlighting text and choose link, I’m not asked to add a template. So then I need to delete that page, create it with template, and then make sure it’s linked or I have to copy and paste the template in myself.
  • Window Management
    • I like the split screen options, but opening a page in a separate window would also be nice (similar to how Obsidian works) where a smaller window doesn’t have the full UI displayed.
  • Cross-platform
    • I am loving MojoPad so far, and would love even more if I could use it cross-platform on Windows. To truly make the most of it, that would be a significant improvement.

Let me look these over this evening and come back to you.

Mark

1 Like

I can get the first 3 delivered soon. Just want to wait a bit as I just sent out a huge release and want to see what issues might come in before I start coding something new. The 4th one I can likely get shortly after the first 3. Cross platform has already been on the radar. It will happen, just not sure yet on timing. If I was to take a guess, I would say in the next 3-4 months.

Mark

Fantastic, I appreciate the quick response.

The first 4 requests will deliver in the next release, which will be 1.46.0.

Mark

1.46.0 has just released. Included are your first 4 requests.

Mark

1 Like

I have some additional requests. I appreciate the previous implementation. Each feature works just as I hoped.

  • Support for markdown comments or a similar comment system
    • Example: %% This comment is not part of the writing %%
  • Small windows have been a great addition.
    • I would like if they did not stay on top of other windows.
  • Word count
    • When selecting part of the text, display the word count of the selection instead of the entire page.
  • Import URL
    • When importing a URL, save the URL at the top of the page or as a URL property.

Try 1.54.0 just released.

Mark

1 Like

There have been a lot of additions to the app, which is great, but the menus have become quite long in some cases. (The File menu on my Macbook Air, is taller than the height of the screen). I think it would be helpful to move some things into settings windows instead. As an idea, too, Tinderbox has a toggle to disable AI entirely and to enable/disable it per document. I think that would be a great option to have in Mojopad, as well, and then if AI is disabled then to hide the related menu bar items and options and make the application more of a lite or blank slate version.

Menus slimmed down in 1.54.1 release.

Mark

Thank you! The new menu is a lot more manageable on my laptop screen.

1 Like

Regarding the turning off AI:

It is built. Two switches, and they are the two you named:

Settings ▸ AI ▸ Use no AI at all turns the whole of it off for the app.

Info palette ▸ Document ▸ Use no AI in this wiki turns it off for one wiki, whatever the app-wide setting says.

Either one being on is enough — the two never argue, and the quieter answer always wins.

What “off” means, precisely, because a switch like this is only worth having if you can trust it: nothing is generated, nothing is indexed by meaning, no model is loaded at all, and every button, menu item and panel that offered either one is gone. Not greyed out — gone. What is left is the app as it was before any of this existed: writing, links, tags, folders, search, tasks, publishing, all untouched.

That second clause is the one I would have got wrong if I had built this carelessly. The obvious version stops MojoPad writing things and quietly leaves it reading — still indexing your wiki when you open it, still working while you type. You would have had a Settings pane telling you something that was not true.

Per-wiki travels with the wiki, not with the Mac. A set of records that should never go near a model keeps refusing wherever it is opened, including on a machine where the app-wide setting says yes. That seemed the only useful way round: the document knows what it is, and the machine does not.

Nothing you have already made is touched. Pages written with AI, saved answers, synthesis pages — ordinary pages, still there, still searchable. Only the offer to make more of them goes, and turning it back on returns everything exactly where it was.

One honest gap. A handful of buttons live on the pages themselves rather than in the app’s furniture — a rebuild button on a generated index page, the footer on an AI card in a canvas. Those stay on pages that already have them. Nothing they offer will actually run, because the switch is underneath them and not merely over them, but the button is still on screen. It only affects you if you have used AI and then switched it off, and it is on the list.

All of this is in the next update rather than something you can go and try tonight — there is a fair amount going into that release.

Thank you for the suggestion, and for the framing. An app that runs its AI on your own machine has no subscription to defend, which makes “you can switch it off completely” an easy thing to offer and, I think, a better thing to be able to say than most of what the feature itself does.

Mark

1.56.0 Released, adds the Master NO AI switch in settings.

Mark

I love having that option, especially on a per-wiki basis in a document’s palette. Thank you, Mark, for adding that! Also, for the enhancement on playgrounds for wikis where I do want AI, as I tested yesterday with openrouter and that worked great. Really impressive!

1 Like