I'll be posting the weekly updates on my project in this topic.
Week 1 (June 7 - June 13)
- Expose the prompt used by Joplin Desktop App so it can be used by plugins. (Desktop: Expose prompt to plugins as a command by nishantwrp · Pull Request #5058 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub)
- Initialize plugin using generator framework
- Setup lint, build CI checks.
- Very basic implementation of a special notebook for templates.
Points to note
- I decided to go with using a special notebook for templates as per the poll results here (Opinion on the templates should be organized - #3 by nishantwrp).
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Week 2 (June 14 - June 20)
- Integrated the Joplin prompt with the template plugin to get user selection of templates.
- Built basic createTodoFromTemplate, insertTemplate, createNoteFromTemplate features.
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Week 3 (June 21 - June 27)
- Made the PR for removing template feature when the plugin is complete (Dekstop: Refactor: Remove templates feature by nishantwrp · Pull Request #5115 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub)
- Worked on the default templates feature in the plugin. (Default templates feature by nishantwrp · Pull Request #2 · joplin/plugin-templates · GitHub)
Points to note
- It has been decided that we'll be using templates notebook to store the templates. But the templates can be created in other notebooks too using a tag.
- We've almost finalised the way we'll be handling transition of users for the native feature to the plugin.
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Week 4 (June 28 - July 4)
- Completed the default templates feature in the plugin. (Default templates feature by nishantwrp · Pull Request #2 · joplin/plugin-templates · GitHub)
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Week 5 (June 5 - July 11)
- Integrated handlebars with the plugin and made all the current templates compatible with the plugin. (Parser: Handlebars integration by nishantwrp · Pull Request #3 · joplin/plugin-templates · GitHub)
- Added a banner in the main app that prompts users to install templates plugin. (Desktop: Add a banner asking users to install templates plugin by nishantwrp · Pull Request #5164 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub)
Misc PRs
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Week 6 (June 12 - July 18)
- Work on adding support for template variables. (Add support for template variables by nishantwrp · Pull Request #5 · joplin/plugin-templates · GitHub)
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Week 7 (July 19 - July 25)
- Adding support for template variables. (Add support for template variables by nishantwrp · Pull Request #5 · joplin/plugin-templates · GitHub )
Plan for this week
- Support creating templates in other notebooks using a tag.
- Load existing templates for users making a switch from native feature to this plugin.
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Week 8 (July 26 - Aug 1)
- Support for creating templates from tags only. (Support creating templates only using tags by nishantwrp · Pull Request #11 · joplin/plugin-templates · GitHub)
- Loading previous templates (Automatically load previous templates by nishantwrp · Pull Request #13 · joplin/plugin-templates · GitHub)
Points to note
- There was a lot of discussion on the way templates are stored. And there's a major change in that. Please refer Changing the way templates will be stored.
- Mostly probably, I'll be able to make a release by the end of upcoming week
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Week 9 (Aug 2 - Aug 8)
- Update documentation (Documentation updates by nishantwrp · Pull Request #14 · joplin/plugin-templates · GitHub)
- Released the first version of the plugin .
Points to note
- The first ready-to-use version of the plugin was released this week. Take a look at the release post.
Plans for this week
- As upcoming week is the last week before the final submission in Google Summer of Code, I'll be working on the final blog report.
- Work on adding some unit tests.
- Work on feature requests by the community.
Although, the upcoming week is the last week of the official GSoC coding period, I plan to actively maintain the plugin even after the coding period ends 
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Week 10 (Aug 9 - Aug 15)
This week, I mainly improved on improving the plugin, writing some unit tests, fixing bugs, spec for specifying the title and tags in the template, etc.
Plugin Changelog since first release (1.0.0)
1.1.3 (2021-08-14)
Bug Fixes
1.1.2 (2021-08-12)
Bug Fixes
- display sorted templates in the selector (3f9a35c), closes #24
- template-variables: log the necessary info if variables form is unable to load (74d1124)
1.1.1 (2021-08-11)
Bug Fixes
- release: add scripts to sync version with manifest.json (f849fe6)
- version: update the version in manifest (d5635f1)
1.1.0 (2021-08-11)
Features
Bug Fixes
- don't create provisional notes/todos while using templates (3399aea)
- legacy-templates: improve the readme note (#19) (7215777)
- parser: display error message when template can't be parsed (7dfcdf2), closes #15
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As this was the last week of the official Google Summer of Code coding period, I'll not be adding posts about further work on this topic but instead I'll be using this topic to inform about the further releases of the plugin. If you face any issues or have feature requests you can use Github Issues for that purpose. Thanks!
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