Weekly Update 7: Wrapping up V1 with interactive curation and UI polish

Hey everyone! Hope you all had a great week.

This week was a lot of work as we planned to launch the v1 this week. The v1 is fully ready! We just have some minor refinements left in our final PR.

Here is a walkthrough video where I take a look around the workflow of the plugin for v1: https://youtu.be/QSN6sExq6p8

This week, I worked on three main pull requests. First, I connected the categorization action to Joplin's tags and notebooks, and built a full Undo action to revert changes safely (PR #26). Next, I redesigned the panel stylesheet and polished the layout to give it a clean look (PR #28). Finally, I added manual drag-and-drop to move notes between clusters and allowed creating custom categories inline (PR #29).

Problem Faced
We had a design discussion on PR #26 about where to put the newly created folders. We decided that root-level folders are cleaner than nesting them under a parent notebook. However, we want a clean way to show that they are AI-generated. I'm thinking of adding a emoji prefix or any other way to make them stand out, though there is also a question of whether we really want this feature.

Plan for Next Week is to get the final PRs merged and finally launch the v1! Also, while using the plugin, I noticed some issues with noise notes (notes those sitting right on the border of the clusters). I need to experiment and see how I can improve the quality and efficiency of the clusters, so I will experiment and find the best possible way to do it.

This is how the ui looks
Dark mode: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6f139926-f17f-43ff-95c4-6b9f3f6f3b7e
Light mode: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/76fe58e5-b454-4bfc-9499-52a4fd36c83c

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