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  • Roadmap Early 2020

    The first Patreon vote of 2020 is now closed, so it’s time for the roadmap for the beginning of the new year. The amazing patrons were once again split between two features, with more features for the calendar taking a slight lead. Calendars More moon phases shown. Resetting each month on the first day of the week. Aliases for…

  • Release 0.30.2

    With this first update for 2020 I’m fixing a bunch of bugs that were reported during the holidays and improving the experience for new users. Improvements Onboarding: the first campaign of a user will now include a Note with some help, as well as a default campaign dashboard with said note and the recently modified…

  • Release 0.30.1

    With this last update for 2019, we fix a few last bugs to ensure that you can enjoy Kanka during your end of year sessions. Improvements Type field suggestions now shows the recently used values instead of alphabetical values. Bugfixes Organisations: children organisations page doesn’t generate an error anymore. Entities: changing types no longer removed…

  • Release 0.30

    This update brings to the app some new foundations for ordering on subpages (inventories, relations, quest characters, location families, etc) New Features Subpage Odering A new foundation was added to the app to allow for some easy and simple ordering on subpages. The selected order is saved in the session. This new option has been…

  • Release 0.29

    This update brings to life the highly desired Bulk Editor for campaign admins! New Features Bulk Editor Campaign admins have a new button “Bulk Edit & Batch Tagging” in entity lists. The previous “Private/Public” actions were removed and placed into this new interface. Improvements Maps: a colour selector has replaced the dropdown of predefined colours. Tags: added pink and brown as colour…

  • Roadmap End of 2019

    With the new every two month Patreon vote now closed, it’s time for the roadmap for the end of the year 2019. The amazing patrons have clearly voted for Bulk Editing and Batch Tagging to become a reality. Bulk Editing & Batch Tagging Allow campaign admins to quickly edit fields of several entities at a time on the entities…

  • Release 0.28

    This update brings live the big changes announced during the previous announcement, Two Years of Kanka and Future Goals. This includes Boosted Campaigns, Mentions v3.1, and many other improvements and bug fixes. New Features Boosted Campaigns Patreons at the $3 tier and above now have boosters available in their Settings > Boost page and can assign…

  • Two Years of Kanka and Future Goals

    Dear Patrons and users, Kanka is about to turn two years old, meaning the time is right to look back at what started as a small project for my wife and I to track our D&D world together evolve into a massive tool uses by thousands of users and supported by hundreds of kind souls.…

  • Shadow

    A month ago the new mentions were published, which included a script that went into each entry and replaced links to the new [entry:123] syntax. While at first only a few edge cases of problems were reported, more and more people are coming forward with entities that have missing text. At first I would go into the…

  • Two Year Review

    With Kanka now two years old, it’s time to look at some stats again. The last stats were for the 18 months of the project. Let’s start off with some raw numbers. Numbers 18k accounts created 96 accounts deleted 5’530 accounts logged in at least twice during the last 3 months. (30%) 2’510 accounts older than three…