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August 26, 2021

Integrations

UX/UI Updates

Bug Fixes

New Features

Pieces Release 1.3.9 - Integrations, better search and much more!

Pieces Team

We're shipping a doozy of a release today! Here's what to look forward to:

Pieces for Developers Updates

For newer users, Pieces for Developers is the core user-facing Pieces application.

Managing Your Account

  • View and manage your login status from the Settings menu
  • Tighter coupling between Pieces and Pieces OS
  • Improved user messaging around failed connections between Pieces and Pieces OS

Signup, Install and Onboarding

  • Improved installation & updating infrastructure
  • New user onboarding experience upon installation and first initialization

Viewing and Managing Your Pieces

  • Users can now edit the description for a Piece
  • Users can now reclassify the code language for a Piece
  • Users can now reclassify text as code or code as text
  • Improved keyboard shortcuts
  • Improved tooltips
  • Users can now scroll action menus using keyboard arrows
  • Code snippet previews now have line numbers
  • Scrollbars are now always present in action menus to denote scrollable content
  • Removed wrapping from code previews in a narrow pane experience

Search

  • Upgraded search infrastructure to provide more accurate results
  • Search string highlights when Pieces returns an exact match on a search

Pieces Integrations

  • Launched code.pieces.app/integrations for users to add Pieces integrations

JetBrains

  • Users can now save pieces from within any JetBrains product using the right-click context menu or a hotkey (default is CMD+SHIFT+P)
  • Users can configure hotkeys

Chrome

  • Users can now save pieces from any web URL within Chrome using the right-click context menu or a hotkey (default is CMD+SHIFT+P)

Pieces OS Updates

For newer users, Pieces OS is the background service that enables Pieces to work locally and handles communications with any integrations you install, among many other tasks.

New Pieces OS UI, accessible via the MacOS toolbar

  • Sign in/out of Pieces
  • Learn more about Pieces Integrations
  • Manually quit Pieces OS
  • Manually check for updates

More Updates

  • Improved app installation and updating infrastructure
  • Upgraded API endpoints to accommodate more Pieces Integrations

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Persistent Copilot Chats and More: Pieces for Developers JetBrains Plugin 6.4.0

Time and time again, our users and our team tell us that chatting with the Pieces Copilot in their IDE is downright revolutionary for their development workflow.

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Persistent Copilot Chats Land in JupyterLab: Pieces for Developers JupyterLab 1.8.0

We’re excited to bring even more of our popular features to JupyterLab users.

November 17, 2023
Auto-Annotated Copilot Conversations: Pieces for Developers VS Code 1.9.0 & Obsidian 1.7.0

Chatting with the Pieces Copilot in your favorite IDE or knowledge management tool is a big boost, but we’re always dreaming up ways to make it even more helpful.