Adding extensions

An extension adds to Sorus. One extension can bring any mix of:

• types, with their fields and templates;
• apps, each a place in the sidebar with its own screens;
• views, new ways to show a saved view in Objects, such as a board;
• blocks, which draw its objects inside pages;
• commands for the palette, sometimes with a shortcut;
• jobs that run in the background, such as syncing from a service.

You install, update and remove an extension as one.

Install one

Click + beside Apps in the sidebar. The list shows the extensions that come with Sorus and what each brings. Click Install.

Before anything is installed, Sorus shows what the extension:

• brings into the workspace: its types and their fields;
• builds on: what else of yours it can read or change, such as your pages, the calendar or the day log, each marked read or read and write;
• reaches: websites, accounts and background jobs, if any.

Click Install to go ahead.

Use a type you already have

If you already have a type like one the extension brings, Sorus offers to use yours. Under As, choose Your type “…” instead of A new type. Sorus tells you which fields your type will gain. Your objects stay as they are, and the extension works with them.

From a file

At the bottom of the list, Install from a file… takes an extension file someone gave you. Sorus checks it and shows the same summary first.

Signed by Sorus

Extensions made by Sorus carry its signature and a Pages badge. They can sit among Sorus's own places in the sidebar and draw inside Sorus's window. Every other extension runs walled off, in a frame, and reaches only what you approved.

On another device

Installed extensions are part of the workspace, so they come along when it syncs. On a device that hasn't approved one, its app shows Review… instead of running. Review it and click Allow.

The same happens after an update that asks for more than before; what's new is marked New.

Use one

• Its apps are under Apps in the sidebar. Right-click one and choose Pin to Library to move it to the Library.
• Its commands are in the palette.
• Its views are under Show as in Objects.
• Its blocks are in a page's / menu.

Manage one

Open one of its apps and click ⋯ beside the title:

• About shows the summary again.
• Connect or Disconnect an account it uses.
• Run one of its jobs now.
• Uninstall.

Or open the list (+ beside Apps), where installed extensions show Update when a newer version comes with Sorus, and Remove.

Removing an extension keeps its types and your objects. Today and Calendar come with Sorus and can't be removed.