Roadmap

v2.3.0: New Focus keyword and SEO title generation, many AI optimizations

This release brings a ton of improvements and optimizations, and new SEO features which are the bases for a whole set of new functionalities in the next releases.

New Features

• Page Briefing Mixin enabled by default
  The page briefing becomes more and more important, and so we decided to make it enabled by default for all document nodes.
• Calculate SEO focus keywords
  In collaboration with an SEO expert, we have written a tool that analyzes the content of the current page and identifies probable focus keywords based on this.
• Generate SEO title
  We can now generate SEO page titles based on the focus keyword of the current page.
• Examples for the meta description generation
  You can now configure best-practice examples for meta descriptions in your brand voice based on the document NodeTypes and Sidekick follows these examples. Read the tutorial

AI Optimizations

• Better image alternative texts
  Sidekick now uses the file name, so “A man speaks in front of a group of people.” becomes “Roland Schütz speaks in front of a group of people.” We also tweaked the vision and language models a lot to deliver cleaner results.
• Even better text suggestions
  Rewriting parts of text directly in the content has quickly become the second most used feature. That's why we've paid particular attention to improvements here. When creating without length specification, it now responds shorter, and with GPT-4o and optimizations in our prompt, it responds much faster and stays better in the writing style of the current page.
• 10x longer briefings & support when creating
  We've now upgraded all modules to the latest OpenAI and Claude models, giving you up to 5,000 characters for your briefings. And of course, we wondered if this briefing could be generated. And indeed, we can make very good briefing drafts based on your current website, which you only need to check briefly.
• Avoid salutations
  Some customers prefer to avoid a salutation in their texts, especially in German with. We now support this as well, and the salutation is now configured in the settings to be consistent for all generations, including image alternative texts and meta descriptions.
• Better word usage overview
  Because some customers have very high usage, we make it easy for you to see the words used in the current month in the settings. We currently allow you to exceed the limits in individual months.
• Hide content from AI
  Some developers display sensitive content inline in the Neos backend, such as form responses including personal data. If you want to prevent AI from reading parts of your page in the backend, you can simply add the attribute data-neosidekick-skip to any HTML tags.
• LinkedIn share message
  We have completely overhauled the LinkedIn message generation, now creating several suggestions and implementing many tricks from a Viennese LinkedIn marketing expert.
• Using the new OpenAI GPT-4o
  We have been testing the new OpenAI model excessively over the last few days, not only against our own NEOSidekick-specific benchmarks, but also manually and with a small group of editors. We are gradually rolling out GPT-4o to all users over the next few days. This will mean approximately twice as fast generation and even more precise adoption of the website's writing style.

v2.2.0: New inline text editor

We’re taking a massive step forward to make text editing even more effortless and speedy. As per popular request, NEOSidekick can now edit inline editable text without the annoying copy-paste from the chat window.

The new editing UI enables the creation and editing of texts directly in Neos, with a sprinkle of magic. The language model knows which formatting options are allowed in the current property, the entirety of the page content being edited, and of course, your briefing. This allows for the precise tweaking and rephrasing of individual words or sentence parts.

If you're so excited that you're not using the chat window at all, you can also deactivate it:

NEOSidekick:
  AiAssistant:
    chatSidebarEnabled: false

v2.1.0 Image Alt-Text Generator Module

New Features

• Image Alt-Text Generator Module
• Arrow-up to last message in chat supports multiple steps up and down similar to the terminal

Bugfixes

• Load default editors when AiAssistant cannot be initialized or permissions are missing

v2.0 Inline-Editable Property Generation per Button Click

New Features

• Configure a Generate-Button inside the CKEditor-Toolbar for inline editable properties
• Support for Flowpack.NodeTemplates
• "Use page content for generations" has moved to the settings and thus applies equally to all users

Improvements

• The Alt-Text-Generator can now handle images with more than 5000px
• If no HTTP scheme is configured on a Neos website, we use HTTP as a fallback for image analysis.
• Much more robust error messages for misconfigured elements.
• Optimize JavaScript imports and build plugin
• Better race-condition handling, when users click very fast

Breaking Changes

YAML NodeType API changed to allow configuring a text generation for edit and create of inline editable properties. For this, module and arguments move directly to the sidekick configuration, and onCreate is now a boolean value. Here's an example:

options:
  sidekick:
    onCreate: true
    module: 'free_conversation'
    arguments:
      content: 'Generate a TDLR with 5 bulletpoint [...]'

Bugfixes

• Currently, users can't generate multiple properties in parallel, we added a clear warning message and prevent the second generation to prevent streaming issues
• When a node is deleted during generation, we cancel the generation