Ability to change/add info text about plugins

[4EXLime]

Hey Baconpaul, and maybe Chris if you see this =)

Loving the consolidated plugin, thanks so much for putting this together. You have your own little section in my Ableton browser and I'm currently just as much in love with the plugins and consolidated as I was when I first discovered them.

I really enjoy reading Chris's deep-dive descriptions in the info panel, they're always interesting even as a pleb that don't know much about DSP. But sometimes when I'm working fast in a session, I just need a really brief, one-sentence reminder of what a specific plugin does. Or, if it is a new plugin, I'd like to be able to briefly get feel for what it is and what other effects it is similar to.

So, would it be possible to add a toggle switch to the info section that lets you flip between "Chris Info" and "User Notes"? Simmilar to Chris sorting and Alphabetical, which I don't know who's idea that was but it is genius! I end up using both of them depending on the day.

This would let us write our own quick cheat sheets, specific use cases, or even paste in short AI-generated summaries. Ideally, it would be amazing if these user notes could live in a separate text file (or JSON) in the user folder. That way, they wouldn't get wiped out when updating to a new version of the plugin, and we could easily back them up.

Thanks for reading, I hope you consider it!

[baconpaul]

This is basically a dup request to #66 which sure we've thought about. And yeah you would want to store 'Documents/Airwindows/UserDocumentation/[pluginname].md` or some such.

Definitely considered it and not no, but its not top of list I'll be honest. But the new AI models are getting so good that maybe i'll bang it out one day as a surprise.

[airwindows]

This is a separate project from the Airwindows codebase, please remember: it drinks in all Airwindows source and uses Github CI to produce a consolidated plugin and a VCV Rack plugin each week in automated form. Paul has always been responsive as far as when the system (typically the Github CI side) breaks for no reason and the plugin needs fixing that week.

The source plugins in the Airwindows repo continue to be human-written on an old Snow Leopard mac (of course this alone doesn't stop a person manually typing in LLM code onto such an old machine, but I'm not doing that) and I have no plans of changing that. I don't tell Paul what to do in any way and am not a coder on this repository, I'm just aware that this might be some form of scandal given my public statements on the subject, so I'm outlining where I stop and Consolidated starts. I write MIT-licensed open source code and this extends permissions very permissively to all sorts of people to do all sorts of things, and that's not going to get less complicated as time goes on :)

[baconpaul]

Oh yeah i use and always have used the latest effective development tools, and am open that the 4.5/4.6 era Anthropic models are a substantial change in quality from prior versions and have boosted my productivity. I’m using them in all my projects.