• Editor: selection selector could contain wrong section if section names shared common prefixes
• Editor: fix paste RTF with new line symbol bug
• Wrong CN instance could be picked when opening notelinks
• Startup issue: possible “bad locale name” exception
• Simplenote sync: fixed too many “delete tag” requests
• Fixed possible crash after changing window docking settings
• Fixed possible crash after unsetting the “Snap window to screen edges” option

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• Rules: new action types: “Copy to Section” and “Move to Recycle Bin”
• Exporting attachments to HTML

Fixes:

• Editor: Bulleting stops after Shift+Enter and Enter
• Editor: note link text preview hint stays after Alt+Tab to another window
• Unnecessary log files appearing
• Sorting by Remarks was not added to main menu
• Crash when try to delete tag with notes
• Attachments: exception after adding zero-sized files

The post CintaNotes 3.13 Released! appeared first on CintaNotes.

• Sorting by Remarks field
• Simplenote sync: Add option to sync every 1 minute
• Simplenote sync: automatically turn on Markdown mode for uploaded new notes

Fixes:

• Editor: fix links in rich text when pasted into other programs such as MS Word
• Editor: Copy/paste of a bullet list with multiple indent levels doubles the space between each indent
• Editor: marker highlight (Ctrl+H) was lost after copy/paste
• Clipping from HTML: sometimes words in angle brackets were skipped
• Error when using create note keyboard shortcut with locked notebook
• Now it’s possible to copy/paste notes with attachments from one notebook into another
• HTML export: MS Word couldn’t open files produced by exporting notes to HTML
• Simplenote sync: don’t add blank line + “source: someprogram.exe” to each note

The post CintaNotes 3.12 Released! appeared first on CintaNotes.

• Added option to disable duplicate title removal: “Options/Clipping/Remove Duplicate Titles”.
• Editor: don’t treat underscore as word separator on double click

Fixes:

• [Regression] Some rules stopped working in 3.10
• Editor: bullets won’t stop after multiple Enter presses
• Crash upon clipping when no application active

The post CintaNotes 3.11 Released! appeared first on CintaNotes.

• (PRO) Wildcard-based search: Added “Use * and ? wildcards” option to the search box menu
• (PRO) Wildcards support in Rules
• Wildcards support in Find/Replace dialog in editor

Enhancements:

• Duplicate title elimination on clipping If the first non-empty line of the note is also present in the title, it is removed.
• Added Options/Window menu entries to control window docking
• Added “app.mainframe.minimizeonctrlenter” cintanotes.settings option to control minimizing after Ctrl+Enter

Fixes:

• Regression: clipping from IE or CHM files inserts raw HTML
• Regression: clipping from recent versions of Firefox could insert raw HTML
• Fixed “Previous application instance failed to terminate” error message appearing when restarting one of simultaneusly running CN instances
• Fixed crash when copying note link directly after registring license key
• Main window no longer activated after closing editor opened from an LNK file
• Simplenote sync: sync couldn’t finish if note had damaged footer

The post CintaNotes 3.10 Released! appeared first on CintaNotes.

• Fixed issues with window docking on high-DPI screens
• Fixed issues with clipping from MS Edge browser on Windows 10
• Clipping from LibreOffice or TextMaker inserted raw HTML into notes
• Regression: editor window auto-closes on fast text selection
• Removed unnecessary warning about exceeding size Limit for attachment synchronization when sync is not active

The post CintaNotes 3.9.1 Released! appeared first on CintaNotes.

• Dock main and editor windows to screen edges
• Dock editor windows to main window

Enhancements:

• Clipping: don’t record browser name in note title

Fixes:

• Regression: extra newlines when clipping HTML from Firefox
• HTML clipping: empty bullets in lists when clipping from Firefox
• Synchronization: fix syncing attachments when WebDAV returned error

The post CintaNotes 3.9 Released! appeared first on CintaNotes.

• Links to attachments: usability improvements

Fixes:

• Extra spaces inside brackets after clipping text with HTML formatting
• Regression: CN window not activated when activating existing instance
• Editor windows not reopened after File/Exit
• Editor: minor note link issues
• Link protocol registration popup not always visible
• Regression: custom protocols not working in the Link field
• Editor: disable drag and drop of text which was not undoable

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• Autosave currently edited note Completely transparent to the user: in case of crash or power failure, edited note will be reopened after startup.
• Editor: Added “Paste as plain text” command to context menu with Ctrl+Alt+V shortcut
• Added option to auto minimize on losing focus to the Options menu

  Use Options/Window/Minimize on losing focus submenu to configure timeout.

Enhancements:

• Notes list: more prominent display of selected tags in note previews
• Retain tag filter when hiding tag sidebar
• Double the length limit for names of note links
• “Window/Close to tray” option is now active by default
• “Window/Minimize to tray” option is now not active by default
• Added “–close” (“-c”) command line option to close all app instances from batch files

Fixes:

• Updates subscription ending notification couldn’t be hidden
• Editor: fixed extremely slow opening of some notes
• Editor: entering uppercase accented letters was not possible in some locales

  Added “editor.shortcuts.rightalt.enabled” option to regulate this.

• Remembered password shouldn’t be requested upon clipping
• Recycle bin: zlib decompress error upon opening
• Rules: rule windows underneath main window when main window is “always on top”
• Don’t focus main window after closing editor if main window wasn’t active when this editor was created
• Editor: Pasting from Outlook inserted “&nbsp”‘s
• Print and HTML export: line breaks in wrong places

The post CintaNotes 3.8 Released! appeared first on CintaNotes.

• Drag-and-dropping text from any application into CintaNotes

Fixes:

• Clipping shortcuts with Windows key not working
• Clipping: possible error upon clipping
• Tag sidebar: wrong tag counts after cancelled import
• Import: Exception after canceling import
• Editor: crash during paste
• Editor: attachment item height shouldn’t depend on icon size
• Printing: “current view” now enabled even when there are no filters applied
• Pasting HTML in editor now obeys Options/Clipping/Formatting settings
• Tag autocomplete shouldn’t disappear on BkSp, but continue showing appropriate results

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• Parse HTML for links and basic formatting upon clipping
• New Options/Clipping/Formatting submenu
• Support pasting of HTML into notes list and note editor

Enhancements:

• Note links: open another notebook’s note if it exists in opened notebook
• Make scrollbars clickable when window is maximized and mouse is at the rightmost edge

Fixes:

• Export: XML not created when previous directory is removed
• Note links: keyboard shortcuts didn’t work in Russian
• HTML export: regression – no spacing between paragraphs
• Editor: tab indents not lining up correctly
• Drag and drop: block keyboard while drag
• Editor: unwanted keyboard layout change upon paste
• Notes list: weird selection behavior when selection.followedited = 0
• About dialog: missing licensee info
• Simplenote sync: sync could fail because of certificate security error
• Clipping was not always working in IE9+

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• Simplenote sync is now free
• Links to attached files Added ability to insert links to attached files into note text

Enhancements:

• 10-day trial PRO license is now included by default
• 30-day extended trial available per request
• Ability to choose active license type
• Lock note drag-and-drop when scrolling note text (when left mouse button is held and wheel scrolled)

Fixes:

• HTML export: force keeping spaces if note text font is monospaced
• Possible error when deleting note from Recycle Bin
• Tag sidebar: unwanted tag list scroll (regression)
• Rules: backslash symbol not properly escaped in rule conditions
• Notes list: Wrong timestamp highlighting

The post CintaNotes 3.5 Released! appeared first on CintaNotes.

• Drag-and-drop reordering of section tabs

Enhancements:

• Rules: option to hide rule application notifications. Added menu item “Options / Rules / Notify When Applied”
• Import: “Import rules” checkbox
• Editor: option to turn off automatic adding of space to the Tags field. Added “editor.tagsfield.autoaddspace” parameter to cintanotes.settings

Fixes:

• Keyboard issue with the rules log dialog

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• Highlight the note that is about to receive drag-and-dropped tag
• Editor: add space to the end of the tags field after saving a note (for easier adding of more tags)

Fixes:

• Fix tag list scroll buttons behavior
• Drag-and-drop shouldn’t cause main window to lose focus
• Dragged notes should appear selected
• Editor: fix random jump when clicking in the note body after scrolling with mouse wheel

The post CintaNotes 3.3.1 Released! appeared first on CintaNotes.

• Drag-n-drop tags onto notes
• Drag-n-drop notes onto sections

Enhancements:

• Rules: update deafult rule name in real-time during editing
• Rules: add F8 shortcut to call up Rules list

Fixes:

• Message dialogs: “Don’t ask again” didn’t work when selecting “No”
• HTML export: bullets not indented properly
• Rules: sometimes condition and action values were replaced by section names
• Rules editor: fix incorrect TAB order and initial focus
• Rules: rule actions upon save weren’t always reflected in the note editor
• Rules: switching db should be prohibited when rule editor is displayed
• Rules: “have parents of” condition for tags produced SQLite error when specified tag doesn’t have parents

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• Rules: add “has children of” and “has parents of” operators to Tags field
• Rules: add “comes before” and “comes after” operators for text fields

Fixes:

• Editor: fixed error when deleting note using Ctrl+Del
• “Open in editor” should be disabled when silent clipping mode is on
• Rules: fix “for all notes” rule condition not working
• Rules: fix TAB, ESC don’t work in note editor when rule editor is open
• Rules: “Remove tag” action should also remove child tags of specified tag
• HTML export: printing note text only produces gray borders that gets wider
• Fix possible error upon program restart
• Notes list: Tag capitalization had effect on ordering in preview
• Notes list: tags are incorrectly shortened with ellipsis
• Tag sidebar: untagged count display was not always correct
• Editor: Wrong control positions after modified date is displayed
• Alt +F didn’t always activate File menu
• Section limit in free version didn’t consider section names

The post CintaNotes 3.2.1 Released! appeared first on CintaNotes.

• Autotagging Rules: Automatic assignment of tags and sections to notes. See “File / Rules” menu item

Enhancements:

• File attachments: add ability to save to disk multiple attachments at once
• Editor: add advanced option to copy text without formats (“editor.copyplaintextonly” in cintanotes.settings)

Fixes:

• PasswordEnterCancelledException after canceling adding note
• Simplenote sync: synchronization no longer resets note selection
• Editor: std::out_of_range raised on save
• Notes list: RTL numbered lists were rendered incorrectly
• Simplenote sync: failure to sync from behind a proxy
• Large DPI sizing problems
• Tag drag and drop highlighting problems
• Tag drag and drop: didn’t always correctly process mouse leaving
• Fixed HotKeyEditor Ctrl + Alt bug
• Import from a password-protected older format notebook required entering password twice
• Deleting section didn’t also delete autodeletable tags
• Replacing and renaming tags was extremely slow on large number of tags and notes
• Negative search didn’t work correctly with “anywhere” or “attachments” fields
• HTML export: wrong rendering of RTL text

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6. Quickly search the whole notebook

As usual, let’s start with a “must-know-about” feature. One of the most frequently asked questions is “How do I search in ALL my notes, not only the active section?”

The answer is: simply double click on any section, or press Ctrl+Shift+Space. This will select all sections, and will enable you to search the whole notebook.

By the way, you might remember that when sections first appeared in CintaNotes 2.0, as soon as you created a new section beyond the default one, a special “All” button appeared to the left of the section tabs. Later it was removed because people kept thinking that it was a section, and because it made the UI bulky. But you still can bring it back if you want to, by setting the sectionbar.allsectionsbutton.displayed parameter to 1 in the cintanotes.settings file. However, I can’t guarantee that this button will still be around in future versions of CN.

7. Bulk note tagging

This feature is not hidden very deep (it has its own menu item, after all), but it is extremely powerful and is heavily underused. To bulk-tag a number of notes, select them, press the F4 key, and enter the tags to add ro remove into the “Add tags” and “Remove tags” boxes.

This is very handy if you want to quickly save current view of notes for further use. Press Ctrl+A to select all currently visible notes and press F4 to tag it with some descriptive tag. If you have PRO license, here you can also use tag hierarchy to make such “saved searches” grouped under some name on the Tag sidebar, for example “*/LargeNotes”.

8. Multiple clipping hotkeys

Wouldn’t it be nice to have different hotkeys for clipping work-related and personal notes? CintaNotes only allows one clipping hot key, this is true. But no one says that you have to use only one instance of CintaNotes!

Make an additional copy of CintaNotes (using the portable version is most convenient for this, but not strictly necessary). The two instances need to use different notebooks. Now you can configure different hot keys in each instance, and select different color themes so that the color of the tray icon is also different and you can tell the instances from each other.

9. Keyboard-only complex tag selections

If you’re a power user of CintaNotes, you probably already know that CintaNotes allows to create complex tag selections using Ctrl-, Alt-, and Shift-clicking on the Tag sidebar. However, many don’t know that the same functionality is available from keyboard, when you enter tags into the search box.

Example 1: You have Tag1 and Tag2 and want to see notes having both of them. Type “Tag1 Tag2” and press Enter (or Ctrl+Enter).

Example 2: You have Tag1 and Tag2 and want to see notes having either of them. Type “Tag1 Tag2” and press Shift+Enter.

Example 3: You have Tag1 and would like to see notes which don’t have it. Type “Tag1” and press Alt+Enter.

Note that the Alt+Enter shortcut also works when some tags are already selected. This means that you can create complex selections by combining the actions from Examples 1-3, like this:

Example 4: You want to select notes that have Tag1 or Tag2 and at the same time don’t have Tag3. Type “Tag1 Tag2” and press Shift+Enter, then type “Tag3” and press Alt+Enter.

10. Removing duplicate notes

CintaNotes doesn’t have a separate feature for removing duplicates, but you can take advantage of the fact that the Import feature can do it.

Simply create a new notebook and import your old notebook into it. If you don’t activate the “Allow duplicates” option, all duplicates will be skipped during the import process. After import is completed, CintaNotes will display an information dialog which contains the number of skipped duplicates. Then you can save the new notebook under the name of the old one.

Well, that’s all for today. Hope that you’ll find the tips above useful and that they will help you stay on top of things!

P.S. Even the basic edition of CintaNotes can make a huge difference to your ability to collect and analyze information. But to make the most of it and get access to advanced features like Simplenote syncing, hierarchic tags and file attachments, you’ll need CintaNotes PRO. The license costs only $39, with full money back guarantee, and also you can get a free 10-day trial key at any time before ordering.

Please consider upgrading to the PRO version – it will help us keep the project going and implement more useful features in future CN versions. Thank you!

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If you’re curious to know how the rules will work and want to take a look at the aforementioned beta, you’ll be able to find it on the forum. But please be warned that this is a very early preview and is very rough around the edges! Please never use beta versions with your actual notes.

The rules are an extremely powerful feature, but this also means that it should be implemented with care, and we want to make sure that user data is safe no matter what. So we’re taking our time here. But as we’re already for more than a month without a release, we thought that now would be a good time to pack all the accumulated fixes and enhancements into a new minor release.

So, here’s what’s new in version 3.1.4:

Ability to Save to Disk Multiple Attachments at Once

It was rather awkward that you could attach several files to a note in one step, but couldn’t do the reverse and had to save them back to disk one-by-one. Not anymore: just select the attachments and choose “Save” in the context menu.

Export, Print: Selecting/Deselecting All Fields with a Single Click

Another minor convenience which was lacking is the ability to quickly toggle the selection of fields in the Export and Print dialog windows.

Other changes

Editor: added cintanotes.settings option to copy text without formats (“editor.copyplaintextonly”)
Improved speed of replacing tags in case of large number of notes and deeply nested tags
Many other fixes (see release notes).

Hope you enjoy this release! And please stay tuned for the news about the upcoming version 3.2 with the Rules feature.

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• File attachments: add ability to save to disk multiple attachments at once
• Export, Print: add ability to select/deselect all fields with a single click
• Editor: add cintanotes.settings option to copy text without formats (“editor.copyplaintextonly”)

Fixes:

• Notes list: RTL numbered lists were rendered incorrectly
• Simplenote sync: synchronization reset note selection
• Editor: possible std::out_of_range error upon saving
• Tag drag and drop: fixed some highlighting problems
• Tag drag and drop: tag sidebar didn’t always handle mouse leaving
• Hot keys: it was possible to set “Ctrl + Alt” as a shortcut
• Import from a password-protected older format notebook required entering password twice
• Fixed some large DPI sizing problems
• Deleting section didn’t delete autodeletable tags
• Replacing tags was extremely slow on large number of tags and notes
• Fixed PasswordEnterCancelledException after canceling adding note
• Fixed PasswordEnterCancelledException when entering tags in note editor
• Fixed “Failed to activate an already running application instance” when running second instance of CN
• Fixed possible InvalidArgumentException upon search start

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Drag-and-Drop Support for Tags in the Tag Sidebar

Now rearranging the hierarchy of tags has become easier than ever! If you want to make tag B child of tag A, just drag-and-drop tag B on tag A with the mouse. Also you can drop tags in-between any other two tags to place it at the same level as they are. This also works for pulling tags up to the top level.

Option to Use Tab Instead of Ctrl+Tab to Insert a TAB Character

Some people found it inconvenient to use Ctrl+Tab to insert a single Tab character. Well, now there’s an alternative – see the see “Options/Editor/Tab Character” menu. When you activate this option, then you’ll need to use Ctrl+Tab to navigate out of the note text editor control, and vice versa.

Other changes

• Clipping: improved rate of providing backlinks to source documents into the “Link” field. Works best when documents are opened with double-click (thus the path to the document can be found in the application command line).
• Links to files embedded in note text were not copied properly if target path contained non-ASCII characters.
• Many other fixes (see release notes).

Download CintaNotes 3.1.3 now!

CintaNotes 3.1.3 portable.

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Quickly add and remove tags

To add a tag to a note, you don’t have to open it and type the tag into the “Tags” field. Simply select the note and middle-click on this tag on the Tag Sidebar, and the tag will be added.

And if the note already has this tag, middle-clicking will remove it instead of adding. This also works when multiple notes are selected: if some of the notes have the tag, but some don’t, middle-clicking will first add the tag to all notes. Only when all notes have the tag, middle-clicking on it will remove it.

Quickly assign section as inbox

To remind, the inbox section is the section which receives clipped notes. If no section is assigned as inbox, clipped notes go to the currently active section.

So, to quickly mark a section as inbox, simply middle click on the section tab. A down-arrow icon will appear to left of the section name, indicating that this section is designated as inbox now. To remove the inbox status, middle-click on the section tab again .

Pin notes for easier scrolling

You don’t have to open note editor to read long notes. While you hold the spacebar key, all navigation commands – mouse wheel scrolling, arrow keys, Home, End, PgUp and PgDown keys operate on the text of the focused note instead of the note list. Try it out – pick a long note, press and hold the spacebar, and, for example, scroll the mouse wheel.

Export notes to PDF (PRO only)

This one is more of a lifehack than a hidden feature, but can be quite useful nevertheless. Although CintaNotes doesn’t have a direct Export to PDF function, you can use the regular Print function and a special “Save as PDF” printer. Note that older Windows versions might not have this printer, in this case, you can use doPDF or similar software.

Use quick text templates (PRO only)

Of course there’re special programs for quick text templates, but why install something extra when CintaNotes also can do it? Simply press Ctrl+Enter on a note, and its text will be inserted into the window that was active immediately before CintaNotes was activated.

The most convenient way to use it is with the “Show main window” hot key. Press Ctrl+Alt+F12 (or your custom) hot key to activate CN, find the note with the text template, press Ctrl+Enter, done!

Hope that you’ll find the tips above useful, and maybe they will help you find even more creative ways of using CN!

In one of the upcoming blog posts we’ll examine 5 more hidden features of the program, so stay tuned and take notes!

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Enhancements:

• Drag-and-dropping of tags within the Tag sidebar
• Option to use single Tab press to insert TAB character instead of Ctrl+Tab (see “Options/Editor/Tab Character” menu)

Fixes:

• Clipping: backlinks to documents were not always added even when they were present in the process’s command line
• CN didn’t restore to maximized size from system tray
• Link to file not copied properly if path contained non-ASCII characters
• Notes count control was cut off at 120 DPI
• Display scaling caused CintaNotes to crash in Windows 10
• Unnecessary save confirmation on pressing Esc in empty new note
• “Database locked” error when CN was used on a network share

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Enhancements:

• Focus top note during the search
• Simplenote sync: don’t run sync on startup if last sync was recent enough
• Editor: improve Esc key handling Esc now cancels by default. Old behavior still available via the new “Options/Editor/Auto Save Changes on Esc” option

Fixes:

• Export and Print: Field lists need to hide the “&” sign
• Editor: wrong double-click word selection behavior
• Incorrect error message when trying to open a corrupted notebook
• Controls were being cut off at 120 DPI
• Error when creating a notebook while an attachment is opened for editing
• Possible PasswordEnterCancelledException on OS restart
• Duplicate parent tag can be created when creating child tag directly from editor
• Search in attachments for “-.” was not working
• Export, Print: increased height of field lists to eliminate need to scroll

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• Added settings option “selection.followedited” to control whether focus should follow the edited note (enabled by default)
• Added settings option “tags.hierarchy.backslashes” which determines if tag input fields should automatically convert backslashes to forward slashes.
• Improved display of note preview when note has remarks but no text
• Editor: only suggest tags from edited note’s section in context-sensitive tag suggestions

Fixes:

• Fixed one remaining possible reason for crashes upon pasting rich text into note editor
• Main windows position was not saved when exiting the program using tray menu
• Regression: tags autocomplete popup cut off text
• Editor: undo of some formatting changes didn’t work
• Search by tag text didn’t properly implement whole word search (i.e. when “search inside words” was turned off)
• Main window was needlessly activated after using “Add new note” hotkey

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Remarks preview in the notes list

In the past, using remarks was quite limited because they were only visible in the note editor. Yes, you could serch by them, but that was it. Now remarks are displayed directly in the notes list, and when there search matches in there, they are properly highlighted:

In the Options / Notes List dialog you can now specify whether remarks should be displayed, and if yes, the maximum number of text lines that should be included into the preview:

Context-sensitive tag suggestions

In this version we tried to make CintaNotes a bit smarter in regards of which tags are suggested when you type them into any tag input field. Previously, tags from all sections were suggested regardless of current context, which could lead to very lengthy suggestion lists.

In this version we introduced the Options / Tags / Context-Sensitive Suggestions option, active by default, which limits suggested tags to the ones already used in current context. By “current context” we understand currently active sections, and, in case of note editing, also the edited note’s section.

This feature is especially useful when you press Cltr+Space without typing anything, to force suggestions display. The list of tags will be much shorter. In case you want to see tags from all sections, simply press Ctrl+Space twice.

Note that if the current context doesn’t have any possible suggestions, CN will suggest tags from the whole notebook. You can force this at any time by pressing Ctrl+Space.

Other changes

• Notebook encryption: added “Lock when PC is locked” option
• Editor: improved handling of local cintanotes:// links.
  Now such links are handled by CintaNotes itself, without using the system protocol handler.
• Many other fixes and improvements. Full change log you can find in the release notes.

Hope that you enjoy the new release!

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• Notes list: display remarks preview
• Options/Notes list: add configuring of remarks preview display
• Added “Options/Tags/Context-Sensitive Suggestions” option. When active, only tags from currently active sections will be suggested for autocomplete.
• Notebook encryption: add “Lock when PC is locked” option

Enhancements:

• Editor: improve handling of local cintanotes:// links Now such links are handled by CintaNotes itself, without using the system protocol handler
• Improve speed of mouse wheel scrolling of tag suggestions
• Moved help online, what reduced the size of the distribution package by 30%.
• Localized help is now opened for Russian and German UI languages.

Fixes:

• Clipping of numbered lists removed first number
• Ad-hoc “Timer N not in the registry” error
• Simplenote sync: crash when chosing “Use system proxy” when in fact system was not configured to use a proxy
• Regression: “Linked note not found” error on normal http links
• Search: word exclusion with (-) sign didn’t work when attachments field was included in search
• Fixed random crashes upon pasting rich text into note editor
• Numbered lists with empty lines are now recognized upon clipping or pasting
• Note properties: date time picker should use system’s date and time format

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• Link fields are no longer lost when merging notes
• Updater: upon clicking on download, display additional warning if the license key won’t be valid for the downloaded version

Fixes:

• “Database is locked” error when switching to the same encrypted notebook
• Possible PasswordEnterCancelledException after PC wakes up from sleep
• Wrong sort order displayed in newly created sections
• Regression: Notes list: Attachments not visible when note body is empty
• Tag sidebar: Shift+Alt+click activated non-related excluded tags
• Tag sidebar: Ctrl-Alt-click on a tag expanded whole tag tree
• Tag sidebar: Shift-clicking on a tag included all excluded tags
• Simplenote sync: fix crash when syncing attachments while working over proxy
• Export to XML: tags and notes were unordered
• Editor: Links with certain characters were not recognized correctly
• Editor: bug when replacing selection by typing one symbol and then undoing it
• Editor: fixed possible notelink damaging
• Editor: F3 “search inside words” inconsistent with notes list search settings

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We promised to do something about this, and we have.

Now when you upgrade to the Lifetime license, our billing system will automatically apply a discount based on the number of times you had renewed your PRO license in the past, using the following formula:

Note that the discount will be applied automatically and you’ll be able to see it right away on the order page.

So, if you renewed in the past and are considering upgrading to Lifetime, you can take advantage of the automatic discounts right away (just be sure to use the same email address so that the system recognizes you).

Huge thanks once again to the user who raised this issue, and in general to everyone who took part in the survey.

Of course this is not the only part of the feedback which we took onboard and are acting on. File attachments, which were reported as sorely missing, have become part of the recent major release, and other important features and improvements are in the works, which you’ll soon hear about in this newsletter.

And by the way, we have started to publish quick tips about CN usage in our official twitter account @CintaNotes. Would greatly appreciate you subscribing and retweeting.

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• Notes list: Highlight the link icon when search term appears in the Link field
• Improved performance of notes list painting and scrolling
• Logging: don’t include user data to log by default

  Added “debug.log.userdata” parameter to cintanotes.settings.

Fixes:

• Regression: Window-related items in system menu were not working
• Notes list: wrong search hilites in attachments when file name gets shortened
• File attachments: scroll file list in note preview to highlight appropriate search result
• Unnecessary log files were generated
• Section bar: double clicking on scrolling arrow shouldn’t select all sections
• Import: tags were not displayed correctly after second import
• Links with percent sign (%) not recognized correctly
• Fixed duplicate menu mnemonics
• Simplenote sync: unable to upload big file (> 40MB)
• Editor: password was required to display tag suggestions
• Fixed possible “column num not unqiue” error upon deleting a section

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You may be wondering why it’s 3.0 when previously I was talking about version 2.9.5. Well, we gave it a second thought and decided that the new feature certainly deserves more than a third digit increase. I know that I already promised the 3.0 release to have a revamped UI. After discussing it for a while with users on the forum, the decision was to simply renumber the releases, and make the UI redesign target version 4.0 instead. Looking at Firefox 41 and Chrome 45, going from 2.9 to 3.0 seemed like no big deal.

But let’s get back to the file attachments. This is a new PRO feature, and the main point is simple: now you can attach files to notes and synchronize them between your computers.

The files are stored in compressed form in the notebook itself. So when you attach a 10 MB file, the size of the notebook may grow by much less than 10 MB (this depends on the type of the file – if it’s already compressed, the notebook will grow by the whole 10 MB and maybe even a little bit more). On average, however, the benefit of compression is noticeable.

The total size of attachments should not exceed 4 GB, and size of a single attachment should not exceed 2 GB. For synchronized attachments we had to set a much stricter size limit – 100 MB, because our own server space is used for storing uploaded attachments (but it’s likely that in the future more server storage space will be provided).

What, you’ll ask, my files will be uploaded to your server? How secure is that? It is secure – the files (and even their names) are encrypted with your Simplenote account password. No one will be able to decode the files without having this password.

One caveat here is that since uploaded files are encrypted, it is not possible to access and download them from any Simplenote client. You need CintaNotes to access the files.

I also have to warn you that the image-related functions are quite basic as of now: no inline images, no thumbnails, no image clipping. We plan to address these issues in the upcoming versions.

Here is quick demo of the feature:

Well, this is basically all you need to know about file attachments in CN. If you’re interested to read more about this feature, please refer to the new help section devoted to it.

Version 3.0 also contains a large number of fixes which should make the program much more stable and reliable. The complete list of changes can be found here.

Huge thanks to the people who helped us with the beta testing of this release!

Hope you enjoy the new version!

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• File and image attachments in notes.
• Tracking of attachment viewing and editing: temp files are automatically removed, warning upon opening attachments from encrypted notebooks.
• Synchronization of attachments (100MB limit)
• Added used server space indicator to the File/Synchronization window.

Fixes:

• Editor: links to files in note text didn’t always open
• Wrong tag counts after batch tagging
• Simplenote sync: fixed possible creation of note duplicates
• Wrong tag counts after renaming hierarchical tags
• Wrong notes list state after deleting the last note having selected tag
• Notebook encryption: CN prompted for a password on manual note saving
• Fixed possible crash after waking up from sleep
• Fixed possible crash when quickly closing the editor after manual save
• Clipping: note is not tagged with active tags if current section is not inbox
• Notes list: wrong tab distance rendering
• Tray icon was not recreated after Explorer restart if CN was started minimized
• Recycle bin: note preview didn’t render formatting
• Regression: F3 search in editor didn’t work for multi-term searches
• Reduce painting flicker on startup

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We received a lot of insightful responses and useful feedback. Roughly every 10th recipient took the survey, and taking the holiday season into account, this is quite a success!

1. Usage Frequency

When conducting a survey, there is always a risk that only those who are already regularly using the software will participate, and that’s why the first question was about the CN usage frequency. As expected, the majority (55%) of the participants stated that they use CintaNotes every day. However, 11% of the participants admitted to not currently using the software, and we are thrilled that these people not only participated, but also provided reasons for their skepticism, which turned out to be extremely valuable knowledge.

2. Use Cases

The second question was about CintaNotes usage scenarios. We wanted to see if there were some popular use cases that we missed in planning new features for upcoming CintaNotes versions. No big surprises here though: using CN as a knowledge base, and for collecting reference materials and ideas dominated the answers:

However, more people than we expected are using CintaNotes for task management and to-do lists. This means that we’ll prioritize related features: better support for tasks and a reminder system.

3. Strong and Weak Points

Question 3 was to identify our current strong and weak points. You can see the question, and the average received marks below:

The majority agrees that CintaNotes is easy to install, quick, simple, and reliable. However, the product’s documentation, user interface design, feature set, and pricing policy received less favorable ratings. It seems that this is where we should be focusing our efforts.

Probably the documentation was rated poorly because it was available only in English (the worst marks here were given by people taking the survey in Russian or German). We are already working on the German and Russian versions of the site with localized documentation, and then other languages will hopefully follow.

Many people think that CN’s user interface looks a bit dated, and we tend to agree. We plan to do a major UI “facelift” in version 3.0, which we already started developing and which will come after the current major milestone, version 2.9.5 with file and image attachments.

We agree that a lot of features are still lacking, but as you can imagine, it is quite difficult to keep the software simple and stable, and at the same time constantly expand its feature set. As one of our respondents pleaded, “a fantastic application – but PLEASE, PLEASE in the name of “Development” DON’T add levels of bloat and make it sluggish, less easy to use etc… for me it’s just PERFECT as it is!!”  All I can say here is that we’ll continue to try our best to strike a balance between simplicity and usefulness; we’ll optimize performance when needed, reorganize things to make the UI clearer, and cut features that no one is using.

The question of pricing is not an easy one. Last year, we introduced a lifetime license and also raised the license price. This was not a very popular decision among our customers, but if we didn’t do it, we wouldn’t be able to work on CintaNotes now (and once more, a big thank you to all who supported us and bought a license!)

However, one of the participants pointed out a problem with our pricing policy: regardless of how many times you renewed the updates subscription, the price of upgrading to the Lifetime license remained the same. We agree that this is not quite fair, and in the near future we’ll introduce special discounts for upgrading to the Lifetime license for those who renewed the regular license at least once- stay tuned!

4. Most Useful Features

Question 4 was about most heavily used features of CintaNotes. Here are the results:

As we expected, our users ranked full-text search and tags as the most popular features. It came to us as a surprise that the Ctrl+F12 text clipping function scored only the 8^th place, we used to think that fast clipping was an important distinctive feature compared to other software.

I consider the results here to be inconclusive, and we’ll probably need to do some more research here. Clearly recycle bin is on the last place not because it’s not needed. It’s just basic function which people have come to expect, and the same goes for password protection and printing.

5. Most Wanted Features

This question asked about features that CintaNotes is currently lacking. The results:

No big surprises here as well – the most wanted feature is ability to attach files and images to notes, it is also top rated on our roadmap. This feature is now already almost finished and will appear in version 2.9.5 later this month. The first beta version is already available on the forum.

6. Usability Problems

Here we wanted to learn about the obstacles facing regular CN users, their main woes. We received a lot of exteremely useful comments. Ten most often mentioned problems were as follows:

1) No images/file attachments support
2) Limited clipping of webpages
3) No own app for Android
4) Updating process should be made easier and warn about license key validity
5) Difficult to navigate config menus and dated UI look, should be updated
6) Not convenient that notes open in a new window for editing, and that there’s no way to copy text from note preview
7) Little ability to customize colors
8) No support for tables and some other text formatting
9) No text formatting toolbar in editor
10) No alarms/reminders

We can see that the named usability problems have quite a strong relation to the answers to questions 3 and 5.

7. Stability Issues

Only 23% of respondents reported that CN ever froze or crashed on them, which we consider to be a good result, but will still try to improve stability in the future. We’ll investigate every reported crash or bug. Special thanks to those of you who specified detailed problem reproduction steps.

8. Satisfaction Rate

Question 8 asked if you’d recommend CintaNotes to a colleague or a friend. About 83% of the users would recommend CintaNotes to someone else, and only about 4% would not, which is quite a compliment for our work.

9-10. Education Level and Occupation

We asked this question because we want to know who our users are. The results confirmed our expectation that the majority of our users are highly educated professionals.

Information technology sector dominated among occupations, which pops the question if we should consider prioritizing features aimed at IT professionals such as syntax highlighting and such.

A bit surprising also was high rate of retired people. (Probably it is because they simply have more time for completing surveys.)

Conclusions

Combining the results together, we can deduce what features we SHOULDN’T focus on right now:

• Note version history
• Advanced backup options
• Password protection of separate notes
• Own online service (not including syncing server for own mobile clients)
• Docking to screen edges
• Undo function
• Optimizing performance

And here are the features which we SHOULD be working on during the next months:

• File and image attachments (already almost finished)
• Picture clipping
• Better clipping of webpages (parsing HTML for links, images, and formatting)
• Alarms and reminders
• Own mobile clients, first of all Android
• Better frictionless syncing, and not only with Simplenote
• Inline note editing
• Easier updating process
• New UI, new configuration screen
• Color and font customizations.

Other than that, we’ll need to revise our pricing policy and improve the documentation.

If you’d like to discuss the survey, its results, and our conclusions, you’re welcome to do it on our forum in the designated topic.

Thank you very much for helping us drive CintaNotes development forward!

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• Notes list: added option to completely hide tags (in “Options/Notes List”)
• Added “Options/Search/Start New Search on Ctrl+F” option
• Added “Options/Search/Multi-step reset on Esc” option
• Store path to the PDF file in the Link field when clipping from Adobe Reader (works only for PDF files opened by double-clicking)

Fixes:

• Editor: numbered list lost on copy paste when text font is large
• Editor: crash when trying to delete a note which was deleted from the notes list
• Search: auto moving window doesn’t work correctly in Win XP and Win 7 with Classic theme
• Links to PDF files were not extracted when clipping from Adobe Reader 11
• Editor: pasted text was highlighted if system had non-white background
• Editor: whole lines could be trimmed on save
• Fixed possible crash upon program exit
• Untagged count was not updated after deleting tag using tag’s context menu

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• Clipping: getting link to source file from the source application command line
• Clipping: save path to source file in the Link field when clipping from Wordpad
• Clipping: save path to source file in the Link field when clipping from Libre Office

Fixes:

• Exception when exiting the program with unsaved editor and main window in tray
• CN appeared on taskbar after session unlock even when minimized to tray
• “File/Password protection” menu item didn’t hide when the “ui.profeatures.hide” option was active
• About dialog: make end year in copyright message auto updated
• Junk log files could appear with message about OpenClipboard failure
• Improved debug logging: always write program version into the log

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• Automatic file link tracking. Now file links continue to work even after you move file to another folder, or rename them

  Note: This works only within a single disk volume and is implemented via creating Windows shortcuts in the “cache\filelinks” subdirectory. This feature can be turned off by the “editor.links.filelinktracking.enabled” option in cintanotes.settings

Fixes:

• Fixed crash upon startup with error about SessionNotifier when Terminal Services are disabled
• Fixed crash after printing a note from the editor and closing it
• Notes list: wrong search highlight of matches in date/time fields
• Search doesn’t treat German umlauts as different from same letters without umlauts
• Notebook encryption: password dialog displayed after notebook reload
• Simplenote sync: disappearing angle bracket
• Middle-click tagging reverted when an already opened note is saved
• Editor: links not recognized after cut and undo
• Non-white background was treated as highlight

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At the moment the password protection feature works with whole notebooks only. This means that when a notebook is password-protected, all notes in it are encrypted (in future CN versions we plan to add finer-grained encryption options as well).

The notebook will always remain encrypted on disk and will only be decrypted into memory when you enter the password. Note that password protection is a new PRO feature and is available only to the CintaNotes PRO license holders. 

To set the password for the current notebook, select File / Password Protection. This will bring up the dialog window, where you can activate the Protect this notebook with a password checkbox and enter the desired password into the New password and Confirm password fields. The controls below allow to configure password options and we’ll examine them a bit later. Press OK and CintaNotes will report progress as it is encrypting the notebook.

After the password is set, any access to the notebook when it is locked will require entering the password.

Note that instead of entering the password, you can press Cancel to minimize CintaNotes back to tray (in case you activated it by mistake, for example). You can also click on the Notebook… button to switch to another notebook or exit the application.

The password can be altered anytime after you have set it. To do so, go to the same File / Password Protection window and click on the “Change Password” button. The panel with the “New password” and “Confirm password” edit fields will appear. Enter the new password into them, then click on OK and re-enter the old password. After that the notebook will be re-encrypted with the new password.

If you want to remove the password and decrypt the current notebook, simply uncheck the “Protect this notebook with a password” checkbox in the “Password Protection” window. After clicking OK and entering the password for the last time, the notebook will be decrypted.

Now let’s take a brief look at other options available for the password-protected notebooks.

The radio buttons Don’t remember the password and Remember the password allow you to choose between maximum security and convenience.

By default CintaNotes will only keep the password in RAM and won’t store it on disk. This means that the password is unrecoverable – if you forget the password, you lose access to your notes. This mode is the most secure option and should be preferred for the most sensitive data. However it can sometimes be not very convenient, because all background operations like cloud syncing and backup will not run until the password is entered and the notebook is unlocked – at least once after application started.

Keep in mind that if you use the “Don’t remember password option” and forget the password, you’ll lose access to your notes!

If convenience is more important to you than security, you can choose the option to remember the password. In this case CintaNotes will store encrypted password hash on disk and will be able to run all background services even before you enter the password for the first time. Also when the option to remember the password is active, it is possible to reset forgotten password and reclaim access to your notes with the help of CintaNotes tech support.

The Lock and minimize to tray after X minutes of inactivity option controls the timeout after which you’ll need to re-enter the password. When this option is active, CintaNotes tracks user activity, and after the specified period of user not being active in the program, automatically minimizes itself to tray and locks the notebook.

The Lock immediately after minimizing to tray option allows you to manually lock the notebook simply by minimizing the application to tray.

Please note that notebook is also automatically locked when the workstation is locked, so to lock the notebook you can also press Win+L.

Another enhancment of CintaNotes 2.9 is that now you can run programs with command line parameters from within any link to file, and also from the Link field. For example, you can put

C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe C:\MyData\myfile.txt

into the Link field, and CintaNotes will open myfile.txt in Notepad each time you activate the note’s link.

Well, that’s all for now. Of course there is a bunch of other enhancements and bugfixes in the new release, and if you’re interested, you can find the full list on the download page. Hope you enjoy the new version!

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• Notebook encryption and password protection: New menu item “File/Password protection”.
• Option to lock notebook and minimize to tray after timeout
• Option to autolock notebook after minimizing to tray

Enhancements:

• Import dialog: add “Allow duplicates” checkbox
• Editor: ability to hide inline labels (“editor.inlinehints.enabled” in cintanotes.settings)
• Editor: F5 to insert current date (insert timestamp shortcut changed to Ctrl+F5)
• Editor: links now support running programs with command line parameters
• Editor: automatically URL-encode links and add http:// to links without protocol
• Add DB locking mode setting to the settings file (“sqlite.pragma.locking_mode”), and change default locking mode to “EXCLUSIVE”
• XML Export: drop support of exporting to old XML format
• Indicate in File menu when password protection or synchronization are active for the current notebook

Fixes:

• NoteProperties: Error in seconds when editing dates in notes
• Licensing: replacing existing license by clipped license data didn’t work correctly
• Find and replace: the hint “find reached the starting point of the search” didn’t auto-hide
• Editor: wrong behavior when pressing Del on the empty last line of a bullet list
• Editor: Link field could grow too large
• Moving notes to other sections via Shift+F6 didn’t update modified date
• Fix links watchdog false signal
• Fix wrong tag autocomplete positioning when taskbar is on the right side

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• Note properties: add ability to edit seconds
• Editor: double Ctrl+Home(End) in remarks field should focus note text and go to start(end).

Fixes:

• Window position not always restored correctly after restart
• Editor: internal note links can get corrupt
• Editor: on some computers note links are not copied when pasting notes as RTF
• Editor: ampersand (&) and apostrophe (‘) are not recognized as part of URL
• Editor: link editor doesn’t resize after pressing enter
• Editor: removing list style should convert vertical tabs to CRLFs
• Editor: link field should be trimmed on exiting the edit mode
• Editor: Alt+Shift+U(F) produce ding sound
• Editor: add links watchdog to report link corruption
• Editor: note title is not right-trimmed on save when editor line trimming is on
• Search: search string becomes lower case after program restart
• Simplenote sync: recycle bin issues
• Simplenote sync: CN resets SN note’s “Pinned to top” status
• Simplenote sync: crash on downloading note containing special chars
• Simplenote sync: infinite uploading
• Error when closing CN while editor with a changed note is open
• Synchronization dialog: not possible to delete login credentials
• Synchronization dialog: initial focus missing
• License: trailing blanks in the “Registration Name and Email” field prevent registration
• Export: “Selected” is not disabled even if the active section is empty

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Also discounts to other software are available there every day.

Please note that the link above contains our affiliate tracker. If you buy anything on BDJ, you’ll be helping CintaNotes as well.

We collaborated with BDJ several times, and I must say these guys are great. They are true professionals and it’s been always real pleasure to work with them. This is why it is no problem for me to recommend them. The discounts there are real.

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Well, not quite. History is full of examples when a better product didn’t win: Betamax offered better quality than VHS, Dvorak allowed to type much faster than QWERTY, and Evernote is now dominating the note-taking market despite all its shortcomings :)

(Yes, I know that Evernote’s CEO does think that a better product always wins, but in this case I wonder why they spent about $1 mln on advertising?)

So I think that marketing is not an option even for a company with an outstanding product. At the moment there are not many ways we can promote CintaNotes, since most of our resources are devoted to developing new features.

But we found a way around this: we are launching an affiliate program.

It is designed to be a triple win: you win because you earn commission, we win by getting new customers, and new customers win because they get a great notetaking application.

So if you’d feel good recommending CintaNotes, now you can get 40% of all sales to people that come to our site through your affiliate link. Even if they don’t purchase immediately.

You don’t need to have a website or a blog (although that wouldn’t hurt either), you can earn good commission simply distributing your link on social media or on forums. But please – no spam – we want everyone to be gaining something from it, remember?

Once per month you’ll receive earned commission via PayPal, WebMoney, ACH, wire transfer or check.

It only takes 10 minutes to become our partner, see for yourself:

READ AFFILIATE PROGRAM DETAILS

Happy notetaking!

P.S. Other news: 2.9 beta with file and image attachments and password protection is coming next month!

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• Editor: replaced “Tags”, “Link” and “Remarks” labels with icons
• Added new Options/Editor/Word Wrap option
• Editor: made Ctrl+Del delete note confirmation optional
• Simplenote sync: if synchronization was activated, start syncing immediately after closing the Synchronization dialog
• Internal code improvements

Fixes:

• Simplenote sync: fixed moving remote notes to recycle bin bug
• Simplenote sync: don’t request tag index twice
• Wrong backup path used when CintaNotes is in Program Files subfolder
• Remove unnecessary notebook reload after import

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• Added option to control RTF clipping: “clipping.format.rtf.enabled”. Set it to 0 if you’re having issues when clipping from Internet Explorer or Microsoft Word.

Fixes:

• RTL: Fixed remaining wrong bracket direction issues
• Notes list: A tag name with a ‘&’ will not be displayed correctly
• Tag drop down is cut off on monitor border
• Section “Inbox” status can’t be cleared when notebook has only one section
• Possible “LogicException” error after deleting section
• Simplenote sync: tag deletion or renaming is not uploaded to server
• Editor: always focus note body when there are search hits
• Don’t replicate Program Files sub-folder structure in %APPDATA%

The post Version 2.8.4 appeared first on CintaNotes.

• Focus notes list on minimize (enables starting new search immediately after restoring CN window later)
• Updated UI translations

Fixes:

• Backup: backup options got cleared on restart
• Crash on pasting into filtered notes list
• Editor: note link corruption after manipulating lists

The post Version 2.8.3 appeared first on CintaNotes.

• Better right-to-left languages support with the new settings “app.mainframe.rtlenabled” and “app.mainframe.userightalignbydefault “
• Search history: auto add search terms to history after a short timeout
• Editor: note link tooltips should stay long enough to read note text
• Don’t run backup and sync for notebooks located in the backup folder

Fixes:

• Editor: paragraph text formatting hotkeys don’t change current formatting state
• Tag sidebar: Untagged count was not updated after moving notes to other section
• Search history: Back and forward buttons flickered when pressed

The post Version 2.8.2 appeared first on CintaNotes.

• Search history: Current state always displayed in the history menu

Fixes:

• Tag sidebar: wrong tag count display
• Notes list: Paragraph formatting was not immediately updated in note preview after edit
• Search history: Unwanted states got inserted into history
• Simplenote sync: in some cases tags could get deleted on upload
• Notebook title appeared in lowercase after closing another notebook
• Tag suggestion list was unsorted
• Deleting a section didn’t move its notes to the Recycle Bin

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The Back and Forward buttons, represented as arrows, work like similar commands in your web browser, moving you back and forth through the history of your searches.

To use the “Go Back” command from the keyboard, you can now simply press the Backspace key (or Alt+Left combination). The Forward command is available with Shift+Backspace or Alt+Right.

Search history includes the contents and settings of the search box, and also the current tag and section selection. Please note that each section has its own search history. Even if you include additional sections to the current section selection (by Ctrl+click on section tabs), it becomes part of the active section’s history only.

Note that sort settings are not recorded in search history, since they don’t influence which notes are found, but only change their order.

You can view the whole search history by right-clicking on any of the Back or Forward buttons. This way you can jump directly to the search that you want, not having to click them all through. Also here you have the command to clear the history.

The “View History” command can be activated by Ctrl+Shift+Backspace key combination.

Please note that at this moment the search history is not retained after you close or switch the notebook, or exit the application. It is more of a short term memory to assist your search sessions.

Also, in CintaNotes 2.8 the complete database layer was thoroughly revamped, resulting in greatly improved performance. Now much more data is kept in memory, limiting disk I/O to the minimum. You’re likely to see many use cases become much snappier.

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• Search history: forward and backward navigation on the search bar
• Search history menu on right click on back and forward buttons
• Add option Tags/Autodeleted by default

Enhancements:

• Improved notebook loading and switching performance
• Improved section switching performance
• Improved notes list scrolling performance
• Improved tag renaming, splitting and merging performance
• Improved import performance
• Don’t reset filter to keep just edited note visible by default (will affect new installations only)
• Tag sidebar: tags font is now configurable with “app.mainframe.tagsidebar.font” settings file option
• Recycle bin: upon restoring notes, create sections if necessary

Fixes:

• Editor: fixed outstanding stateful text formatting issues
• Tag sidebar: scrolling should stop when mouse button is released
• Editor: “Insert Link” command is disabled when selected text is wrapped
• Editor: vertical tabs are treated as paragraph separators
• Editor: inconsistent behavior of some text formatting shortcuts
• Fix possible crash on import
• Notebook file name in app title turns to lower case
• Tab scrolling sometimes can freeze
• Simplenote sync: fix many causes for crashes and hangs

The post Version 2.8 appeared first on CintaNotes.

• Tag sidebar: tooltips with full tag name when tag name doesn’t fit
• Editor: make editor’s icon different from main window icon
• Notes list: Change of sorting should keep selection
• Editor: make text formatting shortcuts stateful
• Editor: Enter in the title should move focus to the note’s text
• Editor: add “Indent/Outdent” context menu options
• Editor: don’t create empty notes even when OK pressed
• Change shortcuts for moving sections to Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Left/Right

Fixes:

• “No internet connection” error on some configurations
• Possible startup error “SystemMenu::insertItem failed”
• Editor: pasting into list item error
• Editor: Undo could skip events
• Licensing: “License expired” when license.key file is not writable
• Simplenote sync: notes deleted in other clients weren’t moved to trash
• Simplenote sync: possible inability to successfully finish sync

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• New option: “Options/Startup/Notify when Activating Existing Instance”
• Editor: improved pasting into lists New setting “editor.lists.paste.alwaysintoitem” and new command “Paste Into List Item”
• Simplenote sync: improve syncing down of notes w/o #section tag
• Anti-feature bloat: removed unnecessary options “Editor/Text Formatting” and “Editor/Auto-Indent”

Fixes:

• Editor: removing bullet list style didn’t work correctly for multiline paragraphs
• Editor: entering CJK symbols with Microsoft IME corrupted links
• Editor/Replace: “Replace All” button worked as simple “Replace” when activated with Enter key
• Clipping: whitespace trimming could in some cases corrupt newlines
• Command line interface: Opening notebook didn’t work when path contained quotes, spaces or national symbols
• Simplenote sync: in some cases sync could’t finish always try to update same notes
• Message boxes could appear on the wrong screen with a dual screen setup
• Fixed wrong UI labels when “lang” directory is missing

The post Version 2.7.1 appeared first on CintaNotes.

Printing notes

First and foremost, version 2.7 introduces the Note printing feature. Since under the hood it uses export to HTML, this is also a PRO feature. (Sorry to everyone who is using the free version, we’ll get back to other features a bit later).

There always existed a workaround for printing notes: you could export notes to a text (or HTML) file and then print the file. Not very convenient, but workable. Still many people have asked for the ability to print notes directly from the application. And now it’s finally possible. We’ve automated the actions that before had to be done manually. CintaNotes exports notes into a temporary HTML file, and then sends it to a printer of your choice.

Let’s have a short walkthrough. To print notes out, use the new File / Print command:

Then you can select which notes to print, and specify which note fields should be printed:

After that you need to select the printer using the standard system printer selection UI, and you’ll get something like this on paper:

It is worth mentioning that you can also print notes directly from the notes editor with the Print command of the context menu.

Paragraph alignment

In the new release we’ve also added the long awaited support for paragraph alignment. The feature is pretty self-explanatory from the screenshots:

And here’s what this note looks like in the notes list:

The paragraph alignment feature is available both in the free and PRO versions of CintaNotes.

Other than the main two features mentioned above, the new release also brings a large number of smaller improvements and bug fixes. The full list is available in the release notes.

Hope you enjoy the new release!

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• Note printing
• Right and center paragraph alignment support

Enhancements:

• Add “Always display full tag names” to notes list options
• Editor: Add shortcuts for applying formatting to current paragraph (Ctrl+Shift+B, Ctrl+Shift+I, etc.)
• Translatable keyboard shortcuts
• Added screenshots to help
• Added “All files” option to File/Open and File/Import
• Tag sidebar: right click doesn’t change tag selection anymore
• Editor/Search: focus and select all text in the search box on Ctrl+F

Fixes:

• Notes list: Strikeout and underlined text problem
• Crash on pressing Ctrl+F12 in opened note
• Editor: Ctrl+Bksp in lists eats vertical tab
• Tag hint window positioning error with multiple screens
• Editor: lost bullet while copy & pasting of bullet list
• Editor: pasting text from PuTTy didn’t work for some users
• License dialog: license delete hint is cut in German UI
• Dialogs positioning error with multiple screens
• Note properties dialog: wrong statistics for unsaved notes
• Tag autocomplete not displayed when searching in “Any text field”
• Editor: BkSp+Undo+BkSp corrupts links
• Editor: error when clicking a link to a file with CJK characters in name

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People vary not only in what they do with the software but also in how they do it. Take input devices: some users prefer the keyboard, some mostly use the mouse, and some use both in different proportions. Sometimes it isn’t a matter of preference, as there’s simply no choice.

Recently I received a question from a user who tried to use CN on a computer that had a mouse, but no keyboard attached. The user wanted to know if it was possible to clip text to CintaNotes using only the mouse.

That seemingly simple question made me realize how heavily keyboard-oriented CintaNotes is. There are keyboard shortcuts for virtually everything: clipping text, editing notes, switching sections, applying tags (by the way, you might want to take a look at the full list of the shortcuts in the CN documentation; some of them might come in handy). Many actions don’t even need a shortcut. For instance, to search, you don’t need Ctrl+F, you can just start typing.

Though its keyboard support is strong, mouse support in CintaNotes is currently pretty basic at best. No drag-and-drop of tags, notes, or tabs. No ability to drag-and-drop text from other applications into CN or in the opposite direction. Of course, all these features are on the roadmap (for example, here, here, and here). In fact, searching the roadmap for “drag and drop” produces 10 different suggestions. So there’s clearly a demand for it. Moreover, this feature is very organic; I doubt that anyone would complain that it contributes to feature bloat. So CintaNotes will support drag-and-drop in one of the upcoming versions.

But the user who asked the question needed that feature right away. I had already started to sign my capitulation with an “unfortunately, it’s not possible now, but it’s on the roadmap, please vote for it” when an idea hit me. All that was needed was a way to emulate a keyboard shortcut when a certain mouse action took place. My intuition told me that this was a common problem, and that there must be a ready-made solution.

And there was. After five minutes of googling, I found a great program that can execute an arbitrary complex script when a certain mouse gesture is drawn. That’s exactly what was needed.

So if you’d like to clip selected text to CN with your mouse, just follow the instructions below:

1. Download a free utility called StrokesPlus from here.
   
2. Install and run it.
   
3. Right-click on its tray icon, and then select “Actions”.
   
4. Add a new action called “Clip to CintaNotes”.
   
5. Define a gesture for it. Click the “New” button in the “Gesture” group box:
   
6. Unsurprisingly, I used a gesture which resembles CN’s logo, which looks like “<“, starting from top to bottom. Here’s what it looks like:
   
7. In the “Lua script” window, write: acSendKeys("^{F12}").
   
   Please note that this applies to the default clipping hotkey, Ctrl+F12. If you have a different clipping hotkey, you need to change the parameter of acSendKeys accordingly. You can find a more detailed description of which symbol maps to which key in the documentation that comes with StrokesPlus. For example, I have acSendKeys("@q") for Win+Q.
8. Press OK on the bottom to close StrokesPlus.

That’s it. Now you can select some text using your mouse, draw “<” while holding the right mouse button, and the text will go straight to CN. Pretty neat, huh?

The user was happy with this solution, and I learned that a worthy support engineer should be able to step outside the bounds of the supported software and think about the solution to the user’s problem.

Of course, although this solution works well, it’s just a workaround. The case is not closed, and we’re not putting drag-and-drop features on ice. But many other competing features are also on the roadmap, so sometimes a good workaround is a good thing. I hope you’ll find it useful.

Also if you’re not afraid of a bit of scripting, you can use StrokesPlus to automate many other tasks that are usually cumbersome to perform with the mouse. You don’t need to be a programmer, since it’s easy to take working examples from documentation and tweak them. Imagine that with a single mouse gesture you are able to duplicate a tab in your browser, call up the Task Manager, set a five minute timer, or make a cup of coffee.

What, you aren’t a happy owner of a Wi-Fi-enabled coffee machine? Too bad, then StrokesPlus probably won’t be of much help with that coffee after all. Well, nobody’s perfect.

It’s still a seriously useful app. And it’s free.

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• Make search string always shared between sections
• Double click to select all sections
• Middle click to change inbox section
• Pasted notes now go into their original section if it is currently active
• Search string like “-tag” now works for negating tags from the search box

Fixes:

• Import error on non-lowercase file extension
• Editor: Crash after selecting all text and trying to “Find previous”
• Editor: Single lines were copied with bullet markers
• Editor: Numbered lists were copied to notepad with wrong counting
• Editor: Ctrl+C in Link field was not always working
• Editor: Empty line added via Shift+Enter doesn’t end bulleted and numbered lists
• Delete note confirmation message dialog could get extremely wide
• Tag list filter setting was reset on notebook switching
• (Regression) Search: Negated words in search were not working
• Notes list: Multiple Ctrl+BkSp lead to a crash
• Fixed possible crash on start when default notebook needs to be upgraded

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• Editor: Search and replace inside of note edit dialog
• Notes list: double click in empty area to add new note

Enhancements:

• Export: provide default filename
• Export: reduce UI clutter, remove unnecessary groupboxes
• Editor: add “Properties…” to context menu
• Focused note and note selection for each section are now remembered on program restart
• Option to hide “All” button on section bar, with it being hidden by default
• Tag sidebar: tag list filtering settings are now remembered on restart
• License dialog: Replace “Buy” button with “Renew” when license is present
• Notes list: Make selected and unselected notes more distinguishable
• Notes list: Try to keep scroll position and focused note on tag filter change

Fixes:

• Simplenote sync: search filter is reset after sync (regression)
• Editor: don’t apply list markers to empty lines
• Editor: shortened URLs not entirely visible in the Link field
• Recycle Bin: crash after mouse click when list is empty
• Editor: “mailto:” links diplayed incorrectly
• Buttons remain hover-highlighted even after mouse leave
• Section-related error when clipping with “display in editor” turned on
• “Replace tags” command changes current tag selection
• Export: Error while exporting to old XML format
• Simplenote sync: creation date is killed when synced after FlickNote
• Alt+Shift+C shouldn’t activate menu mnemonics
• Editor: link formatting becomes corrupted after undoing Shift+Enter
• Editor: control focus is lost after Alt+Tab

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• Editor: Ctrl+Home/End in any field except Remarks to go to text start and end
• Make Alt+F+number work regardless of keyboard layout

Fixes:

• Notes list: Incorrect rendering of a clipped numbered list
• Notes list: Jumping numbers in numbered lists
• Clipping: Numbers could disappear from numbered lists on clipping
• Options/Hot keys: edit field background was not white
• Export: Errors during export lead to program crash
• Export: Exporting tags only to text file lead to program crash
• Search: Tags with capital letters were not highlighted in note previews
• Tune settings to help prevent “database disk image is malformed” error

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• Added F2 as a shortcut for “Edit” command.
• Improved tray icon click behavior
• Bring CN window to foreground if CN window is obscured by other windows.
• Editor: edit link immediately on Alt+L.

Fixes:

• Editor: Alt+NumPad character input not working properly.
• Editor: exception when undoing bullet list edit.
• Editor: random character at end of text.
• Simplenote sync: CN could hang on exit
• Simplenote sync: sync could hang.
• Simplenote sync: CN used to reset SN’s Markdown flag.
• Tag autocomplete could appear partly off-screen.
• Edit window creeped to the right when taskbar was on left.
• Backup didn’t start on time.
• CN could hang on startup while fixing DB integrity errors.

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• “Remarks” field
  Notes now have a new field “Remarks”, intended to collect additional data on what is written in the main note body (which quite often is clipped from somewhere)
• Note export: ability to choose which fields should be exported

Enhancements:

• XML import now supports XML files with UTF-8 encoding
• Upgraded internal DB engine to SQLite 3.8.1
• Notes list: Clickable link icons in note preview
• Notes list: Improved display of long hierarchical tags Now only the last part of the tag name is displayed by default, the full name is displayed in a tooltip when you hover the mouse over the tag.
• Tag deletion: provide option to also delete notes with selected tags
• New option in internet connection setting: “Use system proxy settings”
• Notes list: always scroll to the top of the list on new search.
• Added option to clear filters on starting new search: “filters.reset.onnewsearch.enabled”.
• Option to turn off many confirmation messages, implemented as “Don’t ask again” checkboxes.
• Added shortcuts to “File” menu commands: New (Ctrl+E), Open (Ctrl+O), Save As (Ctrl+S), Close (Ctrl+W).

Fixes:

• Crash on linking notes
• Crash on trying to edit a certain note
• Intranet URLs were not recognized
• Program failed to respond to rapid mousewheel events
• Simplenote sync: constant “not completed, try later” when moving remote note to recycle bin
• Simplenote sync: deleted synced section appeared again after sync
• Simplenote sync: synchronization could constantly fail
• Sorting order could be lost for main section
• Text and paragraph formats could get corrupted on merging notes
• Unable to import XML with more than 3 sections even when “Import sections” was unchecked

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• Enhanced hyperlink support in notes
  
  Now it is possible to turn any text into a hyperlink targeting either an arbitrary URL, a file, or another note.
• Note properties: display character and word counts

Enhancements

• Editor: change title from “Edit ‘Smth'” to “Smth (Edit)”
• Simplenote sync: prevention of duplicates when syncing an exported notebook

Fixes

• Simplenote sync: notes containing %25 synced with errors
• Recycle bin: note with paraformats can’t be opened
• Esc key handling: immediate minimize and non-multistep reset fail when search box has focus
• Editor: When no text is selected, text formatting shortcuts now toggle formatting for current word only and not whole paragraph
• Editor: Fixed a numbered list formatting error
• Editor: Fixed indents being reset on applying list format
• HTML export: links without protocol prefix didn’t work
• CN could crash on changing notebooks via File menu
• In some cases a “License Expired” message could be shown on valid license.
• Tags not assigned to any note were not imported.

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