A free, lightweight and user-friendly note taking application

• Updated translations.Enhancement
• Updated help.Enhancement
• Fixed crash on searching for "/".Fix
• Case change in tag names using Rename command was not possible.Fix
• Note selection painting was wrong if note didn't have text and tags.Fix

• [Commercial] Tag hierarchy support and expandable tag trees on the Tag Sidebar.Feature

  You can now define hierarchical tags using the "/" symbol. CintaNotes will automatically assign parent tags when you assign children, and remove children when you remove parents.

• [Commercial] "Display Related Tags Only" mode for the Tag sidebar This mode makes it really easy to focus on what's important at the moment - only tags related to the current tag selection are displayed.Feature
• Tag properties dialogFeature

  Right-click on a tag on the Tag sidebar and choose "Properties...".

• Possibility to create tags not associated with notesFeature

  Uncheck the "Delete automatically" tag property to make a tag permanent (tags created via "New" and "New Child" context menu commands are permanent by default).

• Note properties dialog to edit note's timestamps.Feature
• "Check for Updates" command.Feature
• Automatic update check.Feature
• New option: "Options/Startup/Restore last tag selection".Enhancement
• New option: "Options/Tags/Accept On/Single mouse click".Enhancement
• Tooltips for some commands.Enhancement
• Toggling of tag count display in the Tag Sidebar's context menu.Enhancement
• Compiled with support for SSE instructions.Enhancement
• Add/Remove tags dialog: Remove tags field now only suggests tags which are present in the note.Enhancement
• Minor visual changes: note selection has been made more prominent, crossed out tags are now less bright.Enhancement
• To avoid problems while searching, accepting suggestions on spacebar now doesn't apply to the search box.Enhancement
• New shortcuts for Tag sidebar: Ctrl+Alt+Click crosses out all tags except the clicked one (to display notes having this tag only and no other tags); Shift+Alt+Click crosses out all children of a parent tag (to display notes having this parent tag but not having any of the child tags).Enhancement
• Pasting notes into other apps was not working under some circumstances.Fix
• Exception when notebook path access was denied.Fix
• HTML export didn't specify encoding with a byte order mark, which could lead some browsers to display the file with wrong encoding.Fix
• Editor: Ctrl+Left/Right selection ignored international characters like German umlauts.Fix
• Wrong line breaking in text preview with Courier font.Fix
• Editor: Title text got clipped on mouse hover (in XP).Fix
• Editor: Undo/redo for text formatting worked only when you pressed Ctrl+Z(Y) many times.Fix
• Label controls flickered on window move.Fix
• Editor: "something.xy" was recognized as a hyperlink regardless if .xy was a real top level domain.Fix
• F11 shortcut was not displayed in File/Export menu item.Fix
• Fixed wrong wrapping of East-Asian characters in the note preview.Fix
• URLs were not saved when clipping from Opera 12 x64.Fix
• Notes having only titles were lost on merging.Fix
• "Options/Startup/Run at system startup" could display wrong state.Fix
• Wrong message about "inaccessible path" in case of newer notebook file version.Fix

• Ability to tag imported notes: "Add tags" field in the import dialog.Enhancement
• Licensed version is now fully portableEnhancement

  License key file is written into the CintaNotes folder. Only if the write into this folder fails (when e.g. the folder is inside of Program Files), the Application Data folder is used.

• Editor window could open on wrong monitor in a multi-monitor system.Fix
• Editor: Pasting from MS OneNote was not working.Fix
• Search for "-word" with "Search inside words" ON produced wrong results.Fix
• Fixed lost portability because of storing absolute paths to .db files: now relative paths are used for .db files located in the application folder and below.Fix
• Fixed SQLite syntax error on searching for "|".Fix
• Fixed possible "Internal protection error" problem.Fix
• Automatic notebook reloading was not properly working, which could hinder DropBox sync.Fix
• Fixed wrong editor window positioning when closed while partly off-screen.Fix
• Tag highlight highlighted "|" even when it meant OR.Fix
• Fixed huge search performance drop when using the OR operator ("|").Fix
• Fixed CN crash at startup if notebook drive was inaccessible.Fix
• Fixed exception on closing notebook if the next file in MRU list had been deleted.Fix
• Fixed tags filter resetting after clipping even with "Assign active tags" option.Fix

• Note Editor: title is now displayed with font configured for title in "Options/Notes List..."Enhancement
• Ctrl+Enter in search field shouldn't clear non-matchesEnhancement
• Ctrl+Delete in the note editor to delete the current noteEnhancement
• Alt+Enter to open the note editor and close the main windowEnhancement
• Ability to view exported file after exportEnhancement
• Ignore empty lines on license recognitionEnhancement
• Tag counters became less obtrusiveEnhancement
• Improved notebook opening and switching speedEnhancement
• Fixed tag and text filters resetting after a timeoutFix
• Pre-filtering with tag filter now always improves search speedFix
• Fixed regression: Crash on Ctrl+Enter in empty search fieldFix
• Fixed regression: Import from XML slower in 1.6 than in 1.5.7Fix
• CN rewrote settings file on every run AND close, even if no settings changedFix
• Fixed 125% DPI rendering problemsFix
• Fixed "Column name is not unique" error on adding tag "__"Fix
• Clipping from XChat was not workingFix
• Tag search highlighted only first matchFix
• Fixed incorrect tag rendering if tag name contained '&'Fix

• Multiple notebooks support. (Commercial) Feature

  CintaNotes now has the "File/Open" and "File/Save As..." commands, and also has the recently opened files list to easily switch between different DB files. The name of the currently opened DB file is displayed in the main window title (unless it is "cintanotes.db").

• Ctrl+Enter shortcut to paste note text into currently active application. (Commercial)Feature
• Exporting notes to HTML format. (Commercial)Feature
• Tag sidebar can now display tag usage counts. (Commercial)Feature

  This allows you to easily see which tags are underused and can be merged or removed. Tag count display can be turned off in Options/Tags menu.

• Unified and consistent search behavior: Search behavior is now unified and consistent. "Exact search" mode has been removed. Instead there's an option to search inside words. Now you can always use the logical operators: space as AND and '|' as ORFeature

  If you need to search for an exact quote, put it in doublequotes, like this: "to be or not to be".

• Support for mixed case tags.Feature
• "Cut" command for notes, and custom clipboard format to transfer notes from one notebook to another while keeping text formatting.Feature
• New "Help/License" dialog to manage product licensing: The dialog includes ability to automatically fill licensing data from clipboard and also via clipping.Feature
• Tag sidebar can now be resized with the mouse.Enhancement
• New Options/Tags submenu to configure tagging options.Enhancement
• New option: "Options/Clipping/After Clipping/Assign currently active tags"Enhancement

  When this option is on, newly clipped notes are automatically assigned tags which are currently selected on the Tag Sidebar.

• Note editor: Alt+C now works as shortcut for "Cancel".Enhancement
• Ctrl+U shortcut for displaying untagged notes.Enhancement
• Last used export format is now remembered in settings.Enhancement
• Main menu reorganization. "Note Appearance" menu item moved to the Options menu.Enhancement
• The executable is now signed with a digital signature.Enhancement
• Proper metadata and version information in the executable.Enhancement
• Note export dialog now includes the "Export scope" groupbox.Enhancement
• Ctrl+Home/End in search box to focus note list and go to first/last note.Enhancement
• Eliminated possibility of painting artefacts on window maximization.Fix
• Full-text search was not working for East-Asian languages.Fix
• Searching for "-a" lead to a "Malformed MATCH expression" error.Fix
• Search could produce wrong results if query contained punctiation or delimiter characters.Fix
• Copy/pasting note in the notes list lost text formatting.Fix
• Pasting text in main window didn't recognize links.Fix
• Removed redundant formatting tags in exported XML file.Fix
• Non-ASCII characters in page URLs were corrupted on clipping.Fix
• USB stick could not be safely removed after note import or export.Fix
• Restoring focus after clipping was not working in Opera.Fix
• Note editor: wrong window position after being mazimized.Fix
• Note editor: lower pane height changed on Ctrl+S.Fix
• Note editor: applying formatting cleared existing formatting.Fix
• Note editor: pressing Enter twice didn't cancel bulleted and numbered lists.Fix
• Note editor: Undo behavior was incorrect after pasting text from clipboard.Fix
• Note editor: pressing F7 when Link is empty opened Windows Explorer.Fix

• Updated translations.Enhancement
• Daily backup scheduling was broken, CN was constantly doing daily backup.Fix
• Note editor was not reused for new notes after manual save, what could lead to losing newly entered data.Fix
• Fixed std::out_of_range error on pressing Ctrl+BkSpc in title/tags/link fields.Fix
• It was not possible to clip text from CN editor window.Fix
• Editor: Underlined text style was lost when pasting from clipboard.Fix

• Note editor: placed last modification date under the creation date for easier comparison.Enhancement
• Note editor: activating links with Ctrl+Click.Enhancement
• Updated translations.Enhancement
• Note editor: F3 and Shift-F3 keys for find next/previous were not working (regression).Fix
• Note editor: creation and modification time labels were not updated on Ctrl+S.Fix
• Note editor: the "Note saved" message on Ctrl+S was not always visible.Fix
• Note's last modified date always changed if note font was the same as the configured monospace font.Fix
• Replaced confusing error message on trying to import a non-existent .db notebook file with a more user-friendly one.Fix
• Notes could be lost when merged while sorted by modified order.Fix
• Fixed non-intuitive date assignment behavior on creating and saving notes.Fix
• Fixed distorted painting of note title's search highlights if max preview text lines was set to 0.Fix
• Fixed possible crash when importing notes from older .db files.Fix

• Configuring how the note's timestamp is displayed in the notes listFeature

  You can set whether creation of modification time should be displayed (or both), and also if the time of day needs to be displayed.

• Searching by modification timeFeature

  New search mode "Modification Time" has been added.

• Improved speed of XML import and export.Enhancement
• Display of note creation and modification time in the editorEnhancement

  (You can turn this off using the "editor.displaydates" parameter in cintanotes.settings.)

• Main window was not visible after single tray icon click if "Minimize to tray" was not set.Fix
• USB stick could not be safely removed after note import or export.Fix
• Importing .db could modify the source file if it was from an older CintaNotes version.Fix
• Note last modification date was not exported to XML and imported from itFix

  In order to export to an XML file readable by CintaNotes 1.5.4 and earlier, you need to use the special "XML for CintaNotes 1.5.4" format.

• Sort order by modification date was broken after importing from XML.Fix
• Note's modification time always changed if note had a styled link.Fix
• Text search could crash the app when maximum text preview lines was set to 1.Fix
• It was impossible to select an italic font in the Note Appearance dialog.Fix

• Sorting notes by last modification dateFeature
• Updated translationsEnhancement
• Note editor: fixed wrong Ctrl+S behavior on new notesFix
• Tags didn't always fit into the tac AC dropdownFix
• Fixed out_of_range error when pressing Ctrl+BkSp in empty search boxFix
• Removed unnecessary empty space on the bottom of the tag AC dropdownFix
• Notes list: Some note titles could appear clippedFix
• Note editor: Unsupported paragraph formatting was not cleared on pasteFix
• Note editor: In title edit box letters could appear clipped on the bottomFix
• Window position was not saved if "Always on top" was setFix

• Text highlight color and monospace font are now configurable in .settings file.Enhancement

  New parameters editor.fonts.monospace and editor.colors.highlight

• Ctrl+S in note editor to save note immediatelyEnhancement
• Ctrl+Enter in empty search box to view untagged notesEnhancement
• Fixed error when changing language while editing new notesFix
• Fixed crash on pressing Ctrl+Bksp on a note without tagsFix
• Maximized state of main and editor windows was not saved in settings fileFix
• Editor: When editing note title Ctrl+Alt+Key shortcuts were recognized as Ctrl+KeyFix
• Editor: Pressing Enter with non-empty selection resulted in wrong selectionFix
• Editor: Ctrl+Backspace did not delete previous word in title and tagsFix
• Editor: Dates were recognized as numbered listsFix
• Editor: Empty lines were selected wronglyFix
• It was impossible to use bold variants of some fontsFix
• Note editor: Text copy-pasted into the note from PDF received highlightFix
• Fixed incorrect note duplicate recognition at importFix

• Tag autocomplete now matches any word in multi word tagsEnhancement

  Words within tags can be delimited by many common non-alphabetic characters, like this: "my-tag", "projects/cintanotes", "prio:high", "cn_rocks".

• New option "Options/Editor/Auto-Indent" which controls whether a new line in editor gets automatically indented like the previous one.Enhancement
• Turning off Options/Editor/Text Formatting now warns about possible loss of text formatting (if notebook contains notes with formatting).Enhancement
• Note editor: if nothing is selected, Ctrl+Del clears formatting of the whole current paragraph.Enhancement
• Updated translations.Enhancement
• Search highlight positions could be wrong because of tabs.Fix
• Note editor: links were still highlighted even when "highlight links" was off.Fix
• Resolved performance issues with XML import.Fix
• Eliminated possible crash on XML export.Fix
• Layout of "Preview min max lines" option labels was not suited for all languages.Fix
• CN could fail to start on WinXP 2002 SP2 with large font sizes.Fix
• Note editor: URL highlighting could get brokenFix
• Note editor: "Monospace" and "Highlight" text styles were lost on copy-pasting.Fix

• Basic text formatting support in notes editorFeature

  You can now format text in notes editor. Bold, italics, underline, strikeout, monospace and highlighting are supported. Also you can make bulleted and numbered lists. Text formatting support is optional and can be turned off in the Options / Editor menu.

• Notes list can display formatted text in note preview.Feature
• Import and export of text formatting to and from XML.Feature
• New "Options/Startup" submenu.Feature

  The "Run at System Startup" option has been moved here, along with two options which previously has been available only via manual editing of the .settings file: "Run Minimized", which makes CintaNotes run minimized to tray, and "Allow Multiple Instances", which is used to run many copies of CN simultaneously.

• Refreshed program icons and logo, by a professional designerEnhancement
• Tab characters now don't get autoconverted to spaces.Enhancement
• Updated "About CintaNotes" dialog.Enhancement
• Display of a descriptive message when trying to load unknown new version of the notebook file.Enhancement
• Search: click on a note used to erroneously accept tag suggestion.Fix
• XML export without specifying 'XML' extension could lead to failure.Fix
• When editing note title Ctrl+Alt+Key shortcuts were not recognized.Fix
• German umlaute in tags were not lowercased correctly.Fix

• Added the "Notebook Parameters" dialog.Feature

  The dialog box is called up with the "File/Notebook..." menu item and allows to setup the notebook file path, adjust synchronization settings, and move current notebook to another location.

• Added translations of the UI into Hungarian, Lithuanian, Slovenian and Spanish languages.Feature
• Added the "Help/Translations" menu item, which is a link to the collaborative UI translation centerbased on the Transifex online service.Feature
• Updated translations: Chinese Traditional, Japanese.Enhancement
• File "log.txt" was created when the "lang" folder was not foundFix
• Backup folder was created even when all backup was turned offFix
• Note editor: the text area is now always initially focused in case text search has been activeFix
• "Show main window hot key" didn't work when the startup.minimized parameter was set.Fix
• When startup.minimized was set, CintaNotes started up minimized when the user was changing UI language.Fix

• Added translations of the UI into Danish, Portuguese, Korean and Traditional Chinese.Feature
• F3 and Shift+F3 now work in note editor to find next and previous instances of currently selected text.Feature
• CintaNotes loads new language files automatically.Enhancement
• Fixed error "ios_base::failbit set" after installing into Program Files when run installer as admin and agreed to lauch CintaNotes after install.Fix
• CintaNotes crashed if 'Lang' subfolder didn't exist.Fix

• Added translations of the UI into Chinese, Belarusian, French, Italian, Japanese and Polish.Feature

  Thanks a lot to all who helped with the translation!

• Enhanced search highlights in note preview.Enhancement

  Now you can navigate search matches both forward and backward using the F3 and Shift+F3 keys, and match counts in the form of "current/total" are displayed (can be turned off via the noteslist.search.highlights.displaycounts option in the settings file).

• A number of new parameters in the settings file.Enhancement

  1) Option to pick whether note's title or text is initially focused in the editor via the "editor.focus.title" parameter.
  2) The -i, -m, -noactivationmsg command line parameters are now backed up by "startup.multipleinstances.allowed", "startup.minimized" and "startup.multipleinstances.activationmsg" parameters in the settings file.

• Regression: "-m" command line parameter didn't work.Fix
• Crash when middle-clicking on tag while no notes displayed.Fix
• Extra " "(space) symbol at the beginning of the Tags field in editor.Fix
• Extra empty lines when scrolling in note editor using mouse wheel.Fix
• Error when moving notes while text search is active.Fix
• Changing language would lose unsaved notes.Fix
• A number of minor fixes.Fix

• Support for multiple languages in UIFeature

  Now CN supports languages other than English! German and Russian translations are bundled with this release. You can switch language with the "Options/Language" menu. (If you'd like to have CintaNotes in your language, please check this topic on the forum if the language file has already been submitted. If not, you can edit the "CintaNotes\lang\en.lang" file and post the file in that thread. Thanks!)

• Scroll long notes via holding a spacebar to "pin" themFeature

  Reading long notes in notes list using just the left and right arrow keys was not convenient. Now the note can be "pinned" using spacebar (or left mouse click), and the text can be scrolled with all usual navigation keys or mouse wheel.

• Configurable clipping options regarding note title.Feature

  Now whether the title of a clipped note is the window title, first line of text, or blank is controlled with the "Options/Clipping/Use as Title" menu.

• "Show similarly tagged" command on Ctrl+BkSpFeature

  This command changes the tag selection on the tag sidebar to match the tags of currently focused note.

• The editor now opens the note scrolled to the same place in text where the note preview was.Enhancement

  Also if a search was active, the search term is highlighted.

• Ability to jump to next/previous page in note preview on Ctrl + Left/Right arrow.Enhancement
• "Activated already running CN instance" message box is now optional.Enhancement

  CintaNotes now supports the "-noactivationmsg" command line parameter which suppresses the message box which appears when you start CN with it already running.

• Swapped F7 and F3 keyboard shortcuts. Enhancement

  F7 now opens the note's link, and F3 now means "find next", which is a common convention.

• Emails were highlighted incorrectly in the editorFix
• Tray icon disappeared after Exporer crash on Win7 x64Fix
• Ctrl+A was not working in note edit dialog Title, Tags and Link fields on WinXPFix
• Scrollbar was not visible in tag autocomplete dropdown listFix
• Large texts (>64Kb) could not be editedFix
• SQLite Error 14: unable to open database file on Win7 x64Fix
• XML import: CintaNotes could hang while importing XML with extra spaces Fix

• Automatic highlighting of links inside notes. Feature
• Reopening not explicitly closed note windows on program restart.Feature
• Ctrl+Enter in search box for transforming tag search into tag sidebar selection.Enhancement
• Ctrl+Home/End for going to first/last line of text in the editor from any control.Enhancement
• Text in the search field gets selected when pressing "Ctrl+F"Enhancement
• Tag autocomplete automatically adds space at the end.Enhancement
• Removed legacy CintaNotes Beta (.dat) notebook support to reduce executable size.Enhancement
• Crash when pressing Ctrl+BreakFix
• Empty notes were not deleted automatically on ESC pressFix
• Crash on closing from tray menu with open note editor window(s)Fix
• SQLite error while pasting text from Scintilla-based editorsFix
• Long tags didn't fit into autocomplete popupFix
• Control resizing bug when started maximizedFix

• Opening multiple editor windowsFeature

  Now the main window is accessible when you are editing a note, and you can view several notes side-by-side.

• Trimming leading and trailing whitespace from the clipped text is now optional (the clipping.trimwhitespace parameter in the cintanotes.settings file).Enhancement
• Added the roadmap link to the Help menu.Enhancement
• Moving notes was very slow on USB sticks.Fix
• Clipping URLs did not work in Opera 10.60 and Opera ACFix
• Whitespace trimming happened after each editing instead of just clipping.Fix

CintaNotes now uses UserEcho as official roadmap. Vote for features at http://cintanotes.userecho.com!

• Import command filters out exact duplicates.Enhancement

  Useful for merging conflicted database files DropBox creates when you take notes while offline.

• Fixed crash during search if max note preview line count is set to zeroFix

• DropBox synchronization without closing the program.Feature

  Put the notes file into your DropBox folder and it will be automatically synchronized across all your PCs. And now you don't have to remember to close CintaNotes before leaving!

• Excluding tags.Feature

  Exclude tags via Alt-clicking on them in the tag sidebar. Tag union (OR-mode) uses now Shift-click.

• The '-i' command line switch allows to run different instances of CintaNotes simultaneously.Feature
• Great new icons, kindly contributed by Alessandro Onorati!Enhancement
• Note previews are auto-scrolled to the first search match.Enhancement
• You can use F7 to cycle through focused note's search highlights.Enhancement
• New keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins for Copy/Paste, Ctrl+N to add new note.Enhancement
• Fixed exception while scrolling if note is higher than viewportFix
• Backup folder was created even if all backup was turned offFix
• Fixed possible exception when moving to bottom with active tag filterFix
• Fixed main window resize bug after making tag sidebar visibleFix
• Fixed possible exception when tagging multiple notesFix
• Fixed crash during export if tag filter activeFix
• Esc didn't minimize if there were no notesFix

• Added keyboard shortcuts for sorting.Enhancement

  F9 - reverse order, Ctrl+Alt+<Field first letter> - sort by field.

• Fixed sorting control redrawing issue.Fix
• Fixed runtime error at startup for non-administrative accounts.Fix

• Fixed possible runtime error at startup.Fix
• Some minor fixes.Fix

• SQLite is now used as internal notes database.Feature
• Full text search with extended query syntax.Feature
• Sorting notes by date, title, link and size.Feature
• New parameters in the .settings file.Enhancement
• Some minor bugfixes.Fix

• Hot Fix: Page URL was not captured if the "Open in Editor" option was set.Fix

• Added minimum number of note preview text lines option.Enhancement
• Added alpha separator lines to tag sidebar.Enhancement
• F3 for browsing link now works in note editor.Enhancement
• Clipped notes are now discarded on "Cancel".Enhancement
• "Copy" command now copies only note text.Enhancement

  To include note time and title, use Ctrl+Alt+C.

• No URL check in note editor, any runnable link is allowed.Enhancement
• Pasting a note adds active tags to it so that it stays in view.Enhancement
• Pressing Esc in note editor is the same as pressing OK.Enhancement

  No more accidental data loss. If you want to discard changes, press the "Cancel" button.

• CintaNotes didn't work with Actual Window Manager.Fix
• It was not possible to select text in note editor if CintaNotes was inactive.Fix
• Note merging now uses notes' time to determine ordering and thus works correctly in reversed order view.Fix
• Pressing Del crashed CN when viewing an empty tag intersection.Fix
• Runtime Exception when searching for consecutive spaces.Fix
• Paste command didn't respect reverse order view and focused wrong note.Fix
• Wrong note was focused after deleting several notes.Fix
• Keyboard could be blocked when editor opened after clipping.Fix
• Selecting text with Shift+Down in note editor didn't go to the end.Fix

• Automatic reloading of changed notebook fileEnhancement

  If you use services like DropBox or Syncplicity to synchronize your CintaNotes notebooks, this will protect the newer version of the notebook from being overwritten with the old version (this could happen if you kept CintaNotes running on two or more PCs simultaneously).

• CintaNotes hang when you used the clipping function while having the note editor active and the "Open in Editor" option turned on.Fix

• After creating a new note with the "Reverse Order" option enabled, the focus went to the oldest note instead of the newly created one.Fix

• Notebook file could become corrupt when being saved to a USB stick.Fix
• Minor correction to portable upgrade instructions in readme.txt.Fix

• AND and OR modes for tag sidebarFeature

  Now Ctrl-clicking on a tag means AND (tag intersection) and Alt-clicking means OR (tag union). When in OR mode, the highlight of tags is yellowish. The modes are mutually exclusive.

• More advanced backup scheme - hourly, daily and weekly backupsFeature

  CintaNotes now creates three backup files: notebook.hourly.dat is updated each hour, notebook.daily.dat - each day, and notebook.weekly.dat is updated once per week.

• View / Reverse Ordercommand reverses the notes in the list so that latest notes come firstFeature
• Tag autocomplete in search box is now limited to Anywhere and Tags search modesEnhancement
• Option to edit note immediately after each clippingEnhancement
• Switching to Untagged after clipping is now optionalEnhancement
• Focus is not reset if current note stays in view after searching or cancelling searchEnhancement
• Autocomplete suggestions are not hot-tracked in the text box anymoreEnhancement
• Note editor: focus was not restored at activationFix
• Clipping while a note is open and then pressing OK caused CN to crashFix
• Tag autocomplete dropdown could go off-screenFix

• Tag autocompletionFeature

  No need to remember or look up tags anymore! In any tag-entering field CintaNotes now displays a dropdown list of available tags as soon as you start typing. Pressing Spacebar, Return or Tab accept the currently highlighted suggestion, whereas Esc or Del cancel it. You can also force autocomplete display via pressing Ctrl+Space.

• "Run at system startup" optionFeature

  Check "Options / Run at system startup" to have CintaNotes start automatically. It will start minimized to the system tray. Use this option with care if you run CintaNotes from an USB stick, since if the stick is absent CintaNotes won't be found during system startup.

• Relevant tag highlighting in tag sidebarEnhancement

  Tag sidebar now highlights tags which are related to any tag of the currently selected set. Two tags are considered related if there are notes which have them both.

• View switches to All if after editing or deleting a note no notes are left in the Untagged view.Enhancement
• View switched to Untagged after clipping even when tag sidebar was off.Fix
• Note editor didn't recognize FTP links.Fix
• The close window ("X") button in note editor meant Cancel, but should mean OK.Fix
• The tray icon wasn't restored after an explorer.exe restart.Fix

• F5 to toggle tag sidebarEnhancement
• Scrolling with mouse wheel crashed program when CintaNotes run on the left monitor on a multi-monitor configuration.Fix
• Restoring note editor position didn't work properly on multi-monitor configurations.Fix

At last, the long awaited release! Here is what's new:

• Tag SidebarFeature

  This is a handy tool for fast access to different tags and tag sets. It is basically the controller of the built-in tags filter. Turn it on using the View/Tag Sidebar command. See the Help section describing tag sidebar.

• Exporting selected notesEnhancement

  Now the File/Export command has a submenu, which lets you specify whether you want to export all notes or just the selection. The new keyboard shortcuts F11 and Ctrl+F11 are introduced here as well.

• New note reordering commandsEnhancement

  You can now move selected notes to top pressing Alt+Home, and to the very bottom pressing Alt+End. Also, the note reordering commands are now accessible from the menu.

• At startup, CintaNotes now warns you if it detects and activates an already running program instance.Enhancement
• The main window now allows smaller widths.Enhancement
• Alt+Down in the search box was not displaying the search mode menu as it should.Fix
• In the note edit dialog, it was not possible to select text till the end of note using Shift+Down.Fix

• Search for multiple tagsFeature

  Just type your tags in the search box, separated with spaces. And you don't have to type whole tags, partial matches are also ok.

• Fixed regression: Tags were not autoconverted to lower case which lead to problems with search.Fix
• Fixed: CintaNotes did not save page URLs when clipping from Opera@USB.Fix

• Fixed regression: The note body text was not searchable.Fix

  We are very sorry for the incovenience. Please update using the same download links.

• Silent Clipping modeFeature

  If Options/Silent Clipping is activated, CintaNotes will not pop up after each clipping, but will display a balloon tip instead. Clicking on it would open CintaNotes.

• Importing notes from XML and .dat filesFeature

  There is now a new File/Import menu item.

• Automatic note backupFeature

  Simple as yet, but nonetheless: each 10 min your notes are saved to backup/notebook.backup.dat.

• Basic note reorderingFeature

  You can move selected notes up and down with Alt+Up and Alt+Down arrow keys.

• Add/Remove tag command applicable to note selectionFeature

  At last it's possible to tag several notes at once: just select them and press F4 (or select the Tag... command from the context menu).

• Tag manipulation: rename, merge and split tagsFeature

  There's a new Edit/Replace Tags command. It's simple but powerful: it allows for tag renaming, splitting, merging and deleting. Generally, each tag specified in the first edit box is replaced with all tags from the second edit box.

• Background saving: now notes are saved in background, making the application more responsive.Enhancement

• Two new fully configurable hot keysFeature

  Now you can use a hot key to call CintaNotes window (Ctrl+Alt+F12 by default) and to add a new note (unassigned by default).

• "-m" command line parameterFeature

  Run "cintanotes.exe -m" to start CintaNotes minimized to tray.

• "Always on top" optionFeature

  Use this switch of the Options menu to make CintaNotes window stay always on top.

• Possibility to search all fieldsFeature

  A new Anywhere search mode was added, which is now the default.

• Improved text clippingEnhancement

  The clipping is now faster and more reliable. For example, clipping now works in Outlook 2007 preview pane and in Adobe Illustrator. Also CintaNotes can now clip page URLs from any browser that fully supports HTML clipboard format. And even more, the URLs are now clipped from CHM files as well.

• Tags and links displayed in the notes listEnhancement

  Now notes list displays note tags and, if a note has a link, the link icon. Alt-clicking on a note (or pressing the F3 key) will open the note's link in your default browser.

  Also note creation date/time has been moved to the right and doesn't display seconds anymore.

• Editor font is now the same as note text fontEnhancement
• Additional keyboard shortcutsEnhancement

  Ctrl+F — focus search box (not strictly necessary since you can just start typing, but some people are more comfortable this way).

  In the search box:
  Ctrl+Up/Down/PageUp/PageDown - navigate search modes;
  Alt+Down — display search mode menu;
  Down Arrow — go to search results.

  In the note editor:
  Up/Down/PageUp/PageDown — navigate the edit boxes;
  Ctrl+Down — go to the Tags edit box.
  

• Text boxes in note editor now have standard context menus.Enhancement
• Settings were not saved in case of system shutdown.Fix
• CintaNotes couldn't run if Ctrl+F12 hot key was taken by some other application.Fix
• Note edit dialog didn't remember its position and could go off-screen.Fix

In this version:

• URL retrieval from Firefox, Opera, Chrome and SafariFeature

  Now not only for IE: note's link is automatically filled when you clip text from pages viewed in these web browsers.

• Export notes to a Unicode text fileFeature

  You can now export notes to a unicode text file using the File / Export command.

• Configurable clipping hot keyFeature

  Finally you can change the default Ctrl+F12 key combination. See Options / Clipping Hot Key. Our favorite is Win+X ;) Unfortunately it can't be the default one: officially Win key is reserved for the system.

• Note count displayEnhancement

  CintaNotes now reveals how many notes there are in your notebook and how many were found during search.

• Adjustable note lines displayEnhancement

  You can adjust the count of note lines that should be displayed in the main list using the View / Note Appearance dialog.

• Ctrl+Space is now working properlyFix

  It did not toggle note selection as it should.

• No administrator privileges required to installFix

  Now you don't have to be an administrator to install CintaNotes. Just remember that in this case Program Files folder is not writable and choose another one during installation.

A very merry Christmas and an extraordinarily happy New Year to everyone! We are glad to announce the Beta M4 version.

What's new in this version:

• Search text highlighting Feature

  When you search, CintaNotes now highlights the instances of the searched text. So it is not only easy to find the needed notes, but easy to find something inside these notes as well.

• In-place scrolling of large notes Feature

  Now you don't have to open the edit window to view the whole note. Instead, you can use the right/left arrow keys to scroll the notes' contents. CintaNotes indicates which notes can be scrolled with small grey arrows.

• Saving window position Enhancement

  CintaNotes now remembers its position and size, so you don't have to re-adjust it every time.

• Smooth scrolling Enhancement

  Notes in the main list are scrolled much smoother.

• No taskbar button when started minimized Fix

  CintaNotes used to display its taskbar button even if it had been started minimized. Now it just displays an icon in the system tray. This is useful if you want to add a shortcut to CintaNotes to your Start Menu's "Startup" folder to run CintaNotes automatically at the system's startup.