A free, lightweight and user-friendly note taking application

CintaNotes lets you quickly save and tag any useful information that you come across or just need to jot down.

Clip text from anywhere. Just select it and press the hotkey!

The text-clipping "magic" works in any application that can copy text to clipboard. CintaNotes automatically saves the text and its source URL, and you don't even have to install a plug-in to integrate it with your web browser!

Fast as-you-type searching

Retrieving information is also trivial: just open CintaNotes and start typing! Only notes containing the typed phrase remain in the list. More sophisticated search criteria are supported, like searching by title or by URL the note was taken from.

Powerful tagging system

You can use tags for note organization, and later use tag union, intersection and subtraction filters to quickly find what you need.

Access notes from your mobile device

Using the Simplenote synchronization feature in the PRO version of CintaNotes, you can get full read/write access to your notes on any iOS, Android or Windows Phone device.

Synchronize notes across multiple PCs

Live note synchronization is supported with the help of free online services such as Google Drive, DropBox, or SugarSync.

Run it from your flash drive

CintaNotes is a totally self-contained application, meaning that you can put it on a flash drive and run it directly from there. In this way, your notes will always be with you.

Need more information? Take a look at the help page or ask the program authors directly on the CintaNotes forum.

News and Releases

May 7, 2013 — Version 2.2

  • Simplenote sync: support for syncing of multiple sectionsFeature
  • Unified portable and installer versions into one distributive which can be installed both ways.Enhancement
  • Simplenote sync: got rid of "Uid:" lines in synced notesEnhancement
  • Recycle bin: added column with first non-empty text line from deleted noteEnhancement
  • Recycle bin: view deleted note on double-click.Enhancement
  • License renewal supportEnhancement
  • Notes list: note color didn't change when note was moved to another sectionFix
  • Reverted back to SQLite 3.7.13 due to performance and stability issuesFix
  • Recycle bin: note couldn't be restored when section didn't existFix

Apr 8, 2013 — Version 2.1.1

  • Recycle bin window size and placement now rememberedEnhancement
  • Increased default font sizeEnhancement
  • Added "Request free trial" button to the License dialogEnhancement
  • Editor: note link caption now updated on Ctrl+Alt+L and EnterEnhancement
  • Shift+Esc to minimize main window keeping search filtersEnhancement
  • Updated SQLite to version 3.7.16.1Enhancement
  • Updated translationsEnhancement
  • SimpleNote sync: plus (+) symbol was syncing incorrectlyFix
  • Simplenote sync: sudden crash during syncFix
  • Simplenote sync: could cause note edit windows to close all by themselvesFix
  • Notebook upgrade failed if backup folder didn't already existFix
  • Recycle bin: first click on "deleted" did nothingFix
  • Import function didn't check section count limitFix
  • Import with sections could cause program crashFix
  • Note links: possible error on creating new noteFix
  • Editor: note links could get corruptedFix
  • Editor: correct copying of note links with text formatsFix
  • Editor: Note was always saved to db when line trimming was onFix
  • Clipping: active tags of wrong section could be assignedFix

Mar 19, 2013 — Version 2.1

  • Recycle bin for notes New File/Recycle Bin menu optionFeature
  • Backup: added "File/Backup/Backup Now" commandFeature
  • Backup: notebook-specific backup settingsEnhancement
  • Simplenote sync: Improved reliability Enhancement

    CintaNotes has migrated to the new Simperium API

  • Added progress bar display to import and exportEnhancement
  • Editor: Context menu for the "Link" fieldEnhancement
  • Note links: updating link caption after retargeting the linkEnhancement
  • Links to notes: import could break local note linksFix
  • Fixed spurious "Synchronization failed" errorsFix
  • Create note link: error on creating new noteFix
  • SN sync sometimes couldn't download all notesFix
  • Export progress bar never ran to the endFix
  • Accelerators were not working when modal dialog was openFix
  • Note links could get corrupted when they were restored from recycle binFix
  • PRIMARY KEY contraint violation on adding note linksFix
  • Simplenote sync: better handling of HTTP error 412Fix
  • CN could suddenly clear all tags and sort order from all sectionsFix

Feb 25, 2013 — Version 2.0.4

  • More reliable clipping with configurable clip wait timeEnhancement

    Now with the "clipping.waittime.seconds" parameter in cintanotes.settings you can control how long should CN wait for the data to appear in the clipboard.

  • Editor: added section selector control.Enhancement
  • Editor: added support for recognizing URLs with custom protocolsEnhancement

    (Now links like onenote:// or evernote:// are recognized.)

  • CN now displays assigned section and tags in the balloon tooltip which appears on silent clipping.Enhancement
  • Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab now can move away from the "All" section selection.Enhancement
  • Added confirmation message box for the "Register link protocol" command.Enhancement
  • Display assigned section and tags in baloon tooltip on silent clipping.Enhancement
  • Simplenote sync: Fixed authorization failed error.Fix
  • Simplenote sync: Proxy autoconfiguration was not working.Fix
  • Note could be saved into deleted section.Fix
  • Section edit dialog color did not change when picked color changed.Fix
  • Main window caption was not updated on deleting section.Fix
  • Mouse wheel didn't work on notes list when search box had focus.Fix
  • Editor: Ctrl+Tab could corrupt note links.Fix
  • Ctrl+Shift+I started search for Tab character.Fix
  • Editor: Format/Clear changed line height of CJK text.Fix
  • Editor: Line trimming could corrupt note linksFix
  • Error on pressing Delete after switching notebooks.Fix
  • Fixed possible crash while exporting notes.Fix
  • Update notification is now shown only once.Fix
  • Note link tooltip appeared when a context menu was displayed.Fix

Feb 11, 2013 — Version 2.0.3

  • Links to notes: show tooltip with target info on mouse hoverEnhancement
  • Added option "Window/Minimize on Esc"Enhancement
  • Improved usability of "select next action" message boxesEnhancement
  • Editor: Improved block indent/unindent behaviorEnhancement
  • Editor: Ctrl+Alt+S to save note without changing modified dateEnhancement
  • UI for notebook upgrade process and ability to create backup before upgradingEnhancement
  • Passwords to proxy and Simplenote are now stored in encrypted formEnhancement
  • Section view state not always proreply saved and restoredFix
  • Note links couldn't be copied and pastedFix
  • Editor: Backspace working incorrectly in bullet listFix
  • Editor: Shift+Enter working incorrectly in bullet lists when line is emptyFix
  • Notes list not always updated after deleting a sectionFix
  • Possible error on deleting sectionFix
  • SimpleNote sync: possible crash while syncing notes containing raw HTMLFix
  • Notes list and tag sidebar not updated after deleting all notes with a certain tagFix
  • Parent tag not created on open/import old db fileFix
  • "Create New Note" shortcut didn't use the Inbox sectionFix
  • Editor: note link commands should be disabled if text formatting is disabledFix
  • Import: parent tags not created when hierarchic tags are entered into the "Tags to add" fieldFix
  • URL not recognized when it contains ":"Fix

Jan 24, 2013 — Version 2.0.2

  • Tag sidebar: improved usability with tag filtersEnhancement

    Added the "No Tag Filter", "Only Used" and "Only Related" context menu options to control the tag list display.

  • Sections: Sort and search parameters of each section of each opened notebook are now remembered.Enhancement
  • Sections: Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab are now shortcuts to navigate tabs.Enhancement
  • Sections: Added Ctrl+Shift+Space as an alternative to Ctrl+` shortcut to select all tabs.Enhancement
  • Specifying proxy settings for internet connectionEnhancement

    New menu item "Options/System/Proxy settings"

  • Links to notes: don't display current note's title in the dropdownEnhancement
  • Links to notes: display 'Delete Note Link' only when the caret is on note linkEnhancement
  • Tab widths are now configurable via the "sectionbar.tab.width" parameters in the cintanotes.settings fileEnhancement
  • Improved notebook opening error diagnosisEnhancement
  • Added option "ui.profeatures.hide" to hide paid features in menusEnhancement
  • Displaying program version in tray tooltipEnhancement
  • Options/System: Perform UAC elevation instead of just displaying errorEnhancement
  • Tag sidebar: mouse wheel scrolling not workingFix
  • Slow search and tab switching on notebooks having 1000+ tagsFix
  • Links to notes: failure to focus target note linkFix
  • Links to notes: message dialogs were not modalFix
  • Simplenote sync: impossible to search while downloading notesFix
  • Editor: format toggle not always workingFix
  • Editor: wrong text selected after paste + undoFix
  • Editor: Alt+BkSp not workingFix
  • Editor: caret should be moved on right-clickFix
  • Editor: bullet list stops when ENTER on filled lineFix
  • Editor: formatting is pasted into editor with disabled formattingFix
  • Editor: undo command removed bullets from listsFix
  • Editor: numbers were stripped when pasting plain-text numbered list and text formatting is disabledFix
  • Editor: text formatting was used for block indents even when text formatting was disabledFix
  • Possible crash on mouse wheel in search boxFix
  • Possible SQLite Error 14: unable to open database fileFix

Dec 30, 2012 — Version 2.0.1

  • Multithreaded Simplenote sync: 3-5x increased sync speedEnhancement
  • Links to notes: Added "Copy Note Link" context menu item to note editorEnhancement
  • Links to notes: "Create new note" from dropdown now opens the new note for editingEnhancement
  • Links to notes: the initial contents of the dropdown suggestion edit is initially selectedEnhancement
  • Support for opening notebooks from command lineEnhancement
  • When clipping from a CN editor window, a cintanotes:// link to note is placed into the Link fieldEnhancement
  • Editor: changed strikeout text shortcut to Ctrl+KEnhancement
  • Periodic Simplenote sync could lead to crashFix
  • Simplenote sync: proper syncing of note linksFix
  • Simplenote sync: don't put simple links in <a> tag, use URL recognitionFix
  • Links to notes: right-click on note link behaved unintuitivelyFix
  • Links to notes: inserting timestamp into note link broke itFix
  • Possible crash when running from Program Files (x86)Fix
  • Editor: Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z shouldn't UndoFix
  • Possible error on clipping (precondition violation)Fix
  • CN could put Internet Explorer into offline modeFix
  • Search scope and "search inside words" were not remembered in each sectionFix
  • Tags with use count of 0 were not displayed even if marked as not autodeletedFix
  • Error when saving tag with forward slash as first symbolFix
  • Possible error on startup when there are many sections and section bar is hiddenFix
  • Editor: "Column uid not unique" error on saving noteFix
  • Notes list: after pasting several notes, only one of them was selectedFix
  • Notes list: Left Click + Wheel scrolled more than page of textFix
  • Filter control: Ctrl+Down was not working properlyFix

Dec 19, 2012 — Version 2.0!

  • Simplenote synchronizationFeature

    Finally you'll be able to access your notes from your mobile device! (Commercial)

  • Tabbed notebook sectionsFeature

    Divide your notebook into colorful sections! (Up to 3 sections in the free version, unlimited number of sections in the licensed version.)

  • Linking notes with each otherFeature

    Now you can link notes together! More than that, now you can place a link to a CN note into any rich-text enabled app! (Commercial)

  • Application icon colorizationFeature

    Now the application icon is colored according to selected color theme, which helps to distinguish between icons in the notification area when you run multiple instances of CN.

  • Option to associate CintaNotes with .db Files Enhancement

    The new Options/System/Associate with .db files option (requires running CintaNotes with administrator privileges).

  • Editor: Pressing F7 when caret is on a link opens this link.Enhancement
  • Some performance optimizations in the notes list.Enhancement
  • Notes list: returned the "New Note" context menu item.Enhancement
  • Note editor: fixed undo behavior for block indentsFix
  • Typing search query was possible even when search box was disabledFix
  • Search field is now enabled regardless of how many notes are foundFix
  • When a child tag is deselected, the parent stays selected if it was selected before.Fix
  • Tag sidebar: Unrelated tags became more readableFix

Nov 27, 2012 — Version 1.8.5

  • Keyboard shortcuts to manipulate current tag selection from the search boxEnhancement

    Ctrl+, Shift+, and Alt+Enter now work from the search box to change current tag selection.

  • Regression: accepting tags on spacebar not working anymore.Fix
  • Regression: Single Ctrl+Enter not enough to apply tags on tag sidebar.Fix
  • Don't focus main window when after closing one editor other gets focused.Fix
  • "2." not found in note text when note has a title.Fix
  • Note preview: pressing right arrow not always immediately scrolls note's text.Fix

Nov 13, 2012 — Version 1.8.4

  • Put newly opened notebooks to the bottom of the MRU list, not the top.Enhancement
  • Beep when selecting current notebook in File MRU list.Enhancement
  • After closing editor, always focus main window.Enhancement
  • Updated translations.Enhancement
  • Unexpected filter reset after modifying note data.Fix
  • Performance problems when rendering large notes.Fix
  • Wrong search highlight positions for text coming after spaces and tabs.Fix
  • URL detection: arbitrary domains were not recognized.Fix

Oct 30, 2012 — Version 1.8.3

  • New menu option "Options/Editor/Initial Focus"Enhancement
  • New menu option "Help/Debug/Debug Logging"Enhancement
  • Updated translations, added new languages: Indonesian, Serbian.Enhancement
  • Export: Small export dialog enhancements.Enhancement
  • Editor: trimming spaces also after manual save.Enhancement
  • Note properties: added settings file option "noteproperties.validatedates" to control whether date validation should be performed.Enhancement
  • Regression: "-m" command line parameter no longer working.Fix
  • Regression: Tag sidebar: child tags sometimes not displayed.Fix
  • Editor: problems with copying words from numbered lists to clipboard.Fix
  • Editor: lockup when replacing trailing spaces with newline.Fix
  • Notes list: wrong highlighting of very long tags.Fix
  • CN could crash when Notes List/Render text formatting was unchecked.Fix
  • Tag autocomplete: "abc/b" was not suggested when entering "b".Fix

Oct 15, 2012 — Version 1.8.2

  • New "-d" command line option to enable detailed debug logging.Enhancement
  • Editor: no space trimming on manual save, only on closing.Enhancement
  • CN version 1.8 and 1.8.1 didn't start up on some PCs.Fix
  • Titles are no longer lost on merging (even if note text is not empty).Fix
  • Wrong sorting order of tags with some national symbols.Fix
  • HTML export: eliminated another reason why notes could get truncated.Fix
  • URLs of the form something.co.XX were not recognized.Fix
  • Fixed "Postcondition failed" error that could come up on clipping.Fix

Oct 2, 2012 — Version 1.8.1

  • Wrong TAB alignment in the notes list.Fix
  • Clipping: only plain text clipboard content was restored after clipping.Fix
  • CN could quit silently several seconds after startup.Fix
  • HTML export: some notes got cut off.Fix
  • HTML export: font from editor.fonts.monospace not used in exported file.Fix
  • Editor: Monospace toggle on text selected with Ctrl+A not working properly.Fix
  • Editor: font unexpectedly turned to monospace after save.Fix
  • Editor: Asian chars appear condensed after save and reopen.Fix
  • Editor: when space trimming enabled, links and text effects got into wrong positions.Fix
  • Editor: URLs with [ and ] characters were not correctly recognized.Fix
  • Note properties dialog: wrong date set when selecting from drop-down calendar.Fix
  • Clipping for copy-pasting text with links from IE could produce text with wrong encoding.Fix
  • About dialog: license label in some languages gets cut off.Fix
  • Registering via clipping the purchase email not working in IE.Fix
  • Entering ".." in Russian locale suggested tags with only one "." in them.Fix
  • Note text could get altered on copy paste.Fix
  • Ctrl+R to toggle the Display Related Tag Only mode was not restricted to Personal and Company licenses.Fix
  • Auto updater ignored changes in 4th version digit.Fix

Sep 25, 2012 — Version 1.8

  • "Expand All/Collapse All" context menu commands in the Tag Sidebar.Feature
  • Keep supported text formatting on clip/paste from rich text enabled applications such as MS Word.Feature
  • New commands in note editor: F5 to insert current timestamp, Shift+Enter to add a new paragraph to the current list item, Ctrl+Tab and Shift+Ctrl+Tab to indent/outdent text blocks.Feature
  • The "Display tag counts" feature is now available with the Basic license!Enhancement
  • Support working with read-only databases.Enhancement
  • Tag sidebar: Relevant tag marks are now affected also by the text search filter.Enhancement
  • Tag sidebar: now remembers the last selection when reactivated.Enhancement
  • Tag sidebar: Click on 'All' now doesn't reset the 'Display related tags only' mode.Enhancement
  • Editor: added "editor.trimlines" settings file option to automatically remove trailing line whitespace on save.Enhancement
  • Display fonts preview in the Note Appearance dialog.Enhancement
  • Improved tag auto suggestion.Enhancement
  • "Cut", "Copy", "Paste" and "Delete" context menu items in the search filter box.Enhancement
  • Double click on a tag in any tag edit field selects the whole tag.Enhancement
  • Note Properties dialog enhancementsEnhancement

    Default focus on Created Date, no more on-the-fly date validation.

  • Enhanced system window menu (right-click on app title icon).Enhancement
  • Ctrl+R to toggle 'Display related tags only' mode.Enhancement
  • Lists in exported XML and HTML are now be defined by tags.Enhancement
  • Old tag name to appear in new name field of rename dialog.Enhancement
  • Hugely degraded performance on bases with lots of deeply nested tags.Fix
  • Note preview: wrong line breaks for mixed monospace and normal lines.Fix
  • F3 behaved differently in the note editor compared to the notes list when having more than one search term.Fix
  • Note properties dialog: created date was not saved for new notes.Fix
  • Strange selected notes after removing tag.Fix
  • Wrong URL highlighting when using german umlauts.Fix
  • Various window focusing issues.Fix
  • Various search related issues.Fix
  • Certain text was disappearing from note preview.Fix
  • Key shortcuts in popup menu were not properly aligned.Fix
  • Crash on search with 0 results + Down Arrow + Alt+Enter.Fix
  • Was not possible to add multiple non-autodeleted tags through the New Tag dialog.Fix
  • Unnecessary tags present in exported XML.Fix
  • On Ctrl+BkSp only first tag was expanded in the Tag Sidebar tree.Fix
  • Buttons in notebook message dialog were too narrow for some languages.Fix
  • Strange tag display when searching with 0 results and "Display related tags only" is on.Fix
  • Not possible to switch 'display related tags only' mode with negated tag selection.Fix
  • Tags disappear on Alt+Click when 'Display only related tags' mode is on.Fix
  • Wrong indentation of wrapped bullet list lines.Fix
  • Numbered list numbers could not be deleted with DEL.Fix
  • Editor: Table formatting was not stripped on paste.Fix
  • Removed repeated parent tags in exported HTML.Fix
  • Editor window repaint artefacts when opening a specific note maximized.Fix
  • Editor: dates label not painted if window configured to open maximized.Fix
  • Wrong line breaking in note preview for specific text.Fix
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