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CintaNotes 3.14 Released!

Fixes:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.13 Released!

Enhancements:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.12 Released!

Enhancements:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.11 Released!

Enhancements:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.10 Released!

Features:

  • (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

CintaNotes 3.9.1 Released!

Fixes:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.9 Released!

Features:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.8.1 Released!

Enhancements:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.8 Released!

Features:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.7 Released!

Features:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.6 Released!

Features:

  • 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+

CintaNotes 3.5 Released!

Features:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.4 Released!

Features:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.3.1 Released!

Enhancements:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.3 Released!

Features:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.2.1 Released!

Enhancements:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.2 Released!

Features:

  • 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

CintaNotes 3.1.4 Released!

Enhancements:

  • 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
Finding notes with the full-text search

Full-text Search

Finding notes in CintaNotes is trivial. Simply start typing in the main window. You can also limit the search area to specific note fields, for example the note’s title, text, tags, etc. For cases where simple search is not quite enough, CintaNotes also supports more sophisticated search query syntax.

Securing notes with the CintaNotes backup options

Notes Backup

To minimize the risk of data loss, CintaNotes creates hourly, daily and weekly backup copies of your notebooks. If needed, you can use them to restore the most up-to-date versions of your notebooks.

Configuring shortcuts in CintaNotes

Configurable Hot Keys

Almost all CintaNotes functions can be activated using keyboard and mouse shortcuts, speeding up the note-taking workflow. And the most frequently used system-wide shortcuts are fully configurable:
• clip the selected text as a note,
• show or hide the program’s window, and
• quickly create and start editing a new note.

With CintaNotes you can add attachments to your notes

File Attachments

Notes in CintaNotes are not limited to just text, they can also have files attached to them. Just about anything can be attached: Office files, images, audios, videos and even more.

Securing notes in CintaNotes with password protection

Password Protection

You can password protect any notebook that contains sensitive data. It remains encrypted on disc until you enter the password to open it.

Syncing your notes with Simplenote

Notes Synchronization

To access your notes on multiple devices, synchronize them with the free Simplenote service. This way you will also make your notes available on Mac, Linux, Android and iOS devices.

Embedding custom links in CintaNotes

Embedded Links to Other Notes

CintaNotes allows you to embed links to other notes right in the text of your notes. With the help of these custom links you can create personal wiki-like databases.

Export to HTML

Export Notes to HTML

With CintaNotes you should not worry about your notes being trapped in only one format. You can effortlessly export them to HTML. CintaNotes also supports export to XML and TXT.

STORE SAFELY

  • Retrieve your notes on- and offline
  • Encrypt whole notebooks with passwords
  • Create automatic notebook backups

ORGANIZE CONVENIENTLY

  • Sort notes into notebooks and sections
  • Tag notes with hierarchic tags
  • Use full text search to quickly find notes

COLLECT EASILY

  • Capture text from any application
  • Attach files and images to notes
  • Synchronize notes on different devices

CintaNotes 3.1.1 Released!

Enhancements:

  • 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

Version 3.1

Features:

  • 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

Version 3.0.2

Enhancements:

  • 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

Version 3.0.1

Enhancements:

  • 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

Version 3.0

Features:

  • 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

Version 2.9.3

Enhancements:

  • 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

Version 2.9.2

Enhancements:

  • 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

About CintaNotes

CintaNotes is a small and easy to use personal note management application. It is designed to be your indispensable assistant in the daily task of collecting numerous pieces of information, whatever they may be: your own thoughts and ideas, book and article excerpts, job postings, famous quotes, research data, curious facts, Wikipedia definitions, blog posts, important news, you name it.

It lets you quickly jot down and tag any piece of useful information that you come across while reading documents or surfing the Net – just select the text and press Ctrl+F12. With CintaNotes, this is really all it takes to make a note! CintaNotes does not clutter your desktop with “sticky notes”, all notes are neatly organized in an easily navigable list. And unlike browser-based tools like Google Keep or Firefox plug-ins, CintaNotes does not require a web browser to work – it works with Microsoft Word, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat – the “text-capturing magic” works with all applications that can copy text to the clipboard!

Retrieving information is also trivial: just open CintaNotes and start typing, and only notes which contain the text you type will remain in the list. More sophisticated search criteria are also supported, like searching by title or by URL the note was taken from.

CintaNotes is a totally portable 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.

Version 2.9.1

Enhancements:

  • 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

Version 2.9

Features:

  • 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

Version 2.8.6

Enhancements:

  • 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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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.

Affiliate Program Launched!

A great product sells itself, right?

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.

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Version 2.8.5

Enhancements:

  • 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

Version 2.8.4

Enhancements:

  • 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%

Version 2.8.3

Enhancements:

  • 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

Version 2.8.2

Enhancements:

  • 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

Version 2.8.1

Enhancements:

  • 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

CintaNotes 2.8 and the Search History

In earlier CintaNotes versions, if you searched for something, then needed to search for something else, and after that wanted to go back, you needed to re-create the search filter from scratch. Well not anymore: now you can just use the Back and Forward buttons on the toolbar to navigate your search history!

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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.
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Version 2.8

Features:

  • 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

Version 2.7.2

Enhancements:

  • 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

Version 2.7.1

Enhancements:

  • 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
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CintaNotes 2.7 Released

In this blog post I want to tell in more detail about the new CintaNotes version that we released a couple of days ago: version 2.7.

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.

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Version 2.7

Features:

  • 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
CintaNotes Mouse Gesture

How to Clip Text Using Mouse Gestures

If you asked me to summarize how people use CintaNotes with just one word, “differently” would probably pop to mind first. I communicate with users a lot, and can fully attest that people are incredibly diverse in this regard. Usability studies seem to confirm this observation: they indicate that although on average users only use 20 percent of the program’s features, for each user it’s a different 20 percent.

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.
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Version 2.6.1

Enhancements:

  • 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

Version 2.6

Features:

  • 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

Version 2.5.2

Enhancements:

  • 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

Version 2.5.1

Enhancements:

  • 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.

Version 2.5

Features:

  • “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

Version 2.4

Features

  • 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.