CintaNotes News and Releases

[CintaNotes Developer]

Mar 27, 2014 - Version 2.5.2

In this version:

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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_5_2_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_5_2.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

May 08, 2014 - Version 2.6

In this version:

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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_6_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_6.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Hi all,

just in case someone is not subscribed to our newsletter:

Tomorrow we'll be featuring CintaNotes on BitsDuJour, a 'deal-of-the-day' website that we've partnered with.

BitsDuJour will be offering the PRO license on Friday 23 May, 2014 for $12.50, with the current normal price being $25. More than that, soon we plan to raise the price to $39 per license, so this is a great chance to become CN-PRO if you wanted to do it but were putting this off.

If you're still unsure whether you need the PRO version, here is a visual comparison of the free and paid versions. Also you can request a free 10-day trial to help you decide.

In case you already are a PRO license holder, then first and foremost, huge thank you for your support! It is thanks to you that we are able to continue improving CintaNotes. If you have any friends who might be interested in CintaNotes, please let them know about the date. We can't afford to offer this kind of thing often, and it will be available on BitsDuJour for 2 days only.

Just tell them to visit BitsDuJour on Friday 23 May, 2014 to get CintaNotes for $12.50.
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Once again, here is the secret link:
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[CintaNotes Developer]

Jun 05, 2014 - Version 2.6.1

In this version:

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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_6_1_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_6_1.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Introducing Lifetime PRO License

Hi everyone,

Many users have requested us to provide an option for a so-called lifetime license: pay a bit more upfront, then receive free updates for life. No more worries about the license key being not valid for a new version - only stress-free note taking.

We have pondered on the idea and have finally decided to give it a try. So I'm glad to say that, effective today, we make the CintaNotes Lifetime PRO license available!

The price for this license is higher than for a regular license: 119 USD for new customers, and 79.99 USD for existing customers. Why is it so much higher? Because we've learned from mistakes of others: in the past, many good software products disappeared because their authors had set the price of a lifetime license too low. And then had to abandon any further development, because the flow of new customers just wasn't strong enough. We wouldn't want this to happen to CintaNotes. So I'd like to stress this out: we offer this more as a convenience option, not as a discount.

Feature-wise there is no difference between PRO and Lifetime PRO. The only difference will be that Lifetime PRO license holders will enjoy priority technical support.

Here are the relevant links for the interested:
Buy the Lifetime PRO license
Upgrade from regular PRO license to the Lifetime PRO license

[CintaNotes Developer]

Aug 4, 2014 - Version 2.7

Features:

• Printing notes
  
• 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.).
  Due to availability of these shortcuts, we removed the "Options/Editor/Format By" setting.
  
• Translatable keyboard shortcuts
  
• Added screenshots to the user's manual (+1.5MB to distibutive size)
  
• 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
  
• Notes list: display full tag name if short name is not enough to uniquely identify the tag

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 was not displayed when searching in "Any text field"
  
• Editor: BkSp+Undo+BkSp corrupted links
  
• Editor: error when clicking a link to a file with CJK characters in name
  
• Notes list: if multiple tags have same short name, only one tag was displayed

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_7_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_7.zip

Huge thanks to all who took part in beta testing!

[CintaNotes Developer]

Aug 21, 2014 - Version 2.7.1

In this version:

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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_7_1_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_7_1.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Sep 15, 2014 - Version 2.7.2

In this version:

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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_7_2_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_7_2.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Oct 16, 2014 - Version 2.8

In this version:

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:

• Tag sidebar: tags font is now configurable with "app.mainframe.tagsidebar.font" settings file option
  
• 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)
  
• 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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_8_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_8.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Oct 27, 2014 - Version 2.8.1

In this version:

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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_8_1_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_8_1.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Nov 10, 2014 - Version 2.8.2

In this version:

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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_8_2_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_8_2.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Nov 24, 2014 - Version 2.8.3

In this version:

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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_8_3_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_8_3.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Dec 15, 2014 - Version 2.8.4

In this version:

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%

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_8_4_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_8_4.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Feb 16, 2015 - Version 2.8.5

In this version:

Enhancements:

• Editor: replaced "Tags", "Link" and "Remarks" labels with icons
  
• 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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_8_5_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_8_5.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

May 4, 2015 - Version 2.8.6

In this version:

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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_8_6_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_8_6.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Jun 10, 2015 - Version 2.9

In this version:

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:

• XML export: dropped support of old 1.5.4 XML format
  
• 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
  
• Search and replace: the hint "search has reached the starting point" 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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_9_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_9.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Jun 23, 2015 - Version 2.9.1

In this version:

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 creatig 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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_9_1_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_9_1.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Jul 7, 2015 - Version 2.9.2

In this version:

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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_9_2_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_9_2.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Jul 27, 2015 - Version 2.9.3

In this version:

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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_2_9_3_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_2_9_3.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Oct 5, 2015 - Version 3.0

In this version:

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
  
• Fix crash possible when saving notes manually and then quickly closing the edtitor
  
• Recycle bin: note preview didn't render formatting
  
• Regression: F3 search in editor didn't work for multi-term searches
  
• Wrong notes list state after deleting the last note having selected tag
  
• Fix paint flicker on startup

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_3_0_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_3_0.zip