CintaNotes News and Releases

[CintaNotes Developer]

Released hot fix version Beta M10.5

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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_BetaM10_5_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_BetaM10_5.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

CintaNotes 1.0 Released!

In this version:

• SQLite is now used as internal notes database. (Feature)
  Now CintaNotes used an industry-strength database in the backend! It now can boast reduced memory consumption on large
  notebooks and search that is even faster than before.
  
  
• Full text search with extended query syntax (Feature)
  It's like CintaNotes now has a little Google inside.
  
  
• Sorting notes by date, title, link and size. (Feature)
  
  
• New parameters in the .settings file. (Enhancement)
  Finally you can specify the path to the notebook file to load.
  
  
• Some minor bug fixes

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_0_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_0.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

CintaNotes 1.0A hot fix released

This should fix the possible runtime error at startup issue, as well as a couple of more obscure issues related to backups.
Please update from the following links:

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_0A_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_0A.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

1.0B Update released!

• 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)

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_0B_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_0B.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

CintaNotes 1.1A Released!

In this version:

• DropBox synchronization without closing the program (Feature)
  Put cintanotes.db into your DropBox folder and it will be automatically
  synchronized across of all your PCs. And now you don't have to remember
  to close CintaNotes before leaving!
  
  
• Ability to exclude tags from search (Feature)
  Exclude tags via Alt-clicking on them in the tag sidebar (tag OR mode is
  using Shift-click now)
  
  
• The '-i' command line switch allows to run different instances of
  CintaNotes simultaneously. (Feature)
  
  
• Awesome new icons, kindly contributed by Alessandro Onorati! (Enhancement)
  
• Note previews are auto-scrolled to the first search highlight (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)
  
  
• Bug fixes

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_1A_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_1A.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

1.1C Update

In this version:

• Import command filters out exact duplicates. (Feature)
  Useful for merging conflicted database files DropBox creates when you take notes while offline.
  
  
• Bug fixes

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_1C_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_1C.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Roadmap changed!

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

[CintaNotes Developer]

CintaNotes 1.2 Released!

In this version:

• Opening multiple editor windows(Feature)
  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)
  
• Bug fixes

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_2_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_2.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

CintaNotes 1.4 Released!

What's in this version:

http://cintanotes.userecho.com/?show=all&tag=482

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_4_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_4.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

CintaNotes 1.4.1 Released!

In this version:

• Translations of the UI into Chinese, Belarusian, French, Italian, Japanese
  and Polish
  
• Enhanced search highlights in note preview
  
• A number of new parameters in the settings file
  
• Bug fixes

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_4_1_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_4_1.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Feb 14, 2011 - 1.4.2 Update Released!

In this version:

Features:

• Added translations of the UI into Danish, Portuguese, Korean and Traditional Chinese.
  
• F3 and Shift+F3 now work in note editor to find next and previous instances of currently selected text.

Enhancements:

• CintaNotes loads new language files automatically.

Fixes:

• Fixed error "ios_base::failbit set" after installing into Program Files when run installer as admin and agreed to lauch CintaNotes after install.
  
• CintaNotes crashed if 'Lang' subfolder didn't exist.

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_4_2_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_4_2.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Apr 7, 2011 - 1.4.3 Version Released!

In this version:

Features:

• Added the "Notebook Parameters" dialog, which allows to setup the notebook file path, adjust synchronization settings, and move current notebook to another location. The dialog box is called up with the "File/Notebook..." menu item.
  
• Added translations of the UI into Hungarian, Lithuanian, Slovenian and Spanish languages.
  
• Added the "Help/Translations" menu item, which is a link to the collaborative UI translation center based on the Transifex online service.

Enhancements:

• Updated translations: Chinese Traditional, Japanese.

Fixes:

• File "log.txt" was created when the "lang" folder was not found
  
• Backup folder was created even when all backup was turned off
  
• Note editor: the text area is now always initially focused in case text search has been active
  
• "Show main window hot key" didn't work when the startup.minimized parameter was set.
  
• When startup.minimized was set, CintaNotes started up minimized when the user was changing UI language.

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_4_3_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_4_3.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Nov 3, 2011 - Version 1.5.1

In this version:

Features:

• Basic text formatting support in notes editor
  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.
  
• Import and export of text formatting to and from XML.
  
• New "Option/Startup" submenu with two options which previously has been available only via manual editing of the .settings file: "Run Minimized" - makes CintaNotes run minimized to tray; "Allow Multiple Instances" - use this to run many copies of CN simultaneously.

Enhancements:

• Refreshed program icons and logo, by a professional designer
  (The program icon doens't look ugly on Windows 7 taskbar anymore!)
  
• Tab characters now don't get autoconverted to spaces.
  
• Updated "About CintaNotes" dialog.
  
• Display of a descriptive message when trying to load unknown new version of the notebook file.

Fixes:

• Search: click on a note used to erroneously accept tag suggestion.
  
• XML export without specifying 'XML' extension could lead to failure.
  
• When editing note title Ctrl+Alt+Key shortcuts were not recognized.
  
• German umlaute in tags were not lowercased correctly.

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_5_1_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_5_1.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Nov 14, 2011 - New Update: 1.5.2

In this version:

Enhancements:

• Tag autocomplete now matches any word in multi word tags
  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.
  
• Turning off Options/Editor/Text Formatting now warns about possible loss of text formatting (if notebook contains notes with formatting).
  
• Note editor: if nothing is selected, Ctrl+Del clears formatting of the whole current paragraph.
  
• Updated translations.

Fixes:

• Search highlight positions could be wrong because of tabs.
  
• Note editor: links were still highlighted even when "highlight links" was off.
  
• Resolved performance issues with XML import.
  
• Eliminated possible crash on XML export.
  
• Layout of "Preview min max lines" option labels was not suited for all languages.
  
• CN could fail to start on WinXP 2002 SP2 with large font sizes.
  
• Note editor: URL highlighting could get broken
  
• Note editor: "Monospace" and "Highlight" text styles were lost on copy-pasting.

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_5_2_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_5_2.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Dec - 14, 2011 Version 1.5.3

In this version:

Enhancements:

• Text highlight color and monospace font are now configurable in .settings file.
• Ctrl+S in note editor to save note immediately
• Ctrl+Enter in empty search box to view untagged notes

Fixes:

• Fixed error when changing language while editing new notes
  
• Fixed crash on pressing Ctrl+Bksp on a note without tags
  
• Maximized state of main and editor windows was not saved in settings file
  
• Note editor: When editing note title Ctrl+Alt+Key shortcuts were recognized as Ctrl+Key
  
• Note editor: Pressing Enter with non-empty selection resulted in wrong selection
  
• Note editor: Ctrl+Backspace did not function in title and tags
  
• Note editor: Dates were recognized as numbered lists
  
• Note editor: Empty lines were selected wrongly
  
• It was impossible to use bold variants of some fonts
  
• Note editor: Text copy-pasted into the note from PDF received highlight
  
• Wrong note duplicate recognition at import

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_5_3_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_5_3.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Jan 12, 2012 - Released CintaNotes 1.5.4

In this version:

Features:

• Sorting notes by last modification date

Enhancements:

• Updated translations

Fixes:

• Note editor: fixed wrong Ctrl+S behavior on new notes
  
• Tags didn't always fit into the tac AC dropdown
  
• Fixed out_of_range error when pressing Ctrl+BkSp in empty search box
  
• Removed unnecessary empty space on the bottom of the tag AC dropdown
  
• Notes list: Some note titles could appear clipped
  
• Note editor: Unsupported paragraph formatting was not cleared on paste
  
• Note editor: In title edit box letters could appear clipped on the bottom
  
• Window position was not saved if "Always on top" was set

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_5_4_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_5_4.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Feb 7, 2012 - Version 1.5.5

Features:

• Configuring how the note's timestamp is displayed in the notes list
  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 time
  New search mode has been added.

Enhancements:

• Improved speed of XML import and export.
  
• Display of note creation and modification time in the editor
  (You can turn this off using the "editor.displaydates" parameter in cintanotes.settings.)

Fixes:

• Main window was not visible after single tray icon click if "Minimize to tray" was not set.
  
• USB stick could not be safely removed after note import or export.
  
• Importing .db could modify the source file if it was from an older CintaNotes version.
  
• Note last modification date was not exported to XML and imported from it
  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.
  
• Note's modification time always changed if note had a styled link.
  
• Text search could crash the app
  When maximum text preview lines was set to 1.
  
• It was impossible to select an italic font in the Note Appearance dialog.

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_5_5_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_5_5.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Feb 20, 2012 - Bugfix release: 1.5.6

In this version:

Enhancements:

• Note editor: placed last modification date under the creation date for easier comparison.
  
• Updated translations.

Fixes:

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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_5_6_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_5_6.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Mar 20, 2012 - Bugfix release: 1.5.7

In this version:

Enhancements:

• Updated translations.

Fixes:

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

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_5_7_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_5_7.zip

[CintaNotes Developer]

Apr 10, 2012 - Version 1.6

Like it was announced before, with this version the licensing model changes to "Freemium". Basic functionality (which covers all features of version 1.5.7) continues to be free, but the new commercial features require buying a Personal or Company license.

In this version:

Features:

• [Commercial] Multiple notebooks support: 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").
  
• [Commercial] Ctrl+Enter shortcut to paste note text into currently active application.
  
• [Commercial] Exporting notes to HTML format.
  
• [Commercial] Tag sidebar can now display tag usage counts
  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 OR
  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.
  
• "Cut" command for notes, and custom clipboard format to transfer notes from one notebook to another while keeping text formatting.
  
• New "Help/License" dialog to manage product licensing: The dialog includes ability to automatically fill licensing data from clipboard and also via clipping.

Enhancements:

• Tag sidebar can now be resized with the mouse.
  
• New Options/Tags submenu to configure tagging options.
  
• New option: "Options/Clipping/After Clipping/Assign currently active tags"
  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".
  
• Ctrl+U shortcut for displaying untagged notes.
  
• Last used export format is now remembered in settings.
  
• Note export scope parameters in the export dialog.
  
• Main menu reorganization. "Note Appearance" menu item moved to the Options menu.
  
• The executable is now signed with a digital signature.
  
• Proper metadata and version information in the executable.
  
• Note export dialog now includes the "Export scope" groupbox.
  
• Ctrl+Home/End in search box to focus note list and go to first/last note.

Fixes:

• Eliminated possibility of painting artefacts on window maximization.
  
• Full-text search was not working for East-Asian languages.
  
• Searching for "-a" lead to a "Malformed MATCH expression" error.
  
• Search could produce wrong results if query contained punctiation or delimiter characters.
  
• Copy/pasting note in the notes list lost text formatting.
  
• Pasting text in main window didn't recognize links.
  
• Removed redundant formatting tags in exported XML file.
  
• Non-ASCII characters in page URLs were corrupted on clipping.
  
• USB stick could not be safely removed after note import or export.
  
• Restoring focus after clipping was not working in Opera.
  
• Note editor: wrong window position after being mazimized.
  
• Note editor: lower pane height changed on Ctrl+S.
  
• Note editor: applying formatting cleared existing formatting.
  
• Note editor: pressing Enter twice didn't cancel bulleted and numbered lists.
  
• Note editor: Undo behavior was incorrect after pasting text from clipboard.
  
• Note editor: pressing F7 when Link is empty opened Windows Explorer.

Download:
Installable: CintaNotes_1_6_Setup.exe
Portable: CintaNotes_1_6.zip