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PNotes Changelog

What's new in PNotes 9.3.0

Feb 25, 2013
  • Fixed bugs:
  • New group is created with black background
  • Sending note text as e-mail body fails on special symbols
  • Search dialog does not get focus after applying hot key
  • Password protected notes appear without login dialog after switch between skinless and skinnable mode
  • Note still appears on the screen while its group is deleted
  • PNotes stops working when user tries to save the note whose group is already deleted

New in PNotes 9.2.0 (Dec 27, 2012)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Long period schedule description is not shown properly at Control Panel
  • Notes remain without group after restore from full backup

New in PNotes 9.1.0 (Sep 1, 2012)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Alarm timer for invisible notes does not start when program starts
  • Backup fails for encrypted notes

New in PNotes 9.0.110 (Aug 6, 2012)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Setting random back color for skinless notes does not work
  • When program is locked, notes become visible after third pressing on unlock hot key
  • Some languages are wrong processed in spell checker

New in PNotes 9.0.107 (May 21, 2012)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Improper search by dates
  • Hidden note does not preserve its group if groups has been changed via "Save As" dialog
  • When unsaved pinned note hides (the window it's pinned to becomes hidden or is closed) it enters infinite loop with prompting to save
  • New features:
  • Added spellchecking using Hunspell library. By default there is only English dictionary, but you can download additional dictionaries from http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/dictionaries. These are .oxt files, but you can open them with any zip archiver, because they are actually zip archives. Extract .aff and .dic files and put them into "dictionaries" directory
  • Added option to set default colors (background, text and cation) or default skin for groups
  • Added ability to set volume, speed and pitch for text-to-speech voices
  • Added option to stop sound alarm of note after specified interval
  • Send/receive properties of note are shown in note's tooltip
  • If selected "Hide notes marked as completed", they will not appear when "Show All" is clicked
  • b command line switch may now be followed by custom backup directory
  • Added optional actions for single click on system tray icon
  • All status icons (priority, locked, completed etc) are now clickable and toggle current state. Click on icon "unsaved" will save the note

New in PNotes 8.5.106 (Nov 18, 2011)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Number of backup copies is not saved
  • Unlocking program by hot key does not prompts for password
  • "OK", "Cancel" and "Apply" buttons are not visible on some displays with font size larger than normal
  • Under certain circumstances notes lose RTF formatting when they are restored from autosave after crash
  • New features:
  • Added option to "pin" notes to specified window
  • Management of hotkeys is now concentrated on one dialog which is called from main menu
  • Added ability to add and manage groups of contacts
  • Added autosizing of note's caption accordingly to caption font (suggested by kronofogd)
  • Added option for local synchronization, with ability to make it automatically when program is started from removable (USB) drive
  • Added note's ID column to Control Panel

New in PNotes 8.0.110 (Jul 7, 2011)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Note's content is not shown on Control Panel when Control Panel is loaded at startup
  • "mailto:" link in notes doesn't work (discovered by Nartan Sijbrandij)
  • New features:
  • Notes' exchange between computers on local network (disabled by default). All exchange related settings and contacts management are at Preferences->Network. If you want to enable exchange, you have to permit network access to the program in your firewall rules. Sending notes - right click on note, "Send Via Network" and choose contact to send. You may also send to multiple contacts by choosing "Send Via Network"->"Select Contacts"
  • New predefined group "Incoming" added to Control Panel
  • Option to protect individual note or group of notes with password (right click on note, select "Set Note Password"/"Remove Note Password" or choose group at Control Panel and then "Set Group Password"/"Remove Group Password"). Password protected notes and groups will be shown only after entering right password. You may also check the "Do not show note's content at Control Panel if note or its group is password protected" at Preferences->Protection->Miscellaneous in order to show "******" instead of note content at Control Panel.
  • "Sent To:", "Sent At:", "Received From:", "Received At:", "Password protected" and "Created" columns added to Control Panel
  • Wrappable toolbar on Control Panel
  • Option to show big icons on Control Panel's toolbar
  • Option to immediately hide notes marked as completed (suggested by bejobe)
  • Option to show/hide notes by last creation/modification date - several predefined periods (suggested by bejobe)
  • Option to search notes by last creation/modification date
  • Rolling/unrolling notes accordingly to position (rolled note located at the bottom of screen will unroll up, and not down) (suggested by Jose James)
  • New unsaved notes are deleted completely without moving to Recycle bin
  • Newly created notes are saved after scheduling, even if they are empty (suggested by Wolfram Schelzel)
  • New command line switches: -b for backup (suggested by cominder), -confnonetwork or -confignonetwork (the same as -conf or -config, just without exchange ability) -nonetwork (program starts without exchange ability)
  • Preferences dialog will show menu items in addition to command buttons (OK, Apply etc) on computers with low screen resolution (suggested by gino1307)
  • Option to hide both Delete and Hide button of note (suggested by charles80)
  • Order of menu items in main menu is changed to more consistent (suggested by Sergey Christov)
  • Note's toolbar on skinless notes changes position when note is resizing
  • All program resources (icons, bitmaps) stored in separate library (pnotes.resources), which decreases program size by hundreds of kilobytes.
  • Skins are changed in order to conform new options (note password protection) - please, update your skins if you have any.
  • Code revised
  • New version of PNShortcutManager - support for new command line switches

New in PNotes 7.5.110 (Feb 28, 2011)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Text from Office 2007 is inserted as image
  • If note is docked, after program restart and undocking it loses caption and all toolbar buttons
  • Misplacing of docking guiding arrows
  • Notes close automatically during dimming of display on devices with power-save options (laptops, notebooks etc)
  • Extra space in date/time formatted string on Control Panel
  • Alarm timer continues to work after the note has been sent to Recycle bin
  • Improper icons or icons disappear on Control Panel's toolbar
  • Opening donation page from within program in browser other than system default results in opening multiple pages
  • New features:
  • On-line synchronization via FTP protocol
  • "Speaking notes" - ability to use text of note as alarm sound instead of .wav files
  • Option to backup all notes in single file
  • Linked notes - ability of one note to be linked to another
  • Option to show/hide notes by tags
  • No need to register hotkeys for single note - replaced by simple shortcuts
  • Ability to set the period after which the note will be deleted completely from Recycle Bin
  • Added note's content column to Control Panel
  • Added deletion time column to Control Panel - Recycle Bin
  • "Untitled" used as caption for new note instead of date/time span
  • Option to format default new note's name (date/time)
  • Option to show only cross ("Delete") button on note's caption and let it behave like "Hide" button
  • Option to copy/paste formatted text as plain text
  • More buttons enabled on Control Panel for Quick Search results
  • Option to exclude notes from Aero Peek for Windows Vista and above (show them while hovering over "Show Desktop" button)
  • Ability to add links to external programs and run them (include command line options)
  • Added option to switch "On Top" property On/Off for all notes
  • Added option to save note as simple text file
  • Added five new optional parameters to -config command line switch: skins directory, backup directory, language files directory, sounds directory and fonts directory
  • Added option to reorder columns on Control Panel
  • Added PNotesShortcutManager - small program for more flexible work with PNotes in intranet environment

New in PNotes 7.0.107 (Feb 28, 2011)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Protection mode is not set properly from Control Panel
  • Notes.ini file is deleted during upgrade via installation by setup file
  • New diary note appears with zero width/height when "Custom diary settings" is selected without changing any of other options
  • Autosave interval remains 1 minute regardless of changing on Behavior page
  • Infinite loop while trying to replace the string by another string, which includes the first one, e.g. "dog" by "black dog"
  • New features:
  • Files smilies.images and groups.images recompiled – no more false positives from some anti-virus vendors
  • Enhanced search with ability to change search criteria and scope. All search dialogs merged into one
  • Search for selected text in web with ability to manage search providers
  • Favorites group in Control Panel
  • Favorites column in Control Panel
  • Ability to hide/show columns in Control Panel
  • Option to choose note's group while saving as/renaming
  • Option to hide "X" (Delete) button on note
  • Trimming spaces and tabs from new note's default name
  • Ability to insert date/time stamp
  • Hidden caret in preview window
  • Click on new version information baloon opens PNotes download page
  • Downloadable help files
  • More detailed help file with multiple "How to:" sections

New in PNotes 6.5.110 (Aug 20, 2010)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • The default note's name for saving was the first line of text in whole. Now restricted to specified number of characters.
  • Improper formatting for date when hours and minutes are at the beginning of format string (discovered by Christopher Freel)
  • Control Panel and Preferences windows were not restored after menu click or hot key if they were minimized (discovered by zw963)
  • Incorrect search in hidden notes (discovered by horstepp2)
  • New features:
  • Support for pictures and smilies
  • Special group of notes - "Diary", allowing to maintain diary-like set of notes (suggested by horstepp2)
  • Ability to define custom tags and assign them to notes for futher searching and sorting (suggested by horstepp2)
  • New command line switches -c (create new note), -cr (create new note from clipboard), -cd (create or show today diary page) (suggested by eran)
  • Option to search simultaneously in notes' bodies and titles (suggested by horstepp2)
  • Customizable groups icons (suggested by wolfeden3)
  • Option to change bullets indent
  • Option to change edit area margins
  • Wrappable text in preview window of Control Panel
  • Option to set sound alarm to infinite loop
  • Added years and months to "Repeat Every:" schedule type (suggested by tullio99)
  • Option to reload all notes (suggested by tullio99)
  • Ctrl+A on Control Panel will now select all notes
  • Option to switch between Hide All/Show All added to double click on system tray icon
  • tandard format accelerators (Ctrl+B - bold, Ctrl+I - italic, Ctrl+L - left align, Ctrl+E - center align, Ctrl+R - right align, Ctrl+U - underline, Ctrl+K - strike-through)
  • Added system tray baloon with greeting when program starts for the very first time
  • Changed look-n-feel of Preferences dialog
  • Translation for "About" dialog

New in PNotes 6.0.112 (Apr 23, 2010)

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Improper text displaying for right-to-left languages
  • Processing hot keys for note (hot key works on all notes instead of selected one) (discovered by zw963)
  • System tray icon restore after restarting of Window Explorer (discovered by hwq0086)
  • Bullets/numbering menu: the menu disappears after changing hot key on Behavior page
  • Bug in uninstaller script, which led to deleting "data" and "backup" folders during uninstallation or upgrading
  • Minor bugs with language switching on Control Panel
  • New features:
  • Different sounds for each note (suggested by patswovelin)
  • Added option to duplicate current note (suggested by snorrt)
  • Different transparency levels for each note (suggested by winds350)
  • Added option to set hot-keys for show/hide groups menu items (suggested by David Naylor)
  • Two new commands added to groups tree view: "Show group (include subgroups)" and "Hide group (include subgroups)" (suggested by ucr)
  • For schedule types "Repeat Every:" and "After:" added option to choose program start as starting point (suggested by zw963)
  • Added fourth optional command line parameter to -conf or -config switch: path/directory of notes.pnid file. In this way you can use the program with the same notes from different location, specifying common data directory and different notes.pnid locations (suggested by tullio99)
  • The click on clock icon of scheduled note will now bring up Schedule dialog (suggested by oleg)
  • Added "Show All Favorites" menu item to main pop-up menu (suggested by horstepp2)
  • Added check for overdue notes when computer resumes after standby (suggested by pbosoni)
  • More optional actions added to double click on system tray icon
  • Option to show alarmed notes on their original position instead of screen center (suggested by oleg)
  • Switches for all notes (protection mode, high priority etc) added to main pop-up menu
  • Added new color chooser for colors management
  • Added some effects like fluent notes closing and playing sound
  • Notes are brought up by left click on tray icon (not by right click) (suggested by btriffles)
  • Changed About dialog

New in PNotes 5.5.110 (Dec 21, 2009)

  • Added password protection (include program locking). (oliver_sahr)
  • Added ability to store notes as encrypted files.
  • Added ability to save notes backup copies and restore from them. (oliver_sahr)
  • Added "Monthly (exact date)" schedule type (e.g. at 23 every month at 23:42). (jbsiu)
  • Added "Monthly (day of week) schedule type (e.g. each second Monday every month at 15:17). (jbsiu)
  • Added "Start From" parameter to "Repeat Every" schedule type. (Oleg)
  • Added different numbering styles in addition to simple bullets.
  • Bulleted/numbered paragraphs are now indented.
  • Added "No bullets" menu item to bullets/numbering menu. (horstepp2)
  • Bullets/numbering menu items are checked accordingly to selected text style.
  • Added option to prevent showing notes in windows list on Alt+Tab. (sigei)
  • Added quick search box to Control Panel - which allows quickly search notes by their titles. (tvrman)
  • Added ability to fit notes width to caption width when rolled after double click on caption. (Sven)
  • Added option to save notes without prompt while hiding them. (Raleigh034)
  • "Save As" replaced with "Rename". (jpdag)
  • Fixed bug when notes are not saved on program closing/restarting.
  • Fixed some translation lacks.
  • Changed look of Preferences dialog.
  • Help file is removed from download package and appears as standalone download.
  • Added online help.
  • Thanks to all people helped me to develop and test this release!

New in PNotes 5.0.112 (Aug 27, 2009)

  • The main huge improvement: changed internal way the notes are kept, i.e. no windows are created for hidden or deleted notes. This prevents program slowness and possible memory problems. (nascent)
  • Added option to alert about overdue notes on program start. This option is disabled by default, in order to use it user should check 'Preferences' -> 'Schedule' -> 'Track overdue reminders'. If there is any overdue note, the dialog box with these notes will appear on program start. By double click on each item in list user could set up its schedule type or clear it. Tracking each note could be disabled by checking appropriate check box on note's schedule dialog. (oliver_sahr)
  • Added option to print note's contents.
  • Added preview pane to Control Panel. Now user doesn't have to open hidden notes to read their contents. (horstepp2 and oliver_sahr)
  • Added option to create new note from clipboard contents. (oliver_sahr)
  • Hot keys can now be assigned to both main menu and single note menu commands.
  • Added note's high priority flag, allows to set note's priority. (oliver_sahr)
  • Added note's "complete" flag, allows to mark the tasks as complete. (oliver_sahr)
  • Added option to lock note's contents against accidental changing. (juapar2)
  • Dropping a file onto note now provides a user with two possible choices: adding a contents of a file to note or adding a link to file to note's contents. (beerbrommer)
  • In addition to searchin notes by contents added ability to search notes by their title (or fragment of title). (horstepp2)
  • Added ability to send multiple notes as attachments in one email.
  • User can now define the program behavior after double click on program icon in system tray. (oliver_sahr)
  • Groups in Control Panel are now sorted alphabetically. (oliver_sahr)
  • Count of notes in each group in Control Panel is now shown in brackets next to group name. (oliver_sahr)
  • Columns for priority, complete state and protection mode added to Control Panel. It allows notes to be easily sorted by these properties as well. (oliver_sahr)
  • Added command for bringing all currently visible notes to front. (dintyma)
  • After choosing in Favorites the note will appear in its original location instead of center of screen. (aquabon)
  • After double click on note in Control Panel the note will become visible in its original position instead of centralizing.
  • "Adjust" command for single note is split into two different commands: "Adjust Appearance" and "Adjust Schedule". (horstepp2)
  • Added menu command to roll/unroll tne note. (s_djukic)
  • Added option to invert text color of notes with random background color. (nascent)
  • Adjustable preview window background color. (oliver_sahr)
  • Some hot keys are set by default (like Ctrl+S, Ctrl+P) and there are number of common keys combination unallowable for use as hot keys (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+X etc) because other programs will not get these messages. (rickytbf)
  • Fixed bug with missed groups in Control Panel, which resulted in program crash. (oliver_sahr)
  • Fixed improper notes positioning after moving notes from wide screen to regular or from multiple screens system to single screen.
  • Fixed formatting problems.

New in PNotes 4.7.102 (Jun 2, 2009)

  • Bug fixed: choosing "Empty recycle bin" on pop-up menu deletes all notes (discovered by baggio1987)
  • Bug fixed: Alt+F4 closes note (discovered by baggio1987)
  • Bug fixed: the "On Top" menu item becomes disable after docking (discovered by rickytbf)
  • Bug fixed: notes don't appear in front after applying "Show All" if there is no any hidden note (discovered by rickytbf)
  • Bug fixed: transparency mask doesn't fit skin when docking (discovered by anonymous user)
  • Bug fixed: improper "Weekday" schedule type functionality (discovered by many users)
  • Added thin border for skinless notes (discovered by rickytbf)

New in PNotes 4.5.106 (Dec 8, 2008)

  • Fixed improper displaying of schedule type ('Weekly') at Control Panel

New in PNotes 4.5.105 (Dec 1, 2008)

  • Favorites system - right click on note's non-client area and choose Add To Favorites (Remove From Favorites).
  • Custom fonts - fonts should be in 'fonts' directory within the program directory. Then follow 'Preferences --> Appearance --> Use custom fonts'. Fonts are registered for private use of program and unregistered after the program exits.
  • Sending note via e-mail as attachment. MS Outlook users - Outlook tries to treat .pnote files as simple RTF files and even changes their extension to .rtf while receiving - Wit Works Woe! Save the file as .pnote and continue to work with it.
  • Loading note from .pnote file.
  • Recycle Bin (like in Windows, if you hold left Shift while deleting, the note will be destroyed permanently). Emptying/restoring of Recycle Bin can be made via Control Panel.
  • Instead of 'Show All', 'Hide All' there are now 'Show Groups', 'Hide Groups' menu items in the system tray popup menu, allow you to show/hide specified groups of notes (or show/hide all notes).
  • Autosave operation will now include newly created notes as well.
  • Prompt to load autosaved notes after program crash will now appear only if there is at least one autosaved note.
  • New scheduler type - 'Weekly'. It allows selection of 1 - 7 weekdays and time. The program will alarm you each selected weekday at selected time.
  • New scheduler type - 'After'. It allows selection of start date/time and amount of [years][months][weeks][days][hours][minutes][seconds]. The program will alarm you after this amount is reached.
  • Added option to show Control Panel on program start.

New in PNotes 4.0.112 (Sep 6, 2008)

  • Version 4.0.112

New in PNotes 3.5.105 (Mar 14, 2008)

  • Added ability to create and modify notes groups via Control Panel.
  • Added visual notification for scheduled notes.
  • Restored note's context menu (right-click on edit box).
  • Skinless notes may be rolled to caption size (or restored) by double click on caption.
  • Transparency of note will not change on mouse events, like Enter or Leave, but on changing focus only.
  • Added command to restore note's placement - in some cases notes got negative size and/or location and disappeared.
  • Bug fixed - prevented improper resizing of skinless notes.
  • Bug fixed - new note moved on creation to the top of windows hierarchy.
  • Bug fixed - setting schedule type to "pester" did not affect immediately, if previous schedule type wasn't "No".
  • Bug fixed - timer of "pester" schedule type resets to 0 while changing skin.
  • Bug fixed - transparent note became opaque while saving it from Control Panel.
  • Help file size greatly decreased.

New in PNotes 3.0.104 (Jan 19, 2008)

  • Simple edit box is replaced by rich edit - since now any portion of note's text can be formatted separately, applying font properties, highlighting and alignment (the most important update)
  • Added hyperlinks recognition
  • Added option for autosave mode - all notes will be autosaved in appointed interval
  • Each note can now be saved by pressing Ctrl S
  • First characters of note are now used as default note's name instead of creation timestamp
  • Added Drag-&-Drop support
  • Added "Save All" command
  • Because of rich edit format each note is stored as separate file, instead of previous versions, where all notes are saved in single notes.pndb file. Notes from previous versions can be imported by choosing "Preferences->Misc->Get notes from previous versions"
  • Command line arguments are changed as well. In previous version swicth -config had two arguments: Notes.ini file location and optional Notes.pndb file location. In the currenct version -config still has two arguments, but the second optional arguments is now "data" directory location, and should not be a file name
  • Bug fixed - notes are saved automatically on system shutdown (if option "Save all on shutdown" is selected)
  • Skins from previous versions are incompatible with new one

New in PNotes 2.5.0.103 (Nov 13, 2007)

  • The most important change - added "skinless" mode, which allows to create resizable notes
  • Enhanced command-line support
  • Added some new features (sending note by e-mail etc)
  • Fixed some bugs and memory leaks

New in PNotes 2.0.0.3 (Aug 23, 2007)

  • Added support for hot keys
  • Added ability for switching sound alarm on/off
  • Added ability for adding custom sounds
  • Added support for custom date/time formats
  • Added new "pester" schedule type which will alarm you every [hours]:[minutes]:[seconds]
  • Added partial command-line support (for closing only)

New in PNotes 1.0.1.0 (Jul 7, 2007)

  • Added GNU Lisence
  • Program shortcut in "StartUp" folder now may be added or deleted from preferences window