Personal Knowbase Changelog

What's new in Personal Knowbase 4.1.3

Sep 21, 2020
  • Maintenance release. Fixes cosmetic bugs related to 2 situations:
  • (1) using Personal Knowbase on a multiple-monitor computer setup, and
  • (2) using a relatively unusual Windows Short Date format.

New in Personal Knowbase 4.1.2 (Nov 25, 2019)

  • Minor bug fixes:
  • Fixes a bug preventing Find or Replace from working properly when the Search Range was Current Article and the focus was in the Image Gallery or Time field of the Article Window.
  • Updates the Preview Pane if one of the displayed keywords is renamed from the Edit Keyword command.
  • No longer sometimes shows an incorrect hypertext link target on the status bar when the target was an article that was deleted.
  • Preserves a new file's File Properties default font when other File Properties have not been changed yet and the Preferences default font is changed (or the file is moved to a computer with a different Preferences default font).
  • Returns the screen focus to the non-modal Reminders dialog box when the Manage Reminders command is selected.
  • Enables context-sensitive help for the Change Keywords for Article command (Keyword menu).
  • Fixes an incorrect attachment link in the Sample.kno sample data file.

New in Personal Knowbase 4.1.1 (Oct 28, 2016)

  • Fixes:
  • Prevents editing a keyword's name to the same name as an existing keyword. If this bug in 4.1 allowed you to give 2 keywords the same name, we recommend renaming one of them to a different name.
  • Fixes the disappearance of a keyword from the Index Column when a keyword was renamed while a Keyword Group was highlighted. This was a display problem only; the keyword was not actually removed from the Group.
  • Fixes a scroll display oddity in the Keywords for Article dialog box if you highlight a keyword low in the Available Keywords list then highlight a large Keyword Group.

New in Personal Knowbase 4.1.0 (Aug 29, 2016)

  • Major Enhancements:
  • The Article Window's Image Gallery now displays icons for all attachments, in addition to image thumbnails for image files.
  • Specify which attachments to display in the Image Gallery.
  • Specify which attachments to open automatically or with the Open Attachment command.
  • Change the order of attachments for an article.
  • Filter keywords by Keyword Groups in all dialog boxes for assigning keywords.
  • Make Keyword Group assignments when creating new keywords and edit assignments for existing keywords.
  • Additional Enhancements:
  • Detach multiple attachments from an article at once.
  • Specify a program to use for opening folder attachments.
  • Delete Reminders from the Edit Reminder dialog box.
  • Set a default time for new Reminders.
  • The number of keywords in a group is shown in the Keyword Group dialog box and the Keyword Group Report.
  • After changing the Active URL Links preference, the file's "modified" date no longer updates when articles are opened unless other file changes are made.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix corrupted Keyword Group assignments caused by the bug which was fixed in version 4.0.2.
  • The drop-down calendar didn't fill the date when the Article Date was empty but the selected date was the same as the previous date.
  • After a failed search for a missing file attachment, the Browse button becomes available again in the File Not Found dialog.
  • Custom Import Format labels are not allowed to contain commas, which could corrupt the format file.
  • Redo Article Changes didn't redraw the Image Gallery.
  • Program could crash if the Article Window was closed immediately after clicking its Attachments icon.

New in Personal Knowbase 4.0.2 (Aug 10, 2015)

  • Maintenance Release. Fixes a bug when compacting a file from which keyword groups have been deleted.
  • This is a critical update if you have Keyword Groups and use the Compact command.

New in Personal Knowbase 4.0.1 (Jun 8, 2015)

  • Maintenance Release. Fixes a bug with the conversion of password-protected files from version 3 to version 4 while running in trial (unregistered) mode.
  • Please update to this version as soon as possible if you are unregistered and plan to convert v3 files.

New in Personal Knowbase 4.0.0 (Jun 2, 2015)

  • Terminology Change:
  • Tags are now Bookmarks. Anywhere that previous versions of Personal Knowbase used the term "tag" is replaced with "bookmark". Bookmarks behave exactly the same as tags did.
  • Major Features Added:
  • Multiple Attachments: Associate any number of file or URL attachments with each article.
  • Image Gallery: View thumbnails for image file attachments along the bottom of the Article Window.
  • Relative link path options: When file links and attachments have incomplete paths, specify which folder to locate the files relative to.
  • Reminders: Assign alerts to articles to pop up at a specified date and time.
  • Keyword Groups: Create sets of keywords to pre-filter the keyword Index.
  • Additional Features:
  • When printing, more options are provided for which article fields to print.
  • When selecting an article as the target of a hypertext link, reduce the selection to a range of articles.
  • Select dates from a calendar popup.
  • Export articles as a new Knowbase file.
  • Export the keywords list to a text file.
  • Include a file description in File Properties.
  • When a new file link or attachment is in the default link folder, opt to create a relative link.
  • When the target of a file link or attachment is not found, browse for the file.
  • When exporting only the current article, the default export file name is now the article's title.
  • Run saved queries from the Manage Saved Queries dialog.
  • The "Change Keywords for Highlighted Articles" command is available in the Index Window even if the Preview Pane is hidden.
  • The "Set Date to Today" command changed to "Set to Current Date and Time" for clarity.
  • Bug fixes include:
  • The Highlight Text color picker sometimes showed an incorrect custom color swatch. It now shows the correct color and lets you "pick up" the highlight color from selected text to apply to other text.
  • When exporting to HTML, text formatting on bulleted and numbered list lines no longer carries through other parts of the html file.
  • When printing multiple copies, the copies multiplied by print drivers in Win7 and later is now taken into account.
  • If you spell-check an article just after creating a hypertext link to another Knowbase article, misspelled words are no longer highlighted incorrectly.
  • An issue naming new files in Win7 and later is resolved.
  • An inability to print the current article from a read-only file is fixed.

New in Personal Knowbase 3.2.6 (Jun 2, 2015)

  • Maintenance Release. Bug fixes:
  • Fixes a dialog box scaling problem which occurred in Window 7 and Windows 8 when the system text size was set to the 125% (Medium) or 150% (Large) setting. This problem sometimes hampered the ability to use the affected dialog boxes.
  • Affected dialog boxes included: all wizard dialogs for Delimited and CSV import, all wizard dialogs for editing custom import formats, the About box, and the Files tab of the Preferences dialog box.
  • Fixes the incorrect display of hypertext links in the little preview panes in the dialog boxes for Duplicate Articles and Select Article Link. This was a cosmetic problem which did not affect the actual data.

New in Personal Knowbase 3.2.5 (Jun 2, 2015)

  • Maintenance Release. Bug fixes:
  • Prevents the creation of duplicate keywords. This could previously be done by adding a new keyword to an article and then adding it to the Index before saving the changed article.
  • Detects corruption of a file's keyword list as well as problems with articles. The facility for repairing damaged files attempts to repair corrupted keyword tables.

New in Personal Knowbase 3.2.4 (Jun 2, 2015)

  • Maintenance Release. Bug fix:
  • Fixes a buffer overflow possibility which could only be revealed by editing the Windows Registry. This bug had no symptoms unless the Registry was manipulated external to Personal Knowbase.
  • Minor Change:
  • Allows Build Query to create queries with keywords that contain parenthesis characters [ "(" or ")" ] by surrounding the keyword with double-quote characters.
  • Double-clicking on the keyword containing parentheses in the Build Query dialog box's Index list automatically puts the required quotes around a keyword. If you type the keyword into the Query field, you must include the necessary quotes for PK to correctly parse the keyword.

New in Personal Knowbase 3.2.3 (Jun 2, 2015)

  • Maintenance Release. Bug fixes:
  • Prevents the keyword column in the Preview Pane from becoming wider than the Titles column.
  • Conserves GDIObjects used by the link cursor, fixing a rare problem which could cause corruption of the PK screen after repeated launches of hypertext links or active links to external files from the Preview Pane or Article Content area. To our knowledge, this problem only manifested when using FoxIt Reader as the default PDF viewer program and launching PDF links 20 to 60 times (depending on available memory).

New in Personal Knowbase 3.2.2 (Oct 4, 2011)

  • Edit multiple articles' keywords
  • View related keywords
  • Insert Date/Time

New in Personal Knowbase 3.1.1 (Jan 7, 2009)

  • Spell check, export to CSV, run on portable drive.

New in Personal Knowbase 3.1.0 (Sep 26, 2008)

  • Spell-check article text.
  • Install Personal Knowbase on a portable drive, such as a USB stick.
  • Change line spacing and first line indent on paragraphs.
  • Export article text to CSV files.
  • Exclude headers from exported files.
  • Convert hypertext links to plain text.