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AM-Notebook Lite Changelog

What's new in AM-Notebook Lite 7.0

Feb 6, 2024
  • Spreadsheets: format cells extended with currency
  • Spreadsheets: fixed some problems with thousand separators when formatting cells
  • Spreadsheets: New feature "Remove formula"
  • Printing documents did not work correctly with some printers
  • AM-Notebook is now Freeware
  • Some translations updated
  • Smaller fixes and improvements

New in AM-Notebook Lite 6.5.3 (Dec 2, 2019)

  • Encrypted notes could not be decrypted under rare circumstances
  • Minor tweaks

New in AM-Notebook Lite 6.5.2 (Oct 30, 2019)

  • Notes created with older versions of AM-Notebook were not fully displayed under rare circumstances
  • Fix some incompatibilities with animated gif images
  • Minor tweaks

New in AM-Notebook Lite 6.5.1 (May 16, 2019)

  • AM-Notebook could crash when selecting the French user interface
  • Smaller tweaks and fixes

New in AM-Notebook Lite 6.5 (Feb 26, 2019)

  • If AM-Notebook detects damaged TODO/Calendar/Adresses/Alarm files and you can now automatically restore a BAK file (manual actions via a file manager are no longer required)
  • Improved mouse wheel behavior
  • Spreadsheets: performance improvements when pasting images
  • Note names can contain the characters "." and "&"
  • Addresses: New field "Info". Can for example be used to input certain tags.
  • Mouse wheel support in the Month and Year modules
  • Fixed some problems when the default printer is a PDF printer
  • Calender: Displayed birthdays show the entered birth date
  • Improved handling of dual monitor setups
  • Improved Unicode support
  • Smaller improvements and fixes

New in AM-Notebook Lite 6.4 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • [+] AM-Notebook works correctly with High DPI displays
  • [+] Planner: New field "Note"
  • [x] Note Tree: Custom colors are displayed correctly when a note is selected
  • [x] Contacts: Name split into "First Name" and "Last Name"
  • [-] Notes: Click the "Cancel" button when Inserting a new table into another table could lead to data loss.
  • [-] Planner: Opening an item via double click could create a new item instead of opening the selected item
  • [-] Spreadsheets: "Open Link" did not work for entered e-mail addresses
  • [-] Global Search: Find text in grid didn't work under certain circumstances
  • [-] Notes: Click the "Cancel" button when Inserting a new table into another table could lead to data loss.
  • Smaller fixes and improvements

New in AM-Notebook Lite 6.3 (Apr 11, 2012)

  • Diagrams: Option to optionally show name window when inserting new objects
  • Printing TODOs could cut text under certain circumstances
  • Option "Always open note in new tab" didn't work when a note was locked by another user
  • TODOs: The note field wasn't updated correctly under certain circumstances
  • Background color of read-only notes was not restored correctly after printing a note
  • Some Unicode issues fixed
  • Smaller fixes and improvements

New in AM-Notebook Lite 6.2 (Oct 19, 2011)

  • Export spreadsheets to Excel
  • Dates can be entered without points into date fields (eg. 24122010 or 241210, AM-Notebook will detect the correct date format automatically).
  • The word count feature works now for the whole document as well as for the selected text
  • Print "AM-Notebook Today"
  • Toolbar button for font styles
  • Unused font styles are no longer displayed in menus
  • Export spreadsheet to HTML: merged cells supported
  • Diagrams: Inserting an object into a diagram automatically requests the input of a description. This makes creating new diagrams much faster and more comfortable
  • Smaller improvements to the Reminder window
  • Export notes to HTML files: Images that were pasted from the clipboard were exported without a file extension. Now the correct file extension is used.
  • Clips: Improved navigation
  • LWA: Improved navigation
  • Improved detection if todo/planner/address files are damaged to avoid data loss
  • Diagram/Flowchart files were not included in backups (Tools+Backup/Restore)
  • Many smaller improvements, changes and fixes

New in AM-Notebook Lite 6.1 (Sep 9, 2010)

  • Word Count ("Tools" menu)
  • Automatically convert *.txt files in the "notes" folder to new notes (when starting AM-Notebook)
  • Some conflicts with multi monitor setups fixed
  • AM-Notebook could crash on systems where no printer was installed
  • AM-Notebook could crash when changing folders in the tab "Local Website Archive"
  • If "View+Always on top" was active, then sub windows (eg. "New Alarm") were displayed behind the main window and AM-Notebook was no longer responsive
  • Setup: It's no longer possible to install the portable edition over the desktop edition or vice versa
  • Smaller fixes and improvements

New in AM-Notebook Lite 6.0 (Apr 8, 2010)

  • Full Unicode support in all program modules
  • Improved font selection
  • Improved Paste behavior from Internet Explorer and Firefox
  • Close button is now placed on tabs
  • The commands "Rename", "Encrypt", "Remove encryption" and "Delete" in the File menu were used for the selected note in the note tree. They are now applied to the note of the currently selected tab.
  • Length of bookmark names increased from 50 to 200 characters
  • Spreadsheets: Custom cell font
  • Spreadsheets: Custom cell background color
  • Spreadsheets: Reintroduced: Cells with formulas have a separate color (optional)
  • Spreadsheets: Cells with URLs are automatically highlighted and can be opened via context menu
  • Spreadsheets: Add Links to other notes
  • Spreadsheets: Automatically grow when pasting cells from clipboard
  • Spreadsheets: Bugfix in the DATEVALUE function - Thread
  • Spreadsheets: If the last cell is selected, then pressing the tabulator key inserts a new row
  • Spreadsheets: AM-Notebook remembers and selects the last selected cell and scroll position
  • Spreadsheets: Sort via header double click
  • Calendar: Entered birthdays (addresses) are displayed in the Calendar module
  • Calendar: Entered due dates (TODOs) are displayed in the Calendar module
  • Calendar: The month/year view automatically adjusts its height to ensure that all items are displayed (the "..." icon for more items is no longer displayed now).
  • Calendar: Improved month calendar on the left side (shows eg. yearly tasks, task hints)
  • Custom folder for saving configurations and notes via nbcommon.ini (see help file for more details)
  • Tweak: CalendarWeekStartDay=
  • Opening a note after a global search ignored the locked tab status
  • Crash when AutoBackup folder could not be found or created
  • Smaller fixes and improvements

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.2.0 Beta 6 (Mar 17, 2010)

  • Calendar: The month/year view automatically adjusts its height to ensure that all items are displayed (the "..." icon for more items is no longer displayed now).
  • Deleted TODOs were displayed in the Calendar module until a program restart
  • Smaller improvements

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.2.0 Beta 5 (Feb 24, 2010)

  • Calendar: Improved month calendar on the left side (shows eg. yearly tasks, task hints)
  • Calendar: Yearly tasks and birthdays were not displayed under rare circumstances
  • Some bugfixes when pasting content from Internet Explorer or Firefox
  • New shortcut for "Paste special": Ctrl+Shift+V
  • Smaller fixes

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.2.0 Beta 4 (Jan 25, 2010)

  • [x] Improved Paste behavior from Internet Explorer and Firefox
  • [-] Pasting tables into tables could crash AM-Notebook (Beta-3 issue)
  • [x] Diagrams: Smaller fixes and improvements
  • [-] Crash when deleting a table column
  • [-] Crash when AutoBackup folder could not be found or created
  • Smaller bugs fixed

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.2.0 Beta 3 (Jan 12, 2010)

  • Improved font selection
  • Improved Paste behavior from Internet Explorer and Firefox
  • Close button is now placed on tabs
  • The commands "Rename", "Encrypt", "Remove encryption" and "Delete" in the File menu were used for the selected note in the note tree. They are now applied to the note of the currently selected tab.
  • Smaller fixes/improvements

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.2.0 Beta 2 (Dec 22, 2009)

  • [+] Filter-Assistant: last step has a preview window to verify all filter settings before applying the new filter
  • [+] Windows 7: WebSite-Watcher shows the check progress in the taskbar icon
  • [+] New Script command "SendBookmarks"
  • [+] Send mails: new variables {folder} and {foldername}
  • Smaller optimizations and fixes

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.2.0 Beta 1 (Oct 29, 2009)

  • [+] New note type "Diagram" to paint diagrams and flowcharts (PRO edition only)
  • [+] Full Unicode support in all program modules
  • [+] Spreadsheets: Custom cell font
  • [+] Spreadsheets: Custom cell background color
  • [+] Spreadsheets: Reintroduced: Cells with formulas have a separate color (optional)
  • [+] Spreadsheets: Cells with URLs are automatically highlighted and can be opened via context menu
  • [+] Spreadsheets: Add Links to other notes
  • [+] Spreadsheets: Automatically grow when pasting cells from clipboard
  • [-] Spreadsheets: Bugfix in the DATEVALUE function
  • [+] Custom folder for saving configurations and notes via nbcommon.ini (see help file for more details)
  • Smaller fixes and improvements

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.1.1 Final (May 8, 2009)

  • Some problems when exporting notes/spreadsheets fixed
  • Smaller tweaks and fixes

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.1.0 Final (Apr 6, 2009)

  • [+] Integration of Local Website Archive
  • [+] Tab Locking
  • [+] Dialog "Notes by date" (Ctrl+F5) has a search field. It's now possible to quickly open new notes with just a few keystrokes.
  • [+] New option: Always open notes in new tabs
  • [+] Preview BAK files before restoring

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.1.0 Beta 1 (Jan 26, 2009)

  • [+] Unicode support for Notes and Spreadsheets
  • [+] Spreadsheet component was replaced with a much more powerful component
  • [+] Spreadsheets: More Excel style formulas and functions
  • [+] Spreadsheets: Cell merging
  • [+] Spreadsheets: Cell formatting
  • [+] Print Spreadsheets: Shrink to page width/height
  • [+] AM-Notebook has now an integrated spelling checker and is no longer dependent from external third party spelling systems
  • [+] Full spelling checker support in the portable version
  • [+] Live spelling: context menu can add words to dictionary or ignore all occurrences of a word
  • [+] All images (bitmaps) in a note are now converted to PNG format internally, this can dramatically reduce the file size of notes
  • [+] Pasting text with images from web browsers supported
  • [+] Pasting text with links from web browsers inserts links correctly
  • [+] Tab width is automatically adjusted to keep all tabs in view
  • [+] Tab hints
  • [+] Links to other files (Ctrl+F7) are now inserted with relative drive letter and should work without problems on USB sticks
  • [+] Shortcuts for decrease/increase left indent: Ctrl+Alt+, and Ctrl+Alt+.
  • [+] TODO: "Note" field supports addresses to local files (file://...)
  • [+] Notes: Word Wrap (Edit menu)
  • [+] Add new TODOs via the Input bar: Cursor Up/Down in the Subject field changes the Priority
  • [+] Note component updated to latest version (not sure if this fixes or improves something)
  • [+] German help file added
  • Smaller fixes and improvements

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.0.2 (May 5, 2008)

  • [ ] Add tasks via double click
  • [-] "AM-Notebook Today" could use a wrong encoding for non-english characters
  • [-] Calendar: Increasing time could crash AM-Notebook
  • [-] Some incompatibilities with global hotkey fixed
  • Minor tweaks and fixes

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.0.1 (Apr 9, 2008)

  • [x] Improved detection and usage of system default font (especially under Vista with classic theme)
  • [x] Internal improvements: more reliable save operations
  • [-] Notes: Some features didn't work when a note was opened in read-only state
  • [-] The Freeware version of AM-Notebook could crash when inserting a new note
  • [ ] Program configuration Tweak: Define how many bak files should be created for notes (more info see Tweak section in help file)
  • [-] bak files weren't created for spreadsheets
  • [-] TODO: Assign Group via context menu didn't assign the group color correctly
  • Smaller fixes

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.0 (Mar 25, 2008)

  • [ ] TODO list functionality
  • [ ] Planner functionality
  • [x] Contacts moved to main window
  • [ ] Contacts: Birthdays Birthday reminder
  • [ ] Contacts can be printed
  • [ ] "AM-Notebook Today" for TODOs, tasks and birthdays
  • [ ] Smart reminder for TODOs, tasks and birthdays
  • [ ] Global Hotkey to restore/show AM-Notebook (can be defined in the program configuration)
  • [ ] Export all notes
  • [ ] Export note: Filename is suggested
  • [ ] Auto-Backup functionality
  • [ ] Note tree: Each folder/note can have a user defined color
  • [ ] Note tree option: Collapse all folders at startup (if you don't want to remember folder expand status)
  • [-] Copy to clipboard didn't work for notes with read-only status
  • [-] Window size and position was not saved when AM-Notebook was minimized
  • [-] Note could be opened falsely when expanding/collapsing a folder
  • Many smaller changes and improvements

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.0 Beta 5 (Mar 7, 2008)

  • [-] Alarm: "Remind every Thursday" didn't work
  • [-] Note could be opened falsely when expanding/collapsing a folder
  • [-] Auto-Backup directory didn't work correctly in portable mode
  • Minor Tweaks

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.0 Beta 4 / 4.1.3 Final (Feb 26, 2008)

  • Global Hotkey to restore/show AM-Notebook (can be defined in the program configuration)
  • Language files for translators updated
  • Minor tweaks

New in AM-Notebook Lite 5.0 Beta 1 / 4.1.3 Final (Nov 28, 2007)

  • [ ] TODO list functionality
  • [ ] Planner functionality
  • [x] Contacts moved to main window
  • [ ] Contacts: Birthdays Birthday reminder
  • [ ] Contacts can be printed
  • [ ] "AM-Notebook Today" for TODOs, tasks and birthdays
  • [ ] Smart reminder for TODOs, tasks and birthdays
  • [ ] Export all notes
  • [ ] Auto-Backup functionality
  • [ ] Note tree: Each folder/note can have a user defined color
  • [ ] Note tree option: Collapse all folders at startup (if you don't want to remember folder expand status)
  • [-] Copy to clipboard didn't work for notes with read-only status
  • [-] Window size and position was not saved when AM-Notebook was minimized
  • Many smaller changes and improvements

New in AM-Notebook Lite 4.1.2 Final (Jun 28, 2007)

  • [x] Backup system more resistant against conflicts with virus tools or desktop search engines
  • [-] Notes: Double clicking URLs in table cells didn't work
  • [-] Notes: If the "double click opens URL" is enabled, then the option "Ask before opening URL" will be disabled automatically to prevent un-resolvable conflicts
  • [-] Notes: Right click Open URL didn't work for URLs within table cells

New in AM-Notebook Lite 4.1.1 Beta 1 (May 25, 2007)

  • Browser tabs: Mouse middle click closes tab - Thread
  • Language files for translators updated
  • Minor bugfixes and improvements

New in AM-Notebook Lite 4.1.1 (Apr 17, 2007)

  • tabbed notes, spreadsheets, network support, etc.

New in AM-Notebook Lite 4.1.0 (Feb 8, 2007)

  • Windows Vista: Flip3D, thumbnail preview and correct animations supported
  • Windows Vista: Use "Segoe UI" as default font
  • Windows Vista: Several user interface tweaks for Vista support
  • Windows Vista: Several controls could disappear when the ALT key was pressed
  • Insert table into note: AM-Notebook remembers table dimensions
  • Insert table into note: Use active font (instead of Arial)
  • If AM-Notebook is already running, then launching AM-Notebook brings the already running instance into foreground
  • Program configuration: More options for tray bar handling
  • Links to local directories supported (for example file://c:/Windows)
  • Printer setup: Configured margins were not saved correctly
  • Print notes: Background was printed under certain circumstances
  • Improved handling when restoring notes from backup files
  • Drag-and-drop a note automatically scrolls the note tree when when moving outside the visible area
  • Uninstall can optionally remove program configuration and/or notes
  • Uninstaller improved
  • Some compatibility problems fixed (AM-Notebook couldn't be started on certain systems)
  • Minor tweaks

New in AM-Notebook Lite 4.0.5 (Nov 7, 2006)

  • tabbed notes,
  • spreadsheets,
  • network support

New in AM-Notebook Lite 4.0.3 (Jun 28, 2006)

  • Pasting a cell into a spreadsheet could fill all cells underneath under certain circumstances

New in AM-Notebook Lite 4.0.3 (Jun 28, 2006)

  • Pasting a cell into a spreadsheet could fill all cells underneath under certain circumstances

New in AM-Notebook Lite 4.0.2 (Jun 28, 2006)

  • tabbed notes, spreadsheets, network support, etc.

New in AM-Notebook Lite 4.0 (Apr 27, 2006)

  • tabbed notes, spreadsheets, network support, etc.