CintaNotes Changelog

What's new in CintaNotes 3.14

Sep 11, 2023
  • Fixes:
  • Editor: selection selector could contain wrong section if section names shared common prefixes
  • Editor: fix paste RTF with new line symbol bug
  • Wrong CN instance could be picked when opening notelinks
  • Startup issue: possible “bad locale name” exception
  • Simplenote sync: fixed too many “delete tag” requests
  • Fixed possible crash after changing window docking settings
  • Fixed possible crash after unsetting the “Snap window to screen edges” option

New in CintaNotes 3.13 (Mar 8, 2019)

  • Enhancements:
  • Rules: new action types: “Copy to Section” and “Move to Recycle Bin”
  • Exporting attachments to HTML
  • Fixes:
  • Editor: Bulleting stops after Shift+Enter and Enter
  • Editor: note link text preview hint stays after Alt+Tab to another window
  • Unnecessary log files appearing
  • Sorting by Remarks was not added to main menu
  • Crash when try to delete tag with notes
  • Attachments: exception after adding zero-sized files

New in CintaNotes 3.12 (Sep 18, 2018)

  • Enhancements:
  • Sorting by Remarks field
  • Simplenote sync: Add option to sync every 1 minute
  • Simplenote sync: automatically turn on Markdown mode for uploaded new notes
  • Fixes:
  • Editor: fix links in rich text when pasted into other programs such as MS Word
  • Editor: Copy/paste of a bullet list with multiple indent levels doubles the space between each indent
  • Editor: marker highlight (Ctrl+H) was lost after copy/paste
  • Clipping from HTML: sometimes words in angle brackets were skipped
  • Error when using create note keyboard shortcut with locked notebook
  • Now it’s possible to copy/paste notes with attachments from one notebook into another
  • HTML export: MS Word couldn’t open files produced by exporting notes to HTML
  • Simplenote sync: don’t add blank line + “source: someprogram.exe” to each note

New in CintaNotes 3.11 (Oct 24, 2017)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added option to disable duplicate title removal: “Options/Clipping/Remove Duplicate Titles”.
  • Editor: don’t treat underscore as word separator on double click
  • Fixes:
  • [Regression] Some rules stopped working in 3.10
  • Editor: bullets won’t stop after multiple Enter presses
  • Crash upon clipping when no application active

New in CintaNotes 3.11 (Oct 24, 2017)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added option to disable duplicate title removal: “Options/Clipping/Remove Duplicate Titles”.
  • Editor: don’t treat underscore as word separator on double click
  • Fixes:
  • [Regression] Some rules stopped working in 3.10
  • Editor: bullets won’t stop after multiple Enter presses
  • Crash upon clipping when no application active

New in CintaNotes 3.10 (Sep 18, 2017)

  • Features:
  • (PRO) Wildcard-based search: Added “Use * and ? wildcards” option to the search box menu
  • (PRO) Wildcards support in Rules
  • Wildcards support in Find/Replace dialog in editor
  • Enhancements:
  • Duplicate title elimination on clipping If the first non-empty line of the note is also present in the title, it is removed.
  • Added Options/Window menu entries to control window docking
  • Added “app.mainframe.minimizeonctrlenter” cintanotes.settings option to control minimizing after Ctrl+Enter
  • Fixes:
  • Regression: clipping from IE or CHM files inserts raw HTML
  • Regression: clipping from recent versions of Firefox could insert raw HTML
  • Fixed “Previous application instance failed to terminate” error message appearing when restarting one of simultaneusly running CN instances
  • Fixed crash when copying note link directly after registring license key
  • Main window no longer activated after closing editor opened from an LNK file
  • Simplenote sync: sync couldn’t finish if note had damaged footer

New in CintaNotes 3.9.1 (Aug 15, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed issues with window docking on high-DPI screens
  • Fixed issues with clipping from MS Edge browser on Windows 10
  • Clipping from LibreOffice or TextMaker inserted raw HTML into notes
  • Regression: editor window auto-closes on fast text selection
  • Removed unnecessary warning about exceeding size Limit for attachment synchronization when sync is not active

New in CintaNotes 3.9 (Jul 27, 2017)

  • Features:
  • Dock main and editor windows to screen edges
  • Dock editor windows to main window
  • Enhancements:
  • Clipping: don’t record browser name in note title
  • Fixes:
  • Regression: extra newlines when clipping HTML from Firefox
  • HTML clipping: empty bullets in lists when clipping from Firefox
  • Synchronization: fix syncing attachments when WebDAV returned error

New in CintaNotes 3.8.1 (Jul 10, 2017)

  • Enhancements:
  • Links to attachments: usability improvements
  • Fixes:
  • Extra spaces inside brackets after clipping text with HTML formatting
  • Regression: CN window not activated when activating existing instance
  • Editor windows not reopened after File/Exit
  • Editor: minor note link issues
  • Link protocol registration popup not always visible
  • Regression: custom protocols not working in the Link field
  • Editor: disable drag and drop of text which was not undoable

New in CintaNotes 3.8 (Jun 7, 2017)

  • Features:
  • Autosave currently edited note Completely transparent to the user: in case of crash or power failure, edited note will be reopened after startup.
  • Editor: Added “Paste as plain text” command to context menu with Ctrl+Alt+V shortcut
  • Added option to auto minimize on losing focus to the Options menu
  • Use Options/Window/Minimize on losing focus submenu to configure timeout.
  • Enhancements:
  • Notes list: more prominent display of selected tags in note previews
  • Retain tag filter when hiding tag sidebar
  • Double the length limit for names of note links
  • “Window/Close to tray” option is now active by default
  • “Window/Minimize to tray” option is now not active by default
  • Added “–close” (“-c”) command line option to close all app instances from batch files
  • Fixes:
  • Updates subscription ending notification couldn’t be hidden
  • Editor: fixed extremely slow opening of some notes
  • Editor: entering uppercase accented letters was not possible in some locales
  • Added “editor.shortcuts.rightalt.enabled” option to regulate this.
  • Remembered password shouldn’t be requested upon clipping
  • Recycle bin: zlib decompress error upon opening
  • Rules: rule windows underneath main window when main window is “always on top”
  • Don’t focus main window after closing editor if main window wasn’t active when this editor was created
  • Editor: Pasting from Outlook inserted “ ”‘s
  • Print and HTML export: line breaks in wrong places

New in CintaNotes 3.7 (Apr 26, 2017)

  • Features:
  • Drag-and-dropping text from any application into CintaNotes
  • Fixes:
  • Clipping shortcuts with Windows key not working
  • Clipping: possible error upon clipping
  • Tag sidebar: wrong tag counts after cancelled import
  • Import: Exception after canceling import
  • Editor: crash during paste
  • Editor: attachment item height shouldn’t depend on icon size
  • Printing: “current view” now enabled even when there are no filters applied
  • Pasting HTML in editor now obeys Options/Clipping/Formatting settings
  • Tag autocomplete shouldn’t disappear on BkSp, but continue showing appropriate results

New in CintaNotes 3.6 (Mar 23, 2017)

  • Features:
  • Parse HTML for links and basic formatting upon clipping
  • New Options/Clipping/Formatting submenu
  • Support pasting of HTML into notes list and note editor
  • Enhancements:
  • Note links: open another notebook’s note if it exists in opened notebook
  • Make scrollbars clickable when window is maximized and mouse is at the rightmost edge
  • Fixes:
  • Export: XML not created when previous directory is removed
  • Note links: keyboard shortcuts didn’t work in Russian
  • HTML export: regression – no spacing between paragraphs
  • Editor: tab indents not lining up correctly
  • Drag and drop: block keyboard while drag
  • Editor: unwanted keyboard layout change upon paste
  • Notes list: weird selection behavior when selection.followedited = 0
  • About dialog: missing licensee info
  • Simplenote sync: sync could fail because of certificate security error
  • Clipping was not always working in IE9+

New in CintaNotes 3.5 (Dec 22, 2016)

  • Features:
  • Simplenote sync is now free
  • Links to attached files Added ability to insert links to attached files into note text
  • Enhancements:
  • 10-day trial PRO license is now included by default
  • 30-day extended trial available per request
  • Ability to choose active license type
  • Lock note drag-and-drop when scrolling note text (when left mouse button is held and wheel scrolled)
  • Fixes:
  • HTML export: force keeping spaces if note text font is monospaced
  • Possible error when deleting note from Recycle Bin
  • Tag sidebar: unwanted tag list scroll (regression)
  • Rules: backslash symbol not properly escaped in rule conditions
  • Notes list: Wrong timestamp highlighting

New in CintaNotes 3.4 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • Features:
  • Drag-and-drop reordering of section tabs
  • Enhancements:
  • Rules: option to hide rule application notifications. Added menu item “Options / Rules / Notify When Applied”
  • Import: “Import rules” checkbox
  • Editor: option to turn off automatic adding of space to the Tags field. Added “editor.tagsfield.autoaddspace” parameter to cintanotes.settings
  • Fixes:
  • Keyboard issue with the rules log dialog

New in CintaNotes 3.3.1 (Sep 6, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Highlight the note that is about to receive drag-and-dropped tag
  • Editor: add space to tags after saving a note
  • Fixes:
  • Fix tag list scroll buttons behavior
  • Drag-and-drop shouldn’t cause main window to lose focus
  • Dragged notes should appear selected
  • Editor: fix random jump when clicking in the note body after scrolling with mouse wheel

New in CintaNotes 3.3 (Aug 31, 2016)

  • Features:
  • Drag-n-drop tags onto notes
  • Drag-n-drop notes onto sections
  • Enhancements:
  • Rules: update deafult rule name in real-time during editing
  • Rules: add F8 shortcut to call up Rules list
  • Fixes:
  • Message dialogs: “Don’t ask again” didn’t work when selecting “No”
  • HTML export: bullets not indented properly
  • Rules: sometimes condition and action values were replaced by section names
  • Rules editor: fix incorrect TAB order and initial focus
  • Rules: rule actions upon save weren’t always reflected in the note editor
  • Rules: switching db should be prohibited when rule editor is displayed
  • Rules: “have parents of” condition for tags produced SQLite error when specified tag doesn’t have parents

New in CintaNotes 3.2.1 (Aug 18, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Rules: add “has children of” and “has parents of” operators to Tags field
  • Rules: add “comes before” and “comes after” operators for text fields
  • Fixes:
  • Editor: fixed error when deleting note using Ctrl+Del
  • “Open in editor” should be disabled when silent clipping mode is on
  • Rules: fix “for all notes” rule condition not working
  • Rules: fix TAB, ESC don’t work in note editor when rule editor is open
  • Rules: “Remove tag” action should also remove child tags of specified tag
  • HTML export: printing note text only produces gray borders that gets wider
  • Fix possible error upon program restart
  • Notes list: Tag capitalization had effect on ordering in preview
  • Notes list: tags are incorrectly shortened with ellipsis
  • Tag sidebar: untagged count display was not always correct
  • Editor: Wrong control positions after modified date is displayed
  • Alt +F didn’t always activate File menu
  • Section limit in free version didn’t consider section names

New in CintaNotes 3.2 (Jul 28, 2016)

  • FEATURES:
  • Autotagging Rules: Automatic assignment of tags and sections to notes. See “File / Rules” menu item
  • ENHANCEMENTS:
  • File attachments: add ability to save to disk multiple attachments at once
  • Editor: add advanced option to copy text without formats (“editor.copyplaintextonly” in cintanotes.settings)
  • FIXES:
  • PasswordEnterCancelledException after canceling adding note
  • Simplenote sync: synchronization no longer resets note selection
  • Editor: std::out_of_range raised on save
  • Notes list: RTL numbered lists were rendered incorrectly
  • Simplenote sync: failure to sync from behind a proxy
  • Large DPI sizing problems
  • Tag drag and drop highlighting problems
  • Tag drag and drop: didn’t always correctly process mouse leaving
  • Fixed HotKeyEditor Ctrl + Alt bug
  • Import from a password-protected older format notebook required entering password twice
  • Deleting section didn’t also delete autodeletable tags
  • Replacing and renaming tags was extremely slow on large number of tags and notes
  • Negative search didn’t work correctly with “anywhere” or “attachments” fields
  • HTML export: wrong rendering of RTL text

New in CintaNotes 3.1.4 (May 20, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • File attachments: add ability to save to disk multiple attachments at once
  • Export, Print: add ability to select/deselect all fields with a single click
  • Editor: add cintanotes.settings option to copy text without formats (“editor.copyplaintextonly”)
  • Fixes:
  • Notes list: RTL numbered lists were rendered incorrectly
  • Simplenote sync: synchronization reset note selection
  • Editor: possible std::out_of_range error upon saving
  • Tag drag and drop: fixed some highlighting problems
  • Tag drag and drop: tag sidebar didn’t always handle mouse leaving
  • Hot keys: it was possible to set “Ctrl + Alt” as a shortcut
  • Import from a password-protected older format notebook required entering password twice
  • Fixed some large DPI sizing problems
  • Deleting section didn’t delete autodeletable tags
  • Replacing tags was extremely slow on large number of tags and notes
  • Fixed PasswordEnterCancelledException after canceling adding note
  • Fixed PasswordEnterCancelledException when entering tags in note editor
  • Fixed “Failed to activate an already running application instance” when running second instance of CN
  • Fixed possible InvalidArgumentException upon search start

New in CintaNotes 3.1.3 (Mar 22, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Drag-and-dropping of tags within the Tag sidebar
  • Option to use single Tab press to insert TAB character instead of Ctrl+Tab (see "Options/Editor/Tab Character" menu)
  • Fixes:
  • Clipping: backlinks to documents were not always added even when they were present in the process's command line
  • CN didn't restore to maximized size from system tray
  • Link to file not copied properly if path contained non-ASCII characters
  • Notes count control was cut off at 120 DPI
  • Display scaling caused CintaNotes to crash in Windows 10
  • Unnecessary save confirmation on pressing Esc in empty new note
  • "Database locked" error when CN was used on a network share

New in CintaNotes 3.1.2 (Feb 15, 2016)

  • Enhancements:
  • Focus top note during the search
  • Simplenote sync: don't run sync on startup if last sync was recent enough
  • Editor: improve Esc key handling Esc now cancels by default. Old behavior still available via the new "Options/Editor/Auto Save Changes on Esc" option
  • Fixes:
  • Export and Print: Field lists need to hide the "&" sign
  • Editor: wrong double-click word selection behavior
  • Incorrect error message when trying to open a corrupted notebook
  • Controls were being cut off at 120 DPI
  • Error when creating a notebook while an attachment is opened for editing
  • Possible PasswordEnterCancelledException on OS restart
  • Duplicate parent tag can be created when creating child tag directly from editor
  • Search in attachments for "-." was not working
  • Export, Print: increased height of field lists to eliminate need to scroll

New in CintaNotes 3.1.1 (Dec 8, 2015)

  • Enhancements:
  • Added settings option "selection.followedited" to control whether focus should follow the edited note (enabled by default)
  • Added settings option "tags.hierarchy.backslashes" which determines if tag input fields should automatically convert backslashes to forward slashes.
  • Improved display of note preview when note has remarks but no text
  • Editor: only suggest tags from edited note's section in context-sensitive tag suggestions
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed one remaining possible reason for crashes upon pasting rich text into note editor
  • Main windows position was not saved when exiting the program using tray menu
  • Regression: tags autocomplete popup cut off text
  • Editor: undo of some formatting changes didn't work
  • Search by tag text didn't properly implement whole word search (i.e. when "search inside words" was turned off)
  • Main window was needlessly activated after using "Add new note" hotkey

New in CintaNotes 3.1 (Nov 27, 2015)

  • Features:
  • Notes list: display remarks preview
  • Options/Notes list: add configuring of remarks preview display
  • Added "Options/Tags/Context-Sensitive Suggestions" option. When active, only tags from currently active sections will be suggested for autocomplete.
  • Notebook encryption: add "Lock when PC is locked" option
  • Enhancements:
  • Editor: improve handling of local cintanotes:// links Now such links are handled by CintaNotes itself, without using the system protocol handler
  • Improve speed of mouse wheel scrolling of tag suggestions
  • Moved help online, what reduced the size of the distribution package by 30%.
  • Localized help is now opened for Russian and German UI languages.
  • Fixes:
  • Clipping of numbered lists removed first number
  • Ad-hoc "Timer N not in the registry" error
  • Simplenote sync: crash when chosing "Use system proxy" when in fact system was not configured to use a proxy
  • Regression: "Linked note not found" error on normal http links
  • Search: word exclusion with (-) sign didn't work when attachments field was included in search
  • Fixed random crashes upon pasting rich text into note editor
  • Numbered lists with empty lines are now recognized upon clipping or pasting
  • Note properties: date time picker should use system's date and time format

New in CintaNotes 3.0.2 (Nov 12, 2015)

  • Enhancements:
  • Link fields are no longer lost when merging notes
  • Updater: upon clicking on download, display additional warning if the license key won't be valid for the downloaded version
  • Fixes:
  • "Database is locked" error when switching to the same encrypted notebook
  • Possible PasswordEnterCancelledException after PC wakes up from sleep
  • Wrong sort order displayed in newly created sections
  • Regression: Notes list: Attachments not visible when note body is empty
  • Tag sidebar: Shift+Alt+click activated non-related excluded tags
  • Tag sidebar: Ctrl-Alt-click on a tag expanded whole tag tree
  • Tag sidebar: Shift-clicking on a tag included all excluded tags
  • Simplenote sync: fix crash when syncing attachments while working over proxy
  • Export to XML: tags and notes were unordered
  • Editor: Links with certain characters were not recognized correctly
  • Editor: bug when replacing selection by typing one symbol and then undoing it
  • Editor: fixed possible notelink damaging
  • Editor: F3 "search inside words" inconsistent with notes list search settings

New in CintaNotes 3.0.1 (Oct 20, 2015)

  • Enhancements:
  • Notes list: Highlight the link icon when search term appears in the Link field
  • Improved performance of notes list painting and scrolling
  • Logging: don't include user data to log by default
  • Added "debug.log.userdata" parameter to cintanotes.settings.
  • Fixes:
  • Regression: Window-related items in system menu were not working
  • Notes list: wrong search hilites in attachments when file name gets shortened
  • File attachments: scroll file list in note preview to highlight appropriate search result
  • Unnecessary log files were generated
  • Section bar: double clicking on scrolling arrow shouldn't select all sections
  • Import: tags were not displayed correctly after second import
  • Links with percent sign (%) not recognized correctly
  • Fixed duplicate menu mnemonics
  • Simplenote sync: unable to upload big file (> 40MB)
  • Editor: password was required to display tag suggestions
  • Fixed possible "column num not unqiue" error upon deleting a section

New in CintaNotes 3.0 (Oct 5, 2015)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.9.3 (Jul 28, 2015)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.9.2 (Jul 9, 2015)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.9.1 (Jun 23, 2015)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.9 (Jun 10, 2015)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.8.6 (May 4, 2015)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.8.5 (Feb 16, 2015)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.8.4 (Dec 15, 2014)

  • 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%

New in CintaNotes 2.8.3 (Nov 24, 2014)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.8.2 (Nov 11, 2014)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.8.1 (Oct 28, 2014)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.8 (Oct 16, 2014)

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

New in CintaNotes 2.7.2 (Sep 15, 2014)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.7.1 (Aug 21, 2014)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.7 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • Features:
  • Note printing
  • 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.)
  • Translatable keyboard shortcuts
  • Added screenshots to help
  • 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
  • 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 not displayed when searching in "Any text field"
  • Editor: BkSp+Undo+BkSp corrupts links
  • Editor: error when clicking a link to a file with CJK characters in name

New in CintaNotes 2.6.1 (Jun 5, 2014)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.6 (May 8, 2014)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.5.2 (Mar 27, 2014)

  • 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

New in CintaNotes 2.5.1 (Feb 21, 2014)

  • Added F2 as a shortcut for "Edit" command. Enhancement
  • Improved tray icon click behavior. Enhancement:
  • Bring CN window to foreground if CN window is obscured by other windows.
  • Editor: edit link immediately on Alt+L. Enhancement
  • Editor: Alt+NumPad character input not working properly. Fix
  • Editor: exception when undoing bullet list edit. Fix
  • Editor: random character at end of text. Fix
  • Simplenote sync: CN could hang on exit. Fix
  • Simplenote sync: sync could hang. Fix
  • Simplenote sync: CN used to reset SN's Markdown flag. Fix
  • Tag autocomplete could appear partly off-screen. Fix
  • Edit window creeped to the right when taskbar was on left. Fix
  • Backup didn't start on time. Fix
  • CN could hang on startup while fixing DB integrity errors. Fix

New in CintaNotes 2.5 (Dec 27, 2013)

  • "Remarks" field.Feature:
  • Notes now have a new field "Remarks", intended to collect additional data on what is written in the main note body (which quite often is clipped from somewhere).
  • A new search mode has appeared: "Any Text Field", which includes Title, Text, Tags and Remarks.Feature
  • Note export: ability to choose which fields should be exported.Feature
  • XML import now supports UTF-8 XML files.Enhancement
  • Upgraded internal DB engine to SQLite 3.8.1.Enhancement
  • Notes list: Clickable link icons in note preview.Enhancement
  • Notes list: Improved display of long hierarchical tags.Enhancement:
  • Now only the last part of the tag name is displayed by default, the full name is displayed in a tooltip when you hover the mouse over the tag.
  • Tag deletion: provide option to also delete notes with selected tags.Enhancement
  • New option in internet connection setting: "Use system proxy settings"Enhancement
  • Added option to clear filters on starting new search: "filters.reset.onnewsearch.enabled".Enhancement
  • Option to turn off many confirmation messages, implemented as "Don't ask again" checkboxes.Enhancement
  • Added shortcuts to "File" menu commands: New (Ctrl+E), Open (Ctrl+O), Save As (Ctrl+S), Close (Ctrl+W).Enhancement
  • Notes list: always scroll to the top of the list on new search.Enhancement
  • Tag sidebar: scroll to top/bottom of the tag list on arrow double-click.Enhancement
  • Editor: Alt+Home/End to always navigate to note text's start/end.Enhancement
  • Crash on linking notes.Fix
  • Crash on trying to edit a certain note.Fix
  • Intranet URLs were not recognized.Fix
  • Program failed to respond to rapid mousewheel events.Fix
  • Simplenote sync: constant "not completed, try later" when moving remote note to recycle bin.Fix
  • Simplenote sync: deleted synced section appeared again after sync.Fix
  • Simplenote sync: synchronization could constantly fail.Fix
  • Sorting order could be lost for main section.Fix
  • Text and paragraph formats could get corrupted on merging notes.Fix
  • Unable to import XML with more than 3 sections even when "Import sections" was unchecked.Fix
  • Note previews: URL highlight positions could be wrong because of leading whitespace.Fix
  • Change shortcuts that use Ctrl+Alt to using other modifiers to avoid collisions with some national keyboard layouts.Fix
  • Notes list: couldn't start search from capital letters or accented characters when search box was not focused.Fix

New in CintaNotes 2.4 (Sep 18, 2013)

  • Enhanced hyperlink support in notes Now it is possible to turn any text into a hyperlink targeting either an arbitrary URL, a file, or another note.Feature
  • Note properties: display character and word countsFeature
  • Editor: change title from "Edit 'Smth'" to "Smth (Edit)"Enhancement
  • Simplenote sync: prevention of duplicates when syncing an exported notebookEnhancement
  • Simplenote sync: notes containing % synced with errorsFix
  • Recycle bin: note with paraformats can't be openedFix
  • Esc key handling: immediate minimize and non-multistep reset fail when search box has focusFix
  • Editor: When no text is selected, text formatting shortcuts now toggle formatting for current word only and not whole paragraphFix
  • Editor: Fixed a numbered list formatting errorFix
  • Editor: Fixed indents being reset on applying list formatFix
  • HTML export: links without protocol prefix didn't workFix
  • CN could crash on changing notebooks via File menuFix
  • In some cases a "License Expired" message could be shown on valid license.Fix
  • Tags not assigned to any note were not imported.Fix

New in CintaNotes 2.3 (Jul 16, 2013)

  • New search option "Search across field boundaries".Feature
  • Simplenote sync: added "server not responding" sync status.Enhancement
  • Recycle bin: show only Cancel button in R/O note editor.Enhancement
  • Editor: Use Alt+L instead of Alt+Down to focus the Link field.Enhancement
  • Added confirmation dialog to merge command.Enhancement
  • Editor: display warning when linked files don't exist.Enhancement
  • Auto fixing of DB indices when damaged.Enhancement
  • Installer: Check free updates expiration date by settings or key date.Enhancement
  • Installer: Restore portable version.Enhancement
  • Options to fine tune the program's behavior on ESC press: "filters.reset.onescape.enabled", "filters.reset.onescape.multistep", "app.mainframe.minimizeonescape.immediate".Enhancement
  • Option to reset filters on Ctrl+F press: "filters.reset.onctrlf.enabled". Enhancement
  • Option to minimize main window on Enter press: "app.mainframe.minimizeonenter". Enhancement
  • Window position not remembered when window has been placed using Win+Left/Right commands in Win7.Fix
  • "Download" button is Update dialog sometimes not working.Fix
  • Editor: http://test:80 not recognized as URL.Fix
  • Recycle bin: exception on trying to paste into R/O note editor.Fix
  • Recycle bin: modifying context menu commands should be disabled in R/O note editor.Fix
  • Recycle bin: note preview is not closed on ESC.Fix
  • Recycle bin: "Read Only Note" dialogs not reused.Fix
  • Recycle bin: in the "Read Only Note" dialog, the Close button should be the default.Fix
  • HTML export: hard line breaks are not created.Fix
  • Editor: paragraph style is lost on Del press.Fix
  • Editor: various undo bugs.Fix
  • Editor: some commands raised errors in readonly mode.Fix
  • Notes list: note color doesn't change on cut and paste.Fix
  • Simplenote sync: can't download note with backslash at end of text.Fix
  • Crash on wrong paragraph formatting.Fix

New in CintaNotes 2.2 (May 7, 2013)

  • Simplenote sync: support for syncing of multiple sections.Feature
  • Unified portable and installer versions into one distributive which can be installed both ways.Enhancement
  • Simplenote sync: got rid of "Uid:" lines in synced notes.Enhancement
  • Recycle bin: added column with first non-empty text line from deleted note.Enhancement
  • Recycle bin: view deleted note on double-click.Enhancement
  • License renewal support.Enhancement
  • Notes list: note color didn't change when note was moved to another section.Fix
  • Reverted back to SQLite 3.7.13 due to performance and stability issues.Fix
  • Recycle bin: note couldn't be restored when section didn't exist.Fix

New in CintaNotes 2.1.1 (Apr 8, 2013)

  • Recycle bin window size and placement now remembered.Enhancement
  • Increased default font size.Enhancement
  • Added "Request free trial" button to the License dialog.Enhancement
  • Editor: note link caption now updated on Ctrl+Alt+L and Enter.Enhancement
  • Shift+Esc to minimize main window keeping search filters.Enhancement
  • Updated SQLite to version 3.7.16.1.Enhancement
  • Updated translations.Enhancement
  • SimpleNote sync: plus (+) symbol was syncing incorrectly.Fix
  • Simplenote sync: sudden crash during sync.Fix
  • Simplenote sync: could cause note edit windows to close all by themselves.Fix
  • Notebook upgrade failed if backup folder didn't already exist.Fix
  • Recycle bin: first click on "deleted" did nothing.Fix
  • Import function didn't check section count limit.Fix
  • Import with sections could cause program crash.Fix
  • Note links: possible error on creating new note.Fix
  • Editor: note links could get corrupted.Fix
  • Editor: correct copying of note links with text formats.Fix
  • Editor: Note was always saved to db when line trimming was on.Fix
  • Clipping: active tags of wrong section could be assigned.Fix

New in CintaNotes 2.1 (Mar 19, 2013)

  • Recycle bin for notes New File/Recycle Bin menu option.Feature
  • Backup: added "File/Backup/Backup Now" command.Feature
  • Backup: notebook-specific backup settings.Enhancement
  • Simplenote sync: Improved reliability.Enhancement
  • Added progress bar display to import and export.Enhancement
  • Editor: Context menu for the "Link" field.Enhancement
  • Note links: updating link caption after retargeting the link.Enhancement
  • Links to notes: import could break local note links.Fix
  • Fixed spurious "Synchronization failed" errors.Fix
  • Create note link: error on creating new note.Fix
  • SN sync sometimes couldn't download all notes.Fix
  • Export progress bar never ran to the end.Fix
  • Accelerators were not working when modal dialog was open.Fix
  • Note links could get corrupted when they were restored from recycle bin.Fix
  • PRIMARY KEY contraint violation on adding note links.Fix
  • Simplenote sync: better handling of HTTP error 412.Fix
  • CN could suddenly clear all tags and sort order from all sections.Fix

New in CintaNotes 2.0.4 (Feb 25, 2013)

  • More reliable clipping with configurable clip wait time.Enhancement
  • Now with the "clipping.waittime.seconds" parameter in cintanotes.settings you can control how long should CN wait for the data to appear in the clipboard.
  • Editor: added section selector control.Enhancement
  • Editor: added support for recognizing URLs with custom protocols.Enhancement (Now links like onenote:// or evernote:// are recognized.)
  • CN now displays assigned section and tags in the balloon tooltip which appears on silent clipping.Enhancement
  • Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab now can move away from the "All" section selection.Enhancement
  • Added confirmation message box for the "Register link protocol" command.Enhancement
  • Display assigned section and tags in baloon tooltip on silent clipping.Enhancement
  • Simplenote sync: Fixed authorization failed error.Fix
  • Simplenote sync: Proxy autoconfiguration was not working.Fix
  • Note could be saved into deleted section.Fix
  • Section edit dialog color did not change when picked color changed.Fix
  • Main window caption was not updated on deleting section.Fix
  • Mouse wheel didn't work on notes list when search box had focus.Fix
  • Editor: Ctrl+Tab could corrupt note links.Fix
  • Ctrl+Shift+I started search for Tab character.Fix
  • Editor: Format/Clear changed line height of CJK text.Fix
  • Editor: Line trimming could corrupt note linksFix
  • Error on pressing Delete after switching notebooks.Fix
  • Fixed possible crash while exporting notes.Fix
  • Update notification is now shown only once.Fix
  • Note link tooltip appeared when a context menu was displayed.Fix

New in CintaNotes 2.0.3 (Feb 11, 2013)

  • Links to notes: show tooltip with target info on mouse hover
  • Added option "Window/Minimize on Esc"
  • Improved usability of "select next action" message boxes
  • Editor: Improved block indent/unindent behaviorEnhancement
  • Editor: Ctrl+Alt+S to save note without changing modified date
  • UI for notebook upgrade process and ability to create backup before upgrading
  • Passwords to proxy and Simplenote are now stored in encrypted form
  • Section view state not always proreply saved and restored
  • Note links couldn't be copied and pasted
  • Editor: Backspace working incorrectly in bullet list
  • Editor: Shift+Enter working incorrectly in bullet lists when line is empty
  • Notes list not always updated after deleting a section
  • Possible error on deleting section
  • SimpleNote sync: possible crash while syncing notes containing raw HTML
  • Notes list and tag sidebar not updated after deleting all notes with a certain tag
  • Parent tag not created on open/import old db file
  • "Create New Note" shortcut didn't use the Inbox section
  • Editor: note link commands should be disabled if text formatting is disabled
  • Import: parent tags not created when hierarchic tags are entered into the "Tags to add" field
  • URL not recognized when it contains ":"

New in CintaNotes 2.0.2 (Jan 24, 2013)

  • Tag sidebar: improved usability with tag filters.Enhancement
  • Added the "No Tag Filter", "Only Used" and "Only Related" context menu options to control the tag list display.
  • Sections: Sort and search parameters of each section of each opened notebook are now remembered.Enhancement
  • Sections: Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab are now shortcuts to navigate tabs.Enhancement
  • Sections: Added Ctrl+Shift+Space as an alternative to Ctrl+` shortcut to select all tabs.Enhancement
  • Specifying proxy settings for internet connection.Enhancement
  • New menu item "Options/System/Proxy settings"
  • Links to notes: don't display current note's title in the dropdown.Enhancement
  • Links to notes: display 'Delete Note Link' only when the caret is on note link.Enhancement
  • Tab widths are now configurable via the "sectionbar.tab.width" parameters in the cintanotes.settings file.Enhancement
  • Improved notebook opening error diagnosis.Enhancement
  • Added option "ui.profeatures.hide" to hide paid features in menus.Enhancement
  • Displaying program version in tray tooltipEnhancement
  • Options/System: Perform UAC elevation instead of just displaying error.Enhancement
  • Tag sidebar: mouse wheel scrolling not working.Fix
  • Slow search and tab switching on notebooks having 1000+ tags.Fix
  • Links to notes: failure to focus target note link.Fix
  • Links to notes: message dialogs were not modal.Fix
  • Simplenote sync: impossible to search while downloading notes.Fix
  • Editor: format toggle not always working.Fix
  • Editor: wrong text selected after paste + undo.Fix
  • Editor: Alt+BkSp not working.Fix
  • Editor: caret should be moved on right-click.Fix
  • Editor: bullet list stops when ENTER on filled line.Fix
  • Editor: formatting is pasted into editor with disabled formatting.Fix
  • Editor: undo command removed bullets from lists.Fix
  • Editor: numbers were stripped when pasting plain-text numbered list and text formatting is disabled.Fix
  • Editor: text formatting was used for block indents even when text formatting was disabled.Fix
  • Possible crash on mouse wheel in search box.Fix
  • Possible SQLite Error 14: unable to open database file.Fix

New in CintaNotes 2.0.1 (Dec 31, 2012)

  • Multithreaded Simplenote sync: 3-5x increased sync speed.Enhancement
  • Links to notes: Added "Copy Note Link" context menu item to note editor.Enhancement
  • Links to notes: "Create new note" from dropdown now opens the new note for editing.Enhancement
  • Links to notes: the initial contents of the dropdown suggestion edit is initially selected.Enhancement
  • Support for opening notebooks from command line.Enhancement
  • When clipping from a CN editor window, a cintanotes:// link to note is placed into the Link field.Enhancement
  • Editor: changed strikeout text shortcut to Ctrl+K.Enhancement
  • Periodic Simplenote sync could lead to crash.Fix
  • Simplenote sync: proper syncing of note links.Fix
  • Simplenote sync: don't put simple links in tag, use URL recognition.Fix
  • Links to notes: right-click on note link behaved unintuitively.Fix
  • Links to notes: inserting timestamp into note link broke it.Fix
  • Possible crash when running from Program Files (x86).Fix
  • Editor: Ctrl+Alt+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z shouldn't Undo.Fix
  • Possible error on clipping (precondition violation).Fix
  • CN could put Internet Explorer into offline mode.Fix
  • Search scope and "search inside words" were not remembered in each section.Fix
  • Tags with use count of 0 were not displayed even if marked as not autodeleted.Fix
  • Error when saving tag with forward slash as first symbol.Fix
  • Possible error on startup when there are many sections and section bar is hidden.Fix
  • Editor: "Column uid not unique" error on saving note.Fix
  • Notes list: after pasting several notes, only one of them was selected.Fix
  • Notes list: Left Click + Wheel scrolled more than page of text.Fix
  • Filter control: Ctrl+Down was not working properly.Fix

New in CintaNotes 2.0 (Dec 19, 2012)

  • Simplenote synchronization:
  • Finally you'll be able to access your notes from your mobile device!(Commercial)
  • Tabbed notebook sections:
  • Up to 3 sections in the free version, unlimited number of sections in the licensed version.
  • Linking notes with each other:
  • Now you can link notes together! More than that, now you can place a link to a CN note into any rich-text enabled app! (Commercial)
  • Application icon colorization:
  • Now the application icon is colored according to selected color theme, which helps to distinguish between icons in the notification area when you run multiple instances of CN.
  • Option to associate CintaNotes with .db Files.Enhancement:
  • The new Options/System/Associate with .db files option (requires running CintaNotes with administrator privileges).
  • Editor: Pressing F7 when caret is on a link opens this link.Enhancement
  • Some performance optimizations in the notes list.Enhancement
  • Notes list: returned the "New Note" context menu item.Enhancement
  • Note editor: fixed undo behavior for block indents.Fix
  • Typing search query was possible even when search box was disabled.Fix
  • Search field is now enabled regardless of how many notes are found.Fix
  • When a child tag is deselected, the parent stays selected if it was selected before.Fix
  • Tag sidebar: Unrelated tags became more readable.Fix

New in CintaNotes 1.8.5 (Nov 27, 2012)

  • Keyboard shortcuts to manipulate current tag selection from the search box. Enhancement
  • Regression: accepting tags on spacebar not working anymore. Fix
  • Regression: Single Ctrl+Enter not enough to apply tags on tag sidebar. Fix
  • Don't focus main window when after closing one editor other gets focused.F ix
  • "2." not found in note text when note has a title. Fix
  • Note preview: pressing right arrow not always immediately scrolls note's text. Fix

New in CintaNotes 1.8.4 (Nov 13, 2012)

  • Put newly opened notebooks to the bottom of the MRU list, not the top.Enhancement
  • Beep when selecting current notebook in File MRU list.Enhancement
  • After closing editor, always focus main window.Enhancement
  • Updated translations.Enhancement
  • Unexpected filter reset after modifying note data.Fix
  • Performance problems when rendering large notes.Fix
  • Wrong search highlight positions for text coming after spaces and tabs.Fix
  • URL detection: arbitrary domains were not recognized.Fix

New in CintaNotes 1.8.3 (Oct 31, 2012)

  • New options: "Editor/Initial Focus"
  • "Help/Debug/Debug Logging"
  • Fixed important issues

New in CintaNotes 1.8.2 (Oct 15, 2012)

  • New "-d" command line option to enable detailed debug logging. Enhancement
  • Editor: no space trimming on manual save, only on closing. Enhancement
  • CN version 1.8 and 1.8.1 didn't start up on some PCs. Fix
  • Titles are no longer lost on merging (even if note text is not empty). Fix
  • Wrong sorting order of tags with some national symbols. Fix
  • HTML export: eliminated another reason why notes could get truncated. Fix
  • URLs of the form something.co.XX were not recognized. Fix
  • Fixed "Postcondition failed" error that could come up on clipping. Fix

New in CintaNotes 1.8.1 (Oct 3, 2012)

  • Wrong TAB alignment in the notes list.Fix
  • Clipping: only plain text clipboard content was restored after clipping.Fix
  • CN could quit silently several seconds after startup.Fix
  • HTML export: some notes got cut off.Fix
  • HTML export: font from editor.fonts.monospace not used in exported file.Fix
  • Editor: Monospace toggle on text selected with Ctrl+A not working properly.Fix
  • Editor: font unexpectedly turned to monospace after save.Fix
  • Editor: Asian chars appear condensed after save and reopen.Fix
  • Editor: when space trimming enabled, links and text effects got into wrong positions.Fix
  • Editor: URLs with [ and ] characters were not correctly recognized.Fix
  • Note properties dialog: wrong date set when selecting from drop-down calendar.Fix
  • Clipping for copy-pasting text with links from IE could produce text with wrong encoding.Fix
  • About dialog: license label in some languages gets cut off.Fix
  • Registering via clipping the purchase email not working in IE.Fix
  • Entering ".." in Russian locale suggested tags with only one "." in them.Fix
  • Note text could get altered on copy paste.Fix
  • Ctrl+R to toggle the Display Related Tag Only mode was not restricted to Personal and Company licenses.Fix
  • Auto updater ignored changes in 4th version digit.Fix

New in CintaNotes 1.8 (Sep 26, 2012)

  • "Expand All/Collapse All" context menu commands in the Tag Sidebar.Feature
  • Keep supported text formatting on clip/paste from rich text enabled applications such as MS Word.Feature
  • New commands in note editor: F5 to insert current timestamp, Shift+Enter to add a new paragraph to the current list item, Ctrl+Tab and Shift+Ctrl+Tab to indent/outdent text blocks.Feature
  • The "Display tag counts" feature is now available with the Basic license!Enhancement
  • Support working with read-only databases.Enhancement
  • Tag sidebar: Relevant tag marks are now affected also by the text search filter.Enhancement
  • Tag sidebar: now remembers the last selection when reactivated.Enhancement
  • Tag sidebar: Click on 'All' now doesn't reset the 'Display related tags only' mode.Enhancement
  • Editor: added "editor.trimlines" settings file option to automatically remove trailing line whitespace on save.Enhancement
  • Display fonts preview in the Note Appearance dialog.Enhancement
  • Improved tag auto suggestion.Enhancement
  • "Cut", "Copy", "Paste" and "Delete" context menu items in the search filter box.Enhancement
  • Double click on a tag in any tag edit field selects the whole tag.Enhancement
  • Note Properties dialog enhancementsEnhancement
  • Default focus on Created Date, no more on-the-fly date validation.
  • Enhanced system window menu (right-click on app title icon).Enhancement
  • Ctrl+R to toggle 'Display related tags only' mode.Enhancement
  • Lists in exported XML and HTML are now be defined by tags.Enhancement
  • Old tag name to appear in new name field of rename dialog.Enhancement
  • Hugely degraded performance on bases with lots of deeply nested tags.Fix
  • Note preview: wrong line breaks for mixed monospace and normal lines.Fix
  • F3 behaved differently in the note editor compared to the notes list when having more than one search term.Fix
  • Note properties dialog: created date was not saved for new notes.Fix
  • Strange selected notes after removing tag.Fix
  • Wrong URL highlighting when using german umlauts.Fix
  • Various window focusing issues.Fix
  • Various search related issues.Fix
  • Certain text was disappearing from note preview.Fix
  • Key shortcuts in popup menu were not properly aligned.Fix
  • Crash on search with 0 results + Down Arrow + Alt+Enter.Fix
  • Was not possible to add multiple non-autodeleted tags through the New Tag dialog.Fix
  • Unnecessary tags present in exported XML.Fix
  • On Ctrl+BkSp only first tag was expanded in the Tag Sidebar tree.Fix
  • Buttons in notebook message dialog were too narrow for some languages.Fix
  • Strange tag display when searching with 0 results and "Display related tags only" is on.Fix
  • Not possible to switch 'display related tags only' mode with negated tag selection.Fix
  • Tags disappear on Alt+Click when 'Display only related tags' mode is on.Fix
  • Wrong indentation of wrapped bullet list lines.Fix
  • Numbered list numbers could not be deleted with DEL.Fix
  • Editor: Table formatting was not stripped on paste.Fix
  • Removed repeated parent tags in exported HTML.Fix
  • Editor window repaint artefacts when opening a specific note maximized.Fix
  • Editor: dates label not painted if window configured to open maximized.Fix
  • Wrong line breaking in note preview for specific text.Fix

New in CintaNotes 1.7.1 (Jul 14, 2012)

  • Updated translations.Enhancement
  • Updated help.Enhancement
  • Fixed crash on searching for "/".Fix
  • Case change in tag names using Rename command was not possible.Fix
  • Note selection painting was wrong if note didn't have text and tags.Fix

New in CintaNotes 1.7 (Jul 9, 2012)

  • [Commercial] Tag hierarchy support and expandable tag trees on the Tag Sidebar.
  • You can now define hierarchical tags using the "/" symbol. CintaNotes will automatically assign parent tags when you assign children, and remove children when you remove parents.
  • [Commercial] "Display Related Tags Only" mode for the Tag sidebar This mode makes it really easy to focus on what's important at the moment - only tags related to the current tag selection are displayed.
  • Tag properties dialog
  • Right-click on a tag on the Tag sidebar and choose "Properties...".
  • Possibility to create tags not associated with notes
  • Uncheck the "Delete automatically" tag property to make a tag permanent (tags created via "New" and "New Child" context menu commands are permanent by default).
  • Note properties dialog to edit note's timestamps.
  • "Check for Updates" command.
  • Automatic update check.
  • New option: "Options/Startup/Restore last tag selection".
  • New option: "Options/Tags/Accept On/Single mouse click".
  • Tooltips for some commands.
  • Toggling of tag count display in the Tag Sidebar's context menu.
  • Compiled with support for SSE instructions.
  • Add/Remove tags dialog: Remove tags field now only suggests tags which are present in the note.
  • Minor visual changes: note selection has been made more prominent, crossed out tags are now less bright.
  • To avoid problems while searching, accepting suggestions on spacebar now doesn't apply to the search box.
  • New shortcuts for Tag sidebar: Ctrl+Alt+Click crosses out all tags except the clicked one (to display notes having this tag only and no other tags); Shift+Alt+Click crosses out all children of a parent tag (to display notes having this parent tag but not having any of the child tags).
  • Pasting notes into other apps was not working under some circumstances.
  • Exception when notebook path access was denied.
  • HTML export didn't specify encoding with a byte order mark, which could lead some browsers to display the file with wrong encoding.
  • Editor: Ctrl+Left/Right selection ignored international characters like German umlauts.
  • Wrong line breaking in text preview with Courier font.
  • Editor: Title text got clipped on mouse hover (in XP).
  • Editor: Undo/redo for text formatting worked only when you pressed Ctrl+Z(Y) many times.
  • Label controls flickered on window move.
  • Editor: "something.xy" was recognized as a hyperlink regardless if .xy was a real top level domain.
  • F11 shortcut was not displayed in File/Export menu item.
  • URLs were not saved when clipping from Opera 12 x64.
  • Notes having only titles were lost on merging.
  • "Options/Startup/Run at system startup" could display wrong state.
  • Wrong message about "inaccessible path" in case of newer notebook file version.

New in CintaNotes 1.6.2 (May 14, 2012)

  • Ability to tag imported notes: "Add tags" field in the import dialog.
  • Licensed version is now fully portable
  • License key file is written into the CintaNotes folder. Only if the write into this folder fails (when e.g. the folder is inside of Program Files), the Application Data folder is used.
  • Editor window could open on wrong monitor in a multi-monitor system.
  • Editor: Pasting from MS OneNote was not working.
  • Search for "-word" with "Search inside words" ON produced wrong results.
  • Fixed lost portability because of storing absolute paths to .db files: now relative paths are used for .db files located in the application folder and below.
  • Fixed SQLite syntax error on searching for "|".
  • Fixed possible "Internal protection error" problem.
  • Automatic notebook reloading was not properly working, which could hinder DropBox sync.
  • Fixed wrong editor window positioning when closed while partly off-screen.
  • Tag highlight highlighted "|" even when it meant OR.
  • Fixed huge search performance drop when using the OR operator ("|").
  • Fixed CN crash at startup if notebook drive was inaccessible.
  • Fixed exception on closing notebook if the next file in MRU list had been deleted.
  • Fixed tags filter resetting after clipping even with "Assign active tags" option

New in CintaNotes 1.6.1 (Apr 24, 2012)

  • Note Editor: title is now displayed with font configured for title in "Options/Notes List..."
  • Ctrl+Enter in search field shouldn't clear non-matches
  • Ctrl+Delete in the note editor to delete the current note
  • Alt+Enter to open the note editor and close the main window
  • Ability to view exported file after export
  • Ignore empty lines on license recognition
  • Tag counters became less obtrusive
  • Improved notebook opening and switching speed
  • Fixed tag and text filters resetting after a timeout
  • Pre-filtering with tag filter now always improves search speed
  • Fixed regression: Crash on Ctrl+Enter in empty search field
  • Fixed regression: Import from XML slower in 1.6 than in 1.5.7
  • CN rewrote settings file on every run AND close, even if no settings changed
  • Fixed 125% DPI rendering problems
  • Fixed "Column name is not unique" error on adding tag "__"
  • Clipping from XChat was not working
  • Tag search highlighted only first match
  • Fixed incorrect tag rendering if tag name contained '&'

New in CintaNotes 1.6 (Apr 11, 2012)

  • Multiple notebooks support. (Commercial):
  • 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").
  • 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. (Commercial):
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

New in CintaNotes 1.5.7 (Mar 21, 2012)

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

New in CintaNotes 1.5.6 (Feb 20, 2012)

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

New in CintaNotes 1.5.5 (Feb 8, 2012)

  • Configuring how the note's timestamp is displayed in the notes listFeature
  • 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 timeFeature
  • New search mode "Modification Time" has been added.
  • Improved speed of XML import and export.Enhancement
  • Display of note creation and modification time in the editorEnhancement
  • You can turn this off using the "editor.displaydates" parameter in cintanotes.settings.)
  • Main window was not visible after single tray icon click if "Minimize to tray" was not set.Fix
  • USB stick could not be safely removed after note import or export.Fix
  • Importing .db could modify the source file if it was from an older CintaNotes version.Fix
  • Note last modification date was not exported to XML and imported from itFix
  • 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.Fix
  • Note's modification time always changed if note had a styled link.Fix
  • Text search could crash the app when maximum text preview lines was set to 1.Fix
  • It was impossible to select an italic font in the Note Appearance dialog.Fix

New in CintaNotes 1.5.4 (Jan 12, 2012)

  • Sorting notes by last modification dateFeature
  • Updated translationsEnhancement
  • Note editor: fixed wrong Ctrl+S behavior on new notesFix
  • Tags didn't always fit into the tac AC dropdownFix
  • Fixed out_of_range error when pressing Ctrl+BkSp in empty search boxFix
  • Removed unnecessary empty space on the bottom of the tag AC dropdownFix
  • Notes list: Some note titles could appear clippedFix
  • Note editor: Unsupported paragraph formatting was not cleared on pasteFix
  • Note editor: In title edit box letters could appear clipped on the bottomFix
  • Window position was not saved if "Always on top" was setFix

New in CintaNotes 1.5.3 (Dec 15, 2011)

  • Text highlight color and monospace font are now configurable in .settings file. Enhancement
  • New parameters editor.fonts.monospace and editor.colors.highlight
  • Ctrl+S in note editor to save note immediately.Enhancement
  • Ctrl+Enter in empty search box to view untagged notes.Enhancement
  • Fixed error when changing language while editing new notes.Fix
  • Fixed crash on pressing Ctrl+Bksp on a note without tags.Fix
  • Maximized state of main and editor windows was not saved in settings file.Fix
  • Editor: When editing note title Ctrl+Alt+Key shortcuts were recognized as Ctrl+Key.Fix
  • Editor: Pressing Enter with non-empty selection resulted in wrong selection.Fix
  • Editor: Ctrl+Backspace did not delete previous word in title and tags.Fix
  • Editor: Dates were recognized as numbered lists.Fix
  • Editor: Empty lines were selected wrongly.Fix
  • It was impossible to use bold variants of some fonts.Fix
  • Note editor: Text copy-pasted into the note from PDF received highlight.Fix
  • Fixed incorrect note duplicate recognition at import.Fix

New in CintaNotes 1.5.2 (Nov 14, 2011)

  • Tag autocomplete now matches any word in multi word tagsEnhancement
  • 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.Enhancement
  • Turning off Options/Editor/Text Formatting now warns about possible loss of text formatting (if notebook contains notes with formatting).Enhancement
  • Note editor: if nothing is selected, Ctrl+Del clears formatting of the whole current paragraph.Enhancement
  • Updated translations.Enhancement
  • Search highlight positions could be wrong because of tabs.Fix
  • Note editor: links were still highlighted even when "highlight links" was off.Fix
  • Resolved performance issues with XML import.Fix
  • Eliminated possible crash on XML export.Fix
  • Layout of "Preview min max lines" option labels was not suited for all languages.Fix
  • CN could fail to start on WinXP 2002 SP2 with large font sizes.Fix
  • Note editor: URL highlighting could get brokenFix
  • Note editor: "Monospace" and "Highlight" text styles were lost on copy-pasting.Fix

New in CintaNotes 1.5.1 (Nov 5, 2011)

  • Basic text formatting support in notes editor.
  • Notes list can display formatted text in note preview.
  • Import and export of text formatting to and from XML.
  • New "Options/Startup" submenu.
  • Refreshed program icons and logo, by a professional designer
  • 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.
  • 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.

New in CintaNotes 1.4.3 (Apr 7, 2011)

  • Added the "Notebook Parameters" dialog
  • 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
  • Updated translations: Chinese Traditional, Japanese
  • 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

New in CintaNotes 1.4.2 (Feb 14, 2011)

  • Added translations of the UI into Danish, Portuguese, Korean and Traditional Chinese.Feature
  • F3 and Shift+F3 now work in note editor to find next and previous instances of currently selected text.Feature
  • CintaNotes loads new language files automatically.Enhancement
  • Fixed error "ios_base::failbit set" after installing into Program Files when run installer as admin and agreed to lauch CintaNotes after install.Fix
  • CintaNotes crashed if 'Lang' subfolder didn't exist.Fix

New in CintaNotes 1.4.1 (Feb 3, 2011)

  • Added translations of the UI into Chinese, Belarusian, French, Italian, Japanese and Polish.Feature
  • Enhanced search highlights in note preview. Enhancement
  • Now you can navigate search matches both forward and backward using the F3 and Shift+F3 keys, and match counts in the form of "current/total" are displayed (can be turned off via the noteslist.search.highlights.displaycounts option in the settings file).
  • A number of new parameters in the settings file. Enhancement
  • Option to pick whether note's title or text is initially focused in the editor via the "editor.focus.title" parameter.
  • The -i, -m, -noactivationmsg command line parameters are now backed up by "startup.multipleinstances.allowed", "startup.minimized" and "startup.multipleinstances.activationmsg" parameters in the settings file.
  • Regression: "-m" command line parameter didn't work.Fix
  • Crash when middle-clicking on tag while no notes displayed.Fix
  • Extra " "(space) symbol at the beginning of the Tags field in editor.Fix
  • Extra empty lines when scrolling in note editor using mouse wheel.Fix
  • Error when moving notes while text search is active.Fix
  • Changing language would lose unsaved notes.Fix
  • A number of minor fixes.Fix

New in CintaNotes 1.4 (Jan 20, 2011)

  • Support for multiple languages in UIFeature
  • Now CN supports languages other than English! German and Russian translations are bundled with this release. You can switch language with the "Options/Language" menu. (If you'd like to have CintaNotes in your language, please edit the "CintaNotes\lang\en.lang" file and send it to [email protected]).
  • Scroll long notes via holding a spacebar to "pin" themFeature
  • Reading long notes in notes list using just the left and right arrow keys was not convenient. Now the note can be "pinned" using spacebar (or left mouse click), and the text can be scrolled with all usual navigation keys or mouse wheel.
  • Configurable clipping options regarding note title.Feature
  • Now whether the title of a clipped note is the window title, first line of text, or blank is controlled with the "Options/Clipping/Use as Title" menu.
  • "Show similarly tagged" command on Ctrl+BkSpFeature
  • This command changes the tag selection on the tag sidebar to match the tags of currently focused note.
  • The editor now opens the note scrolled to the same place in text where the note preview was.Enhancement
  • Also if a search was active, the search term is highlighted.
  • Ability to jump to next/previous page in note preview on Ctrl + Left/Right arrow.Enhancement
  • "Activated already running CN instance" message box is now optional.Enhancement
  • CintaNotes now supports the "-noactivationmsg" command line parameter which suppresses the message box which appears when you start CN with it already running.
  • Swapped F7 and F3 keyboard shortcuts. Enhancement
  • F7 now opens the note's link, and F3 now means "find next", which is a common convention.
  • Emails were highlighted incorrectly in the editorFix
  • Tray icon disappeared after Exporer crash on Win7 x64Fix
  • Ctrl+A was not working in note edit dialog Title, Tags and Link fields on WinXPFix
  • Scrollbar was not visible in tag autocomplete dropdown listFix
  • Large texts (>64Kb) could not be editedFix
  • SQLite Error 14: unable to open database file on Win7 x64Fix
  • XML import: CintaNotes could hang while importing XML with extra spaces Fix

New in CintaNotes 1.3 (Nov 1, 2010)

  • Automatic highlighting of links inside notes. Feature
  • Reopening not explicitly closed note windows on program restart.Feature
  • Ctrl+Enter in search box for transforming tag search into tag sidebar selection.Enhancement
  • Ctrl+Home/End for going to first/last line of text in the editor from any control.Enhancement
  • Text in the search field gets selected when pressing "Ctrl+F"Enhancement
  • Tag autocomplete automatically adds space at the end.Enhancement
  • Removed legacy CintaNotes Beta (.dat) notebook support to reduce executable size.Enhancement
  • Crash when pressing Ctrl+BreakFix
  • Empty notes were not deleted automatically on ESC pressFix
  • Crash on closing from tray menu with open note editor window(s)Fix
  • SQLite error while pasting text from Scintilla-based editorsFix
  • Long tags didn't fit into autocomplete popupFix
  • Control resizing bug when started maximizedFix

New in CintaNotes 1.2 (Jul 20, 2010)

  • Opening multiple editor windows
  • 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).
  • Added the roadmap link to the Help menu.
  • Moving notes was very slow on USB sticks.
  • Clipping URLs did not work in Opera 10.60 and Opera AC
  • Whitespace trimming happened after each editing instead of just clipping.

New in CintaNotes 1.1C (Jul 20, 2010)

  • Import command filters out exact duplicates.Enhancement
  • Useful for merging conflicted database files DropBox creates when you take notes while offline.
  • Fixed crash during search if max note preview line count is set to zeroFix

New in CintaNotes 1.1A (Jul 20, 2010)

  • DropBox synchronization without closing the program.Feature
  • Put the notes file into your DropBox folder and it will be automatically synchronized across all your PCs. And now you don't have to remember to close CintaNotes before leaving!
  • Excluding tags.Feature
  • Exclude tags via Alt-clicking on them in the tag sidebar. Tag union (OR-mode) uses now Shift-click.
  • The '-i' command line switch allows to run different instances of CintaNotes simultaneously.Feature
  • Great new icons, kindly contributed by Alessandro Onorati!Enhancement
  • Note previews are auto-scrolled to the first search match.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
  • Fixed exception while scrolling if note is higher than viewportFix
  • Backup folder was created even if all backup was turned offFix
  • Fixed possible exception when moving to bottom with active tag filterFix
  • Fixed main window resize bug after making tag sidebar visibleFix
  • Fixed possible exception when tagging multiple notesFix
  • Fixed crash during export if tag filter activeFix
  • Esc didn't minimize if there were no notesFix

New in CintaNotes 1.0B (Jul 20, 2010)

  • Added keyboard shortcuts for sorting.
  • F9 - reverse order, Ctrl+Alt+ - sort by field.
  • Fixed sorting control redrawing issue.
  • Fixed runtime error at startup for non-administrative accounts.

New in CintaNotes 1.0A (Jul 20, 2010)

  • Fixed possible runtime error at startup.
  • Some minor fixes.

New in CintaNotes 1.0 (Jul 20, 2010)

  • SQLite is now used as internal notes database.
  • Full text search with extended query syntax.
  • Sorting notes by date, title, link and size.
  • New parameters in the .settings file.
  • Some minor bugfixes.

New in CintaNotes Beta M10.5 (Jan 15, 2010)

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

New in CintaNotes Beta M10.4 (Oct 14, 2009)

  • Added minimum number of note preview text lines option.Enhancement
  • Added alpha separator lines to tag sidebar.Enhancement
  • F3 for browsing link now works in note editor.Enhancement
  • Clipped notes are now discarded on "Cancel".Enhancement
  • "Copy" command now copies only note text.Enhancement
  • No URL check in note editor, any runnable link is allowed.Enhancement
  • Pasting a note adds active tags to it so that it stays in view.Enhancement
  • Pressing Esc in note editor is the same as pressing OK.Enhancement
  • Various bug fixes

New in CintaNotes Beta M10.3 (Sep 19, 2009)

  • Automatic reloading of changed notebook fileEnhancement
  • If you use services like DropBox or Syncplicity to synchronize your CintaNotes notebooks, this will protect the newer version of the notebook from being overwritten with the old version (this could happen if you kept CintaNotes running on two or more PCs simultaneously).
  • CintaNotes hang when you used the clipping function while having the note editor active and the "Open in Editor" option turned on.Fix

New in CintaNotes Beta M10.2 (Aug 31, 2009)

  • After creating a new note with the "Reverse Order" option enabled, the focus went to the oldest note instead of the newly created one. Fix

New in CintaNotes Beta M10.0 (Jul 24, 2009)

  • AND and OR modes for tag sidebarFeature
  • Now Ctrl-clicking on a tag means AND (tag intersection) and Alt-clicking means OR (tag union). When in OR mode, the highlight of tags is yellowish. The modes are mutually exclusive.
  • More advanced backup scheme - hourly, daily and weekly backupsFeature
  • CintaNotes now creates three backup files: notebook.hourly.dat is updated each hour, notebook.daily.dat - each day, and notebook.weekly.dat is updated once per week.
  • View / Reverse Order command reverses the notes in the list so that latest notes come firstFeature
  • Tag autocomplete in search box is now limited to Anywhere and Tags search modesEnhancement
  • Option to edit note immediately after each clippingEnhancement
  • Switching to Untagged after clipping is now optionalEnhancement
  • Focus is not reset if current note stays in view after searching or cancelling searchEnhancement
  • Autocomplete suggestions are not hot-tracked in the text box anymoreEnhancement
  • Note editor: focus was not restored at activationFix
  • Clipping while a note is open and then pressing OK caused CN to crashFix
  • Tag autocomplete dropdown could go off-screenFix

New in CintaNotes Beta M9.0 (May 28, 2009)

  • Tag autocompletionFeature
  • No need to remember or look up tags anymore! In any tag-entering field CintaNotes now displays a dropdown list of available tags as soon as you start typing. Pressing Spacebar, Return or Tab accept the currently highlighted suggestion, whereas Esc or Del cancel it. You can also force autocomplete display via pressing Ctrl+Space.
  • "Run at system startup" optionFeature
  • Check "Options / Run at system startup" to have CintaNotes start automatically. It will start minimized to the system tray. Use this option with care if you run CintaNotes from an USB stick, since if the stick is absent CintaNotes won't be found during system startup.
  • Relevant tag highlighting in tag sidebarEnhancement
  • Tag sidebar now highlights tags which are related to any tag of the currently selected set. Two tags are considered related if there are notes which have them both.
  • View switches to All if after editing or deleting a note no notes are left in the Untagged view.Enhancement
  • View switched to Untagged after clipping even when tag sidebar was off.Fix
  • Note editor didn't recognize FTP links.Fix
  • The close window ("X") button in note editor meant Cancel, but should mean OK.Fix
  • The tray icon wasn't restored after an explorer.exe restart.Fix

New in CintaNotes Beta M8.1 (Apr 17, 2009)

  • F5 to toggle tag sidebarEnhancement
  • Scrolling with mouse wheel crashed program when CintaNotes run on the left monitor on a multi-monitor configuration.Fix
  • Restoring note editor position didn't work properly on multi-monitor configurations.Fix

New in CintaNotes Beta M8 (Apr 8, 2009)

  • At last, the long awaited release! Here is what's new:
  • Tag SidebarFeature
  • This is a handy tool for fast access to different tags and tag sets. It is basically the controller of the built-in tags filter. Turn it on using the View/Tag Sidebar command. See the Help section describing tag sidebar.
  • Exporting selected notesEnhancement
  • Now the File/Export command has a submenu, which lets you specify whether you want to export all notes or just the selection. The new keyboard shortcuts F11 and Ctrl+F11 are introduced here as well.
  • New note reordering commandsEnhancement
  • You can now move selected notes to top pressing Alt+Home, and to the very bottom pressing Alt+End. Also, the note reordering commands are now accessible from the menu.
  • At startup, CintaNotes now warns you if it detects and activates an already running program instance.Enhancement
  • The main window now allows smaller widths.Enhancement
  • Alt+Down in the search box was not displaying the search mode menu as it should.Fix
  • In the note edit dialog, it was not possible to select text till the end of note using Shift+Down.Fix

New in CintaNotes Beta M7 (Mar 3, 2009)

  • Silent Clipping modeFeature
  • If Options/Silent Clipping is activated, CintaNotes will not pop up after each clipping, but will display a balloon tip instead. Clicking on it would open CintaNotes.
  • Importing notes from XML and .dat filesFeature
  • There is now a new File/Import menu item.
  • Automatic note backupFeature
  • Simple as yet, but nonetheless: each 10 min your notes are saved to backup/notebook.backup.dat.
  • Basic note reorderingFeature
  • You can move selected notes up and down with Alt+Up and Alt+Down arrow keys.
  • Add/Remove tag command applicable to note selectionFeature
  • At last it's possible to tag several notes at once: just select them and press F4 (or select the Tag... command from the context menu).
  • Tag manipulation: rename, merge and split tagsFeature
  • There's a new Edit/Replace Tags command. It's simple but powerful: it allows for tag renaming, splitting, merging and deleting. Generally, each tag specified in the first edit box is replaced with all tags from the second edit box.
  • Background saving: now notes are saved in background, making the application more responsive.Enhancement

New in CintaNotes Beta M6 (Feb 2, 2009)

  • Two new fully configurable hot keysFeature
  • Now you can use a hot key to call CintaNotes window (Ctrl+Alt+F12 by default) and to add a new note (unassigned by default).
  • "-m" command line parameterFeature
  • Run "cintanotes.exe -m" to start CintaNotes minimized to tray.
  • "Always on top" optionFeature
  • Use this switch of the Options menu to make CintaNotes window stay always on top.
  • Possibility to search all fieldsFeature
  • A new Anywhere search mode was added, which is now the default.
  • Improved text clippingEnhancement
  • The clipping is now faster and more reliable. For example, clipping now works in Outlook 2007 preview pane and in Adobe Illustrator. Also CintaNotes can now clip page URLs from any browser that fully supports HTML clipboard format. And even more, the URLs are now clipped from CHM files as well.
  • Tags and links displayed in the notes listEnhancement
  • Now notes list displays note tags and, if a note has a link, the link icon. Alt-clicking on a note (or pressing the F3 key) will open the note's link in your default browser.
  • Also note creation date/time has been moved to the right and doesn't display seconds anymore.
  • Editor font is now the same as note text fontEnhancement
  • Additional keyboard shortcutsEnhancement
  • Ctrl+F — focus search box (not strictly necessary since you can just start typing, but some people are more comfortable this way).
  • In the search box:
  • Ctrl+Up/Down/PageUp/PageDown - navigate search modes;
  • Alt+Down — display search mode menu;
  • Down Arrow — go to search results.
  • In the note editor:
  • Up/Down/PageUp/PageDown — navigate the edit boxes;
  • Ctrl+Down — go to the Tags edit box.
  • Text boxes in note editor now have standard context menus.Enhancement
  • Settings were not saved in case of system shutdown.Fix
  • CintaNotes couldn't run if Ctrl+F12 hot key was taken by some other application.Fix
  • Note edit dialog didn't remember its position and could go off-screen.Fix

New in CintaNotes Beta M5 (Jan 16, 2009)

  • URL retrieval from Firefox, Opera, Chrome and SafariFeature
  • Now not only for IE: note's link is automatically filled when you clip text from pages viewed in these web browsers.
  • Export notes to a Unicode text fileFeature
  • You can now export notes to a unicode text file using the File / Export command.
  • Configurable clipping hot keyFeature
  • Finally you can change the default Ctrl+F12 key combination. See Options / Clipping Hot Key. Our favorite is Win+X ;) Unfortunately it can't be the default one: officially Win key is reserved for the system.
  • Note count displayEnhancement
  • CintaNotes now reveals how many notes there are in your notebook and how many were found during search.
  • Adjustable note lines displayEnhancement
  • You can adjust the count of note lines that should be displayed in the main list using the View / Note Appearance dialog.
  • Ctrl+Space is now working properlyFix
  • It did not toggle note selection as it should.
  • No administrator privileges required to installFix
  • Now you don't have to be an administrator to install CintaNotes. Just remember that in this case Program Files folder is not writable and choose another one during installation.