What's new in Jot (formerly Hertzer Tec Jot) 6.0

Aug 28, 2015
  • A fresh new modern design and icon
  • Beautiful new ‘first launch’ interface including a tour!
  • Jot remembers settings; email login credentials, settings, etc…
  • Drag and drop support
  • High DPI Support
  • Closing Jot is handled completely differently and Jot is aware of edits and won’t show an exit confirmation unless the document has been changed. You can save the file from the confirmation as well.
  • Find and replace tool
  • Window Management is far less buggy and works well when changing between different window modes
  • Smaller program file size (about 25% smaller)
  • A new, very extensive and customizable tool that locks Jot’s editor down to prevent public users from changing text, settings, using certain features of jot, or closing Jot. Perfect for public computers and kiosks.
  • You can now click on a hyperlink to open it
  • Export your document as plain text
  • Keyboard navigation is greatly improved in menus and dialogs, along with many accessibility features throughout
  • New “System Colors” theme that allows for dialogs and tools to work better in high contrast or custom themes
  • Autosave now saves to the current file instead of a separate file
  • You can now define the autosave interval
  • A quick, simple and space-efficient calculator that lets you do simple calculations on the fly, and is tightly integrated into Jot
  • A converter that converts binary to text and vice versa!
  • Separate ‘save as’ and ‘save’ buttons
  • You can pin items from your clipboard using the re-vamped Clipboard Viewer
  • Choose between male and female voice for text to speech
  • If you start text to speech when text is selected, it will read that selection. If nothing is selected, it will just read the whole document like before.
  • Drag the borderless window around using the edges of the window
  • Ability to set all of the dialogs and tools to be semi-transparent
  • Editor Margins give you space between the window border of Jot and the document for easier viewing
  • A new documentation browser with refreshed support articles to neatly put all of the documentation in one place
  • Jot’s email functionality is far more reliable and prevents you from accidentally loosing an email message.
  • A much improved and simplified dialog is displayed after a screenshot is taken
  • More preset highlighter colors available, including custom highlighter color
  • New “Automatic” page color and font color that are changed by system themes (for accessibility), as well as more preset colors
  • Vastly improved command tool, complete with themes and window options
  • Menu sizes have been refined, and the large and giant sizes are more palatable and logical than before
  • Switching out of sticky note mode restores the window size before entering sticky note mode
  • A plethora of new menu icons (the paste icon finally looks good after being revised many times)
  • Color dialogs now initially display the custom color chooser when opened
  • Option to reset all settings
  • A ton of subtle changes throughout that make Jot far more professional, reliable, stable, and far less glitchy and buggy than before

New in Jot (formerly Hertzer Tec Jot) 5.0 (Nov 26, 2013)

  • Autosave - read more about it in this document
  • Toolbar for quick and easy access to common commands
  • Set Jot to stay on top of other windows
  • Clipboard viewer added
  • Jot can now handle file associations. Right click on a file in explorer, click "Open With" click "Choose Default" and then browse for Jot. This includes support for Windows 7's Jump Lists
  • New command tool for an alternative way to use Jot
  • You can save and open in the new ".jot" file extension
  • Open and save with the 'All Files' filter
  • New "Sticky Note Mode" which hides Jot from the taskbar, and prevents Jot from being minimized. Great to use as virtual sticky notes
  • Improved Text to Speech: Added ability for speech to be stopped, paused, and resumed. The program does not lock up whenever you try to use text to speech
  • Superscript
  • New increase and decrease indent buttons and commands to make indenting easier
  • New introductory message
  • Zoom in and out
  • Customize Jot's title bar, including the text
  • Setting to prevent Jot from showing question messages (for power users)
  • Bold, Underline, and Italicized now can be mixed together
  • Bullets are controlled by one toggle button instead of two
  • Customize the menu appearance within the menu itself
  • Many more keyboard shortcuts
  • Command List that displays all keyboard shortcut bindings
  • We have made it harder to accidentally lose your document
  • Jot now can be opened in multiple windows
  • Text to speech has been improved
  • Default font now set to Arial size 12
  • Jot icon has been brushed up
  • Email Sender bugs fixed
  • Question message boxes replaced with 'exclamation' message boxes (per Microsoft's request)
  • New icons and improvements on icons
  • New font color and background colors added (orange, pink, and purple)
  • Main menu streamlined, more categorization, and organization
  • Jot can be closed when it has no text or images in the document without the question prompt
  • The opacity settings dialog applies menu changes whether or not the “Done” button is clicked
  • Open command now shows a question prompt only if any text or images are present in the document
  • Fixed a glitch with highlighting and page color
  • Usual bug fixes

New in Jot (formerly Hertzer Tec Jot) 4.0 (Aug 28, 2013)

  • Overlay Mode
  • You can now change the opacity of Jot
  • Borderless Mode
  • Highlight support
  • New 'Support Center'
  • Email Document tool
  • Screen Capture tool
  • You can now change Jot's menu appearance
  • Sporting a new, fresh design language
  • Alignment root-menu now displays the selected alignment icon.
  • Information bubbles for ease of use of dialogs.