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Portable Notebooks Changelog

What's new in Portable Notebooks 1.4.5

Dec 8, 2023
  • Notebooks no longer opens PDF documents using a plug in like Adobe Acrobat, because plug ins are not supported in newer Windows versions. Instead, Notebooks displays a thumbnail icon which, when double clicked, opens the PDF.
  • Address an issue with umlauts in document titles when using Notebooks with iCloud.
  • License generation is now handled through Paddle.com. This does not make any difference for our users, but we mention in to explain the new purchase interface.

New in Portable Notebooks 1.4.2 (Apr 24, 2017)

  • Improvements:
  • Open as Plain Text” asks for confirmation to make it less likely to accidentally change settings.
  • When “Save System Files” is off, changing a book’s sort order does not save plist file.
  • Improved “Remove Format from Selection” action for formatted documents.
  • Removed Zoom options from interface and other minor interface enhancements.

New in Portable Notebooks 1.4.1 (Nov 9, 2016)

  • Improvements:
  • Sort order for documents can be set for each book individually (as in iOS versions).
  • New Setting: “Delete without warning”.
  • Emacs backup files do not appear in document list.
  • Corrections:
  • Search window no longer appears off screen.
  • Adding text to an empty default document creates a new document of the preferred document type (as set in preferences).
  • Changed attributes are no longer accidentally reverted (color labels, for example).
  • Better handling of Pandoc headers.

New in Portable Notebooks 1.4 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • Additions:
  • You can now choose that selected tasks appear as regular documents in task lists (right-click a task).
  • Open unknown file types as plain text (right-click).
  • Improvements:
  • New setting: “Show creation/modification dates in list”
  • When extracting context tags, Notebooks now expects a whitespace preceding @ or #.
  • Markdown: LaTeX and MathJax are now supported without escaping ($$, ( and [.
  • Markdown: Improved handling for footnotes; they now work in tables as well.
  • Corrections:
  • Sort order for search results is now case insensitive.
  • Fixed a crash when opening internal link from formatted document.
  • Search results: Make sure books inside a task list are shown as book, not at list
  • Dragging images into formatted documents works again.
  • Fixed the known issue when opening PDF documents.
  • When opening links in external browser, dialog window no longer pops up multiple times.
  • Notebooks internal links work as expected again.
  • Avoid “hang” when selecting a URL from right to left.

New in Portable Notebooks 1.3 (Jul 6, 2016)

  • Additions:
  • Following user requests we added a “light” user interface style.
  • Notebooks now shows its own “book” icons instead of generic folder icons.
  • When sorting lists by date, the date appears right next to the title.
  • Plain text documents:
  • Typed text no longer picks up style of clickable links and always uses correct font.
  • When detecting lists in plain text, Notebooks accepts single markers and ignore sequences like “–“.
  • Improved handling of edge cases when indenting/outdenting lists.
  • Formatted Documents:
  • The default theme features an improved style for ordered lists.
  • Corrections and Improvements:
  • When creating a new book it can be renamed right away.
  • Right-click on the list view’s empty space (at the bottom) brings up context menu for the book.
  • SmartyPants setting was used in its negated form.
  • Improved support of absolute links to Notebooks’ NBResources folder (at the top level) makes it possible to include individual scripts and styles.
  • Changing a document’s title by editing its first line no longer slows down typing.
  • Search: the state of “search all books” is sticky.
  • Search scope and number of items found now appear in a status bar at bottom of window.
  • Moving last document aways from a book no longer leads to a crash.
  • Many more improvements, changes and corrections.

New in Portable Notebooks 1.2.1 (Jun 26, 2015)

  • This minor update fixes an issue related to creating new documents.

New in Portable Notebooks 1.2 (Jun 18, 2015)

  • ADDITIONS:
  • Notebooks no longer creates a temporary “New Note” when adding a new document.
  • Option to highlight currently edited line in plain text.
  • Option to keep currently edited line vertically centered on screen in plain text.
  • Option to disable typographic quotes during Markdown conversion (SmartyPants).
  • Option to treat lines starting with “//” as comments. These lines are excluded from word- and character count and are ignored during Markdown conversion (plain text only).
  • Notebooks now shows the current document’s modification date in the footer.
  • Improved search interface: add or modify the search term from the window of search results.
  • Show size in document’s info.
  • Improved handling of Notebooks internal links.
  • Updated document themes.
  • Fixed handling of background patterns to establish compatibility with Notebooks for iOS.
  • Misc interface improvements.
  • NEW KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS:
  • cmd-shift-D - Show list of due tasks
  • cmd-shift-F - Open global search window
  • ADVANCED TOPICS:
  • URL Schemes:
  • The schemes for grab (import) and addnote can now optionally add content to a specific book
  • notebooks://addnote/note body&title=Title is optional&parent=path to parent
  • notebooks://grab/URL&title=Title is optional&parent=path to parent
  • The bookmarklet could then look like this:
  • javascript:window.location='notebooks://grab/'+escape(window.location)+'&title='+encodeURI(document.title)+'parent=Inbox';
  • Absolute Links to NBResources:
  • You can now reference your own resources in NBResources. This allows you to store scripts (like MathJax or syntax highlighters) in NBResources and use links like src="/NBResources/..." to include them in documents or document styles (the leading slash is important).
  • In other words: references starting with / are now considered absolute paths starting at Notebooks’ root.
  • Absolute Links to Images anywhere in Notebooks:
  • Similar to the resources above , it is now possible to reference images by using absolute paths, starting at Notebooks’ root. A path like src="/Project/Images/title.jpg" will always point to the same image, no matter where the document itself is located. Again, the leading slash makes the difference
  • Notebooks’ Document Styles:
  • The styles have been tweaked and improved to provide a few new options for Markdown documents:
  • Pandoc style headers Notebooks now uses , and to format these headers. The classes are defined in all of Notebooks’ default styles, and you can easily adjust them in your own styles.
  • Table of Contents decide where it should appear in the document simply by adding (surrounded by empty lines) at the desired position.

New in Portable Notebooks 1.1.2 (Jun 18, 2015)

  • Notebooks 1.1.2 contains corrections and refinements for the info dialog, document list and fixes an issue with fullscreen view. It also adds .Rmd as an editable file type and improves the “update info” mechanism.

New in Portable Notebooks 1.1 (Jun 18, 2015)

  • Additions / Improvements:
  • Quick Search for list of documents – acts like search for title in current book -“Create Link” in a formatted document accepts anchors within current document (#name).
  • Accept anchors in URLs and Notebooks links
  • Formatted documents: “Copy Link to Current Selection” copies the link to the selected phrase; this makes it possible to link to a specific section of a document.
  • Use system setting for smart quotes
  • Spring loaded folders in tree view open after 1 second (during drag & drop)
  • Rearranged Preferences dialog
  • Improved organization and display of recent items
  • New setting “Extract Contexts Automatically” to improve compatibility with the iOS versions of Notebooks. This is work in progress (contexts are not yet supported in Notebooks for Mac).
  • Cmd-T adds time only, but no date anymore (use cmd-D Cmd-T for date/timestamp)
  • A document’s file type can now be changed by editing its title in list view
  • Notebooks now uses plugin to display PDF documents (if installed)
  • Markdown:
  • Treat ‘:’ like a list item as well; this ensures that multiple lines of text for definition lists is correctly aligned
  • New setting: Show Markdown documents as plain text by default
  • Setting to select which emphasis character (_ or *) should be used for cmd-B and cmd-I
  • When “Convert to Combined Markdown” is selected, “New Markdown” creates a combined Markdown as well.
  • Fixes / Corrections:
  • Solved issue regarding deletion of books and files
  • Recent Items menu is no longer empty (as experienced by some users)
  • When changing font, background or style of formatted documents, the changes are now reliably applied.
  • When dropping images into documents, uppercase filename extensions are no longer ignored
  • Correctly handle umlauts in internal links
  • Show “Copy HTML Code” for formatted preview
  • Correctly handle notebooks:// links in Markdown documents
  • Improved auto-naming of documents in case of conflicts
  • alt+O opens Format menu
  • Optimized handling of Due Tasks (should be less CPU intensive)
  • Text is now saved automatically 3 seconds after last key press