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What's new in The Journal 8.0.0 Build 1341

Nov 2, 2023
  • On Help menu, “The Journal Home Page” goes to the wrong page.
  • Forced creation of The Journal folder in ProgramData.
  • Changed shareware popup to only show # of days used.
  • Removed outdated URLs from the Help menu.
  • In split-screen editing, entry in active pane is sometimes overwriting the entry in the other pane.
  • Adjusted timing of searching while typing on the main form.
  • Moved prev/next entry buttons together on the left.
  • Prev/next entry buttons not properly resizing when changing UI scale.
  • Can’t use DEL key to delete newly inserted doodle.
  • Getting an error when deleting a newly created sub-topic.
  • A black square showing in context menu in Category Properties category tree.

New in The Journal 8.0.0 Build 1339 (Jul 13, 2021)

  • Added User option: “Prompt to confirm when deleting entries”
  • Sometimes getting an error when editing topics.
  • Rare error with displaying calendar charms from upgraded entries.
  • Full screen mode and shareware forms are always displaying on the primary monitor, regardless of which monitor The Journal is on.
  • Sometimes getting an error when restoring from minimized.
  • Sometimes getting stale pointer errors in entry tree.
  • Unable to edit some pasted text.
  • Sometimes getting an error on Next/Prev Entry.
  • Sometimes getting an error with “Delete Link”.
  • Error loading corrupted entry shouldn’t abort loading other entries.
  • Sometimes getting an error when importing from Evernote.
  • Sometimes getting “index out of bounds” error when viewing consolidated entries.
  • When category tabs color is active, sub-category tabs lose their color when updating category properties.

New in The Journal 8.0.0 Build 1333 (Dec 15, 2020)

  • Enhanced Batch Entry Import “Simple Export” file import to support entries with date headers like: Thursday, March 12, 2020
  • An imported entry with a “vertical tab” character (0x0b) is causing a “List index out of bounds(-1)” error when opening that entry.
  • Sometimes getting an error when installing a new add-on.
  • Sometimes getting an error when deleting a Journal Volume from Journal Volume Properties.
  • Sometimes getting an error when opening Backup Settings from the Backup form.
  • Sometimes getting an error when doing automatic backup on closing The Journal.
  • Sometimes getting error “Cannot open clipboard: Access is denied” when opening entries.
  • The auto-minimize option might try to happen during a long import.
  • Minor improvement to Check for Update to accommodate interim updates.

New in The Journal 8.0.0 Build 1321 (Nov 13, 2019)

  • Entry tree highlighting is overriding selected-entry highlighting in entry tree.
  • Sometimes getting an error when opening Search Entries…
  • Sometimes getting an error when minimizing.
  • Sometimes getting an error when changing categories after a long idle.
  • Search Entries won’t find “100” in entry text “$100”.
  • With extended security active, can’t log in after changing user password.

New in The Journal 8.0.0 Build 1311 (Sep 3, 2019)

  • Sometimes getting a SQLite error when changing tabs.
  • A corrupted JPG image is interrupting Diaro import.
  • Need “Change Entry Date/Time” on entry tree context menu.
  • Sometimes possible to make a circular category-subcategory reference.
  • SQL error in export to TJEXP without version information.
  • Sometimes getting an error loading upgraded background images.

New in The Journal 8.0.0 Build 1293 (Sep 19, 2018)

  • “Delete Link” not deleting link on email address.
  • Changing the default category font isn’t sticking.
  • Shouldn’t be able to “Insert Template” on a category folder view.
  • “Display first line of entry in tree” option sometimes causing an error in Entry Report.
  • Sometimes getting an error after deleting a style.
  • Drag-and-drop rearranging of entries isn’t working properly if the category loose-leaf entries option is set to “reverse” but no actual sorting is active.
  • Sometimes getting error: “EOleException: The RPC server is unavailable”
  • Error on startup: “EInvalidOp: Invalid floating point operation”.
  • Sometimes getting an “SQLite3 Error 10 – disk I/O error” when starting to save entries.
  • A search result entry that is a sub-entry of a calendar entry is displaying a weird path (ex: “2000-20092003923Name”).
  • Search result entries that are sub-entries of a calendar entry sometimes aren’t being sorted properly.
  • Pasting text copied from Visual Studio watch window is causing an error.
  • Sometimes getting an error when deleting a child topic.

New in The Journal 8.0.0 Build 1287 (Jul 24, 2018)

  • “EArgumentOutOfRangeException: Argument out of range” when closing.
  • Minor tweaks to the primary category entry UI.
  • Getting EOleSysError error when closing an inserted MS Word document.
  • EJsonParserException: String not closed (1, 62) on loading entries.
  • Some calendar entries are displaying 1-year-and-1-month “off”.
  • Backup error: “EFCreateError: Cannot create file” when backup path includes an improper drive letter.
  • “Entry Index” report should display the first line of the entry if that category option is set.
  • Posting Cyrillic characters to LiveJournal isn’t working.
  • Can’t use Ctrl+V to paste into the Search box if the active entry is read only.
  • All HTML exports should use UTF8.
  • Topic names with ampersands are not escaped in the status bar.
  • Error on startup: “EInvalidOp: Invalid floating point operation”
  • Error when deleting a topic in Edit Topics.
  • Using hot-keys for bold/italic/underline while typing isn’t always updating toolbar buttons.

New in The Journal 8.0.0 Build 1275 (Jun 26, 2018)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • When customizing a toolbar, trying to put a “New Separator” on the toolbar is generating an error.
  • Getting “Backup Error. #1” when attempting to backup a non-auto-load Journal Volume.
  • Mouse wheel isn’t scrolling online help.
  • Adding new topics in “Edit Topics” isn’t working.
  • The toolbar list of topics isn’t being updated after adding topics with “Tag Entry…” or “Apply Topic to Text…”
  • Need to more gracefully catch error when Journal Volume cannot be created.
  • After giving a category a password, can’t get back in to that category.
  • Entry dates are being saved in universal time instead of local time.
  • There is no reason to include the indexed search information in the backup file, as it will be rebuilt after restoring.
  • There is no indicator when saving a lot of entries, just a spinning mouse cursor.
  • Search by Topics, View All Results with “Display only topic text” checked doesn’t show category or entry headers.
  • Search by Topics is unnecessarily indexing entries for normal text search.
  • Search by Topics, View All Results with “Display only topic text” checked isn’t displaying content of entries that have been tagged with the topic.
  • Deleting a style in Format Styles causing an error if the deleted style is the “Style for following paragraph” of another style.
  • Getting an error with hot-key Ctrl+Shift+T (Set Focus to Entry Tree) when entry tree is not visible.
  • When selecting multiple cells in a table, if the fonts are the same but the sizes are different, the incorrect font name is displayed on the toolbar.
  • Cannot login after renaming user.

New in The Journal 8.0.0 Build 1263 (Jun 11, 2018)

  • Bugs Fixed:P
  • On Windows 7, sizeable forms are scaling large (but the controls are properly scaled).
  • When starting in-UI search after a paste, it still acts oddly.
  • Getting error: “EJsonParserException: Expected “{” but found identifier (1, 2)”
  • Shareware nag screen document text isn’t scaling to larger UI sizes.
  • Cut to clipboard needs to check for leading/trailing spaces (like delete/backspace).
  • Error on pasting text with images: “EInvalidGraphicOperation: Scan line index out of range”
  • Installed add-on packages not being upgraded properly.
  • Printing a particular page or page range of an entry isn’t working.
  • The Journal is becoming unresponsive when opening a Journal Volume.
  • When editing Format Styles, got an error: “Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window”
  • Search highlighting in the entry tree is out of place when node text includes entry parent title.

New in The Journal 8.0.0 Build 1247 (May 28, 2018)

  • “Sync from Backup” getting an error.
  • “Updating entry links” portion of “Sync from Backup” is really slow. (needs a transaction, at least)
  • Getting an error when opening The Journal: EJsonParserException: String not closed
  • Getting an error if any Journal Volume is marked as not “auto-load”.
  • Error on upgrade: Access violation at … 00ABA346 … Read of address 00000057

New in The Journal 8.0.0 Build 1245 (May 25, 2018)

  • “What’s New in The Journal 8” Notebook document references The Journal 7.
  • Error upgrading large (250MB+) entries.
  • Error when changing option “Theme applies to form borders”.
  • Sometimes getting an error when deleting the topic at the top of the tree.
  • Resetting password isn’t working.
  • Error when choosing a new font color from the toolbar.
  • User custom colors aren’t being saved properly.

New in The Journal 8.0.0 Build 1243 (May 24, 2018)

  • Improved searching! Searching your entries from the main UI is faster and easier than ever before–and encompasses all your active categories!
  • Improved security! Your entries have never been safer! The Journal now uses 128-bit AES (American Encryption Standard) throughout, and uses salted, iterated hashing to secure your passwords.
  • Improved topics!
  • Improved drag-and-drop support! Drag-and-drop entries between categories, between users, and even Journal Volumes! Drag-and-drop files directly into the entry tree!
  • PDF support! Easily print (or save or export) your entries to PDFs!
  • More word processing power!
  • New visual themes!

New in The Journal 7.0.0 Build 1099 (Dec 6, 2017)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Imported entry links not being properly updated.
  • Exported docx files cannot be opened in MS Word.
  • Copy-and-paste of PNG files into an entry isn’t working.
  • “Import Reminders from CSV file…” not working.
  • New Features:
  • Updated TRichViewEdit/ScaleRichView (entry editor components).
  • Updated DISqlite3 library.

New in The Journal 7.0.0 Build 1095 (Sep 5, 2017)

  • Primary benefit of this update:
  • Fix for “Paste Entry from Clipboard” bug.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • “Paste Entry from Clipboard” and “Paste Entry as Sub-Entry” context menu commands not always showing up.
  • “Save Image As…” command not properly setting file extension for PNG images.
  • On “Select Topics” form, clicking on items sometimes starts editing the topic name.
  • New Features:
  • Updated TRichViewEdit/ScaleRichView (entry editor components).
  • Added “Applies to all dates (including past/future)” option for the default entry template in Category Properties (Calendar categories only).

New in The Journal 7.0.0 Build 1091 (Aug 16, 2017)

  • Primary benefits of this update:
  • Fix for “Bitmap must have 24 or 32 bpp!” bug introduced in Build #1089. *Oops*
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Getting “Bitmap must have 24 or 32 bpp!” error when inserting/pasting some images.

New in The Journal 7.0.0 Build 1089 (Aug 8, 2017)

  • Primary benefits of this update:
  • Drag-and-drop rearranging of categories in the main category tree.
  • Entries and categories can now be dragged-and-dropped between users and Journal Volumes.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • When clicking on the entry tree to bring up a new entry, keyboard focus should stay in the editor.
  • Improperly importing UTF8 characters in html files.
  • In “Merge Categories…”, merged categories are not deleted, even if the option is checked.
  • TJEXP export file option should use a more compact format for entries.
  • Images from some web pages not downloading properly when pasted into an entry.
  • Changes to Extended Security “Automatically Fail…” and “Minimum Wait…” options not always saving.
  • Copying/pasting entries doesn’t work between Journal Volumes.
  • Spell checker and thesaurus forms aren’t scaling.
  • Spell checker form isn’t always properly positioning itself.
  • On Print form, setting the number of copies not always working.
  • New features:
  • Drag-and-drop rearranging of categories in the main category tree.
  • Entries and categories can now be dragged-and-dropped between users and Journal Volumes.
  • Enhanced category context menus.
  • Added “Rename” to Category menu and context menus (tree layout only).
  • Added “Delete” to Category context menus (tree layout only).
  • Added “New Folder” to Category context menus (tree layout only).
  • Adjusted defaults for new and existing users.
  • Ctrl+D (Insert Date) and Ctrl+T (Insert Time) hot-keys now work in Rename Entry and similar prompts.

New in The Journal 7.0.0 Build 1077 (Feb 21, 2017)

  • Primary benefits of this update:
  • Improvements to Batch Entry Import.
  • BUGS FIXED:
  • Error importing non-UTF8/non-Unicode text files.
  • Some global settings not being imported when upgrading from previous versions.
  • Search results in entry tree should display full path for loose-leaf entries.
  • There are some inconsistencies in how database transactions are applied.
  • Batch Entry Imports, when importing entries from separate files, should be checking for potential conflicts (e.g., multiple entries on the same date+time).
  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Updated DISqlite3 library.

New in The Journal 7.0.0 Build 1073 (Nov 2, 2016)

  • Improved support for high-DPI monitors.
  • Bug fixes for tablet use.
  • BUGS FIXED:
  • When rotating tablet display, don’t move the category tree position.
  • After rotating tablet display, some popup forms not displaying properly.
  • Menus/toolbars sometimes updating their status during close.
  • Initial entry on startup is being missed in the back/forward buttons.
  • When using “Lock entries on edit”, active entry should be unlocked on minimize.
  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Updated theme engine.
  • New global theme option: “Theme applies to form borders”
  • Updated SSL DLLs.
  • New entry tree command: “Demote”
  • New hot-keys for entry tree Promote/Demote (Alt+Left/Right).
  • Changed hot-keys for back/forward (Shift+Alt+Left/Right)

New in The Journal 7.0.0 Build 1057 (Aug 30, 2016)

  • Primary benefits of this update:
  • The Journal’s Extended Security features are now available to all users. Check them out in User Preferences, on the “Security” tab.
  • Additional enhancements for using The Journal 7 on a tablet.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • If the doodler is open during an automatic save, the doodler is being closed.
  • All open dialogs should respond to tablet rotation.
  • Can’t draw in the doodler with a touch screen.
  • Can’t resize images (or the doodler) with a touch screen.
  • When entry tree has keyboard focus, it should pass the Paste Special and Paste as Text commands to the editor.
  • If an entry has no title, the first line should display as the title above the editor.
  • Pressing enter on an indented, blank bulleted/numbered item should unindent the item.
  • When using WYSIWYG editor, sometimes getting an error when closing The Journal.
  • New Features:
  • Extended Security features now available to all users.
  • Updated TRichViewEdit/ScaleRichView (entry editor components).

New in The Journal 7.0.0 Build 1045 (Aug 11, 2016)

  • Primary benefits of this update (besides the first listed bugfix):
  • Enhancements for use on Windows tablets.
  • Improved UI response to tablet rotation.
  • Wider splitters on touchscreens.
  • New defaults for new users and users upgrading from previous versions.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • In “Search Entries,” unable to access results pages past the first.
  • “Check for Update of The Journal” command not always opening update Web page.
  • Editor option “Use alternative editor formatting” should disable Uniscribe.
  • On PC’s with touchscreens, the splitters need to be wider.
  • With the split-screen editor active, clicking on a table cell in the other editor sometimes causing an error.
  • Entry Report Wizard results aren’t properly displaying tabs in the entry text.
  • When using the embedded category tree, category tree is sometimes sized incorrectly on startup.
  • New Features:
  • New category option: “Display entry topics in status bar”
  • Detect tablet rotation.
  • New default options for new and upgrading users.
  • New category option: “Display entry count in entry tree”

New in The Journal 7.0.0 Build 1031 (Aug 11, 2016)

  • Primary benefits of this update:
  • Customizable bullets and numbering!
  • Format menu, Bullets & Numbering sub-menu, choose “Bullets & Numbering…” to see the gallery of available options.
  • Right-click on a list (bullets or numbers) and choose “Customize Bullets…” (or “Customize Numbering…”)
  • Improved support for right-to-left (RTL) languages, such as Hebrew and Farsi!
  • Improved import of Unicode text files!
  • Quicker response during Windows shutdown or restart.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • In “Styles”, clicking Add button twice in a row causes an error.
  • When hovering the mouse over an image with a description, it’s displaying the description plus some erroneous extra text.
  • Some issues when upgrading text styles from earlier versions of The Journal.
  • In “Shared Categories…”, unable to unlink a shared category.
  • In “Category Properties…”, getting an error when linking a shared category.
  • In “Category Properties…”, clicking on “Shared Categories…” should warn the user that all unsaved changes to categories are about to be applied.
  • Sometimes getting an error on startup if the splash screen is disabled.
  • Sometimes not loading the description of an image.
  • UI isn’t scaling when you set the user interface font to values above the default.
  • Topic highlights in entry text not always displaying correctly.
  • Sometimes an odd interaction between certain global options and a custom UI font size.
  • Doing a Print Preview of a large batch of entries (1000’s) can take a long time.
  • “Copy Link” is oddly placed in the editor’s context menu.
  • Shouldn’t be able to drag-and-drop entries in “Select Entry” form.
  • If the default category is using the WYSIWYG editor, the first entry loaded on startup is displayed incorrectly.
  • “Force bidirectional editing” global option isn’t being saved.
  • Changing “Force bidirectional editing” option shouldn’t require a restart to take effect.
  • Capitalize Words command isn’t properly handling contractions with curly apostrophes.
  • Importing text files (.txt) is not detecting the BOM (byte order mark).
  • When typing in a right-to-left language, spaces and punctuation aren’t being handled properly.
  • When switching a paragraph from left-to-right editing to right-to-left (or vice versa), existing text in the paragraph isn’t being displayed properly.
  • When applying changes to category properties, sometimes not remembering the active category.
  • Sometimes getting “List index out of bounds (0).” when using Format Painter.
  • “Backup The Journal” form isn’t displaying the most recent backup date.
  • Don’t start a backup on startup without prompting first.
  • Don’t start a backup when closing on Windows shutdown or restart.
  • In split-screen editor mode, it’s possible to resize the top (or left) editor too small to recover.
  • New Features:
  • New Format command: “Bullets & Numbering…” Brings up a gallery of available bullets/numbering options.
  • New editor context menu commands for “Customize Bullets…” and “Customize Numbering…”
  • Updated German translation.
  • Updated TRichViewEdit/ScaleRichView (entry editor components).
  • Made click-and-drag sliders wider/easier to use on touch screens.
  • Updated DISqlite3 library.
  • Added “Sync from Backup File…” to the File menu, Maintenance sub-menu.

New in The Journal 7.0.0 Build 903 (Jun 2, 2015)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • On Search Entries form, have to un-click and re-click "Show recent entries first" checkbox to make the option take effect.
  • On Search Entries form, "Show recent entries first" should be the default.
  • On Search Entries by Topic form, "Automatically Select/Unselect sub-topics" option isn't being saved.
  • When deleting a category in Category Properties, sometimes getting an access violation when applying.
  • Insert Symbol form displays the available symbols very small.
  • When creating a new holiday reminder, trying to set the date to the 3rd Monday of the month isn't working.
  • When "Capitalize first word of a sentence" is active and The Journal is running under a Windows emulator, getting an error while typing in the entry editor.
  • When the timer is displayed, the "Time Remaining" field should have keyboard focus.
  • In Category Properties, when creating a new category, the new category should be added to the end of the list.
  • In Create New Category, the "Make new category a sub-category of" list isn't always properly sorted.
  • When inserting a word processor file into an entry, sometimes getting "Style X does not exist" error.
  • When using "Capitalize Words" on the Reformat menu, the first word of paragraphs after the first paragraph is sometimes being lowercased.

New in The Journal 7.0.0 Build 897 (May 12, 2015)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Pressing "Buy The Journal" sometimes opening up Notepad instead of browser.
  • If user has a default category set, and that category is made inactive, can cause errors when editing category properties.
  • When selecting an entire paragraph and applying a paragraph style, paragraph settings aren't being applied.
  • Cannot indent bullets or numbered lists inside a table cell.
  • Penzu import should adjust time stamps for the local time zone.
  • When importing Penzu entries, getting false positives on entry conflicts.
  • Category Word Cloud isn't respecting categories with passwords.
  • When inserting date/time after an open parenthesis, inserting an extra space before the date/time.
  • Minor improvements (one hopes) to toolbar and menu colors.
  • When spell checking contractions with curly apostrophes, straighten first.
  • When adding contractions to spell checker with right-click menu, curly apostrophes aren't being straightened.
  • When "Display reminders/events from MS Outlook" is active, sometimes getting an error when opening calendar categories.

New in The Journal 7.0.0 Build 893 (Apr 28, 2015)

  • Search anywhere! See lightning-fast search results in any category. Search results update as you type. Plus, in-entry searching has been made even better, making it easier to see search terms and navigate between them.
  • Search everything! The new, improved Search Entries shows you search results as you type, and allows you to easily add or remove entire categories from your search. Plus, you can now save your searches.
  • More word-processing power! Format your text with new, more powerful styles, including many new options at the paragraph and character levels. Use typographical quotes and apostrophes (AKA "curly quotes"). View two entries at once with split-screen editing. Shut out the world and focus on your writing with the new distraction-free, full-screen editing mode. Search-and-replace within all entries of a category. Save and load DocX files.
  • More flexible user interface! Display your categories as a tree or nested tabs. Color-code your categories. Sort your loose-leaf entries by name, date created, or even last date updated. Fully customize menus, toolbars, and even command hot-keys.
  • Word clouds! See word clouds for your categories based on your entry text or on the topics you have assigned to your entries.
  • Better integration with Windows 8 (and whatever comes next)!
  • New visual themes! The Journal 7 includes a new set of visual themes and a more cohesive look-and-feel (but you can still use the old skins, if you want).
  • Improved security! With salted passwords and a new layer of encryption, The Journal 7 keeps your entries safer than ever.
  • Recover accidentally deleted entries!
  • Streamlined backup, restore, and upgrading!

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 779 (Oct 22, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • If the Diaro entries aren't assigned to a folder, they aren't being imported.
  • TIFF images aren't inserting.
  • "The Journal Newsletter" page link is still pointing to the old URL.
  • Applying the highlighter to an item in a numbered list sometimes is resetting the list back to 1.
  • In User Preferences, on the Editor tab, can't enter a decimal (.) in Default Tab Width.
  • When applying a style with the option "Blend with active font styles" to a block of varied text, the font styles aren't being blended.
  • Active reminder list above entry editor for default entry sometimes a few pixels smaller than it should be.
  • Default tab width not being updated after UI size is changed.
  • New:
  • Added new spiral notebook background image colors: blue, gray, green, and pink.

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 773 (Sep 16, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • Popup messages (errors, confirmations, etc) aren't being scaled in high DPI.
  • Diaro changed their export format. Again.
  • Even when multiple users in a Journal Volume are marked as "auto-login", only one of them is being opened on startup.
  • When "Insert large images as thumbnails" option is checked, images imported from Evernote aren't being inserted as thumbnails.
  • Multi-line image descriptions are displaying a "" in the image viewer.
  • New:
  • Updated MD5 hashing and TwoFish encryption components.
  • Importing from Diaro now includes photos, if the media\photo folder is available.
  • Added "The Journal Support Page" link to the Help menu.
  • When importing images, accommodate possibly misnamed files (example: PNG image files with .jpg extension).

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 767 (Aug 6, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • Clicking on a table cell is getting an "Index out of Bounds" error. (error introduced in Build #765)
  • When using "Paste as Text" with preserve images option, tables aren't being converted to text properly.
  • Changed default for "When pasting as Plain Text, preserve images" (to false; again).

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 765 (Aug 5, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • Changed default for "When pasting as Plain Text, preserve images" (to true).
  • When syncing from an export file, sub-categories aren't always automatically mapping.
  • When importing from an export file, sometimes reporting a conflict with a just-imported entry.
  • When skinning is active, category names with ampersands (&) are displaying an underscore on their tab instead of the ampersand.
  • Pasted entry links aren't being detected and converted to hyperlinks.
  • Entry names and category names aren't allowed to include colons (:).
  • Sometimes pressing Ctrl and clicking on a link doesn't activate the link.
  • When pasting an entry link into the link editor, default tag should be the entry name.
  • New:
  • Search Results form now saves "Results per Page" setting.
  • Added "Paste as Text" to the editor context menu (right-click).
  • New option, "Highlight dates with entries on calendar".
  • Tweaked colors for month and year calendars.

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 759 (Jul 1, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • Getting an error when using the highlighter tool on a table row.
  • Displaying borders of Journal Volume and User even when those tabs aren't visible.
  • Setting the background image of an entry not marking the entry as changed.
  • When inserting a to-do item (checkbox), sometimes getting a "Duplicates not allowed" error.
  • Clipboard Viewer not always displaying images in copied HTML.
  • Tables with borders set to "None" not displaying the dashed-line borders when editing.
  • Search results form displaying ampersand (&) as an underscore.
  • New:
  • Updated database component.
  • New category option: "Show list of active to-do items" (displays list above entry editor)
  • New editor option: "When pasting as Plain Text, preserve images"
  • New option on Clipboard Viewer: "Paste as Plain Text"
  • Tweaked menu and toolbar colors for all skins.
  • Tweaked colors for day planner and monthly and yearly calendars.
  • Rearranged some items on the Entry menu, Topic menu, and entry tree context menu.
  • Added new background image/paper textures: Graph Paper, Lined Paper, Texture Paper (gray, green, blue, lavender), and Old Paper.
  • Right-clicking any reminder (not just tasks) now offers the options to set the status (active, done, skipped, cancel).
  • Added a zooming trackbar to WYSIWYG editor (lower right corner).
  • Added "Preview entries" option to "Import Entries" form.
  • Added "Background Color" and "Background Image" commands to the entry editor's right-click menu.

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 751 (Jun 3, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • When upgrading Journal Volumes from The Journal 5, sometimes running into a duplicate entry ID which causes the upgrade to fail.
  • Changed defaults for Show Journal Volume tabs and Show User Names tabs options (to false).
  • Batch Entry Import of 750words file only importing the last entry in the file.
  • New:
  • Updated skinning components.
  • Added "List of Keyboard Shortcuts" to Help menu.
  • Updated entry editor components (including WYSIWYG).
  • Updated database component.
  • Updated The Journal's Product License Information (now includes a "household license" for individuals).

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 743 (Apr 1, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • On Batch Entry Import, changed list of available import file types to a drop-down list.
  • "Dictionaries" list on Spell Checker tab of User Preference sometimes too small to use.
  • Form for editing spell checker words added, autocorrections, and so on, displays incomplete on some computers.
  • New:
  • The Journal is now High DPI Aware.

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 739 (Feb 4, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • Changed wording of Category, Calendar option "Only create new entries by request" to "Start on latest entry by default".
  • Typo in "Paragraph Backgrounds & Border" command.
  • "Export Entries to Document..." isn't always exporting all selected entries.
  • View All Reminders incorrectly showing some past reminders as still active.
  • Search Entries result snippets could stand to be a bit longer.
  • "Update Entry Topics" should show progress more frequently.
  • Changed wording of "Apply " to "Clear Topic(s)".
  • User Preferences form is almost unusable when UI is set to largest setting (+100%).
  • New:
  • New toolbar, menu, and entry tree icons.
  • Added Lotus Organizer CSV file support to Batch Entry Import.
  • Added Orange Diary Pro CSV file support to Batch Entry Import.
  • New calendar charm set: "Numbers/Letters Charms".
  • New option: "Display week numbers on calendar" (User Preferences, General tab).
  • In calendar categories, the folder for "Days" now has an "Entries" sub-tab that shows all entries for that day.
  • New command "Copy Reminder" available when right-clicking reminders.
  • New option for when there is a missing Journal Volume on startup: "Ignore this warning"
  • Changed default view of image entries (to scaled-to-fit).
  • Image entries now bring up the Image Viewer on double-click.
  • Image entries now rotate JPEG images to the proper orientation on insert.
  • Image rotation and flip commands can now be performed on image entries.
  • View All Reminders form is now resizeable.
  • Added "Extra Large (+75%)" option to "User Interface Size" sub-menu.

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 727 (Jan 7, 2014)

  • Fixed:
  • In "Edit Topics", the hot-keys are not displayed.
  • When applying highlighting to a block of selected text, highlighting sometimes getting stuck on.
  • On the yearly calendar view, the entry for 1 January is not showing its Calendar Charm.
  • words changed their export format.
  • When using "Insert Date" or "Insert Time" in a paragraph, it is changing the paragraph to be left justified.
  • New:
  • Changed default (to true) for displaying word count in calendar categories.
  • Changed automatic image resizing to have just a single number (used for both width & height).
  • Changed default (to 1920) for automatic image resizing.
  • New Image Option: "Insert large images as thumbnails"
  • Changed "Toggle Image Full/Fit Window" to "Toggle Image Full/Thumbnail".
  • Changed double-clicking an image to bring up an image viewer.
  • Added "Page Break (RTF export)" options to "Export Entries as Document..."

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 721 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Special Day reminder birthday/anniversary year display calculation not especially reliable.
  • "Import Journal Volume..." not always working when importing Journal Volumes from previous versions.
  • New:
  • Added "User Interface Size" sub-menu to View menu, with options for "Normal", "Large (+25%)", "Larger (+50%)", and "Largest (+100%)".

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 719 (Nov 5, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Diaro changed their export format. Again.
  • When copying-and-pasting text with topics applied, the highlight colors on the text are being messed up.
  • When applying multiple topics to the same block of text, not always seeing all topics in the flyover hint.
  • When updating entries after editing a topic name, sometimes messing up the flyover list of applied topics.
  • When typing the name of the font in the toolbar dropdown list, sometimes getting an "Index out of bounds[-1]" error.
  • When cutting the selection in a table, sometimes getting an error.
  • New:
  • "Apply Topic..." and "Tag Entry with Topic..." commands now default to typing in comma-separated topic names.
  • "Apply Topic..." and "Tag Entry with Topic..." commands automatically create new topics.
  • Reminders set to display "Until Done or Canceled" or "N Days Before" now show a countdown of days to or past the due date.
  • Updated skin/themes.
  • Added "Wrap Text on Right" and "Wrap Text on Left" to the Image context menu.
  • Automatic backups no longer prompt, they just happen.
  • Display the year of a birthday or anniversary reminder. (See Birthday in Special Days for more information.)
  • Changed "Insert CheckBox" command to "Insert To-Do (CheckBox)".
  • Added new report to "Entry Report Wizard": To-Do Item (CheckBox) Report.
  • Added "How to Use The Journal" link to Help menu.
  • If a template entry has a background image assigned to it, this background image is applied to the active entry when inserting the template.
  • Added "BACKGROUNDIMAGE" attribute to
  • tag in Enhanced Template Tags.

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 709 (Nov 5, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • DayNotez changed their export format.
  • When editing table properties, cannot make table wider than 1000 pixels.
  • When The Journal is minimized via "Show the desktop" Windows command, it is not prompting for password.
  • If The Journal is open overnight, sometimes not properly bringing up a new blank entry for the current date+time.
  • Sometimes, when copy-and-pasting from a browser, getting an "Index out of bounds" error.
  • Pasting/downloading some images from the Web not always working.
  • "Go Back/Forward" commands still won't go to some hourly entries.
  • New:
  • Updated Russian translation.

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 705 (Aug 29, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • "Search active categories" option not being saved between searches.
  • Should be able to wrap text around media attachments.
  • When "Display Larger User Interface" is active, editing User Preferences causes the UI font to become even larger.
  • In Edit Topics it's possible to make a topic a sub-sub-topic of itself.
  • In Search Entries by Topic, topics list should use all available space.
  • Sometimes getting "No duplicates allowed" when sync-ing from a Diaro export file.
  • When changing font face/color/size on a numbered/bulleted list, the numbers/bullets aren't being changed.
  • Default link tag for entry links to calendar entries should include the entry title, if there is one.
  • Diaro changed export file format.
  • New:
  • New feature: Doodling in Entries
  • Added "Insert Doodle" to the Insert menu.
  • Added "Doodle on Image" to the Image menu.
  • Added "Display Larger User Interface (+25%)" command to the View menu.
  • Added DayNotez support to Batch Entry Import.
  • Added "Save Image As..." command to save selected image to your hard drive.
  • Added "Save Media Attachment As..." command to save selected media attachment to your hard drive.

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 693 (Aug 2, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • When editing a link in the entry editor, changes aren't being saved.
  • If the entry tree is resized to nothing, it cannot be resized again without restarting The Journal.
  • When editing a topic, if that topic is one of multiple topics applied to a block of a text, all of the other topics applied to that block of text are being erased.
  • In Edit Auto-Replace Strings, tabbing from "replace this" to "with this" should select the contents of "with this".
  • In Search Entries, under "Search Options", selected categories should be saved.
  • Sort Sub-entries command should prompt to ask about searching all levels of sub-entries (if there's more than one).
  • "Go Back/Forward" commands won't go to hourly entries.
  • Restore from Backup form can be confusing if you want to restore into a new Journal Volume.
  • On "Modify Style" form, should say "Background Color" (instead of "Highlight Color").
  • When exporting (or printing), entries viewed in the preview panel are being locked.
  • Day planner view isn't supporting inclusive end effective date.
  • New:
  • New option for Entry Report Wizard: Show entries from last n days
  • New Edit menu command: Select Paragraph
  • Video/audio attachments now use Windows Media Player for playback (if available)

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 691 (Jun 11, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • After setting user preferences, active calendar category is resetting to the current date, regardless of what date was active before (from #675).
  • Applying numbering should default to "continue numbering" instead of "restart numbering".
  • If a sub-topic has an invalid parent topic, clear the parent setting on login.
  • When clicking on the calendar to select a date, empty entries for other dates viewed should not show up in the entry tree.
  • When The Journal is minimized and locked, hovering the mouse over the taskbar icon is displaying the last active entry.
  • Loading JPEG images in "User Images..." not working.
  • When moving between environments with multiple monitors, sometimes getting stuck off screen on a monitor that isn't available.
  • When clicking on entry links in a table, sometimes getting an error.
  • New:
  • New menu/UI translation: Armenian (View menu, Language sub-menu)
  • When using The Journal on a USB drive or over a network, save form positions separately for each computer.

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 675 (Apr 11, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Sub-topics (still) not always sorting properly in tree display.
  • Non-task reminders set to display N days before are continuing to display past their due date.
  • If a category's default entry template is no longer valid, clear the setting.
  • Drop-down list of styles is always showing the user default style, even if the category has overridden the user default style.
  • During an import or sync, when displaying entry text to resolve a conflict, display the number of words in each entry.
  • The running word count is sometimes getting out of sync when an empty paragraph is deleted.
  • Search Results should include the first line of the entry if that category option is set.
  • New:
  • New option "Display user interface with Large Fonts"
  • New feature: When inserting JPEG images with orientation information in the ExIf, the image is rotated (losslessly) to match the specified orientation.
  • New image commands: Rotate Image Right, Rotate Image Left, Rotate Image 180 degrees, Flip Image Horizontally, Flip Image Vertically

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 669 (Feb 13, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Format Painter isn't working.
  • There is an issue marking tasks due on a future date as "Done".
  • A recurring reminder that is set to display "N Day(s) Before" is always displaying.
  • When closing from user unlock form, allow the backup prompt.
  • Editing a link on a bulleted/numbered list is setting the bullet/number to the same font color as the link.
  • Need to detect the possibility that a Journal Volume is already open in another running instance of The Journal (useful for when the Journal Volume is on a cloud drive and might be accessed from multiple computers simultaneously).
  • In a multi-user environment, try for 3 seconds before reporting that the database is busy.
  • Sometimes getting an error if minimizing when timer is active.
  • If the entry tree is focused and the active entry has text selected, pressing DEL should delete the selected text.
  • When comparing entries during import, if both entries have a table with the same number of columns, but the number of rows is different, getting an error.
  • The entry tree context menu should remove non useful items when multiple entries are selected.
  • New:
  • New global option: "When The Journal is inactive, mouse-click only activates"
  • New option for Batch Entry Import when importing entries from separate files: "Use file modified date+time as entry date+time" (useful for importing from MacJournal)
  • New menu/UI translation: Spanish (View menu, Language sub-menu)
  • New Tools menu commands: "Count Words in Entry + Sub-Entries..." and "Count Words in Selected Entries..."

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 657 (Dec 17, 2012)

  • Fixed:
  • A recurring reminder set to "always display" isn't always displaying.
  • When minimizing on idle, close open modal forms.
  • Spell checker configuration on a USB drive isn't using a relative path.
  • "Sync from Export File..." menu command is disabled when there is only one Journal Volume.
  • Text snippet displayed in Search Results should be longer.
  • When upgrading from The Journal 5, spell checker configuration sometimes not updating fully.
  • When accessing a Journal Volume on an external drive on different computers, if the drive letter is different, then getting "There is no disk in drive" error.
  • Search Entries isn't finding text with $, # or similar characters.
  • Journal Volumes aren't remembering the date of their last backup.
  • When opening The Journal after a Windows sleep/hibernation, sometimes getting an error.
  • Added new skinning option "Disable shadows under forms when skins are active".
  • Sometimes "hangs" when more than one Journal Volume is open at one time.
  • Sometimes main form title bar gets stuck off the top of the screen.
  • When using Insert Date or Insert Time in a numbered list, the number of the current list item is reset to 1.
  • Sub-topics not always sorting properly in tree display.
  • New:
  • Batch Entry Import support for Diaro app (text entries only).
  • New option for Batch Entry Import when importing entries from separate files: "Use file creation date+time as entry date+time" (useful for importing from LifeJournal)
  • New option on Search Entries "Options" tab: Force re-indexing of all entries in categories searched

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 635 (Nov 13, 2012)

  • Fixed
  • Using "Insert Link" shortcut (Ctrl+K) on an existing link should edit the link, not try to create a new link.
  • Sometimes, inserting/editing a link, the link shows the proper formatting, but the link doesn't work.
  • User default style sometimes has extraneous (incorrect) font override flags.
  • "Apply Default Style" (with and without retain formatting) should affect links.
  • Links are not being detected when typing them into reminder notes.
  • Checkboxes in entries aren't printing.
  • When editing the name of an entry, cannot use DEL key to delete a character without selecting it first.
  • After highlighting a typed link, resume the font formatting that was active before the link instead of reverting to the category default.
  • You should be able to select a table, or a subset of a table's cells, and apply a topic.
  • Some changes to prevent "List index out of bounds (-1)." errors.
  • Reminder setting "Show Reminder xxx days before" is not working.
  • When renaming entries, the new name is not being properly indexed for searching.
  • Clicking "Close" on the user unlock form should force the close (ignoring the "Minimize on Close" option).
  • Applying a topic to a table, or to cells in a table, sometimes not working properly.
  • Viewing topics in a table when doing a search by topic sometimes getting an error.
  • After startup, the idle timer minimized The Journal with the backup prompt active.
  • Search Entries should default to prefix searching, unless "match whole words" option is checked.
  • When changing a category with Category Properties, the active category's entry editor scrollbar loses its skinning.
  • New
  • New option for calendar categories: "Round time to 5 minutes"

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 621 (Sep 27, 2012)

  • Fixed:
  • After restoring from minimized, title bar displays only "The Journal 6".
  • Sometimes getting an error during the backup, though it doesn't affect the backup.
  • "Search Entries" is not searching linked/shared categories.
  • "Daily/Weekly Entry Report" is showing only the entry headers (with links) in the report, instead of the full entry body.
  • When creating or editing reminders, the time pickers aren't displaying 24-hour time properly.
  • When auto-pasting from Clipboard Viewer, each paste should happen on a new line.
  • In the month and year calendar views, don't display the day planner or the reminder list above the calendar.
  • In the month calendar, the reminders and entries for all visible dates should be displayed.
  • When searching entries with a date range, sub-entries of entries outside the date range are being searched.
  • When importing calendar entries with sub-entries, the sub-entries aren't being imported.
  • Default auto-save interval should be 10 minutes.
  • External object entries and image entries not exporting properly to TJEXP format.
  • TJXML format needs to save date+time values with milliseconds.
  • New:
  • New global option in User Preferences: "International character hot-keys override topic hot-keys".
  • Swapped hot-keys for Insert Link (now Ctrl+K) and Block Justify (now Ctrl+Shift+K).

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 609 (Aug 13, 2012)

  • Fixed:
  • The Journal is not remembering its maximized window state.
  • If The Journal's system database is closed when resuming from a sleep/suspend, close The Journal.
  • Dragging and dropping an image file into a table cell is sometimes causing an error.
  • When printing, images in a table cell aren't using the table cell dimensions to limit their resize, they're using the whole page width.
  • When editing styles, applying the overrides to the sample text is causing confusion.
  • Possible issues pasting RTF from clipboard.
  • Double-clicking to toggle a large image resize-to-fit isn't marking the entry as modified.
  • When printing, images that have been resized by the user aren't using their adjusted size.
  • Importing html/xml not handling ' correctly.
  • Links in pasted text are not properly merging active font and link style.
  • When pasting HTML from Paste Special..., not using category/user default font.
  • Re-worded User Preferences, Editor option to "When pasting, Rich Text Format has priority over HTML Format"
  • User Preferences, Editor option "Insert URL when pasting from Web pages" feature isn't working.
  • Getting gibberish when trying to paste into the timer.
  • In "Export Entries as Document", when exporting each entry to its own document, if there is more than one entry for a date/time, only the last entry for that date/time is being exported.
  • Reminders aren't being searched by Search Entries.
  • Image entry and external object entry titles aren't being indexed for Search Entries.
  • Missing hot-keys for Insert Media File (M), Insert CheckBox (X), and Insert Symbol (Y).
  • Attempting to uninstall an add-on with Tools | Add-ons... causes an error.
  • Importing TIFF, TGA and a few other image formats is not working.
  • When importing from Evernote, spaces are getting lost between formatted text.
  • Additional fixes to importing HTML and XML.
  • "Lock All Password-Protected Categories" not properly locking sub-categories.
  • When upgrading a TJ5 Journal Volume, sometimes incorrectly detecting that TJ5 is running.
  • New:
  • When importing from Evernote, you can now choose to import into any category (calendar as well as loose-leaf).
  • When importing from Evernote or Penzu, the category you choose to import into is remembered and used as the default on the next import.
  • Import to-do items from Evernote as checkboxes.

New in The Journal 6.0.0 Build 597 (Jul 23, 2012)

  • Fixed:
  • If the Journal Volume database exceeds 1GB, the backup fails.
  • Progress forms are sometimes getting lost behind modal forms, and the main form.
  • With skinning turned off, the next/prev entry buttons sometimes have the wrong images.
  • When the help file is open, clicking on the help icon on the taskbar doesn't bring up the help. Instead, it brings The Journal's main form forward, in front of the help.
  • Hiding The Journal with the hot-key while playing back audio or video causes errors.
  • Clicking on an image with a link sometimes behaving oddly.
  • Sometimes getting an error when reviewing image conflicts during sync.
  • "Sync from External Journal Volume" not working with TJ6 Journal Volumes.
  • If the indexed text search of a category generates an error, force a re-indexing of all entries in the category.
  • Possible error when posting to Google Blogger.
  • Deleting entries could cause an error in Search Entries for that category.
  • New:
  • Added "The Journal on Facebook" link to the Help menu.
  • Added "Journal Volume Integrity Check..." report to Maintenance sub-menu.

New in The Journal 5.0.0 Build 347 (Sep 2, 2009)

  • Problems fixed:
  • After selecting an external object or image entry, selecting another entry causes an error.
  • "Go to Random Entry" is only going to the first date of this or the last century.
  • "Check for Update of The Journal" is trying to download the wrong version.
  • Reminders with a specific time not being properly set to "missed".
  • "Show Topic" command isn't showing on the toolbars after being put there when customizing the toolbars.
  • Need better handling of corrupted entries and sanity checking of entry dates, especially during upgrade from TJ4.
  • Image entries should skip redundant compression of compressed image formats (JPG, PNG and GIF).
  • Top-level category tabs are displaying on a single line when arranged at the top.
  • "Search Entries" isn't properly searching with a date range.
  • "Font color" and "Highlight color" toolbar icons not correctly displaying their current color.
  • "Check for Update of The Journal" needs a better Web page.
  • Updated user interface:
  • Choose your favorite "skin" from the many, many available (170+).
  • Quickly switch between logged in users and open Journal Volumes with their (optional) tabs.
  • Updated Journal Volumes:
  • No more 2 GB limit. 128 GB is the new limit for a Journal Volume.
  • Have as many Journal Volumes as you want, all open at the same time.
  • Be more secure with the improved backup and restore features, with options to copy your backup file to separate locations automatically.
  • More category options:
  • You can have categories that create new entries for you every century, decade, year, month, week, day, and hour.
  • See a month or a year at a time with the new month and year calendar views.
  • Use the day planner to see your reminders for today or the next week.
  • Automatically "stamp" your entries with current date and time.
  • Edit your entries with WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) formatting.
  • More entry options:
  • Your calendar category entries can have loose-leaf sub-entry "attachments".
  • Drag and drop entries between categories with ease.
  • Select multiple entries and copy (or cut) them to the Windows clipboard--then paste those entries into another category of The Journal or even into a word processor like MS Word.
  • Insert media files (audio & video) into your entries, and play them back within The Journal.
  • Take advantage of the new (optional) grammar checking features to automatically change i to I and automatically capitalize the first word of a sentence.
  • Use topics to mark blocks of text within an entry, or to tag an entire entry.
  • Be even more organized with topics that have sub-topics (that have sub-topics, that have sub-topics...).
  • More search options:
  • Automatically include sub-topics when searching by topics.
  • Search for multiple topics with either AND (all) or OR (any) logic.
  • Search in reminder notes.
  • Limit your search to whole words.
  • And more:
  • Export your categories and entries to HTML and get a Web-page-like list of categories and entries.
  • Create a wiki-like set of entries with automatically updated links.
  • Run a report of those entries that you've created or updated in the last week, month, year or other date range.
  • Post to Blogger (Google) without getting an annoying error message (and lots of other minor fixes and changes).

New in The Journal 4.1 Build 253 (Feb 29, 2008)

  • Added support for cedilla (�, �) in International Character hot-keys.
  • Upgraded to latest DBISAM database software.
  • Repair utility not handling the case of an interrupted database upgrade.
  • Re-installing after the end of the trial period sometimes not seeing existing Journal Volume and not allowing a restore.
  • Deleting a category sometimes causing an access violation.
  • Wordpress, Blogger, LiveJournal and TypePad blog profiles should default to HTML export.
  • F9/F10 hot-keys looping when running The Journal under Wine.
  • When creating a new category, Master Category list doesn't show nesting of sub-categories.
  • Hot-key for topics, Ctrl Shift 6, messed up the Ctrl Shift ^ hot-key for circumflex letters: �, �, ... (NOTE: hot-keys for topics are now limited to Ctrl Shift 1 to Ctrl Shift 5 and Ctrl Shift 7 to Ctrl Shift 0)
  • Upgrading from a The Journal 2.x database isn't deciphering all old entries properly, and can have problems creating the new Journal Volume properly on a USB installation.