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RedNotebook Changelog

What's new in RedNotebook 2.32

Feb 18, 2024
  • Allow copying text in preview mode (#732, Jendrik Seipp).
  • Allow hashtags that start with (but are longer than) hex colors and preprocessor directives (#738, Jendrik Seipp).
  • Highlight hashtags and formatting within lists (#744, Jendrik Seipp).
  • Improve Debian packaging (Phil Wyett).
  • Test macOS 12 and 13 instead of 11 and 12 (Jendrik Seipp).

New in RedNotebook 2.31 (Sep 2, 2023)

  • Add basic text replace functionality (#715, @curioussushiroll).

New in RedNotebook 2.30 (Aug 10, 2023)

  • Modernize code (#689, @HighnessAtharva and @laraconda).
  • Fix: Correctly color URLs with hashtags symbols in edit mode (#703, @laraconda).
  • Add menu item to insert numbered lists (#526, @curioussushiroll).

New in RedNotebook 2.29.6 (Apr 28, 2023)

  • Restore all keyboard shorts

New in RedNotebook 2.29.5 (Apr 13, 2023)

  • Fix: Don't try to print WebKit2 version on Windows (#686, Jendrik Seipp).

New in RedNotebook 2.29.4 (Apr 11, 2023)

  • Accept arbitrary WebKit2 version. Use 4.1 if available (#681, Jendrik Seipp).

New in RedNotebook 2.29.3 (Jan 16, 2023)

  • Make all menu items translatable (Jendrik Seipp).
  • Packaging: install translation files under /share/locale again (#666, Jendrik Seipp)

New in RedNotebook 2.29.2 (Jan 12, 2023)

  • Fix setup.py script: only build translation files when needed (Jendrik Seipp).
  • Add continuous integration check to ensure that the basic Debian package builds correctly (Jendrik Seipp).

New in RedNotebook 2.29.1 (Jan 12, 2023)

  • Remove bundled msgfmt.py module and use msgfmt binary from gettext suite instead. This fixes most of the translations on Windows (Jendrik Seipp).

New in RedNotebook 2.29 (Dec 31, 2022)

  • Document alternatives for changing the GTK theme on Windows (Ankur A Sharma, #494).
  • Fix en_GB translations (Jendrik Seipp, #659).

New in RedNotebook 2.28.1 (Dec 29, 2022)

  • Require setuptools for Debian package (Jendrik Seipp).

New in RedNotebook 2.27.2 (Dec 2, 2022)

  • Fix passing command line arguments (Jendrik Seipp).
  • Update translation files (Jendrik Seipp).

New in RedNotebook 2.27.1 (Nov 18, 2022)

  • Fix application ID for Flatpak (#650, Jendrik Seipp).

New in RedNotebook 2.27 (Nov 17, 2022)

  • Upgrade to GTK 3.24 on Windows (Jendrik Seipp).
  • Use external preview on Windows since embedding the preview is impossible with newer GTK versions (Jendrik Seipp).
  • Use GtkApplication class and only allow running one RedNotebook instance at a time (Jendrik Seipp).
  • Add support for GtkSourceView 4 (Jendrik Seipp).
  • Raise minimum Python version to 3.6 (Jendrik Seipp).
  • Add more languages to Windows installer (Jendrik Seipp).

New in RedNotebook 2.26 (Sep 28, 2022)

  • Fix issue #632 by skipping obsolete Python function (Jendrik Seipp).
  • Fix: only try to load CEF Python on Windows (Jendrik Seipp).
  • Update Turkish translation (sabriunal).

New in RedNotebook 2.25 (May 16, 2022)

  • Use icon names instead of GTK stock icons to support newer GTK versions (Jendrik Seipp).
  • Handle several GTK deprecation warnings (Jendrik Seipp)

New in RedNotebook 2.24 (Feb 21, 2022)

  • Revert to plain naming scheme for data files since reverse DNS naming causes problems (#611, Phil Wyett).

New in RedNotebook 2.23 (Feb 14, 2022)

  • Check that a newly written month file is valid before deleting the old month file.
  • Rename "autostart" file. Please reenable autostart option in preferences if you want RedNotebook to run on system startup.
  • Fix Python crash on program start (#583, Max Krummenacher).
  • Prevent save failures on network and cloud drives (#593, Robert Little).
  • Add script for importing entries (#571, Cary Gravel).
  • Revamp packaging for Debian (#599, #600, Phil Wyett).
  • Fix continuous integration tests.

New in RedNotebook 2.22 (Apr 26, 2021)

  • Add a "Give Feedback" button (#551, Rahul Jha).
  • Test code on macOS (#552, Rahul Jha).

New in RedNotebook 2.21 (Jan 28, 2021)

  • Update MathJax to version 3 (#515, @dgcampea).
  • Fix date references in CEF-based HtmlView (#544, Paweł Żukowski).

New in RedNotebook 2.20 (Aug 3, 2020)

  • Fix drag and drop (#492, @dgcampea).
  • Fix external previews (Eric Chazan).
  • Document how to change the theme on Windows (#487, Ankur A. Sharma).
  • Allow symlinking to ./run script (#509).

New in RedNotebook 2.19 (May 4, 2020)

  • Reload GTK theme colors when saving the journal (#485).
  • Don't use dark mode for exported HTML files (#486).
  • Use PNG version instead of SVG for RedNotebook icons to avoid problems on macOS.
  • Use GitHub actions for continuous integration testing.

New in RedNotebook 2.18 (Mar 1, 2020)

  • Use background and foreground colors from GTK theme for HTML preview.

New in RedNotebook 2.16 (Jan 23, 2020)

  • Add menu items for adding titles (#464, Paweł Żukowski).
  • Upgrade msgfmt.py to version 1.2 (#470).

New in RedNotebook 2.15 (Dec 4, 2019)

  • Fix tray icon on Windows (#394).

New in RedNotebook 2.14 (Nov 18, 2019)

  • Support entry reference links in exported HTML (#452, Paweł Żukowski).
  • Add support for dark themes to cloud panel (#438).

New in RedNotebook 2.13 (Nov 18, 2019)

  • Change unnamed date references from 2019-11-06 to [2019-11-06] (#458, #460, Paweł Żukowski).
  • Add option for controlling number of displayed tags (#456, Paweł Żukowski).
  • Fix setting maximum number of displayed tags (#461).

New in RedNotebook 2.12 (Nov 2, 2019)

  • Allow linking between days with dates like 2019-02-14 and `[named links 2019-02-14]` (#176, #444, Paweł Żukowski).
  • Allow opening statistics dialog multiple times in one session (#370, #457, Paweł Żukowski).
  • Warn about outdated backups every week by default.
  • Increase default width of left panel to ensure that the calendar is fully visible (#376).

New in RedNotebook 2.11.1 (Apr 7, 2019)

  • Always initialize spell checking whenever we switch text buffers (fixes #435).

New in RedNotebook 2.11.1 (Apr 7, 2019)

  • Always initialize spell checking whenever we switch text buffers (fixes #435).

New in RedNotebook 2.11 (Mar 27, 2019)

  • Revert to GTK 3.18 stack on Windows (fixes #429 and #430).

New in RedNotebook 2.10 (Mar 24, 2019)

  • Automatically push newest version to flathub

New in RedNotebook 2.9 (Mar 20, 2019)

  • Use Python 3.6 and GTK 3.22 on Windows.
  • Build Windows installer with Appveyor.

New in RedNotebook 2.8.1 (Mar 17, 2019)

  • Load the correct template for a given weekday (fixes #416).
  • Clear text buffers when opening a new journal (fixes #421).
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in RedNotebook 2.8 (Nov 15, 2018)

  • Support internal previews on Windows again (#369).

New in RedNotebook 2.7.1 (Nov 13, 2018)

  • Never let search phrases end up in the main text field (fixes #401).
  • Fix spell checking (fixes #412).

New in RedNotebook 2.7 (Nov 6, 2018)

  • Use GtkSourceView for editor to obtain better undo/redo functionality (thanks @takluyver).
  • When saving, update the list of tags in the auto-complete list for the search.
  • Fix opening RedNotebook homepage from About dialog (#411).

New in RedNotebook 2.6.1 (Aug 21, 2018)

  • Fix bug preventing new installations from starting up.

New in RedNotebook 2.6 (Aug 21, 2018)

  • Move date format option to preferences dialog.
  • Use date format option for date in titlebar.
  • Remember selected date format for exports between sessions.
  • Check remote info.py file for latest version number.
  • Check for latest version in separate thread.

New in RedNotebook 2.5 (Jun 9, 2018)

  • Restore instant search (search as you type).
  • Add option for disabling instant search to preferences dialog.
  • Disable undo/redo buttons in preview mode (fixes #103).
  • Remove option to show/hide right-side tags panel from GUI (still present in configuration file).

New in RedNotebook 2.4 (Mar 7, 2018)

  • Make search significantly faster by indexing all days.
  • Allow searching for multiple words.
  • Add AppVersion to InnoSetup file.
  • Homepage: Switch to HTTPS.

New in RedNotebook 2.3 (Mar 7, 2018)

  • Compress backups.
  • Use newer txt2tags version 2.6 and reapply changes to obtain a GPL-2+ version.
  • Remove brittle PDF export. Please export to HTML and print to PDF with browser instead.
  • Remove intro page from export wizard.
  • Fix: image files were not found on Windows and Mac OS.
  • Print peak memory usage on Linux when program exits.
  • Hide tags panel completely by default instead of only minimizing it.

New in RedNotebook 2.2 (Sep 9, 2017)

  • Port RedNotebook 2 to Windows.
  • Windows: uninstall old version before installing new version to remove old files.
  • Windows: use Aspell for spell checking.
  • Update Debian files (@kathenas).

New in RedNotebook 2.1.5 (Sep 9, 2017)

  • Fix debian/control.

New in RedNotebook 2.1.4 (Sep 9, 2017)

  • Use old names for appdata and desktop files.

New in RedNotebook 2.1.3 (Sep 9, 2017)

  • Fix creating translation files.

New in RedNotebook 2.1.2 (Sep 9, 2017)

  • Fix "Exec" field in .desktop file.

New in RedNotebook 2.1.1 (Sep 9, 2017)

  • Reset package name to 'rednotebook'.

New in RedNotebook 2.1 (Sep 9, 2017)

  • Make webkit optional (but highly recommended). If missing, show preview in external browser.
  • Support inserting SVG images.
  • Don't switch between edit and review mode automatically by default.

New in RedNotebook 2.0 (Sep 9, 2017)

  • Port to Python 3 and GTK 3.
  • Add index of tags to LaTeX export (#324, thanks Alex Schickedanz).
  • Use new CDN link for MathJax

New in RedNotebook 1.15 (Feb 12, 2017)

  • Bundle pygtkspellcheck 4.0.5 since earlier versions contain a bug (lp:1615629).
  • Fix toggling autostart (lp:1628497).
  • Set system tray icon name (lp:1660129).

New in RedNotebook 1.14 (Sep 26, 2016)

  • Use new pygtkspellcheck API (lp:1592727)
  • Fix conversion from old single "Tags" category to new tags format

New in RedNotebook 1.13 (Jun 20, 2016)

  • When selecting a journal directory, show all journal directories by default (thanks Paul Jackson).
  • Allow ampersands in e-mail addresses (lp:1570476, thanks pdofak).
  • Python-gtkspell has been renamed to python-gtkspellcheck. Update docs and debian/control accordingly.

New in RedNotebook 1.12 (Mar 28, 2016)

  • Add option to hide right-hand tags pane
  • Never overwrite externally changed month files
  • Remove support for Python 2.6

New in RedNotebook 1.11 (Nov 11, 2015)

  • Remind users to make new backup if last backup is older than a month.
  • When inserting a link for a selected text passage, replace text passage.

New in RedNotebook 1.10.4 (Oct 26, 2015)

  • Fix right-clicking cloud words to hide them.

New in RedNotebook 1.10.3 (Oct 16, 2015)

  • Make #hashtags regular expression faster (up to 1000x).

New in RedNotebook 1.10.2 (Aug 26, 2015)

  • Fix Chinese fonts in preview mode on Windows by using the fonts mingliu and MS Mincho.
  • Fix instructions for running RedNotebook on Windows.
  • Move repository from launchpad to github.

New in RedNotebook 1.10.1 (Apr 16, 2015)

  • When undoing a formatting action, only remove formatting, not the text (lp:1326606)
  • Fix searching with enter for text with non-ASCII characters (lp:1430697)
  • Fix filtering exports by tags containing non-ASCII characters (lp:1267263)
  • Don't remove whitespace from old-style tags in autocomplete box (lp:1414603)
  • Don't try to change spellchecking language if spellchecker is not set up (lp:1443818)
  • Don't try to access files with wrong encoding (lp:1443818)

New in RedNotebook 1.10 (Apr 14, 2015)

  • Write data to temporary files first to prevent corrupted month files.
  • Add format button for monospace font. Automatically add the correct format for code blocks.
  • Show warning for dates before 1900 (not supported by Python's datetime module).
  • Fix undo/redo.
  • Don't add unneeded newlines around titles and code.

New in RedNotebook 1.9.0 (Dec 29, 2014)

  • Add #tags to cloud ignore list to remove them from the tag cloud
  • Remove option to start RedNotebook minimized.
  • Do not remove menu bar in fullscreen mode (lp:1400356).
  • Allow exiting fullscreen mode with ESC key.
  • Only allow comment signs (#) at the beginning of a line in the config file.
  • Fix reading configuration files.

New in RedNotebook 1.8.1 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • Do not show new version dialog if latest version cannot be determined (lp:1324126).
  • Fix date formatting for invalid locale encodings.
  • Add necessary library files for spell-checking on Windows (lp:1331876).

New in RedNotebook 1.8.0 (Dec 13, 2013)

  • Add font selection for edit mode
  • Allow changing preview and cloud font in preferences.
  • Only allow opening RedNotebook minimized on Windows since other systems may lack a system tray.
  • Fix: Display tags starting with "SEP" in preview (lp:1255582).
  • Write scripts to cross-compile RedNotebook Windows exe and installer on Linux.

New in RedNotebook 1.7.3 (Dec 13, 2013)

  • Jump to a specific date on startup with "--date 2013-10-31" on the commandline
  • Display current date in the title bar
  • Support inserting multiple pictures in one step
  • Add DejaVu Sans as font fallback for clouds and previe
  • Fix setting last image directory for insert dialog
  • Only allow exporting selected text if we are in edit mode (lp:1221792)

New in RedNotebook 1.7.2 (Dec 13, 2013)

  • Show error if saving fails due to a directory not being created.
  • Ignore hashtags starting with more than one #.
  • Fix: Allow inserting files and pictures from the "recently used" section (lp:1195759).

New in RedNotebook 1.7.1 (Mar 5, 2013)

  • Fix: Insert spellchecking correction in the correct position (LP:1137925).

New in RedNotebook 1.7.0 (Mar 2, 2013)

  • Allow filtering exported days by tags
  • Add option to export only the currently selected text
  • Move spellcheck option from preferences to edit menu and add F7 shortcut
  • Enable spellchecking on Windows. See help for adding custom dictionaries.
  • Better error message for invalid markup.
  • Show warning if no directory is selected before clicking the "Open" button when choosing a journal directory.
  • Gracefully handle BadStatusLines when checking for new versions.
  • Do not try to set file permissions on Windows where they are unavailable.
  • Fix hide-from-cloud for words containing backslashes (LP:1131412).
  • Fix relative file links on Windows.
  • Code: Switch from optparse to argparse

New in RedNotebook 1.6.6 (Jan 24, 2013)

  • Edit templates in RedNotebook directly. Preview and use the Insert and Format toolbar menus before inserting a template.
  • Support relative image links like [""my_pic"".jpg].
  • Add Ctrl+Return shortcut for adding manual linebreaks.
  • Let all toolbar menus always open the menu before performing an action.
  • Change Go-To-Today shortcut to Alt+Home (Ctrl+Home moves cursor to the start of the text).
  • Do not allow choosing an empty name for templates.
  • Do not parse #include as a hashtag.
  • Add info about network drives to help text.
  • Fix help text about links to local directories.
  • Fix: Let categories pane use new infobar notifications (LP:1098625).

New in RedNotebook 1.6.5 (Jan 24, 2013)

  • Add menu item for clearing the text format.
  • Add toolbar menus "Insert" and "Format" to main menu for better accessibility and HUD integration.
  • Only show keyboard shortcuts in main menu, not in toolbar menus.
  • Use selected text as link name when a new link is inserted.
  • When an image or file is inserted, use selected text as the name of the link.
  • Format selected text as header when a header is inserted.
  • Convert selected text to a list when a list is inserted.
  • Select title after it has been inserted to allow for easy editing.
  • Change file permissions so that journal files are only readable by the user.
  • Windows: Restore slider positions after opening RedNotebook from the tray.
  • Windows: Support non-ascii installation paths.

New in RedNotebook 1.6.4 (Jan 24, 2013)

  • Never include previous RedNotebook backups in new backups.
  • Add strikethrough shortcut Ctrl+K.
  • By default don't switch between edit and preview mode automatically.
  • Add experimental support for irc protocol.

New in RedNotebook 1.6.3 (Jan 24, 2013)

  • Fix: Don't interpret URLs with non-empty paths as local links.

New in RedNotebook 1.6.2 (Jan 24, 2013)

  • Add option for automatically switching between edit and preview mode to preferences.
  • Use PNG image in about dialog (SVG support is broken in Windows version).

New in RedNotebook 1.6.0 (Nov 9, 2012)

  • Inline #hashtagging: Directly add hashtags like #Movies, #my_project in the main text.
  • Highlight #hashtags in red.
  • Include # for tags in tag cloud to be consistent with the hashtags.
  • Change to edit/preview mode if text is missing/present automatically.
  • Change to edit mode when double-clicked into preview.
  • Detach model from combobox when updating the tags to make inserting a new tag faster.
  • Fix searching for dates.
  • Fix inserting and editing templates with unicode names.
  • Fix opening and creating journals (lp:1068655)
  • Use apport (If a crash occurs on Linux, an automatic bug report is prepared, but not submitted)
  • Do not allow using $HOME as a journal directory.
  • Do not let error notifications blink.
  • For Journal->New and Journal->Save-As: Only allow using empty directories.
  • For Journal->Open: Only allow using directories with at least one month file.
  • Use InfoBars for nicer inline notifications about errors.
  • Enable finishing link dialog with hitting ENTER.
  • Disable insert (Ctrl+V) and cut (Ctrl+X) shortcuts in preview mode.
  • Add more shortcuts in Journal menu: Export (Ctrl+E), Backup and Statistics (Alt+letter).
  • Update translations.

New in RedNotebook 1.5.0 (Jul 20, 2012)

  • Use new logo redesigned
  • Remember possible undo/redo actions for each day separately.
  • Turn all entries of old "Tags" categories into tags without entries at startup.
  • Suggest last tag when a new tag is added.
  • When suggesting to use the last tag, leave focus on the tag.
  • Enable copy menu item in preview mode. (LP:834473)
  • Grey out cut and paste menu items in preview mode.
  • Only allow hiding words from the cloud, not the tags.
  • Add shortcut (Ctrl+Home) for "Go to Today"
  • Fix undo for tags.
  • Fix: Remove special characters in template names before displaying them.
  • Exports: Make tag lists scrollable and sort the available tags alphabetically.
  • Install .mo files (translations) in the standard directories under Linux.
  • Drop support for Python 2.5. This means that we now support Python 2.6 and 2.7.
  • Windows: Update libraries in installer to gtk+ 2.24 and python 2.7.
  • Windows: Correctly show italics in preview.
  • Update translations.

New in RedNotebook 1.4.0 (Apr 2, 2012)

  • Search: If a search contains a hashtag (e.g. #Work or #Movies), only days
  • with all of those tags will be searched. This means you can e.g. search for
  • "project-xyz" only in the days tagged with "Work" with the query
  • "#Work project-xyz"
  • Search for combinations of tags (e.g. #magazine #linux)
  • Search: If the query only contains a single hashtag (e.g. #Movies), a list of
  • all subtags (the names of the movies) is shown
  • Search: Automatically scroll to found text in edit mode
  • Split tag and word clouds
  • Show tag and word cloud only if there are any tags and words respectively
  • Remove spaces from multi-word tags during search and in clouds
  • Auto-complete tags in search
  • Always include all tags regardless of their frequency in the cloud
  • Exports: Correctly set the appropriate extension for each export type
  • Exports: Always add a title for LaTeX exports
  • Fix: Correctly parse configuration values containing ='s
  • Fix: Paths returned from file and folder choosers must be converted to unicode
  • Fix: Correctly redirect error output into the logfile on Windows

New in RedNotebook 1.3.0 (Jan 25, 2012)

  • Let tags be categories without entries. This greatly simplifies and in fact unifies tags and categories.
  • Unify clouds and search -> Show the search bar above the clouds
  • When a search is made, substitute the word cloud with the search results.
  • Apply styling for thick horizontal lines
  • Apply formatting only once if a format button is clicked multiple times
  • Allow "Close to tray" only on Windows as most modern Linux distros don't have a tray anymore
  • If you still want the tray icon, set closeToTray=1 in the configuration file.
  • Make journal saving more than twice as fast by using libyaml.
  • Change Ctrl-PageUp(Down) directions to be more intuitive
  • Update and revise help text

New in RedNotebook 1.2.0 (Oct 5, 2011)

  • Let the "Back" and "Forward" button jump over blank days
  • Allow wildcards (*,.,?) in cloud black/white lists ("altr." hides altro, altra, etc.)
  • Add "Export currently visible day" option in export assistant
  • By default select the time range from today to today in the export wizard (LP:834489)
  • Show warning when second RedNotebook instance is started to prevent data loss (LP:771396)
  • Add option to set the date format for exports. An empty field removes dates from exports.
  • Remember scrollbar and cursor positions when changing between days and edit and preview mode
  • Allow double backslashes (\\) in filenames (e.g. for UNC paths)
  • Use Ubuntu font in editor, preview and cloud if it's available
  • Remember last export and backup locations
  • Show the most recent entries at the top of the search list by default
  • Search in annotations as well
  • Do not strip whitespace from date format (LP:838031)
  • Use auto-completion for all category entries
  • Mention the name of the day in weekday templates
  • Allow linebreaks (\\) only at the end of lines
  • Do not write empty month files to disk
  • Remove "Delete Entry" button (Use the context menu or the delete key instead)
  • Add tooltips for category buttons
  • Always keep categories sorted in search and annotations drop-down menus
  • Allow markup for links in categories (LP:782697)
  • Escape regular expression syntax in searches (*, +, etc.)
  • Use a better icon for Annotate (Edit)
  • Add more markup examples to templates help text
  • Fix: Txt2tags highlighting should not allow spaces between format markup and text
  • Fix: Do not use str.capitalize() for fonts in txt2tags.py to support turkish locales (LP:841698)
  • Fix on Windows: Correctly open local links with whitespace (LP:824420)
  • Let "Get help online" point to RedNotebook's answers section at launchpad
  • Code optimizations
  • Remove old cloud implementation
  • Remove external module htmltextview.py
  • Remove dead unicode code
  • Remove obsolete KeepNote source files
  • Remove unnecessary imports
  • Updated translations

New in RedNotebook 1.1.8 (Aug 9, 2011)

  • Fix: Abort startup if yaml file cannot be read to avoid losing data
  • Updated translations

New in RedNotebook 1.1.7 (Jul 13, 2011)

  • Fix: Chinese characters are not correctly rendered in preview (LP:731273)
  • Fix: Screen position not correctly remembered when opened from system tray (LP:804792)
  • Fix: Date is not inserted if default encoding can not be determined
  • Fix: Windows executable has no icon on Windows 7
  • Windows installer: Update to GTK+-2.16.6
  • Code: Use smarter internationalization code from elib.intl
  • Updated translations

New in RedNotebook 1.1.6 (Jul 13, 2011)

  • Fix date encoding (LP:775269)
  • Some translations updated

New in RedNotebook 1.1.5 (Jul 13, 2011)

  • Remove "RedNotebook" title in exports
  • Make templates translatable
  • Fix: Inserted dates always shows the time 00:00h (LP:744624)
  • Mention "--record installed-files" setup.py's option for remembering installed files in README

New in RedNotebook 1.1.4 (Mar 27, 2011)

  • Add "phone call" and "personal" templates
  • Fix: Application crashes while resetting last position (LP:728466)
  • Fix: Editing a category entry that contains a \\ removes the new line symbol (LP:719830)
  • Fix: Introductory text is not translated
  • Fix: Properly convert dates to unicode
  • When a format (bold, etc.) is applied with no text selected, add whitespace, not descriptive text
  • Add a tooltip for the edit button
  • Improve introductory text
  • Improve help text
  • Do not refer to annotations as "nodes" but as "entries"
  • Translate the word "Categories" in exports
  • In statistics window use "Selected Day" instead of "Current Day"
  • Cleanup GUI glade file
  • Many translations updated

New in RedNotebook 1.1.3 (Mar 3, 2011)

  • Remember window position from last session
  • Restore window position when returning from tray
  • Let the sub-windows be displayed relative to the main screen
  • After searching change to date with single click instead of double-click
  • Add useWebkit flag in configuration file
  • Can be set to 0 if webkit causes problems e.g. for Chinese fonts
  • Fix: Special characters inflate cloud black-/whitelist
  • Fix: Insertion of templates (LP:696205)
  • Fix: Do not load backup files accidentally (LP:705260)
  • Fix: Preferences window can't be opened (LP:696186)
  • Windows: Fix opening linked files with umlauts or other special characters
  • Code: Make pywebkitgtk an explicit requirement

New in RedNotebook 1.1.2 (Dec 27, 2010)

  • Add fullscreen mode (F11)
  • Highlight all found occurences of the searched word (LP:614353)
  • Highlight mixed markups (**__Bold underline__**)
  • Highlight structured headers (=Part=, ==Subpart==, ===Section===, ====Subsection====, =====Subsubsection=====)
  • Document structured headers
  • Highlight ``, "", ''
  • Write documentation about ``, "", ''
  • Let the preview and edit button have the same size
  • Fix: Correctly highlight lists (LP:622456)
  • Fix: Do not set maximized to True when sending RedNotebook to the tray (LP:657421)
  • Fix: Add Ctrl-P shortcut for edit button (LP:685609)
  • Fix: Add "\" to the list of ignored chars for word clouds
  • Fix: Escape characters before adding results to the search list
  • Fix: Local links with whitespace in latex
  • Windows: Fix opening linked files
  • Windows: Do not center window to prevent alignment issues
  • Windows: Fix image preview (LP:663944)
  • Internal: Replace tabs by whitespace in source code
  • Many translations updated

New in RedNotebook 1.1.1 (Nov 18, 2010)

  • Let user delete category with 'DELETE' key
  • Sort categories alphabetically
  • Fix: After clicking "Change the text" on an annotation, directly edit it
  • Fix: Journal -> _Journal in menu
  • Fix: Do not clear entry when category is changed in new-entry dialog
  • Fix: restore left divider position
  • Fix: Use rednotebook website for retrieving newest version information
  • Windows: Shrink installer size
  • Windows: Update gtk libs
  • Windows: New theme
  • Windows: New icons
  • New translations: English (United Kingdom), Norwegian Bokmal
  • Many translations updated

New in RedNotebook 1.1.0 (Nov 18, 2010)

  • When searching for text, search in dates too (Search for 2010-05 displays all entries of May 2010)
  • Improve checking for new version (Show version numbers)
  • Save last selected tab (Search/Clouds)
  • Save journal files as readable unicode
  • Save journal files without python directives
  • Let the Preview and the Edit button always have the same size
  • Get rid of warnings caused by older webkit versions
  • Use webkit on Windows
  • Use webkit by default if installed
  • Get rid of CamelCase in sourcecode
  • Open external files asynchronously with subprocess.Popen from preview
  • Fix: Correctly highlight multiple links and images on one line
  • Fix: Months that have been cleared of all text are now rewritten to disk
  • Fix: Allow ampersands in annotation links
  • Rewrite export assistant code
  • Much more code rewritten or restructured
  • Bundle msvcr dll in windows installer
  • New translation: Chinese (Traditional)
  • Many translations updated

New in RedNotebook 1.0.0 (Nov 18, 2010)

  • Describe how to add latex math formulas and custom html tags in help
  • Fix crash on windows when data and program live on different drives in portable mode
  • Fix display of italic text in edit mode
  • Fix inserting templates on Windows
  • New Translations: Faroese

New in RedNotebook 0.9.5 (May 18, 2010)

  • Show week numbers in calendar (edit weekNumbers in config file)
  • Sort items in configuration.cfg
  • Automatically put cursor into search field, when search tab is opened
  • Do not translate log
  • Fix export error on Windows (LP:575999)
  • Get rid of PangoWarnings on Windows
  • Get rid of Statusbar deprecation message
  • New recommended dependency: python-chardet

New in RedNotebook 0.9.4 (Apr 30, 2010)

  • Allow dragging of files and pictures into RedNotebook (Linux only)
  • Save data dir relative to application dir in portable mode
  • Remember if window was maximized
  • Make webkit the default preview backend
  • Improve documentation (Synchronization, Portable mode)
  • Improve list markup highlighting
  • Only add help content at first startup (Closes LP:550814)
  • Live highlighting of searched words in text
  • Scroll to found word at search
  • ake user directory configurable in default.cfg
  • Windows:
  • Fully translate Windows version
  • Add more languages to the Windows installer
  • Fix picture export on Windows
  • Hide PDF export button on windows (pywebkitgtk not available)
  • Portable mode has been improved
  • Let users insert templates again (Closes LP:538391)
  • New translations:
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Many translations updated

New in RedNotebook 0.9.3 (Mar 2, 2010)

  • Add graphical option to select webkit for previews
  • If available use webkit for clouds
  • Add context menu to the webkit clouds for hiding words
  • Change "Stricken" to "Strikethrough"
  • Add locale functions for complete translations
  • Change xhtml extension to .html
  • Improve documentation
  • New translations:
  • Italian
  • Many translations updated

New in RedNotebook 0.9.2 (Mar 2, 2010)

  • Use webkit for direct PDF export
  • Remove pdflatex (texlive) package suggestion
  • Improve menu layout
  • Add "Report A Problem" button
  • Add "Translate RedNotebook" button
  • Add "Get Help Online" button
  • Handle opening of links externally in webkit preview
  • Fix spellchecking
  • Fix linebreaks for XHTML
  • Improve documentation
  • New Translations:
  • Spanish
  • Updated Translations:
  • German
  • Indonesian
  • Hebrew
  • Malay
  • Czech
  • Polish
  • Dutch
  • Chinese (Simplified)

New in RedNotebook 0.9.1 (Mar 2, 2010)

  • Make markup highlighting much faster
  • Allow using webkit for previews (In the config file, set useWebkit to 1)
  • Make pywebkitgtk (python-webkit) an optional, but highly recommended dependency
  • Make welcome text translatable
  • Add comments for translators
  • Make help available online

New in RedNotebook 0.9.0 (Mar 2, 2010)

  • Markup Highlighting (a little WYSIWYG/RTF)
  • New translations
  • Indonesian
  • Asturian
  • Ukrainian
  • Danish
  • Updated translations
  • All (Yay, thanks!)

New in RedNotebook 0.8.9 (Mar 2, 2010)

  • Save your journal to a remote server (SSH, FTP and WebDAV support)
  • Do not load backup files in data directory
  • Fix "Save As"
  • New translations:
  • Dutch
  • Polish

New in RedNotebook 0.8.8 (Mar 2, 2010)

  • Internationalization:
  • RedNotebook is now available in:
  • German
  • Czech
  • Hebrew
  • Malay
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • French
  • Translations are partly available for:
  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • Croatian
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Belarusian
  • New translations can be made at launchpad.net
  • Add "Start minimized to tray" command line parameter
  • Add cloud words white list for short words

New in RedNotebook 0.8.7 (Mar 2, 2010)

  • Only save content and config when they have been changed
  • Make the UI easier to understand
  • provide more tooltips
  • Update help
  • explain how to use Categories as Todo items there
  • make help topic centric
  • cleanup template help
  • Fix "Insert this Weekday's Template"

New in RedNotebook 0.8.6 (Sep 4, 2009)

  • Added an optional tray icon
  • Closing the window sends RedNotebook to the system tray)
  • The menubar has been rewritten to support gtk+ 2.14
  • Fix "add example content"
  • Fix calendar issue (again)
  • Fix crash on Hardy

New in RedNotebook 0.8.5 (Sep 4, 2009)

  • Requires gtkspell for python. This is included in the python-gnome2-extras package)
  • When a template is inserted, every occurence of "$date$" is converted to the current date
  • Set date format in preferences)
  • Open a specified journal from the command line
  • execute "rednotebook -h" for instructions)
  • Autocomplete category entries
  • Wrap lines in categories view
  • When a category is selected on the right and you add a new category entry
  • set focus directly in entry field
  • Fix: Allow underscores and whitespace in filenames for latex (LP:414588)
  • Fix: Reset min gtk version to 2.14

New in RedNotebook 0.8.4 (Sep 4, 2009)

  • Add Undu and Redo for Categories
  • Hit Ctrl-Z to restore a deleted category entry)
  • Hide cloud words with simple right-click
  • Open pictures by double-clicking them (in preview)
  • Statistics: Show number of distinct words
  • Category items can now be formatted bold, italic, underlined, stricken
  • Just put **, //, __ or -- around the entry text)
  • Format category entries with the "Format" button
  • Select a node on the right and apply a format from the "Format" menu)
  • Add "Stricken" format button
  • Useful e.g. for completed todo items)
  • New Shortcuts
  • Ctrl-N: Add a new entry to a category
  • Ctrl-T: Tag the current day
  • You can now use TAB to navigate in the "New entry dialog"
  • Switch from libglade to GtkBuilder (the python-glade dep can be dropped)
  • Fix undo and redo for main text

New in RedNotebook 0.8.3 (Sep 4, 2009)

  • New statistics dialog with daily word count. Shows number of words, lines, and chars
  • Fill some days of the journal with solutions of common question at first startup
  • Add option to restore that example content. It will be placed after the last edited day
  • Add "Autostart RedNotebook" option
  • Win: Installer Option
  • Format category entries in search window
  • Finish a new category entry by hitting ENTER
  • Put the initial focus in the text window for direct typing (LP:406450)
  • Fix calendar warning
  • Use glib.timeout_add_seconds for automatic saving for less energy consumption on laptops
  • Highlight searched words in preview too

New in RedNotebook 0.8.2 (Sep 4, 2009)

  • Blacklist for clouds in GUI
  • Let the search function highlight found words
  • Fix line breaks for exports
  • Fix opening files on Mac
  • Add little section about comments to Help text
  • Fix size for insert icon by using a stock icon
  • Do not use small toolbar icon sizes (LP:405991)

New in RedNotebook 0.8.1 (Sep 4, 2009)

  • make font size configurable (under preferences)
  • Add line breaks (under insert menu)
  • Add a whitespace char between adjacent lines
  • Fix: Win Version should use smaller insert-image icon (16x16)

New in RedNotebook 0.8.0 (Sep 4, 2009)

  • Graphical preferences dialog (Under "Edit" menu)
  • Make date/time format configurable in the preferences dialog
  • Fix unicode bugs

New in RedNotebook 0.7.6 (Jul 22, 2009)

  • Undu and redo for the main text
  • Use libyaml for faster loading and dumping of files (Big journals now open ~10 times faster)
  • Speed improvements for navigation between days
  • Add information for Latex to PDF conversion
  • Shortcut for turning on/off the preview: Ctrl+P
  • New entry in Edit menu: "Find"
  • Append error messages to the logfile
  • Use new svn version of txt2tags
  • Fix URL and file link insertion

New in RedNotebook 0.7.5 (Jul 22, 2009)

  • Buttons for bold, italic, underlined text
  • Fixed hardy bug: yaml 3.05 does not have __version__ attribute
  • Removed shebangs from python modules (Closes LP:393602)

New in RedNotebook 0.7.4 (Jul 22, 2009)

  • Create ~/.rednotebook dir before logging is initialized (Closes LP:392235)
  • Set native theme for windows version

New in RedNotebook 0.7.3 (Jul 22, 2009)

  • Only save months that have been visited for a faster exit
  • Improve logging
  • Automatically create a logfile for debugging
  • Fix: Check if directory exists before opening it

New in RedNotebook 0.7.2 (May 27, 2009)

  • Choose a folder for journal (Save-As)
  • Have more than one journal (New Journal)
  • Open existing journals (Open Journal)

New in RedNotebook 0.7.1 (May 21, 2009)

  • Open and create template files from within RedNotebook
  • Live update of template list
  • Fix opening files for Win

New in RedNotebook 0.6.7 (Apr 23, 2009)

  • Make deb package Python 2.6 compatible
  • Add yaml-parser error handling
  • Fix inserting file links containing whitespace

New in RedNotebook 0.4.0 (Jan 19, 2009)

  • Do not export empty days
  • Fix search for single digit months

New in RedNotebook 0.3.0 (Dec 4, 2008)

  • Template entries for each weekday
  • Undo & Redo
  • Ubuntu Main Menu Entry
  • Improved Documentation

New in RedNotebook 0.2.0 (Nov 12, 2008)

  • Word Cloud
  • Frame Icons in Multiple Resolutions
  • After adding new category, directly add new entry
  • Example Categories in Right Pane
  • Case-insensitive search
  • Statistics: Number of words, entries