Release Notes

Download CintaNotes 3.1.3 (0.00 MB)
Download CintaNotes 3.1.3 Portable Version (0.00 MB)

Download CintaNotes 3.1.2 (5.28 MB)
Download CintaNotes 3.1.2 Portable Version (4.79 MB)

Enhancements:

• Added settings option “selection.followedited” to control whether focus should follow the edited note (enabled by default)
• Added settings option “tags.hierarchy.backslashes” which determines if tag input fields should automatically convert backslashes to forward slashes.
• Improved display of note preview when note has remarks but no text
• Editor: only suggest tags from edited note’s section in context-sensitive tag suggestions

Fixes:

• Fixed one remaining possible reason for crashes upon pasting rich text into note editor
• Main windows position was not saved when exiting the program using tray menu
• Regression: tags autocomplete pop-up cut off text
• Editor: undo of some formatting changes didn’t work
• Search by tag text didn’t properly implement whole word search (i.e. when “search inside words” was turned off)
• Main window was needlessly activated after using “Add new note” hotkey

Download CintaNotes 3.1.1 (5.31 MB)
Download CintaNotes 3.1.1 Portable Version (4.83 MB)

Features:

• Notes list: display remarks preview
• Options/Notes list: add configuring of remarks preview display
• Added “Options/Tags/Context-Sensitive Suggestions” option. When active, only tags from currently active sections will be suggested for autocomplete.
• Notebook encryption: add “Lock when PC is locked” option

Enhancements:

• Editor: improve handling of local cintanotes:// links Now such links are handled by CintaNotes itself, without using the system protocol handler
• Improve speed of mouse wheel scrolling of tag suggestions
• Moved help online, what reduced the size of the distribution package by 30%.
• Localized help is now opened for Russian and German UI languages.

Fixes:

• Clipping of numbered lists removed first number
• Ad-hoc “Timer N not in the registry” error
• Simplenote sync: crash when choosing “Use system proxy” when in fact system was not configured to use a proxy
• Regression: “Linked note not found” error on normal http links
• Search: word exclusion with (-) sign didn’t work when attachments field was included in search
• Fixed random crashes upon pasting rich text into note editor
• Numbered lists with empty lines are now recognized upon clipping or pasting
• Note properties: date time picker should use system’s date and time format

Download CintaNotes 3.1 (5.32 MB)
Download CintaNotes 3.1 Portable Version (4.84 MB)

Enhancements:

• Link fields are no longer lost when merging notes
• Updater: upon clicking on download, display additional warning if the license key won’t be valid for the downloaded version

Fixes:

• “Database is locked” error when switching to the same encrypted notebook
• Possible PasswordEnterCancelledException after PC wakes up from sleep
• Wrong sort order displayed in newly created sections
• Regression: Notes list: Attachments not visible when note body is empty
• Tag sidebar: Shift+Alt+click activated non-related excluded tags
• Tag sidebar: Ctrl-Alt-click on a tag expanded whole tag tree
• Tag sidebar: Shift-clicking on a tag included all excluded tags
• Simplenote sync: fix crash when syncing attachments while working over proxy
• Export to XML: tags and notes were unordered
• Editor: Links with certain characters were not recognized correctly
• Editor: bug when replacing selection by typing one symbol and then undoing it
• Editor: fixed possible notelink damaging
• Editor: F3 “search inside words” inconsistent with notes list search settings

Download CintaNotes 3.0.2 (7.66 MB)
Download CintaNotes 3.0.2 Portable Version (7.27 MB)

Enhancements:

• Notes list: Highlight the link icon when search term appears in the Link field
• Improved performance of notes list painting and scrolling
• Logging: don’t include user data to log by default

  Added “debug.log.userdata” parameter to cintanotes.settings.

Fixes:

• Regression: Window-related items in system menu were not working
• Notes list: wrong search hilites in attachments when file name gets shortened
• File attachments: scroll file list in note preview to highlight appropriate search result
• Unnecessary log files were generated
• Section bar: double clicking on scrolling arrow shouldn’t select all sections
• Import: tags were not displayed correctly after second import
• Links with percent sign (%) not recognized correctly
• Fixed duplicate menu mnemonics
• Simplenote sync: unable to upload big file (> 40MB)
• Editor: password was required to display tag suggestions
• Fixed possible “column num not unqiue” error upon deleting a section

Download CintaNotes 3.0.1 (7.55 MB)
Download CintaNotes 3.0.1 Portable Version (7.17 MB)

Features:

• File and image attachments in notes.
• Tracking of attachment viewing and editing: temp files are automatically removed, warning upon opening attachments from encrypted notebooks.
• Synchronization of attachments (100MB limit)
• Added used server space indicator to the File/Synchronization window.

Fixes:

• Editor: links to files in note text didn’t always open
• Wrong tag counts after batch tagging
• Simplenote sync: fixed possible creation of note duplicates
• Wrong tag counts after renaming hierarchical tags
• Wrong notes list state after deleting the last note having selected tag
• Notebook encryption: CN prompted for a password on manual note saving
• Fixed possible crash after waking up from sleep
• Fixed possible crash when quickly closing the editor after manual save
• Clipping: note is not tagged with active tags if current section is not inbox
• Notes list: wrong tab distance rendering
• Tray icon was not recreated after Explorer restart if CN was started minimized
• Recycle bin: note preview didn’t render formatting
• Regression: F3 search in editor didn’t work for multi-term searches
• Reduce painting flicker on startup

Download CintaNotes 3.0 (7.52 MB)
Download CintaNotes 3.0 Portable Version (7.13 MB)

Enhancements:

• Notes list: added option to completely hide tags (in “Options/Notes List”)
• Added “Options/Search/Start New Search on Ctrl+F” option
• Added “Options/Search/Multi-step reset on Esc” option
• Store path to the PDF file in the Link field when clipping from Adobe Reader (works only for PDF files opened by double-clicking)

Fixes:

• Editor: numbered list lost on copy paste when text font is large
• Editor: crash when trying to delete a note which was deleted from the notes list
• Search: auto moving window doesn’t work correctly in Win XP and Win 7 with Classic theme
• Links to PDF files were not extracted when clipping from Adobe Reader 11
• Editor: pasted text was highlighted if system had non-white background
• Editor: whole lines could be trimmed on save
• Fixed possible crash upon program exit
• Untagged count was not updated after deleting tag using tag’s context menu

Download CintaNotes 2.9.3 (7.31 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.9.3 Portable Version (6.84 MB)

Enhancements:

• Clipping: getting link to source file from the source application command line
• Clipping: save path to source file in the Link field when clipping from Wordpad
• Clipping: save path to source file in the Link field when clipping from Libre Office

Fixes:

• Exception when exiting the program with unsaved editor and main window in tray
• CN appeared on taskbar after session unlock even when minimized to tray
• “File/Password protection” menu item didn’t hide when the “ui.profeatures.hide” option was active
• About dialog: make end year in copyright message auto updated
• Junk log files could appear with message about OpenClipboard failure
• Improved debug logging: always write program version into the log

Download CintaNotes 2.9.2 (7.32 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.9.2 Portable Version (6.86 MB)

Enhancements:

• Automatic file link tracking. Now file links continue to work even after you move file to another folder, or rename them

  Note: This works only within a single disk volume and is implemented via creating Windows shortcuts in the “cache\filelinks” subdirectory. This feature can be turned off by the “editor.links.filelinktracking.enabled” option in cintanotes.settings

Fixes:

• Fixed crash upon startup with error about SessionNotifier when Terminal Services are disabled
• Fixed crash after printing a note from the editor and closing it
• Notes list: wrong search highlight of matches in date/time fields
• Search doesn’t treat German umlauts as different from same letters without umlauts
• Notebook encryption: password dialog displayed after notebook reload
• Simplenote sync: disappearing angle bracket
• Middle-click tagging reverted when an already opened note is saved
• Editor: links not recognized after cut and undo
• Non-white background was treated as highlight

Download CintaNotes 2.9.1 (7.18 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.9.1 Portable Version (6.72 MB)

Features:

• Notebook encryption and password protection: New menu item “File/Password protection”.
• Option to lock notebook and minimize to tray after timeout
• Option to autolock notebook after minimizing to tray

Enhancements:

• Import dialog: add “Allow duplicates” checkbox
• Editor: ability to hide inline labels (“editor.inlinehints.enabled” in cintanotes.settings)
• Editor: F5 to insert current date (insert timestamp shortcut changed to Ctrl+F5)
• Editor: links now support running programs with command line parameters
• Editor: automatically URL-encode links and add http:// to links without protocol
• Add DB locking mode setting to the settings file (“sqlite.pragma.locking_mode”), and change default locking mode to “EXCLUSIVE”
• XML Export: drop support of exporting to old XML format
• Indicate in File menu when password protection or synchronization are active for the current notebook

Fixes:

• NoteProperties: Error in seconds when editing dates in notes
• Licensing: replacing existing license by clipped license data didn’t work correctly
• Find and replace: the hint “find reached the starting point of the search” didn’t auto-hide
• Editor: wrong behavior when pressing Del on the empty last line of a bullet list
• Editor: Link field could grow too large
• Moving notes to other sections via Shift+F6 didn’t update modified date
• Fix links watchdog false signal
• Fix wrong tag autocomplete positioning when taskbar is on the right side

Download CintaNotes 2.9 (7.33 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.9 Portable Version (6.89 MB)

Enhancements:

• Note properties: add ability to edit seconds
• Editor: double Ctrl+Home(End) in remarks field should focus note text and go to start(end).

Fixes:

• Window position not always restored correctly after restart
• Editor: internal note links can get corrupt
• Editor: on some computers note links are not copied when pasting notes as RTF
• Editor: ampersand (&) and apostrophe (‘) are not recognized as part of URL
• Editor: link editor doesn’t resize after pressing enter
• Editor: removing list style should convert vertical tabs to CRLFs
• Editor: link field should be trimmed on exiting the edit mode
• Editor: Alt+Shift+U(F) produce ding sound
• Editor: add links watchdog to report link corruption
• Editor: note title is not right-trimmed on save when editor line trimming is on
• Search: search string becomes lower case after program restart
• Simplenote sync: recycle bin issues
• Simplenote sync: CN resets SN note’s “Pinned to top” status
• Simplenote sync: crash on downloading note containing special chars
• Simplenote sync: infinite uploading
• Error when closing CN while editor with a changed note is open
• Synchronization dialog: not possible to delete login credentials
• Synchronization dialog: initial focus missing
• License: trailing blanks in the “Registration Name and Email” field prevent registration
• Export: “Selected” is not disabled even if the active section is empty

Download CintaNotes 2.8.6 (6.80 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.8.6 Portable Version (6.35 MB)

Enhancements:

• Editor: replaced “Tags”, “Link” and “Remarks” labels with icons
• Added new Options/Editor/Word Wrap option
• Editor: made Ctrl+Del delete note confirmation optional
• Simplenote sync: if synchronization was activated, start syncing immediately after closing the Synchronization dialog
• Internal code improvements

Fixes:

• Simplenote sync: fixed moving remote notes to recycle bin bug
• Simplenote sync: don’t request tag index twice
• Wrong backup path used when CintaNotes is in Program Files subfolder
• Remove unnecessary notebook reload after import

Download CintaNotes 2.8.5 (6.93 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.8.5 Portable Version (6.47 MB)

Enhancements:

• Added option to control RTF clipping: “clipping.format.rtf.enabled”. Set it to 0 if you’re having issues when clipping from Internet Explorer or Microsoft Word.

Fixes:

• RTL: Fixed remaining wrong bracket direction issues
• Notes list: A tag name with a ‘&’ will not be displayed correctly
• Tag drop down is cut off on monitor border
• Section “Inbox” status can’t be cleared when notebook has only one section
• Possible “LogicException” error after deleting section
• Simplenote sync: tag deletion or renaming is not uploaded to server
• Editor: always focus note body when there are search hits
• Don’t replicate Program Files sub-folder structure in %APPDATA%

Download CintaNotes 2.8.4 (7.23 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.8.4 Portable Version (6.77 MB)

Enhancements:

• Focus notes list on minimize (enables starting new search immediately after restoring CN window later)
• Updated UI translations

Fixes:

• Backup: backup options got cleared on restart
• Crash on pasting into filtered notes list
• Editor: note link corruption after manipulating lists

Download CintaNotes 2.8.3 (7.17 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.8.3 Portable Version (6.71 MB)

Enhancements:

• Better right-to-left languages support with the new settings “app.mainframe.rtlenabled” and “app.mainframe.userightalignbydefault “
• Search history: auto add search terms to history after a short timeout
• Editor: note link tooltips should stay long enough to read note text
• Don’t run backup and sync for notebooks located in the backup folder

Fixes:

• Editor: paragraph text formatting hotkeys don’t change current formatting state
• Tag sidebar: Untagged count was not updated after moving notes to other section
• Search history: Back and forward buttons flickered when pressed

Download CintaNotes 2.8.2 (7.17 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.8.2 Portable Version (6.71 MB)

Enhancements:

• Search history: Current state always displayed in the history menu

Fixes:

• Tag sidebar: wrong tag count display
• Notes list: Paragraph formatting was not immediately updated in note preview after edit
• Search history: Unwanted states got inserted into history
• Simplenote sync: in some cases tags could get deleted on upload
• Notebook title appeared in lowercase after closing another notebook
• Tag suggestion list was unsorted
• Deleting a section didn’t move its notes to the Recycle Bin

Download CintaNotes 2.8.1 (7.10 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.8.1 Portable Version (6.64 MB)

Features:

• Search history: forward and backward navigation on the search bar
• Search history menu on right click on back and forward buttons
• Add option Tags/Autodeleted by default

Enhancements:

• Improved notebook loading and switching performance
• Improved section switching performance
• Improved notes list scrolling performance
• Improved tag renaming, splitting and merging performance
• Improved import performance
• Don’t reset filter to keep just edited note visible by default (will affect new installations only)
• Tag sidebar: tags font is now configurable with “app.mainframe.tagsidebar.font” settings file option
• Recycle bin: upon restoring notes, create sections if necessary

Fixes:

• Editor: fixed outstanding stateful text formatting issues
• Tag sidebar: scrolling should stop when mouse button is released
• Editor: “Insert Link” command is disabled when selected text is wrapped
• Editor: vertical tabs are treated as paragraph separators
• Editor: inconsistent behavior of some text formatting shortcuts
• Fix possible crash on import
• Notebook file name in app title turns to lower case
• Tab scrolling sometimes can freeze
• Simplenote sync: fix many causes for crashes and hangs

Download CintaNotes 2.8 (6.93 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.8 Portable Version (6.47 MB)

Enhancements:

• Tag sidebar: tooltips with full tag name when tag name doesn’t fit
• Editor: make editor’s icon different from main window icon
• Notes list: Change of sorting should keep selection
• Editor: make text formatting shortcuts stateful
• Editor: Enter in the title should move focus to the note’s text
• Editor: add “Indent/Outdent” context menu options
• Editor: don’t create empty notes even when OK pressed
• Change shortcuts for moving sections to Ctrl+Shift+Alt+Left/Right

Fixes:

• “No Internet connection” error on some configurations
• Possible startup error “SystemMenu::insertItem failed”
• Editor: pasting into list item error
• Editor: Undo could skip events
• Licensing: “License expired” when license.key file is not writable
• Simplenote sync: notes deleted in other clients weren’t moved to trash
• Simplenote sync: possible inability to successfully finish sync

Download CintaNotes 2.7.2 (5.47 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.7.2 Portable Version (5.01 MB)

Enhancements:

• New option: “Options/Startup/Notify when Activating Existing Instance”
• Editor: improved pasting into lists New setting “editor.lists.paste.alwaysintoitem” and new command “Paste Into List Item”
• Simplenote sync: improve syncing down of notes w/o #section tag
• Anti-feature bloat: removed unnecessary options “Editor/Text Formatting” and “Editor/Auto-Indent”

Fixes:

• Editor: removing bullet list style didn’t work correctly for multiline paragraphs
• Editor: entering CJK symbols with Microsoft IME corrupted links
• Editor/Replace: “Replace All” button worked as simple “Replace” when activated with Enter key
• Clipping: whitespace trimming could in some cases corrupt newlines
• Command line interface: Opening notebook didn’t work when path contained quotes, spaces or national symbols
• Simplenote sync: in some cases sync could’t finish always try to update same notes
• Message boxes could appear on the wrong screen with a dual screen setup
• Fixed wrong UI labels when “lang” directory is missing

Download CintaNotes 2.7.1 (5.50 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.7.1 Portable Version (5.03 MB)

Features:

• Note printing
• Right and center paragraph alignment support

Enhancements:

• Add “Always display full tag names” to notes list options
• Editor: Add shortcuts for applying formatting to current paragraph (Ctrl+Shift+B, Ctrl+Shift+I, etc.)
• Translatable keyboard shortcuts
• Added screenshots to help
• Added “All files” option to File/Open and File/Import
• Tag sidebar: right click doesn’t change tag selection anymore
• Editor/Search: focus and select all text in the search box on Ctrl+F

Fixes:

• Notes list: Strikeout and underlined text problem
• Crash on pressing Ctrl+F12 in opened note
• Editor: Ctrl+Bksp in lists eats vertical tab
• Tag hint window positioning error with multiple screens
• Editor: lost bullet while copy & pasting of bullet list
• Editor: pasting text from PuTTy didn’t work for some users
• License dialog: license delete hint is cut in German UI
• Dialogs positioning error with multiple screens
• Note properties dialog: wrong statistics for unsaved notes
• Tag autocomplete not displayed when searching in “Any text field”
• Editor: BkSp+Undo+BkSp corrupts links
• Editor: error when clicking a link to a file with CJK characters in name

Download CintaNotes 2.7 (5.47 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.7 Portable Version (5.01 MB)

Enhancements:

• Make search string always shared between sections
• Double click to select all sections
• Middle click to change inbox section
• Pasted notes now go into their original section if it is currently active
• Search string like “-tag” now works for negating tags from the search box

Fixes:

• Import error on non-lowercase file extension
• Editor: Crash after selecting all text and trying to “Find previous”
• Editor: Single lines were copied with bullet markers
• Editor: Numbered lists were copied to notepad with wrong counting
• Editor: Ctrl+C in Link field was not always working
• Editor: Empty line added via Shift+Enter doesn’t end bulleted and numbered lists
• Delete note confirmation message dialog could get extremely wide
• Tag list filter setting was reset on notebook switching
• (Regression) Search: Negated words in search were not working
• Notes list: Multiple Ctrl+BkSp lead to a crash
• Fixed possible crash on start when default notebook needs to be upgraded

Download CintaNotes 2.6.1 (4.44 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.6.1 Portable Version (3.97 MB)

Features:

• Editor: Search and replace inside of note edit dialog
• Notes list: double click in empty area to add new note

Enhancements:

• Export: provide default filename
• Export: reduce UI clutter, remove unnecessary groupboxes
• Editor: add “Properties…” to context menu
• Focused note and note selection for each section are now remembered on program restart
• Option to hide “All” button on section bar, with it being hidden by default
• Tag sidebar: tag list filtering settings are now remembered on restart
• License dialog: Replace “Buy” button with “Renew” when license is present
• Notes list: Make selected and unselected notes more distinguishable
• Notes list: Try to keep scroll position and focused note on tag filter change

Fixes:

• Simplenote sync: search filter is reset after sync (regression)
• Editor: don’t apply list markers to empty lines
• Editor: shortened URLs not entirely visible in the Link field
• Recycle Bin: crash after mouse click when list is empty
• Editor: “mailto:” links diplayed incorrectly
• Buttons remain hover-highlighted even after mouse leave
• Section-related error when clipping with “display in editor” turned on
• “Replace tags” command changes current tag selection
• Export: Error while exporting to old XML format
• Simplenote sync: creation date is killed when synced after FlickNote
• Alt+Shift+C shouldn’t activate menu mnemonics
• Editor: link formatting becomes corrupted after undoing Shift+Enter
• Editor: control focus is lost after Alt+Tab

Download CintaNotes 2.6 (3.16 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.6 Portable Version (2.70 MB)

Enhancements:

• Editor: Ctrl+Home/End in any field except Remarks to go to text start and end
• Make Alt+F+number work regardless of keyboard layout

Fixes:

• Notes list: Incorrect rendering of a clipped numbered list
• Notes list: Jumping numbers in numbered lists
• Clipping: Numbers could disappear from numbered lists on clipping
• Options/Hot keys: edit field background was not white
• Export: Errors during export lead to program crash
• Export: Exporting tags only to text file lead to program crash
• Search: Tags with capital letters were not highlighted in note previews
• Tune settings to help prevent “database disk image is malformed” error

Download CintaNotes 2.5.2 (2.86 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.5.2 Portable Version (2.37 MB)

Enhancements:

• Added F2 as a shortcut for “Edit” command.
• Improved tray icon click behavior
• Bring CN window to foreground if CN window is obscured by other windows.
• Editor: edit link immediately on Alt+L.

Fixes:

• Editor: Alt+NumPad character input not working properly.
• Editor: exception when undoing bullet list edit.
• Editor: random character at end of text.
• Simplenote sync: CN could hang on exit
• Simplenote sync: sync could hang.
• Simplenote sync: CN used to reset SN’s Markdown flag.
• Tag autocomplete could appear partly off-screen.
• Edit window creeped to the right when taskbar was on left.
• Backup didn’t start on time.
• CN could hang on startup while fixing DB integrity errors.

Download CintaNotes 2.5.1 (2.84 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.5.1 Portable Version (2.36 MB)

Features:

• “Remarks” field
  Notes now have a new field “Remarks”, intended to collect additional data on what is written in the main note body (which quite often is clipped from somewhere)
• Note export: ability to choose which fields should be exported

Enhancements:

• XML import now supports XML files with UTF-8 encoding
• Upgraded internal DB engine to SQLite 3.8.1
• Notes list: Clickable link icons in note preview
• Notes list: Improved display of long hierarchical tags Now only the last part of the tag name is displayed by default, the full name is displayed in a tooltip when you hover the mouse over the tag.
• Tag deletion: provide option to also delete notes with selected tags
• New option in internet connection setting: “Use system proxy settings”
• Notes list: always scroll to the top of the list on new search.
• Added option to clear filters on starting new search: “filters.reset.onnewsearch.enabled”.
• Option to turn off many confirmation messages, implemented as “Don’t ask again” checkboxes.
• Added shortcuts to “File” menu commands: New (Ctrl+E), Open (Ctrl+O), Save As (Ctrl+S), Close (Ctrl+W).

Fixes:

• Crash on linking notes
• Crash on trying to edit a certain note
• Intranet URLs were not recognized
• Program failed to respond to rapid mousewheel events
• Simplenote sync: constant “not completed, try later” when moving remote note to recycle bin
• Simplenote sync: deleted synced section appeared again after sync
• Simplenote sync: synchronization could constantly fail
• Sorting order could be lost for main section
• Text and paragraph formats could get corrupted on merging notes
• Unable to import XML with more than 3 sections even when “Import sections” was unchecked

Download CintaNotes 2.5 (2.84 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.5 Portable Version (2.35 MB)

Features

• Enhanced hyperlink support in notes
  
  Now it is possible to turn any text into a hyperlink targeting either an arbitrary URL, a file, or another note.
• Note properties: display character and word counts

Enhancements

• Editor: change title from “Edit ‘Smth'” to “Smth (Edit)”
• Simplenote sync: prevention of duplicates when syncing an exported notebook

Fixes

• Simplenote sync: notes containing %25 synced with errors
• Recycle bin: note with paraformats can’t be opened
• Esc key handling: immediate minimize and non-multistep reset fail when search box has focus
• Editor: When no text is selected, text formatting shortcuts now toggle formatting for current word only and not whole paragraph
• Editor: Fixed a numbered list formatting error
• Editor: Fixed indents being reset on applying list format
• HTML export: links without protocol prefix didn’t work
• CN could crash on changing notebooks via File menu
• In some cases a “License Expired” message could be shown on valid license.
• Tags not assigned to any note were not imported.

Download CintaNotes 2.4 (3.03 MB)
Download CintaNotes 2.4 Portable Version (2.54 MB)