CintaNotes versions

CintaNotes lets you take and manage notes with ease
3.3
Sep 5, 2016
Editorial review
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3.1
Nov 28, 2015
Review
3.0
Oct 7, 2015
Review
Dec 31, 2015
2.9
Jun 11, 2015
Editorial review
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2.8
Oct 16, 2014
Review
2.7
Aug 4, 2014
2.6
May 9, 2014
2.5
Dec 25, 2013
Editorial review
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Sep 25, 2014
2.4
Sep 18, 2013
Editorial review
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2.3
Jul 16, 2013
Review
2.2
May 8, 2013
Editorial review
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2.1
Mar 19, 2013
2.0
Dec 19, 2012
Editorial review
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1.8
Sep 26, 2012
Editorial review
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1.7
Jul 10, 2012
Review
1.6
Apr 12, 2012
Review
1.5
Nov 5, 2011
Review
1.4
Jan 18, 2011
Editorial review
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1.2
Jul 20, 2010
Review

What's new

v3.3 [Sep 5, 2016]
May contain unspecified improvements or bug fixes.

v3.0 [Oct 7, 2015]
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

v2.9 [Jun 11, 2015]
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

v2.8 [Oct 16, 2014]
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%.

v2.4 [Sep 18, 2013]
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.

v2.2 [May 8, 2013]
Features:
- Simplenote sync: support for syncing of multiple sections
Enhancements:
- Unified portable and installer versions into one distributive which can be installed both ways.
- Simplenote sync: got rid of "Uid:" lines in synced notes
- Recycle bin: added column with first non-empty text line from deleted note
- Recycle bin: view deleted note on double-click.
- License renewal support
Fixes:
- Notes list: note color didn't change when note was moved to another section
- Reverted back to SQLite 3.7.13 due to performance and stability issues
- Recycle bin: note couldn't be restored when section didn't exist

v2.0 [Dec 19, 2012]
Simplenote synchronization
Finally you'll be able to access your notes from your mobile device! (Commercial)
Tabbed notebook sections
Divide your notebook into colorful sections! (Up to 3 sections in the free version, unlimited number of sections in the licensed version.)
Linking notes with each other
Now you can link notes together! More than that, now you can place a link to a CN note into any rich-text enabled app! (Commercial)
Application icon colorization
Now the application icon is colored according to selected color theme, which helps to distinguish between icons in the notification area when you run multiple instances of CN.

v1.8 [Sep 26, 2012]
- Updated translations
- Updated help
- Fixed crash on searching for "/"
- Case change in tag names using Rename command was not possible
- Note selection painting was wrong if note didn't have text and tags.
- Tag hierarchy support and expandable tag trees on the Tag Sidebar.
- "Display Related Tags Only" mode for the Tag sidebar This mode makes it really easy to focus on what's important at the moment - only tags related to the current tag selection are displayed.
- Tag properties dialog
- Possibility to create tags not associated with notes
- Note properties dialog to edit note's timestamps.
- "Check for Updates" command.
- Automatic update check.
- New option: "Options/Startup/Restore last tag selection".
- New option: "Options/Tags/Accept On/Single mouse click".
- Tooltips for some commands.
- - Toggling of tag count display in the Tag Sidebar's context menu
- Compiled with support for SSE instructions.
- Add/Remove tags dialog: Remove tags field now only suggests tags which are present in the note.
- Minor visual changes: note selection has been made more prominent, crossed out tags are now less bright.
- To avoid problems while searching, accepting suggestions on spacebar now doesn't apply to the search box
- New shortcuts for Tag sidebar: Ctrl+Alt+Click crosses out all tags except the clicked one (to display notes having this tag only and no other tags); Shift+Alt+Click crosses out all children of a parent tag (to display notes having this parent tag but not having any of the child tags).
- Pasting notes into other apps was not working under some circumstances.
- Exception when notebook path access was denied.
- HTML export didn't specify encoding with a byte order mark, which could lead some browsers to display the file with wrong encoding.
- Editor: Ctrl+Left/Right selection ignored international characters like German umlauts.
- Wrong line breaking in text preview with Courier font.
- Editor: Title text got clipped on mouse hover (in XP).
- Editor: Undo/redo for text formatting worked only when you pressed Ctrl+Z(Y) many times.
- Label controls flickered on window move.
- Editor: "something.xy" was recognized as a hyperlink regardless if .xy was a real top level domain
- F11 shortcut was not displayed in File/Export menu item.
- Fixed wrong wrapping of East-Asian characters in the note preview.
- URLs were not saved when clipping from Opera 12 x64.
- Notes having only titles were lost on merging.
- "Options/Startup/Run at system startup" could display wrong state.
- Wrong message about "inaccessible path" in case of newer notebook file version.

v1.7 [Jul 10, 2012]
- Updated translations
- Updated help
- Fixed crash on searching for "/"
- Case change in tag names using Rename command was not possible
- Note selection painting was wrong if note didn't have text and tags.
- Tag hierarchy support and expandable tag trees on the Tag Sidebar.
- "Display Related Tags Only" mode for the Tag sidebar This mode makes it really easy to focus on what's important at the moment - only tags related to the current tag selection are displayed.
- Tag properties dialog
- Possibility to create tags not associated with notes
- Note properties dialog to edit note's timestamps.
- "Check for Updates" command.
- Automatic update check.
- New option: "Options/Startup/Restore last tag selection".
- New option: "Options/Tags/Accept On/Single mouse click".
- Tooltips for some commands.
- - Toggling of tag count display in the Tag Sidebar's context menu
- Compiled with support for SSE instructions.
- Add/Remove tags dialog: Remove tags field now only suggests tags which are present in the note.
- Minor visual changes: note selection has been made more prominent, crossed out tags are now less bright.
- To avoid problems while searching, accepting suggestions on spacebar now doesn't apply to the search box
- New shortcuts for Tag sidebar: Ctrl+Alt+Click crosses out all tags except the clicked one (to display notes having this tag only and no other tags); Shift+Alt+Click crosses out all children of a parent tag (to display notes having this parent tag but not having any of the child tags).
- Pasting notes into other apps was not working under some circumstances.
- Exception when notebook path access was denied.
- HTML export didn't specify encoding with a byte order mark, which could lead some browsers to display the file with wrong encoding.
- Editor: Ctrl+Left/Right selection ignored international characters like German umlauts.
- Wrong line breaking in text preview with Courier font.
- Editor: Title text got clipped on mouse hover (in XP).
- Editor: Undo/redo for text formatting worked only when you pressed Ctrl+Z(Y) many times.
- Label controls flickered on window move.
- Editor: "something.xy" was recognized as a hyperlink regardless if .xy was a real top level domain
- F11 shortcut was not displayed in File/Export menu item.
- Fixed wrong wrapping of East-Asian characters in the note preview.
- URLs were not saved when clipping from Opera 12 x64.
- Notes having only titles were lost on merging.
- "Options/Startup/Run at system startup" could display wrong state.
- Wrong message about "inaccessible path" in case of newer notebook file version.

v1.5 [Nov 5, 2011]
-Tag autocomplete now matches any word in multi word tags
-New option "Options/Editor/Auto-Indent" which controls whether a new line in editor gets automatically indented like the previous one.
-Turning off Options/Editor/Text Formatting now warns about possible loss of text formatting (if notebook contains notes with formatting).
-Note editor: if nothing is selected, Ctrl Del clears formatting of the whole current paragraph.
-Updated translations.
-Search highlight positions could be wrong because of tabs.
-Note editor: links were still highlighted even when "highlight links" was off.
-Resolved performance issues with XML import.
-Eliminated possible crash on XML export.
-Layout of "Preview min max lines" option labels was not suited for all languages.
-CN could fail to start on WinXP 2002 SP2 with large font sizes.
-Note editor: URL highlighting could get broken
-Note editor: "Monospace" and "Highlight" text styles were lost on copy-pasting.

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