May 3rd, 2012· Fixed a bug that prevented accessing of facet settings.
April 25th, 2012· Support for German and French languages.
· Syncing of more than two facets to Mental Case on iOS.
· Fixed a bug that could cause text to disappear after editing.
· Importing HTML text now works with unicode.
· Stability improvements.
April 11th, 2012· Improved memory use and performance
· Bold/Italic buttons now update when you use the menus
· Notes in browser now drawn much faster
· Assorted bug fixes
February 2nd, 2012· Fixed text color of tooltips in notes list.
· Fixed some drawing issues in the note drawer.
· Fixed an issue where a warning dialog would continually appear if you tried to edit a note via the note list.
· The grading light in slideshows now comes on for a moment when you grade a note and the slideshow auto-advances.
January 20th, 2012· New list mode for browsing and editing notes
· New spread card browsing mode, showing all facets of each note
· Added a status item in the Mac OS X menu bar for creating QuickNotes and starting slideshows
· Added checkbox to template creation popover, to make it easier to apply a template to other notes in a stack
· Added a new menu item to apply the settings of a selected note to all other notes in the stack
· Simplified the filter field, moving filtering options in to a menu, and adding the option to filter on flagged status
· Removed smart cases from the sync list, because they are not synced at this point
January 13th, 2012· Improved import of learning schedule from Mental Case 1.9
· Added more slide timing options
· Improved layout of multiple choice slides with images
· QuickLook now works with multiple choice slides
· All Notes now shows all stacks, not just top-level stacks
· Small improvements in the Export panel
· Order of stacks in sync panel is now correct
· Fixed a crashing bug when dragging notes in a filtered list
December 20th, 2011· Added support for Quizlet 2.0 API
· Improved search on Quizlet, for multiple terms
· Added support for improved Flashcard Exchange search
· Fixed a bug that was causing scrolling in edit mode to fail when the cursor was over the note info area
· Fixed issues with Mental Case 2 Archives in Finder
· Export sheet now shows stacks in the correct order
· A bug causing text to be lost when closing the window during editing has been fixed
· Filtering now allows punctuation to be included in filter strings (except commas and spaces)
· Added a 'Rate in App Store' menu item
December 6th, 2011· Applying a template from the stack info sheet now works. It was not working properly.
· Autosaves now occur every 3 minutes.
· Made data import and export more robust.
· Fixed an issue introduced in 2.0.1, which meant you could not enter accents in languages like Greek.
· Fixed a problem where sometimes the edit note button in the slideshow mode did not work properly.
· Slides could be blurry in slideshows. This has been fixed.
· You can now use Command-F to jump to the filter field.
· Fixed a bug where scrollbars did not adjust if you had no filtered results left.
November 19th, 2011· Fixed bug that could cause slides not to appear
· Option-tab now works to insert a tab in facet text
· Fixed issues with multiple choice slideshows
· Added an extra standard multiple choice slideshow
· Fixed a bug where some facets could be shown twice
· Removed the 'Hide Toolbar' menu item
· Made initial import from Mental Case 1.9 more stable
· Fixed a bug where multiple choice buttons could not be clicked at the bottom
· Added support for pressing the keys A-E to select a multiple choice answer, in addition to the 1-5 keys
· Can now press F5 to repeat audio in a slideshow
· Fixed a problem that could cause a crash downloading from the online services
· Other minor bug fixes
November 9th, 2011· Completely revised interface
· Manual ordering of stacks and notes
· Smart stacks
· New study schedules, including cramming schedules
· Multi-faceted notes, with no limit on number of facets
· Combinations of note facets are scheduled separately
· Formatted text in notes
· Video in notes
· More configuration options for slideshows
· QuickLook in slideshows
· Statistics in slideshows
· Multiple choice quizzes
· Text entry in slideshows
· Extensive printing layouts
· Download from Quizlet.com and FlashcardExchange.com
· Flagging of notes
· Tags
August 3rd, 2011· The main window now fades out during screenshots, as it did prior to 1.9.3.
· Fixed a bug where slideshows would not respond to the keyboard if you started more than one study session
March 16th, 2011· Export of CSV and TSV files is now in UTF16 text format, which is supported by Microsoft Excel.
· Links have been updated for the new web site (mentalcaseapp.com).
February 7th, 2011· Added support for new Mental Case Express edition
January 10th, 2011· Changed all purchase options to go through the Mac App Store.
November 10th, 2010· Added 512 pixel icons for Snow Leopard.
· Notes in study archives are now exported in creation date order.
· Fixed an issue where certain new line characters would appear as two new lines on the iPhone.
August 25th, 2010· An Apple Remote can now be used to control slideshows.
· Fixed a bug which could lead to printing failing silently.
· Right-clicking a slide no longer brings up a contextual menu.
· Improved instructions in sync screens, adding references to iPad.
July 19th, 2010· Fixed a recently-introduced bug in which slideshows could fail to start for notes with a return character at the end.
· Fixed a bug which could cause Mental Case to use excessive CPU resources.
· Made it possible to activate the OK button that appears after a successful sync via the return key.
July 12th, 2010· Fixed a bug in which the alignment of text on a slide was not always right.
· Changed syncing with iPhone to prefer IPv4 where possible, so that if IPv6 is not turned on, syncing still works.
· Added better handling of spaces in slides. Spaces after return characters are no longer removed.
July 5th, 2010· Added a dialog when syncing fails due to IPv6 not being activated. With iOS 4, you need to have IPv6 activated on the Mac.
June 9th, 2010· Added support for syncing with Mental Case 3.0 for iPhone and iPad.
· Improves export to Study Archives when All Notes is selected.
· Fixes bug in syncing with the iPhone, where audio could change from the prompt to the content side of the note.
April 1st, 2010· Fixes bug in which prompt audio on the Mac could end up on the content side after syncing to the iPhone.
· Fixed a bug which could sometimes cause Mental Case to take a long time between lesson updates.
· Fixed a bug where if you named a case with an empty string, it could cause a crash.
February 8th, 2010· Fixes bug in which prompt audio recorded on the iPhone would not be synced back to the Mac.
· Fixes bug in which audio recording would sometimes spontaneously stop.
· Now does a save when in the background for more than a few minutes.
January 14th, 2010· Fixes bug in which an audio only prompt slide would not appear in the slideshow.
· Fixes bug in which copying and pasting a note did not copy the audio.
January 7th, 2010· Fixes an issue with iPhone syncing. Requires Mental Case 2.4 for iPhone.
· Fixes an issue where the image editing buttons were not updating after a new image was added to a note.
January 4th, 2010· Includes support for audio. You can import audio files for either the prompt or content facets of a note, or you can record your own audio from a microphone or other input device.
· Audio can be imported and exported via the Mental Case Archive and Study Archive formats, and can be synced with a soon to be released version of Mental Case for iPhone/iPod touch.
· The addition of audio has been a popular feature request, and we are very happy that it has finally found its way into Mental Case. Audio is very useful for learning languages, but for many other purposes as well.
October 2nd, 2009· Import and Export of Study Archive files.
· Improvements in printing so that is much easier to print on flashcard-sized media.
· Changes to resizing of main window and split view resizing. The primary pane now resizes with the window, which is more conventional behavior.
· Support for Apple Remote in slide shows. (Note that bugs in Snow Leopard prevent this working as well as it should. Hopefully Apple will address these shortly.)
· Added new shortcuts for marking notes right/wrong. You can now use 'r' or the up arrow for 'right', and 'w' or the down arrow for 'wrong'.
· Added Tab-Separated Values (TSV) export.
· Import of images in CSV or TSV files. Just supply the path to the image in a column of the file, and Mental Case will import it. (See Help for more details.)
· Changes to how image resolution is handled. All images will now be shown at screen resolution or higher. Previously, an image with a high resolution (eg 300 dpi) would appear small on the screen.
· Fixed a bug that caused backups to continue even when they were turned off in the Preferences.
· Can now choose to duplicate a note when in editing mode.
· Added a very big text slide theme, with white background, for printing.
· When you resume a slideshow, you are now returned to the slide you were last looking at, not the next one.
· Fixed the tooltips in the slideshow control bar.
· Assorted bug fixes.
May 10th, 2009· XML/HTML is now escaped in slides. In 1.5.2, it was not, which caused lines to run together (amongst other things).
May 10th, 2009· Added preference in Lesson tab to not have wrong notes duplicated in Lesson slide shows.
· Mental Case archive files now have their file extension hidden.
· Fixed a bug in quick image panel which meant you couldn't choose a case to put the note in.
· Re-introduced a maximum file size for images synced to the iPhone. Images larger than 1200x1200 are now scaled down to that size.
· Stopped toolbar buttons from 'sticking' when starting a slide show.
· You should no longer be 'nagged' to study when you have just finished a Lesson slide show.
· Fixed a bug in which a note would be deleted even if you cancelled the deletion in the dialog.
· Added selected note count to bottom bar.
· Fixed a bug that caused automatically initiated slide shows to order cards differently to slide shows manually initiated.
· Fixed a bug that caused the correctness preference (right/wrong) to be ignored in lesson slide shows.
· If you interrupt a slide show to edit a note, the changes will now be reflected in the slide show.
· 'Adding slides' message now appears in lesson slide shows.
April 2nd, 2009· Fixed stability issues on Mac OS X 10.4 when creating new cases and case collections.
· The slide controls now appear when you press the tab key in a slide show, the way they did before version 1.5.
· Progress panel now appears when you drag-and-drop to export an archive.
· Fixed a bug in slide export where if a note had an image on its prompt slide, but no text, the prompt slide would not be exported.
March 24th, 2009· Case collections for grouping together cases.
· Fast entry of text notes in the note table. You can tab from row to row, and automatically add new notes when at the end of the table.
· Changes to how wrong notes are treated in slide shows. Notes are now repeated several times throughout the slide show, rather than just at the end.
· Preferences to control whether slide shows advance automatically after a note is marked right or wrong.
· Export basic HTML web page.
· Added case name in note info.
· Edit button in slide show controls. Stops slide show and opens the current note for editing.
· Tab-Separated Values (TSV) import.
· When more than two columns are included in CSV or TSV data, all columns after the first are added to the content.
· Drag-and-drop import and export of cases in Mental Case Archive format.
· The text/image split in the note editing pane is now stored between relaunches.
· Preference added to allow slide shows to start in the paused state. This is useful for manual navigation.
· Window title now reflects the selected case.
· Opacity of slide show background can now be set in preferences.
· Slide show pane in preferences has been split into two.
· Shift-tab can now be used to go from the content field to the prompt field.
· Enter no longer exits a quick note. Instead, use Cmd-Enter.
· An extra interval was added to most schedules, so that new notes get added to the Lesson immediately, rather than after 24 hours.
· Fixed bug in which note text field would lose focus after command-tabbing between applications.
January 23rd, 2009· Fixes a rare bug that could make it appear that all your notes had been moved to the Trash.
· The notes are not actually in the Trash, and you should not try to delete them.
· This upgrade fixes the bug.
January 23rd, 2009· Adds support for Mental Case 2.0 for iPhone/iPod touch.
September 29th, 2008· Fixed a bug that could cause syncing with iPhone/iPod touch to stall indefinitely.
· Added new preference to turn off the white frame and background added to images in slide shows.
· Notes now get synced to iPhone/iPod touch in the order they appear on the Mac.
· Added a list of Keyboard Shortcuts to the help pages.
· Added a paragraph to the help pages describing the purpose of the dock icon badge.
September 20th, 2008· Fixed bug which prevented PowerPC Macs from syncing properly with Mental Case on the iPhone.
· Added a preference to allow users to insert HTML into their notes. THIS IS USE AT OWN RISK. If you mess up the tags in your notes, your slides will also look messed up. The option is off by default.
· Added a yearly learning schedule, which repeats.
September 11th, 2008· This version of Mental Case has been released in preparation for the new Mental Case iPhone app, which should appear in the coming week or so.
· We have finished development on Mental Case for iPhone 1.0, and submitted it to Apple for approval. Assuming all goes well, it should be available via the iTunes App Store shortly.In the meantime, Mental Case 1.4 has a new item in the File menu for syncing with the iPhone which will not be very useful. Just ignore it, and be rest assured that it's day will come...
April 16th, 2008· A whole new slideshow toolbar has been added (Thanks Wrinkly Pea for the beautiful design!). It allows you to perform limited changes to notes, such as resetting the lesson schedule, or moving them to the Trash.
· Added ‘correction’ to slideshows. You can now indicate if you got a particular mental note ‘wrong’, and cause it to appear more often. In lesson slideshows, marking a note wrong causes its learning progress to remain unchanged. This will mean it will reappear in the next lesson slideshow. For non-lesson slideshows, a slide marked as wrong will be re-added to the end of the current slideshow.
· Introduced automatic backing up of the Mental Case library. This can be configured via the preferences panel. Backups are made daily, when Mental Case is running. Mental Case will also move old backups to the Trash.
· Updated quick entry panels. The image entry panel now has space for some text. A new ‘complete’ quick note provides a panel with prompt and content, including images and text.
· The Mental Case window will now fade out during screenshots. To override this behavior, just hold down the shift key when starting the screenshot.
· A text service has been added, which is available from the Services menu of any application. It turns any selected text into a mental note.
· New preferences have been added for what should happen when notes and cases are deleted.
· Added Notes > Find Notes menu item that causes the filter field in the main window to get focus.
· Added a white border and drop shadow to images in slideshows.
· Filtering of notes now ignores accents.
· Fixed a small bug in CSV import, which could sometimes leave a comma at the end of the text content.
· Slides in a lesson slideshow are now ordered according to the date they were added to the lesson.
· Added a ‘Big Text’ slideshow theme, which is useful for exporting to an iPod or iPhone.
· The ‘iCal’ theme now shows the correct date in the background.
· Sample data has been updated to include a Getting Started case.
April 12th, 2008· The most significant change is the introduction of an On-The-Fly Lesson. This is a small panel that floats on your desktop and rotates through your lesson notes while you work on other things. The idea is to enhance your learning, or remind you of interesting facts, even when you are not using Mental Case. The On-The-Fly Lesson does not change your learning schedule, so you can ignore it when busy, and pay it some attention when you have a few seconds.
February 27th, 2008· A whole new slideshow toolbar has been added (Thanks Wrinkly Pea for the beautiful design!). It allows you to perform limited changes to notes, such as resetting the lesson schedule, or moving them to the Trash.
· Added ‘correction’ to slideshows. You can now indicate if you got a particular mental note ‘wrong’, and cause it to appear more often. In lesson slideshows, marking a note wrong causes its learning progress to remain unchanged. This will mean it will reappear in the next lesson slideshow. For non-lesson slideshows, a slide marked as wrong will be re-added to the end of the current slideshow.
· Introduced automatic backing up of the Mental Case library. This can be configured via the preferences panel. Backups are made daily, when Mental Case is running. Mental Case will also move old backups to the Trash.
· Updated quick entry panels. The image entry panel now has space for some text. A new ‘complete’ quick note provides a panel with prompt and content, including images and text.
· The Mental Case window will now fade out during screenshots. To override this behavior, just hold down the shift key when starting the screenshot.
· A text service has been added, which is available from the Services menu of any application. It turns any selected text into a mental note.
· New preferences have been added for what should happen when notes and cases are deleted.
· Added Notes > Find Notes menu item that causes the filter field in the main window to get focus.
· Added a white border and drop shadow to images in slideshows.
· Filtering of notes now ignores accents.
· Fixed a small bug in CSV import, which could sometimes leave a comma at the end of the text content.
· Slides in a lesson slideshow are now ordered according to the date they were added to the lesson.
· Added a ‘Big Text’ slideshow theme, which is useful for exporting to an iPod or iPhone.
· The ‘iCal’ theme now shows the correct date in the background.
· Sample data has been updated to include a Getting Started case.
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