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DEVONnote Changelog

What's new in DEVONnote 2.11.2

Jan 15, 2019
  • Improved:
  • The URL is now captured when clipping from the Vivaldi and Brave web browsers.
  • When importing browser bookmarks, the group will show the icon of the browser.
  • Improved caching speeds up resolving links.
  • Copying or dragging snippets from plain text documents doesn't include the reference URL anymore as this caused various issues in other apps.
  • Improved overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue where certain Word documents couldn't be imported.
  • Fixed an issue where customized date formats in System Preferences weren't displayed in list views.
  • Fixed an issue where RTFD files were always reported as missing.
  • Fixed an issue where the remaining trial time wasn't updating correctly.
  • Fixed a crash or incomplete display of the window when accessing the Preferences on macOS Mojave.

New in DEVONnote 2.11.1 (Dec 17, 2018)

  • Improved:
  • The URL field of imported files will now only use downloadable URLs, like web page addresses, imported from the files' metadata.
  • The Support Assistant is now loaded from our website and uses styled, longer tips
  • Improved overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue where an alert was not displayed after entering a license code for the wrong product or edition.
  • Fixed an issue where opening the License panel could stall the application when there is a slow or unreliable network connection.
  • Fixed an issue where the background color of the left/upper pane of Split or Three Pane views wasn't always correct (macOS Mojave).
  • Fixed an issue where View > as Split View could cause unnecessary console messages (macOS High Sierra and later).

New in DEVONnote 2.11 (Dec 14, 2018)

  • Improved:
  • The URL field of imported files will now only use downloadable URLs, like web page addresses, imported from the files' metadata.
  • The Support Assistant is now loaded from our website and uses styled, longer tips.
  • Improved overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue where an alert was not displayed after entering a license code for the wrong product or edition.
  • Fixed an issue where opening the License panel could stall the application when there is a slow or unreliable network connection.
  • Fixed an issue where the background color of the left/upper pane of Split or Three Pane views wasn't always correct (macOS Mojave).
  • Fixed an issue where View > as Split View could cause unnecessary console messages (macOS High Sierra and later).

New in DEVONnote 2.10.2 (Oct 25, 2018)

  • NEW:
  • Added Preferences > Web > Images > Scale images to fit for scaling (large) images to fit.
  • Improved:
  • Go > Next/Previous Highlight only uses search hits or highlighted text, but not both; this makes it easier to jump to search hits in rich text documents containing highlighted text.
  • Much faster updating of Finder comments of files and folders (macOS El Capitan and later).
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed visual artifacts in some panels and menus (macOS Mojave).
  • Fixed an issue where the left arrow key didn't work as expected in list and outline views.
  • Fixed a rare crash on quitting the application while the Support Assistant was visible.
  • Fixed a rare crash possibly related to memory management.

New in DEVONnote 2.10.1 (Jun 20, 2018)

  • This maintenance release brings improved support for text clippings created on macOS Sierra or later and first compatibility adjustments for the upcoming macOS 10.14 Mojave operating system.
  • Improved:
  • Improved support for text clippings created on macOS Sierra and later.
  • Improved overall reliability and added workarounds for macOS Mojave.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed glitches related to the icon displayed in the Info panel.

New in DEVONnote 2.10 (May 25, 2018)

  • This release delivers many under-the-hood fixes and improvements.
  • Improved:
  • Improved reporting of the file size of groups and tags. Tagged files and replicants are only counted once.
  • Improved reliability of importing.
  • Improved auto-completion of tags by allowing the use of aliases.
  • Improved See Also and classification of bookmarks.
  • Improved sending of bookmarks by email. The title and the URL are sent instead of attaching the bookmark.
  • Check For Updates is now renamed to Checking For Updates or Update On Quit depending on the current progress. In addition, choosing this menu item displays now also an informational window in case of a pending automatic update.
  • Modernized the appearance of the Support Assistant.
  • Improved security of URLs linking to our servers, using SSL/TLS.
  • Updated Sparkle framework.
  • Improved overall stability and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue where cancelling an import using the option to move files, via ⌘ Command-dragging, could cause files to be moved to the trash.
  • Fixed an issue where the "reveal" parameter of item links was only supported from external apps.
  • Fixed miscellaneous minor interface glitches.
  • Removed:
  • Removed sync support for DEVONthink To Go 1.x. In addition, new databases don't contain a Mobile Sync group anymore.

New in DEVONnote 2.9.17 (Jan 18, 2018)

  • This maintenance release makes it easier to insert links into plain text documents, enhances the validation of entered links, and handles .textbundle document packages without third-party software. It also improves the overall reliability and fixes bugs.
  • New:
  • Insert Link To submenu added to the contextual menu of editable plain text documents.
  • Improved:
  • Pressing the ⌘ Command modifier key when dragging from other apps doesn't move the items anymore if the source app doesn't support this.
  • Improved validation of Format > Add Link.
  • Improved appearance of label colors in menus.
  • Improved handling of .textbundle document packages doesn't depend on installed third-party software anymore.
  • Improved logging.
  • Improved bug reporting.
  • Improved overall reliability and performance.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue where document properties equal to the item's title were filtered from the internal metadata store.
  • Fixed an issue where temporary files were not removed after dropping links from other applications to DEVONnote.
  • Fixed an issue where the displayed location of items was sometimes the one in the trash even if locations outside the trash existed.
  • Fixed an issue where verifying, backing up, restoring, and rebuilding databases didn't work in DEVONnote 2.9.16.

New in DEVONnote 2.9.16 (Oct 19, 2017)

  • Improved:
  • Improved importing.
  • Improved console logging.
  • Improved localizations.
  • Improved bug reporting.
  • Improved overall reliability and performance.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue where large numbers of entries in the Log panel could slow down importing files.
  • Fixed an issue where search results weren't shown in Three Pane and Split views after performing a search, selecting another group, and performing the same search.
  • Fixed (High Sierra):
  • Fixed an issue where the group selector wouldn't close on machines with a Touch Bar.

New in DEVONnote 2.9.15 (Aug 25, 2017)

  • NEW:
  • URL command "x-devonthink://createGroup" for creating groups.
  • Improved:
  • Tagging avoids items only located in the Tags group.
  • Toolbar search view is now also shown if no results are found.
  • Groups created while importing data are no longer automatically excluded from classification or tagging to make it easier to manually classify them.
  • Improved detection of internet locations.
  • Improved handling of background tasks.
  • Improved memory management.
  • Improved (High Sierra):
  • Improved compatibility to macOS High Sierra.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue where default document icons weren't scaled up correctly in icon views.
  • Fixed an issue where Go > Back/Forward was sometimes enabled after deleting items and emptying the trash.
  • Fixed an issue where importing previously exported folders into the Tags group could create duplicate tags.
  • Fixed an issue where pasting multiple tags into the Tags column of list views concatenated them.
  • Fixed an issue where renaming the currently selected item in icon views wasn't always possible.
  • Fixed an issue where the Help button of the smart group editor opened the wrong help topic.
  • Fixed glitches related to the handling of font preferences (macOS Sierra and later).
  • Fixed further minor bugs and glitches.
  • Fixed (High Sierra):
  • Fixed an issue where the Help menu appeared twice.
  • Fixed issues related to resizing oval and line PDF annotations.
  • Fixed further minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.9.13 (Jul 6, 2017)

  • This maintenance release adds basic support for the Roccat web browser, opens links, images, and frames in tabs more reliably, and verifies databases faster. It also improves the overall reliability and performance.
  • Improved:
  • The URL of the frontmost browser window of Roccat is now captured, e.g., after taking plain or rich notes using the Services menu.
  • Opening links, pictures, and frames in tabs is more reliable.
  • Slightly faster database verification.
  • Help > Report Bug sets the receiver if Postbox is the default email client.
  • Improved overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue where Link To and Insert Link To submenus no longer worked since version 2.9.12.

New in DEVONnote 2.9.12 (Jun 1, 2017)

  • Improved:
  • Web views remember the last used zoom factor and support zooming via gestures.
  • Slightly revised status bar of selected documents.
  • Saving plain text documents prefers Preferences > Import > Encoding if the current encoding isn't known or suitable.
  • Importing and indexing ignores some extended attributes containing data: URLs.
  • Improved database verification.
  • Item link 'reveal' parameter reenabled.
  • Improved caching of file icons; E.g. the Templates menu shouldn't use generic document icons anymore.
  • Improved memory management, overall reliability, and performance.
  • Fixed:
  • Issue where clicking the Flag column header didn't change the sorting.
  • Issue where it was possible to enter an empty or white database name in File > Database Properties.
  • Issue where pasting rich text into the Take Note panel didn't remove the background color so that white text could be displayed on a white background.
  • Issue where sending multiple items via Postbox didn't work.
  • Issue where taking notes without a title could fail.
  • Issue where the Log panel could appear twice while the application was in the background or hidden.
  • Issue where the maximum width of list and search view columns wasn't sufficient on large screens.
  • Issue where the order and width of columns of search results wasn't persistent.
  • Issue where the plain or rich text selection wasn't drawn in document fullscreen mode.
  • Crashes related to document packages being attached to rich text documents.
  • Rare crashes related to the Preferences panel (macOS Sierra 10.12.2 and later).
  • Minor memory leaks.
  • Minor issues and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.9.11 (Mar 30, 2017)

  • This maintenance release adds contextual menus to tabs, makes the author name available to templates, and lets you access also the subgroups of recent destinations in menus and panels. The update fixes bugs, too, and improves the overall reliability.
  • NEW:
  • Contextual menu added for creating or closing tabs.
  • %author% placeholder added to templates (see Preferences > Editing > Author).
  • Improved:
  • Recent destinations in menus and panels are now expandable.
  • Shift-clicking on a link in a web view captures it.
  • Improved and more consistent naming of captured links.
  • Improved import of Google Chrome bookmarks.
  • Improved repairing of databases with both orphaned and missing files.
  • Revised display of preview pane in case of missing files.
  • Tabs bar uses standard icons for Add and Close buttons.
  • It's no longer necessary to relaunch the app after exporting templates to the toolbar folder.
  • More reliable moving of DEVONnote to the Applications folder if necessary.
  • Updated German localization.
  • Improved Memory management, overall reliability and performance.
  • Fixed:
  • Issue where adding links to the selection in text or web views didn't accept URLs containing non-ASCII characters.
  • Issue where automatically generated filenames used characters that aren't supported on Windows.
  • Issue where item links with a trailing slash, e.g., created by Microsoft Word, didn't work.
  • Issue where Shift-Tab didn't work in date field of the Info panel.
  • Issue where tabs used a wrong frame size in some cases after disabling the widescreen option of split views.
  • Issue where the contents of a group couldn't be opened after navigating to the group from a cross-link.
  • Issue where trying to drag tabs could close them or create new tabs.
  • Crash related to progress handling.

New in DEVONnote 2.9.9 (Jan 26, 2017)

  • This maintenance release brings minor usability enhancements and improves the overall reliability. It also adds a workaround that makes random crashes caused by macOS Sierra 10.12.2 less likely.
  • Improved:
  • Full-screen text handling is more responsive, supports substitutions, and no longer flickers.
  • Fonts in Preferences > Editing can now be also reset by holding the ⌥Option modifier key.
  • The list font family (see Preferences > General) is now also used for search results.
  • Back and Forward commands are now located at the top of contextual menus of web views.
  • See Also and Classify drawers display flagged and unread icons too.
  • Notes can be deleted in the Take Note panel with ⌘Backspace.
  • Localizations.
  • Overall reliability.
  • Fixed (Other):
  • Crashes caused by macOS 10.12.2, at least made less likely.

New in DEVONnote 2.9.8 (Dec 1, 2016)

  • This maintenance release adds '.fountain' to the known plain text extensions. It also further improves auto-saving and handles graphics card switching better. The update fixes minor issues too.
  • New:
  • '.fountain' added to list of known plain text extensions.
  • Improved:
  • Windows are now automatically saved five minutes after the last modification instead of every five minutes.
  • Better graphics card handling on MacBooks with discrete graphics card.
  • Manually checking for updates reports now also versions that should be skipped.
  • Fixed:
  • Issue where closing modified document windows saved them independently of whether changes should be saved or not.
  • Issue where the search engine didn't find all occurrences for proximity operators using wildcards, e.g., 'word1 NEAR word2*'.
  • Issue where changing, e.g., label colors wasn't persistent anymore (macOS Sierra).

New in DEVONnote 2.9.7 (Nov 10, 2016)

  • Document windows are now automatically saved like main windows, e.g., after deactivating the window or the application, and both document and main windows are automatically saved every five minutes.
  • Reveal is now also available in contextual menus of smart groups of databases.
  • RTFD attachments show their size.
  • Reliability of saving and restoring the order and width of columns.
  • Reliability of check for update (macOS Sierra).
  • Checking for updates activates a hidden or minimized Sparkle window.

New in DEVONnote 2.9.6 (Oct 27, 2016)

  • This maintenance release adds a new date condition to smart groups and honors metadata provided by ELO Office when importing. The update improves the overall reliability and fixes minor issues.
  • New:
  • Smart groups support 'not within last x days' conditions.
  • Improved:
  • Importing files and folders exported by ELO Office.
  • Reveal and Move To Trash contextual menu items of Windows > Log panel support multiple selections.
  • Smart group editor converts multiple 'kind' conditions to a valid smart group using compound predicates.
  • Registration of Services.
  • Handling of temporary directories.
  • Localization.
  • Overall reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Issue where DEVONnote wasn't always able to capture the URL from the frontmost application (workaround for macOS Sierra).
  • Removed:
  • OpenMeta support on OS X Mavericks.
  • Hidden preference 'DisableOpenMeta'.

New in DEVONnote 2.9.5 (Oct 6, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • Alerts dismissed with "Don't show again" can be brought back (see Preferences > General).
  • Changed for macOS Sierra:
  • Preferences > General > Labels > Dots (Mavericks) renamed to Dots (macOS).
  • Renamed 'Mac OS X' to 'macOS' in alerts.
  • Disk image is code-signed and includes an alias to the Applications folder.
  • Templates no longer have custom icons as they break code-signing now.
  • Improved:
  • Tabbing through entry fields in the Info panel activates the creation and modification date fields too.
  • File > Verify & Repair is now able to recognize records without a valid UUID.
  • Icon views reload faster in case of large selections.
  • Overall reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Issue where Help > Report Bug and Data > Send by Email didn't work if Apple Mail was the default email client (macOS Sierra).
  • Issue where the progress indication didn't always work correctly on Mac OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra.
  • Issue where toolbar items caused unnecessary console messages (macOS Sierra).
  • Crash related to printing a text view (macOS Sierra).
  • Removed:
  • Redundant Tab menu items from the Window menu (macOS Sierra).

New in DEVONnote 2.9.3 (Sep 1, 2016)

  • This maintenance release allows sending documents via Airmail 3 and recognizes ReStructured text. It also creates feedback messages in the default email client again instead of opening a web form.
  • NEW:
  • Data > Send by Email and Help > Report Bug support Airmail 3.
  • '.rst' (ReStructured text) added to list of known plain text extensions.
  • Improved:
  • Help > Contact sends messages via the default email client again instead of opening a web form.
  • Drag-and-drop provides more data to third-party applications, e.g. to Tinderbox.

New in DEVONnote 2.9 (Jul 21, 2016)

  • New:
  • Navigation toolbar item of main windows supports text-only mode.
  • Added '.ips.beta' to list of known plain text extensions.
  • Improved:
  • Handling of selections with thousands of items made up to 2000 times faster.
  • The default plain text font is now Menlo Regular 11pt.
  • Search syntax is removed before copying search queries to find pasteboard so that Edit > Find > Find Next/Previous can be used more often immediately.
  • Handling of tab stops of plain text views.
  • VoiceOver support.
  • Parsing of '.DSStore' files.
  • Handling of background tasks.
  • Fixed:
  • Glitches of token fields in HUD windows.
  • Glitch of Info panel.
  • Corrupted '.DS_Store' files could crash DEVONnote.
  • Memory leaks.

New in DEVONnote 2.8.11 (Jun 8, 2016)

  • Improved:
  • Tightening of customized fonts disabled on OS X El Capitan.
  • The view/edit pane shows the document icon of items which can't be displayed; the appearance of the pane has been slightly revised.
  • Performance and memory usage.
  • Fixed:
  • Icon of optional DEVONagent toolbar item was missing.
  • Redundant full screen menu item inserted by OS X removed.
  • Revealing items in three-pane view didn't always scroll to the item.
  • More minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.8.10 (Mar 31, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • Send by Email supports Airmail 2.
  • Improved:
  • Verifying the database finds and repairs more issues.
  • Useless "x-webdoc://" URLs are ignored when taking notes.
  • Sparkle framework updated to version 1.14.0.
  • Overall reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • The tilde character "~" was trimmed from file names after renaming a document.
  • Wrong selection after expanding an outline item (workaround for a bug in OS X El Capitan).

New in DEVONnote 2.8.9 (Feb 4, 2016)

  • New:
  • Importing supports folder tags. Tags of groups are exported.
  • Document windows support fullscreen window mode (OS X El Capitan or later).
  • Optional "reveal" parameter of x-devonnote-item links can be used to reveal groups.
  • Improved:
  • Pressing the ⌥Option modifier key changes the Select font buttons to Reset (see Preferences > General and Preferences > Web) to easily restore the default fonts.
  • Rebuilding retains addition date.
  • Data > Merge logs skipped records.
  • File permissions of temporary files are corrected after importing.
  • Documentation added for item links.
  • Overall reliability and performance.
  • Fixed:
  • Issue where copying selected rows of table views failed on OS X El Capitan.
  • Issue where tags entered into the Tags bar weren't always saved.
  • Issue with Format > Show Invisible Characters being incompatible to rich text documents containing tables.
  • Issue with reverting documents.
  • Issue with text templates containing date placeholders in the title failing depending on the system date format.
  • Issue that allowed creation of smart groups with invalid parameters.
  • Issue that could slow down or freeze the application when reading damaged .DS_Store files.
  • Vulnerability in Sparkle framework (used for downloading and installing updates).
  • Further minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed:
  • OpenMeta is no longer used on OS X Yosemite or later.

New in DEVONnote 2.8.8 (Nov 25, 2015)

  • Improved:
  • Creating a new group adds the group immediately to the recent destinations.
  • VoiceOver support.
  • Overall reliability and performance.
  • Fixed (OS X El Capitan):
  • Issue where footers and headers were flipped when printing web views.
  • Fixed:
  • Issue where smart groups named without alpha-numeric characters couldn't be created.
  • Issue where inserting an image into an RTF document right after another attachment duplicated the first attachment instead of inserting the new one.
  • Issue that created unnecessary Console messages.
  • Minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.8.7 (Oct 15, 2015)

  • Changes for OS X El Capitan:
  • Support for App Transport Security.
  • Fixed glitches during drag-and-drop on icon views.
  • Fixed fullscreen document window handling.
  • Fixed issues with launch and progress panels not showing.
  • Improved:
  • Synchronization (Mac/iOS) is faster and more reliable.
  • Importing is up to twice as fast depending on metadata and filesize. DEVONnote uses the hidden .DS_Store files instead of AppleScript to read Spotlight comments.
  • Videos in web views support fullscreen viewing.
  • Accessibility support of navigation bar.
  • Rebuilding retains all dates.
  • Automatically updated user agent of web views should be more compatible to modern websites (especially on OS X Yosemite or El Capitan).
  • About two times faster sorting by location.
  • Faster reloading of user interface.
  • Fullscreen window handling.
  • Optimized resolving of aliases.
  • Memory consumption.
  • Overall reliability and performance.
  • Fixed:
  • Dragging both groups and their subgroups to the Finder created duplicate folders.
  • Glitches of date columns depending on selected list font.
  • Work around issue of OS X Yosemite's text engine changing the font after e.g. pasting an image into a rich text document.
  • It was possible to duplicate or move items with missing files.
  • Crash in case of broken workspaces.
  • Further minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed:
  • 32-bit support.

New in DEVONnote 2.8.6 (Jul 16, 2015)

  • New:
  • Name of the top group can now be used via a placeholder in templates.
  • Improved:
  • Dragging events from Calendar into rich text documents inserts back links (requires OS X Yosemite or later). Reminder: It's already possible to insert file links or addressbook links by dragging with ⌘Command and ⌥Option held.
  • Enhanced drag-and-drop support.
  • Items created via "Data > New from Template" can usually be renamed immediately.
  • Renamed "Set Title As" to "Set Name As" for consistency.
  • Further minor user interface enhancements.
  • Title of PDF documents displayed live in web views is now used if available.
  • Simple templates honour the option "Preferences > Import > Titles > Filename with extension".
  • Better naming of duplicated documents with a file name extension in their name.
  • License file moved to Application Support to avoid conflicts with preferences cleaners.
  • French and German localization.
  • Memory management.
  • Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • RTFDs exported as website were sometimes incorrectly escaped.
  • Changing the system appearance could crash the application.
  • Further minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.8.5 (May 19, 2015)

  • NEW:
  • Hidden preference "DisableFinderTags" added to disable reading and writing of Finder tags.
  • Improved:
  • "Tag is (not)" predicate of smart groups supports multiple entered tags.
  • Finder labels are converted to internal labels if possible.
  • File > Export > As Template now supports groups and multiple selected items, e.g., to create your own project templates.
  • Advertisement filter
  • Compatibility to OS X Yosemite 10.10.x.
  • Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Interface glitches.
  • Support Assistant didn't play the intro movie on OS X Yosemite.
  • Handling of database backups in case of only one archived backup.
  • Further minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.8.4 (Mar 12, 2015)

  • NEW:
  • Adds the ability to import files and folders from the Finder into the database and move the originals to the trash by holding the ⌘Command key while dragging.
  • Adds new date-related smart group conditions.
  • Adds full suport for ".webhistory" and ".webbookmark" bookmark files.
  • Adds ".asciidoc" to the list of known plain text extensions.
  • Adds the alternate menu item Help > Report Bug (press the ⌥Option key to show).
  • Improved:
  • Improves the compatibility to OS X Yosemite 10.10.2.
  • Retains the tags of documents when splitting them. All parts are now correctly put into the same groups as the original document.
  • File > Verify & Repair checks also the unique identifier (UUID) of databases and repairs it if necessary.
  • Makes "lproj" subfolders optional for .dtTemplate packages. Creating non-localized templates is now as simple as creating a new folder in the Finder and adding ".dtTemplate" to its name.
  • Adds Retina splash screens.
  • Updates the look of the in-app help to OS X Yosemite. Newer images are optimized for Retina displays.
  • Improves the French localization.
  • Improves the overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Fixes glitches of the group selector on OS X Yosemite depending on System Preferences > Accessibility > Display.
  • Improves the memory management to work around issues of OS X.
  • Prevents files from inside the database folder from being imported.
  • Brings back the accidentally removed website export and table of contents options to the App Store variant.
  • Fixes an issue where smart groups in index pages created by the website export were not clickable.
  • Addresses further minor glitches.
  • Removed:
  • Removes View > Sort > Ignore Umlauts. Sorting uses now system-wide settings.

New in DEVONnote 2.8.3 (Jan 29, 2015)

  • Improved:
  • Classification. Improves "See Also" and "Classify".
  • More user interface optimizations for OS X Yosemite.
  • Automatic Wiki-linking support for plain text, e.g. Japanese Katakana.
  • Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • DEVONthink To Go 1.x sync issues, e.g. with trashed items.
  • "Take Note" panel did not support "Format > Font" and other formatting commands.
  • "Edit > Edit Tags" did not support multiple selections.
  • Further minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.8.2 (Nov 20, 2014)

  • New:
  • Author name can be set in "Preferences > Editing" and is used when creating rich text documents.
  • Hidden preference "DisableBadgeLabel" to disable the Dock icon badge.
  • Improved:
  • "Preferences > Editing" pane slightly revised.
  • Appearance of HUD panels (e.g. "Take Note" etc.) optimized for OS X Yosemite.
  • Reliability in case of invalid filenames and/or damaged filesystems.
  • Retrieving Finder comments optimized.
  • Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed (OS X Yosemite):
  • First item of upper right pane of three-pane views wasn't visible in case of visible scrollbars.
  • Fixed:
  • Last selected destination of the group selector" and Take Note" panels was reused even if the item was already trashed.
  • Timeouts when importing huge Word or OpenOffice documents.
  • Repairing orphaned files with the same filename failed and therefore required multiple attempts.
  • Further minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.8.1 (Oct 16, 2014)

  • Improved:
  • User agent of web views is more compatible, e.g. to GitHub.
  • Fixed:
  • Rare importing/rebuilding issue.
  • "DEVONthink To Go" sync could add superfluous title extension to items renamed on the device.

New in DEVONnote 2.8 (Oct 7, 2014)

  • Changes for OS X Yosemite:
  • User interface elements adapted to OS X Yosemite.
  • Color of groups tags (e.g. in "Tags bar" or "Info panel").
  • Appearance of HUDs, drawers in fullscreen mode, and "Support Assistant" corrected.
  • Issues with resolving aliases fixed.
  • Further glitches related to OS X Yosemite fixed.
  • NEW:
  • "Share" submenu added to contextual menu of web views. Requires at least OS X Mountain Lion.
  • .diag and .hang added to list of known plain text extensions.
  • "Set As Thumbnail" command added contextual menu command of web views.
  • Improved:
  • Better display of URLs and improved naming of URLs (e.g. dropped links).
  • Search fields always use system default look.
  • German localization.
  • Usability, reliability, and performance.
  • Fixed:
  • Criteria of locked smart groups could be edited.
  • Auto-completion of Tags column did not work on OS X Mavericks and Yosemite.
  • Revealing a database (e.g. from the title bar of document windows or the "Info" panel) didn't work.
  • Lookup of strings containing certain rare unicode characters could fail and could e.g. lead to duplicates.
  • Further minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.7.7 (Aug 4, 2014)

  • NEW:
  • Added .swift to known plain text extensions.
  • "File > Export > as Word/RTF/RTFD/Text/OPML" exports as much metadata as possible.
  • "File > Export > Document" puts the document's tags into the "Save" panel (on OS X Mavericks).
  • Hidden preference "ShouldScaleAttachedImages" enables and disables image scaling in RTF documents.
  • Hidden preferences documented in the built-in help and PDF and ebook documentation.
  • Improved:
  • Appearance of drag-and-drop highlighting of icon views modernized.
  • "Edit > Deselect All" is now an alternate menu item of "Edit > Select All".
  • Undo and redo are better aware of the current focus.
  • OS X Mavericks tags based on former labels are now also imported.
  • Imported documents with insufficient permissions are marked as read-only.
  • Further minor improvements.
  • Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Worked around issues on OS X Yosemite Public Beta.
  • Tags inside the Tags group couldn't be tagged but were converted to group tags instead.
  • Smart groups sometimes returned an empty trash.
  • Various glitches and rare bugs.

New in DEVONnote 2.7.6 (May 22, 2014)

  • This release adds automatic creation of tables of contents and index documents for the website export. The "Send by Email" command is easier to find and the overall performance and reliability has been enhanced. The update is recommended for all users.
  • NEW:
  • Command "Data > Create Table of Contents" added. The created document cross-links the selected items.
  • Option "Create Index Pages" added to "File > Export > as Website" to automatically create index.html files for groups or feeds.
  • Dragging items into plain texts with ⌘Command and ⌥Option pressed inserts only the title.
  • ".mediawiki" added to known plain text extensions.
  • Improved:
  • Preview panes display thumbnails for missing files.
  • "Send by Email" available via the "Data" menu, too.
  • Contextual menus slightly revised.
  • Drag-and-drop more compatible to latest versions of Safari.
  • Faster conversion of rich text documents to HTML when exporting as a website.
  • Handling of cross-links and Wiki-style links by "File > Export > As Website".
  • VoiceOver support
  • Overall reliablility and performance.
  • Fixed:
  • "File > Export > As Website" trimmed some attachments of RTFD documents.
  • Deleting the last tag didn't update OS X Mavericks Finder tags.
  • Google SketchUp files (".skp"") are no longer imported as text files even if OS X claims that they're such.
  • Rare glitch of tabs that couldn't display a damaged or invalid document.

New in DEVONnote 2.7.5 (Apr 17, 2014)

  • Improved:
  • Mavericks tags have a higher priority than OpenMeta tags on OS X Mavericks from now on.
  • More reliable tagging.
  • Window handling after restoring backups.
  • German localization.
  • Fixed:
  • Sorting by creation, modification, or addition date was always descending by default.
  • Wrong extension of .mmd files after exporting.
  • Smart groups looking for specific metadata (e.g. "From") using only NOT operators didn't work.

New in DEVONnote 2.7.4 (Mar 27, 2014)

  • This maintenance release gives you better control over how labels are displayed and adds support for AirMail. In addition, the update brings a number of user interface, usability, and performance enhancements as well as bug fixes. The update is recommended for all users.
  • NEW:
  • "Preferences > General > Labels" allows changing the label style (classic, modern or dots).
  • "Send by Email" supports AirMail.
  • Improved:
  • Highlighting of selected items in various lists.
  • Importing Notebooks from Evernote skips already imported notes.
  • Web views support FTP on OS X Mavericks.
  • Recent destinations and favorites in menus display the full path if the name is not unique.
  • Drags from applications not implementing "promised files" correctly (e.g. Firefox) are accepted.
  • Items duplicated via the contextual or action menu are now automatically selected if possible.
  • Switching to sorting by creation/modification/addition date automatically switches to descending sorting.
  • Localizations.
  • Reliability and performance.
  • Fixed:
  • Additional imports to shared groups in the trash create a new shared group instead of adding to the group in the trash.
  • Destination of links in text views wasn't shown in the document's navigation bar.
  • First "See Also" result wasn't always the current document.
  • Worked around glitches of Quick Look panel on OS X Mavericks.
  • Minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed:
  • "Preferences > General > Startup" and "Preferences > General > Appearance > Colorize icons with labels".

New in DEVONnote 2.7.3 (Jan 23, 2014)

  • NEW:
  • Addition, creation, modification, and opening date predicates of smart groups support times, too.
  • Improved:
  • Increased width of "Tag" field of predicates of smart groups.
  • Display of remaining trial time.
  • Overall reliability and performance.
  • Fixed:
  • Width of not resizable columns, e.g. size or kind, was too small for customized and larger list fonts.
  • Handling of filenames beginning with a tilde.
  • Further minor bugs, rare exceptions, and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.7.2 (Nov 28, 2013)

  • NEW:
  • ".srt" added to list of known plain text extensions.
  • "New Group" button added to "Take Note" panel.
  • Improved:
  • Support for OpenMeta, e.g. in case of invalid data.
  • Error handling of "File > Import > Notes from Evernote".
  • Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Mavericks tags entered via the title bar of documents or via save panels were not yet supported.
  • Worked around an issue of Mavericks freezing the application for several seconds while entering tags.
  • Worked around issue of Evernote and EvernoteHelper breaking scripts.
  • After repairing a database the fixes were not always immediately saved to disk.
  • Further minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed:
  • "Get Info" option from contextual menus if nothing is selected.
  • Evernote import (App Store version).

New in DEVONnote 2.7.1 (Oct 24, 2013)

  • Improved:
  • Compatibility to OpenMeta.
  • Fixed:
  • DEVONthink To Go 1.x synchronization was no longer compatible to OS X 10.6.8 through 10.7.5.
  • Entered URLs like "message:// were converted to "[email protected]".
  • Localization.

New in DEVONnote 2.7 (Oct 16, 2013)

  • Changes for OS X 10.9 Mavericks:
  • Appearance of labels adjusted to Mavericks look-and-feel.
  • Exporting adds Mavericks compatible tags on OS X 10.9.
  • Appearance of tagging fields corrected.
  • New:
  • "Move To Trash" command added to contextual menu of "Log" panel to easily trash records.
  • Location tooltip added to duplicates of "Instances" popup of "Info" panel.
  • "Templates.noindex" folder supports aliases.
  • File name extension ".entitlements" and ".lua" added to list of known extensions.
  • Improved:
  • Some contextual menu commands rearranged for better workflow.
  • "Move All Instances to Trash" is now an alternate menu item of "Move To Trash" and therefore only visible after pressing the ⌥Option key.
  • Menu and toolbar items to create new groups are renamed to "(New) Tag" if the destination group is the "Tags" group or one of its tags.
  • Fullscreen mode uses the specified text background color for the margins.
  • Modified main windows are automatically saved after activating another window or application.
  • Replicating doesn't add a replicant to the destination group anymore if there's already one.
  • Compatibility to certain websites.
  • Support for HFS compressed files.
  • Support for OpenMeta.
  • MIME type handling
  • Logging.
  • Overall reliability and performance.
  • Fixed:
  • App Store variant couldn't import notes from Evernote.
  • "Actions" item of toolbar didn't work in fullscreen mode.
  • Printing rich text views on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard didn't work correctly.
  • The "Info" panel was not always updated correctly.
  • "Go > Previous/Next Instance" supports tags but the commands were only enabled if the item was replicated.
  • Applications could be imported into the "Templates" menu.
  • Exporting as website with HTML entities enabled could crash the application.
  • Further minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed:
  • Dock commands "New from Clipboard" and "Import".

New in DEVONnote 2.6.1 (Jul 25, 2013)

  • New:
  • "Rich Text" checkbox of "Take Note" panel replaced with a pop-up menu.
  • "Add Link" item added to contextual menu of rich text views.
  • Improved:
  • "File > Rebuild Database" and "File > Backup & Optimize" are disabled if there's not enough disk space available.
  • Updating of smart groups after moving items to the trash or emptying the trash.
  • French localization.
  • Further minor improvements and stability enhancements.
  • Fixed:
  • Minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed:
  • Removed "Data > New from Template > Update Templates Menu". The menus are now automatically updated.

New in DEVONnote 2.6 (Jul 11, 2013)

  • Optimizations for OS X 10.9 Mavericks:
  • Importing supports tags and Spotlight comments created by Mavericks.
  • On Mavericks the appearance of labels is now similar to the one of the Finder.
  • More fixes for Mavericks.
  • New:
  • Direct support for importing Evernote notes including names, tags, and dates. The URL of the imported notes links back to the original notes. Evernote ".enex" files can be also imported with drag-and-drop or via "File > Import > Files & Folders."
  • Not editable columns of group and document lists use a disabled, gray text color similar to the Finder of Mavericks.
  • New smart group predicate "Item contains/does not contain data."
  • A new "Buy Now" button in the window title bar of unregistered copies of DEVONnote shows the remaining trial time.

New in DEVONnote 2.5.2 (Apr 11, 2013)

  • Improved:
  • Going up, e.g. via the toolbar or the Go menu, retains the selection if possible.
  • Text views don't scale too large attached images anymore.
  • Faster and more reliable Sync Agent for synchronizing with DEVONthink To Go v1.
  • German and French localizations.
  • Overall reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Changing the modification date via the "Info" panel changed the creation date.
  • Some contextual menu commands appeared even though the selection didn't contain usable data.
  • Web windows/tabs were sometimes closed/reset after e.g. repairing and optimizing.
  • Glitches of text rulers.
  • Support Assistant didn't work on non-admin accounts due to a permission issue.
  • Rare crash after quitting the app in fullscreen mode on OS X 10.7 and up.
  • Several minor memory management issues.
  • Further minor glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.5.1 (Mar 7, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • DEVONthink To Go synchronization was broken in version 2.5.
  • Further minor glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.5 (Feb 28, 2013)

  • New:
  • Smart groups support new predicates; the "Tag is (not) ..." predicate supports wildcards.
  • Some new options added to "Preferences > Editing > General."
  • "Info" panel can be opened from action and contextual menus.
  • Creation and modification dates can be edited via the "Info" panel.
  • Help button added to smart group editor.
  • Retina graphics.
  • Improved:
  • Better tagging with new smart group predicates, an optional editable "Tags" column, and the possibility to sort by tags; tags can be added to multiple items using the "Tags" bar and the "Info" panel.
  • "File > Export > Files & Folder" split into "Export > Files & Folders" and "Export > Document."
  • Less unnecessary alerts and sheets.
  • An alert (suppressable) is displayed before moving items to the trash.
  • "Log" panel wraps long texts.
  • Better validation of various menu items in case of no or read-only databases.
  • Support improved for Notification Center on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
  • Synchronizing with DEVONthink To Go shows a warning when the Mobile Sync group is empty.
  • Handling of aliases while merging tags and groups.
  • More reliable import of web browser bookmarks.
  • Importing both items and enclosing folders, e.g. by dragging from the Finder's List view, no longer creates duplicates.
  • Orphaned files are now logged after ignoring errors reported by "Tools > Verify & Repair."
  • Reliability of automatic backups.
  • Various other user interface improvements.
  • English, French, and German localizations.
  • Overall performance, efficiency, and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • Name changes in DEVONthink To Go weren't properly applied on the Mac during sync.
  • Reloading of web tabs wasn't possible in case of failures (e.g. being offline).
  • Last selected and visible range of documents wasn't always restored.
  • Last modification of group hierarchy right before quitting wasn't always commited.
  • Background operations weren't always committed.
  • Status bar wasn't always updated.
  • Minor issue after duplicating an ordinary tag via drag-and-drop.
  • Minor glitches related to full-screen mode.
  • Some rare exceptions and crashes.
  • Various minor display glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.4.3 (Oct 25, 2012)

  • New:
  • .ft (FoldingText) added to list of known plain text extensions.
  • Left/right arrow keys can be used to expand or collapse multiple selected items in list and outline views, too.
  • Improved:
  • OpenMeta tag support, e.g. more reliable handling of file system events.
  • Currently selected tab is usually retained, e.g. after capturing notes.
  • Compatibility to third-party hacks.
  • Default ruler units are centimeters on metric systems instead of inches.
  • Error handling.
  • Localization.
  • Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed:
  • "Send by Email" couldn't attach files with non-ASCII characters in their name on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
  • Other minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.4.2 (Sep 13, 2012)

  • Improved:
  • "Make Rich Text" automatically shows the ruler again if it was used the last time.
  • Localized sorting of most views
  • Compatibility of web views to web pages using buttons to open new windows.
  • 64-bit support.
  • Memory management.
  • Fixed:
  • Number of duplicates displayed in "Info" panel was not always correct.
  • "Select Group" panel does not leave another apps' full screen mode.
  • Further minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed:
  • Due to sandboxing the App Store variant of DEVONnote no longer imports Spotlight comments unless the files or folders are already indexed by Spotlight.

New in DEVONnote 2.4.1 (Aug 16, 2012)

  • Improved - Link handling of (smart) templates retains formatting (e.g. the font).
  • Fixed - Handling of label predicates in smart group editor.

New in DEVONnote 2.4 (Aug 9, 2012)

  • All editions:
  • NEW: Compatibility to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
  • NEW: Simple 64-bit support so that the amount of data is only limited by available real memory and the speed of the computer.
  • NEW: Share button for sharing the current document or web page via services like iMessage, Mail, Twitter, Facebook, or AirDrop, or to add it to Safari's Reading List (OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion or later).
  • NEW: Notifications. Clicking a notification opens the item in DEVONnote. (OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion or later)
  • NEW: Documents can be moved, replicated, or duplicated by dragging its document icon from the title bar.
  • NEW: Video tutorials, available via the Support Assistant or Help > Tutorials.
  • NEW: Columns URL, Path, Aliases, and Spotlight Comment of search results are editable.
  • NEW: Buttons to go to the previous/next highlight added to navigation bar of PDF/text documents.
  • NEW: Additional optional toolbar items.
  • NEW: Shortcut ⌃C for Move To button of See Also & Classify drawer.
  • NEW: Autocompletion of tags, e.g. in the Tags bar, matches not only prefixes but also substrings.
  • NEW: High resolution application icon for Retina screens.
  • NEW: App Store version is sandboxed. Exporting of Spotlight comments is no longer possible, only importing.
  • Improved: Tags in the Tags bar and the tags field of the Info panel are now sorted.
  • Improved: Toolbar search results are automatically hidden after creating new items in three-pane and split view.
  • Improved: Support Assistant shows an activity indicator while loading data.
  • Improved: Much faster importing of Spotlight comments if the files/folders are indexed by Spotlight.
  • Improved: Templates access the address book only if necessary.
  • Improved: Support Assistant and Help > Contact no longer access the address book anymore on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion or when DEVONnote was installed from the App Store.
  • Improved: Error logging to Log panel.
  • Improved: Compatibility to TextExpander.
  • Improved: French and German localizations.
  • Improved: Overall performance, reliability, and memory usage.
  • Fixed: Clearing the toolbar search field did not revert the toolbar to text-only mode if necessary.
  • Fixed: @ button next to URL field in Info panel beeped in case of success.
  • Fixed: Typing after newly inserted/created links in RTF(D) documents used blue and underlined style.
  • Fixed: Website export of rich text documents containing movies/sounds didn't work.
  • Fixed: Add tag contextual menu command didn't work.
  • Fixed: Various minor issues in the Support Assistant.
  • Fixed: Compiled using Xcode 4.4 and the OS X 10.7 SDK fixing a number of glitches.
  • Fixed: More minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed: Obsolete menu command File > Export > to iPod.

New in DEVONnote 2.3.5 (May 24, 2012)

  • NEW: Tutorials are easier accessible.
  • NEW: App Store users can seamlessly update to DEVONnote downloaded from the DEVONtechnologies website.
  • Improved: Text views use faster, non-contiguos layouting.
  • Improved: Log panel scrolls automatically to latest entry if sorted by date.
  • Improved: Memory management.
  • Fixed: Smart groups showed wrong icon on OS X 10.7.4.
  • Fixed: Last opened windows aren't restored anymore after a crash or after using Force Quit.
  • Fixed: Menu items didn't correctly change after registering the application.
  • Fixed: More minor issues and rare crashes.

New in DEVONnote 2.3.4 (Apr 19, 2012)

  • NEW: View option View > Columns > Aliases and sorting option View > Sorting > By Aliases.
  • NEW: Number of items in groups and smart groups is now displayed right aligned and gray.
  • NEW: Creating new documents in Tags view adds them either to the currently selected group tag or to the inbox of the database and tags them with the currently selected (ordinary) tag(s).
  • NEW: Double-clicking on entries in the Log panel reveals them or shows them in the Finder if possible.
  • Improved: Data > See Also > Classify can now also be used when the drawer is already visible, e.g. to close it using the keyboard shortcut.
  • Improved: Reliability when inserting links and attachments into rich text documents.
  • Improved: Memory management.
  • Improved: Overall reliability and performance.
  • Fixed: Some minor user interface issues on OS X 10.7 Lion.
  • Fixed: Smart groups using Item contains aliases were not always automatically updated.
  • Fixed: Mouse cursor did not show as arrow over popup and clear buttons of search fields.
  • Fixed: Reordering items in ordinary tags (inside the Tags group) wasn't possible in unsorted views.
  • Fixed: Send by Email commands were not disabled if no documents were selected.
  • Fixed: Using services could cause issues while synchronizing with DEVONthink To Go.
  • Fixed: Spotlight metadata cache didn't always contain all files.
  • Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.3.3 (Mar 1, 2012)

  • NEW: Contextual menu command Update Bookmark added to web views.
  • NEW: Support for Google Chrome bookmarks.
  • NEW: Templates inside the subfolder "Toolbar" can be added to the toolbar of main windows, e.g. to easily create new items based on templates.
  • Improved: Support Assistant.
  • Improved: English localization.
  • Improved: About and splash panels updated.
  • Fixed: Images couldn't be pasted into the Info panel to change the item's icon.
  • Fixed: Newly created plain or rich text documents did not have empty files linked to them.
  • Fixed: Issue of search engine returning too many results in case of proximity operators followed by multiple other words/operators.
  • Fixed: Grouping items in the Tags view removed them from their former locations.
  • Fixed: Help > Contact Us did not work if the username contained non-ASCII characters.
  • Fixed: Position of tag completion popup on additional screens.
  • Fixed: English, French, and German localizations.
  • Fixed: More minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.3.2 (Dec 8, 2011)

  • NEW: Empty groups are displayed in gray.
  • Improved: Adding new tags via the Tags bar.
  • Improved: Links updated for new DEVONtechnologies website.
  • Improved: Internal enhancements.
  • Fixed: Some menu items were not disabled in OS X Lion's fullscreen mode.
  • Fixed: Support Assistant updated for new DEVONtechnologies website.
  • Fixed: Support Assistant did no longer show tutorials.
  • Fixed: Customization of toolbars did no longer work on OS X 10.5 Leopard.
  • Fixed: Various other minor bugs and glitches.
  • Fixed: French localization.

New in DEVONnote 2.3.1 (Nov 3, 2011)

  • NEW: Template menu supports custom icons of folders.
  • Improved: Shortcut for Data > Mark > As Flagged changed for compatibility to OS X 10.7 Lion's fullscreen mode.
  • Improved: Window fullscreen mode is restored on app start.
  • Improved: Advertisement filter.
  • Improved: Handling of storage of background processes.
  • Improved: Error logging to system console.
  • Fixed: Command-W closed the window instead of the current tab.
  • Fixed: Several issues with smart tagging.
  • Fixed: Several minor issues with window fullscreen mode.
  • Fixed: Several issues of tagging fields in head-up display panels.
  • Fixed: Tag completion popup wasn't always constrained to the current screen on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
  • Fixed: Support Assistant scrolled back to first page after installing an extra.
  • Fixed: Capturing from Xcode stores the path of the document instead of the file URL of the frontmost project.
  • Fixed: Random bug of See Selected Text causing poor results.
  • Fixed: "x-devonnote://" URLs didn't work.
  • Fixed: Further minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.3 (Sep 15, 2011)

  • NEW: Support for OS X 10.7 Lion's full screen mode; see View > Full Screen > Window. The old full screen mode is now available via View > Full Screen > Document.
  • NEW: Contextual menu item Quick Look Attachment(s) added to preview links and attached files of rich text documents (OS X 10.7 Lion or higher).
  • NEW: Double-clicking attachments in rich text documents opens the actual file, if possible, so that it can be edited externally.
  • NEW: Dragging cards from Address Book with Command and Option held into a rich text document inserts "addressbook:" links; clicking them opens the card in Address Book, previewing them via the contextual menu (OS X 10.7 or higher) is also possible.
  • NEW: Popup menu added to File > Export > As Text panel to select the desired text encoding.
  • Improved: Preferences > General > Display number of items inside groups no longer counts subgroups, only documents.
  • Improved: Files skipped while importing are logged.
  • Improved: Advertisement filter (OS X 10.7 Lion or higher).
  • Improved: Exclude Groups from Tagging is now enabled by default.
  • Improved: Storing fav icons of webpages.
  • Improved: Twitter handling.
  • Improved: Sync Agent plugin, prepared for DEVONthink To Go 1.2.
  • Improved: Automatic updates are disabled if an unknown framework is discovered.
  • Improved: Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches on OS X 10.7 Lion.
  • Fixed: Incompatibility of old full screen mode and the one of OS X 10.7 Lion.
  • Fixed: The beginning of text documents was truncated in full screen mode if the tabs bar was visible.
  • Fixed: It was possible to duplicate the Mobile Sync group.
  • Fixed: Navigational dots in Support Assistant did not always indicate the correct page.
  • Fixed: Support Assistant used a font not available on all systems.
  • Fixed: It's no longer possible to quit the application while an update is installed.
  • Fixed: Rare issue causing wrong alerts while entering a license code character by character.

New in DEVONnote 2.2.1 (Aug 10, 2011)

  • NEW: Logged records in the Log panel can be revealed via the contextual menu.
  • NEW: Internal support for upcoming sync store packages.
  • Improved: Data > Group/Ungroup renamed to Data > Group/Ungroup Items so that shortcuts can be assigned in System Preferences.
  • Improved: French localization.
  • Fixed: Various glitches (OS X 10.7 Lion).
  • Fixed: Some panels were invisible in fullscreen mode of other apps (OS X 10.7 Lion).
  • Fixed: Unnecessary console messages.
  • Fixed: Minor glitches and inconsistencies.
  • Fixed: Import of empty templates, e.g. text files with 0 bytes.

New in DEVONnote 2.2 (Jul 14, 2011)

  • NEW: Compatible to OS X 10.7 Lion.
  • NEW: Send by Email supports Sparrow.
  • NEW: New Edit > Tags command to enter tags immediately.
  • NEW: Smart groups support used-defined dates.
  • NEW: The Dock icon shows a progress indicator for long tasks.
  • NEW: ".xqy" and ".xq" added to plain text file extensions.
 
  • Improved: See also results for bookmarks and selected text.
  • Improved: Handling of Tab, Return, and Enter keys in various panels and when entering tags.
  • Improved: Services include the application name and don't use a submenu on Mac OS X 10.5.8 anymore
  • Improved: Website export retains line spacing for rich text.
  • Improved: Installation of accidentally opened templates can be cancelled.
  • Improved: Full-screen mode more compatible.
  • Improved: Compliance to Mac App Store.
  • Improved: Overall performance and reliability.
 
  • Fixed: Destination menu of Take Note panel was not sorted by kind.
  • Fixed: Pages templates (.template) were treated as plain text.
  • Fixed: Open Office text documents and templates were listed as "rich text".
  • Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.1.1 (Jun 9, 2011)

  • Improved: More reliable exception handling.
  • Improved: DEVONthink To Go conduit; better handles packaged file formats (need re-syncing these items).
  • Improved: Feedback email messages give more details.
  • Fixed: Glitch after splitting documents.
  • Fixed: Import of metadata stored by e.g. third-party download managers could fail or crash.
  • Fixed: Preview tooltips of tabs were not hidden after switching to another application via Command-Tab.

New in DEVONnote 2.1 (May 27, 2011)

  • NEW: Rewritten welcome/support assistant with tutorials, tips and tricks, and easy installation of scripts, templates, and eventually plugins.
  • NEW: Highlighting color can be changed.
  • NEW: Optional Highlight toolbar item to toggle highlighting of selected text.
  • NEW: Option to show log automatically (on by default) added to the Log panel.
  • NEW: Smart groups support 'Tag is not ...' conditions.
  • NEW: Placeholder '%groupname%' for templates to insert the name of the parent group.
  • NEW: Default shortcuts for Data > Mark > As (Un)Flagged/(Un)Locked.
  • NEW: Support for .textClipping files containing rich text with images or attachments.
  • NEW: '.org' and '.md' files (e.g. created by Aquamacs) are now recognized as plain text files.
 
  • Improved: Highlighting of selection in group selector.
  • Improved: Take Note panel.
  • Improved: Pasted or dropped data from iWork or Microsoft Office is now usually captured as RTF(D).
  • Improved: Handling of label names.
  • Improved: Handling of tag completion popup on Mac OS X 10.5.8.
  • Improved: Better and more reliable filename handling.
  • Improved: Metadata import.
  • Improved: Overall performance, stability, and reliability.
  • Improved: Icons added to Search In popup menus of smart groups and to popup menu of Take Note panel.
  • Improved: Kernel prepared for 64-bit operation.
 
  • Fixed: Several synchronization issues in DEVONthink To Go conduit.
  • Fixed: Automatic Wiki links at the end of plain or rich texts were also triggered after clicking behind or below the end of the text.
  • Fixed: Double-clicking on smart groups in icon views doesn't open the smart group editor anymore.
  • Fixed: Exporting/Renaming doesn't drop invalid extensions anymore.
  • Fixed: Minor adaptions to the requirements of the Mac App Store.
  • Fixed: Localizations.
  • Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.0.9 (Mar 17, 2011)

  • NEW: The Take Note panel automatically inserts the URL from the frontmost application, e.g. Safari, after opening or activating the panel if possible and if there's no URL yet.
  • NEW: Preferences > Editing > Text Replacement to enable text replacements by default. Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' or later.
  • NEW: 'This Quarter' and 'Last Quarter' options added to date predicates of smart groups. In addition, few minor issues of date predicates have been fixed and support for customized first day of week has been added.
 
  • Improved: Group selector displays label colors now too if Preferences > General > Colorize icons with label is disabled.
  • Improved: Autocompletion of tagging simplifies entering of not yet existing tags.
  • Improved: Automatic installation supports '/Applications' replaced with a symbolic link; revised text of alert after launching the application from the disk image or another unexpected location.
  • Improved: More accurate and faster see also, classify, search, and summary.
  • Improved: Overall performance and stability.
 
  • Fixed: Various bugs in DEVONthink To Go conduit.
  • Fixed: All windows are now saved before synchronizing instead of saving only main windows.
  • Fixed: All document windows are refreshed instead of reset after synchronizing or repairing a database.
  • Fixed: Glitches of Take Note preference pane
  • Fixed: Edited plain text clippings, e.g. created by Firefox, were unreadable.
  • Fixed: Invalid values in a database's settings could cause case-sensitive highlighting of occurrences.
  • Fixed: Issue of symbolic link handling of Mac OS X (workaround).
  • Fixed: Issues caused by poor BabylonCM.plugin (workaround).
  • Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.0.6 (Nov 17, 2010)

  • The DEVONthink To Go synchronization support is now always loading (the "Sync group not visible" bug) and it is again possible to record shortcuts for the Take Note panel. Proxy files (.dn2) showing up in Spotlight searches can be previewed using Quick Look in the Finder, Yahoo! Messenger chatlogs (.ychat) can be imported as plain text, and Web pages captured from Google Chrome properly retain their URL. In addition a number of other bugs and glitches have been fixed and the overall performance improved in many places.

New in DEVONnote 2.0.5 (Sep 29, 2010)

  • Improved: Take Note panel accepts images and attachments via drag-and-drop, creates RTFD documents in this case.
  • Improved: Synchronization with DEVONthink To Go.
  • Improved: Memory management.
  • Improved: Error handling while initializing unknown or buggy plugins.
  • Fixed: Support for F17-F19 keys in shortcut recorder.

New in DEVONnote 2.0.4 (Sep 22, 2010)

  • NEW: Support for DEVONthink To Go.
  • NEW: Copy Item Link contextual and action menu command.
  • NEW: Send by email functionality completely rewritten.
  • NEW: Take Note functionality completely rewritten.
  • NEW: Database Properties can show the location in the Finder.
  • NEW: Warning on startup that a database is already in use can be suppressed for each database.
  • NEW: Extended metadata is used, when available, for importing/indexing files.
  • Improved: Appearance of HUD panels.
  • Improved: Most rich text templates use tables now to simply entering data.
  • Improved: Clicking the URL field in the navigation bar with Shift-Command or Shift-Option held opens the URL in a new tab.
  • Improved: Group selector, Info, and Document Properties panels support Control-Tab and Shift-Control-Tab shortcuts, too.
  • Improved: Clicking on an already selected group in three-pane/tags views hides visible toolbar search results.
  • Improved: Welcome Assistant gives option to recommend the software when the application is licensed.
  • Improved: Advertisement filter.
  • Improved: Info panel truncates a too long location in the middle, a tool tip displays the full location.
  • Improved: Handling of Finder comments.
  • Improved: Enter License panel displays an alert after entering a license for another application, edition, or version.
  • Improved: Overall performance and reliability.
  • Fixed: View/edit pane was not always updated, e.g. after renaming an item.
  • Fixed: Completing tags in the group selector panel via the mouse was not immediately possible.
  • Fixed: New From Clipboard Dock sub-menu contained the Tags group.
  • Fixed: Pressing the Tab key in split, three pane, or tags view made an optionally editable column editable.
  • Fixed: Sorting by size did separate nodes, e.g. groups, and documents.
  • Fixed: Clicking on documents in See Also drawer of document windows updated the drawer immediately.
  • Fixed: Highlighting of selection is no longer printed by list, table, outline views.
  • Fixed: Command-W did not close a visible and active Find panel in fullscreen mode.
  • Fixed: Placeholders in names of simple templates did not work.
  • Fixed: Bug in Welcome Assistant when JavaScript was switched off.
  • Fixed: Glitch of iPod export.
  • Fixed: Closing tabs did not save changes.
  • Fixed: Workaround for Adobe Acrobat Internet plugin added.
  • Fixed: Services definition.
  • Fixed: Localizations.
  • Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed: Methods deprecated in current versions of Mac OS X.

New in DEVONnote 2.0.3 (Jun 17, 2010)

  • NEW: Bookmarks of upcoming DEVONagent 2.5 can be imported.
  • NEW: Preference Editing > General > Data detectors (supported only by Mac OS X 10.6 and text/PDF views).
  • NEW: DEVONnote remembers the last visible and selected range of text documents.
  • NEW: Smart groups support now compound predicates (also known as 'branches') and can use multiple labels ('Any of the following are true').
  • NEW: Data > Merge is now able to merge multiple selected groups/tags.
  • NEW: Merging documents via Data > Merge merges also the tags of the documents.
  • NEW: Preference option Editing > General > Smart copy/paste.
  • NEW: Welcome Assistent displays a random tip or blog article.
  • NEW: Save Search command added to contextual menu of right pane of Tags view.
  • NEW: Commands Data > New From Template > Open Templates Folder and Update Templates Menu to facilitate development of (smart) templates
  • NEW: '.haml' and '.sass' added to list of known plain text extensions.
  • Improved: Double-clicking smart groups opens the Smart Group Editor.
  • Improved: Searching in multiple selected tags of Tags view via toolbar returns now the intersection of the selected tags.
  • Improved: Scrolling of icon views during drag-and-drop.
  • Improved: Selection handling after deleting/classifying items.
  • Improved: Sorting by creation/modification/addition dates.
  • Improved: Long names in Search In popup menu are truncated.
  • Improved: Groups created in a local inbox are no longer excluded from classification by default.
  • Improved: Search index by unifying characters with a different width and common ligatures.
  • Improved: Locking and unlocking of databases, e.g. in case of damaged .lock files.
  • Improved: Damaged/Incompatible Word documents are imported/indexed as unknown files or logged as 'Failed'.
  • Improved: Handling of files without an extension but with a valid HFS type while exporting/rebuilding.
  • Improved: Shortcut of Window > Show Properties changed to Command-Option-Shift-P
  • Improved: Revised user agent while browsing (compatible to Safari 4.0.5).
  • Improved: Exporting (also while rebuilding) logs missing files as 'Missing' instead of 'Failed'.
  • Improved: More extensive error logging in case of incompatibilities.
  • Improved: Overall performance.
  • Improved: Overall reliability and stability.
  • Fixed: Glitches of contextual/action menus of main windows
  • Fixed: Edit > Find > Find Previous/Next was case sensitive in some cases.
  • Fixed: Changing the selection of a rich text while the color panel was visible could change the text color of the selection under certain circumstances.
  • Fixed: Command-clicking x-devonnote-item:// URLs in web views did not open a new tab.
  • Fixed: Calculation of size of file packages (e.g. '.rtfd' files) larger than 4 GB was incorrect.
  • Fixed: Rare issues of pure 'not' queries (e.g. '-word').
  • Fixed: Different number of items assigned to a tag in various places of the user interface.
  • Fixed: Width of Location columns was limited.
  • Fixed: Rare formatting glitches of date cells
  • Fixed: Right pane of Tags view was not always updated after entering new (!) tags e.g. via the Tags bar.
  • Fixed: Saving edited TaskPaper files no longer changes their extension to '.txt'.
  • Fixed: See Also/Classify drawer of document windows was not always updated after switching to another document.
  • Fixed: Rare issues of Spotlight metadata cache.
  • Fixed: Clicking on the Move button of the Classify drawer right after entering tags in the Tags bar did not save them.
  • Fixed: Some smart groups returned too many results.
  • Fixed: Localization glitches.
  • Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.0 (Feb 25, 2010)

  • NEW: 'Welcome Assistant', appears when the application starts up.
  • NEW: Templates (both smart and user-defined) are also supported. Templates Accounts & Passwords, Note, Phone Note, Task List and Quote (from clipboard) added.
  • NEW: External linking. [Read more...]
  • NEW: Added Take Note preference pane and Take Note menu commands.
  • NEW: 'Send by Email', iPod export, Website export and bookmarks import plugins.
  • NEW: Contextual menu in search, see also, and classify results.
  • NEW: New preference option Web > Only automatic JavaScript windows (on by default). Disabling this option blocks all pop-ups except HTML links opened in a blank window.
  • NEW: Dedicated icons for groups used as tags and for ordinary tags (groups inside the Tags group). A small tag icon is displayed behind the name of groups used as tags if necessary.
  • NEW: Setting Exclude Groups from Tagging (off by default) added to Database Properties panel to exclude all groups outside of the Tags group from tagging.
  • NEW: Smart group predicate 'Instance is (not) tagged'; smart groups can search for other smart groups.
  • NEW: Navigation bar of Split, Three Pane, Tag views provides the possibility to lock/unlock also groups.
  • NEW: Pure NOT queries (e.g. '-word', '-word1 -word2', 'NOT word', '!word' etc.) are now supported.
  • NEW: Drag-and-drop on list/split/three pane views automatically selects an enclosing group if possible and necessary.
  • NEW: Support for upcoming iPhone/iPad conduit plugin.
 
  • Improved: Website export uses now all templates available in the folder "Websites" (in the application's Application Support folder). Improved default templates plus new template "Header+URL+Comment" are copied to this folder automatically; new website export placeholders '�tabasePlusLocation%', '%comment%', '%url%' and '%tags%'.
  • Improved: Multiple selected items having already the same tags can be tagged via the Info panel and the Tag bar; Tab key can be used to enter the next tag.
  • Improved: Dragging items on tags in Tags view tags them (adds replicants only if necessary); dragging items on ordinary tags in all other views tags items, too; deleting them from the tags list in the Tags view moves ordinary tags to the Trash and excludes group tags from tagging.
  • Improved: Upper left pane of Tags view displays all untagged items if no tag/group is selected in the right pane.
  • Improved: Tag bar and Info panel colorize tags/groups like the Tags view (ordinary tags are blue, groups are gray). Tags contain a pop-up menu that allows to reveal already existing groups/tags and to list and to add related tags.
  • Improved: Classifying does not remove tags located in the Tags group anymore. In addition, ordinary tags (located in the Tags group) are not used by classification anymore.
  • Improved: Primary location of an item is now one outside the Tags group (if possible).
  • Improved: Tag bar moved to bottom of main/document/search windows.
  • Improved: Entering tags using the keyboard and the contextual menu.
  • Improved: Renamed Checked to Flagged throughout the whole user interface.
  • Improved: Menus of Actions toolbar items work without having to release the mouse button first.
  • Improved: Edit > Spelling has been replaced with Edit > Spelling and Grammar and sub-menus Edit > Substitutions and Edit > Transformations have been added. Note: Data Detectors, Text Replacement, Smart Dashes, Correct Spelling Automatically and Show Substitutions are limited to Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'. Edit > Substitutions > Data Detectors can be used to re-enable automatic data detectors for PDF views.
  • Improved: The Command modifier key while clicking on the URL above document views opens the URL in a new tab if possible.
  • Improved: Slightly revised Data menu and revised contextual menus.
  • Improved: Document Properties panel's visual appearance.
  • Improved: Slightly revised appearance, e.g. of file properties, tabs bar, scores and labels in result lists.
  • Improved: Shortcut to cycle through all panes/fields is now (Shift-) Control-Tab instead of (Shift-) Option-Tab.
  • Improved: Tooltips of icon view display the location and the comment.
  • Improved: Many minor interface improvements.
  • Improved: Depending on the preferences, services create now thumbnails for captured notes.
  • Improved: Smart Quotes, see e.g. Preferences, Editing tab, use now the system-wide settings.
  • Improved: Sorting of diacritics.
  • Improved: Support for FTP URLs.
  • Improved: Rebuilding of databases.
  • Improved: Improved and larger (512x512 pixel) application icon; revised icons for Spotlight metadata files; revised splash screen.
  • Improved: Check for correct installation location.
  • Improved: Check for updates more reliable.
  • Improved: English, French and German localizations including localized smart group editor.
  • Improved: Documentation updated.
 
  • Fixed: Duplicating items not located in the top level group created unnecessary replicants.
  • Fixed: Saving documents updates the navigation bar and see/classify/concordance drawers if necessary.
  • Fixed: Capturing rich text data beginning with invalid filename characters (e.g. /) didn't always work.
  • Fixed: Not all RTFD attachments displayed their filename on Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard'.
  • Fixed: Results of searching for words separated by hyphens were not always complete.
  • Fixed: Option double clicking on items in split view didn't open them in a new tab.
  • Fixed: Emptying the trash did not always remove the tags associated to children of trashed groups.
  • Fixed: Exporting files via drag-and-drop did not always update OpenMeta attributes and Spotlight/Finder comments.
  • Fixed: Handling of services revised.
  • Fixed: Full screen glitch when viewing documents on a second monitor.
  • Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.0 PB8 (Dec 10, 2009)

  • From this release on DEVONnote requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. This beta expires February 28, 2010.
  • NEW: Tagging including a (still incomplete) tag view; OpenMeta is supported while importing and exporting files/documents.
  • NEW: An alert on startup asks whether the application should be installed in the global Applications folder in case it's not installed in one of the recommended locations for applications.
  • NEW: Option Preferences > General > Appearance > Colorize icons with label. By default this option is disabled and labels are (more or less) displayed like in the Finder. Enabling this option colorizes icons/thumbnails (including favorites in DEVONthink Pro's sidebar) with the label's color like in previous versions.
  • NEW: Option Preferences > General > Appearance > Mark duplicates and replicants in color that switches between coloring duplicates and replicants in blue and red instead of marking them with an icon.
  • NEW: Optional Check/Uncheck toolbar item.
  • NEW: Preferences option Destination on Import tab.
  • NEW: Preference option Web > Web Content > Zoom text only to enable Safari-4-style zooming.
  • NEW: Read-only databases (e.g. locked in the Finder, on read-only volumes like CDs/DVDs or with wrong permissions/ownership) and their favorites are marked in the Database Properties panel.
  • NEW: Finder labels with same name (preferred) or same color are used while importing/indexing (Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' only).
  • NEW: Support for .vncloc bookmarks and for 'ilvn' HFS type; support for plain text file formats defined by third-party applications added.
  • Improved: Interface section of Preferences, General tab, splitted into Appearance and Interface.
  • Improved: Polished appearance of dividors, borders, tabs, icon views, drawers, group selector and the icon size slider. Fixes also harmless console messages on Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
  • Improved: Status and file property icons revised.
  • Improved: Slightly revised background color of highlighting of occurrences to distinguish it from the default highlight colors.
  • Improved: Data > Mark > As Read/Unread, As Locked/Unlocked, and As Checked/Unchecked combined and therefore the commands toggle now these values (e.g. like Apple Mail)
  • Improved: The unread icon does not replace the file icon anymore.
  • Improved: Automatic scrolling added to tabs.
  • Improved: Data > New > Bookmark downloads and sets the name automatically if no name is entered.
  • Improved: Double-clicking on items in the icon pane of split views opens them in the same pane instead of opening a new window or hoisting the current window (depending on the preferences).
  • Improved: Optional pop-up menu to the right of tabs bar includes all tabs now.
  • Improved: Pressing the Option modifier key while clicking on the URL in a document's navigation bar opens the URL in a new tab if possible.
  • Improved: Shortcut Option-Tab (now supported by main, search and document windows) supports the tags bar, too. In addition, the new shortcut Option-Shift-Tab cycles through all panes in reverse order. Finally, both shortcuts select the first search result if necessary after navigating to the search results.
  • Improved: View > Columns > Comment and View > Sort > by Comments renamed to (by) Spotlight Comment to distinguish them from the comment of documents.
  • Improved: Command Open Link In New Tab added to contextual menus of text views.
  • Improved: Tab management in general.
  • Improved: Escape key can be used to cancel renaming of search results.
  • Improved: Some keyboard shortcuts revised.
  • Improved: Go > First/Previous/Next/Last Document support visible toolbar search results.
  • Improved: Number of results of simple smart groups (without using search terms or tags) is immediately displayed in all views now.
  • Improved: After moving the selected items to the trash, the next item is selected in split and three-pane views.
  • Improved: Many more minor interface enhancements.
  • Improved: Recognition of duplicates.
  • Improved: Advertisement filter.
  • Improved: Sorting.
  • Improved: Rebuilding is more reliable.
  • Improved: Handling of user style sheets.
  • Improved: Memory management and performance.
  • Fixed: Grouping items selected in the upper right pane of the three-pane view used the wrong destination group.
  • Fixed: Command-D shortcut for 'Don't Save' didn't work on English systems.
  • Fixed: Various pop-up menus (e.g. of search fields, tabs or the Label/Highlight toolbar items) do not contain contextual menu items anymore.
  • Fixed: Count of smart groups wasn't always up to date.
  • Fixed: Temporarily wrong item count of groups after duplicating.
  • Fixed: After setting custom icons for the inbox of databases, the icon wasn't always flushed and therefore usually gone after restarting the application.
  • Fixed: Switching between views does no longer reset/remove additional tabs.
  • Fixed: Rare crash after switching views.
  • Fixed: Localization glitches.
  • Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed: View > Show/Hide State removed.
  • Removed: Danish localization.

New in DEVONnote 2.0 PB7 (Sep 15, 2009)

  • NEW: Services updated for compatibility with new system services (services appearing in contextual menus).
  • NEW: Dock menu uses indentation.
  • Improved: Scroll bars in head-up display styles support arrows at top and bottom.
  • Improved: Overall compatibility to Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'.
  • Fixed: Editing of smart groups did not work.
  • Fixed: Duplicate Remove Link items in contextual menus of rich texts.
  • Fixed: Minor visual glitches.
  • Removed: Now obsolete services menu in contextual menus of various views.

New in DEVONnote 2.0 PB6 (Jul 30, 2009)

  • NEW: Optional Reveal and Show In Finder toolbar items.
  • NEW: Optional Mark Up toolbar item for highlight, strike through or underline the selection.
  • NEW: Go > Selected Group 'hoists' the main window to the selected group.
  • NEW: Info panel and views display total size of groups or news feeds.
  • NEW: Groups and news feeds support sorting by size.
  • NEW: Shortcut Option-Left/Right expands/collapses all children in outline views whereas Left/Right expands/collapses only the selected item.
  • NEW: Groups containing unread items are displayed bold and, if desired, show the number of unread items inside the group and its sub-groups.
Improved: Highlight toolbar shows a menu for selecting the highlight color.
  • Improved: Menu command shortcuts revised and adapted to e.g. TextEdit.
  • Improved: Tooltips include now the location, the comment and available meta data.
  • Improved: Info bar of main windows displays location of selected item.
  • Improved: Action toolbar menu contains also commands to edit smart groups, to refresh feeds and to add/remove groups to/from favorites.
  • Improved: Invalidate server certificates can be ignored on demand and the site is accessible afterwards.
  • Improved: Links to remote downloads in RTF(D) and PDF documents are now opened in the default browser.
  • Improved: Database in use alerts revised; improved alert sheets after network errors.
  • Improved: Default size for document windows is now the last used size per document type.
  • Improved: Minimal width of URL, Path and Comment columns reduced.
  • Improved: Naming of items in Window menu standardized.
  • Improved: Toolbar item Show Info renamed to info.
  • Improved: Items in the trash are no longer considered instances or duplicates.
  • Improved: Widescreen mode is now database- and window-specific.
  • Improved: Compatibility of preferences panel to buggy third-party hacks.
  • Improved: Communication with the file system more reliable.
  • Improved: Updating of Info and Document Properties panels.
  • Improved: Updating of toolbar search results after selecting different settings in the pop-up menu.
Fixed: Edit > Copy URL was not always enabled for document windows.
  • Fixed: Selected/Dropped aliases were not resolved while importing/indexing.
  • Fixed: The name of newly created groups could not always be edited immediately.
  • Fixed: Preview of split views was not updated after renaming a file and selecting a different item.
  • Fixed: Automatic links based on MashedWords did not always work.
  • Fixed: Searching right after verifying and repairing a database did not always return all results.
  • Fixed: Expansion of groups inside smart groups was not always persistent.
  • Fixed: Group names containing commas were displayed as multiple tags by the Info panel.
  • Fixed: Bug affecting word counts of documents with only one word.
  • Fixed: Internal character count was not always updated after saving a modified document.
  • Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.0 PB5 (May 21, 2009)

  • From this release on DEVONnote requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. This beta expires July 31, 2009.
  • NEW: Properties of RTF/RTFD (except locked and indexed ones) are now editable via Window > Show/Hide Properties...
  • NEW: Comparison options Ignore Umlauts and Fuzzy added to toolbar search and to smart groups editor.
  • NEW: Tag predicate added to smart groups.
  • NEW: Tooltip added to location field of Info panel; tooltips of smart group results include the location, the comment and available meta data.
  • NEW: Option to ignore umlauts ignores now all diacritics.
  • NEW: Expanded smart groups in three-pane view display number of found items.
  • NEW: Attribute icon shows that an item has a comment.
  • Improved: Occurrences are now always highlighted blue on yellow.
  • Improved: Ranking of search results using wildcards.
  • Improved: Selection handling while toolbar search results are visible.
  • Improved: Capturing from text views via drag-and-drop or services retains the URL of the original document.
  • Improved: It is again possible to begin editing of the comments and URL columns after pressing the Tab key.
  • Improved: Revised shortcuts of Go and Format menu to avoid conflicts. In addition, shortcuts for Previous/Next Tab are now identical to Safari 4.0.
  • Improved: Tooltips of recent destinations of Move/Replicate/Duplicate sub-menus display location of destination.
  • Improved: Slightly revised order of Format menu.
  • Improved: Double-clicking search results with the Option key pressed opens them in a new tab if tabbed browsing is enabled. The behavior of Option-double-clicking is harmonized also for all panels.
  • Improved: Links to local files in rich text are always opened externally.
  • Improved: Go > Previous/Next Instance unhoist the current window if necessary.
  • Improved: Highlighting of occurrences of opened Spotlight search results.
  • Improved: Items replicated both inside and outside of the trash are again returned by smart groups, can be duplicates and are used by automatic Wiki linking.
  • Improved: Recognition of duplicates.
  • Improved: Rebuilding retains the original order.
  • Improved: English, French, and German Localizations.
  • Fixed: Issues of database locking on computers with multiple network interfaces/host names.
  • Fixed: Incompatibility to local domains.
  • Fixed: Some Wiki links containing multiple numbers did not work.
  • Fixed: Tooltips of navigation bar were not always correct.
  • Fixed: Some column widths did not adapt correctly.
  • Fixed: Locked orphaned files could not be repaired using Tools > Verify & Repair.
  • Fixed: Inconsistent indentation of groups in list/split/three-pane views.
  • Fixed: Data > Reveal did not always work.
  • Fixed: Bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 2.0 PB4 (Mar 30, 2009)

  • From this release on DEVONnote requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. This beta expires May 31, 2009.
  • New: Dock icon badge shows number of new items after using services. Badge is removed after (de)activating the application.
  • New: Default smart group 'Duplicates' listing all duplicate items in the database.
  • New: More smart group predicates.
  • New: Results of toolbar search and search windows can be renamed.
  • New: Open Link command of contextual menus of text views is also available for automatic Wiki links.
  • Improved: Revised Import and Backup preferences tabs.
  • Improved: Default setting for Preferences, General tab, Startup is now Open windows that were open on quit. This setting is also applied to most windows and panels.
  • Improved: Smart group editor.
  • Improved: Ranking of search results.
  • Improved: Recognition of duplicates.
  • Improved: All unread items (and not only those of feeds) use the same unread icon in lists.
  • Improved: Searching in selection is faster and supports selected smart groups, too.
  • Improved: Services are able to retrieve the URL from iCab and Opera, too, or try to store the path of the original document of unknown applications as a file URL if possible.
  • Improved: Toggling widescreen mode restores the width and order of the previously used columns.
  • Improved: Unified focus handling.
  • Improved: Display of creation, modification, and addition dates.
  • Improved: File > Export > as Files & Folders automatically uses unique filenames if necessary.
  • Improved: Revised indexing of numbers separated by '.' or ','.
  • Improved: Naming of files, e.g. of email messages with a subject like '...'
  • Improved: More reliable handling of bookmarks if URL is invalid or not RFC 1808 compliant.
  • Improved: Handling of multiple strings for one predicate in searches.
  • Improved: Automatic Wiki linking doesn't use items in the trash anymore.
  • Improved: More accurate calculation of file size (includes both data and resource fork).
  • Improved: Stability when importing Word and OpenOffice documents.
  • Improved: Handling of defective databases.
  • Improved: Sparkle framework updated to version 1.5b6.
  • Improved: Many minor interface and workflow improvements.
  • Improved: Several minor performance improvements.
  • Fixed: Info toolbar item did not toggle visibility of Info panel.
  • Fixed: Pressing Command-Shift-Backspace to empty the trash moved the selected items to the trash if the trash was empty.
  • Fixed: Issues with certain complex proximity terms and phrases.
  • Fixed: Bug causing text clippings become unsuable when being renamed.
  • Fixed: Meta Data predicate of smart groups did not work.
  • Fixed: Memory leak while converting old databases.
  • Fixed: Various minor bugs and interface glitches.
  • Removed: Obsolete preferences options.
  • Removed: Inherited labels (again).

New in DEVONnote 2.0 PB2 (Jan 30, 2009)

  • From this release on DEVONnote requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. This beta expires March 31, 2009.
  • New: Edit > Split Document command to split plain/rich text documents at the cursor position. Also available in contextual menus of text views.
  • New: Type and Addition/Creation/Modification/Opening predicates renamed to Kind and Date Added/Created/Modified/Opened.
  • Improved: General information area of Info panel is collapsable.
  • Improved: Formatting of display of meta data in Info panel.
  • Improved: Groups used as a drop target are automatically added to the last used destinations.
  • Improved: Text views support rectangular text selections by holding down the Option key and dragging the mouse.
  • Improved: Clicking file URLs in text documents opens them using the Finder.
  • Improved: Edit > Copy Item Link is also available if the frontmost window is a document window.
  • Improved: Warning before closing a modified document window supports Command-D shortcut for Don't save button.
  • Improved: Some keyboard shortcuts changed to avoid collision with other menu items or other applications.
  • Improved: Converting and rebuilding databases as well as exporting as files and folders faster and more reliable; better error logging.
  • Improved: Automatic Wiki linking based on names and aliases now always prefers the longest match.
  • Improved: Handling of file packages belonging to now uninstalled software.
  • Improved: Support for 'promised files' while dropping stuff.
  • Improved: Faster validation of menu items added by plugins
  • Improved: German, French, and Danish localizations.
  • Improved: Many more minor interface enhancements.
  • Improved: Overall stability and performance.
  • Fixed: Interrupting a conversion by using Force Quit and trying it again later could create duplicates.
  • Fixed: View > Show/Hide Details was not selectable.
  • Fixed: Moving/Grouping items from/of smart groups was not possible.
  • Fixed: Smart groups using certain predicates didn't always work.
  • Fixed: Smart groups weren't always updated after adding items to the database.
  • Fixed: Command-Option-dragging items into plain text documents is no longer possible, and dragging them into rich text documents uses the insertion point.
  • Fixed: Open windows that were open on quit preference didn't always restore the last used window size and position.
  • Fixed: Handling of focus after browsing in place or using Go > Top Level/Enclosing Group.
  • Fixed: Revised toolbar icons.
  • Fixed: Many more minor bugs and glitches.
  • Removed: Useless Width/Height/Duration predicates from smart group editor.

New in DEVONnote 2.0 Beta 1 (Dec 18, 2008)

  • From this release on DEVONnote requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later. This beta expires January 31, 2009.
  • Boolean and proximity search operators, wildcards.
  • Smart groups (saved searches).
  • Global inbox replacing the import destinations chaos.
  • Trash can.
  • Undo/Redo.
  • Three Panes view inherited from DEVONthink Pro.
  • Support for separate document windows, zooming and full screen mode.
  • Tabbed browsing, viewing, and editing.
  • Overhauled user interface.
  • The database files are always updated immediately.

New in DEVONnote 1.9.16 (Sep 23, 2008)

  • Required: Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher.
  • NEW: 'Remove' button added to 'Help > Enter License' panel that removes an existing valid license (e.g. a trial license).
  • Improved: Support for iChat logs.
  • Improved: Up to three times faster markup of automatic WikiLinks based on names and/or aliases.
  • Improved: Inline advertisement filter.
  • Improved: Support for WebKit of Mac OS X 10.4.11.
  • Improved: Filtering of invalid URLs, e.g. data: bookmarks of Safari.
  • Improved: Drags from other applications to delete/remove items isn't accepted anymore.
  • Improved: Minor interface improvements.
  • Improved: Slightly faster opening of databases.
  • Improved: Handling of temporary files while importing.
  • Improved: Compatibility to third-party WebKit extensions and hacks.
  • Improved: Removed last functions deprecated by Mac OS X 10.5.
  • Fixed: Scrolling glitches (Mac OS X 10.5 only).
  • Fixed: Footers/headers couldn't be disabled while printing web views.
  • Fixed: Localization glitches.

New in DEVONnote 1.9.15 (Jul 24, 2008)

  • NEW: '.mdwn' files imported/indexed as plain text.
  • NEW: Contextual menus don't contain commands for DEVONagent or PhotoStickies if these applications are not installed.
  • Improved: Support for Camino.
  • Improved: Inline advertisement filter.
  • Improved: Faster creation and updating of Spotlight meta data cache.
  • Improved: Progress indicator.
  • Improved: Automatic update more reliable.
  • Improved: Faster closing of database on quit.
  • Improved: Documentation.
  • Fixed: iChat log file import problem.
  • Fixed: Minor bugs and glitches.

New in DEVONnote 1.9.14 (May 7, 2008)

  • Improved: Web views support command Edit > Find > Scroll to Selection (Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher).
  • Improved: Localization.
  • Fixed: Minor plain text import issues.
  • Fixed: Issues of rich text handling (Mac OS X 10.5).