What's new in RedNotebook 1.8.0
Aug 4, 2014
- Add font selection for edit mode (Philip Akesson).
- Allow changing preview and cloud font in preferences.
- Only allow opening RedNotebook minimized on Windows since other systems may lack a system tray.
- Fix: Display tags starting with "SEP" in preview (lp:1255582)
New in RedNotebook 1.7.3 (Nov 11, 2013)
- Jump to a specific date on startup with "--date 2013-10-31" on the commandline (Rob Norris).
- Display current date in the title bar (Rob Norris).
- Support inserting multiple pictures in one step.
- Add DejaVu Sans as font fallback for clouds and preview.
- Fix setting last image directory for insert dialog.
- Only allow exporting selected text if we are in edit mode (lp:1221792).
New in RedNotebook 1.7.2 (Jun 29, 2013)
- Show error if saving fails due to a directory not being created.
- Ignore hashtags starting with more than one #.
- Fix: Allow inserting files and pictures from the "recently used" section (lp:1195759).
New in RedNotebook 1.7.1 (Mar 2, 2013)
- Fix: Insert spellchecking correction in the correct position (LP:1137925).
New in RedNotebook 1.7.0 (Mar 1, 2013)
- Allow filtering exported days by tags (Alistair Marshall).
- Add option to export only the currently selected text (Alistair Marshall).
- Move spellcheck option from preferences to edit menu and add F7 shortcut (Alistair Marshall).
- Enable spellchecking on Windows. See help for adding custom dictionaries.
- Better error message for invalid markup.
- Show warning if no directory is selected before clicking the "Open" button when choosing a journal directory.
- Gracefully handle BadStatusLines when checking for new versions.
- Do not try to set file permissions on Windows where they are unavailable.
- Fix hide-from-cloud for words containing backslashes (LP:1131412).
- Fix relative file links on Windows.
- Code: Switch from optparse to argparse (Alistair Marshall).
New in RedNotebook 1.6.6 (Jan 22, 2013)
- Edit templates in RedNotebook directly. Preview and use the Insert and Format toolbar menus before inserting a template.
- Support relative image links like [""my_pic"".jpg].
- Add Ctrl+Return shortcut for adding manual linebreaks.
- Let all toolbar menus always open the menu before performing an action.
- Change Go-To-Today shortcut to Alt+Home (Ctrl+Home moves cursor to the start of the text).
- Do not allow choosing an empty name for templates.
- Do not parse #include as a hashtag.
- Add info about network drives to help text.
- Fix help text about links to local directories.
- Fix: Let categories pane use new infobar notifications (LP:1098625).
New in RedNotebook 1.6.5 (Dec 28, 2012)
- Add menu item for clearing the text format.
- Add toolbar menus "Insert" and "Format" to main menu for better accessibility and HUD integration.
- Only show keyboard shortcuts in main menu, not in toolbar menus.
- Use selected text as link name when a new link is inserted.
- When an image or file is inserted, use selected text as the name of the link.
- Format selected text as header when a header is inserted.
- Convert selected text to a list when a list is inserted.
- Select title after it has been inserted to allow for easy editing.
- Change file permissions so that journal files are only readable by the user.
- Windows: Restore slider positions after opening RedNotebook from the tray.
- Windows: Support non-ascii installation paths.
New in RedNotebook 1.6.3 (Dec 6, 2012)
- Fix: Don't interpret URLs with non-empty paths as local links.
New in RedNotebook 1.6.2 (Nov 19, 2012)
- Add option for automatically switching between edit and preview mode to preferences.
- Since debian doesn't have a python2 symlink, try to run python2.7 and python2.6 in the run script.
- Use PNG image in about dialog (SVG support is broken in Windows version).
New in RedNotebook 1.6.1 (Nov 12, 2012)
- Allow specifying the width when inserting an image.
- Add relative links: Relative paths [myfile image.jpg] is automatically transformed to /path/to/journal/image.jpg.
- Use smarter regular expression for finding hashtags in the text.
- Give focus to link box when the link dialog opens.
- Hide tag panel by default.
- Adapt introductory and help texts for hashtags.
- Break search results at newlines.
- Fix: When searching for multiple tags, only add a single result for every hit.
New in RedNotebook 1.6.0 (Oct 31, 2012)
- Inline #hashtagging: Directly add hashtags like #Movies, #my_project in the main text.
- Highlight #hashtags in red.
- Include # for tags in tag cloud to be consistent with the hashtags.
- Change to edit/preview mode if text is missing/present automatically.
- Change to edit mode when double-clicked into preview.
- Detach model from combobox when updating the tags to make inserting a new tag faster.
- Fix searching for dates.
- Fix inserting and editing templates with unicode names.
- Fix opening and creating journals (lp:1068655)
- Use apport (If a crash occurs on Linux, an automatic bug report is prepared, but not submitted)
- Do not allow using $HOME as a journal directory.
- Do not let error notifications blink.
- For Journal->New and Journal->Save-As: Only allow using empty directories.
- For Journal->Open: Only allow using directories with at least one month file.
- Use InfoBars for nicer inline notifications about errors.
- Enable finishing link dialog with hitting ENTER.
- Disable insert (Ctrl+V) and cut (Ctrl+X) shortcuts in preview mode.
- Add more shortcuts in Journal menu: Export (Ctrl+E), Backup and Statistics (Alt+letter).
- Update translations.
New in RedNotebook 1.5.0 (Jul 20, 2012)
- Use new logo redesigned by Ciaran.
- Remember possible undo/redo actions for each day separately.
- Turn all entries of old "Tags" categories into tags without entries at startup.
- Suggest last tag when a new tag is added.
- When suggesting to use the last tag, leave focus on the tag.
- Enable copy menu item in preview mode. (LP:834473)
- Grey out cut and paste menu items in preview mode.
- Only allow hiding words from the cloud, not the tags.
- Add shortcut (Ctrl+Home) for "Go to Today"
- Fix undo for tags.
- Fix: Remove special characters in template names before displaying them.
- Exports: Make tag lists scrollable and sort the available tags alphabetically.
- Install .mo files (translations) in the standard directories under Linux.
- Drop support for Python 2.5. This means that we now support Python 2.6 and 2.7.
- Windows: Update libraries in installer to gtk+ 2.24 and python 2.7.
- Windows: Correctly show italics in preview.
- OSX: Make the _() function available even if gettext is not working.
- Update translations.
New in RedNotebook 1.4.0 (Apr 2, 2012)
- Search: If a search contains a hashtag (e.g. #Work or #Movies), only days
- with all of those tags will be searched. This means you can e.g. search for
- "project-xyz" only in the days tagged with "Work" with the query
- "#Work project-xyz".
- Search for combinations of tags (e.g. #magazine #linux)
- Search: If the query only contains a single hashtag (e.g. #Movies), a list of
- all subtags (the names of the movies) is shown.
- Search: Automatically scroll to found text in edit mode
- Split tag and word clouds
- Show tag and word cloud only if there are any tags and words respectively
- Remove spaces from multi-word tags during search and in clouds
- Auto-complete tags in search
- Always include all tags regardless of their frequency in the cloud
- Exports: Correctly set the appropriate extension for each export type
- Exports: Always add a title for LaTeX exports
- Fix: Correctly parse configuration values containing ='s
- Fix: Paths returned from file and folder choosers must be converted to unicode
- Fix: Correctly redirect error output into the logfile on Windows
New in RedNotebook 1.3.0 (Jan 25, 2012)
- Let tags be categories without entries. This greatly simplifies and in fact
- unifies tags and categories.
- Unify clouds and search -> Show the search bar above the clouds
- When a search is made, substitute the word cloud with the search results.
- Apply styling for thick horizontal lines
- Thin line:--------------------
- Thick line: ====================
- Apply formatting only once if a format button is clicked multiple times
- Allow "Close to tray" only on Windows as most modern Linux distros don't have a tray anymore (lp:902228)
- If you still want the tray icon, set closeToTray=1 in the configuration file.
- Make journal saving more than twice as fast by using libyaml.
- Change Ctrl-PageUp(Down) directions to be more intuitive
- Update and revise help text
- Fix: utf-8 special chars not displayed correctly in html export for firefox (LP:910094)
- Fix: Do not abort if a wrong regex is entered
- Fix: Correctly highlight all picture formats in edit mode
- Fix: When the format button is clicked and a tag is selected, format it instead of the editor pane
- Write month only if changes are actually made (LP:871730)
- Call categories tags in more places
- Print PDF export path after export
- Do not warn if second instance is suspected (too many false-positives)
- Updated translations
New in RedNotebook 1.1.3 (Mar 3, 2011)
- Remember window position from last session
- Restore window position when returning from tray
- Let the sub-windows be displayed relative to the main screen
- After searching change to date with single click instead of double-click
- Add useWebkit flag in configuration file. Can be set to 0 if webkit causes problems e.g. for Chinese fonts
- Fix: Special characters inflate cloud black-/whitelist
- Fix: Insertion of templates (LP:696205)
- Fix: Do not load backup files accidentally (LP:705260)
- Fix: Preferences window can't be opened (LP:696186)
- Windows: Fix opening linked files with umlauts or other special characters
- Code: Make pywebkitgtk an explicit requirement
New in RedNotebook 1.1.2 (Dec 27, 2010)
- fullscreen mode (F11)
- better search
- structured headers
- many bugfixes
New in RedNotebook 1.1.0 (Aug 4, 2010)
- When searching for text, search in dates too (Search for 2010-05 displays all entries of May 2010)
- Improve checking for new version (Show version numbers)
- Save last selected tab (Search/Clouds) (LP:590483)
- Save journal files as readable unicode
- Save journal files without python directives
- Let the Preview and the Edit button always have the same size
- Get rid of warnings caused by older webkit versions
- Use webkit on Windows
- Use webkit by default if installed
- Get rid of CamelCase in sourcecode
- Open external files asynchronously with subprocess.Popen from preview
- Fix: Correctly highlight multiple links and images on one line
- Fix: Months that have been cleared of all text are now rewritten to disk
- Fix: Allow ampersands in annotation links (LP:612490)
- Rewrite export assistant code
- Much more code rewritten or restructured
- Bundle msvcr dll in windows installer (Fixes Error 14001)
- New translations:
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Many translations updated
New in RedNotebook 1.0.0 (Jun 23, 2010)
- Describe how to add latex math formulas and custom html tags in help
- Fix crash on windows when data and program live on different drives in portable mode (LP:581646)
- Fix display of italic text in edit mode
- Fix inserting templates on Windows
- New Translations:
- Faroese
New in RedNotebook 0.9.5 (May 11, 2010)
- Show week numbers in calendar (edit weekNumbers in config file)
- Sort items in configuration.cfg
- Automatically put cursor into search field, when search tab is opened
- Do not translate log
- Fix export error on Windows (LP:575999)
- Get rid of PangoWarnings on Windows
- Get rid of Statusbar deprecation message
- New recommended dependency: python-chardet
New in RedNotebook 0.9.4 (Apr 29, 2010)
- Allow dragging of files and pictures into RedNotebook (Linux only)
- Save data dir relative to application dir in portable mode
- Remember if window was maximized
- Make webkit the default preview backend
- Improve documentation (Synchronization, Portable mode)
- Improve list markup highlighting
- Only add help content at first startup (Closes LP:550814)
- Live highlighting of searched words in text
- Scroll to found word at search
- Make user directory configurable in default.cfg
- Windows:
- Fully translate Windows version
- Add more languages to the Windows installer
- Fix picture export on Windows
- Hide PDF export button on windows (pywebkitgtk not available)
- Portable mode has been improved
- Let users insert templates again (Closes LP:538391)
- New translations:
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Many translations updated
New in RedNotebook 0.9.3 (Feb 23, 2010)
- Add graphical option to select webkit for previews
- If available use webkit for clouds
- Add context menu to the webkit clouds for hiding words
- Change "Stricken" to "Strikethrough"
- Add locale functions for complete translations
- Change xhtml extension to .html
- Improve documentation
- New translations:
- Italian
- Many translations updated
New in RedNotebook 0.9.2 (Jan 22, 2010)
- Use webkit for direct PDF export
- Remove pdflatex (texlive) package suggestion
- Improve menu layout
- Add "Report A Problem" button
- Add "Translate RedNotebook" button
- Add "Get Help Online" button
- Handle opening of links externally in webkit preview
- Fix spellchecking
- Fix linebreaks for XHTML
- Improve documentation
- New Translations:
- Spanish
- Updated Translations:
- German
- Indonesian
- Hebrew
- Malay
- Czech
- Polish
- Dutch
- Chinese (Simplified)
New in RedNotebook 0.9.1 (Jan 6, 2010)
- Make markup highlighting much faster
- Allow using webkit for previews (In the config file, set useWebkit to 1)
- Make pywebkitgtk (python-webkit) an optional, but highly recommended dependency
- Make welcome text translatable
- Add comments for translators
- Make help available online
New in RedNotebook 0.9.0 (Dec 18, 2009)
- Markup Highlighting (a little WYSIWYG/RTF)
- New translations:
- Indonesian
- Asturian
- Ukrainian
- Danish
- Updated translations:
- All (Yay, thanks!)
New in RedNotebook 0.8.9 (Nov 5, 2009)
- Save your journal to a remote server (SSH, FTP and WebDAV support)
- Do not load backup files in data directory
- Fix "Save As"
- New translations:
- Dutch
- Polish
New in RedNotebook 0.8.7 (Oct 13, 2009)
- Only save content and config when they have been changed
- Make the UI easier to understand
- provide more tooltips
- Update help
- explain how to use Categories as Todo items there
- make help topic centric
- cleanup template help
- Fix "Insert this Weekday's Template"
New in RedNotebook 0.8.4 (Aug 14, 2009)
- Add Undu and Redo for Categories
- (Hit Ctrl-Z to restore a deleted category entry)
- Hide cloud words with simple right-click
- Open pictures by double-clicking them (in preview)
- Statistics: Show number of distinct words
- Category items can now be formatted bold, italic, underlined, stricken
- (Just put **, //, __ or -- around the entry text)
- Format category entries with the "Format" button
- (Select a node on the right and apply a format from the "Format" menu)
- Add "Stricken" format button
- (Useful e.g. for completed todo items)
- New Shortcuts:
- Ctrl-N: Add a new entry to a category
- Ctrl-T: Tag the current day
- You can now use TAB to navigate in the "New entry dialog"
- Switch from libglade to GtkBuilder (the python-glade dep can be dropped)
- Fix undo and redo for main text
New in RedNotebook 0.8.2 (Jul 29, 2009)
- Blacklist for clouds in GUI
- Let the search function highlight found words
- Fix line breaks for exports
- Fix opening files on Mac
- Add little section about comments to Help text
- Fix size for insert icon by using a stock icon
- Do not use small toolbar icon sizes (LP:405991)
New in RedNotebook 0.8.1 (Jul 24, 2009)
- make font size configurable (under preferences)
- Add line breaks (under insert menu)
- Add a whitespace char between adjacent lines
- Fix: Win Version should use smaller insert-image icon (16x16)
New in RedNotebook 0.8.0 (Jul 22, 2009)
- Graphical preferences dialog (Under "Edit" menu)
- Make date/time format configurable in the preferences dialog
- Fix unicode bugs
New in RedNotebook 0.7.6 (Jul 15, 2009)
- Undo and redo for the main text
- Use libyaml for faster loading and dumping of files (Big journals now open ~10 times faster)
- Speed improvements for navigation between days
- Add information for Latex to PDF conversion
- Shortcut for turning on/off the preview: Ctrl+P
- New entry in Edit menu: "Find"
- Append error messages to the logfile
- Use new svn version of txt2tags
- Fix URL and file link insertion
New in RedNotebook 0.7.5 (Jul 1, 2009)
- Buttons for bold, italic, underlined text
- Fixed hardy bug: yaml 3.05 does not have __version__ attribute
- Removed shebangs from python modules (Closes LP:393602)
New in RedNotebook 0.7.4 (Jun 25, 2009)
- Create ~/.rednotebook dir before logging is initialized (Closes LP:392235)
- Set native theme for windows version
New in RedNotebook 0.7.3 (Jun 22, 2009)
- Only save months that have been visited for a faster exit
- Improve logging
- Automatically create a logfile for debugging
- Fix: Check if directory exists before opening it
New in RedNotebook 0.7.2 (May 25, 2009)
- Choose a folder for journal (Save-As)
- Have more than one journal (New Journal)
- Open existing journals (Open Journal)
New in RedNotebook 0.7.1 (May 21, 2009)
- Open and create template files from within RedNotebook
- Live update of template list
- Fix opening files for Win
New in RedNotebook 0.7.0 (May 19, 2009)
- Arbitrarily named templates
- Enable copy/paste in categories edit box
- Live update of clouds after categories have been edited
New in RedNotebook 0.6.7 (Apr 22, 2009)
- Make deb package Python 2.6 compatible
- Add yaml-parser error handling
- Fix inserting file links containing whitespace
New in RedNotebook 0.6.4 (Mar 30, 2009)
- Easier Tagging (Added tag button)
- New-Entry-Dialog: Show previous tags in drop-down menu when "Tags" is selected as category
- New-Entry-Dialog: Only make a new entry submittable, if text has been entered
- Shortcuts to navigate between days ( + PageUp, + PageDown)
New in RedNotebook 0.6.3 (Mar 23, 2009)
- Add an option to insert the current time and date
- Save divider positions and frame size
- Add new statistics
- Disable GTKMozembed automatically if RedNotebook crashes
New in RedNotebook 0.6.2 (Mar 18, 2009)
- Content is automatically saved every ten minutes
- Fix Debian/Jaunty Bug
New in RedNotebook 0.6.1 (Mar 3, 2009)
- New types to insert: Bullet List, Numbered List, Title, Line.
New in RedNotebook 0.6.0 (Feb 25, 2009)
- Allow linking of files
- Allow embedding images
- Links and mail addresses are recognized automatically
- Adding named links to websites is now possible
- Better documentation
New in RedNotebook 0.5.6 (Feb 23, 2009)
- Disable automatic update checking
- Add "Check for new version" menu entry
- Add config file and tips for packagers
- Add 'Disable GTKMozembed' option to config files
- Add copyright notice to source files
- Add LICENSE file
New in RedNotebook 0.5.5 (Feb 12, 2009)
- Make GTKMozembed optional
- Use preview in browser if GTKMozembed not installed
- Add browser navigation buttons to preview
- Remove gtkhtml2 dependency
- Add name of day to title in preview and export
New in RedNotebook 0.5.4 (Feb 3, 2009)
- RedNotebook now checks for new version when it is started
- The configuration is saved in a file when the program exits
- The Fedora gtkmozembed bug has been fixed (LP:320492)
New in RedNotebook 0.5.3 (Jan 30, 2009)
- Word, tag and category clouds
- Catch abnormal aborts and save content to disk
New in RedNotebook 0.5.2 (Jan 27, 2009)
- The Export Wizard is back again (Thanks Alexandre)
- It is now possible to search for text, categories and tags
New in RedNotebook 0.5.1 (Jan 22, 2009)
- Days can be tagged
- Formatting text is possible
New in RedNotebook 0.5.0 (Jan 20, 2009)
- The GUI has been ported to PyGTK
- Almost all of the features have been adapted to the new interface
- A Preview Tab for a day’s content was added
New in RedNotebook 0.4.1 (Jan 15, 2009)
- Do not export empty days (Fixes Bug #314385)
- Fix search for single digit months (Fixes Bug #31298 8)
New in RedNotebook 0.4.0 (Dec 19, 2008)
- Export Functionality added: Text, HTML, Latex
- Use of Configuration Files