CintaNotes for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7
Copyright(C) Cinta Software, http://cintanotes.com
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Running
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Portable version: Start cintanotes.exe from its home folder. Complete usage 
instructions are available in the help file, which can be opened using the 
"Help / Help" menu command. 

Installable version: Run using the created start menu shortcut.


Upgrading
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Portable version: Extract all files from the folder inside of the downloaded 
archive into your current CintaNotes folder, overwriting old files. 
Your notebook and settings won't be overwritten.

Installable version: run the installer and point it to your current 
CintaNotes folder. 

Upgrading from CintaNotes Beta to CintaNotes 1.X is a bit more difficult 
because CintaNotes 1.3 dropped support for the Beta .dat file format. 
You need to export your notes to an XML file first, and after installation 
of the latest version re-import it using the "File/Import" command.


User Files
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User files are located in the CintaNotes folder by default.
However, in case CintaNotes folder is located in the "Program Files" or
"Program Files (x86)" folder, then the files are moved to the CintaNotes 
subfolder of the %APPDATA% folder.

cintanotes.db (configurable) 	- Notes database
cintanotes.settings 		- Program settings
backup\notebook.hourly.db 	- Hourly backup of the notes database
backup\notebook.daily.db 	- Daily backup of the notes database
backup\notebook.weekly.db 	- Weekly backup of the notes database



Reporting Problems
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If you're encountering problems with CintaNotes please go to 
http://cintanotes.com and make sure that you're running the latest version 
of CintaNotes.

If the problem is with the latest version, please report it on our 
feedback forum: http://cintanotes.userecho.com



Version History
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Feb 7, 2012     Version 1.5.5
   Features:
   - Configuring how the note's timestamp is displayed in the notes list.
     You can set whether creation of modification time should be displayed
     (or both), and also if the time of day needs to be displayed.
   - Searching by modification time.
     New search mode has been added.

   Enhancements:
   - Improved speed of XML import and export.
   - Display of note creation and modification time in the editor.
     (You can turn this off using the "editor.displaydates" parameter in
     cintanotes.settings.)
    
   Fixes:
   - Main window was not visible after single tray icon click if 
      "Minimize to tray" was not set.
   - USB stick could not be safely removed after note import or export.
   - Importing .db could modify the source file if it was from an older 
      CintaNotes version.
   - Note last modification date was not exported to XML and imported from it.
     In order to export to an XML file readable by CintaNotes 1.5.4 and
     earlier, you need to use the special "XML for CintaNotes 1.5.4" format.   
   - Sort order by modification date was broken after importing from XML.
   - Note's modification time always changed if note had a styled link.
   - Text search could crash the app. 
     When maximum text preview lines was set to 1.
   - It was impossible to select an italic font in the Note Appearance dialog.

                 
Jan  12, 2012     Version 1.5.4
   Features:
   - Sorting notes by last modification date

   Enhancements:
   - Updated translations
   
   Fixes:
   - Note editor: fixed wrong Ctrl+S behavior on new notes
   - Tags didn't always fit into the tac AC dropdown
   - Fixed out_of_range error when pressing Ctrl+BkSp in empty search box
   - Removed unnecessary empty space on the bottom of the tag AC dropdown
   - Notes list: Some note titles could appear clipped
   - Note editor: Unsupported paragraph formatting was not cleared on paste
   - Note editor: In title edit box letters could appear clipped on the bottom
   - Window position was not saved if "Always on top" was set


Dec  14, 2011   Version 1.5.3
   Enhancements:
   - Text highlight color and monospace font are now configurable
     in .settings file.
   - Ctrl+S in note editor to save note immediately
   - Ctrl+Enter in empty search box to view untagged notes

   Fixes:
   - Fixed error when changing language while editing new notes
   - Fixed crash on pressing Ctrl+Bksp on a note without tags
   - Maximized state of main and editor windows was not saved in settings file
   - Note editor: When editing note title Ctrl+Alt+Key shortcuts were recognized as Ctrl+Key
   - Note editor: Pressing Enter with non-empty selection resulted in wrong selection
   - Note editor: Ctrl+Backspace did not function in title and tags
   - Note editor: Dates were recognized as numbered lists
   - Note editor: Empty lines were selected wrongly
   - It was impossible to use bold variants of some fonts
   - Note editor: Text copy-pasted into the note from PDF received highlight
   - Wrong note duplicate recognition at import

  
Nov 14, 2011   Version 1.5.2

   Enhancements:
   - Tag autocomplete now matches any word in multi word tags.
     Words within tags can be delimited by many common non-alphabetic characters,
     like this: "my-tag", "projects/cintanotes", "prio:high", "cn_rocks".
   - New option "Options/Editor/Auto-Indent" which controls whether a new line
      in editor gets automatically indented like the previous one.
   - Turning off Options/Editor/Text Formatting now warns about possible loss 
      of text formatting (if notebook contains notes with formatting).
   - Note editor: if nothing is selected, Ctrl+Del clears formatting of the 
      whole current paragraph.
   - Updated translations.

   Fixes:
   - Search highlight positions could be wrong because of tabs.
   - Note editor: links were still highlighted even when "highlight links" was off.
   - Resolved performance issues with XML import.
   - Eliminated possible crash on XML export.
   - Layout of "Preview min max lines" option labels was not suited for all languages.
   - CN could fail to start on WinXP 2002 SP2 with large font sizes.
   - Note editor: URL highlighting could get broken
   - Note editor: "Monospace" and "Highlight" text styles were lost on copy-pasting.

Nov 3, 2011    Version 1.5.1

   Features:
   - Basic text formatting support in notes editor.
     You can now format text in notes editor. Bold, italics, underline, 
     strikeout, monospace and highlighting are supported. Also you can make
     bulleted and numbered lists.
     Text formatting support is optional and can be turned off in the 
     Options / Editor menu.
   - Notes list can display formatted text in note preview.
   - Import and export of text formatting to and from XML.
   - New "Option/Startup" submenu with two options which previously has been 
     available only via manual editing of the .settings file:
     "Run Minimized" - makes CintaNotes run minimized to tray;
     "Allow Multiple Instances" - use this to run many copies of CN 
     simultaneously.

   Enhancements:
   - Refreshed program icons and logo, by a professional designer.
     (The program icon doens't look ugly on Windows 7 taskbar anymore!)
   - Tab characters now don't get autoconverted to spaces.
   - Updated "About CintaNotes" dialog.
   - Display of a descriptive message when trying to load unknown new 
     version of the notebook file.

   Fixes:
   - Search: click on a note used to erroneously accept tag suggestion.
   - XML export without specifying 'XML' extension could lead to failure.
   - When editing note title Ctrl+Alt+Key shortcuts were not recognized.
   - German umlaute in tags were not lowercased correctly.


Apr 7, 2011    1.4.3 Version Released!

   Features:
   - Added the "Notebook Parameters" dialog, which allows to setup the notebook
     file path, adjust synchronization settings, and move current notebook to 
     another location. The dialog box is called up with the "File/Notebook..." 
     menu item. 
   - Added translations of the UI into Hungarian, Lithuanian, Slovenian and
     Spanish languages. 
   - Added the "Help/Translations" menu item, which is a link to the 
     collaborative UI translation center based on the Transifex online service.
   
   Enhancements:
   - Updated translations: Chinese Traditional, Japanese.
   
   Fixes:
   - File "log.txt" was created when the "lang" folder was not found
   - Backup folder was created even when all backup was turned off
   - Note editor: the text area is now always initially focused in case text 
      search has been active
   - "Show main window hot key" didn't work when the startup.minimized parameter 
     was set.
   - When startup.minimized was set, CintaNotes started up minimized when the
     user was changing UI language.


Feb 14, 2011    1.4.2 Update Released!

   Features:
   - Added translations of the UI into Danish, Portuguese, Korean and Traditional 
     Chinese.
   - F3 and Shift+F3 now work in note editor to find next and previous instances
     of currently selected text.

   Enhancements:
   - CintaNotes loads new language files automatically.

   Fixes:
   - Fixed error "ios_base::failbit set" after installing into Program Files when
     run installer as admin and agreed to lauch CintaNotes after install.
   - CintaNotes crashed if 'Lang' subfolder didn't exist.


Feb 2, 2011     Version 1.4.1 Release

   Features:
   - Translations of the UI into Chinese, Belarusian, French, Italian, Japanese 
     and Polish.  

   Enhancements:
   - Enhanced search highlights in note preview.
      Now you can navigate search matches using both forward and backward using 
      the F3 and Shift+F3 keys, and match counts in the form of "current/total" 
      are displayed (can be turned off via the 
      noteslist.search.highlights.displaycounts option in the settings file).
   - A number of new parameters in the settings file:
      1) Option to pick whether note's title or text is initially focused in the 
         editor via the "editor.focus.title" parameter.
      2) The -i, -m, -noactivationmsg command line parameters are now backed
      up by "startup.multipleinstances.allowed", "startup.minimized" and
      "startup.multipleinstances.activationmsg" parameters in the settings file.

   Fixes:
   - Regression: "-m" command line parameter didn't work
   - Crash when middle-clicking on tag while no notes displayed
   - Extra " "(space) symbol at the beginning of the Tags field in editor
   - Extra empty lines when scrolling in note editor using mouse wheel
   - Error when moving notes while text search is active
   - Changing language would lose unsaved notes
   - A number of minor fixes

Jan 19, 2011    Version 1.4 Release

    Features:
	- Support for multiple languages in UI
		Now CintaNotes UI supports languages other than English! The 
		translations to German and Russian are bundled with this release.
		You can switch current language with the "Options/Language" menu.
		More languages are to come. If you'd like to have CintaNotes in 
		your language, please edit the "CintaNotes\lang\en.lang" file 
		and send it to feedback@cintanotes.com.
	- Scroll long notes via holding a spacebar to "pin" them
		Reading long notes in notes list using just the left and right 
		arrow keys was not convenient. Now the note can be "pinned" 
		using spacebar (or left mouse click), and the text can be scrolled 
		with all usual navigation keys or mouse wheel.
	- Configurable clipping options regarding note title.
		Now whether the title of a clipped note is the window title, 
		first line of text or blank is controlled with the 
		"Options/Clipping/Use as Title" menu.
	- "Show similarly tagged" command on Ctrl+BkSp
		This command changes the tag selection on the tag sidebar to match 
		the tags of currently focused note.

    Enhancements: 
	- The editor now opens the note scrolled to the same place in text where 
	  the note preview was.
		Also if a search was active, the search term is highlighted.
	- Ability to jump to next/previous page in note preview on Ctrl + Left/Right 
	  arrow.
	- "Activated already running CN instance" message box is now optional.
		CintaNotes now supports the "-noactivationmsg" command line 
		parameter which suppresses the message box which appears when you 
		start CN with it already running. 
	- Swapped F7 and F3 keyboard shortcuts. 
		F7 now opens the note's link, and F3 now means "find next", which is
		a common convention. 
    Fixes:
	- Emails were highlighted incorrectly 
	- Tray icon disappeared after Exporer crash on Win7 x64
	- Ctrl+A was not working in note edit dialog Title, Tags and Link fields on WinXP
	- Scrollbar was not visible in tag autocomplete dropdown list
	- Large texts (>64Kb) could not be edited
	- SQLite Error 14: unable to open database file on Win7 x64
	- XML import: CintaNotes could hang while importing XML with extra spaces 


Nov 1, 2010	Version 1.3 Release

    Features: 
	- Automatic highlighting of links inside notes. The following types of
          links are currently recognized:
	       http://cintanotes.com/something
	       http://www.cintanotes.com/something
	       cintanotes.com/something
	       ftp://cintanotes.com/something
	       https://cintanotes.com/something
	       mailto:feedback@cintanotes.com
	       file:///c:\windows\system32\calc.exe
    	- Reopening not explicitly closed note windows on program restart

    Enhancements: 
	- Ctrl+Home/End for going to first/last line of text in the editor from any control
    	- Ctrl+Enter in search box for transforming tag search into tag sidebar selection.
	- Text in the search field gets selected when pressing "Ctrl+F"
	- Tag autocomplete automatically adds space at the end
	- Removed legacy CintaNotes Beta (.dat) notebook support to reduce executable size.

    Fixes:
	- Crash when pressing Ctrl+Break
	- Empty notes were not deleted automatically on ESC press
	- Crash on closing from tray menu with open note editor window(s)
	- SQLite error while pasting text from Scintilla-based editors
	- Long tags didn't fit into autocomplete popup
	- Control resizing bug when started maximized
    

Jul 19, 2010    Version 1.2 Release

    Feature: Open multiple editor windows	
	Now the main window is accessible when you are editing a note, and you
	can view several notes side-by-side.

    Enhancement: Trimming leading and trailing whitespace from the clipped text 
	is now optional (the clipping.trimwhitespace parameter in the 
	cintanotes.settings file).

    Enhancement: Added the roadmap link to the Help menu.

    Fix: Moving notes was very slow on USB sticks.

    Fix: Clipping URLs did not work in Opera 10.60 and Opera AC

    Fix: Whitespace trimming happened after each editing instead of just 
	clipping.


Jun 18, 2010    1.1C Update

    Enhancement: Import command filters out duplicate notes.
    Fix: Crash while searching when max preview lines parameter is set to 0


Jun 16, 2010    Version 1.1 Release

    Feature: DropBox synchronization without closing the program
    	Put cintanotes.db into your DropBox folder and it will be automatically
        synchronized across of all your PCs. And now you don't have to remember
        to close CintaNotes before leaving!

    Feature: Ability to exclude tags from search
	Exclude tags via Alt-clicking on them in the tag sidebar (tag OR mode is
	using Shift-click now)

    Feature: The '-i' command line switch allows to run different instances of 
	CintaNotes simultaneously

    Enhancement: Awesome new icons, kindly contributed by Alessandro Onorati!
    Enhancement: Note previews are auto-scrolled to the first search highlight
    Enhancement: You can use F7 to cycle through focused note's search 
	highlights

    Enhancement: New keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins for Copy/Paste, 
	Ctrl+N to add new note 
   
    Fix: Exception while scrolling if note is higher than viewport
    Fix: Backup folder was created even if all backup was turned off
    Fix: Possible exception when moving to bottom with active tag filter
    Fix: Main window resize bug after making tag sidebar visible	
    Fix: Possible exception when tagging multiple notes
    Fix: Crash during export if tag filter active
    Fix: Esc didn't minimize if there were no notes


Mar 17, 2010    1.0B Update

    Enhancement: Added keyboard shortcuts for sorting
    Fix: Fixed sorting control redrawing issue
    Fixed runtime error at startup for non-administrative accounts


Mar 16, 2010    CintaNotes 1.0A Hot Fix

    Fix: Fixed possible runtime error at startup.
    Some minor fixes.

Mar 15, 2010    Version 1.0 Release

    Feature: Migrated to SQLite as main notes database
    Feature: Note sorting
    Feature: Automatic import of Beta .dat files at first start
    Feature: Full text search with extended query syntax
    Enhancement: New parameters in the .settings file, most notably 
		"notebook.file" which allows to specify any path to the notebook file
    Minor bugfixes

Oct 16, 2009    Hotfix: Beta M10.5
  
    Fix: Page URL was not captured if the "Open in Editor" option was set.

Oct 14, 2009    Beta M10.4 Update

    Enhancement: Added minimum number of note preview text lines option.
    Enhancement: Added alpha separator lines to tag sidebar.
    Enhancement: F3 for browsing link now works in note editor.
    Enhancement: Clipped notes are now discarded on "Cancel".
    Enhancement: "Copy" command now copies only note text. To include note time and title,
                use Ctrl+Alt+C.
    Enhancement: No URL check in note editor, any runnable link is allowed.
    Enhancement: Pasting a note adds active tags to it so that it stays in view.
    Enhancement: Pressing Esc in note editor is the same as pressing OK - no more accidental data 
                loss. If you want to discard changes, press the "Cancel" button.
    Fix: CintaNotes didn't work with Actual Window Manager.
    Fix: It was not possible to select text in note editor if CintaNotes was inactive.
    Fix: Note merging now uses notes' time to determine ordering and thus works correctly in 
                reversed order view.
    Fix: Pressing Del crashed CN when viewing an empty tag intersection.
    Fix: Runtime Exception when searching for consecutive spaces.
    Fix: Paste command didn't respect reverse order view and focused wrong note.
    Fix: Wrong note was focused after deleting several notes.
    Fix: Keyboard could be blocked when editor opened after clipping.
    Fix: Selecting text with Shift+Down in note editor didn't go to the end.
        
         
Sep 14, 2009    Beta M10.3 Update

    Enhancement: Automatic reloading of changed notebook file. 
    	If you use services like DropBox or Syncplicity to synchronize your 
    	CintaNotes notebooks, this will protect the newer version of the 
	notebook from being overwritten with the old version (this could 
	happen if you kept CintaNotes running on two or more PCs 
	simultaneously).

    Fix: CintaNotes hang when you used the clipping function while having the 
	note editor active and the "Open in Editor" option turned on.


Aug  3, 2009    Beta M10.2 Update

    Fix: After creating a new note with the "Reverse Order" option enabled, the 
    focus went to the oldest note instead of the newly created one.


Jul 26, 2009	Beta M10.1 Update 

    Fix: Notebook file could become corrupt when being saved to a USB stick.
    Fix: Minor correction to portable upgrade instructions in readme.txt.


Jul 23, 2009    Beta M10 Released

    Feature: AND and OR modes for tag sidebar
        Ctrl-clicking on a tag means AND and Alt-clicking means OR.
        When in OR mode, the highlight is yellowish. As for now, the modes
        are mutually exclusive.

    Feature: More advanced backup scheme - hourly, daily and weekly backups      
        CintaNotes now creates three backup files: notebook.hourly.dat is 
        updated each hour, notebook.daily.dat - each day, and 
        notebook.weekly.dat is updated once per week.

    Feature: "View / Reverse Order" command reverses the notes in the list
        so that latest notes come first 

    Enhancement: Tag autocomplete in search box is now limited to Anywhere 
        and Tags search modes
        
    Enhancement: Option to edit note immediately after each clipping 

    Enhancement: Switching to Untagged after clipping is now optional 

    Enhancement: Focus is not reset if current note stays in view after 
        searching or cancelling search 
        
    Enhancement: Autocomplete suggestions are not hot-tracked in the text 
        box anymore 
    
    Fix: Note editor: focus was not restored at activation

    Fix: Clipping while a note is open and then pressing OK caused CN to 
        crash 
        
    Fix: Tag autocomplete dropdown could go off-screen 



Terms of Use
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CintaNotes is a free program for personal use. 
This program is distributed on AS IS basis, and WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; 
without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A 
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Cinta Software can not be made responsible for any, 
direct or indirect, damage caused by the program.
It is prohibited to distribute modified versions of this software.

Cinta Software reserves the right to change licensing terms in future.