CintaNotes is a Windows application for fast and convenient note taking. It can clip text from any application on a hot key, has a powerful tagging system and effective full-text search capability.
+6
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Show keyboard shortcuts in tray menu

Alex Jenter 12 ár síðan updated by Christof Deininger 9 ár síðan 2
a a from BDJ suggested:
Show key board shortcut on tray icon context menu for "New Note" (eg. "New Note Ctrl+Shift+F12")
other-ui complexity:easy
Answer
Christof Deininger 9 ár síðan
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+5
Declined

Drag-and-dropping .db files onto CN window should open them

Alex Jenter 12 ár síðan updated by Christof Deininger 9 ár síðan 2
sstetsen: "why don't just drop a file from Explorer on to CN panel to open it? All that is standard Windows functionalities and couldn't be too hard to implement..." 
main-window files complexity:medium
Answer
Christof Deininger 9 ár síðan
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+9
Declined

CSV Import

Andy 14 ár síðan updated by Christof Deininger 9 ár síðan 2
I'm creating a Lingala/English phrasebook and want to import a .csv file of work I've already done.
Currently I'm using Windows address book as a work-around but it's obviously not ideal.
import
Answer
Christof Deininger 9 ár síðan
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+5
Under review

Don't reset tag filter when hiding tag sidebar

Alex Jenter 9 ár síðan Uppfært 9 ár síðan 1

It's annoying that the tag filter is reset when tag sidebar gets hidden on F5.

tag-sidebar tags
+14
Lokið

Virtual folders support

Alex Jenter 13 ár síðan Uppfært 8 ár síðan 3
Organize notes into a tree of virtual folders
organizing complexity:hard
+4
Under review

Elastic tabstops

Shawn 6 ár síðan updated by Cassandra D. Everhart 5 ár síðan 1

I still have a lot of notes in Notepad++ because (via plugin) it supports Elastic Tabstops. This feature automatically aligns all content in a table based on the textual length of each column. Separate tables in a single document/note can have different tabstop alignments, since each group is separated by two carriage returns. This provides a simple ability to align information into a pseudo-table structure. If you use Notepad++ and aren't using this plugin, you need it. It's awesome. Elastic Tabstops ensures that whether your tab setting is 4 spaces or 8 spaces or 30 spaces, columns align correctly when text is tabbed consistently.


Here's an example of how it works in Notepad++:

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Vs the same table in CintaNotes:

Image 130

Among other things, this feature would allow note content to be able to be easily and quickly copied to/from Excel without having to munge the number of tabs that are currently required to make text align correctly. Likewise, any other application that supports tab-separated content would work, too (Access, phpMyAdmin, SQL Server, Adminer, HTML tables, WordPress and many more). This would greatly improve application compatibility.

This is different from the Smart Tabs request since Smart Tabs inserts spaces (yuck!).

I believe this is different from the Quick table creation request because that appears to require special formatting (RTF or HTML) where Elastic Tabstops works on plain text in notes where formatting is stripped. When you strip formatting (CTRL+D) tabs remain tabs so the pseudo-table alignment is preserved.

cosmetic editing other-ui text-formatting
+4
Under review

Fast collection / Shortcut to assign "Collector Tag"

Bugatzki 7 ár síðan updated by anonymous 6 ár síðan 4

A keyboard shortcut to assign a Special Tag like "Collection".
Target: Fast collecting of a bunch of notes, even from different searches, without risking a cramp in the Ctrl-Finger.

I'm using Shift+F6 to move notes into a section called "Collection", but it needs at least one extra keystroke per selection.

(Maybe another shortcut for emptying the collection - removing collector tags - would also be nice.)

Suggestion: The tag "Collection" could appear as a sticky tag in the not scrolling area of "All" and "Untagged".  If it can't, it should be renamable in order to determine the appearence in the tag list.

At least one shortcut to assign a tag would do the trick.

keyboard organizing tags
+4
Under review

Solo Mode for Expanded Tags in Tag List (optional)

Bugatzki 7 ár síðan updated by anonymous 7 ár síðan 5

Expand only 1 Tag Group at a time.

(-> close previous group automatically when expanding another; as seen in Adobe Lightroom)

main-window searching tag-sidebar viewing
+4
Under review

Search in attached files

Alex Jenter 7 ár síðan Uppfært 7 ár síðan 2

Would be great if CN could search inside of attached files, at least in most common document types - TXT, DOC, XLS, PDF.

searching
+4
Lokið

Export attachments to HTML

Alex Jenter 8 ár síðan Uppfært 5 ár síðan 4

CN should optionally create a subfolder with attached files and place links to them into HTML

export
+4
Under review

Regular expression support in Rules

Alex Jenter 8 ár síðan updated by Axel Hochgraef 7 ár síðan 2

It would be great to able, for example, to match on various dates in text to automatically assign tags.

complexity:medium rules
+4
Under review

Drag and drop notes onto tags

Alex Jenter 8 ár síðan Uppfært 8 ár síðan 1

Dragging of a group of selected notes to the tag label to tag them all at once.

mouse notes-list tags tag-sidebar
+4
Under review

Add ability to search within all link URLs

Alex Jenter 8 ár síðan updated by anonymous 8 ár síðan 5

Now CN doesn't look into link URLs that are part of note text. Sometimes it is necessary however.

links searching
+4
Under review

Limit length of title in clipped notes

Marek Jedliński 8 ár síðan updated by Alex Jenter 8 ár síðan 2

I use CintaNotes to store a large collection of quotes. I usually create the notes by clipping from other sources, and a quote is typically a paragraph of text. The option to use "first line" as title is great, but in this case the whole paragraph becomes the title. This is a bit excessive, and becomes inconvenient in exported data.


Suggestion: add an option to limit the length of title taken from clipped text. Ideally to be specified as a number of words (default: 10 or so) rather than characters, to avoid cutting words in half.

complexity:medium taking/clipping
+4
Under review

Show Section in Note Title

Chris Moore 8 ár síðan updated by anonymous 8 ár síðan 4

I often hit Ctrl+Shift+Space and type a search term in for my multi-sectioned notebook. Note that I use the same colour for all my sections. I find that when CN returns the search results, I cannot easily tell which section each individual note is in. To do this, I have to double click each one and check the section dropdown in each note. What I'd like to have is CN show the section name in the note title bar, preferably the very right hand side so it doesn't conflict with the note title. That way, I could see at a glance what section a note belongs to.

cosmetic main-window searching
+4
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Relative path from the ClintaNotes db file to the linked file

ipista 8 ár síðan updated by Alex Jenter 8 ár síðan 7

Use case:

CintaNotes db file is on cloud storage. I use the same db from my PC, laptop, PC in work (unfortunately I cannot use from my Android phone). The same cloud storage is mapped to different directories on different machines, therefore the link as an absolute path works only on one system. If I could define the link as e.g.: ".\linked_files\TheBiggestDwarf.jpg" it would work on all systems.

file-attachments files links
+4
Lokið

Option to try to keep note selection on filter change

Alex Jenter 11 ár síðan Uppfært 8 ár síðan 2
Now when changing text filter CN tries to keep focused note position, but when changing tags filter it doesn't. This is a clear discrepancy that needs to be resolved.
After some discussion it became clear that some people would prefer to always keep the position as long as focused note remains in view), other would prefer to reset it to the top position.
notes-list searching
+4
Declined

Allow complete view note in preview

mvermand 12 ár síðan updated by Christof Deininger 9 ár síðan 2

 When partial copy of text from the note preview is available, I think it will also be useful to be able to expand the currently selected note so all text is available for fast partial copy.

viewing editing
Answer
Christof Deininger 9 ár síðan
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+4
Declined

Associate .db files with CintaNotes

Alex Jenter 12 ár síðan updated by Christof Deininger 9 ár síðan 2
Allow file association with CN in Windows Explorer, to just double-click on a database file and open it with CN, as Notepad does.

 (sstetsen)

files complexity:medium
+4
Fixed

Pressing Enter twice doesn't cancel bulleted and numbered lists in editor

Alex Jenter 13 ár síðan Uppfært 13 ár síðan 0
when you create a bullet list, each "ENTER" will create a new bullet. Fine. But when pressing "ENTER" twice without entering text this should be treated as an indication to end further bulleting. Instead of creating empty bullets, remove the last unwanted bullet. This comes more handy than double Ctrl+L to stop bulleting.
Answer
Alex Jenter 13 ár síðan
Fixed in 1.6
+4
Lokið

Old tag name to appear in new name field of rename dialog

Andrey Froloff 12 ár síðan updated by Alex Jenter 12 ár síðan 0
When renaming tags, the field for new name is empty. It's useful for replacing tags with others, but if I just want to change few characters in tag name or add/remove parent, I have to re-type or copy-paste old name into "new name" field manually. I guess it should look like renaming of files and folders in windows: old name appears selected, so if user begins typing, old name disappears.
editing tag-sidebar organizing complexity:trivial
Answer
Alex Jenter 12 ár síðan
Completed in V1.8
+4
Declined

Add "Related Notes" view

Thomas Lohrum 12 ár síðan updated by Christof Deininger 9 ár síðan 8
With version 2.0 CintaNotes adds links to other notes. That is, you can create a link to point to some other note, but in turn it is not possible to see which notes are pointing "at you".

Example:
B links A
C links A

Now, when i view A i want to see, that B+C are pointing at A.


editing links
Answer
Christof Deininger 9 ár síðan
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+4
Declined

"Add parent tag" option in import dialog

Andrey Froloff 12 ár síðan updated by Christof Deininger 9 ár síðan 5
Notes imported from other notebooks can be logically related to their source as children, not only as sibling.
organizing import
Answer
Christof Deininger 9 ár síðan
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+4
Under review

Configurable hierarchy separator symbol

Alex Jenter 12 ár síðan Uppfært 9 ár síðan 3
Now tag hierarchy separator is fixed to "/". It would be more convenient to be able to configure this symbol.

 

organizing tags
Answer
Alex Jenter 9 ár síðan
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+4
Lokið

Make "Activated already running CN instance" message box optional

Andre Santos 14 ár síðan updated by Alex Jenter 14 ár síðan 1
Remove or add an option to remove the "Activated already running CintaNotes instance." message

Just switch the focus to the main window or add an non-obstructive information window

I have Cinta "pinned" to the Taskbar in Windows 7 and running or hideen in the tray is the same, I just need the focus in the editor but the message box alway get's in the way
complexity:trivial
Answer
Alex Jenter 14 ár síðan
Released in 1.4. CintaNotes supports the "-noactivationmsg" command line parameter which suppresses the message box.