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.
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Thanks

Keep it SIMPLE!

Leonid Dvoretskiy 14 years ago updated by Alex Jenter 14 years ago 0
Keep it simple and quick. It's brilliant! Don't do combine which so many. It's so great thing!
Answer
Alex Jenter 14 years ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'll do my best to keep CintaNotes simple and fast.
+6
Fixed

Wrong indentation of wrapped bullet list lines

Alex Jenter 13 years ago updated 12 years ago 2

When the line wraps, text in the new line should appear with indent, e.g.

* This is line one and it wraps now,
__and the text starts correctly indented.

Wrong - 1.5.1

* This is line one and it wraps now,
but the text starts at pos 1.


(http://cintanotes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1177)

Answer
Alex Jenter 12 years ago
Completed in V1.8
+6
Under review

Ability to hide certain notes from view by default

Thomas Lohrum 9 years ago updated by 任三郎古畑 9 years ago 4
Add a feature to exclude notes from the default view.
notes-list searching organizing
+8
Fixed

Long tags don't fit into autocomplete popup

Alex Jenter 14 years ago updated 14 years ago 0
other-ui
+14
Completed

Add tooltip with URL to link icons

Alex Jenter 14 years ago updated 11 years ago 0
The link icons in the top left corner of the note's preview should have a tooltip displaying the target link.
viewing notes-list complexity:medium
Answer
Alex Jenter 11 years ago
Released in V2.5
+7
Declined

Treat paragraphs as subnotes

Dave Ferree 14 years ago updated by Christof Deininger 9 years ago 2
This would allow individual parts of a note to be shuffled about, moved or copied from one note to another and deleted without leaving the main window. Useful for to-do lists and large projects.
Answer
Christof Deininger 9 years ago
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+49
Planned

Source code syntax highlighting

Alex Jenter 14 years ago updated 10 years ago 2
Enable source code syntax highlighting, such as java , C#

(http://cintanotes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=116)
editing
+7
Declined

tag based automatic sorting (instead of priorities)

ChrisCN 13 years ago updated by Christof Deininger 9 years ago 3
This idea is 'stolen' from an application called 'find and run robot' that uses a score rule system which again is used to get the most important search results on the top of the list.

The idea behind this rule system is that you can assign a 'score' to each tag and/or note. This values can then be used to calculate the final ranking for each note.

The result is an addition to the manual sorting feature because many notes could be auto-sorted based on the score a tag got from you.

Let me give you an example:
In CintaNotes I store - amongst other kind of notes - tasks and hints. If I show a list of notes limited by a tag selection I want the tasks to occur first in the list. (Hints are not that important because I would do a specific search to find them).
Another example would be a list of task where the already finished ones go to the end of the list (of course: this example only applies if you don't delete finished task but keep them for later reference).

What you could do is assign the tag 'task' a score of 2000 and the tag 'finished' a tag of -4000. The tag 'hint' gets a score of -200.
The sorting of the search result would lead to list like this:
---------
    - this task is still open (score=2000)
    - this is another open task (score=2000)
---------
    - this area is where we have all notes that have a calculated score of 0
      (or all other notes that have no score at all)
---------
    - a hint (score=-200)
    - another hint (score=-200)
---------
    - now a finished task (score=-2000)
    - and another finished task (score=-2000)
    
As you can see:
If a note is assigned to more than one tag with a score -> the scores of all its tags are summarized.

I suggest to use the existing criteria in addition to the new score:
The priority of this criteria should be:
 - manual set position is most important (just like it is now in manual sort mode)
 - score (has second priority)
 - date (should have last priority - like it is now in manual sort mode)
   -> those notes ('no manual position' and 'no score') should be aranged around the position where score=0

Some additional thoughts:
In a first step I think it would be sufficient to implement this score system only for tags. In a later step notes could be included (the only benefit of assigning scores to individual notes would be that you can make this note 'very importang' or 'not important at all'). But I think the greatest benefit comes with the tag based score.

Why is this idea different to a priority?
A priority (e.g. 1-5) will lead to many notes with the same priority (e.g. 1).
The scoring system leads to a real ranking and with the use of negative values is much more flexible.


The explanation may sound confusing at first but it is very simple:
The higher the score you asign to a task - the higher the ranking of it's notes.

sorting
Answer
Christof Deininger 9 years ago
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+6
Under review

Outlining functionality

Alex Jenter 9 years ago updated 9 years ago 4

idea by ChrisCN:

- indent and outdent the current line (regardless of where the cursor is)

- move the current line up and down (to reorder the list)

- collapse and expand (to keep an overview over long lists)

- delete whole line (as an alternative to strike through)

- clever shortcut support for all those functions so you are not interrupted in your writing/brainstroming flow
- every line has a checkbox to mark it as done
- all subtask inherit the 'done' status

editing
+6
Completed

Option to use single Tab instead of Ctrl+Tab for inserting the Tab character in note editor

Alex Jenter 11 years ago updated 8 years ago 5
editing
+7
Declined

Vertical orientation for section bar

Alex Jenter 12 years ago updated by Christof Deininger 9 years ago 2
Like this:
Image 51


sections
Answer
Christof Deininger 9 years ago
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+6
Declined

Remember window size and position for each note separately

Thomas Lohrum 12 years ago updated by Christof Deininger 9 years ago 29
editing other-ui complexity:medium
Answer
Christof Deininger 9 years ago
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+7
Planned

Inconsistent font in notes with mixed charsets

Alex Jenter 14 years ago updated by Arseniy (CN Support Team) 11 years ago 8

Hi~
I have a font rendering bugs in 'edit window'. Personally, I usually use Chinese and Korean. But as you can see from the screenshot, even if I customized the 'Text font', it appears really weird. When characters comes to a different language, it just changed to a different font for the that language.

Image
http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/a62ceb5f9a.png

my environment:
win7.en (locale language is chs)
cinta ver 1.4.3


(http://cintanotes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1115)

+7
Fixed

Emails highlighted incorrectly (V1.3)

Alex Jenter 14 years ago updated 14 years ago 0
when i have a email address in a note, e.g.
xxx.xxx@xxx.com or xxx@xxx.com
only xxx.com is highlighted

http://cintanotes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=805
Answer
Alex Jenter 14 years ago
Released in 1.4
+7
Completed

Display hints for tags which don't fit into tag sidebar

Alex Jenter 13 years ago updated 10 years ago 3
There's currently no way to see what's the ending of a long tag which doesn't fit into sidebar.
tag-sidebar complexity:medium
+6
Fixed

Wrong TAB alignment in notes list

hyy 13 years ago updated by Alex Jenter 12 years ago 2
In the editor it looks fine, but in the article list columns are not properly shown.
viewing editing notes-list main-window text-formatting
Answer
Alex Jenter 12 years ago
fixed in 1.8.1
+6
Declined

Tag relations explorer

Thomas Lohrum 12 years ago updated by Christof Deininger 9 years ago 8
Add a new view, similar to the tag-sidebar, but grouping the tags automatically. It is the tags that should be shown as a group-relation. This is different from regular filtering a tag and showing the notes as a group. The result is a virtual tree where you can navigate tag relations, where notes themselves define these relations. The tag-tree-explorer is like a report view. The view is useful for navigating, grouping notes and when printing is available, allows them to be printed nicely as a hierarchical group. This is without the need to explicitly define a tag hierarchy.
viewing notes-list tag-sidebar organizing
Answer
Christof Deininger 9 years ago
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+6
Declined

Ctrl+Del should delete the word right to the cursor

burrum 12 years ago updated by Alex Jenter 8 years ago 17

There are couple standard windows shortcuts with Ctrl for word-level navigation in text editors:

* Ctrl+Left/Right -- jump to previous/next start of a word

* Ctrl+Backspace -- delete back till nearest word start

* Ctrl+Delete -- delete forward till nearest word start


I got used to these, but it appears CN 2.0.1 binds "Delete current note" action to Ctrl+Del. Could we use another shortcut for this action, getting back word deletion function?


P.S. Help says Ctrl+Del "Clears currently selected text of any formatting.", this could be outdated.

editing keyboard
Answer
Alex Jenter 8 years ago
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+6
Completed

Align note title independently from link icon

jeroen ophetweb 12 years ago updated by Alex Jenter 11 years ago 1
I like to use cintanotes with zero (0) rows visible in preview mode.
When there is a link in the note an arrow will be visible before the note title to indicate that. When there is no link in the note, this arrow is missing and the note title is moved more to the left.

Could you align the note titles for all note (with or without links) so they are presented nicely under each other?

See also : http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/521/testje.png for an example.
viewing notes-list main-window organizing other-ui cosmetic complexity:easy
Answer
Alex Jenter 11 years ago

Actually this was done some time ago, 

+6
Declined

Hotkeys that don't require Ctrl or Win

Alex Jenter 14 years ago updated 8 years ago 4

Please allow defining hotkeys using only Alt or Shift modifier keys, and other sensible combinations. Or even with no modifiers at all.

Answer
Alex Jenter 8 years ago
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+7
Declined

"Browse link" should open all links when multiple notes are selected

Alex Jenter 14 years ago updated by Christof Deininger 9 years ago 2
When more than one note is selected (for example all the notes for a certain tag), pressing F7 should open *all* the selected notes' links. Perhaps also any links inside the note itself.
There should be some kind of confirmation when trying to open a large number of links.
(http://cintanotes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1083)
notes-list
Answer
Christof Deininger 9 years ago
Closed due to inability to collect 10 votes for more than 2 years.
+6
Declined

Import Evernote exported files

Arseniy (CN Support Team) 11 years ago updated by Alex Jenter 8 years ago 2
import
+6
Fixed

Active note is not remembered on program restart

Alex Jenter 11 years ago updated 11 years ago 4
It is painful that after program restart one has to search for the note which was focused.
startup configuring
+5
Under review

Use search text as title for new note when none is found

Fodrew 8 years ago updated by anonymous 8 years ago 6

if you search for note "X" but there are none, if you create a new note, then use the filtered name as note title.

autocomplete
+5
Under review

Black background and larger text

echo user 8 years ago updated 8 years ago 5

It's impossible for me to use cintanotes for more than 10 minutes without getting eye strain or a headache. Looking at the white background of a note's window is like staring directly at a light bulb, and the text is so tiny it's impossible to read at a comfortable distance. On every application I use in which I must read or edit text, I have the ability to black out the background and make the text large. For example, right now I have this page in my Firefox browser zoomed in to 200%, plus I am running an add-on called Blank Your Monitor, which changes white backgrounds to black. These are very basic features for any application in which you work with text. It would be great to see them implemented into my favorite notebook application (which I have paid for).

configuring cosmetic other-ui viewing