I'm not a big fan of traditional text formatting because of all its problems, like having to preserve it during copy/paste, having to think about own save format, and so forth. This adds complexity and bugs, and you have to maintain it.

While not using formatting, I still need to organize my text for readability, so I use simple techniques like stars (*) for bullet lists, line breaks to separate paragraphs, something to highlight headings and so on. Now this is very close to using a lightweight markup language. What they are doing is define a "standard" set of such simple techniques. Your raw text will always look fine, but you can additionally present it with rich styles by using extra renderer.

Just check out how Github utilizes Markdown: raw text, rendered text. It even handles code sections. There's another language, reST or reStructuredText, popular in Python world.

The idea is to have two modes: raw and rendered for both notes list and note editor. Editor in rendered mode could apply styles on-the-fly similar to how Confluence editor works.

Links: Markdown (implementations), reST.

Add checkbox "Synchronize immediately after local modifications". When it is checked, synchronization should be started after any modifications to synchronized notes.

Changes to notes in non-synchronized sections shouldn't trigger synchronization. This sync should also reset the autosync timer.

Let tags have background color, to make them easily distinguishable.

Changes:

Tag properties dialog: add checkbox and color picker control

Notes list: draw tags with custom background color, if defined

Tag sidebar: add a small colored box to the right of the tag name if tag is colored

Now tag hierarchy separator is fixed to "/". It would be more convenient to be able to configure this symbol.

 

This feature would create a setting in CN that will automatically copy the contents of the system clipboard into either a new note(s) or accumulate it into a single note.

Many information managers (treepad, whiz folders, treedb) now have this pasteboard feature.

This is especially true since CN doesn't capture all the available text information on a page (it copies link names, but not the link addresses).

For instance, currently if you want to collect a link name and its address, its a 2 or 3 step process, requiring you to go back and forth between CN and a web page. If you have an auto paste-board running, you would only have to copy the name of the link, and then copy the address of the link, and the information would be automatically collected into a note in the background.

This feature is also useful when you are picking and choosing what parts of an information source you want to save (skipping biographical info, advertisements, etc.) or quickly combining multiple sources (like the contents of a separate linked page).

Thanks for listening,
Mark

 (http://cintanotes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1404)

Suggested by Fong Tsang :
It should be great if the linkfield in a note can be filled with a 'browse' button, so de link does not have to be typed in by hand. 

i would like to be able to have multiple links to a note.

for instance i just was authorized for a certain network application and received the credentials by mail. i saved them to cintanotes and added the server-address to the link section of the note. when i am on the note and hit f7 then the correct webpage is started.

however i also received the documentation and a training powerpoint for the software to start learning the tool.

i do not want to add a new note because for me this information is one. i saved the documentation and the powerpoint to a folder in mydocuments and can access them there but it would be nice when i can also go to that folder using the link functionality. then i have one place to start from theren.