AllMyNotes allows you to store different kinds of data in an organized way. Not only that, it can protect the information with passwords. The program is quite easy to use. Moreover, it starts with a configuration wizard to create a project that matches the intended use and purpose. It allows creating tree-like structures with containers (folders), which you can label with such names as “diary”, “thoughts”, “quotes” or any other you find convenient. Luckily, they can contain not only notes but other folders as well.
Just like other similar tools, this program lets you create notes that store formatted text. In fact, it has a quite complete text editor that allows using various fonts types and colors, changing text alignment, creating tables and checking spelling. It also has the advantage of supporting the attachment of pictures and any other file type. I also find it quite convenient that the paid version lets you use time reminders for your notes. It is also great that there is a search function to help you find the desired text string.
Regarding privacy, you do not need to worry, as the program protects your data with powerful encryption algorithms. In this respect, it is excellent news that it lets you use passwords to lock all the database and even specific folders. Fortunately, the tool also comes a built-in password generator to ensure that they are powerful enough. Finally, it is good to know that its database can be backed up automatically.
In general, AllMyNotes Organizer is much more versatile than the popular sticky notes as it supports organizing your documents and keeping contact lists, tasks, and diaries. Although the current stable version does not allow synchronization, this feature is supposed to be included in future versions. Finally, you should know that the product is available in two editions. Although it can be used for free, it has some limitations that you can avoid by purchasing its Deluxe edition.
v3.1 [May 11, 2012]
Some enhancements in synchronization algorithm.
- Implemented automatic attachments modification tracking. When you are viewing/editing file attachmnets using the third-party app, and the file attachment got modified, you'll be notified about it and will be able to save modifications back in to AllMyNotes with a single mouse click.
- Extended automatic recognition of phone numbers, to recognize numbers in XXXX-XXXX format, which, as appears, is a valid local phone number format for certain locales.
- Added Edit -> Sort menu item to the main menu bar. Previously was accessible via pop-up menu only.
- Added tree item(s) deletion confirmation on Cut command, to avoid unintentional data loss.
- Improved design of all Menu icons in the Holy Crown skin.
- Added following keyboard shortcuts to select font (Ctrl Shift F), select font size (Ctrl Shift P), toggle bulleted list mode for selected text lines (Ctrl Shift L and Ctrl Shift 8), and toggle numbered list mode for selected text lines Ctrl Shift 7 - Requested on the forum
- Default export file format changed from .rtf to .html, as the HTML file format is becoming more advanced and widely used.
- Improved export of file attachments to HTML file format. Now it's possible to export file attachments in HTML format. Attached files are exported as local files, and the hyperlink to these files is created on export.
Fixes:
- Fixed issue with auto-closing password-protected folder on folders when the app was configured to close to the system tray it wasn't working as expected - Reported on the forum.
- Fixed issue with compact menu (ex: font names list menu) painting, particularly checkbox position was wrong and painted over the menu border.
- Fixed issue with menu items selection using the mouse, in some systems randomly mouse clicks on menu items where ignored. The issue was happening only once out of many clicks, therefore was not easy to reproduce it, but still it was annoying for some users.
- Fixed issue with validating values stored in the configuration file, cause in some cases of manual .ini file editing it was possible to make app crash, now it will not happen, the app will automatically recognize such errors, correct, and proceed as normal, transparently to the end user. It was also a case of video hardware changes - if on app launch old window position was outside of new visible area (ex: dual monitor position changes, screen resolution decrease, etc.)
- Fixed issue with maximizing main window on multi-monitor computers, when the first and the second monitors where switched in Windows Monitor settings - when maximizing on the left-side monitor, main window width was even wider than left monitor width.
- Fixed issue with pasting non-ascii (ex: Cyrillic) characters from some poorly formatted RTF documents.
- Fixed issue with RTF import/export accented characters - reported on the forum
- Fixed crash on exiting from the app, related to alarms and was happening very rarely.
- Some other minor refinements and fixes.
