CintaNotes lets you take and manage notes with ease. The application runs from the system tray and responds to hotkeys. It has a very straightforward multilanguage interface, so it’s appropriate for any kind of user. However, if you still have any doubts, you can consult the online user guide.
The program stores your notes in database files that are called “notebooks”. Fortunately, you can create as many notebooks as you need and give them different and descriptive names. Each notebook can be protected with an individual password if you feel it’s necessary. Moreover, notebooks can subsequently be divided into various sections. In turn, notes can be created by capturing text from other applications or by simply typing the contents. Besides holding texts, your notes can store other types of content. You can even create a sort of web by inserting links to other notes as part of the text.
One of the most convenient features of this tool is that it allows you to organize your notes in multiple ways. Although the program supports full-text search, the easiest way to find a given note is by using descriptive tags. And fortunately, tags can be organized as tree-like hierarchy, which certainly contributes to a better organization. More than just that, you can create autotag rules, for the notes to be tagged or moved between sections automatically when certain conditions are faced. Moreover, it’s also possible to edit batches of tags.
CintaNotes also guarantees that your notes can be shared, exported, synchronized and backed up. One of the easiest ways to synchronize your database with Simplenotes, is an online service. Moreover, notes can be exported to other formats, such as HTML, XML and TXT.
In general, CintaNotes has the main advantage of making your notes very easy to find. Additionally, it’s simple to use. However, there’s something I miss from other similar organizers: I would like to set time alarms for my notes.
v1.7 [Jul 10, 2012]
- Updated translations
- Updated help
- Fixed crash on searching for "/"
- Case change in tag names using Rename command was not possible
- Note selection painting was wrong if note didn't have text and tags.
- Tag hierarchy support and expandable tag trees on the Tag Sidebar.
- "Display Related Tags Only" mode for the Tag sidebar This mode makes it really easy to focus on what's important at the moment - only tags related to the current tag selection are displayed.
- Tag properties dialog
- Possibility to create tags not associated with notes
- Note properties dialog to edit note's timestamps.
- "Check for Updates" command.
- Automatic update check.
- New option: "Options/Startup/Restore last tag selection".
- New option: "Options/Tags/Accept On/Single mouse click".
- Tooltips for some commands.
- - Toggling of tag count display in the Tag Sidebar's context menu
- Compiled with support for SSE instructions.
- Add/Remove tags dialog: Remove tags field now only suggests tags which are present in the note.
- Minor visual changes: note selection has been made more prominent, crossed out tags are now less bright.
- To avoid problems while searching, accepting suggestions on spacebar now doesn't apply to the search box
- New shortcuts for Tag sidebar: Ctrl+Alt+Click crosses out all tags except the clicked one (to display notes having this tag only and no other tags); Shift+Alt+Click crosses out all children of a parent tag (to display notes having this parent tag but not having any of the child tags).
- Pasting notes into other apps was not working under some circumstances.
- Exception when notebook path access was denied.
- HTML export didn't specify encoding with a byte order mark, which could lead some browsers to display the file with wrong encoding.
- Editor: Ctrl+Left/Right selection ignored international characters like German umlauts.
- Wrong line breaking in text preview with Courier font.
- Editor: Title text got clipped on mouse hover (in XP).
- Editor: Undo/redo for text formatting worked only when you pressed Ctrl+Z(Y) many times.
- Label controls flickered on window move.
- Editor: "something.xy" was recognized as a hyperlink regardless if .xy was a real top level domain
- F11 shortcut was not displayed in File/Export menu item.
- Fixed wrong wrapping of East-Asian characters in the note preview.
- URLs were not saved when clipping from Opera 12 x64.
- Notes having only titles were lost on merging.
- "Options/Startup/Run at system startup" could display wrong state.
- Wrong message about "inaccessible path" in case of newer notebook file version.
