Note-C Release Notes

• 2.2.1
• 2.2.0
• 2.1.0
• 2.0.8
• 2.0.7
• 2.0.6
• 2.0.5
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.3
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.0
• 1.6.0
• 1.5.0
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.0
• 1.3.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.0
• 1.1.0
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.0

2.2.1

New:

• new preferences setting for using your own PHP interpreter

Improvements:

• various minor adjustments to the user interface
• dark mode for the preferences for users of macOS 10.13 or earlier

2.2.0

New:

• Note-C now natively supports Apple Silicon-processors

Improvements:

• various internal adjustments and updates
• some user interface changes for macOS Big Sur

2.1.0

New:

• setting up the notebooks now has its own area in the preferences and has been completely redesigned
• new preference option: Automatically adjust the order of notebooks according to their use

Updated:

• display of the icon selection gallery for notebooks has been replaced by a new system
• display of the preview of individual entries has been replaced by a new system
• various internal updates

Improvements:

• various smaller improvements and optimizations
• various internal improvements for the right-click menu of the entry listing
• improved behavior of Note-C if the order of the notebooks is changed in the preferences
• changing the typographic quotation marks in the preferences has an immediate effect, a restart is no longer necessary
• preference option for the editor: the font size can now also be set with an own size in addition to the predefined values
• support for more types of plain text attachments (css, php, etc.)
• attachments are displayed alphabetically in the attachment bar

Bug fixes:

• fixes a bug that caused Note-C to crash when all Attachments of an currently displayed entry were deleted outside of Note-C
• fixes an error that caused the attachment icon to appear in the entry list even though there are no attachments
• fixes an error in the preview of text attachment where black text appeared on a black background
• fixes a bug that prevented attachment files in bundle format (e.g. textbundle, RTFD) from appearing in the attachment bar

2.0.8

New:

• two new options in the Tab Actions Manager
  • instead of having to press ⌥⎋ to display the tab action completion, it can also be specified that only pressing ⎋ displays the completion
  • option that the completion can be displayed if no character has been written yet
• inserting flexible Markers that can be activated using keyboard shortcuts (can be found in the menu under Markup > Insert marker)

Improvements:

• improved movement of text using the keyboard shortcuts
• minor improvements when displaying the notes list
• minor improvements in the management of attachments
• improved handling of Textbundle files that are not compliant and do not contain an asset directory

Updated:

• Textile parser updated
• Smark parser (Swift version) updated
• Markdown-Parser (Swift version) updated

Bug fixes:

• fixed a bug in the help pages
• fixed a bug in setting a custom color for the I-Beam cursor
• fixes a bug that prevented the Share menu from being displayed

2.0.7

New:

• Extended printer preferences with considerably more options to individualize the printing as you like

Improvements:

• When the main window is closed, the main window can be reopened by clicking on the dock icon
• moving text up and down using the keyboard shortcut for whole lines improved so that the lines swap places with each other
• preferences for the editor reorganized
  • preferences for selected text now with color selection for the text and background of the selected text
  • preferences for the background color of the text field, this is now optional. If not activated, the standard background color of the system is used
  • preferences for the spacing in the text now with additional spacing option for the text area up/down
  • preferences for the cursor revised and expanded, and its behavior in the editor improved
  • preferences for the I-beam cursor reworked
  • reset button for the text editor preferences added
  
  

Updated:

• internal CSS styles for code blocks revised (in order to use updated CSS styles, the existing styles have to be reset in the CSS manager)
• new display foundation for the help system
• various internal updates and improvements
• Swift markup converter -> Various improvements for the Smark-language

Bug Fixes:

• fixes bugs in functions in which URLs are formatted with % -escapes
• fixes cut labels in the user interface
• fixes an error when creating ePub eBooks when images with special characters are included
• changes made by moving / duplicating text with keyboard shortcuts are saved

2.0.6

New:

• new preset option to enable the entry-counter, which shows in the title of the window how many entries the current notebook has. This option can be activated in Preferences > Appearance > Number of entries in the current notebook in the window title
• entries with attachments are displayed in the list of entries with a paperclip symbol
• new menu and context menu action: Duplicate entry
• new alternative markup conversion engine, developed in the Swift programming language, implemented. This can be activated via the Preferences > General > Use internal Swift version of the markup converter (Beta version: Is in continuous development)

Improvements:

• various code areas updated
• appearance of the text statistics adjusted
• color label order of the pop-up button in the toolbar adjusted
• visual improvements to the Tab Action Manager
• Tab Action Manager behavior improved when loading, saving and switching between internally and externally stored tab actions
• visual improvements to the export manager
• order of the entries in the export manager under macOS Mojave or newer when loading a notebook is correct again

Updated:

• Smark parser updated

Bug fixes:

• emoticon insertion as images for notebooks via drag'n drop under macOS Mojave or newer restored
• webnotes are now correctly declared as such when loading a notebook
• fixes an error in the export manager when creating ePub files in which images should be included whose file name contains one or more spaces

Note on the bookmarklet:
The previous bookmarklet for Safari does not work 100% with this version of Note-C. The updated bookmarklet for Safari is available at Xelaton.com.

2.0.5

Resolves a start-crash under macOS 10.5 Catalina

Updated:

• Smark-Parser updated
• Textile-Parser updated

2.0.4

New:

• Note-C now remembers the selected entry of a notebook and automatically selects it when the respective notebook is opened
• Drag'n Drop an entry onto the editor to insert the title of an entry into the text. In the preferences of Note-C under the item DragDrop, the format of the title to be entered can be customized

Updated:

• Smark parser updated

Bug fixes:

• fixes an error in the display of line numbering in light mode
• fixes a bug where the set color label will be lost after saving an entry
• fixed a bug that caused the currently selected entry to be saved when a strand was added to the strand field, causing an incorrect modification date for the currently selected entry
• fixed some display errors in the user interface
• dates are now localized in newer versions of macOS again
• fixes errors in the mini-editor that could freeze Note-C under certain conditions
• fixed swipe alignment to select the next or previous entry

2.0.3

New:

• Character-/Word-counter functions
  • Clicking on the counter in the toolbar opens a window with an overview of the text statistics for the normal text and the markup-formatted text
  • Options to customize the behavior of the counter in the toolbar: Exclude invisible characters and line breaks in character counting, as well as exclude individual letters in word counting
  
  

Updated:

• Note-C natively supports Mojave's Dark Mode

• Smark parser updated

Improvements:

• Improvements for the settings of the text editor

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes an error when revoking CriticMarkup paste-actions
• Fixed bug when loading German help under Mojave
• Fixed an error loading help via direct help buttons

2.0.2

New:

• right-click action for the text field: replace spaces in the selected text with %20 escapes
• right-click action for the text field: apply URL-Encode to selected text

Improvements:

• small adjustments when exporting to the HTML format
• "Edit in" function improved:
  • Detects more applications that can edit files
  • Applications that can process Textbundles-files will get the text bundle file delivered directly, provided that the Textbundle option is enabled
  • applications are sorted alphabetically in the selection option
  
  

Updated:

• BBCode parser updated

• Smark parser updated

Bug-fixes:

• fixes a problem opening Textbundle-files defined with an unknown Markup-language
• fixes an error writing Textpack-files
• fixes a general problem with handling Textbundle-files
• fixes a issue for the warning of set Markup-languages
• fixes a word count error

2.0.1

Bug-fixes:

• Fixed a bug that caused the crash of Note-C in some circumstances at startup
• Fixed a bug that prevented the correct help page from being loaded if one of the help buttons was pressed in the preferences
• Fixed truncated texts in the German user interface
• Fixed text error

2.0.0

Updated System Requirements: macOS 10.10 or later

New:

• MarkdownExtra as new language option added
• MultiMarkdown-Terminal-Tool can be used instead of the Perl script. To use the Terminal-Tool perform the necessary steps in the preferences of Note-C under the item "MultiMarkdown"
• added CriticMarkup support, must be activated explicitly via the preferences under the item "CriticMarkup"
• modernized user interface
• switching between bright / dark user interface via the menu Point View > Bright / Dark User Interface. A restart of Note-C is no longer required
• show / hide the title bar accessible via the menu item View > Show / Hide Titlebar
• preferences option: thin line numbering (to be found under the item Editor)
• Markup commands are now Collected under the menu item "Markup" including various new actions for formatting text including corresponding keyboard shortcuts:
  • Heading 5 6
  • Quotation
  • Code
  • Comment
  • Ordered List
  • Unordered List
  • Underline
  • Image
  • More Actions
    • Convert to Tag
    • Copy HTML Code with distinction between whole text and selected text
  • CriticMarkup: Highlight, Add, Comment, Remove, Replace
• Icons for notebooks new options in the preferences for notebooks
  • Images can be added by drag'n drop to the icon field
  • Emojis and Symbols can be added by drag'n drop to the icon field
  • Any non-image file can be added by drag'm drop to the icon field, in this case the file-own symbol icon, for apps the app icon is used
  • New icons for the integrated icon collection, and internally improved the iconbrowser
  • Added icon reset option in the notebooks icon presets
• Menu items and Keyboard shortcuts for text / preview view switch and expand / collapse attachment bar added (under the main menu item View)
• Menu item "Move entry to" added (under the main menu item File)
• Menu item "Duplicate entry to" added (under the main menu item File)
• Color labels can now also be set via the right-click menu of the entry list
• Note-C is now also localized in French

Updated:

• text editor: remove markup menu action renewed
• Smark parser updated
• BBCode parser updated
• Textile-Parser updated to 3.6.0
• new icons for the interface
• help completely revised

Improvements;

• optimizations to the Textbundle and Textpack creation
• improved display of the selected entry in the entry list
• improved display of the notes list
• dark mode-look updated to the current macOS version
• QuickExport internal improvements
• unnecessary elements in the interface of the export manager removed
• internal improvements in the export manager
• minor improvements for sorting the file list
• improvements in the status bar popover window
  • user interface updated
  • text-field uses the same font and color as the main editor
  • when opening the status bar popover window the notebook selected in the main window will be preselected in the popover window
• behavior, color and appearance of the icon adjusted in the status bar
• improvements when exporting as an ePub file: only attachments used in the eBook text are included in the final file
• attachments of the currently selected entry which are added or renamed outside Note-C, will be recognized and reloaded whenNote-C becomes active
• the deletion of individual entries via the delete command can be revoked
• organization and management of notebooks in the preferences reorganized and simplified
• Preferences: diverse items of the user interface reorganized

Changes:

• Main menu rearranged
  • Export-Manager, Tab-Action-Manager and CSS-Style-Manager are now located under "Tools"
    Bug-fixes:
• fixes a problem with the strands display
• fixes a bug when creating strands on the status bar where strands were not saved under certain circumstances
• fixes a bug when creating PDF and ePub files through the Export Manager
• fixes a bug that prevented overwriting existing files when exporting entries, even if this is explicitly desired
• fixes an error where the color label display in the file list was not displayed correctly
• fixes an error when exporting ePub files if an & sign appears in the file name of attachments which can cause the generated ePub not to be readable by eBook readers
• fixes an error that results in an internal crash of Note-C when deleting a notebook from the preferences, if the affected notebook was the last in the list and was currently selected in the main window
• fixes an error in the attachment bar where files with special file extensions have no icon displayed
• fixes an error in the Quicklook display of files in the attachment bar of files that do not use UTF-8 encoding
• fixes an error when returning from full-screen and distraction-free mode to normal mode
• fixes problems setting full screen mode preferences when full-screen mode is enabled

1.6.0

New:

• (Direct-Version only) Updater-Check-System implemented
• Note-C automatically opens the last used entry on start now
• context-menu for the attachment-table

Improvements:

• duplicating an entry within a notebook now results in refreshing the list of entries, so the duplicated entry is visible immediately
• very long titles of entries are now displayed shortened within the list of entries which prevents corrupted display of additional informations
• tweaks to the interface of the Tab-Action-Table
• tweaks to the interface of the CSS-Style-Table
• smaller improvements for writing the textbundle-meta-data
• improved protection of using special-characters for file-names which can lead to unexpected behavior
• new Markup-Transformation-Engine implemented
• replaced the the strike-markup for Markdown and MultiMarkdown, instead of using the strike-tag, a del-tag will be set
• optimizations to the text-editor-core
• optimizations to the attachment-system
• within the list of entries, the currently selected entry always remains blue highlighted
• several internal methods refreshed/rewritten/optimized

Bug-fixes:

• resolved an issue within the Smark-transformation, which could lead to freezing Note-C
• corrected website-links within the menu

1.5.0

New:

• new Dark-Mode for users of OSX 10.10 or later, instead of using a custom Dark-Mode the native VibrantDark-Mode of OSX will be used
• set color-labels for entries, standard-color-labels of the file-system will be used, so those are also visible within the Finder-App for example
• Export-Manager, support für Textbundle and Textpack
• Quick-Export of single entries as txt, rtf, rtfd, doc, odt, html, pdf, textbundle, textpack
• new Preference-option to define a custom external editor, accessible through the "Edit in external editor"-Popup
• delete a selected entry using the shortcut CMD+ Delete-Key
• reset CSS-Styles-Button added to the CSS-Style-Manager
• new Xelaton CSS-Pack added (Existing users please use the reset CSS-Styles-Button to get the new CSS-Styles)
• new preference-option for the "insert date"-shortcut in the typography-tab (insert just the date instead of date and time)
• new Smark 2 parser added (please visit www.xelaton.com for more infos about Smark)
• new Wikitext parser added
• Editor-Enhancements:
  • MultiMarkdown and Textile Table-Creation Smart-Editing
    • when in a table-line, hitting the tab-key automatically creates a new |-symbol
    • when in a table-line, hitting the enter-key the next line automatically starts with a |-symbol
    • MultiMarkdown only: automatic generation of tablehead-line when hitting enter-key after first table-line
  • unindenting list-items using the delete-key
  • Markdown, MultiMarkdown, Smark tabbed indention for ordered Lists
  • Markdown, MultiMarkdown, Smark automatic list-creation for ordered, indented lists
  • shortcut for striked-style (CMD+D)
  • shortcut for named links (CMD+Shift+L)
  
  

Improvements:

• changed used font in interface to default system-font
• mini-editor now only performs a save of the file, if there are changes
• Export-Manager Save-Dialog improved for saving as single-file, the prompted save-panel will be presented as a regular save-panel instead of an open-panel
• some smaller tweaks to the Export-Manager related to pdf-files
• bigger tweaks to Export-Manager related exporting multiple files to one file
• warning-message, when folder-selection for a new book is not suitable
• warning-message, when the current entry cannot be saved
• several internal code-improvements

Bugfixes:

• resolves an issue which prevented inserting tabs at the beginning of a document
• solved an issue, where entering a title could lead to freezing Note-C

1.4.2

Improvements:

• list of files is now sorted in natural way (previous behavior 1, 10, 11, 2, 20, 21, 3 -- Now 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 20, 21)
• adopted file-/folder selection-bar-style for OSX Yosemite and up
• several internal code- and interface optimizations
• improved drag'n drop behavior when dragging images from websites to Note-C
• when adding an image with spaces in filename to text, percent escapes will be added
• Optimizations for the preview-display
• Smark version 1.1.6 added

Bugfixes:

• resolves interface-glitch for the Tab-Action-Manager in OSX Yosemite and up
• resolves a bug which lead to false selection when renaming a entry and the renamed entry would become the first entry of the selected notebook
• resolves an issue when changing font-, background-colors in preferences using the color-slide-selector which can result in Note-C crashing

1.4.1

New:

• new typography-preference-options
  • smart links
  • smart dashes
  • data detectors
• when adding, removing, renaming files outside the app (Finder for example), changes will be noticed on return to the app and the listing of files will be refreshed

Improved:

• improved adding of images from websites

Bugfixes:

• untranslated textview context-actions fixed
• some other fixes

Other:

• fixed some deprecations within code

1.4.0

New:

• context-menu-actions for the editor
  • remove markup from selection
  • trim selected text
• if there is no set icon for a notebook, the corresponding folder-icon of the notebook will be used, individual folder-icons, set by user, can be used
• selected text, or the whole text when there is no selection, can be shared using the sharing-symbol and will be forwarded to the OSX-Sharing-System (only OSX 10.8 or higher)
• dockless-mode (to be set in the preferences), so Note-C can be used like a background-app
• new preference-option: automatic toggle of the attachment-bar, blend in when there are attachments, blend out if there are no attachments
• new preference-option: optional line-gutters for the editing-field
• new preference-behavior: when creating a new notebook and the title of this notebook is still "unnamed notebook", the title will be set to the name of the folder of the notebook automatically

Improvements:

• improved behavior of the search/replace-bar in conjunction with shortcuts
• within the attachment-bar, while displaying a preview of the attachments, arrow-keys can be used to navigate between the different attachments
• when adding attachments to the text, the focus remains on the text, so you can immediately continue writing
• BBCode 1.0.1 and Smark 1.1.5 implemented
• several improvements and enhancements of the editor-core
• improvements when changing notebooks and file-extensions within the preferences
• improvements regarding displaying icons in the popup-selector of the status-bar panel

Bugfixes:

• missing placeholder-text for the search-textfield will be displayed in OSX 10.10+ now
• resolved an issue when deleting notebooks in the preferences and updating the notebook-switch-navigation-bar

1.3.0

New:

• new preferences to set the infos displayed in the entry-listing (created-modified-date turn of and on, display a preview of the text: 1-5 rows can be set)
• preferences for font-size for entry-listing text
• preferences for font-size for strands-listing text
• entry-list context-menu - new option: duplicate selected entry to another notebook
• entry-list context-menu - new option: move selected entry to another notebook
• context-menu for strands
  • send selected strand to text
  • send all strands to text
  • send all strands created today to text
  • delete selected strand
  • delete all strands
  • delete all strands not created today
  
  

Changes:

• wording change: Notices replaced by strands within the English user-interface

Improvements:

• images from webpages, added to the attachment-table of Note-C using drag'n drop, without a file-extension will be added now correctly so those images will displayed correctly in the attachment-table
• some adjustments to the user-interface in the "dark-mode"
  • some user-interface changes to the parts where new strandsare being added and edited
• improved behavior of attachment-preview when adding or deleting attachments

Bugfixes:

• wenn adding/deleting strands in the "dark-mode", they will be displayed correctly now
• add strand-sheet date-display will be shown now in the set system-language

1.2.1

New:

• Smark Version 1.1.4 implemented
• new Export-File-Format ODT

Improvements:

• improved definition of elements within the English user-interface
• improved behavior of the main-interface when doing changes within the preferences

Bugfixes:

• solved an error for displaying files in the attachment-bar
• Dates within the Menubar-Tool will be localized correctly now

1.2.0

New:

• Textbundle-support, can be activated within the Preferences > General > File-Extension. Learn more about the Textbundle-file-format at http://www.textbundle.org
• Smark version 1.1.2 implemented
• image-attachments can be pasted/dragged to most apps using Drag'n Drop
• new option within the preferences to move original-files to the trash after adding them to Note-C
• Multimarkdown-preview and shortcuts for bold-, inverse- and headline-markup added
• HTML-preview and shortcuts for bold-, inverse- and headline-markup added
• rightclick-menu added to the entry-listing with following options:
  • open entries in a separate window
  • rename entry
  • delete entry
  • show file of entry in Finder
  • show attachments of entry in Finder
  
  

Improvements:

• saving tab-actions in certain using-conditions improved
• handling of attachments improved when the attachment-preview-window is active
• handling of Drag'n Drop of attachments to the text-editor improved
• attachment-preview-windows remembers its position for the next session
• several smaller improvements for the export of entries
• export to ePub-format with improved compatibility to iBooks
• several smaller improvements to the interface
• several smaller improvements for searching entries
• when a new file-extension is being set and confirmed with pressing Enter, the list of entries will be refreshed

Bugfixes:

• when adding images using Drag'n Drop to the text-editor, the correct markup will be inserted now
• erroneous display of the text-field in certain circumstances fixed
• fixed a bug when exporting entries with certain options selected solved which lead to empty pages
• fixed an error when exporting entries to the PDF-format which caused that no images would be embedded when the option "All entries to one file" was selected
• solved an issue when exporting to the ePub-format concerning embedded metadata
• improved reaction of search to input and therefore solving an issue which lead to aborting the search
• fixed some issues with the user-interface
• fixed some issues when exporting to ePub-format which could lead to unreadable files

1.1.0

New

• Preview-Mode added, to preview entries formatted with Markdown, Textile, BBCode, Wikitext, MultiMarkdown or Smark
  • own CSS-Syles in form of CSS-files can be added to Myary for use in the Preview Mode. Call the CSS-Selection by selecting File -> CSS-Style-Manager
• Tab-Actions: by using a keyword and the Tab-key potions of text can be easily added to the text. Call the Tab-Action-Manager from the menu by selecting File -> Tab-Action-Manager
• built in icon-gallery for your notebook-icon-selection
• Add-Button added to the lower left of Note-C to open the Preferences and to add new diaries quickly
• when selecting a notebook or an entry, write-permissions will be checked. When selected entry is protected and can be edited an appropriate warning will be displayed
• several smaller improvements, optimizations and adjustments for the newest OSX-version Yosemite
  Solved bugs
• preventing of carrying over Undos to other entries
• contents of the calendar will be updated when changes are being made within the preferences
• solved an issue with accessing folders, where the entries are stored, when doing changes in a certain way
• solved an issue with setting a new background-image for the fullscreen-mode
• several visual-glitch annoyances within the fullscreen-mode solved
• solved an issue with the disctraction-free mode in OSX 10.6
• solved a bug of automatic deletion of empty entries which lead to crashing Note-C
• solved an issue with the sandbox-environment and the quick-selection-bar
• several smaller bugfixes

Other

• smaller cosmetic adjustments

1.0.6

New:

• Shortcut added for quick selection of notebooks (CMD+Shift+L)
• Smark version 1.1.1 implemented
• Textile version 3.5.5, corrected version, implemented

Improvements:

• adding the very first attachment to an entry using drag'n drop when attachment-folder doesn't exists yet, improved
• entries and notes are now separated by an adjustable split-view
• small changes to the save-procedure of files
• file-information now get refreshed in a timely manner
• attachment-preview for audio- and video-files replaced with a new system
• 80+ smaller internal improvements

Bugfixes:

• fixed a bug for the distraction-free mode which lead to crashing Myary
• fixed a bug for adding a background-image for the fullscreen-mode
• fixed an issue with displaying attachments under certain circumstances

1.0.5

New:

• dark-window mode, can be activated via the preferences
• Textile version 3.5.5 implemented
• Smark version 1.1.0 implemented
• shortcut added to select the text-editor
• shortcut added to reset search-results
• shortcut for adding date and time (CMD+Shift+D)
• navigation-shortcut for entry-selection (CMD+ and CMD-)
• navigation swipe-gesture for entry-selection. Two-finger swipe to the left selects next entry, two-finger swipe to the right selects previous entry

Improvements:

• when setting markup per shortcut, autosaving will now be triggered
• adding images to the attachment-bar improved, Opera and Chrome are supported now too
• better handling of text-files with undefined encoding
• improvements within the preferences for setting and changing notebooks
• search improved, special-, japanese-, chinese-, etc.-characters can be searched for now too

1.0.4

Improvements:

• search for words with special-characters improved
• small optical change to the text-editor (small margin added to upper and lower edge of the editor)
• thick insertion-point option improved

1.0.3

Improvements:

• general improvements

1.0.2

New:

• Pictures from Safari (and other Webkit-applications (excluding Opera and Chrome)) and Firefox can be imported directly
• automatically opens the main-window when switching to he app if the window is closed

Improvements:

• exporting a book collected into one file with Markup now works properly
• 
  Bugfixes:
• solved export-issues with special-characters
• solved an issue of generating preview-images of attachments
• solved an issue of attachment-actions which could lead to problems

1.0.1

New:

• new feature - offering a button to open a webpage where a note has been taken from with the bookmarklet
• new preference-options to set font-type ,-size and -color for printing
• new feature - editing selected note
  Improvments:
• some "very" small tweaks to interface
• added some missing tooltips to some buttons
• corrected some tooltips in the German version
• improved behavior when deleting notes
• app now automatically goes to background when a webnote is received
• improved scrolling behavior for notes-listing
• corrected a small issue with the search-behavior

1.0.0

• initial release