• Tagging
• Format your text bold, italic or underlined
• Insert Images, files and links to websites
• Links and mail addresses are recognized automatically
• Spell Check on Linux
• Live-Search
• Automatic saving
• Backup to zip archive
• Word Clouds with most often used words and tags
• Templates
• Export the journal to PDF, HTML, Latex or plain text
• The data is stored in plain text files, no database is needed
• Translated into more than 30 languages

Version 1.8.1 released - 2014-08-03

• Do not show new version dialog if latest version cannot be determined (lp:1324126).
• Fix date formatting for invalid locale encodings.
• Add necessary library files for spell-checking on Windows (lp:1331876).

Version 1.8.0 released - 2013-12-12

• Add font selection for edit mode (Philip Akesson).
• Allow changing preview and cloud font in preferences.
• Only allow opening RedNotebook minimized on Windows since other systems may lack a system tray.
• Fix: Display tags starting with "SEP" in preview (lp:1255582).
• Write scripts to cross-compile RedNotebook Windows exe and installer on Linux.

Version 1.7.3 released - 2013-11-10

• Jump to a specific date on startup with "--date 2013-10-31" on the commandline (Rob Norris).
• Display current date in the title bar (Rob Norris).
• Support inserting multiple pictures in one step.
• Add DejaVu Sans as font fallback for clouds and preview.
• Fix setting last image directory for insert dialog.
• Only allow exporting selected text if we are in edit mode (lp:1221792).

Version 1.7.2 released - 2013-06-28

• Show error if saving fails due to a directory not being created.
• Ignore hashtags starting with more than one #.
• Fix: Allow inserting files and pictures from the "recently used" section (lp:1195759).

Version 1.7.1 released - 2013-03-01

• Fix: Insert spellchecking correction in the correct position (LP:1137925).

For the full list of changes have a look at the Changelog.