• 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 1.7.1 released - 2013-03-01

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

Version 1.7.0 released - 2013-02-28

• Allow filtering exported days by tags (Alistair Marshall).
• Add option to export only the currently selected text (Alistair Marshall).
• Move spellcheck option from preferences to edit menu and add F7 shortcut (Alistair Marshall).
• Enable spellchecking on Windows. See help for adding custom dictionaries.
• Better error message for invalid markup.
• Show warning if no directory is selected before clicking the "Open" button when choosing a journal directory.
• Gracefully handle BadStatusLines when checking for new versions.
• Do not try to set file permissions on Windows where they are unavailable.
• Fix hide-from-cloud for words containing backslashes (LP:1131412).
• Fix relative file links on Windows.
• Code: Switch from optparse to argparse (Alistair Marshall).

Version 1.6.6 released - 2013-01-21

• Edit templates in RedNotebook directly. Preview and use the Insert and Format toolbar menus before inserting a template.
• Support relative image links like [""my_pic"".jpg].
• Add Ctrl+Return shortcut for adding manual linebreaks.
• Let all toolbar menus always open the menu before performing an action.
• Change Go-To-Today shortcut to Alt+Home (Ctrl+Home moves cursor to the start of the text).
• Do not allow choosing an empty name for templates.
• Do not parse #include as a hashtag.
• Add info about network drives to help text.
• Fix help text about links to local directories.
• Fix: Let categories pane use new infobar notifications (LP:1098625).

Version 1.6.5 released - 2012-12-27

• Add menu item for clearing the text format.
• Add toolbar menus "Insert" and "Format" to main menu for better accessibility and HUD integration.
• Only show keyboard shortcuts in main menu, not in toolbar menus.
• Use selected text as link name when a new link is inserted.
• When an image or file is inserted, use selected text as the name of the link.
• Format selected text as header when a header is inserted.
• Convert selected text to a list when a list is inserted.
• Select title after it has been inserted to allow for easy editing.
• Change file permissions so that journal files are only readable by the user.
• Windows: Restore slider positions after opening RedNotebook from the tray.
• Windows: Support non-ascii installation paths.

Version 1.6.4 released - 2012-12-22

• Never include previous RedNotebook backups in new backups.
• Add strikethrough shortcut Ctrl+K.
• By default don't switch between edit and preview mode automatically.
• Add experimental support for irc protocol.

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