• 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 20 languages

Version 1.4 released - 2012-04-01

Luckily this is not an April Fool's joke: RedNotebook 1.4 has been released. Many improvements have made it into this version, including:

• Search: If a search contains a hashtag (e.g. #Work or #Movies), only days with all of those tags will be searched. This means you can e.g. search for "project-xyz" only in the days tagged with "Work" with the query "#Work project-xyz".
• Search for combinations of tags (e.g. #magazine #linux)
• Search: If the query only contains a single hashtag (e.g. #Movies), a list of all subtags (the names of the movies) is shown.
• Search: Automatically scroll to found text in edit mode
• Split tag and word clouds
• Show tag and word cloud only if there are any tags and words respectively
• Remove spaces from multi-word tags during search and in clouds
• Auto-complete tags in search
• Always include all tags regardless of their frequency in the cloud
• Exports: Correctly set the appropriate extension for each export type
• Exports: Always add a title for LaTeX exports
• Fix: Correctly parse configuration values containing ='s
• Fix: Paths returned from file and folder choosers must be converted to unicode
• Fix: Correctly redirect error output into the logfile on Windows

For details have a look at the Changelog.

Version 1.3 released - 2012-01-24

This release features many new features and bufixes. Some of the highlights are:

• Let tags be categories without entries. This greatly simplifies and in fact unifies tags and categories. Accordingly, "categories" are now called "tags".
• Unify clouds and search: Show the search bar above the clouds.
When a search is made, substitute the word cloud with the search results.
• Apply styling for thick horizontal lines (thin line: --------------------, thick line: ====================)
• Apply formatting only once if a format button is clicked multiple times
• Allow "Close to tray" only on Windows as most modern Linux distros don't have a tray anymore (lp:902228) If you still want the tray icon, set closeToTray=1 in the configuration file.
• Make journal saving more than twice as fast by using libyaml.
• Change Ctrl-PageUp(Down) directions to be more intuitive
• Update and revise help text
• Fix: utf-8 special chars not displayed correctly in html export for firefox (LP:910094)
• Fix: Correctly highlight all picture formats in edit mode
• Write month only if changes are actually made (LP:871730)
• Print PDF export path after export
• Do not warn if second instance is suspected (too many false-positives)

For details have a look at the Changelog.

Version 1.2 released - 2011-10-05

This version is a major update. Many new major and minor features have been added and numerous bugs have been fixed. Here are some of the highlights:

• Let the "Back" and "Forward" button jump over empty days
• Allow wildcards (*,.,?) in cloud black/white lists ("altr." hides altro, altra, etc.)
• Add "Export currently visible day" option in export assistant
• By default select the time range from today to today in the export wizard (LP:834489)
• Show warning when second RedNotebook instance is started to prevent data loss (LP:771396)
• Add option to set the date format for exports. An empty field removes dates from exports.
• Remember scrollbar and cursor positions when changing between days and edit and preview mode
• Allow double backslashes (\\) in filenames (e.g. for UNC paths)
• Use Ubuntu font in editor, preview and cloud if it's available
• Remember last export and backup locations
• Show the most recent entries at the top of the search list by default
• Search in annotations as well
• Use auto-completion for all category entries
• Mention the name of the day in weekday templates
• Allow linebreaks (\\) only at the end of lines
• Do not write empty month files to disk
• Remove "Delete Entry" button (Use the context menu or the delete key instead)
• Always keep categories sorted in search and annotations drop-down menus
• Allow markup for links in categories (--http://mypage.com--) (LP:782697)

For details have a look at the Changelog.

Version 1.1.8 released - 2011-08-08

This version fixes an important bug. If a month file can't be loaded, the startup is aborted to prevent data loss. Some translations have been updated.

Version 1.1.7 released - 2011-07-13

This version fixes some important bugs for the windows version: Chinese characters are now correctly displayed in the preview, the screen position is correctly remembered when RedNotebook is opened from the system tray and the windows executable has an icon again. Additionally, the date is now inserted even if the default system encoding can not be found and the internal translation setup has been improved. Many translations have been updated.

Version 1.1.6 released - 2011-05-11

This version fixes the encoding of times and dates. No more strange characters should appear from now on.

Version 1.1.5 released - 2011-05-03

This version fixes the insertion of the correct time. Additionally exports do not contain the "RedNotebook" title anymore allowing for easier custom usage of the exported files. Many translations have been updated.

Version 1.1.4 released - 2011-03-26

This version fixes a critical bug that prevented the application from starting up if it had been minimized at shutdown. Two new templates "phone call" and "personal" have been added. The general usability and the help text have gotten better with many small fixes.

Version 1.1.3 released - 2011-03-02

This version fixes a lot of bugs, especially on the Windows platform. Additionally some nice features have been added: RedNotebook now remembers its screen position across sessions and when it returns from the system tray. The sub-windows behave nicer as well and are now positioned relative to the main window. In the search pane you can now switch days with a single-click instead of a double-click. Unicode handling has been improved and pywebkitgtk is now an explicit requirement to make it possible to eventually drop the legacy substitutes. For a full list of the changes have a look at the Changelog. Many thanks to the beta testers from the RedNotebook users group.