Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Notecase in Linux Format Magazine (again)

I've got a tip from Ian (a Notecase user), that the Notecase has been mentioned in the new issue (107) of the Linux Format magazine.

This is the second time that the Notecase appears in this magazine, nice. This time it was a product comparison between Basket, Knowit, NoteCase, Tomboy, TuxCards and Zim.

I don't know full details, but here is what Ian informed me:

The comment for notecase is "The best GTK-based note taking tool around, mature, feature-laden and very snappy in use" and they give it a rating of 8/10. It is only beaten in the ratings by 'Basket' which gets 9/10.

Thanks Ian, thanks Linux Format people :)

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

As always after a month of work, new Notecase Pro v2.2.0 was released.

The major news in this version:

- new Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 builds
- global hotkey support ("Ctrl+Shift+K") to minimize to program tray/restore program from tray
- support to import Vault file format (www.personalmicrocosms.com)
- "Show Tree Lines" option to change the look of the tree view
- option to automatically change node icon when it becomes a child (leaf) or a parent node
- option to split single note into multiple notes using defined text delimiter (for example "--")
- option to join multiple marked notes into a single note having combined text delimited using defined text delimiter (for example "--")
- "Mark child nodes", "Unmark child nodes" marking options (useful for split/join operations)
- implemented Option to update file format registration for Notecase on Linux
- implemented Option to register notecase at be started at login time for Linux (Win32 mechanism already exists)
- implemented Option to allow only single instance of NotecasePro to be started at a single time for Linux using .lock files (Win32 mechanism already exists)

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php