Notecase Pro v3.2.7 has just been released.

Downloads are now available at http://www.virtual-sky.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- implemented AutoReplace feature (can be used to expand abbreviations or auto-correct common spell errors as you type)
- support to embed external picture assigned to the note (tree view) icon directly into the document
- support for importing CSV export file of BestJotter for S60 (*.csv)
- implemented custom color picker buttons for "Note Properties" > "Formatting"
(GTK picker button widget does not allow showing the palette)
- visualize when the current document/note is read-only by setting the different (customizable in Options window) background color to the note title bar
- when selecting internal note link target within the Link Properties window, you can quickly select the note name by typing its name
- temporary disable print preview (for builds using GTK >= 2.17.x) until the GTK developers fix the bugs related to this feature
- if you select a single picture in a document, when copying to clipboard, copy the data as picture (not as HTML)
- plugin loading mechanism changed, now you need to explicitly select plugins to be loaded in "Plugins" page (Options window)
- as a way to customize HTML export, new app event was created "Pre note HTML exported" being triggered once for each note in the document (part) being exported
with a set of Lua methods to customize HTML being exported: Nc_Doc_ExportHtml_CurNoteID_Get, Nc_Doc_ExportHtml_CurNote_Get, Nc_Doc_ExportHtml_CurNote_Set, Nc_Doc_ExportHtml_Type_Get, Nc_Doc_ExportHtml_RootNoteID_Get
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- German translation and a "tip of the day" file updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- several sample online scripts created by Daniel Hertrich and Paul Merrell
- bug fixes

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php.

Important note: my plans are to deprecate Fedora 6, Fedora 7 and OSX 10.3.x builds unless there is someone using one of them.
Feel free to contact me if you are using one of those.

As always thanks to anyone who helped in any way.
I wish you happy holidays and the best wishes for the new year.

Notecase Pro v3.2.5 has been released

Downloads are now available at http://www.virtual-sky.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- improved Freemind import by adding support for hyperlink notes
- improved XMind import by adding support for note formatting
- support to import HP Palmtop Note Database file format (.ndb)
- moved load/save/attach/import operations of the HTML based formats in a seperate thread (cca 10% speedup)
- added Column Bar Editor, ability to reorder columns and support to add note's Custom Property key as column
- support for RTF clipboard format (preserves formatting when content was copied from WordPad into Notecase)
- many new Lua methods created to help you automate your work in Notecase Pro
- new application events "Post content pasted", "Post note text typed", "Post audio played", "Post document imported"
- report errors from audio player/recorder thread, audio support is now considered stable
- new "Toolbar Audio" created
- Note Title Bar, when in "show hierarchy" mode, now allows clicking on the individual note titles for faster navigation
- Win32/Win64 installers now ask you to uninstall the old version before proceeding
- when starting Pro fro the first time, detect if free version of Notecase was used and try importing settings from its configuration file
- menu items reorganized
- new build targets Fedora 14 32bit and 64bit
- Ubuntu 6 and 7 builds are not built anymore
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- German translation and a "tip of the day" file updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- several sample online scripts created by Daniel Hertrich and Paul Merrell
- numerous bug fixes

For a complete list of changes in release 3.2.5, see change log at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php.

Additionally you can find some interesting .lua scripts created by various authors at:
http://www.virtual-sky.com/scripting.php

One of them will enable you to turn your Notecase Pro into a typewriter, by simulating the typewriter sounds while you are typing in the text view.

Big thanks goes for everyone who helped with improving the program, either by sending their feature wishes, reporting the issues, helping with the documentation, donating scripts or translationg the program to their native languages.

Notecase Pro v3.1.8 was just released.

Major changes in this release:

- numerous bug fixes
- experimental support to record audio notes (stored as attachment of the note)
- support to play audio files attached to the document note
- support to import XMind document format (http://www.xmind.net)
- many new Lua methods added
- add "Clipboard Monitor" menu item to the tray icon menu
- support quick search mode within a List Pane too
- you can now select an icon in icon list of the Icon Select window by quickly typing the letters of its name
- tagging feature in now enabled in the unregistered version too
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)

For a complete list of changes in release 3.1.8, see change log at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php
You can find your NoteCase Pro packages at: http://virtual-sky.com/download.php

An interview

I just got interviewed regarding my NoteCase Pro project by www.FamousWhy.com

You can read the interview at:
http://download.famouswhy.com/publisher/miroslav_rajcic/

Notecase Pro v3.1.2 released

Major changes in this release:

- numerous bug fixes
- created new license type (single OS, valid for lifetime)
- new build for Open Pandora Linux
- support to set custom font, text and background colors for the note title (available through the Node Properties dialog)
- support to highlight all search matches in the current document (plain text search only)
- support to use boolean search and regex when searching in note tags too
- integrate theme/gui font selector to change the global program looks ("Configure Notecase Pro" window > "Display" page)
- Windows 32bit installer now ships with large number of GTK themes (allowing for styling the looks of the program in a wide variety of ways)
- support to import Keepnote file format
- created new document event "Post note inserted"
- option to select a folder as a link target in the Link Properties window
- Find window has two new search targets: "Current Node's Children only", "Current Node's Descendants only"
- new Lua scripts implementing these features: get note ID, copy hyperlink to note on the clipboard, copy List Pane notes as a list of hyperlinks to clipboard, write current crash log content to the file
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- French translation updated (work by Henri Spagnolo)

For a complete list of changes in release 3.1.2, see change log at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php.

Notecase Pro v3.0.9 released

Major changes in this release:

- numerous bug fixes
- new OS X installer with GTK embedded (no more separate GTK install) and better OS integration
- support for Maemo 5 PR1.2 build
- Fedora 13 i386/x86_64 and Arch 64bit packages
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- add: new action to clone entire branch
- numerous Nokia Maemo 5 build improvements including kinetic scrolling and some GUI layout redesigns
- add: improve OPML import/export by adding support for OPML values used by Projekt program from www.kylom.com (_category1, _category2, _date, _status)
- Dutch translation updated (work by Lennart Aangeenbrug)

For a complete list of changes in release 3.0.9, see: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php.

New Notecase Pro v3.05 has been released!

Highlights:
- Clipboard Monitoring mode to automatically grab new clipboard contents into the current document (as a new note)
- added approximately 100 new internal icons that can be used through the Icon Picker window
- Icon Picker Dialog now can list icons in an arbitrary directory
- support to use internal icon as the Toolbar Button icon ("Configure Toolbar" window)
- import Palm Memo file format (tab delimited text export format having note contents as the first field and categories as the second field; .palm extension required)
- RTF export now supports note numbering option in "Configure Notecase Pro" window ("Export" page)
- correctly scale pictures embedded in imported RTF document
- "Add Marked Nodes to List" menu item to fill the List Pane with marked items from Tree Pane
- "Clear List" option to clear the List Pane contents
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)

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

The new release v3.0.1 is out!

Downloads are now available at http://www.virtual-sky.com/download.php
If you are using Windows build, it is highly recommended to uninstall previous version before installing the new one
(GTK layout was changed).

Major news are:
- add: added support to import images embedded into the RTF
- fix: change default GTK theme on Windows from "Raleigh" to "MS-Windows" (better looking one)
- add: support to export images from Notecase document into RTF (embedded images)
- add: support to import HTML files
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- fix: make Windows installer work even for restricted users (not having Administrator rights), program suggests different install folder for this install mode
- add: new build targets OpenSuse 11.2 64bit and Arch Linux 2009.08 32bit
- changed the Windows installers to copy GTK libraries directly into the app folder, Notecase does not use launcher applications anymore (for portable mode start with "notecase.exe --portable")
This should make the program less vulnerable to so called "DLL hell"
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- updated GTK for Win32 to latest version 2.20.0
- add: new Lua script to change Read-Only flag to entire branch under currently selected note ("24_SetBranchReadOnly.lua")
- add: tags that are assigned to the currently selected note are now painted with underlined text in the Tags Pane
- optimize saving a Sqlite based document (cca 7% faster now)
- fix: when dropping a single image file into the text view, insert the picture into the note text instead of adding it as an attachment
- add: double-clicking the note in the tree view shows Note Properties window (clicking the icon still shows the icon selector window)
- add: experimental Windows 7 integration code for adding recent files list into program's jump list
- fix: use device's Volume up/down keys on Nokia Maemo platform to enter/exit full screen mode
- add: use accelerometer chip information on Nokia Maemo v5 platform to adapt application window to current device orientation (portrait/landscape)

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

For those not being in the loop, here are some online resources related to NoteCase Pro:

a) Google group http://groups.google.com/group/notecase-pro
converse with other users, post support requests and feature suggestions

b) Twitter http://twitter.com/NotecasePro
tracks the development of program

c) Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Notecase/151626410312?ref=mf
consider enlisting as a fan of Notecase, or read some news

As always any feedback is welcome.

PS. Few additional news:
I am working on a OS X Snow Leopard installer, there is an experimental build available that uses GTK build with Quartz support (no X11 server needed), feedback if higly welcome.
It requires installing GTK from: http://notecase.sourceforge.net/temp/gtk2-2.18.8.dmg
Then, the Notecase is installed from: http://notecase.sourceforge.net/temp/notecase_pro-3.0.0.dmg

Another news is that I would like to start deprecating support for really old distros like
Fedora Core 6 and 7 and Ubuntu 6 and 7. If someone is using one of these let me know.

The new NoteCase Pro release v2.9.8 is out!

Downloads are now available at http://www.virtual-sky.com/download.php

Major news are:
- option to perform auto-save directly to the main document file (as opposed to using a temporary crash-protection copy)
- improved RTF export adding support for bulleted list, hyperlinks, text color and text background color
- support for one-click installation on Nokia Maemo (using .install file pointing to the apt-get repository)
- new build targets: Centos 5.4 x86_64, Debian 5.0.4 i386 and amd64
- GTK for Windows 32bit upgraded to version 2.18.7, for Windows 64bit build upgraded to version 2.18.6
- updated translations for Croatian, Romanian, German and French language (many thanks for all volunteer translators)

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

As always any feedback is welcome.

Notecase related article/review

I've just spotted a flattering review of Notecase.
The author prefers Notecase to highly popular Evernote.

You can read the article at:
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/69354.html

Notecase Pro v2.9.6 released

The new release is out!
Downloads are now available at http://www.virtual-sky.com/download.php

Major news are:
- implemented text search mode using logical operators (example "friend AND NOT (Bob OR Jack)" )
- RTF export support (WARNING: still experimental, missing support for fonts, colors, bullets, links)
- two new Lua scripts implementing loading/writing note text to the predefined file (linked file name is stored in the note as its custom property named "ExportFile"). This enables users to keep the code snippets in the note and to quickly dump them to the predefined file.
- 475 TIMES faster first-time save to .ncdb file format
- speed up paste text action with "automatic links recognition" option switched on (from 40sec to 0sec for 600kB test file)

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

New release

Hi everyone,

I've just released Notecase Pro v2.9.4.

Important info for Windows (x86) users:
please uninstall and make sure the files of the old version of the program are removed before doing new install. This is needed because new version uses latest GTK v2.18 instead of the older v2.16.

Another important news is that since this version, installed Notecase Pro will work even if you did not registered your copy. The unregistered version (called "Lite") will have some advanced features locked, but the program will be usable allowing the user to save the document into the .ncz file format (other formats can be loaded, but they can be saved back only as .ncz).
Feature comparison table will be online tomorrow.

News:

- important bug fixes (major changes related to Maemo and Win64 platforms and bulleted lists)
- new "Add Node to List" method adds the selected node in a Tree Pane into the List Pane
- created builds for Gentoo (Sabayon) Linux distro (with great help with testing and editing .ebuild file by Christoph Zauner)
- List Pane now also supports node marking
- created "Remove Marked Nodes From List" command for List Pane only (context menu)
- when loading Sqlite based file format, warn user if the file is fragmented (fragmentation higher than 15%)
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- approximately 80% faster save operation for .ncd/.nce/.ncz formats
- French translation updated (work by Pierrick Pinot)
- add: free (unregistered) version, add message box on startup: "Some features are disabled unless and until you have registered ..."
- fix: changed "Section" field value for Maemo .deb package to "user/office"
- fix: assign Alt+Up Arrow and Alt+Down Arrow keyboard shortcuts for navigating between the panes that appear in the Tree Pane column (Tree/List, Tags, Attachments).
- it is now possible to see a list of pending tasks through "View"/"Pending Tasks"
- fix: support to open document files when clicked in File Manager on Nokia Maemo platform
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- fix: "optify" the package for Maemo platform (using "/opt" as installation prefix) to save space on root partition
- redirect GTK warnings/errors into the NoteCase Pro crash log

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

As always feedback is welcome.

PS. Mandriva 64bit and Gentoo packages will be released tomorrow.

Notecase Pro v2.9.1 release

I am now uploading the latest Notecase Pro release

News:

- some important bug fixes
- save algorithm for .ncd/.nce/.ncz formats is now 60x faster (from 30:35.500 to 29.546 on 75MB test file)
- help file improvements (work by Paul Merrell)
- new "Save all on minimize" option to save changes for every document when program is minimized
- Lua script that takes a list of tags from clipboard (one tag per line) and adds them to the current note
- support to store custom properties (name+value strings) in the document file (per-document or per-note properties)
- support to abort loading html based format files (.ncd, .nce, .ncz)
- crash log for Linux now includes crash backtrace in the log
- support aborting the "List all notes" operation

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

Moblin build

I am looking into creating a support for Moblin based Linux distros.
Is any of Notecase Pro users using Moblin on his/her netbook PC ?

I could use some help with testing so give me a mail if you are interested :)

Notecase Pro v2.8.8 has just been released

Some highlights:

- many important bug fixes
- support for Nokia Maemo 5 OS (Nokia N900)
- node icon is now clickable, double click allows quick change of icon
- implemented node attachment view (with context menu and accepting dropped files)
- saving to .ncd/.nce file now has a proper progress (instead of old "pulsing" progress)
- new "Copy Node Only" action enables user to copy the selected note to clipboard without its children
- many new Lua functions with sample scripts implementing new features:
sample Lua script to fill List Pane with notes who have at least one tag shared with the currently selected note
sample Lua script to sort the selected note text lines
sample Lua script to fetch tags of a current note and put them to clipboard as text, one tag per line
sample Lua script to copy all tags from all notes listed in List Pane to the clipboard
sample Lua script to Mark All Done Nodes
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- help file improvements (work by Paul Merrell)

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

As always feedback is welcome.

Now on Twitter too

If you want to stay updated (almost real-time) on the development of Notecase Pro,
feel free to track my new Twitter stream at: http://twitter.com/NotecasePro

Notecase Pro v2.8.5 has just been released
Some highlights:

- many important bug fixes
- improved RTF import support (many formatting tags are now imported), Keynote and Treepad format RTF import was improved too (using the same new code)
- new Lua methods to manipulate the List Pane view (a.k.a. flat list view)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- OpenSolaris build is active again (built using Nexenta StormOS distro)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- tag view context menu operation "List Nodes Having Tag" fills the flat list view with notes having the selected tag (double mouse click or pressing Enter in Tag View activates this method)
- tag view context menu operations working with a flat list view ("Tag This List" and "Remove Tag from List"); visible only when flat list view is active
- help file improvements (work by Paul Merrell)

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

As always feedback is welcome.

Price reductions, Notecase Pro v2.7.9 release

Some highlights:
- portable mode for Windows was merged with the main installer (choose standard or portable installation mode in the installer)
- add: implemented "Align justify" formatting option
- add: added a "most recently used" menu for Lua scripts (inside the "Tools" -> "Scripts" submenu)
- add: add two new menu items for context menu when cursor is over the picture: "Cut Image", "Copy Image". Both copy the image to the clipboard (previously only selected image would be copied embedded as part of the HTML using base64 encoding)
- better looking icon selector in the Note Properties window (seletor moved to popup dialog window)
- "Reload License" menu renamed to "Install License", if the program is not installed this feature now shows the file picker dialog for you to load your key file and the program will try to copy it in the required paths
- updated Gstreamer build for windows to the latest version GStreamer-WinBuild-0.10.4-LGPL.exe (prerelease)
- add: implemented per-task option to play a sound file when some task expires (is due)
- French translation updated (work by Pierrick Pinot)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- multiple bug fixes

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

As always feedback is welcome.

Other than program features, important news is the reduction of the program price, in order to generate faster growth of the user base. New prices are lower by cca 20% or more.

Notecase Pro v2.7.6 released

Major highlights of this release:
- 6 - 10 times speed up the file save operation for .ncd/.nce file formats
- drastically lower CPU usage on Linux systems
- formatting Styles feature (apply your custom combination of bold, italic, font, colors, .. to the selected text)
- added "Acknowledge All" and "Snooze All" features for Task Expired dialog
- postpone autosave process by 10 seconds, if the user is currently typing working with the program
- faster find operation when searching by "has attachment" or "is task" flags within the .ncdb file format document
- some fixes to the Windows application launchers, should reduce "dll hell" problems
- help file and tips.en.txt file updates (work by Paul Merrell)

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

As always feedback is welcome.

Notice of absence

I'll be away starting from 18th until 23rd of this month, I am going to Rome, Italy for a vacation.
If you plan to contact me for any reason, please do it few days before or few days after this period.

Thank you for your understanding.