RedNotebook

RedNotebook is an open source and appreciated diary software for the Linux desktop, makeing it very easy for users to keep track of the stuff they do and the thoughts they have.

RedNotebook helps you to write whole passages or just facts and does so in style.

Features:

• Live search
• Automatic saving
• Backup to zip archive
• Calendar Navigation
• Word Cloud
• Template Entries
• Export to various formats

What is new in this release:

• 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).

What is new in version 1.7.2:

• 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).

What is new in version 1.7.0:

• 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).

What is new in version 1.6.6:

• 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).

What is new in version 1.6.5:

• 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.

What is new in version 1.6.4:

• 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.

What is new in version 1.6.3:

• Fix: Don't interpret URLs with non-empty paths as local links.

What is new in version 1.6.2:

• Add option for automatically switching between edit and preview mode to preferences.
• Since debian doesn't have a python2 symlink, try to run python2.7 and python2.6 in the run script.
• Use PNG image in about dialog (SVG support is broken in Windows version).

What is new in version 1.6.1:

• Allow specifying the width when inserting an image.
• Add relative links: Relative paths [myfile image.jpg] is automatically transformed to /path/to/journal/image.jpg.
• Use smarter regular expression for finding hashtags in the text.
• Give focus to link box when the link dialog opens.
• Hide tag panel by default.
• Adapt introductory and help texts for hashtags.
• Break search results at newlines.
• Fix: When searching for multiple tags, only add a single result for every hit.

Requirements:

• gtk+
• wxPython
• PyYAML