A free desktop diary

RedNotebook is an free notebook/diary for windows where you can store your ideas and activites by day, through a calendar.

This is a fairly basic diary – it offers no integration with other calendar programs, but if you want somewhere to easy record your thoughts on a daily basis, this works quite well. The best feature of RedNotebook is its autosaving – you certainly won’t accidentally lose things, as it’s all saved as you go along. The main text window allows text to be formatted in bold, italic or underlined, but there are no options to change the size, font or color.

On the right is a category bar, where you can add categories, and a little infotmation to each. This is isn’t linked to diary posts, rather it’s another way of recording info for a particular day. The left hand bar features the calendar, and a large window for either searching your entries, or displaying a word cloud of most often used words or tags.

For personal use, ReNotebook is a reasonable free program, and with its export and backup features is quite secure. It’s not really suitable for professional usage, as it is too basic, and is restricted to text only.

RedNotebook is a competent, though basic, diary for your windows desktop

Blacklist for clouds in GUILet the search function highlight found wordsFix line breaks for exportsFix opening files on MacAdd little section about comments to Help textFix size for insert icon by using a stock iconDo not use small toolbar icon sizes (LP:405991)make font size configurable (under preferences)Add line breaks (under insert menu)Add a whitespace char between adjacent linesFix: Win Version should use smaller insert-image icon (16×16)Graphical preferences dialog (Under “Edit” menu)Make date/time format configurable in the preferences dialogFix unicode bugsUndu and redo for the main textUse libyaml for faster loading and dumping of files (Big journals now open ~10 times faster)Speed improvements for navigation between daysAdd information for Latex to PDF conversionShortcut for turning on/off the preview: Ctrl+PNew entry in Edit menu: “Find”Append error messages to the logfileUse new svn version of txt2tagsFix URL and file link insertionButtons for bold, italic, underlined textFixed hardy bug: yaml 3.05 does not have __version__ attributeRemoved shebangs from python modules (Closes LP:393602)Create ~/.rednotebook dir before logging is initialized (Closes LP:392235)Set native theme for windows versionOnly save months that have been visited for a faster exitImprove loggingAutomatically create a logfile for debuggingFix: Check if directory exists before opening itChoose a folder for journal (Save-As)Have more than one journal (New Journal)Open existing journals (Open Journal)Open and create template files from within RedNotebookLive update of template listFix opening files for WinArbitrarily named templatesEnable copy/paste in categories edit boxLive update of clouds after categories have been editedReenable stricken textSelect individual categories to exportExport only text, or only categories, or bothHandle local file openingDouble-clicks on links in the preview open the link with the preferred appCategories can be edited with right mouse clicks:Click on an existing category then right mouse click to add a new entryLink template filesMake toolbars equally sizedDelete GTKMozembed cruftDelete mozembed.py module (originally taken from listen-project)Delete markup cruftDrop GTKMozembed dependencyAdd keepnote modulesremove numbered listsMinor BugfixesMake deb package Python 2.6 compatibleAdd yaml-parser error handlingFix inserting file links containing whitespaceFix: A modified category and tag name is not modified in the category dropdown list until you reload the application.Fix: Cloud words should have the same color as text words (LP:353738)Ignore list for clouds (Mark word(s) in cloud, right-click and select “Hide”)Keyboard shortcuts for inserting pictures, files, links and the dateEasier Tagging (Added tag button)New-Entry-Dialog: Show previous tags in drop-down menu when “Tags” is selected as categoryNew-Entry-Dialog: Only make a new entry submittable, if text has been enteredShortcuts to navigate between days ( + PageUp, + PageDown)Check xulrunner paths at startupMade Windows installerAdd an option to insert the current time and dateSave divider positions and frame sizeAdd new statisticsDisable GTKMozembed automatically if RedNotebook crashesContent is automatically saved every ten minutesFix Debian/Jaunty Bug (LP:340101)New types to insert: Bullet List, Numbered List, Title, LineAllow linking of filesAllow embedding imagesLinks and mail addresses are recognized automaticallyAdding named links to websites is now possibleBetter documentation

Changes

• Blacklist for clouds in GUILet the search function highlight found wordsFix line breaks for exportsFix opening files on MacAdd little section about comments to Help textFix size for insert icon by using a stock iconDo not use small toolbar icon sizes (LP:405991)make font size configurable (under preferences)Add line breaks (under insert menu)Add a whitespace char between adjacent linesFix: Win Version should use smaller insert-image icon (16×16)Graphical preferences dialog (Under “Edit” menu)Make date/time format configurable in the preferences dialogFix unicode bugsUndu and redo for the main textUse libyaml for faster loading and dumping of files (Big journals now open ~10 times faster)Speed improvements for navigation between daysAdd information for Latex to PDF conversionShortcut for turning on/off the preview: Ctrl+PNew entry in Edit menu: “Find”Append error messages to the logfileUse new svn version of txt2tagsFix URL and file link insertionButtons for bold, italic, underlined textFixed hardy bug: yaml 3.05 does not have __version__ attributeRemoved shebangs from python modules (Closes LP:393602)Create ~/.rednotebook dir before logging is initialized (Closes LP:392235)Set native theme for windows versionOnly save months that have been visited for a faster exitImprove loggingAutomatically create a logfile for debuggingFix: Check if directory exists before opening itChoose a folder for journal (Save-As)Have more than one journal (New Journal)Open existing journals (Open Journal)Open and create template files from within RedNotebookLive update of template listFix opening files for WinArbitrarily named templatesEnable copy/paste in categories edit boxLive update of clouds after categories have been editedReenable stricken textSelect individual categories to exportExport only text, or only categories, or bothHandle local file openingDouble-clicks on links in the preview open the link with the preferred appCategories can be edited with right mouse clicks:Click on an existing category then right mouse click to add a new entryLink template filesMake toolbars equally sizedDelete GTKMozembed cruftDelete mozembed.py module (originally taken from listen-project)Delete markup cruftDrop GTKMozembed dependencyAdd keepnote modulesremove numbered listsMinor BugfixesMake deb package Python 2.6 compatibleAdd yaml-parser error handlingFix inserting file links containing whitespaceFix: A modified category and tag name is not modified in the category dropdown list until you reload the application.Fix: Cloud words should have the same color as text words (LP:353738)Ignore list for clouds (Mark word(s) in cloud, right-click and select “Hide”)Keyboard shortcuts for inserting pictures, files, links and the dateEasier Tagging (Added tag button)New-Entry-Dialog: Show previous tags in drop-down menu when “Tags” is selected as categoryNew-Entry-Dialog: Only make a new entry submittable, if text has been enteredShortcuts to navigate between days ( + PageUp, + PageDown)Check xulrunner paths at startupMade Windows installerAdd an option to insert the current time and dateSave divider positions and frame sizeAdd new statisticsDisable GTKMozembed automatically if RedNotebook crashesContent is automatically saved every ten minutesFix Debian/Jaunty Bug (LP:340101)New types to insert: Bullet List, Numbered List, Title, LineAllow linking of filesAllow embedding imagesLinks and mail addresses are recognized automaticallyAdding named links to websites is now possibleBetter documentation