Notes Keeper [DotNET notes manager]

[smaragdus]

I came upon a good, free and portable notes-taking program- Notes Keeper:

http://handyapplications.weebly.com/notes-keeper.html - Notes Keeper Home Page

Although in early stage of development (current version- 0.5.2.1307 RC), Notes Keeper offers a large number of features, I will list some of them:
- Multiple databases
- Full-featured RTF editor
- Organizing of notes into groups and tags
- Start with Windows
- Minimize to tray/Close to tray
- Start minimized
- Remembering of desktop position
- Transparency
- Full-screen
- Stay on top
- Lock note
- Password protection of notes
- Auto-save
- Export of notes (including batch-export)
- Search
- Web search (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, OneLook)
- Insertion of Files/Tables/Images
- Insertion of Date/Time
- Opening of links with system default browser/user-defined browser
- Drag&Drop (the user can directly drag and drop selected text, URls and images from browser directly into Notes Keeper

I will insert some screen-shots of Notes Keeper:

Notes Keeper main window:
http://postimg.org/image/ro48ovj2h/

A note created by Notes Keeper:
http://postimg.org/image/wo1owtop5/

A note with inserted image:
http://postimg.org/image/vaa21ipft/

The developer of Notes Keeper is very helpful, responsive and open to suggestions.

I find Notes Keeper very useful and promising program for taking notes.

[Napiophelios]

Needs .NET 4

[smaragdus]

@Napiophelios
Yes, you are right, I forgot to mention that Notes Keeper require .NET 4. Anyway, this won't be a problem for those who have Windows 7/8/8.1 since .NET is embedded in these versions of Windows.

[JohnTHaller]

@Napiophelios
Yes, you are right, I forgot to mention that Notes Keeper require .NET 4. Anyway, this won't be a problem for those who have Windows 7/8/8.1 since .NET is embedded in these versions of Windows.

It's worth noting that while .NET 3.5 is pre-bundled with Windows 7 and automatically updated to with Windows Vista, .NET 4.0 is not an automatic update for many users. It's a recommended but not critical update. So, if whoever configured Windows set it for critical only, that machine won't get .NET 4.0 unless an admin goes in and manually installs it. I've seen many machines with critical only and many with critical and recommended.

[Midas]

@JohnTHaller: excellent point!

[webfork]

So, if whoever configured Windows set it for critical only, that machine won't get .NET 4.0 unless an admin goes in and manually installs it.

Thanks for the breakdown. I've been wondering about the state of minimum dotNET on Win7.

[smaragdus]

Notes Keeper version 1.0.1.2405 has been released, recent changes:

version 1.0.1.2405
01 - Bugs fixes

version 1.0.0.1905
01 - New - Encrypt and Decrypt the note's text (The note will be locked as long the note is encrypted, editing it isn't possible).
02 - New - Create note from the clipboard.
03 - New - Now you can move or copy a note (Moving is done by cutting a note then paste it in any folder you want).
04 - New - Restore a note from Recycle Bin by moving/coping it then paste it in a folder.
05 - New - Tag system, which allowing multi tag support.
06 - New - Real time text format detector and text align detector.
07 - New - Note will keep locked when the user lock it until she/he unlocks it.
08 - New - Capture the editor area and save it in customizable path with customizable selected name.
09 - New - Bullets [1. 2. 3. | 1) 2) 3) | a. b. c. | a) b) c) | A. B. C. | A) B) C)]
10 - New - Change main window background color
11 - New - Change main window background color and note too.
12 - New - Change the main window background color and the note background color according to the note background color
13 - New - Filter notes by date of creating or date of modification.
14 - New - Changing the background of the main window and note's window background color.
15 - Changed - Notes Keeper now uses tree instead of list for navigation between note and folders.
16 - Changed - Color selector dialog changed to one similar to office color selector.
17 - Updated - SQLite database dlls updated to version 1.0.69.0.
18 - Fixed - Code fixes
19 - Fixed - Small interface changes
20 - Removed - Clipboard manager (will be re-added).
21 - Removed - Groups
22 - Removed - Startup delay

Full change log:
http://handyapplications.weebly.com/not ... ll-cl.html

The most important changes- now Notes Keeper is a tree outliner which support tags, favourites and encryption inside notes.

Screen-shot:

Full feature list of current version:

Features of Notes Keeper:

-Creating a note (obvious)
-Groping notes
-MultiTag
-Unicode support
-Creating folders to organize your notes
-powerful search
-Group filtering
-Dynamic date and time at the status bar in main windows and note window
-Easy creating notes and folders
-Easy connecting and creating databases
-Number of notes and folders is shown
-Home button, to go from any folder to the default(first) folder(the one you see when you open Notes Keeper)
-Can customize the default font and text color.
-Can customize the default background color
-Can customize date and time format
-Minimize to system tray when minimizing and closing
-Start minimized
-Start at windows startup
-Auto save at 5,10,15,20 minutes
-You can select your browser or let Notes Keeper open links through the default browser
-Notes Keeper can remember the windows position on the desktop
-Reading file
-Printing, with page setup, and preview
-Transparent mode at note editing
-Full screen
-Always on top
-Locking the note
-Search a note for a text
-Edit text font, and size
-Set password for a note
-Easy grouping a note, and selecting a folder
-Send a note as attachment or message
-Format text
-Renaming notes and folders from the tree itself
-Searching the web: Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, IMDB, Alluc, and OneLook inside a note
-Snap a window to screen edges when moving it into the screen
-Adding Unicode characters
-You can have scratch pad to write side notes (remember it will not be saved, its just for planning what you are about to write)
-Copy, Cut, Paste a note to any folder

Notes Keeper can be downloaded from here:
http://handyapplications.weebly.com/notes-keeper.html

[webfork]

Had some issues with images, tables, and indentation kept me from testing this very far but a few quick notes:

Writes settings to: Notes Keeper.config
Path portability: looks suspect as the link to the database (nkdb) file was hard linked (c:\portable rather than ..\portable)

Tested v.1.0.1
MD5: 29EBD3342C090DECBD24FE6ADDF782D4
SHA-1: C0EEC131C0BF0508D6DDBD94C3867160EAFD72FF
VirusTotal Analysis (totally clean)

[smaragdus]

Notes Keeper version 1.0.8.1411 has been released, changes:

version 1.0.8.1411
01 - NEW - New icons for selected note/folder in the tree (selected note , selected folder )
02 - NEW - Ability to sort folders content by Title, Date created, and Date Modified
03 - NEW - You can toggle the visibility of the tree by a button in the toolbar (icon )
04 - NEW - Favorites button added beside tags to easily add and remove notes from and to favorites (Favorites icon )
05 - NEW - Exit icon added to the toolbar (icon )
06 - New - You can remove all the notes in favourites at 'Remove all from favourites' menu item from any note in favourites.
07 - Changed - Delete note/folder icon changed
08 - Changed - Selected text can be deleted by clicking on delete button
09 - Some fixes
a - Double clicking a word will select it without trailing space.
b - Ctrl+W in favorites will open the selected note in a new window
c - Code fixes

Full change log- http://handyapplications.weebly.com/not ... ll-cl.html

[samijildeh]

Hi All,
I am Sami Jildeh the developer of Notes Keeper.
If anyone have any questions about Notes Keeper please ask me and i will be happy to answer your questions.

[webfork]

I am Sami Jildeh the developer of Notes Keeper.
If anyone have any questions about Notes Keeper please ask me and i will be happy to answer your questions.

Hi and welcome to the forums. If I come back to the program, I'll try to get you some details around the issues I mentioned above but as it stands I don't have a machine with dotNET 4.0 installed to do testing with.

[webfork]

Update: 3.0.3.1 on June 30, 2017

Changelog: http://handyapplications.weebly.com/not ... ll-cl.html

Requirements: dotNET 4.5.2 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1 redistributable

[hamasaki]

Now at version 4.1.3.0

[webfork]

Now at version 4.1.3.0

Thanks for that ... my system now has the requisite dotNET versions so I could test it out ...

Note that you need a minimum 1200px screen width to use this program. It doesn't shrink below that size.

As you can tell from the screenshots, it has lots of great rich text editor tools and lets you tag, search, and favorite notes. You can drag-and-drop items into categories and subcategories, and you can even secure (encrypt) notes internally. The program even does versioning via an available full database backup

Issues:
* Creating a new note using a file (PDF) crashes the program

Wishlist
* Nested bullets
* Autosave,* Ability to save individual notes - right now you can send as an email attachment and just save the attachment (RTF format), but that's a lot of extra steps.
* Ability to batch export multiple notes
* Save to formats beyond just RTF (which is fine for most things but very large with images)
* Ability to resize images uniformly (e.g. top and bottom reduced by the same percentage)

[webfork]

This program is still in development with the v.4.2.2.1 beta (can't find changelog): https://handyapplications.weebly.com/notes-keeper.html

Mirror: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-to ... eper.shtml